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A Fiji Dance.

The most graceful of all Fiiian
dances was one which represents the
breaking of the waves on a coral reef
Il poetic idea admirably rendered.
Years ago remember the delight with
which we hailed an exquisite statuettc
in Sir Noel PatOn's studio, represent
ing the curling of wave by beauti-
full female figure, supposed to he
floating thereon; but ] never dreamed
that we should find the same idea so
perfectly carried out by IA race whom
we have been wont to think of only as
ruthless savagcs. The idea to be con
veyed is that of the tide gradually ris-
ing on the reef, till at length there
remains only little coral isle, round
which the angry breakers rage, fling
ing their white foam on every side.
At first the dancers form in long lines
and approach silently, to represent the
quiet advance of the waves. After a
while the lines break up into smaller
companies, which advance with out
spread hands and bodies bent forward,
to represent the ripping wavelets, the
tiniest waves being represented by
children. Quicker and quicker they
come on, now advancing, now retreat
ing, yet, like true waves, steadily pro-
crossing, and gradually closing on
every side of the imaginary islet, round
which they play OF battle, after the
manner of breakers, springing high in
mid-air, and fiinging their arms far
above their heads, to represent the
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SquibS.
A night-gown is nothing but nap

A night-gown is nothing but nap
sack
Always willing to give his note-The
music-teacher.- Boston Times.
Mrs. Mixer says the only way to pre-
vent steamboat explosions is to make
the engineers boil the water on shore.
In her opinion all the bursting is done
Dy cooking the steam on board.
Scene ut the college. Prep. Ito ser
want ut the door "Miss-?' Ser
want "She's engaged" Pre-,
know it; I'm what she's engaged to-"
II College Journal.
"Mr. Smith, father would like to
borrow your paper; he only wants to
read it.d "Wcli, 90 back and tell your
father to send me his supper. Tell
him ! only want to eat it,"
The Princess Amelia Caroline Gas
parine LeopOldine Henrietta Louise
Elizabeth FRANCHISE Maximilicnnc of
Furstenberg is the lady to whom James
Gordon Bennett is said to he engaged.
When Jim gets her visiting cards print
ed in the iOb-roOm he will have to
read the proof himself Louisville
COurier-Journal.
''Pray, Brother A., what is the repu-
tatiOn of Mr.. b. i'll your parish -
"Well, sir, all ! can say is that such is
the estimation of Mr.. B. among us that
when read from the pulpit that pas
sage in Psalms, Mark the perfect man
and behold the upright the eyes of the
whole congregation are not turned TO
that part of the gallery where Mr.. B.
sits.r
"Well, Pm getting about tired of
this ere life" said an ultra specimen
of the genus tramp. ''GOing half
starved one day, and drenched to the
skin another; sleeping one night in
barn, the next night under IA hedge,
and the third in the lookup; this life
isn't what it used to be. Tell yer what
tits, boys, if twasn't for the looks of the
thing, I'd go to work"
The Chicago Inter Ocean tells a sto-
ry about an absent-minded citizen of
that town who went to church last
Sunday carrying over his arm what he
supposed was his new spring Overcoat,
but was mortified when he got there to
find that he was conspicuously trans
porting his new pair of spring panta-
looms, which had been sent home the
night before.
A Yankee who had suddenly acquir-
ed great wealth by speculation took it
into his head to travel, and finding
himself at length in Florence, made a
visit to Mr.. Powers studio. Looking
over the different statues, his eye rest
ed on the Greek Slave. "What may
you call that air boy n he asked. "'The
Greek Slave" replied the sculptor.
"And what may be the price of it 7"
continued the Yankee. "Three thou
sand dollars" was the answer, as Pow
ers gazed at the odd specimen of hu-
manity before him. "Three thousand
dollars ~ he exclaimed "you don't
say so, nOwf Why, | thought of buy
ing something on you, but that's
notch above me. Why, statiary is riz,
amt it ~
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-06-10
PaS-umpsic RaiIroad.---Feb'y 81, 1881.
st. Johnsbury Church Directory.

