St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-03-17
GIeaningS.


pound of silk.
Hydrophobia is said to be least
known in the warmest climates.
The first normal school in America
was established in Concord. VT. in
1923
A supposed venomOus plant, the
''foOl's parsley has been proved by
DIR. Harley to be perfectly harmless.
One of the most interesting of mod
ern inventions is machine for purify
ing the middlings of wheat flour 10y
electricity.
There are about 10000 recognized
species of plants on the globe, and it is
probable that with the undiscovered
species the number will amount to
10000.
Grange stores are having an unusu
ally successful run i'll Texas. They
have been increasing in number for
two years, and now nearly all the in
terror towns have them.
Milk from a COW that had been fed
six weeks on ensilage has been care
fully tested and found to produce II
per cent. more in bulk of cream, but
L.
same COW was fed on other food. One
milkman says he can select blindfOlded
a can of milk given by ensilagefed
cows from Il hundred cans of milk from
cows that have had no ensilage, using
simply his taste: and yet some men
say the sour feed does not cause any
taste i'll milk or butter.
The Kaleidoscope has generally been
regarded simply asa toy, but it appears,
however, that they are turned to Il
very good purpose as foundation or
suggestion in making patterns. They
not only give the outline of II design,
but suggest Il colOring, and with that
lens attached to it, il carpet designer
can see the whole effect when arrang-
ing and grouping his patterns. They
are used in all sorts of designing.
Architects sometimes take designs from
them for architectural ornaments. A
Kaleidoscope saves il great deal of pre-
| liminary and purely mechanical labor.
An architect can turn Il Kaleidoscope
until he finds Il design that suits his
purpose, and then copy it photograph
ically with Il camera lucida, OF by the
eye, if he wishes to vary it Il little.
The centre pieces for ceilings made of
plaster of Paris are so designed, but
the grcatcst:use of the Kaleidoscope is
in the manufacture of round stained
| glass windows.
1t is said that Edison has made Il
contract for Western electric railroad
30 miles i'll length. What of it With
in 30 years street ears will he run by
electricity. There will be elevated
railroads propelled by electricity.
| Capt. Eads will take il vessel out of
the water on the Pacific and cart it
across the Isthmus and drop it into the
| Atlantic with the same ease that Mr..
| \. j. Bradlec lifted Hotel Pelham and
placed it on new foundation. We
shall have telephone communication
so perfected that the President of the
United States will whisper into the
ear of the future King of England.
| We shall send packages to New York
| by pneumatic tubes every minute i'll
| the day. If we are wrong in these
predictions, the editor of The Boston
Journal in 1892 will please correct us.
- Boston Journal.
a rival to Oscar Wilde is about to
dawn refulgent upon this continent. in
!
of the King of Siam, whose familiar
costume is so utterly too too as to
cause Ence-breechcs. velvet coats, sun
flowers and lilies to lose all their lus-
tire. Like the aesthetics costume, his
garb is calculated to give especial eff
! feet to the symmetry of his legs, for
while he wears IL coat and vest like
| Europeans, except that he buttons
them with gold buttons, the remainder
of his costume consists of long skirt
reaching to the instep. The hem of
this is caught up in front, carried un-
der the body and caught up behind,
thus showing the legs, which are Gov
cred with bright-colOred stockings. 1t
is not announced that he will lecture,
but if he does so, and appears in BOs-
ton, it is to be hoped that the Harvard
students will not let him think that
Oscar Wilde was more honOred than
| himself.
Young men in pursuit of an educa-
tion cannot learn anything more i'm
pOrtant to know than that this is Il
country of law and order, and that as
sault and kidnapping are not licensed to
seminary or college students as ''larks, ="
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and punished by appropriate penalties.
Stealing gates and signs and smashing
lamps are also crimes, and just as Grim
inal in students as in other men.
When students once get the idea that
they are not favored caste placed
above law by the good-nature of the
community, then they will quit their
foOlishness and cost II good deal less to
Il. 1 l. 4
to the community. The authorities OF
Hampshire county deserve credit for
treating the Easthampton boys as they
would treat any hoodlums. The Prince
ton cOuI Its have recently taken simi-
larly severe course with registering
students, and, if this policy is generally
pursued by the communities most deep
ly interested, we shall hear less of col
lege rebelliOns and emcutes.-[ Spring
field Republican.