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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-17
SquibS.

Buy your thermometer, now; they
will he higher soon.
The champion lightweight; The
American dollar.
The Marquis who is to marry Mrs.
Frank Leslie can shoot his initials into
IA board, and he writes poetry with the
greatest ease. He had better shoot the
poetry.
"Herr Meyer, | suppose you under
stood that every one was to bring along
something to the picnic What have
YOU brought" Herr Meyer: "My lee
tie twins, Hans and Jakoh."
"What is a lake ?'' asked the teacher.
a bright little Irish boy raised his
hand. "Well, Mikey, what is it p
"Sure it's hole in the kittle, num-
A German at IA hotel in Chicago, the
other day, had some Limburger cheese
sent to him. 4 little boy who sat be-
side him turned to his mother and eN-
claimed Mamma, how wish was
deaf and dumb III my nose J"
"What is pharmaceutical associa-
ton ?r asked child who had spelled
ont the name in "A paper; and the IA
ther, aroused from peruSal of the
stock list, replied: "fHmrr-culIcle :
Some OF those fellows that 20 around
skinning the farmers, | SUPPOSE"
''Here we are, within a quarter of u
mile of land =" was the joyful cry of
the captain of AN ocean steamer to his
grumbling passengers. ''Where! Which
way is it f' "Anywhcre down there,
said the captain, pointing downward.
'The lead gives us 220 iathoms "i
water and the land comes slap M
against the brine"
Glow are you, old hoss ! somewhat
j, disrespecttuliy remarked a man t'
I Deacon Gilpin AS he entered the store
"Sir! ! do not like to be classed among
:. the quadrtpeds." ooh ye don't ell
4 Well, / called you old hoss cause see
:. by that bill you sent me Yesterday tha
you WIS pretty good charger"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-17

parents have the right to require of
colleges that they shall not thrust our
sons, at least those not yet of age, into
n'atmosphere saturated with coarse,
crude animalism. We want them ed
ucated as thinking men, not as bulky
brutes. Good health, good morals,
good discipline are our object, and
quick, cultivated wits, with healthy,
bnt not Over-stimulated body.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-17
St. Johnsbury Post Office.

Commencing Oct :, the mails will close at the
Post Office as follows:
Passumpsic K. X Way Mail. South. 900 a. m
Nn DanviUe 900 a NJ.
81 J. a L. e. r. r. WAY Mail East 2.l5 p. .
st j. & L. G. K K. Way Mail, West, 2l5 p III.
Passumpsic L. X. WAY Mail North, 40 p. m
Wet Concord and ST Johushury East. 800 a }.
Waterford w Wat'Td and L. Mat'Td. 40 =. m
Roston New York Conn r Val Mail. 500 p. III
Nnrtb.rn and Montreal mail 800 p. III.
Mail will he collected from the boxes at Paddock
village and Railroad street AT : 90 a. m and 3-l5
D. m Box at Railroad street will be- visited at ~
CHAS. .'ARPENTER. p. NJ.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-17
81. .IohnshnrX Centre.

COngrsgafiOnaL-Rev. J. T. Closson, Pastor. sun
day services at IL a. NJ, aud 500 P. NJ Sabbath
School at IL NJ. Wednesday evening meeting at
80 NJ.
Mehodist-Rev. ". \. Evans Pastor. Sunday
Services at IL A. NJ. and p. NJ. Sunday School at
II NJ. Thursday evening meeting at 80.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-17
East st. Johnsbury.

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES services at 1915 a. III
and $50 p. IN. sabbath school at 1900. Wednes
day evening meeting al $50
uethodist-Supplied by Rev. 9. Z. Burnham
sunday services at l.30 y. III.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-17

Western Union and VI InteTndtiOHGi-in ST.
.Iohusbury House. Open from a. IN, to p III
SUNDAYS Q to 10 IN, To =. III. Night messages
I.If
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-17

Library and Reading ROom.-Free to all. Open
from \. N. to l. Nj; from = to =. NJ, and from
tn - Saturday evenings.
Art GdlIerV-Open Tuesdays and Fridays.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-17
While We May.
By GEORGE RLNGLR.