Adpent-Paddock Village. Sabbath Services at
1890 a. m. las and 6:3O p. Sabbath School IL
m Prayer Meetings at 1880 p IN. Sunday, Tuesday
aud Friday evenings.
Baptst-Railroad Street Corner Maple. Rev.
e. 4. Sanford, Pastor. Preaching 1880 A. NJ S.
School - N. Prayer meeting $50. Prayer meet
ing Wednesday evening at 1880.
Free Bdptist-Main Street. Corner Prospect
Rev. ii. Lnckhart, Pastor. Sabbath services 1890
A. NJ, and 6:3O N. Sabbath School at IL NJ Prayer
meeting "Wednesday evening at 1880.
Church Of the Aessidh-t tUniversalistJ Eastern
avenue, corner Cherry street. Rev. Il. NJ Tillot-
Sabbath School at ~ N. Wednesday evening meet
ing at 73O
Msthodist-Central street Rev. L. S. Locke,
Pastor. Residence next to the Church. Sab
bath services at 1890 A NJ. and $50 Sabbath
School at IL NJ. Wednesday evening meeting at
North OongregationaI-Mai street, corner of
Church. Rev Henry w. Jones, Pastor. Sabbath
School at las P M. Wednesday evening meeting
| at 7:30.
South OongregationaI-Mai street Rev. Ed.
ward T. Fairbanks. Pastor. Sabbath services at
1890 A and $50 p. N. Sabbath School at IL NJ.
wednesday evening meeting at 7:3O.
Presbyterian Chureh-Rev W. X. Laird pas
tor Services at Presbyterian Hail. every Sab
bath at 1880 m 300 p. m. Sabbath school 200.
Prayer meeting $50 Bible reading Wednesday
evening 73O.
81. Andrel0s-( (Episcopal,l Main street, Rev
n. +. Putnam Rector. Services on Sundays at
1890 n. m, and p. III. Holy days and Fridays at
: a m. Wednesdays at 1880 p. NJ. Sunday School
at $3.50 y.
Boissonnault. Parish Priest Mass and 10 a. m ;
Vespcrs and Benedction at , p. III. On the
second Sunday of the month service at $50 a. NJ,
and p. IN. At LyndOnville same day at 1890 a. N.
T. H. O. A.-Meetings at the rooms of the Y. NJ
G. A, Browns building. Main Street, Sunday
mornings at $50, Monday evenings at 1870
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VOLUME 44---NUMBER 22S9.

vided they required hard labor or
drudgery of any kind. This picture
of the degradation of the German wo-
but a living reality. Whoever has
Travelled through Germany has noticed
the brOnZed-faced women, scantilv
dressed, tOiling in the fields, tottering
beneath heavy loads on their heads
and shoulders, climbing ladders with
hods of brick and stone for the build
ers, saving and splitting wood in the
streets, dragging milk-carts and en-
gagged in numberless menial occupa-
tiOns of such degrading nature that
Rocky mountain savage would dis
dain to have his squaw perform them.
And for all this lifelong labor and
toll the German woman is miscrably
paid. 1t is the pittance that is doled
out to the beggar. The few pfennings
that are paid her for her days or
weeks hard servitude are scarcely
enough to supply her with clothes to
cover her back, or buy bread to keep
her from starving. They are strong
and robust, and perform what is called
''man's labor" While mt work in
the fields, and it is only during the
warm months of the year they can,
they are only paid 8, 10 and 10 cents
for days labor of - hours. When
they board themselves they receive
from 30 to % or 30 cents a day. The
men, when they can he induced to
work at farming, are paid from % to
IS and 80 cents per day, and find their
own food. With their board and lodg-
n al -
more than Sl.30 week. Is it a Won
der that the emigration from Germany
to the United States is so enormous.
and increasing so rapidly ? Women do
mestics are worse paid than those who
labor in the fields. Thousands of
them go into families and toll like
slaves for their board, which is poor
enough, and the cast-off clothing from
the backs of their mistresscs. Those
who are paid receive but u mere pit
tance for their labor. Common house
servants, chambermaids, etc, only get
or 10 marks (Sl.92, $3.50 per month,
and cooks who are considered extra
good, and cook for very large and
wealthy families and for boarding
houses, seldom receive more than - or
ID marks (S2.SS, S3.36) per month
Although the wages paid are SO insig-
nificant, yet the laws governing the
relations between master and servant
are very strict and always enforced.
The master cannot discharge his ser
want, nor can the servant leave her
master without Il months warning
either way. All servants are under
the espionage and the protection of
the police, and are furnished with
books which are numbered and reg.
istered, and in which the laws are:
printed. If they change their place of
service, they must report to the police,
and they are under the necessity of
producing a certificate of good char
acter for honesty, faithfulness, etc,
from their last employer, which has to
be inscribed in their book Letter in
Springfield Republican.
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QrareIers' Gnide.
st. Johnsbury a Lake Champlain Railroad.
January 10, 1881.

