St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-04-20
Gleanings.

bequeathed to the Episcopal society OF
Claremont, \. H., eight thousand dol
lars for the purpose of building new
rectOry.
The Washington monument, which
has now reached height of $40 feet,
and will be 500 feet high when com
pleted lin 1884, tapers so gradually
that its width at the top will be only
l34 feet less than that at the base.
The postal card retains its populari-
ty. On Tuesday, the post office de-
partment received orders for 7 Pot, 900
of them, over $50, 900 more than were
ever before ordered in one day. The
average consumption is about ,250,OOO
per day.
A half-dime, date 1904, sold for $500
at New York auction. That age
alone did not give it value was proved
by the sale of 1894 coin, same size,
for S2I 80. The former piece, how
ever, is so rare that even the United
States mint does not possess speci-
men.
1t is said to be fact that England
has IA corps of detectives in every large
city in this country, who report to the
home authorities all the information
they can obtain relative to dangerous
men, whom they shadow day and night.
British Minister West receives minute
details daily of the dynamite business
and hopes to secure the establishment
+ of an international sy stem of detectives
to prevent the expectation of danger
Gus explosives in steamships.
A gentleman of Boston has cat OF
the feminine gender, and she recently
added five to the inhabitants of his
house. Four of the kittens were dis
posed of. Recently the cat surprised
her owner by conveying live mouse
that she had captured to her nest and
placing it alongside of her own proge-
ny and appeared to be quite cOntented
| The cat, kitten and mouse play, eat
and sleep together, and there seems to
be no element of diScOrd in that fam
| lily.
The large mosaic portrait of Garfield
which Salviati of Venice has presented
to this country as IA companion to his
portrait of Lincoln, has reached Lon
don, where it is attracting admirins
attention. 1t is composed of 5000 mi
mute pieces of enamel, and at Il little
distance it is said to be almost impOs-
sible to distinguish it from an OF
painting, over which it of course ha,
| the advantage of never-fading durabil
| ity. 1t is, moreover, called a faithful
| likeness.
The postal regulations have been st
amended that call letters upon whicl
one full rate of postage has been pre-
paid and all postal cards shall be for
warded from the Office to which they
are addressed to any other office, Il
the request of the person addressed OF
of the party whose card may be upon
the envelope or whose name may b,
signed to the postal card, without al
ditiOnal charge of postage. Such for
warding must be continued until til,
party addressed is reached"
Tom Tigertail. Seminole chief, anC
his cabinet, called on President Arthur
and his party at Fort Gardiner, Fla
The two embraced and the president
gave TigertaiPs papoOse a quarter an(
Tigertail a cigar. The chief clutcheC
the weed eagerly and taking the presi-
dents Havana from the latter's mouth
lit his own cigar and like an honest
lliftll lClul lliC =.
tary Chandler gave Tom an old pocket
knife and he went his way rejoicing
Secretary Chandler killed an alligator
A child has been born in Turkish
kurdistan with IA full beard and mus
tache, perfect set of thirty-twO teetl
and no fewer than forty distinct anG
well formed fingers. Naturally such {
prodigy attracted great attention, but
several visitors inspected it at theil
cost; for it snapped its thirty two teetl
at everybody who came within range
with such energy and success that i
became necessary to extract all the
front ones. 1t is a wonderful thing t.
see the infant lying in its cradle, strOk
ing its beard with its forty fingers.
The famous Walled Lake in Iowa
$50 miles west of Dubuque, has recent
ly attracted much attention. 1t is il
the midst of prairie land and is two OIL
three feet above the earth's surface. Ii
is inclOsed by wall of stones in some
places ten feet high, fifteen feet wide
at the bottom and five feet wide at the
top. The stones vary in weight from
three tons to one hundred pounds
There are no stones on the surface o
the ground within ten miles of the
lake. A few years ago the ice on the
lake broke the wall in several places
and the farmers were obliged to repair
it to prevent inundation.
The Louisville Courier-J Journal as
serts that Gin Fairfax county, Virginia
lives Il woman over one hundred year.
old, who has not been a half mile from
her present residence in sixty years
She is as bright, intellectually, now a,
she was at the age of twenty. She wa,
never married, having been disappOint
ed in love when only eighteen. She il
related to the best families of the Ole
Dominion, has wined and dined will
Washington, Randolph, Madison, Mon
roe, jefferson and all the big men o
Revolutionary fame in that state, anC
she has fair chanoa IN II Sauara