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

A man who went into a Virginia
City New "opium retreat" to enjoy a
quiet smoke, thought his pillow lit
tie hard, and upon punching it up,
found that it consisted of a Chinaman
who had died there a few days before
and been forgotten. The landlord
apolOgized for the oversight.
A man sitting in doctors Office at
Grand Rapids, Mich, took up vaccine
point in an absent-minded way,
picked his teeth Herewith, and finally
cut his tongue a little on its sharp
edge. That man has since carried a
good portion of his tongue outside his
mouth.
The white students in Marysville
college, Tenn, have rejected the APP
plicatiOn of cOlOred students for ad-
mission to their literary society. On
persisting in this refusal, % members
of the society were expelled by the fac
ulty, and 30 white students who did
not belong to the society have left the
college. This college taught anti
slavery doctrines before the rebellion.
When Remenyi was playing one of
the softest passages in Schubert's sere-
made at Scranton, Pa, the other night,
il man in the gallery took a handful of
peanuts out of his pocket and begun to
eat the same in a particularly bolster
Gus manner, whereupOn the fiddler
stopped his bow and made "A little
speech, thus: "Ladies and gentlemen,
| now make me little speech. That
peanuts eater me very much annoy,
and | think he enjoy himself so much
as nobody else i'll the house. When
he get through with his peanut solo |
90 on" The speech was loudly APP
plauded, and the peanut tiend was
crushed for the evening.
The finest floors are said to be seen
in Russia. For those of the highest
grade tropical woods are exclusively
employed. Fir and pine are never
used, as, i'll consequence of their sticky
character, they attract and retain dust
and dirt, and thereby soon become
blackened. Pitchpine too is liable to
shrink, even after being well seasoned.
The mosaic wood floors in Russia are
often of extraordinary beauty. One in
the summer palace is of small squares
of ebony inlaid with mother of pearl.
A considerable trade is done in Dant-
zic and Riga by exporting small blocks
of oak for parquet floors. There is an
active demand for these abroad, but
none i'll England.
Eugene Ladd of Malone, n. Y, who
is Il rich miller, prominent in affairs
and president of the corporation, has a
method of collecting bad debts quite
his own. If an impecunious man
needs a bag of flour he gets it, no mat
ter how great his shiftlessness, and if
he fails to pay at the time promised
there is no dunning. But the next
time Ladd meets that creditor he hits
him between the eyes and knocks him
down, and then he walks home and
cancels the charge. AS the miller
when youth learned how to put up
his hands," there is never any appeal
from his action, and occasional fines
for assault and battery do not interfere
with the working of the system.
An Ell PasO Ql.) dispatch says a
mass meeting of city officials, the city
council, mayor, all the clergy i'll the
city, and hundreds of other citizens
was held to protest against the acquit-
tai, at LacOn, of Porter c. Ransom for
the brutal murder last May of Henry
w. Bullock. Resolutions were adopt
ed unanimously denouncing the trial
us a farce and travesty on justice.
They charge that the verdict was OBJ
tanned by fraud, bribery, legal chicane-
ry and prostitution of judicial authori-
ty, and was not in accord with the facts
and evidence. Reports of the trial are
denounced as being cOlOred, and Judge
John Burns of LacOn, who presided, is
called on to resign.
In the Sandwich Islands the natives
are excellent BARRIERS, but know, or
did know, nothing of wigs. An En-
glishman went into a Kanaka barber
shop to get shaved, and after the shave
the barber, as a matter of course, pro-
ceeded to shampoo the customer. The
customer had dropped asleep in the
chair, and did not notice the barber
and when the latter started with the
shampoo and the customers wig came
off in his hand, leaving a perfectly
bald head, he thought he had pulled
the mans scalp off, and, with howl OF
terror, fled; his assistants fled also,
and staid in the woods a week, not
daring to take the responsibility of the
awful deed.