By GEORGE KLNGLz
The hands are such dear hands;
! They full; they turn at our demands
So often; they reach out,
With trihes scarcely thought about,
SO many timesi they do
So very many things for me for you
If their fond wills mistake,
We may well bend not break.
They are such fond, frail lips
That speak to US. Pray, if love strips
Them OF discretion many times,
Or if they speak too slow OF quick, sue
crimes
We may pass by for may see
Days not far of when those small words may b
Held not as slow, quick, or out of plac
but dear
Because the lips are no more here.
They are such dear, familiar feet that 90
Along the path with ours-feet fast OF slow
And trying To keep pace-if they mistake
Or tread upon some flower that We would take
Upon our breast or bruise some reed
Or crush poor Hope until it bleed,
We may be mute,
Not turning quickly to impute
Grave fault; for they and we
Have such little way to go-Gan be
Together such little while along the way,
We will be patient while We may.
So many little faults we find.
We see them; for not blind
Is Love. We see them but if yOu and
Perhaps remember them some by and by,
They will not be
Faults then-grave faults-tO you and me.
! But Just odd ways-mistakes, or even less
Remembrance to bless
Days change many things-yes, hours.
We see differently in suns and showers.
Mistaken words tonight
May be so cherished by to-morrow's light.
We may be patient; for we know
There's such little way to 20.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-17

Ex-Gov. Fletcher having been con-
fined to his houst during the winter,
his friends and neighbors, as a good
will Offering and in appreciation of his
own many acts of kindness ID the past,
have presented him with Il handsome
easy chair. The governor has arrived
ut ripe old age after Il long life of
usefulness and it is to be hoped the.
evening Of his life is Yet to be proiong-
ed Bellows Falls Times,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-17
ST. cSufmsbmp (aledOnian.
G. NJ. STONE Il CO.,


PIP ,s,te the Athensum, St Johnsbury, VT.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-17

All kinds of Building Material for sale. ROugh
and Dressed Lumber Clapboards- Shingie, Lath.
Doors sash and Blinds Brackets, MOuldings
Hardware. Nails, Lime, Cement, aud everything
necessary for building At the lowest cash prices.
! 3-tf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-01-01
Freeman's Natl Bank of Augusta.
NOTICE.

The Annual Meeting Of the Stockholders Of the
Freeman's National Bank of Augusta. Me-, will be
held atfheir banking room in Augusta, on Tuesday,
the sth day Of January, lse4, at three O'Clock r.
for the purpose Of choosing Board OF Directors.
and OF tran-scting any ether legitimate business
which may come before them.
S.B. GLAZIER, Cashier.
Augusta, Dec. 20, 1855.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-01-01
Sheep Notes.
generations

Begin granting with the greatest care,
and use small quantities at first.
Have at least one good work on sheep
by you to refer to.
If eve loses her lamb. milk her daily
for few days. mixing little alum with
her salt.
If any sheepis hurt, catch il at once and
wash the wound, and if it is in hy-time ap
ply spirits of turpentime daily, and wash
with something healing. If limb is
broken, bind it with splinters tightly,
loosening as the limb swells.
Sheep are so fond of succulent food that
they will pick over large fields. in open
winter. trying to find it. They suffer when
kept wholly on dry food for several
months. and for this reason oil-meal
should be provided in small quantity for
them. The feeder cannot err in giving
too great a variety in the food of sheep.
The best ration we have ever known fed
to fattening sheep was composed of equal
parts by weight, of oats, peas and millet.
and to fifteen bushels of the mixture was
added one bushel of flaxseed. and all
were ground fine together. Each sheep
was fed two pounds Of this ground mix
ture with hay, and made regular gain of
three pounds each week, besides growing
an unusually fine staple of wool. This
small amount of haxseed is peculiarly
soothing to the digestive organs. 1t is a
perfect preventive of all diseases caused
BY drv fodder.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-01-01

When pump tube freezes solid do not
pour in hot water in the common way
with the hope of thawing. The hot wa
ter will stay at the top. and that will be
the end of it. But procure lead tube or
any other kind of pipe, place the lower
end directly on the ice in the pump. and
with funnel pour hot water in at the top
The weight of the iron in the pipe will
drive it hot against the ice, the pipe set
tling as fast as the ice melts. and the
whole will be cleaned out in an incredi-
bly, short time.
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DaiIp krnnfbst 3ournal.