MAIL-Leaves Swanton SO a. m. Cambridg,
Junction 654 Hardwek $40, East Hard~ick go:
Greensboro $50, Walden 9.03, Danvile 926 st
Johnsbury arrive 1000 leave 1910, East St Johns
bury lO-5I, West Concord ll04 Miles Pond II 81
East Concord ll33 arrives at Lunenburg II. IS
Portland at 5.57 p.
ENPRESS-Leaves SwAntOn 5.35 D. m, Cam
bridge Junction 7.02, Hardwck s.25 East Hard
wick SIS Greensboro &C Walden $40, Danvlle
9-29, arrive St Johnsbury 1000 p.
MIXEp-& Johnsbury TO Lunenburg-Leaves
st JohnsbUry 4.i6 p. m. Z. St Johnsbury sos w.
Concord 5z5 Miles Pond O5 +. Concord 6.22 ar
rive Lunenburg 6i5 p IN.
TRAINS MOVING WEST.
MAlL-Leaves Portland o. a. m Lunenburg
l35, p. m, East Concord l.47, Miles Pond Sd,
West Concord 2.I7, East st. Johnsbury .. % arrive
St Johnsbury 2.i0 leaves AS DanVille 500 Wal
den 5.ii, Greensboro COS East Hardwick GIG,
Hardwick 62s Cambridge junction 74s arrives
at SwautOn at $40 p m
EXPRESS-Leav St Johnsbury 6.35 a. m.
Danylle 7.05, Walden 7.29, Greensboro $50 r..
Hardwick 7.5s, Hardwick s.u, Cambridge
JUNCTION 9.3. SwantOn IL 90 a.
MIXED-LuHenbuTg % St JohnsbtITy-Leaves
Luneuburg 6. 80 a. M. T.. Concord $50 Miles Pond
7Os, West Concord AS, 4. St JOhnsbury SOS, ar
rive St JOhnsbury $50 "A III.
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Sleigh Bells.

1t has, no doubt, been mystery To
many how the iron ball inside of sleigh
bells got there, and it is said to have
taken considerable thought on the part
of the discOverer before the idea struck
him. In making sleigh bells the iron
ball is put inside sand core, just the
shape of the inside of the bell. Then
mould is made Just the shape of the
outside of the bell. This sand core,
with the iinglet inside, is placed in the
mould of the outside, and the melted
metal is poured in, which fills up the
space between the core and mould.
The hot metal burns the core so that
it can be all shaken out, leaving the
ball within the shell. Ball valves,
swivel joints, and many other articles
are cast in the same manner.
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st. Johnsbury Post Office.

ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF MAILS.
Boston and intermediate Offices Arrive 4:4O y
III. Close $50 m.
Boston through mail. Arrive 2:17 a m. Close
500
New York and the West. Arrive 2:17 a IN and
1906 and $40 p III. Close $50 III and 500 p m
Newport and the North. Arrive 1O:15 a IN.
Close 400 pm.
Portland and the East. Arrive 800 p IN. Close
$3.50 M.
Swanton and intermediate offices Arrive IO:I5
a Close 400 pm.
Waterford. Arrive SEQ a m. Close 400 IN.
North Danvile. Arrive $50 a Close 1890
West Concord and East st. Johnsbury Arrive
CHAS p. CARPENTER. I'd. p. Nj.
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action of spray. AS they leap and toss
their heads, the soft white masi, or
native cloth, (Which for greater effect
they wear as a turban, with long
streamers, and also wind around the
waist, whence it floats in long scarf
like ends) tremblcs and fiutters in the
breeze. The whole effect is most ar
tistic. and the orchestra do their part
IN initiating the roar of the surf on the
reef-a sound which to them has a
never-ceasing lullaby from the hour of
their BIRTH At Home in FIJI, Gordon
Cumming.
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Burdens Heaped upon German
women.
A PITIFUL PEN PICTURE.

