St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-02-25
Our New York Letter.

ERRANT CLEANSERS OF OUR AUGEAN
sTABLEs-A NEW HYGIENIC PURSUIT
THE Gladstone GoINGs OF THE
wHILOM MAN OF sILENCE-A DEAD
GIANT OF POLITICS FIRE LADDIES TO
THE FRONT AS USUAL-GLEEFUL
GREETINGS OF ST. VALENTINE-AMEN-
tiles OF vARIOLA.
NEW YORK, Feb. I6, 1881.
To the Editor of the CdIedOnidn:
Our moral shortcomings have been
vigorously looked into recently. The
Society for the Suppression of Vice
have enjoyed their annual treat of lis
tening to lecture from their well paid
agent, Anthony COmstOck, with his ed
flying statistics of so many thousand
tons of Objectionable literature destroy
ed, so many million corrupting circulars
handed to the young and tender of
both sexes, etc, etc, information which
well-infOrmed persons declare is largely
adulterated with too much imagination.
Anthony has to do something, however,
to earn his wages, and us he has sue
most of the actual misdemeanants, he
must needs draw on his invention to
supply a reason for his continued Off
cial existence. The Reverend Univer-
sity Chancellor DIR. Howard Crosby
has, too, been busily stirring up the
Mayor aud other municipal big wigs
anent the breaches Of the excise law,
etc. Aud the chief of Il British kindred
association is with us now, following
Talmage's programme of seeing the
elephant under the guidance of detec-
tive. In fact, Satan should have had Il
hard row to hoe in pious Gotham just
now. The old boy seems to get along
pretty comfortably, nevertheless.
Turning from moral to physical
cleanliness, or the reverse, may men
tion the growing popularity of instruc-
ton for the masses about plumbers
and plumbing. DR.. Janeway of the
Board of Health has been spouting be-
fore mixed audiences, about the "pep-
permint test first advocated in this
country in print, i'll the form of handy
little pamphlet, by your RADIX) and
similar matters. A new and possibly
quite lucrative profession is starting in
to life. For instance, the ex-editor of
the Sanitary Engineer, Charles f. Win
gate, has disconnected himself from the
not over literally endowed position he
held in that establishment, and has
started as an expert adviser in domestic
physics. He is one of the new combi-
nations of practical architect, chemist,
physician, and philanthrOpist, styled
Sanitary Engineers. He is brother el
the famous rifleman, Gen. Wingate
and bids fair, from his full experience
and Iipe judgment, to be us prominent
in the lead of the reform of plumbing
as his brother was in the establishment
of CreedmoOr, the pioneer rifle range
of this country. The Metropolitan Mu
| scum of Art has inaugurated a new de-
;; paltment, devoted to Hygienic matters
and Wingate has been appointed one o
E the lecturers, a thoroughly deserved
recognition of his value.
. Gen. Grant is winning golden opin
r ions by his industry, tact, and bOnhOm
me ia HldDN ulleCllOnS. lie seems IL
; be far buster man than when Presi
; dent or Commander in Chief, and il
|, becoming appreciated widely as pleas
!, ant, well-informed, frank and quit,
:, outspoken sort of person. In fact, he i
; quite changed from the character h,
: was supposed to be, except in one re
: spect. He still smokes. At the hea,
e of the Great Fair Commission he i
Y working like a beaver aud putting a lit
Il tie of the ginger into his somewhat lag
II ging companions, after the fashion
. wherewith he was wont to inspire hi
= lieutenants in old Virginia campaigns
e. At the Fair of the Brooklyn FOurteent
p Red Legged Devils" his old bod
% guard, by the way, he was the cynosur
of all eyes, and the fact of the presenc
: of the hero of Appomattox was worth
great many dollars to the widows an
orphans fund of the veterans. Hi
O business as presiding officer at grea
gatherings where prominent men ex
. pound their views is quite lively, an
III altogether the great American travele
e manages to distinguish himself rigl
d royalty.
e The great Fernando Wood lis Nc
his history written in the book of th
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