St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-02-18


what spasmodically. However, we
live in hopes of being able to see our
again in the course of week
or so.
The busy archers have been prac-
ticing all winter in militia armories and
riuks, and a grand international con-
gress of representatives. from all over
the Union are expected here this sum
mer. The indefatigable president, Ma
ior A. @. Constable, formerly of the
British East India Company's artillery
in Bombay, now the right-hand man of
the famous publishing house of Harper
Bros, has secured the use of the Pros
pect Park parade ground for the exer-
cises of the devotees of the long bow,
and there's plenty of fun in store. A
most graceful pastime, admitting the
active participation of both sexes, and
demanding no little picturesqueness in
appropriate costumes and fastidious-
ness in the selection of approved kits,
archery is fast becoming Every popular
among the classes of easy means and
refined tastes, and Americans are like
ly soon to be in as great repute rs arch
ers as they already are as ritlemen.
Dismissing the wIelders of antique
weapons, one is naturally led to think
of the National Guard and other war
riOrs. To quote a fOrcible, though very
colloquial remark your RADIX recently
heard, the Acknowledgement of the
State of New York seems to have
"knOcked the stutting out of the peace
full soldiers who shoulder rifles several
evenings every month, and wave yard
sticks much of the balance OF their
time. Sundry regiments are to be dis
banded, and Stricter rules and sweeping
reductions and reforms are to prevail
among the organizations still retained.
There is, as an inevitable consequence,
no lack of 'Soreheads' in choice variety,
and there will be, of course, cOnsidera-
BILE wedding out of the inefficients. 1t
is lucky for some of them that the ex-
aminations are believed, like kissing,
to go by favor, otherwise some of the
rejected ones would feel shame at be-
ing passed over. The regulars are in
force just now, owing to the cOntinu-
ance OF the court martial on Whitaker,
the colored cadet
The Chinese have been celebrating
the New Year. They are growing
quite numerous. and are an interesting
and quite respectable portion of their
community. Except for an occasional
outbreak of prejudice on the part of
some recently immigrants of
other races, they are not mOlested, and
seem to get along very well. Some of
them are wealthy, and n number are
being educated by various churches.
The festivities have been openly con-
Quoted for the first time here, and have
attracted great deal of attention. In
one particular, at least, an almond
eyed visitor set an admirable example.
They solder up all quarrels, pay all
their debts, and start afresh with a
clean bill of lading, in moral point of
view. | have heard some ladies say
that they would be quite nice if they
would only sprinkle the clothes they
wash in a different way.
However, the shirts they get up are
laundried to perfection, and one ought
not to go too much into detail if one
would enjoy life. Your RADIx once,
in India, went ever a huge Government
bakery where bread was prepared for
some 5000 troops. He noticed the ex-
traordinary hoof-like callOusness on the
thumbs of the men who kneaded the
dough, by hard manual labor, for the
officers tables, and said something to
the effect that it was lucky people gem
orally didn't know too much about
baking, when the sergeant in charge
observed, "Oh that's nothing sir; they
knead the bread for the men with their
feet, and. begorra, they don't wash 'em,
ayther, the dhirty bastes." That re-
minds me of the Marquis of Waterford IS
uneQualled beefsteak and Onions-but
| guess | won't tell that story.
The exodus of Brooklyn clergymen
continues. Bishop Paddock starts i'm
mediately fol- his distant diocese of
Washington territory, and the rector of
4 closely contiguous parish who is
shrewdly suspected to have been party
to some put up job to procure this ex-
traOrdinary exile and irreprOachable
ecclesiastic, a very active and promi-
nent person has very suddenly and I'M
accountably accepted call to Wash
ington. People say that he has been
scared off by the eloquence and power
of Bishop PaddOck's successor, the Rev.
DR.. Brown of Cleveland, a most noble
looking man with an elOquence that
has startled people. Your RADIX is
very much mistaken if Beecher hasn't
at last found some one to match him
with the gift of tongue. DIR. Brown
was an army chaplain, and good one.
People are raving about him already.
Meantime, the Rev. c. Hall, a great
gun among the MasOns, has been ap-
pointed chaplain of the ODD, in success
sion to the surpliced hero who goes to
Washington. A clergyman with a
sword is a funny sight. The militia
chaplains all turn out so rugged.
A sad, though unhappily not by any
means unusual death, has given the
text for brief but pointed lecture on
one great vice of the good American
wOrkingmen-I mean senseless bravo
do. A gang of wOrkmen were proceed
ing early in the morning to factory
on the Long Island Railroad, and took
the track because that was the best
part of the road. A train came along
with its bell changing and whistle inces-
sanity shrieking. As it neared each
group the men stepped of leisurely,
each trying to look more uncOncerned
than his neighbor. One poor fellow
was Just a little too late, turned care
lessly with a joke, intending to step off,
saw the locomotive close on him and