| would not like to be a German
peasant woman. | would much prefer
to be a German horse, for German
horses are well treated and well fed.
They are not over worked or Over-bur-
dened with heavy loads they are al
lowed a certain amount of rest be-
tween the suns rising and the SUMS
setting every attention is paid to their
comfort and health, and all this, not
because the horse has money value,
but that the Germans are naturally
kind to all dumb animals Women.
however, receive none of these kind
attentions and considerations at the
hands of the male portion of the com
munity, but are treated as if they were
of IA species lower than the brntes, with
no feelings and no souls. What the
camel is to the Arab, woman is to the
German. She is made to bear the
heavy loads, and be the working slave
of her master she is not only the
''hewer of wood and the drawer of
water,n but she is made to perform
every kind of degrading labor. She
prepares the fields for planting, she
drives the oxen and holds the plOw,
and not unfrequently she takes the
place of the OK before the plOw. She
sOws the seed and tills the soil, she
shovels, she hoes, she reaps, she gath
ers the harvest, she threshes the grain
and carries it to the mill, she grinds it
at the mill, she markets the products
of her small strip of land to buy bread
for her children, and beer for her lord
and master. She does the work and
the drudgery in the factories she is
the scavenger for cleaning the streets
and for gathering offal in the cities and
highways for enriching the land. She
does everything but play soldier and
hang around beer-shOps and drink beer
from early morn until late at night,
like the German men, and these Occu-
pations would he assigned her, pro-
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ayes, sab" said the old colOred man,
''de frs yeah, when | Civ fifty dollars
to de church, dey call me Mistah Rich
ad johnson, Esquah; de secon' yeah
times was bad an | couldn't Civ no
noah than twenty-five dollars, an dey
call me Bruddah johnson de next
yeah couldn't give muffin an dey call
me ole Niggah Johnson
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JOB PRINTING Of all kinds at living prices.
with modern type and machinery and skillfu
w"rkmen, nearly all kinds Of job Printing can be
done n well and IA cheap a. in the cities
Legal Blanks, Card and Paper stock constantly
ON hand
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East st. JOhnsbury.

OongregdtionaE-Rev. +. b. Phelps, Pastor
Sunday services at 1915 n. m. and 6.]0 p m. Sab
bath school at 1900. Wednesday evening meeting
at 30
Methodist.-Rev l.. G. Dickinson, Pastor. Sun
day services at 80 p. m.
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Artificial flowers for the spring trade
are made so perfect that the society
for the prevention of cruelty to animals
will probably interfere on behalf of the
! bees Philadelphia News.
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Beauties OF Editing "a Paper.

Editing paper is il pleasant bust
ss-not too pleasant, but just pleas
ant enough.
If it contains much political matter,
people won't have it.
If we publish real stories, folks say
they are nothing but lies.
If we omit them, We have no enter
prise.
If we have few jokes, folks say we
uc nothing but end men.
If we omit jokes, folks say we are
| farmers.
If We publish original matter, they
condemn Ills for not giving selections.
If We give selections, people say we
are lazy for not writing more and Civ
| ing them what they have not read in
some other paper.
If we give complimentary notice,
we are accused of being partial.
If we don't. all hands say we are aw-
fully CHASTITY.
If we attend church, they say it is
for effect.
If we remain in our office attending
to our own business, folks say we are
too proud to mimgle with other fellows
If we 90 out, they say we don't at
| tend to our business.
If we don't pay up promptly, they
say We are not to bc trusted.
If we pay up promptly, they say W,
stole the money Printers Circular.
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Library and Reading ROOM TO all. OpeI
from A. NJ to II M. from TO & z. NJ, and from
to : I2 Saturday evenings.
Art Gallery-Open Tuesdays and Fridays
CHARLES A. WILLARD, Librarian
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The present bull movement has
stopped the mouths of every proph-
ct of evil among those who write
on financial subjects. Everybody
agrees that everything is going up
and never coming down, and day
10y day everything does. Every
reaction is quickly wiped out by flood
of money from new buyers, from Eng
land, where an offer of money was
made two weeks ago at Il per cent,
standing in the background ready Ia
| float every decline with enormous pur-
chases. There is probably no time more
dangerous in every era of prosperity
than the period when the last panic il
forgotten and present prosperity ac-
cepted as eternal, and that is the ac-
cepted belief now. A crash is distant
but a crash is certain. Meanwhile tn,
prudent will save and not spend, invest
and not speculate.-[S Springfield Re
publican.
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Telegraph Office.

