St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-03-19


After welcoming the heather, W,
have been speeding our parting guest
Parnell, the Irish M. P. and agitator
The gallant Sixty-ninth turned out t.
escort him to his steamer, and will
lofty courtesy, the committee who were
spouting at him and hobnobbing witt
a dOch Gu-dhuruis, or parting glass o
real peat-smoked whiskey, left Col
Cavanaugh, the cOmmandant, wei
known in the war as ''the little major
of the Irish Brigade, cooling his heels
in the binding snow in front of the
New York Hotel. The visit of the
somewhat eantankerous parsonage has
not turned out much of a success. lie
got into wrangle with the New York
Herald, and got the worst OF it. His
friends have had to apologize for him,
and to be put on the defense at the be-
ginning of what was intended to be an
aggressive campaign was unfortunate
for his objects. He has been disap-
pointed, and a source of disappointment
to others.
The ingenious small boy who expends
his time in removing the cancellation
marks from used postage stamps has
been found to be a sufficiently expens-
i've nuisance to Uncle Sam to render it
desirable in the interest of the Revenue
to Illustrate his knavish tricks in some
way or other. No kind of ink could
elude the chemical researches of the
scientific culprits, and perforatiOns
were objected to as liable to injure the
enclosed manuscript. A thin steel
stamp has now been devised, which is
rapidly heated by gas and scOIches a
design lightly into the stamp to be can
celled, and the plan seems very effect
ual.
A cremated Hebrew formed one of
the latest sensations. 1t seems the con-
Israelites have not been ac
custOmed to burn the bodies of their
dead for several thousand years, if
ever, and the yielding to the latest
fashion of funereal finishing up this
mortal coil is regarded as a matter of
great Importance. 1t appears promi
nent purveyOr of chromos, who got
burnt few months ago, after notifying
the world of an intended change of 10
cation, had his attention directed to the
desirability of having his own remains
as comfortably disposed of as the late
more or less unstable remains of his
stock, especially when fully insured,
and exacted promise from his sonin
law, doctor Of some repute, to have
him cremated when he died. The ply
stefan cheerfully agreed, and asked the
same favor in return. The one man
was old, the other was young, both in
in excellent health, but the junior was
the first to become eligible for the car
rying out of the agreement. DR.. Adler,
the ethic culturist, performed the final
services, and accompanied the corpse
to the cooking. 1t was nicely baked
in an alum sheet, and the ashes gather
ed in just one hour, at a cost of S45.
The man to cure the pestilential air
of the Tombs (our famous city prison)
has been found, and his remedy is very
simple and cheap. Built on the lowest
site in New York Ton piles), where
once stagnaued the "Collect POnd"-
the Egyptian shroud of gloom and
the haunt of disease, and
prisoners have been released when near
the point of death, out of pity, under
the conviction that they could do no
more harm. Mr.. Dunn, the city Archi-
tect, happened to become acquainted
with the ventilating trap made by
Stewart g. Co., which is nothing more
nor less than the ordinary running
trap, with a central ventilating pipe,
forming double water seal, through
the hydraulic arrangement of which IL
tive-milliOn horse power steam engine
could not inject an ounce of sewer gas.
This was six months ago. The Tombs
is now officially declared to be the
healtbiest prison in the world. The
cost of the trap is somewhere about
SIS.
Our Quaker suburb, Philadelphia, is
little too far for any of its news
(when there is any in that quiet spot,
to be Incorporated in my letters. How
ever, as one of the young and favoritt
lady performers of the New York circu.
has thought fit to add to the population
in Philadelphia, the occurrence i.
worthy of my chronicling it. The i'll
FAINT is of charming mouse color, near
ly four feet long, and is apparently al
ways hungry. The mother who is quit,
young and pretty, according to some
tastes, was SO over-excited at the hap
ply arrival of the well-developed strau
ger, that she tossed it about like
rubber ball and broke stove with i
in her apartment. The medical mel
| fear that her excitement may cause
deficiency in lactation, and several en-
terprising feeding bottle manufacturer
have been generously offering fire.
samples OF their wares. Scientific per
sons have been quite excited over til
period of CESSATION and other remarka
BILE incidents, and the circus people ar
delighted and think the thing the big
est kind of an advertisement. TIL
stranger is female, and numerous dis
tinguished ladies are anxious to official
as god mothers. 1t is understood tina
Queen Victoria has been telegraphe
to, and will be given the refusal of tn
honor. 1t is stated to be an undOubte
fact that no such baby was ever Dor
born before. By the way, it strikes III
| forgot to mention that it is an ele
plant, and that none ever bred in col
tinement before, according to the Hi
docs, who ought to know.
, There is a tradition that at the fl
nous aristOcratic school of Elton, Ems
land, the boys once roasted an obnOl
ious school fellow to such an extel
that he died. Now, an engineer of
steamship sailing from this port is a,
cused of treating his fireman in pr,
cisely the same manner. 1t is allege
that he lifted the man, who Offende
him by falling sick when he wante
him to work, in front of the furnac
: opening the doors and letting him g
the full benefit. The victim declar,
his whiskers were singed off, he WI
rendered insensible and brought to
well cracked condition by sundl
buckets Of salt water. Painful, if tru
no doubt.
A peculiar phase of renewed husine