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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-10-21
A Solitary King,

The most curious of living mOnarchs
is King Louis of Bavaria. Not little
has been written about his love of mu-
sic and alteration of Herr Wagner, but
his strangest peculiarity-his extreme
dislike of all human sOciety-dOes not
seem to have received the same amount
of attention. In his country palace in
the Bavarian highland, he passes his
days and nights without seeing a sOli-
tary person. All the out -of-dOor work
about the large estate is done at night
or early in the morning, and, some
hours before the King is up, the labor
ers are miles away, and the great gates
of the park securely locked. The whole
service i'll the palace is carried on i'll
such way that he can see no one.
His meals are brought into the room
by means of a mechanical apparatus,
and, when he dictates to his private
secretary letters upon official business,
a thick curtain separates the two. But
perhaps the most curious contrivance
for gaining solitude is a subterranean
lake. This has existed from the earli-
est times in deep mountain cave,
near where King Louis palace stands,
but by his orders it has been enlarged,
and is brilliantly lighted, either by gas
or electricity. There is also steam
machine, concealed from view, which
agitates the water so as to produce the
effect of the wind blowing up waves.
Upon this sheltered expanse King
Louis spends hours of each day. float
ing in gilded, shaped boat. No
one is allowed within summOning dis
tance, AS his majesty found, when one
day the steam machine overwOrked,
and lashed the water into stormy bill
lows. On that occasion the swan
shaped boat was upset, and King Louis
narrowly escaped losing his life. 1t
should, in extenuation, be said of him
that, in business of state, he shows a
remarkable aptitude, which goes to ex-
plain the leniency of his subjects in
bearing with his idiOsyncrasies.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-10-21
A Singular Train Of Events.

General Garfield did not want to
come to Chicago as IA delegate. He
would not have come, perhaps, had not
"a friend of Secretary Sherman urged
the latter to induce General Garfield
to accept a place in the delegation.
How that friend came to do this is one
of the singular accidents of history.
He was on train in Ohio which it was
intended should make a connection
with another train at the junction Of
two roads. A COW, driven by boy
toward home, ran on the track and was
struck by the locomotive which had its
wheels displaced by the shock. Two
hours were consumed in repairing the
damage, and when the junction was
reached the other train had passed.
The gentleman found he must wait five
hours at the little station, but was de-
lighted to find there an old friend from
distant part of the state. This
friend, who was also an enthusiastic
admirer of Sherman, thought it of the
utmost importance that Gen. Garfield
should lead the Ohio delegation in the
Chicago Convention, and was 81 cam
est in the matter that the gentleman
whom he had thus accidentally met
consented to write and urge the Secre-
tary to make a personal request to this
effect. He did so, the Secretary made
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-10-21
Facts Curious and Interesting.

The earth is surrounded by an atmOs-
phere of 500 900, 900 cubic inches.
Charcoal deepens the tint of dahlias,
hyacinths and petunias.
The owl, which easily digests meat,
cannot digest bread OF grain.
Gold is nineteen, mercury thirteen,
and lead eleven times heavier than
water.
Plaster made with river water sets
sooner than that made with spring
water.
CarbOnic acid is extensively employ
ed i'll the manufacture of white lead
and etfervescing drinks.
Gypsum, called by chemists sulphate
of lime, is composed of sulphuric acid,
lime and water.
Our earth is moving through space
with il velocity of nine miles second.
Coagulation serves in nature the pur-
pose of stopping wounds. Salt pre-
vents it.
The temperature of the blood de-
pends on the rapidity with which it is
OXidized.
Glass can be drawn into threads so
fine that 1000 would be required to
make up the breadth of an inch.
The strength of 100 pounds is requir-
ed to tear asunder an iron wire one
twenty-tifth of an inch i'll diameter.
Grape sugar, used for giving more
''bOdy" to wines, etc, is made of pOta-
to starch, sulphuric acid, chalk and
water.
Lime is Il preserver of wood. 1t has
been noticed that vessels carrying it
last longer than any others.
Pure silver weighs 5,237 ounces to
each cubic inch. Should its density be
less, the silver may he supposed to
contain copper; if greater, lead may
be present.
The quantity of water in wheat and
-four is greater in cold countries than
in warm. In England it is from four
teen to seventeen per cent, in the Unit
ed States from twelve to fourteen, i'll
Africa from nine to eleven.
Ammonia is to be found everywhere
By suspending Il piece of glass, and af-
ter a while washing its outer surface
by means of spray bottle, the pres
ence of ammonia may be ascertained.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-10-21

