St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-03-18

1t is estimated that New York police
commissioner gets $1,000 week as his
share OF "hush money" from the gam
bling houses of the metropolis.
The worldly minded Boston Post OBJ
serves that forty days are none TOO long
a time for the preparation of first
class Easter wardrobe.
Maine troops did not loose a flag by
capture during the late war.
Kentucky is priding herself consider
ably on the execution of Nonderheide,
the white scamp who outraged and
murdered a colored girl.
ID. o. Mills, who moved his money,
away from California on account of the
kearney constitution, has just invested
a million or two in real estate on Wall
street. New York, and will put up Il
nine-story structure there for brokers'
and lawyers offices.
The oldest senator is Senator Morrill,
of Vermont, who is over seventy. The
youngest senators are German and
Groome of Maryland, and Mitchell of
Pennsylvania, all of whom were bora
IN 1898. The average age of the mem
bers of the last senate was 80, and the
average age of the new senate is be-
teen 81 and %.
Gen. 'Baldy" Smith, well known in
this vicinity, has resigned his position
as ii police commissioner in New York,
owing to discussions in the board.
zone of the chronic evils of journal
ISM" says Henry Wattersen, "seems to
he tho irrepressibility of the ever-irre-
preSSible Young man"
Gerster's salary is $4,000 per month
Campanini's, $1,000, and yet the people
will talk about women not having their
rights.
One-half of the 100 boys picked from
the New York grammar schools, to
whom medals were given at the raising
of the Obelisk, were of German extrac-
ton and one-third, were of Jewish
birth. One-tlird of the prize takers in
the New York normal school are also
Jews, and yet neither in the normal
school nor the grammar schools are the
Jewish children over one iiftieth of the
whole. 1t would be interesting to know,
however, before basing too much on
these facts, whether Jewish families of
training do not patronize public schools
more than like families who are not
Jews.
But three Cars have occupied the
throne of Russia during this cen tnry,
so that the average reign has been %
years. Alexander III, the new emperor,
is the second son of his father, the first
having died when young man. He
married Princess Dagmar of Denmark,
who had been betrothed to his brother,
one of the famous family of girls to
which the princess of Wales belongs.
Alexander is now 35 years of age, has
four children, and is accredited with
domestic fidelity and happiness. He
has been disposed to more liberal re-
gime than his father, and has been
especially noted for his aversion to the
German influence.
The rumOr that the new postmaster
general was Grants man for the cabinet,
is given color by the generals remark
at the James dinner in New York, in
effect that he had received sufficient
applications for appointment under him
(James) to fill the 10000 subordinate
offices in the postoffice department.
Senator Malone is said to be worth
two million dollars, and Senator Davis
one million. They are "independent,"
of course.
1t is reported that eX- President Hayes
has saved $4,000 of the two hundred
thousand received from government as
his salary.