St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-05-27

shape without a couple of hours a day |
at pipe claying and Furnishing, rub |
Der blanket, a flannel blanket, with |
soap, towel, comb, clean shirt, ready |
and rolled in it, ian overcoat IN win
teri. and haversack and canteen,
with prog and grog, Tor cold tea and
coffee OF Adams ale), in addition to |
arms and ammunition, soldier can
get along comfortably enough. To
stick him in padded coat with corset |
traps and tomfooleries of all sorts, |
with ridiculous pedlar's pack on his
back, is to destroy his usefulness.
The knapsack is abolished in the Brit |
ish army altogether, and in war time
it is now carried by no other army in
the world. Why should we have it :
The same day thunder from clear
sky startled some people who are
looking for the end of the world to-day
or tomorrow, | am given to under
stand, but did no further mischief than
to kill poor Italian labOrer mt Man
haitian Beach, as he was eating his
dinner. Another brigade of militia
turned out in light marching order on
wet day when possibly overcOats
might have been comfortable. The
Seventh were out this time, and we
NAV be sure there were no sunstrokes
caused by Ignorance or inetficiency
with them.
Barnum's circus has departed after a
triumphant success, and with only
three funerals, so far, this season. The
last was IA young woman who used to
be blown out of cannon, Ostenslbly,
but who was really bounced by a sys-
TEN of springs simultaneously with the
noisy ignition and pungent smoke of
some gunpowder. They bounced her
crooked, one day. She fell paralyzed,
but would not interrupt the perform
ance, and was carried off smiling.
Her sister took her part Oh subsequent
occasions, and, till the news of her
burial was published, none of the
spectators of her terrible accident even
knew she had been hurt.
Two or three hundred fresh-vcry
fresh-lawyers have just been gradual
ted from sundry metropolitan colleges.
What can we do with them There
are too many lawyers now. We find
some of them glad to earn so week
rs reporters, stenOgraphic clerks to
merchants, etc, and course of such a
life is apt to leave them with noses red,
while their books are not read i'll fact,
most of the latter have gone to the
book -stall to furnish pabulum for the
former. | fancy we are getting too
much educated, or not enough. If we
were all educated, we might settle
down as of old to dig OF shove plane,
and not be ashamed. As it is, there
seems to be growing tendency to
despise the agriculturist or handicrafts-
men rs following something low, base
and mechanical, and our boys all want
to be lawyers, priests or doctors, or, at
the very worst, college professors. 1t
costs much i'll time and money to make
even a poor specimen of either, and
the outlook for all but small minOri-
ty is not bright i'll pecuniary sense.
There is IA good deal of hoggishness
in sexual matters among some of our
insuf1iciently acclimatiZcd foreign pop
ulatiOn. For instance, German cigar
dealers wife left him a few months ago,
went out to service as IA domestic, ac-
cumulated some money, picked up
another man, marched him over to
Jersey, married him (having previous
" informed her relatives of her inten-
/, llOU J, anu ulltl WIS NdlHilN w
death with rocks by the object of her
latest affections, who proceeded to de
camp to France with his bigamous
wife's money and valuablcs. 1t was Il
horrid murder, but the events which
led up to it were surely bad enough to
have led to some energetic remOn-
STRANGE on the part of the persons cog
infant of them. They seemed to have
taken the woman's proceedings quite
as Il matter of course, impOlitic posi-
bly,, but neither immoral nor objection
able in any point of view known to
them.
The monumental cheek of a tramp
has at last saved the more or less use
full purpose of saving his life. A train
near Mount Vernon struck Il man, and
the Mortified engineer expected to find
T nothing but mangled remains of the
| object he had seen flying through the
air, but was amazed to find nothing
but dazed looking man who seemed
puzzled at being addressed. He was
astonished at hearing any one had been
hit, and then seemed to remember that
he had dreamed he had fallen from a
freight car while stealing ride. His
head and shoulders were cut so
, that he was mquestiOnably the suffer
er besides there was no one else with
in forty rods, and he had a most narrow
escape. RADIX.