St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-06-09

atmospheric causes, which threaten to
Obliterate its inscriptions. The snow
and rain of the past winter have in
iured the surface. while the corners are
wearing away. 1t is proposed to take
/ it down and set it up in the great hall
of the museum.
| Beef is high because cattle are scarce.
With a constantly advancing market
the receipts at Chicago since April
/ have been less than during a similar
period last year by about $1,000 head,
and the average quality has fallen.
/ Prices are now 81 per hundred pounds
| higher than ever before, but still the
supply is short, and it is admitted that
the cattle are not to be had. CRASHED
animals, however, will soon come in,
and the prospect is that the "drivesr
on the Western plains will be very
large and prices consequently reasOna-
/ BILE.
The representatives of the people are
manifesting IA disposition to spend
money very freely-in Congress, in the
Legislature and in our own city gov
eminent. In this they mistake the
tendency of the times and the temper
of the people. Strikes. and rumOrs of
strikes are OminOus of trouble ahead,
and when the increased cost of living
makes hard scratching for the poor man
he does not contemplate with patience
the probability of having heavier taxes
to pay through the free-handed gener-
osity of those who are set to guard his
interests.-[Spr. Republican.
Robert Schenck, eX-pOker minister
to England, has been cured of Brights
disease by skim milk, II tackled the
skim milk" says he, ''stuck to it, and
am new man."
Col. Thomas w. KnOX's latest book
is called "The Young Nimrods Around
the World" 1t will soon he published
by the Harpers in "A profusely illustra-
ted volume.
In three and a half months the Chi
cago cable cars have killed five men,
wounded five, and given breadth
escapes to dozens of other.
A way has been found for making
old postal cards useful. Cut length
wise into strips about an eighth of an
inch wide they make excellent lamp
lighters which burn readily, do not
throw off sparks, and leave scarcely a
trace of ashes.
The superiority of Barnum's circus
above all Others-as is mOdestly but
cOnclusively shown by the candid adj
mission of the veteran Snowman him
self-is presented i'll no stronger way
than by the huge poster with picture
of .'the Behemoth of Holy Writ" there
on, which now adOrns so many bill
boards in our midst. There are some
persons who think the circus immoral,
and perceive even in Jumbo a device
of the enemy, but it is impossible to
conceive how anybody can detect any
depraving influences in Il show that
boasts "Behemoth of Holy Writ
Clearly, no clergyman who boasts OF
numbering sincerity and earnestness Ill
searching the Scriptures among his list
of virtues can afford to stay away from
such an institution, for what a sorry
figure he would cut in Sunday school il
one of the scholars should ask him how
the BehemOth of Holy Writ looked
and he couldn't make satisfactory an
swer And if ministers 90 to the cir
Gus why shouldn't everybody else
Shrewd man, this Mr.. Barnum.
Every dog has his day and the ''yal-
Ter dog" will now have his. Every
thing says Il fashion paper, "will bt
yellow this summer" Even the deli
cate tint which .jaundice gives will be
permissible.
Miss Howard, for the past two years
president of Wellesley college, has re-
signed and accepted the position OF
lady principal of the Foster school at
Clifton Springs, n. Y.