suspenders. 1t was the tenor to bat
and as the great organ struck up he
pushed the chair off of his person,
looked around to see if he had saved
his pants, and began to sing, and the
rest of the choir came near bursting.
The tenor was called out on three
strikes by the umpire, and the alto had
to sail in ; and while she was singing
the tenor began to feel of first base to
see what was the matter. When he
got his hand on the shoemaker's warm
wax his heart smOte him and he looked
daggers at the soprano, but she put on
a pious look and got her mouth ready
to sing "Hold the Fort" Well, the
tenor sat down on white handker-
chief before he went home he got
home without anybody seeing him,
and he has been, as the saying is, clay
ing" for the soprano ever since, to get
even.
1t is customary in all first-class choirs
for the male singers to furnish candy
for the lady singers and the other day
the tenor went to candy factory and
had peppermint lozenge made with
about half IA teaspoonful of cayenne
pepper i'll the centre of it, On Christ
concluded to get even with the soprano
if he died for it. Candy had been
passed around, and just before the
hymn was given out i'll which the
soprano was to sing solo, "Nearcr,
my God, to Thee" the wicked wretch
gave her the loaded lozenge. She put
it in her mouth and nibbled off the
edges, and was rolling it as sweet
mOrsel under her tongue, when the
organ struck up and they all arose.
While the choir was skirmishing on
the first part of the verse, and getting
scored up for the solo, she chewed what
was left of the candy and swallowed
it. Well, if II Democratic tOrch-hght
procession had marched unbidden
down her throat she couldn't have been
any more astOnished. She leaned over
to pick up her handkerchief and spit
the candy ont, but there was enough
pepper left around the selvage of her
mouth to have picked peck of chow
chow. 1t was her turn to sing, and
she rose and took the book, her eyes
filled with tears, her voice trembled,
her face was as red as q spanked lob
ster, and the way she sang that old
hymn was IL caution. With Il sweet
tremulO she sang, "Nearer, my God, to
Thee" and the congregation was al
most melted to tears. AS she stopped,
while the Organist got in little work,
she turned her head, and opened her
mouth, and blew out her breath with n
''whOOsh" to cool her mouth. The au-
dience saw her wipe tear away, but
did not hear the sound of her voice as
she "whooshed." She wiped out some
of the pepper with her handkerchief,
and sang the other verses with good
deal of fervor, and the choir sat down,
all the members looking at the soprano.
She called for water. The noble tenor
went and got it for her, and after she
had drank a couple of quarts she
whispered to him, ''YOung man, will
get even with you for that peppermint
candy if | have to live "a thousand
years, and don't you forget it :" and
then they all sat down and looked
pious, while the minister preached
most beautiful sermon on Faith" We
expect that tenor will be blOwed
through the roof some Sunday, and the
congregation will wonder what he is
in such hurry for.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-10-21
Soprano vs.. Tenor.
A LITTLE STORY ABOUT A NAUGHTY
BUT NICE CHURCH CHOIR.

