St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-01-24
Note and Comment.

Lieut.. Rhodes is the hero of the day.
Adirondack Murray is being billed
for lectures i'll this state. He had bet
ter wait till summer and speak from a
blackboard.
A Kentucky lunatic asylum used
over 1000 gallons of whisky last year.
And yet some say home production
lacks encouragement.
One Christian name is shorter, more
vigorous and altogether more sensible
than two New York Sun.
Now. John Smith, speak up
An Orange man has lost a goose sup
posed to have been a hundred years
old, having outlived three generations
of the family The average age of
geese killed for market is only IS.
A chicken-pie donation party will
be held at lIinesburgh next week. 1t
is safe to say that good many cold
settlers will DO present i'll an import
ant capacity.
The price of leather has advanced SO
rapidly at Rutland that each patriotic
citizen walks out every morning before
breakfast and scans the horizon with
an eagle eye for IA corn doctor.
1t is presumed that the Standard oil
company will buy Senator PendletOn' S
elegant Washington mansion for. the
use of IL. b. Payne, its representative
in Congress and Mr.. Pendleton's sic
cesssor.
A white teacher from the North took
one of his pupils, light nulatto girl,
into an opera house at West Point
Ga. "The boys gave him good whip
ping" was the local papers terse way
of giving the result the next morning
The English Churchman gives mucl
space to criticism of the writings Of
"Mr. Gail Hamilton" Mr.. Hamilton
we believe, began to write about the
time young George Eliot went to ;
boys school i'll his first pair of pants.
The consumption of beer in the Uni
ted States last year was only 20 quart
per head to l25 in Great Britain. 1t i
also a noticeable fact that the Vernon
press association stayed ut home mos
of the time.
OF the millions of swine annual!
sold in Chicago, nearly 80 per cent
are of the black breeds. - WoodstOcl
Standard.
But how about the 100000 or NOR
swine that live in the Garden city
After discussing Joseph Cooks lee
ture, one man said to another: "But
after all, Sandy, what is the state O
religion in your town ?" Dad, sir
very bad. There are no Christian
but Davis and myself, and you know
have my doubts about Davis"
Mary CIemmer's latest gives glori
Gus pen-picture of the Washington
sunsets and graphic sketch of Car
Isle. - Woman's journal.
The partisan cOmpositOr will imme
diately substitute Randall for Wash
ington "t0 make the item more read
able"
As it the duty of a man, who ha
married "a widow, to accompany her o
visits to her first husbands grave Al
ter struggling with this question 81
wesks, western debating club advise
each married widow to settle it in he
own peculiar way.
Glow far will dollar gO?n asks tn
torial. Well, if an eagle coin withou
hole in it has a fair chance, it will &
to the bottom of the average editor
pocket and strike with dull, sickenin
thud.
The Sun notes approvingly that
New York firm issued an English Lii
of Sara Bernhard in forty eight hour
after receiving the French copy. The
; had better have taken orty-eight eel
turtles, and then forgotten to go
press.
The woman suffragists have score
an important victory in Washingto
Territory, Gov. Newell having signe
> their bill. The New Northwest pap,
family bubbles over with enthusiast
over the first fruit of its thirteen year
teachings. The cause is also GROWN
steadily in Canada. Some council
have declared in favor of it and Other
are following suit. The women seel
likely to have their own way in this, {
in all other matters.