St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-02-17
Personal and Political.

a prominent Oxford professor now
in this country gives Oscar Wilde a
hard rap. Being questioned as to the
character of the Wild, Esthete, he said
he had never heard of him until he
came to America.
Speaker Keifer bids fair to be as
popular with temperance women as is
Senator Blair. He forbids the keeper
of the House restaurant to sell liquor
openly or disguised as ''cold tea"
This is ''toO utterly UTTER" and there
must have been 5 )me eXtenuating cir
cumstance connected with it At
recent Grant banquet i'll Albany, one
speaker remarked that Mr.. COnkling
lis the grandest son of the grandest
state of the grandest Union Gods sun
ever kissed with its loneliness"
Oscar Wilde-the great apostle of
beauty, the assthete, ''yOu KNOWS
credited now with paying the Wash
ington Post fifty dollars to insert car
toon on the aesthetic "a picture of a
balloon with an apple in his hand, and
just below it very good likeness of
Mr.. Wilde with lily in his hand. Os-
car wanted to advertise himself, "yOu
know"
If the arrears of pensions act, as it
now stands on the statute books, had
been designed to benefit swindlers,
lobbyists, and the manufacturers of
bogus claims, it could not have been
framed and managed in Congress with
more craftiness.- New York Times.
1t strikes us that Supt. Rice of the
state prison would be serving the
state fully as well to attend to the bus
mess for which he is paid as running
off to Washington to take part in the
! fight over the Windsor postOtfice.- st.
Adams Messenger.
Blaine isn't safe" He was the
clearest- headed man at Garfield's bed
side, and, during the trying months
following the assassin's shot, made no
mistakes. He was the Republican
leader in Congress for many years, and
his work stands. Still, his name now
makes Il stalwart's teeth chatter and
his brass medal rattle Cincinnati
Commercial
What does this young aesthetic Oscar
Wilde) mean He came to us prof
fering lilies and sunfiOwers and sweet
ness and highland 10 ! his whole
pathway bubbles with hot water, and
the air sings about him as he goes with
cabbage stalks, dead tom cats and con
fusion worse COMPOUNDED An ignor-
ant person from a far country contem-
plating all this would be very apt, we
fear, to impute imbecility, not to the
wandering minstrel in knee breeches,
but to the able pastors and masters
i'll the press of the people among whom
he wanders.- New York World.
The people of the South are, we be-
lieve, to-day the most liberal in Amer
lea. They are not looking to the West
or to the East. They are coming very
close to taking a national view of pub
lie questions, feeling that ''what is
good for the hive is good for the bee"
They are either going to have their
statesman take the same view or they
are going to have statesmen who will.
What is wanted is broad and liber-
al dealing with questions upon their
merits Nashville American.
The President in the Frelinghuysen
instruction distinctly disclaims any
right or inclination to dictate the rela-
tions between two independent Ameri-
can republics, while he would gladly
extend his kindly offices to all of them.
Here is no surrender of the interests or
policy of the United States, but "A hui
name and wise and pacific course which
is worthy to be called American. 1t is
not a question of "half- breeds" or
''stalwarts," but of patriotism, and
there is no doubt that the general good
sense of the country approves the poll
cy of the administration i'll this matter
so far as developed Harper's Weekly.