St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-08-06

was flood tide and the brilliant ide
struck a DR.. Sherwood to try if oil
ocean wouldn't do the civil thing an
forward a package; SO bottle wa
filled with letters, wrapped in a state
ment of the transaction with the reas
surfing remark that "This is not
wreck, nor a hoax" carefully sealed u
and hove overheard. The result just
fed the experiment perfectly.
Fulton street is one of our mos
= crowded thoroughfares, probably rank
, ing next to Broadway, and the job O
repaving it is one that municipal mag
mates, and people traversing it on foo
or in vehicles, or doing business on tn
banks of the torrent of humanity tina
busily flows along it, even during tn
watches of the night, find terrible
nuisance. 1t has to be done sometimes
though, and is being done now after {
rest of over nine years. The alread.
narrow sidewalks are piled high will
granite blocks, and travelling becomes
much like the locomOtiOn of plou'
congregation defiling from a crowded
church. The journalistic and facetious
instinct of the average American shows
itself ready to extract fun out of the
most unpromising materials. Where
John Bull would swear and French
man make an epigram, our people make
good-humored joke, with a shrewd
eye to business, too, in many cases.
The frowning pyramids of Belgian
blocks on Fulton street have been
crowded with little notices, many of
them witty enough. One gravely de-
sires to inform us that "These stones
did not come from Alexandria, Egypt,
nor are they 2, 900 years old, so far -as
we know. They came from Hoboken
two weeks ago" Another laconically
states that .'These stones are not for
sale," and are signed with a name
which we find on the sign of the ada
cent store where corresponding notices
all over a miscellaneous lot of notions
tellsus "These are for sale" People
laugh and then go in and buy sOme-
thing.
Whether Tanner the Tenacious dies
or not before l again write you, there
is no mistake that he has shown ire
mendous strength of will in his absti-
nence from food, and has proved him
self truthful man. His statement that
he had once tasted AZ days was derided
as to say the least delusiOn. People
will believe it now, for he has gone far
into the last quarter of a similar fast,
and even if he breaks down, it only
shows that in starving please
matches, as in rowing, Professionalism or
athleticism of any sort, a champion may
not always be up to his best ''form."
Indeed, it seems hard to see how, after
once straining himself to the limit of
almost preternatural human endurance,
any man can even approach the same
point again. DR.. Tanner himself seems
at last to admit the possibility of his
failure, and says that if hiccough sets
in, an almost fatal sign, that he will
surrender at once, and with his consent
extract of beef and brandy have been
provided, and are in readiness for in
slant use the moment symptoms of dis
solution manifest themselves. 1t seems
pity that man with such an iron
will could not have used it to better adj
vantage in making himself famous for
something noble and useful, than in
merely achieving notoriety in making
somewhat undignified show of himself.
l sat almost daily during the sessions
of Congress for four years as member
with Garfield on the committee on
ways and means of the House. He is
one of the most whole souled men |
ever met, generous-hearted, and very
having high sense of
honor, aud honest in motive and action.
His conduct and action since he has
been a member of Congress | believe to
be above reproach, and, however much
men may have sought to
Influence him, | do not believe he ever
gave them any encOuragement.-l Vice
President Wheeler. r-
Really Mr.. Dawes is furnishing fam
unition to the enemy by his strong ar
raignment of the Indian record of this
administration, and the democratic
speak just now with marked
respect of the Massachusetts senator.
We congratulate the Pittstield gentle
man upon his present courage and in
telligent fidelity to justice. There is a
case where everybody can see that 1t
pays to be right in view of the hearty
approval with which our best republic
cans, particularly in eastern Massachu-
sets, meet Mr.. Dawes's course. There
is big and self-evident moral here
springfield Republican.
The Summer campaign against the
Street Cleaning Department, and incl
IDENTIFY against garbage bumpers of all
sorts, is raging. Tugs with wildly ex-
asperated inhabitants of our seaside
suburbs, and officers armed with war
rants, bear fercely down on scows
manned by Italian employees of the
Police Commission, and arrests have
been made repeatedly of all sorts of of
tenders. Sundry captains of steam
ships have been heavily fined, while
shippers of coasters have been locked
up, and suits for something like $780,
600 damages have been entered against
the famous Captain Williams and his
masters. Meantime, at Gov
ernor's Island, in the harbor, list is
kept daily of the more Objectionable
waits and strays that are cast up to
offend the nose, among others, of a
Presidential candidate, and averages
like 60 dead dogs, 500 horses,
3 suicides, Is decompOsed cats, Ill, Iii
rats, IA mice, &c. Poor General Han
cock may find even these less obnoxious
than some of the visitors who swarm to
counsel, to flatter and exc to beg for
office, and money and ''infiOO-ence."
There are other grievous smells from
oil rctineries, bone and fertilizing and
establishments to distress the
stay-at-home GOthamite.
With regard to the disaster in the
Hudson River Tunnel the absurd state
ment was made that in all the great
city of New York, it was impossible to
find a pump which would pump the
water out. 1 thought this so strange
that l took the trouble to make in
quiries, and, as 1 supposed, found that
it WAS a mere matter of money. The