St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-11-23

his 500, 900 at once. The verdict is |
set aside as excessive, as was the first |
Jury award of 100000.
Miss Lewis, sister of Ida Lewis, ''the
Grace Oar ing of America" died Tues |
day of consumption ut Lime Rock light |
house, within sight of the boats used
by herself and sister in rescuing many
lives from drowning.
The Philadelphia committee of one
hundred offers rewards amounting to
81 $50 for the detection of persons con
cerned in fraudulent poll-tax receipt
business at the late election. There
was undoubtedly good deal of bogus
voting done, and few offenders are
already in custody.
The $l75, 900 building of the Boston
Young Mems Christian association on
BOylston street was dedicated last
Thursday evening with addresses by
Revs. Phillips Brooks, j. Il. Duryea
five stories high and one of the finest
of the kind in the country.
The first fortnight of Moody and
Sankey's mission at lslington, London,
closed Sunday. They held four servi-
ces at Priory hall, which was densely
crowded. During the last week for
each service tickets were eagerly
sought for days beforehand. Standing
room was barely obtainable.
1t is estimated there are 10000 liquor
shops in Philadelphia, one-third of
them licensed. Counting the cost of
the public maintenance of these estab
lishments at an average of $ 200 each,
it taxes the people of that city SI0,000,-
running operation-a sum equal to the
aggregate of all other taxes.
The patent medicine business in this
country does not go around defacing
mountains as formerly, though in some
quarters it has been buying up all the
barns and painting them from the
ridge pole to the COW stalls in huge
letters. A farmer who allows his land
to he defaced in this way is Il hundred
years behind cultivation, not to say
self-respect.
We presume to say that Harvard
will confer upon Mr.. Robinson the de
gree of LII. D., if that gentleman
doesn't object on the ground that it
will give another impetus to that
blasted rhyme, and people will he say
ing that, George ID. Robinson he, has
got from Harvard the degree that But
Ter wanted, LII. D. Boston Post.
On Henry Hanson's coffin plate at
the funeral i'll Hyde Park, Mass, Fri
day, was the inscription Gagged one
hundred and twelve" Hanson was Il
cOlored man who has lived in Hyde
Park twenty years. He could tell but
little of his early life except that he
was born in Maryland. When La
fayette visited Baltimore in I776 he, as
a small boy, followed the procession.
Mrs. Homer n. Choate, of Newark,
n. j., is plucky. Her husband got up
the other night to investigate a strange
noise when his wife said, ''EIomer there
is man in here" He went in his
wife's room and fired at him she see
ing the situation by the flash sang out,
"Fire again and fire lower" Choate
fired lower and put bullet through
the burglars heart, just as he was
jumping out of the window.
Professor Bell, the telephone in
ventOr, is still active in his endeavors
to promote the education of deaf mutes.
! He is preparing to demonstrate in the
| Washington public schools the advant-
| ages of his system of deaf mute educa-
ton by constant intercourse with those
who can speak and hear. He thinks
it a great mistake to congregate large
numbers of deaf mutes together, and
holds that the highest art in their in
struction is to teach them to speak and
to read the words of others from the
motions of their lips.
The college presidents who met in
| Boston last week to discuss the ques-
ton of "modern languages in colleges"
were not harmonious i'll their views.
Some of them appear to think with
Charles Francis Adams, .ir., that the
modern languages should take the
place in the college curriculum hereto
fore assigned to the classics. 1t is not
probable, however, that any such
change will be made. Students may
be permitted wider choice than here
tOfOre on this subject, but there is no
| Likelihood that many of them will fore
! go the advantages of Il classical educa-
ton.
The authorities at COnstantinOple
have requested the u. 5. Consul to
cause Miss NJ. A. West to close the
colfee-house and reading room which
she has under her superintendence.
The reason alleged is that the place is
used for proselyting purposes. 1t is
not yet known what course Mr.. Consul
Heap will pursue i'll the matter. The
laws of Turkey contain nothing To
warrant the closing of such house
kept by an American citizen and duly
licensed as coffee house. If the
place were concert saloon of low
character there would be no power in
Turkey anxious or able to close it.