St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-04-02

fabulous amounts on post-obits, for, OF
course, the hereditary property being
entailed, he must come into it if he lives
in spite of anybOdy's Vaccinations, de-
termined to get along on his own re-
sources. These were not of very
marketable quality. He didn't like
desk work, and couldn't have done it if
he did. His talents as a salesman were
particularly undeveloped, and he didn't
take any pains to develop them. He
had no capital, and couldn't start in
business for himself even as boss of a
peanut stand, so he did what he could.
He was athletic, good shot and fond
of sport, so with his wife he enscOnced
himself in a shanty far from the mad
ding crowd, and became fisherman,
feeding his family, now enlarged by two
cherry checked children, chiefly with
the spoils of his own rod and gun and
the products of the little cabbage gar
den round his bower of bliss. He has
just sailed for Scotland, where it ap-
pears the old lord is on the point of
death and desires to be reconciled to his
successor before he goes where even
great lords are mighty small potatoes.
Not only are we to be able to cook, do
our chores and light our homes, halls
and offices at cost of next to nothing
by electricity laid on everywhere, but it
now seems we can beat the sun itself in
developing crops. DR.. Simens, a scien-
fist of renOwn before Edison was
thought of, has been experimenting
with vegetation under the influence of
the electric light, and has succeeded, it
is stated, in forcing rOsebuds into full
bloom in forty minutes, while he be-
lieves that in fields lighted by electric
| ity he could grow strawberries in the
open air during the rabidest raging of
Dacota blizzard. Madame Blavatsky
and other devOtees to the study of mag
ic, have always claimed that the won
derful feats of the Indian jugglers, who
plant seed, show II shrub in five min
utes and pluck ripe fruit off it in fifteen,
are attributable to electricity, and are
simple enough when you know how to
do them that there is no humbug about
them at all, and that the results are
actual as claimed, and not the manifes-
tatiOn of mere brilliant sleight of hand.
Perhaps the magicians are right, and, if
we can manage about the ventilation, it
might be we'll to come in out of the rain,
and for all of us to take dive through
Syme's hole into the bowels of the earth
and follow the methods of the Coming
| Raaa HaSarihaA Inv Rnlwar
Festive as the days of Lent have been,
when balls and operas have been going
on as if the piOus were not Mortified at
the idea, gayer times are at hand. The
lambs of the fold bud out brightly when
Easter dawns, and great have been the
preparations fOI the occasion. Never
before were such ravishing tOilettes dis
played, and Easter bonnets were never
so exceedingly scrumptious. Choirs
have practiced and flirted together, and
amid wagOn-loads of exquisitely ar
ranged flowers, culled from the choicest
collections, sweet voices MARBLE. Soon
the merry wedding bells will ring, and
the world will wag merrily. Pockets
promise to be heavier than they have
been for years, and the great Summer
City, as New York may now justly be
styled, with its wide stretches of beach
crowded with hotels, race-courses and
all sorts of attractions, will be like gi
gantic circus in Il little while.
The anonymous assailant of DR.. Dix,
whose vagaries l told you of in my last,
has been run to earth. In dungeon
dire he has leisure to repent, and will
probably get little more leisure, va
ried possibly with shoemaking, for a
year or two. The Salvation Army still
prayeth diligently, and undergo the ter
Iible infection of being reported by
stenOgrapheTs. No caricature could
possibly be more ridiculous than their
own utterances so faithfully reproduced.
But few days in the country. their
pilgrimages from one temporary shelter
to another have been incessant, and ev-
erybody is laughing at them. Another
person who has again achieved the end
of being well talked and written about
is a Mrs. De Bar, who claims to have
been annoyed by ghost. 1t is Won
derful how many people have believed
her, and crowded to the scene of the al
legged intercourse with the shadowy Wis
liant. The lady, it turns out, has be-
fore been notorious as the avswed
claimant of the doubtful honor of being
the offspring of Lola Montez and the
amOrous but irregular old King Ludwig,
of Bavaria, who was invited to take IA
back seat among eX-mOnarchs in 1S48,
mainly on account of the famous beau
ty, whose remains have long ago moul-
dered under the green sods and f1owery
parterres of old Trinity churchyard. 1t
does not appear that Mrs. De Bar, the
friend Of the spirits, is justified in her
pretensiens. Her husband is an actor,
and says she is nothing if not imagina-
tive.
S3,450 a day is uice little sum to re-
ceive in the way of interest for Govern
ment bonds. Some lucky person, sup
posed to be w. H. Vanderbilt, gels this,
and day or so ago Il check for 1910, 500,
drawn by the Treasury Department was
passed through the Clearing House. 1t
represents principal of $31 100000
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