St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-02-24
Personal and Political.

Personal and Political.
Gov. Long of Massachusetts has
been afflicted by the death of his wife,
which occurred last Thursday.
The House has passed IA bill grant
ing Mrs. Garfield yearly pension of
5000.
The wearers of the bronze medals
will 90 down in history as the great
stale warts of the republic Atlanta
Constitution.
1t is said that Col. Robert G. Inger
soil is afraid that his enemies will re-
port his dying words falsely, and so
has arranged with a StenOgrapher to
take them down verbatim.
And now comes somebody to spoil
the story of Oscar Wilde's paying the
Washington Post fifty dollars to ad
vertise him by an aesthetic picture of a
baboon. The yarn is denied.
List now looks much older than Il
man of seventy should. His face is
thin, worn and wrinkled, and his form
is bent. But his mind is still vigo
rous, and he works and studies with as
much force and effect as of old.
During IA recent discussion by the
House, of public printing, it came out
that thousands of dollars are annually
wasted on the printing of unnecessary
documents under government auspices.
This leak should be stopped at once.
The Boston Journal suggests that the
House, as the body representing the
people, owes it to the country to put a
stop to the scenes of confusion which
have been witnessed during the present
session.
When Mrs. Hayes reads that her ia
nous $1,000 dinner-set was used at
President Arthur's entertainment the
other night she will hardly be pleased
to know that "there were seven wine
glasses at each plate"
Ex-Gov. Ryland Fletcher of Caven-
dish, VT, who went into Office on a
temperance wave in 1856, was "a years
old Sunday. He has aged considera
bly, in the last few years, but still takes
ii lively interest in state politics.
Queen Victoria has ominOusly chosen
March II as the day of her leaving the
kingdom for little trip to Switzerland.
st. Patrick's day, and Friday to boot,
in mid Lent, and an old moon in the
sky what can Her Majesty be think
ing of?
The Springfield Republican, COM
menting on the recent explosion at
Chester, Pa, says : "The final prac
teal lesson is that inasmuch as there
are plenty of necessary labOrs that en-
danger human life, those that unneces-
sarily endanger it should be abolished
and the barbarism of fire works among
the rest"
A Chicago editor says that Oscar
Wilde gets 5000 night for being an
ass, while we remain poor" and St.
Louis ditto retOrts, Limitations, broth
er, are often more taking than the real
thing But the use of the word
''brOthern appears to be inadvertent.
Richard A. Proctor is not the great
est astronomer living, but he leads the
list as an alarmist, beating everybody
but the ''timists" of the Second Advent
faith. Now he puts the end of the
world only - years off from the comet
of 1880, which is to come back and
drop into the sun, making such a brOil
that this globe will incontinently burn
up in a minute or two. Nevertheless,
Mr.. PrOctOr's epitaph will probably
read Gone to meet Mother ShiptOn."
Brady's punishment in connection
with the star-rOute frauds consists in
playing billiards. All that man Cult
eau was the most influential politician
for a few brief and decisive moments
that this country has ever seen.- At
lanta Constitution.
III StNitb vi lilN. othlu WI" w
at the close of his lecture in New York,
1.-THE secret of life is in art" but he
didn't mean word of it. Cunning
Mr.. Wilde The secret of life nova
days is in humbug, and you know it.
i Washington Republic.
We are just a little amused to see
that the Three-hundred-a
look upon those medals as likely to
have the same effect upon a mans
neck as a millstOne.-IN. Y. Tribune.
The public debt, less cash in the
treasury, is $3.50, 1000, 900; but that
arrears of pensions bill has created an
other debt of Sl,4OO,OO 900, which
will sting taxpayers for the next
twenty-five years. No people on earth
are taxed so Outrageously and need
lessly as Americans Courier Journal.
The germ of home rule is in the
family relation, and the abrOgatiOn OF