St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-09-08


900 names.
Henry Ward Beecher has an income
of - ,0O0,OO0.
There were 32l families evicted in /
ireland in July.
The New York Herald's annual bill for |
white paper is S7O0,OO0.
The country's corn crop is estimated
at 500, 000, 900 bushels.
There are eighty-one German daily
papers in the United States.
There are now I3a different varieties
of timber raised in Nebraska.
! Silk culture has become an estab-
| lished industry in South Carolina.
A Pittsburg pie factory turns out
over three thousand pies every day.
OF the 1918 cases of smallpox in
Chicago last year, ZIG proved fatal.
A hog owned by farmer living near
Petersburg, Va, weighs 1900 pounds.
/ The census of France shows that the
population of the country is 81 ,672 ,0lS.
Boston's people are using twenty
five per cent more gas now than IA year
ago.
D. The Kansas corn crop will reach
1000, 900 bushels, valued at $50 ,OO0,-
900.
Illinois farmers are feeding their
hogs on rye, which is cheaper than
corn.
In BuenOs Ayres it takes ten dollars
in paper money to buy one dollar in
gold.
Mississippi has organized several
live stock insurance cOmpanies-a new
departure.
The city of st. Paul, Mimi, is to
have fine new hotel, to cost 500, 900
to S7OO,0OO.
In the siege of Brussels in 1854,
Louis XIV. fired 1900 red hot shot
into the city.
A sulphur well at Palatka, Fla, dis
charges 10000 gallons of water every
twelve hours.
Ninety eight sailing vessels and
thirteen steamers were lost during the
month of June.
A thirteen-years-o girl living near
. Houma, La, has light-brown beard
D two inches long.
The largest cotton crop ever pro-
duced i'll the state is now ready to be
picked in Texas.
Cabin, as well as steeIage passen-
gers, will he assessed under the new
head money law.
, The estimated income of Uncle Sam
t for the next fiscal year is about half IA
l billion of dollars.
The wooden plate factory at New
I bern, n. c., turns out 100000 of the
\ plates each week.
I The assessed valuation of Milwaukee
is S62 ,0S2, ia, an increase of $1,000
70l over last year.
' A fish cleaning machine, with IA ca
: pacity of fifty minute, has been in
4 vented in Portland.
Il One hundred and twenty varie-
+ ties of cotton goods are turned out by
e the Mississippi mills.
0 A single stalk bearing twenty -four
: perfect heads of cabbage is Henry
!, county (Miss.) curiosity.
: Manchester, n. H., is said to be the
only city i'll America which has fouI
eX-governors rs citizens.
n Norwich has a tailor with IA beard
six feet long and an offer from Barnum
= of $50 week didn't tempt him.
During the cold spell in August the
novel sight of farmers haying i'll over
coats was seen i'll il town i'll Maine.
1t is solemnly asserted that twelve
and half million of false teeth are
u made every year i'll Philadelphia.
g A North Carolina farmer has this
i year sold $50, 900 worth of potatoes, all
of which he raised on his own land.
r. The cost to the English government
d of setting down il full-armed British
V soldier in Alexandria is about 5000.
t The valuation of Boston is S672 400, :
= l4O, a gain over last year of 81, 935 800
= The tax rate is advanced to $3.50 pei
|. $1,000.
In July 23l outrages, including two
{ murders, were committed i'll Ireland
Z In June there were 2S3, including five
II murders.
4 A Florida man gathered i'll one day
- 500 watermelOns from his field, the av-
erage weight of which was forty
p pounds.
is The Jesuits of Quebec are agitating
II for the recovery of their property that
= was cOntiscated during the reign Of
e Henry ".
:: 1t is estimated the corn crop of Kan
y sas will be worth S60,000,000. The
IL oat crop is the heaviest ever known il
n that state.
+ The builder who helped Lafayette tt
: lay the corner stone of the Bunker hill
h monument, tifty-Seven years ago, still
II works in Boston.
A piece of ground sixteen by thirty
=, feet, i'll New York city, was sold the
4 other day for sos, G0-being equal tt
4 Sl6,OO0,OOO per acre.
:. There are at present about lion
Ir United States navy officers and seameI
+ in Portsmouth and on the river, tn,
lie largest number for years.
Is The apple crop in Massachusetts vii
+. be very light. The apples are drop
is ping from the trees i'll great number
= on account of the drouth.
Peaches are so abundant in Eastern
/ Texas that they are selling at ten cent
II bushel. and thousands of bushels vii
III be converted into brandy.
III sold a single black walnut tree TO
N 5000, which was but a little less thai
ii the sum he paid for the tract ON whicl
> it grew.
u A prolific state is Arkansas. Jess,
~ Bunch of Clark county has twenty
- three children, and GoOdin DeatOn o
4 the same county twenty-one livel,
es progeny.
10 The school census shows the popu
Ill