St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-12-14

sCOulluTtls nave so IhI eluutu arrest.
The merchants exchange is trying to
devise a way to prevent repetition of
the game.
One of the best stories of the season
comes from Wrightsvlle, 5. c., and is
thus told by the Recorder: "A lady,
while engaged in the pursuit of her
domestic duties, encOuntered Il mouse in
flour barrel. New most ladies under
similar circumstances, would have ut
tered Il few genuine shrieks and then
sought safety in the garrett but this
one possessed more than the ordinary
degree of genuine courage. She sum p
mOned the man servant and told him
to get the gun, call the dog, and sta
ton himself at Il convenient distance.
Then she clambered upstairs and
commenced to punch the flour bar
rel with pole. Presently the mouse
made its appearance and started across
the floor. The dog started at once in
pursuit The man fired and the dog
dropped dead. The lady tainted, fell
down the stairs, and the man, thinking
she was killed, and fearing that he
would be arrested for murder, disap-
pSt'OhI anu HIS lOG Dttu seen since.
The mouse escaped"
A party of rowdies had their own
way in a railroad train near Columbus,
Ohio, the other day, and the timid
conductor was at his wits end to know
how to protect his passengers, when u
powerful man with Scotch cap came
forward and led the attack. After the
disturbers of the peace had been put
off the train the conductor asked the
name of the stranger, and found that it
was Joseph Cook.
"The truest welded life" says
Robert COllyer, ''can only bloom out
of the truest unwedded life, and the
man must be as pure as the woman.
The women who begin by thinking
whom they Will marry, and end bv
wondering who will marry them, had
better make up their minds, as the
nunssay, that this is not their vocation.
the young man who insists on seeing
life, as he says, before he marries, may
end by seeing the death of all he will
hold most dear"
In Yazoo county, Mississippi, party
of hunters killed deer that had a
human skull impaled on prong of his
horn, supposed to be that of a negro.
The prong had entered IA cavity occu-
pied i'll life by the eye, and had grown
up around the bone, showing the skull
had not been put on recently.
A Chicago justice was trying a pat
ent medicine case the other day, when
a bottle of bogus kidney and liver cure
exploded and scared the assembled
pettifoggers, cOnstables and other
minor sharks half out of their wits.
Everybody got sprinkled, and there
was good deal of glass thrown about,
but no blood followed.
An elderly gentleman, a prominent
citizen of Hillsboro, Texas, being in
the telephone office, was informed that
lady in Dallas wished to talk with
him. Immediately he rose, took off
his hat, primped his hair with his hand
and, walking up to the instrument,
said cat your service, madam"
a Newfoundland dog in Des Moines
caught the reins of runaway team
which were dragging on the ground,
and tugged at them till the team was
stopped.
The new comet can now be seen by
the naked eye after sunset in the
northwest, near the star Vega, the only
star of the first magnitude in that vi
cinity. Through the telescope it looks
half the size of the moon, with lust the
suggestion of tail.