St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-02-23

smile serenely, and when one rod be-
yond the point of passage, to look
back and observe the effect of the
operation.
sit may be news to you since you
have invited me to smile" said "Bobn
Burdette, the humorist, to Pittsburgh
Post reporter, the other day, ''that I
/ have become a total abstainer. / re-
duced the matter to figures and found
out that to each man is allotted one
barrel of whiskey and by close calcu-
latiOn | discovered that | had drunk a
barrel and a half. In other words, |
had drunk my own and half of some
other mans barrel. am TOO honest to
rob anybody, especially of the whis-
key we get nowadays, and therefore
have quit drinking whiskey entirely"
A correspondent of the New York
Tribune, visiting Wagner in 1875, de-
scrlbed his appearance as follows:
"IOu see at once that he is an eccen-
trio man-thOugh good deal more.
| Nagner's Is a strong, sharp, intellectu
al, refined, but not a mellow face. The
nose is straight and large, the eyes are
somewhat prominent, the chin broad
and strong, giving "a peculiar severity
| to the expression. His smile seems
bright, and the face relaxes it's severi-
/ ty for the time, but the critical incl
slveness is never quite lost, and you
feel that he could be satirical if he
wanted TO be-
When the late Hon. Marshall Jewell
first left his fathers home and lanyard
to seek his fortune in the west, he went
to Rochester, n. Y, to work in a tele-
graph office. But when he got there
he did not find the vacancy he expect
ed, and his means were so exhausted
that lie could not travel further. So
he accepted the first opportunity that
was presented for earning a livelihood,
namely, a clerkship in the old Eagle
hotel, which was then the principal
hosiery in that part of the state. He
worked faithfully in that position for
some time, until an opening was found
i'll his chosen calling.
The patch of woods between Hart
ford and Weathersfeld, Conn.,, for
merry known as the Folly woods, but
lately as Boardman's grove, has a his
tory, If tradition is true. Two broth
ers, in dividing their paternal estate,
disagreed when they came to this lot.
/ They were obstinate, and finally one
of them said he would give up his title
to 1t If the other would consent to let
HIM harvest a single crop from it.
This was agreed to and crop of
acorns was planted. Hence the oaks
that make the grove. Both brothers
are long since dead, and the crop re-
mains unharvested.- Hartford Times.
Mary Clemmer, speaking of the
woman suffrage movement and some
of the sutfra fists, says: ~ have never
felt the slightest sympathy with wom-
en- berating men in their public func-
tons. Who has said that if men make
the laws the women make the men
w hen race of women arise so sweet,
so wise, so strong that the race of men
they bear and rear must wear forever
on their plastic brains and souls the
woman's mental and spiritual seal,
women will command, through their
natures and by their own wisdom, the
things they want, and they will want
more and greater than they do to-day,
and speeches and conventions will no
longer be necessary"
a crusade against the cigarette is
likely to be begun among the children
of the public schools in Philadelphia.
One of the principals has called the at
tcntiOn of the board of education to
the subject, in which he says that, of
the $4,000 pupils in the public schools
of the city, large proportion use to-
baccO in various forms, and that the
habit has increased to an alarming ex-
tent since the cigarette was instituted.
He has prepared and had printed a
short statement of the physical and
mental disorders produced in children
by tobacco, and has pasted it on the
inside of the cover of every text book
used in his school. The association of
male principals has approved his letter
to the board, and an energetic cam
paign on that line is the expected re-
suit
A reviewer in the Athenaum holds
that style is simply an expression of
temper. ''If the temper is small" he
adds, "the style is small. If the tenn
per of America, since, at least, she has
come to the very first rank of great ma
tiOns, is more peevish than it was in
the days of Washington Irving or in
the days of the colonial writer's, it is
but natural perhaps, yet it renders her
literature more provincial. The noble |
urbanity of Washington Irving allies !
him to the classic writer's of Europe.
But much rarer and much finer as is |
the genius of Hawthorne land it is |
doubtful whether any prose writer of
our century was more richly endowed) |
it is this petty fretfulness and CON
seriousness of province which keeps |
him down. And inasmuch as Emerson |
was entirely free from this he takes a |
place among the great writer's of our
time, though in the mere material part |
of style he, like everyone else, must
give place to Hawthorne"
cone day" said this gentleman, .'be-
fore harvest, met fashionably dress
ed person with "A large handful of ears
of wheat, taken from my fields. | sa-
luted him respectfully, and expressed
my admiration of the beauty of the
wheat. "Yes," said he, sit is truly a
fine sample, and does the farmer great
credit who grew it," | acknowledged
the compliment, and asked from which
of my fields he took it, After he had
pointed it out he assured me he always
liked to take good sample LONE, as it
interested the ladies. Upon this, no.
ticing with admiration the style of his
coat, ! asked him to allow me to look
at the skirt. He readily did so, and
quietly took out my knife and cut
Il large piece from the tail. The gen
tleman bounced and swOre, but | told
him | always took samples of cloth as
found they greatly interested my
wife. | added, that he had no more
right to take my wheat than | to take
his coat, and that | wished the public
to bear this truth in mind.n This was