Why may not more attention be paid to
the cultivation OF Alsike clover' says the
Rural Canadian. 1t is better fodder than
the red; grows luxuriantly in suitable
soils; requires but little attention after
the first seeding. and continues to propa-
gate itself. 1t ripens its seed in the first
crop, and is less liable to injury by midge
than the red. 1t does not flourish. how
ever, in high and dry sandy soil, nor in
thoroughly drained clay soil.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-01-01

ALBION.
Name Cause. Monihsy Rate.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-01-01

The tallow or fatty portions of beef, pork
and snutton, are usually nearly white,
while the fat of chickens is as yellow as
the butter of our most highly priced Jer-
sey or Guernsey cows. Occasionally the
fat of some of our best butter cows shows
a strong yellow shade, like the color of
their butter. Butchers dislike to find a
cow whose carcass cuts up yellow. because
customers are apt to ask too many ques-
tions, but the quality of the meat of
yellow" COW is fully equal to that of
animals with white tallow. We occasion
ally hear of case of yellow" hog, that
is, one whose fit has the yellow shade of
chichen fat or jersey butter. As hogs
with this popularity are lar M re rare
than are yellow tallowed cattle. the pork
is less saleab!e than beef OF similar hue,
but so far as we can learn, the color is no
indication OF inferior quality, the animals
being every way just MS hearty and healthy
as any hog can be.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-01-01

In breeding tor form it is practice with
chicken fanciers, who are probably the
best breeders in the world, to put extremes
together to produce happy medium. For
instance, to get perfect length of back
in the chicks it was necessary to couple a
short-back cock with long, rangy hens.
This rule could he followed with profit in
breeding cattle, so far as outward form
was concerned, but when we come to the
milking quality, like the trotting quality
in the horse, the question of form seems
absolutely to have nothing to do with it
We say this advisdlY too, notwithstanding
the numerous prescriptions for perfect
cows form that are going the round of
the papers. This can be proved thus :
Let one man select all the cows OF model
form in dairy, and another pick out the
same number from those left with view
solely to the amount of milk they give,
and a thousand to one that the last lot are
the best cows. In selecting breeders tor
milk we cannot choose the two extremes,
but are compelled to put pedigree with
pedigree and hope for the best. This rule
does not apply so well with thoroughbreds
that have been bred for form for so many
generations.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-01-01
Personal.

The late Captain Webb's remains are to
be reinterred in Oakland Cemetery, at Sus-
pension Bridge, early in January.
The Rev. DIR. Gilbert De La Matyr, ex-
Congressman, who recently became pastor Of
a church in Denver, Colorado, is in hands of
the surgeons for the treatment Of . serious
afflicticn.
The Boston Transcript says that Thomas
Nas s.still senis il sketches to the Harpess,
every week and they are pig .on holed by Mr.
Curtis. while the Iiarp' rs y him un.ler con
tract $4,000 year for lite. I'll, is an in
credihlnstory.
tsfA sp ,nde,t Of the Springfield Rerub-
mean gives the following explanation Of wlas
he calls "Mr. Blaine's journey into tie sea
of hterature;'' "Blaine was in very poor
health after he left the Cabinet. His physi-
clan here and DR.. Hammond of New York,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-01-01

told him that he must either go to Europe in
good company for year or two or else get
some absorbing but not exciting occupation
for bis mind He did not want to go to
Europe, and, while he was puzzliug over
something to do, he went one day to the Con
gressional Library. While there his eve fell
on .Bentons Thirty Years View He says
it came over him like flash that it would be
delightful work to put his twenty years ex-
perlence on paper, and he saw that the prob
lem of an occupation had been solved
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-01-01
List of Pensioners

OF THE UNITED STATES on THE Roll JAN
UARY /, 1888, RESIDENT IN kENNsBEc
COUNTY.
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of dollans have been spent in advertising the
celebrated Burdock Blood Bitters, bus this,
fact accounts only in part for their snorme
sale. Their merit has made them whssd ~
are-the best blood medicine ever xx1vlp
man.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-01-01

EASTERN BRANCH, n. ii. D. v S.,
Togus, Me-, Dec. 20, 1883,

EASTERN BRANCH, n. IT. d. v 8,
Togus. Me-, Dec. 20, 1883.
Proposals for furnishing the Eastern Branch, N.
H. ID. Y. S. during the six months ending 5eth june,
1884, with five hundred 500 barrels Of Ne. -four.
and three hundred (3o0) barrels of No. -four.
more or less te be delivered At the Home sample
OF each quality Of the nou, with q copy Of the
advertisement must accompany the proposals.
The Home reserves the right TO reject any or all
bids.
Proposals In sealed envelopes marked Proposals
for Flour viii be received at the Office Of the under.
siened until noon Of the 29th Dec, lss3.
ANDREW J. SMITH, Treasurer.
Approved: LUTHER STEPHENSON, JR-, Gov {
SI5ek2d5f
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-05-14

