St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-09
GIeaningS.

The Pennsylvania railroad has be-
gun "a war of determination on ticket
scalpers, using "A state law prohibiting
the selling of railroad tickets except
by regular agents.
A company has been organized III
Philadelphia which expects to run
street cars with springs to he wound
up at the end of the route as watch is
wound.
About the first definite report in ia
vOr of the electrical light on the ground
of economy comes from the postmaster
of Philadelphia, who says he has saved
over $1,000 in the past year by substi-
tuting that for gas.
Abraham Lincoln told Sculptor Volk :
II don't like to hear cut and dried
sermons. NO-when | hear man
preach, like to see him act as though
he were fighting bees !" And he ex-
tended his long arms, suiting the ac-
ton to the words.
The Cleveland Herald speaks an i'm
portant truth when it says that what
is needed in every city in this country
is home where respectable working
girl, earning small wages, shall he able
to live within her means, and, by pay
ing fixed and regular price for her
living, retain her independence and
self-respect.
One of the ludicrous incidents of the
Congregational Jubilee, which was
held recently at Manchester, England,
was the perplexity of the committee
having charge of the collection OF
hymns when the jubilee hymn OF
Charles Wesley was proposed. 1t be
gins with the familiar line, 1.-The year
of jubilee has come" and would have
been especially appropriate for the oc-
casion had not the unfortunate line
been found, "Return, We ransomed sin
ners, home.n 1t was thought that the
American delegates might regard this
reflection as uncalled for, and the
hymn was given up. The joke was
too good to keep, and when the omis-
sion was explained at the closing cere-
mOny by Mr.. Milne i'll his reply to the
resolution of thanks to the people OF
Manchester, his words were received
with rOars of laughter"
A pathetic scene occurred a few days
ago in the penitentiary at Little Rock,
Ark. A yOung man, twenty three
years old, one of the train robbers re-
Gently sentenced to seventy years i'm
prisonment, complained of being ill
and was sent to the hospital. He APP
peared to be suffering from no disease,
but his pulse was up 80 l4O. His heart
seemed to be breaking on account Oi
his sentence. Tears fell from his eyes
as he thought of the long years of i'm
prisOnment before him. His mind be
gan to wander, and in his rawlings he
quoted sentences from the pernicious
literature which had led him into his
life oil lawlessness. "SeiZing the bride
rein," cried the sufferer, ''he sprang
upon his antagonists horse and dash
ed away. Halt y he exclaimed, draw
ing revolver and leveling it at the
head of young Horace"
"Slowly and sadly" he continued il
a subdued voice, ''they left the church
and walked along the well-wOrn patti
to the rude grave of Lawrence. Stand
ing near the stone, placed there by the
Indian, Casper and his fair companion
here his mutterings became maud
BILE and his voice died away i'll IA groan
Suddenly he raised himself, looked in.
tently toward the door, and sank bach
dead of broken heart. 1t would b,
supertiuOus to call attention to the
moral which this sad incident carrie,
| with it.