St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-12-24
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LADY = THE INCONVENIENCE OF
GHOsTLY TENANTs-THE FREAKS OF A
FOOLISH FEMALE.
NEW YORK, Dec. IL, 1880.
To the Editor of the CaledOnian:
The New York firemen are consider
ed among the smartest in the world
The rapidity with which they get under
weigh for a fire is almost incredible,
and is measured not by minutes, but by
seconds, while the thoroughly trained,
ready harnessed horses are almost as
bright as the men, and at the first tin
gle of the electric alarm rush to theiI
places as swiftly and intelligently as
the bipeds who are aroused by the same
alarm and jump from their repose into
their clothes as they hurl themselves
down the stairs to their posts. Among
the foremost companies is the one at
Burling slip, and the brave boys who,
like soldiers, are ever on the watch,
but in the intervals of active duty seem
to have a comparatively easy time of
it, leisurely polishing up the engine,
which they love as sailor does his
ship, and all its belongings, smoking.
chatting and sleeping, had famous
pet, dog, land Bingo was his name"
He used to run ahead of the engine to
fires, and bark and snap and generally
kick up such a racket that the track
was cleared in no time. Every body
knew BingO. Everybody petted him,
and among the chief spoilers of the
philosophical beast was the son and
junior partner of one of New York's
wealthiest merchants. The ether day
this pleasing youth had a fit of indiges-
ton and when there was an explosion
in the warehouse of the Lows, these ia
nous China merchants, and Bingo SAL
lied forth in business fashion, re got
in BingO's way and Bingo made a DEM
Onstration which resulted in scratch
from the teeth of the hurried bow-wow.
Young Cr9sus goes off to a magistrate
and demands a warrant for the destruc-
ton of Bingo on the absurd ground
that he was afraid of hydrophobia. He
got the warrant from a justice that
knew not Bingo, but the boys and the
truckmen and everybody were wild
with Indignation. 1t cost him $50 to
find stranger to drown the dog. Alas
Poor Bingo! The city could better
spare the cur who caused his killing.
There was most imposing consecra-
ton service with no end of church dig
nitaries on the somewhat funeral occa-
sion of making DR.. Paddock, of St.
Peters, Brooklyn, Bishop of Washing
ton territory. The good old gentleman
who had served thirty years in the
parish with a comfortable income and
house built especially for him on most
tasteful designs, which for domestic
convenience were submitted to his wife,
goes forth into the wilderness with a
very scanty provision. 1t looks very
much as if he were driven forth by some
mean intriguing, for dignified as is the
Office of a bishop, it depends very much
on the kind of bishOpric as to whether
a snugly placed clergyman may not re-
ceive a very Irish sort of promotion in
being advanced to the dignity. Bishop
Littlejohn, who has just preached a
course of sermons at Cambridge Uni
versity, England, being on the high
seas, was not present. His most lucra-
tive appointment is that of domestic
chaplain to Mrs. A. Il. Stewart, and
custodian of the empty sepulchre with
in which the bones of the DECEASED
millionaire are not laid. The old lady
is building for him IA residence to cost
S6S, 900 without the furniture.
Diphtheria is raging in Brooklyn, and
no wonder, as the tide twice every
twenty-four hours seals the mouths of
the sewers, and these are absolutely
unventilated. The street manhOles are
some of them solid, and others which
are perforated are kept ehoked up with
mud. The consequence is the gas has
to find an outlet somewhere and goes
for the easiest place of exit, the more
or less trapped wastes of private hous-
es. With politicians pure and simple,
ignorance and corruption are the main
qualities, and, of course, this absurd
system which has murdered scores of
the most promising of the rising gener-
alton continues in spite of the loudest
newspaper and other protests. The
epidemic gave occasion for the display
of devoted heroism on the part of a
young doctor which l cannot forego
mentioning. A patient was in des-
perate condition, and inserting tube
in the throat he applied his lips to the
orifice and sucked out the poison. 1t
was a terrible risk and he knew his life
hung on thread in doing it. The re-
suit was in fact that the patient was
saved but the doctor died.
Another person of less ehivalric char
acteristics got good dressing down at
the hands of a recently arrived young
English damsel, to whom he is alleged
to have offered some insult. Armed
with an instrument of torture which
she describes as having been carefully
made of several sewing machine bands,
well soaked in oil to make them supple
and abundantly supplied with twisted
pins, an affair to wlrich the Russian
knout and cat-O'-nine tails would bear
an inferior relation, she visited his place
of business, and having sent a messenger
to invite him to the street, flung some
red pepper in his eyes on his appear
ance, and proceeded to belabor him.
After she had ripped off the heft of his
clothes and pretty nearly all his LAGER
ated hide, he kicked her in the chest,
and she allowed herself to faint. There
was large and interested crowd at
the execution, who, without inquiring
into the rights and wrongs of the case,
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