St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-08-31
GIeanings.

In Cornwall, CT, is IA tower 1900 feet
above the level of the sea, and from
the top can he seen some portion of
every town in Connecticut.
Rev. Brooke Herford with great
truth says: "All reforms have taken
their start in the business marts of the
world, and about all the classes who
have labored for reform and liberty are
those whose characters had been form
ed in business life
DR.. Hamilton says that at least once
every day girls should have their halt
ers taken off, and be turned out like
young colts. "Calisthenics may be
very genteel," he AYERS, 'and romping
very ungenteel, but one is the shadow,
the other the substance, of healthful
exercise"
For titty-fOur years ! was an invete-
rate cigar-smOller, says Thurlow Weed
i'll his autobiography, though never
using tobacco i'll any other form. Dur
ing that period | learn, by somewhat
careful computation, that | must have
smoked or given to friends at least
$4,000 cigars.
The Washington Critic rates the
wealth of the supreme court Judges as
follows: Judge Blatchford is worth
at least Sl3,000,000; Judge Mathews,
ut low estimate, S30O,0O0; Wood,
800, 900 Waite, 100000; Field, $780,
900; Gray, Sl50,000; Bradley, $780,
600. Judges Miller and Harlan are
both poor men. Their only income is
their salary.
w. w. johnson left Webster, Mass,
three years ago, for Califprn and be-
coming diSgusted started back with
his horse and COW. He left the golden
state June |, 1882, riding in his wagon
and towing the COW, and arrived at
Ogden in time to go into winter quar-
ters. He left Ogden May II, this year,
and is now in Iowa, and expects to
reach Webster in October.
G. c. Burnham of Hopkinton, n. H.,
letely missed an apple tree from his
field. He went to look for it, and
found the recent high wind had broken
it off at the trunk, lifted it over IA wall
without moving a stone, and deposited
it fifteen rods away in another mans
lot, scarcely breaking a branch. The
tree was full grown and quite large
one that belonged to Il row on high
elvation.
An interesting table giving returns
from seventy of the lightweight count
les in Ohio shows the effect of the
Scott law. One thousand and nineteen
recognized drinking saloons in those
counties have been closed 6530 paid
the 5000 tax, and ISS2 the 800 tax
The aggregate amount realized from
this tax is 81 ,494 200 In Cincinnati il
has-iillcd the treasury, and made a re-
duction in the rate of taxation possible
On the farm of Dea. George Sanger
of Canterbury, Ct, stands a button
wood tree of gigantic proportions
about seventy feet in height. The
. trunk measures sixteen feet in circum
ference two feet from the ground, and
is nearly the same size around twenty
. five feet above where the branches
. first project. No person living cal
f give its early history. Il was, withOu
doubt, a vigorous tree in the time o
! the revolution.
e The Farmers Mutual fire insuranc,
, company at Montpelier has had eighty
! nine losses during the year endin,
e Aug. |, amounting to so, IA, eight o
r these aggregated SI9,454. The com
= pany has consequently levied an as
3, sessment of eight and One-half pc
' cent. and the directors have decided T.
T give their services the ensuing year
D while the officers will contribute por
h ton of their salaries on account of tia
J.. unusual bad luck of the company.