Western Union and VI Interndtiondl-in st.
JOhnsbury House. Open from g a. m, to p II.
sundays, to 10 a. m, to =. m. Night messages
at half rates
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The political situation may, there
fore. bc summed up in a few words
The President. before the third month
of his term is completed, has encoun-
tered as fierce an opposition as has
ever arisen in the party in power
against AN administration of its own
choice. When the war began, ma
iority of the Republican senators prob
ably, certainly a large minority, sym
pathizcd with Mr.. Conkling. who fOI
twelve years has been accustomed tC
dictate to his party associates and have
his orders implicitly obcyed. To-day
the administration has consolidated
the party i'll the Senate, and the former
director, with absolutely no following
has made a last desperate move in tn,
vain hope of saving something out al
| the wreck of his political fortunes. Ii
now looks rs though the last acts o
Mr.. COnkling's political career wcr,
about to he performed, and that in ;
wear he will be as dead as Andrew
johnson was after he left the Whit,
House in Is69.-[Cor. Providence Star
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ST. cSumsburp (alrdunian.
G.. NJ. STONE IL Co,
PUBLISHES.

opposite the Atheneum, St. Johnsbury, VT
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UNITED STATES HOTEL

Situated in the very centre of the City. The bes
located House for business men Heated by
steam Table set with the best the market
affords.
W II. MCDONALD. Proprietor.
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ADVANCE TERMS OF THE CALIFORNIAN;
The semi-weekly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1879-1882, 1881-09-22
OARS FOR THE MILLION,
FOO CHoo's BALsAM OF SHARKS OIL

Positively Restores the hearing and is the on
ly absolute cure for Deafness known.
This Oil is extracted from aspecies ofsmall
White Shark caught in the Yellow sea, and
known as Carcharodon Rondeletti. Every
Chinese fisherman knows it. Its virtues as
q restorative of hearing were discovered by
Buddhist Priest about the year l4l0. Its
cures were so numerous and and many so
seemingly miraculous that the remedy was
officially proclaimed over the entire empire.
Its use became so universal that for over 300
years no deafness has existed among the
Chinese people. Sent charges pre- paid, 10
any address at 81 per bottle. Only imported
by HAYL0CK & co II Dey st, New York
Sole agents for America.
Its virtues are unquestionable and its cur
alive character absolute. as the writer can
personally testify, both from experience and
observation. Among the many readers OF
the Review in one part and another Of the
country, it is probable that numbers are af-
hicted with deafness, and to such it may be
said: write at once to Haylock Il Co, No.
Dey street, New York, enclosing 81. and
you will receive in return a remedy that
will enable you to hear like anybody else,
and whose curative effects will be permanent
You will never regret doing so.-Editor of
Mercantile Review. Jy2l 81.
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FARM NOTES


DIRTY DIsHcLoTHs "A lady who
has the right ideas on the subject
says There is death in the dish
cloth. It is most essential that a
cloth in such constant requisition
should be kept clean If they are
black and stiff and sour-it is enough
throw them in the FIRE and hence
forth and forever wash your dishes
with cloths that are white; cloths that
you can see through, and see if you
ever have that disease again. There
are some other causes, but l have
smelled whole houseful Of typhoid
fever in one dishrag I had some
neighbors once, clever, good sort Of
folks. One fall four Of them were
sick at one time with the typhoid
fever. The doctor ordered the vim
egar barrels whitewashed, and threw
about forty cents worth of carbolic
into the swill pail department. /
went into the kitchen and made Cruel.
/ needed discloth and looked round
for one, and found several, and such
"rags;" | burned them AID called the
daughter of the house to get me
dish cloth. She looked aroupd on
the table. "Why," said she, "there
were about dozen here this morn
ing" and she looked in the wood
box and on the mantel-piece and felt
in the cupboard. "Well," I said, II
saw some old, black, rotten rags lying
around, and burned them, for there
is death in such dishcloths as those
aud you must never use such again"
| took turns at nursing that family
for weeks, and / believe those dirty
dishcloths were the cause of all that
hard work. Therefore I say to every
housekeeper, keep your dlshcloths
clean.
You may only brush and comb
your hair on Sunday you need not
wear collar unless you go from home;
you may also sweep the floor when
the sun gets right; the windows don't
need washing /; you can look out of
the door that spiders web on the
front porch don't hurt anything but
as you love your lives wash out your
dishcloth. Let the fox-tail grow in
the garden (the seed is loot deep
any way), let the holes in the heels of
your husbands socks go undarned |
let the children's shoes 60 two Sun
days without blacking /; let the hens
sit four weeks on one wooden egg, but
do wash on. your dishcloths. Eat
without table cloth wash your face
and let them dry; do without cur
tain for your windows and cake for
your tea, but keep your dishcloths
clean.