St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-01-26
Gleanings.

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> Mrs. Garfield is reported as looking
in better health, but older and NOR,
carewOrn.
: Three hundred and seventy-fivt
thousand persons work under GROUND
in Great Britain.
At the state election % VA vote
were cast in Boston in favor of licens,
and 1862 against it.
In Brooklyn a wife is suing her ia
therin-law for S20,000 damages fol-
her husbands absence.
In New York it is proposed to abol
ish the cOlOred schools and have blacl
and white children educated together
A Baptist church of Des Moines ha,
decided to admit all members hereafter
by ballot, and one black ball will re-
ject.
France exported nearly 100000
pounds of butter last year at an aver
age price of about twenty-six cents 8
pound.
Messrs. Moody and Sankey intend
holding series of meetings in London
next fall, beginning at about the first
of October.
Two brothers in Georgia were mar
ried the same day, have each six chill
dren, and the combined age of the chill
dren is the same.
Forty-One lives, it is estimated, were
lost by the Rhine floods. 1t is estimat-
ed the losses in Germany will amount
to $4,000, 900 marks.
When "Ouida" asked Charles Reade
to suggest "A name for her dog he said
''TOnic, for it is sure to be mixture
of bark, steal and whine"
During 1882 the breweries of New
Hampshire paid the government 1854,
600 in taxes, S227 900 of which was
paid by Portsmouth brewers.
A fifteen per cent. reduction of wag-
es takes effect at the Fall River iron
works and Mount Hope and Old Col
ony iron works at Somerset, Mass.
1t is estimated that the amount OF
property destroyed in this country and
Europe during the past year reaches
the enormous sum of S400,000,000.
Several hotel owners in New York
city have been notified by the in
spectOr of buildings to provide fire
escapes Oh the outside of their build
ings.
Queen Victoria is large real estate
owner i'll New York. An advance in
rents by her agents is said to have
changed the tenants in a large block
on Broadway.
The largest ice bridge that ever
bridged the chasm below Niagara Fails
formed few nights ago. 1t is over a
mile i'll length and will remain the rest
of the winter.
1t is proposed to stop female labor in
| the chain and nail shops in the Black
Country, England. A child was re-
Gently starved to death while its moth
er was working.
1t is said that Gambetta was super
stitiOus, and never failed to send tapers
to the church of the parish where he
happened to he residing on the ami
versary of his mothers death.
A new plant has been discovered in
Mexico which is remarkable for its
fibre. 1t is thought that it will revolu-
tiOnize textile industries, since it is
even more beautiful than silk.
Over S30,000 having been subscribed
for an equestrian statue of the late
Gen. A. +. Burnside, meeting is
called of subscribers to take steps to
secure the execution of the work.
OF forty-twO principal rulers in the
world King William of Germany is
the oldest, 81, and Alfonso of Spain
the youngest, %. The pope is 70,
Alexander of Russia 81, and Victoria 63.
CALIFORNIA; new state senate is com
Of -,
one miner, four capitalists, two mer-
chants, five mechanics, one contractor,
one doctor, one viticulturist and four
teen lawyers.
Reports from the northwestern biz
zard in Dakota, Minnesota, northern
Wisconsin and Iowa, say a number of
people have been frozen to death and
lost ill the snow storm. Rail travel is
much delayed.
After paying S22, 10000 in taxes for
the Brooklyn bridge, and having 81
OOO,OOO more to raise, the people of
those cities are now confronted with
IA proposition to pay toll for crossing
it when completed.
Chicago commercial traveller of
long experience in the hotels of the
northwestern states mentions fifteen
cities of medium size in which there
are worse fire traps, if possible, than
the Newhall house.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, in lee
tnre on evolution, said that he be-
lleved in the doctrine up to the point
of the origin of man. The Darwinian
theory, he thinks, is repugnant to the |
feelings of mankind.
One of the new GOLFERS lately con-
tracted for by the Central Pacific Rail
road company made the run from
Hampton Roads to San Francisco in
Il days II hours and 30 minutes the |
fastest time on record.
The Whitehall, n. Y, Times has dis
covered that life is like a pack of cards
ChildhOOd's best cards are hearts (:
youth is won by diamonds middle age
is conquered with a club, while old age
is raked in by IA spade.
The cotton crop of North Carolina
will he over 10000 bales less than last
year. Large quantities in the fields
have been damaged by snow.
The crop of Virginia will also be sew
eral thousand bales less than last year
Major Burke of the New Orleans
Ilmes-Democrat went to work in a
stone yard as common laborer Just
after the war. He is now supposed to
be worth half a million dollars, and to
be looking toward the United States
Senate.
The Japanese are endeavoring to de-
velOp their commerce on the coast of
Asia. A steamship company, which
to have fleet of forty steam
ers, has been formed for this purpose,
and half of the vessels will be afloat