St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-01-12

" years ago uHutT WHICH IL HAS Dtth
held illegal for ferryboats to play on
that day.
Robert Morris, the negro lawyer who
lately died in Boston, left property
worth Sl00,0OO. There was something
singular about his profitable clientage.
He went to the bar when prejudice
against his color was very strong, and
yet his clients were for long time al
most entirely among the Irish people.
The friends of President Arthur say
that he is very superstitious, and that
he has been constantly haunted since
Garfield died. They predict that the
just as the president was renewing the
social duties which have been discOn
tinued since Garfield died, will have a
very depressing effect upon Arthur.
The origin of the expression "I'll
cook your goose for YOU" is said TO be
as follows: King Eric of Sweden was
approaching certain town with a few
soldiers, and the inhabitants hung out
goose for him to attack, and, when
they saw that he meant business, they
asked him what he was going to do.
"I1l cook your goose for YOU" was the
pointed reply.
The question, GLOW long is it neces-
sary to keep children away from school
after an infectious disease ?" is impor-
tant for the schools and for the parents
of scholars to consider. The Academy
of Medicine at Paris has recently given
definite answer. With scarlet fever,
diphtheria, measles and smallpox, isO-
lation is to be maintained for forty
days. Chickeh-pOx and mumps lose
their contagious power after twenty
five days.
We CLEAN the following interesting
mis-statements from the Household, a
newspaper published at Amsterdam,
the Dutch capital {: at is also known
that it is customary in the United
States when one party obtains the pres
idency, for the other party to he given
the vice presidential chair. Owing,
therefore, to the efforts of President
Arthur, temporary heir to Mr.. Garfield,
tire democrats have once more taken
possession of the white house."
In Parkersburg, Chester county, Pa,
Mr.. George l.. Huston is building Il
dwelling house wholly of iron and rest
ing on foundation of solid rock. Ev-
cry part of the house is of iron, includ-
ing floors, windOw-sills, sash, etc. The
floors are made to represent thing.
The walls are hollow, and the space
between them is used instead of CHM
neys. Hot smoke and hot air passing
from furnaces between the walls, it is
thought, will be sufficient to warm the
house in the coolest weather.
'After ALL" remarks the Atlanta Con-
stitutlOn, "the money made by farming
Is the cleanest, best money in the
world. 1t is made i'll accordance with
Gods first law, under honest and gent
al influences, away from the faint of
trade or the fierce heat of speculation.
1t fills the pockets of the farmer at the
expense of no other man. His gain is
no mans loss but the more he makes
the better for the world at large. Pros
porous farmers make prosperous peO-
pie. Whatever benefits our agriculture
benefits the commonwealth"
Two of the judges of Il Cincinnati
court have decided that the word
'damn" is coarse, unbecOming and pro-
fame, and that ii telephone company
was warranted in removing an instru-
ment into which a subscriber was ac-
custOmed to drop this and other obiec-
tiOnable and obligatory expressions.
The subscriber sued for damages, but
got the opinion of the court, in which
all rightminded people will concur,
that the company served him right. A
third judge diSsented, but the court
held that the company was entitled to
protect itself against such attacks.
A correspondent of the St. Louis Re
publican expresses the opinion that
there is no hope for Grover Cleveland
i'll his aspirations for the presidency,
for his name begins with &C." To
strengthen his case, he cites the names
of Clay, Calhoun, Chase, Clinton, Crit
tenden, Clayton, Cass, Church, Came
ron, Conkling, COlfaX and several 9TH
er gentlemen of more or less estimable
character whose names began with c,
and who have failed to attain the pres
ldency. Perhaps there is a star of hope
for him in the presidency, for Col
fax, Clinton and Calhoun have ascend
ed to the chair.
Eugene Field, managing editor of the
Denver Tribune and one of the bright
est young journalists of the west, as
well as writer of very clever humor-
GUS verse, was fatally injured a few
days ago in ii very peculiar manner.
As he was leaning out at third story
window of the Tribune office, giddiness
seized him and he fell three stories
down. His body was impaled by five
prongs of an iron railing, each of which
pierced his back. Mr. Fields clever
verses and his "Denver Primer" para
graphs have been widely copied, and
almost every reader of newspapers can
call to mind many of his pleasing
things.
Talmage thinks too much time is
spent i'll panegyrics of longevity, and
too much sympathy for early deaths.
An abbreviated existence makes life
more compact. A person who dies at
five years OF age, gets through his days
work at nine o'clock one who dies at
forty years, at twelve O'Clock at sew
enty years, five p. m, and one who dies
at ninety has to toll up to eleven
o'clock at night. The number of men
who fall into ruin between fifty and
seventy years of age, is simply appall-
ing. 1t were better if they had died
thirty years before. The sooner a man
dies the sooner he is taken off the de-
fensive, and it is folly, Mr.. Talmage
thinks, to regret leaving this shanty of
earth for an ALEXANDRIA in Heaven.
An Iowa newspaper having asserted
that there is not IA single woman on
the platform of female suffrage in the
whole broad land who has happy
family of husband and family-nOt
one" Miss Susan b. Anthony writes
that of all the pioneer suffrage women
she is the only one who never married,
and that the others married and are
the mothers of children. rs follows