You may organize a church choir
and think you have got it down fine,
and that every member of it is pious
and full of true goodness and i'll such
Il moment as you think not You will
find that one or more of them is full of
the Old Harry, and it will break out
when you least expect it. There is no
more beautiful sight to the student
than a church choir. To see the mem
bers sitting together, demure, devoted,
and piOus looking, you think that
there is never thought enters their
mind that is not connected with sing
ing anthems but sometimes you get
left. There is one church choir in
Milwaukee that is about as near per
feet as Il choir can he. 1t has been or
ganiZed for IA long time, and never has
quarreled ; and the congregation
swear by it. When the choir strikes
devotional attitude it is enough to
make an ordinary Christian think of
the angel band above, only the male
singers wear whiskers and the females
wear fashionable clothes.
You would not think that this Choir
played tricks on each other during the
sermon but sometimes they do. The
choir is furnished with the numbers OF
the hymns that are to he sung, by the
minister, and they put IA book mark i'll
the proper place. One morning they
all got mp to sing, when the soprano
turned pale rs an ace of spades drop
ped ont of her hymn book, the alto
nearly tainted when the queen OF
hearts dropped at her feet, and the rest
of the pack was distributed around in
the other books. They laid it on tO
the tenor, but he swore, while the min
lister was preaching, that he didn't
know one card from another.
One morning last summer, after the
tenor had been playing tricks all the
spring on the rest of the choir, the so
prano brought chunk of shoemaker
wax to church. The tenor was array
ed like Solomon, in all his glory, with
white pants and "A Seymour coat. The
tenor got up to see who the girl was
who came in with the old lady, and
while he was up the soprano put the
shoemaker's wax on the chair, and the
tenor sat down on it. They all saw it
and they waited for the result. 1t wa'
an awful long prayer, and the churcl
was hot, the tenor was no iceberg him
self, and shOemaker's wax melts a
ninety eight degrees Fahrenheit. The
minister finally got to the amen, and
read hymn the choir coughed ant
all rose up. The chair that the tenOl
was in stuck to him like brother, ant
! came right along and nearly broke hi
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-10-21
SquibS.

When a woman leaves a man who
has not earned his salt for years, he i'm
mediately advertises that he will pay
no debts of her contracting.
Mark Twain, lecturing on the Fiji
islands, offered to show how the canni-
balls ate their food if any lady would
lend him a baby. The lecture had to
90 unillustrated.
A Newark girl has traded herself and
her fortune of $500, 600 for the privil-
ege of being called the wife of an ltal-
ian count who wears one shirt three
weeks without washing.
A chap in Oregon married four wives
within ten miles of each other, and
wasn't found out until the four hap
pened to meet at a picnic and showed
the same kind of dollar-store earrings.
= Detroit Free Press.
A lady complains that she is not get
ting educational value for her money.
Her husband asked their boy six ques-
tiOns, Oh his last return from school.
To five he replied correctly. The an
swer was: 81 don't know
Scene : Bridal reception. Several
of the guests. after shaking hands with
the bride, and all speaking at the same
time: "Where is the bridegroom ?'
Bride, naively: "Oh, he's up stairs
watching the wedding presents"
A bridegroom slapped his brides
face two hours after marriage, as they
were about to take a train mt White
side, H., for honeymoon tour. Re
covering from her surprise she bella
bored him over the head with Il cane,
and they had the satisfaction of being
mistaken by everybody for old mar
ried folks. - Philadelphia News.
"You are always kicking up row."
said IA gentleman to negro and his
wife who were having "muss.n
''Why there is no harmony in y0ur
house ?' "Dat's jess what | was tellin'
de lazy, wufiess nigga" said the
woman. "Dar amt no hOminy in de
house, nor no meat, and de bacOn's all
eat up, and de meal bar'l is empty.
| He is de only ting in de house what's
full all de time
Pea Blossom, Il saddle-colored youth,
was up before the Austin recorder for
stealing Il pair of shoes from Nose
Schaumberg's store. ''DOn't you know
it was not right to take those shoes ~
- ! tS, san, | KNOWS / ulnn Ihkt ue
right shoes. My mudder tole me dey
was not de right ones as soon as
bring 'em home. De high priced ladies'
shoes on de shelf was the right ones,
but couldn't reach 'em, sab"
Early to bed and early to rise il
good for the sleeper but rough ON the
hies.- Detroit Free Press.
Note for Darwin In time "A mulber-
rv-tree becomes silk gown, and the
| silk gown becomes woman.
Quoted at "A boarding house break
/ fast table: If we can't count our
chickens before they are Matched, we
can eat them.
A mother, whose crying infant made
the sermon of her pastor almost maud
! ible, was going from the hall, when the
clergyman spoke up, saying, "My good
woman, don't go away, th. baby does
not disturb me-" alt isn't for that
leave, sir" was her reply 'it's you
disturbs the baby"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-10-21
st. Johnsbury Church Directory.

