St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-08-27
Squibs.

"A ClnclunaCl uyef recently went IN
sane from political excitement. We
suppose the more he read the madder
he got Hawkeye.
The czar hasn't been shot at for some
time now, and people are beginning to
forget that there is such person.
Birds Eye has a band of Indians
numbering 1900, and the settlers near
Duck Lake are getting all the birds
eye views they want.
A 'tBook of Hymns" edited by Rev.
Samuel johnson, Rev. Samuel Osgood
and Rev. Samuel LOngfellow is referred
to by the Boston Transcript as the "Sam
Book"
The genrl adopshn of fonetic spelin
wud nok Josh Billings hirn a kite
cincinnati Saturday Night.
The bathing suit worn by the boys
along the river front fits well and is
very simple and inexpensive. 1t con-
sists of wad of cotton in each ear
[Phila. Chronicle.
"Pa," seriously asked an Oswego boy
"did you ever see a book worm 2"
ayes my child,n replied the parent.
After a pause that fairly made the cas-
tOr-oil bottle dance with delight, the
young fellow shuddered and frightfully
asked, "Do little boys have 'em ?"-
[Oswego Record.
The obelisk is to be whitewashed
and surrounded with nice spiral stair
case, that it may look fresh and be
more in keeping with the modern i'm
provements and new look of things in
Central park Picayune.
"We don't want all this, we don't
want it," said an attorney over in the
courthouse the other day to a voluble
old lady on the witness-stand sit is
irrelevant" But the witness paid no
heed and talked on, finishing With
''There, you've got it, whether you
want it or not, and it isn't irreverent
either."-[ Boston Journal.
"Shon," said a Dutchman, "you may
say vat you please 'pout pad neigh
bors l have had de worst neighbors as
never vas. Mine pigs and mine hens
come home NIT dere ears split, and
fodder day two of them came home
missing
Upon the marriage of her daughter,
the other day, a Philadelphia mother
remarked that she was sure she would
quarrel with her son-in-law. ''But it
is all right" she said, che and / have
agreed to have no mud-slinging during
the campaign"
A COW with seven arrows sticking in
various parts of her body was seen run
ming at large near West Chester the
other day. 1t is supposed that the
West Chester archery club was prac-
ticing in the neighborhood.-[N Norris
town Herald.
"HellO when did you return ?" asked
Snopson of his friend Bnus, whom he
met on the street. "Why, / haven't
been away" replied the latter. "You
haven't ?n incredulously asked Snopson.
''Why, you look so worn-out and near
dead that positively thought you had
been away for few weeks for the ben
eft Of your health. ."-[ [Norristown Her.
aid.
Burdette writes from Nantucket:
'Many of the old houses in the town
are shingled all the way over, remind
ing one of the houses so common in st.
John. The shingler, when he shungle,
apparently begun at the base board,
shongle right up the front of the house,
over the cornice, up to the ridge pole,
where he crawled over, went right
along shingling, and shangle head first
on down the other side of the house to
the ground. Perhaps it was not done
In this way. l do not assert that it
was. l only say, and l say it very
meekly, that that is the way it i'm
pressed me, and if any man says l am
a liar, l will take it back, right imme-
diately, and admit that the shingles
were pasted on with gum arabic or the
white of egg"
Rev. DIR. Woods of Andover was once
giving his class some instructions about
preaching in such a manner as to gain
attention and applause. "Young gen
tlemen," said he, otis all contained in
a nut t-shell. When you go to preach in
the city, take your best coat; but when
you go to preach in the country, take
your best sermon"
A flock of girls is called a bevy: q
bevy OF wolves a pack pack o.
thieves gang; gang of angels host
host of porpOises a shoal; a shoal o.
butfaloes herd herd of children {
troop; troop of partridges covey; {
coyey OF beauties galaxy a galaxy o
ruffians horde; horde of rubbish ;
heap; heap of oxen drove; drov,
OF blackguards mob a mob of whale,
. school school of worshipers a con.
gregation congregation of engineer,
: a corps; corps of robbers a band;
: oand OF locusts swarm; and swarm
OF people is called a crowd.