St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-11-16
Items Of Interest.

Eighty thousand children in the
north of England form the "Dickey
Bird Society," They are pledged to
protect birds, never to destroy a nest,
and to feed birds in winter.
1t is the usual practice to serve pota-
toes in a porcelain dish with a close
fitting cover. In ten minutes the best
potatoes, however carefully cooked,
are utterly destroyed.
The population of St. Louis is now
about half a million. Chicago had a
population of half million at the time
of the last census, but we do not know
how many have escaped since them
St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The Hermit of New York says, in IA
letter to the Troy Times, that Robert
Bonner pays Oliver Dyer 800 week
for writing interesting questions and
then adding appropriate answers, i'll
the Ledger.
The eleventh bridge over the Mis-
souri, river has just been completed,
between the Northwestern and Sioux
city and Pacific railroads, thirty miles
above Council Bluffs. The stream here
is just 200 feet wide.
Gov. Waller of Connecticut declined
to speak at a campaign demonstration
in Brooklyn because, as he says, he is
under a promise to himself not to take
public part in partisan discussions
while he is governor. There's a diff
ference in governors.
One of the New York papers pub
lIShaG iSt IF tho % -
who possess princely incomes, with
the comment: To their credit it must
be said that they as a rule do much
more good with their money than the
men of wealth, and several of them
are known far and wide for their ben
efactiOns.
The recent Florida enactment for
bidding licenses for the sale of intOXi-
eating liquors, except upon a petition
of a majority of the voters of the cleo
ton district, has been considered by
the supreme court and the cOnstitu-
tionality of the act affirmed. The peO-
pie in any election district may hence
declare absolute prohibition if they
choose.
Pork is cheap this year in COMPARE
son with what it was last year at this
time. A barrel of pork cost in the
principal market of the country as
much as so. 80 year ago, while the
price to-day is down to 1890. Ribs
cost year ago in Chicago SII.75 and
are now down to 1915 or less. Lard
rose to $I2.I0 in May, and has of late
been sold for 1920.
A New York hunter named Andrew
Couch adds to the list of stories show
ing that a wounded buck is a very
dangerous animal. He shot very
large one the other day, and went up
to cut its throat, suppOsing it dead,
when the animal suddenly sprang up
and attacked him with the fore feet.
Couch struck him with the empty gun,
and was himself hit and knocked down,
jumped in time to save his life, Crap
pied with the animal, and so fought for
quarter of an hour, until at last he
struck again with the gun and luckily
killed his antagonist.
James Ecker OF Albany, the Nestor
of locomotive engineers, has just left
the track because of failing eye-sight.
He began work on the Camden and
Amboy railroad in 1886, has been in
continual service ever since, has the
longest record of the kind of any living
man, and never received a scratch and
never had an accident of consequence
on his train. He ran trains in southern
states for the federal armies during the
war and had all sorts of escapes, but,
good luck everywhere followed his
engine.