AdUent-Paddock Village. Sabbath Services at
1890 a. M. las and 630 p. III. Sabbath School -
IN. Prayer Meetings at 7:3O p. m. Sunday, Tuesday
and Friday evenings.
Bdptist-Ralroad Street Corner Maple Rev
+. A. Sandford, Pastor Preaching 1880 A NJ. s.
School - NJ. Prayer meeting $50 Prayer meet
ing Wednesday evening at 1880
Free Baptist-Main Street Corner Prospect
Rev. II. LOckhart, Pastor. Sabbath services 1890
A. NJ. and $50 =. NJ Sabbath School at IL M. Prayer
meeting Wednesday evening at 1880.
Church Of the Messidh-( (Universalist) Eastern
avenue. corner Cherry street. Rev. b. NJ. Tillot-
Sabbath School at Il NJ Wednesday evening meet
ing at 1870.
Methodist-Central street. Rev. L. S. Locke
Pastor Residence next to the Church. Sab
School at - NJ. Wednesday evening meeting at
7;3O.
North Congregational street, corner of
Church. Rev. Henry w. Jones, Pastor. sabbath
School at l:4j p. NJ. Wednesday evening meeting
at 1880.
South Congregdtional-M street Rev. Ed
ward 4. Fairbanks Pastor. Sabbath services at
1890 A NJ. and ESQ T. Sabbath School at II NJ
Wednesday evening meeting at 7:3O.
Presbyterian Chureh-Rev. W. X. Laird pas
tor. Services at Presby yterian Hall, every Sab
bath at 1880 a. M, 300 p. Sabbath school 300
Prayer meeting 6:iO. Bible reading Wednesday
evening 1880.
ST AHdrews-( EpiscopalD Main street Rev.
n. f. Putnam, Rector. Services on SUNDAYS at
1880 4. m, and p. Holy days and Fridays at
: a. IN. Wednesdays at 1870 p. III. Sunday School,
at $3.50 p.
Roman CattoIic-Cherry Street Rev. j. A.
Boissonnault Parish Priest. Mass and 10 a. ;
Vespcrs and BenedictiOn at p. m. On the
second Sunday of the month, service at $50 a. m,
and p. III. At Lyndonvile same day at 1890 a. IN.
Y H. c. A.-Meetings at the rOOms of the Y. NJ.
c. A, Browns Building. Main Street Sunday
mornings at 9:3O, Monday evenings at 1880.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-10-21
VOLUME 45---NUMBER 23O9.

the request and Gen. Garfield came to
Chicago. Had he not done so he would
in all probability be alive to-day a Sen
ator of the United States and possibly
be one among Others to gather at the
call of some other Vice President to
provide for the emergency Occasioned
by the death of the Chief Executive
[ChicagO Tribune.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-10-21
st. Johnsbury Post Office.
ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF MAILS.

ARRIVAL MD UEFAhIUhE Of HAILs.
Boston and intermediate offices. Arrive 4:I5 D
IN. Close 93O and s:2O a III.
Boston through mail. Arrive 2:17 m. Close
500 p m.
New York and the West. Arrive 2:17 and HOO
a IN, and 4:15 p Close $50 and 500 IN, and 500
pm.
Newport and the North. Arrive 900 III.
Close 4:I5 p m.
Portland and the East. Arrive 300 p IN. Close
$50 IA m.
Swanton and intermediate offices. Arrive lO:15
a IN. Close AIS pm.
Waterford. Arrive 500 a m. Close 400 pm.
North Danvile. Arrive $3.50 a Close 1000
West Concord and East st. JOhnsbury Arrive
900 a III. Close 415 y III.
CHAS. +. CARPENTER, I'd, p. NJ.
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st. Jobnsburv Atbenmum.