A poultry exchange has this to
say about testing eggs for Matching:
Fertile eggs, or eggs that will pro
duce chickens, can be distinguished
in from FIVE to seven days after the
hen begins to sit on them. If held
against strong light the germ may
be seen in a dark spot, and the ex
animation may be relied upon. If
no dark spot is visible at the end of
seven days, the egg is sterile and
may be removed. When examina-
ton shows the shell full and dark
the chick is within a day or two of
Matching, and if the little bird is
alive the ear will readily detect the
movements within the shell. Eggs
for Matching should be selected with
care. The largest are not always
the best. Choose the medium sized
and those that taper sharply to the
small end. Carefully examined
against a strong light eggs may be
selected which in nine cases cut of
ten will hatch.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-05-14


The New York Sun confirms, as
to COnkling, the Harper's Weekly
statement that both Grant and
Conkling are unfriendly to Arthur.
The Sun says: ain these days Mr..
Conkling speaks of the president as
that man." What q wonderful
whirligigl The nomination of Ar
thur, as vice president, was laid at
the feet of Conkling to placate him,
AS one would fling a bone at an i'll
conditioned dog. No one wanted
Arthur, save to placate Conkling.
Arthur gave NO strength to the tick
ct, save as he pleased Cenkling.
But now be, for whom Arthur was
made, calls him "that man" and he
has been heard to call HIM "that
stalled OK" How the soul of the
American Curtius, -Guiteau, who
threw himself into tho chasm to re-
unite the Republican party by re-
moving Garfield, must be rasped
when he sees that instead of unit.
ing the two Republican factions, bis
act has resulted in splitting the then
alienated faction!
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-05-14

Eleven months ago the social sem
sation of New Orleans was the bril-
liant wedding at the Cathedral of
the beautiful daughter of Chief JUS
tice Bermudez, OF the Supreme
Court of Louisiana, to Henry Far
gas, lieutenant of artillery in the
army of France. The ceremony
was performed by the late Arch
bishop Perche. The groom was
young aad handsome and the bride
of noble ancestry, the acknowledged
queen of creole society. After the
wedding the unhappy couple left
for New York, and then for Europe.
The sad sequel comes in a report
from Paris, that Lieutenant Fargas,
because of the attentions shown by
the colonel of his regiment to his
wife, had killed him, and, after
sending by cable message to the
family of his wife to come and get
their daughter, fed the country to
avoid the penalty of his crime. Mrs.
Bermudez has gone to Europe to
bring home her unhappy child.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-05-14

Mercury and Observer: The
fastest time for 100 miles or over
made in this country up to 1884 was
made by the Grand Trunk railway
of Canada, where they made the
run of 100 miles in 113 minutes.
This time has never besn equaled
or beat until the 14th of April,
when the East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia railroad made the run
with a special train carrying the
members of the Historical Society
from Knoxville to Chattanooga, a
distance of 112 miles, in 110 min
utes. This stands to-day the fastest
time on record, and likely to rcmain
SO for some time to come. The i'm
preston prevails in the North that
the Southern railroads are much in
ferior in physical condition to Nor
thern lines The majority Of the
railroads are all laid with
steel rails and stone ballast, as evil
densed by the East Tennessee, Vir-
ginia and Georgia railroad"
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-05-14
FRANK LESLIES SUNDAY MAO
HaU AZINE

The brilliant June number closes
the fifteenth volume, and the claim
of this periodical to public appreei-
alton must, we think, be universally
recognized. 1t is admirably con-
Quoted by its talented and popular
editor, T. Dewitt Talmage, d. D.,
who has in this number two most
interesting articles " The Resurrec-
ton and "Hard on Others" and
also a sermon, aThe Sword Sheath
ed in Flowers" There are articles
(mcst of them beautifully illustrat-
ed) by Rev. George L. Rider, Alvan
S. Southworth, G. A. Davis, Alfre-
ton Hervey, j. Alex. Patten, etc.,
etc. The serial and short stories,
sketches, ETC., afford pleasant and
edifying reading. Many excellent
poems are contributed by Rev. G..
A. WaddelI, Amanda E. Dennis and
ethers; and miscellaneous articles
are entertaining and instructive, and
the Illustrations are profuse and in
the best style of art. The price is
% cents number, or So so a year,
postpaid. Mrs Frank Leslie, pub.
Usher. 50, SO and 81 Park Place,
New York.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-05-14
a SENSIBLE FATHER.
New York Ledger.


