St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-07-13
Gleanings.

those in Germany, are due TO lntem-
perance.
Hattie Hutchins, a telegraph Ope
rator in Texas, is only ten years old /
and is supposed to be the youngest |
operator in the world.
Senator Bayard has received the |
degree of Ii. ID. from Harvard, Yale |
and Dartmouth He is three doctors |
of law, as it were, and senator of
high degree.
John Browns widow secures a scan /.
ty subsistence on d lonely farm on the /.
crest of California mountain from
small crop of prunes, which she is
able to raise yearly.
Albert Kuhn recklessly fired pistol |
from a street-car window at Erie, Pa,
Wednesday of last week, instantly kill !
ing Mary Steiner. Albert's brother
Frank killed himself in consequence
Wednesday night.
Goethe condemned the practice of
congratulation upon marriage. at
is,n he said, ''as absurd as cOngratu
lating a man on having drawn a lot
terry ticket before you know whether
it is prize or blank"
Barney Day and Mr. Mills were shot
dead and +. O. Webber and ID. J. Dean
fatally shot by "A mob of masked men
in Hot Sulphur springs, Col. Wednes-
day of last week. They were all COM
missiOners of the county.
1t is said that a gray haired old
beggar in New York is woman who
was once engaged to Salmon =. Chase,
but who became insane i'll consequence
of the engagement being broken.
She was once very beautiful.
Chicago had thirty-eight accidents
on the Fourth, three of which resulted
in death. Five persons were mortally
wounded and twenty three were
manned for life. The chief instru-
ments of destruction were toy pistols
in the hands of children, and small
cannon.
Andrew J. McCauley, alias John
| Reed, one of those chaps who 90 about
the country with long hair and fringed
! leggins, shooting glass balls and sell
/ ing quack medicines, was arrested ut
| Staples, Mimi, Wednesday night of
last week for numbering his sweet
heart at Sycamore, ILL.,, twelve years
ago.
Electricity was applied to loco
motive long before the Chicago Rail
road exhibition. Dr. Charles Grafton
Page of Salem, Mass, who died in
| Washington in 1865, constructed II
locomotive which was run by electrici
! ty in 1851. Experiments were made
with it on the Baltimore and OHIO
road and nineteen miles made in thir-
| ty-ninc minutes.
Girls with consumptive lovers should
permit kissing on their back hair only.
\ young man ut Reading, Pa, has
courted i'll succession two sisters who
died of consumption before the we'd
ding day came, although the disease
was before unknown in their family.
Now the Young man, whose relatives
are consumptivc, is near death with
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The Tooth anniversary of Luther's
birth is to he made an occasion of ma
tional observance in Germany. \
royal decree has been issued regulat-
ing the method of the celebration by
the schools and churches November
/ Gil, and especially urging that the
prayers from the pulpits he made less
an expression of praise for the man
than of ''thanks to the Lord of Lords
for his divine mercy vOuchsafed to
the German nation through the Re
formation"
Tho now Cbicouo dirac+o,.,. ;s out
and there is fresh Dragging all along
the line; population anywhere from
anil
dlvldual operator, and so on through.
There are ~ churches and go lodges
of secret societies, but of the latter Il
great proportion are mutual insurance
companies i'll disguise. OF the church
Norwegian IN II, Polish IN 3, BOhe-
mlan III 3, WEIGH III >, and French,
Italian and Dutch i'll | each.
.gTbo o+rocious Grimm of hoinc,
,.oun[r n,ar,, has hean aiIo,,ad o,,ainst
Indr9 Eoral,nr Of OI,i" n1n,ost si,',,,
hi Infancy lii f,tba, Cr,.ur,hlaJ :,
o,ood dnnI SLor+ bis so,,s a,iis+,,,,.,,t
i'll the army when he was only six
teen years of age but as he said,
plalntlVely, atterward, Joe would go,
and go he did" 'Gouth has always
been urged against me-" says Judge
Foraker. M father declared | was
700 young wien III thirteen lell IN
love WIN IL red-halred Glrl ana he
stopped my counting her. lie OBJ
Jected when enlisted, and now 9th
CT people say am 700 young Tor
governor.
Oueen Victoria has outIived nearly
all the mon who surrounded her throue
,,-Io,, 10 ,,.,, f,..+ ,,In,aI 49,, -
Ea,I Grn,- i tho only n,e,nLo, of +I,
c,hiu.t Of 1S2z who ra,noins Iord
P,lm.rston Lord Jobn Russell and