Library aud Reading ROOm,-Free to all. OpeI
from A. N. to II M; from to p. M, and from
! To IL Saturday evenings.
Art Gdilery-Open Tuesdays and Fridays.
CHARLES \. WILLARD, Librarian
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-10-21
WEDDING STATIONERY.

We have added some choice Wedding Papers
Envelopes and Cards TO our stock, and with new
and beautiful script type, fit out wedding par
ties at short notice
Also nice calling cards, giit-edged, put up in
leatherette boxes
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-10-21

Chamomile
WILL BE SOLD

at an extraordinary bargain nv residence in Sum
merville a large part of purchase money can lie
on mortgage.
+. T. RICHARDSON.
ST. Johnsbury July ~. 43tf
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-10-21

A good climber can ascend only 5000
feet in nine hours that is, raise his
own weight 1000 feet an hour. The
work done by the heart is equivalent
to raising its own weight 13, $50 feet in
the same time.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-10-21
Nice Calling Cards.

Gilt edged in boxes or cases. very neat. inst
the thing every lady wants. Can and see them
CALIFORNIAN OFFICE
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-10-21
East st. JOhnsbury.

OOngregatiOndl.-Rev. +. b. Phelps, Pastor.
Sunday services at 1915 a. IN. and $50 p. IN. Sab
bath school at Zoo. Wednesday evening meeting
at 80.
Metodist.-Rev. L. c. Dickinson, Pastor Sun
day services at 1.30 p. IN.
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Telegraph Office.

Western Union and VI IHternGtiOnal-in St.
JOhnsbuTy House. Open from a. m, to p. IN.
sundays, to 10 a. m, to p. M. Night messages
hal
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-10-21

Defective color vision is chiefly man
ifested in the inability to see the differ
ence between red and green.
Glucose is used for manufacturing
table syrups, candies, food for bees,
artificial honey and in brewing.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-10-21
Trarrlers' 6uide.
81. Johnsbury a Lake Champlain Railroad
July 4, 1881.

Passumpsic Railroad.---Oct. 10, 1881.
TRAINS SOUTH LEAVE ST. JoHSsBURY
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-10-21

w nen my SJuuN Ol llt ClluTCn WIS
completed, | went to the Red Lion, and
there painted in my figures. There
was little need for models, for my
sketch book was full of studies. Turn
ing tO my picture, now progressing
rapidly, find that there are heads of
two elderly men, and there is a careful
! sketch of young mans face likewise.
| There is fair girls face and a matrOn-
ly countenance, and another face which
seems not unlike that of Miss Blagden.
At last my task is completed. The pic
ture is a mere Study" but it is a care
full study withal. The old church you
recognize at a glance; the figures
well, we shall see.
The vicar has been busily spreading
a report that have been painting pic
lures of the church, and there is curl
osity to see them. | now propose that
one fine day few of my ROckhamptOn
| friends shall come to see my work.
The circle is very select. | have invit-
ed Mr.. and Mrs. Spaulding, the great
Josiah, Miss Blagden and Jim. con-
trive, with a diplomatic cunning for
which have not before given myself
credit, that Nellie Spaulding shall be
admitted to private view, She her
self has been all anxiety to see the pie
ture, and pretend that by great favor
she shall see it before any one else.
Mine host of the Red Lion has prepar-
ed nice little luncheon, even to dry
POmmery, which ''the great JOSIAH
as | have been accustomed to call him
probably from the magnitude of his
waistcoats-says he dotes upon.
make malicious aud unkind but per
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size bottle will do. For sale by Logan
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FoRTY-FoUR apostles OF Mormonism
left New York the other day upon a
proselytizing mission to the Old Void.
In due course OF time they will return
with hundreds OF poor deluded people
under their alleged protection. The
Mormons are shrewd enough to profit
by the vast tide of emigration which is
now sweeping across the Atlantic to the
shores Of the United States, and they
can talk with sufficient glibnrss and
JUNCTION to delude the ignorant persons
to whom their ministralions are exelu-
sively addressed. The foriy-four mis-
sionaries will no doubt succeed in reap
ing a rich harvest, and thus the peculiar
Institution which is the darkest blot on
the face OF this fair land is fed and
strengthened.