~ congratulate you upon your
daughters engagement said one
gentleman to another, a few days
ago. II hear she is engaged to o
most estlmable young man. What
is his business ?"
"Ah that's just the trouble" an
swered the father. "Your question
points to the only objection / have
made. He has not any occupation
at ALL"
"But | hear be is wealthy ?"
$50 he is. His father left him q
fortune. Besides, he has ne bad
habits, as you will believe when /
tell you that he spends most of his
time in farming. He owns a fine
farm in Delaware, and deyotes
great deal of attention to it."
81 don t see how you can ask any
more, said the first speaker.
aPerhaps not, was the response (;
shut | long ago made up my mind
that none of my girls should marry
a man who was not trained to some
pursuit by which, if need arose, he
could earn a living for himself and
her. / knoar this is the true prin-
eiple, and / feel that it is weak in
me to depart from it., even under
such circumstances" " 81
The gentleman who said this is
one of the best known men in the
country-a man who has been dis
tinguished in public affairs for a
quarter of q century. ~
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-05-14

General Opdyeke, whose death
occurred few days age, was one of
the officers particularly esteemed by
Thomas. To kim at Chickamauga,
when they were fighting to keep the
little flint covered hill-the rock of
a most disastrous day-Thomas said:
' This point must be hold" Said
Opdycke: Wen hold it or go to
heaven from it." And until night
came they kept the rock, crowned
with 4 circlet of fire.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-05-14

The malady of Joseph Z. Murrell,
Jr., who was buried at Mobile, Ala,
on the 5tb, was the strang0st known
to science. He was subject to ter
rible convulsiOns when asleep only.
His father or some attendant was
therefore always present at night to
prevent his falling asleep, and the
only rest obtained for dozen years
was In a state of dozing. His suf-
ferings during the last years have
been excessive, and the patient often
wished for death as q relief
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-05-14

At GAINESVILLE, Ohio, the afternoon
of the Sd, a child aged eighteen
months, belonging to Thomas Coul-
ton, a prominent merchant of that
city, fell from a second story win
dow to the earth below, alighting
on a brick pavement, and, strange
to relate, when picked up by an as
tonished and frightened mother,
who expected to find it dead, the
child was unhurt save a few bruises.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-05-14

The importation of unwholesome
tea having become SO alarming as
to occasion prohibitory legislation
by Congress, coffee now attracts at
tention in its turn as an article
shamefully tampered with. When
it Is charged that in two Brooklyn
mills coffee beans of an inferior
grade are celored with poisonous
materials in order to initiate Gov
ernment Java, interference with this
business should be prompt and de-
cisive. Chrome yellow, Prussian
blue, Venetian red, lampblack, yell
low Ochre, umber, and soapstone are
only few of the substances said to
be thus employed, and enough arse
mic to make cup of coffee poison
Gus has been found on some of these
celored beans. Advocates of tenn
perance, who rely greatly on the
substitution of coffee for alcoholic
stimulants, should be especially
eager in investigating this danger
GUS form of fraud.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-05-14

A Mr.. J. F. Hartley has been
giving some figures illustrative Of
Sunday schsol progress in the Sun
day School Chronicle. According
to this well informed writer there
are in Groat Britain and Ireland
674, ,7O4 Sunday school teachers, and
of scholars (net including Roman
Catholic schools, regarding which,
ii ia. stated, Information could not
easily be obtained), there are over
six millions. In the United States,
which il held to represent fifty mil
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-05-14

Collections of internal revenues dur
ing the first nine months of the fiscal
year ending June 80. 1884, are reported
to ba as follows From spirits. $685.
479, ,393, an increase of 81, ,102, 440 over
the corresponding period of the pre-
YiOus year; from tobacco, $1s,s54, ,535,
a decrease Of s13, ,755, ,3o3; from ferment-
ed liquors, sl2, e5S $50, an increase of
1896, 775; from banks and bankers, $2,-
S92. a decrease of 81. TAI ,594; from nais-
cellaneous sources, $40, ,9O4. a decrease
of 81, ,0o6. .539. The aggregate receipts
were $s7, ,254 .0S4, which is $40, sos, ,253
less than the collections frsn the cor
period of the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1888.