St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-08-21
GIeanings.

A Blaine and Logan club at Vicks-
burg admits no negroes, although the
republican voters of the place are nine
tenths black.
President Arthur's state dinners
have surpassed those of any other pres
ident in elegance. The nine he gave
last winter cost $500 apiece.
The family of Poor or Poore. with
all connected with it by consanguinity
or allied with it by marriage, will hold
its triennial meeting at AndOver, Mass,
September 10.
The republicans of Georgia favor the
running of candidates for congress in
all the districts of Georgia, and an
electoral ticket composed entirely of
white men was put in the field
The coming sculptor lives at Tusca-
rora, Neb., and is ShOshonee papoose
of four years. The child molds horses,
deer and other animals in mud, and its
performances are reckOned very re-
markable.
John DAILY, who was recently arrest
ed ut New York for displaying two re-
volvers, IA knife and brass knuckles,
W dtS VII lllt HTOuuu
that he was from Texas and did not
know any better.
Professor Dana, the very efficient
geolOgist of Yale college, has come to
the conclusion that the earthquake
Sunday, was due to the slipping of two
big portions of the earth's great rocks,
and not to a volcanic disturbance.
A New Orleans gentleman who ought
to know, says that few persons win
large prizes in the lottery, and keep
their money long. Their brains are
turned with sudden wealth, - fools
and cash part with prOverbial CELEBRITY.
The first wheat raised in America
was sown by Spaniards on the island
of Isabella in January, 1894, and har-
vested March 30 following. Wheat
culture in Mexico began with the sow
ing of three or four grains by one OF
Cortez's slaves in 1870.
This country brewed Is $50, 800 bar
rels of beer during the year ending
| May 81, an increase of Joy HOP bar
rels over the previous year.. Only six
states showed a falling off, the greatest
percentage of increase Al was in
New Hampshire, and Kansas made
:}299 more barrels than usual.
Gen. James B. Eads, the engineer
who built the st. Louis bridge over the
Mississippi and the jetties at its
mouth, has received the Albert medal
of the society of arts. The prince oil
! Wales, as president of the society,
presented it to him, and he is the first
American awarded this distinction.
Cholera scared drunkenness out Of
Paris in really remarkable way
! There were 40 arrests for drunken.
ness ii day through June, the number
fell to l04 for July |, and on the 10Th
it was only "a the smallest number
since the present regulations about
street drunkenness have been in force
Now that the Old and New Tesla.
ments have been revised, IL number Of
the English committee are to undertake
a revision of the ApOcrypha, writing.
which used to hold II prominent posi-
ton i'll the family Bibles between the
two divisions of the Bible, and ar,
still distinguished by that companion.
ship in England.
The Mechanical World of LOndOI
says that the United States has the hes
machinery and tools in the world anC
NJ. LourdelOt, who was recently sen
over here by the French minister o
commerce, says that the superiority o
tools used here, and the attention t,
details too often neglected in Europe
are elements of danger to European
industries.
The house where Aaron Burr LIVED
i'll the days of his fame, on Read,
street, New York, is shortly to be tori
down to make way for business build
ings. 1t is IL two-story brick house
with ii shingled roof pierced by dormeI
windows. Now it is shabby and ruin
Gus, but i'll it Burr gave splendid enter
tainments, and he went from its doc
to fight the fatal duel with Hamilton.