St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-05-21
Notes and Gleanings.

One ostrich's egg is equal in weight
to % hens eggs.
| Ten states have passed laws to pro-
vide for teaching in the public schools
the effects of alcohol. Two of these
have democratic legislatures.
The wife of an habitual drunkard in
! Buffalo, n. Y, has recovered $1,000
| from liquor sellers whom she warned
not to furnish her husband with liquor.
| 1t is possible, then, to enforce the Civ
il Damage act.
A small brass calendar that Presi-
dent Garfield used to turn every morn
ing, and that now bears the date
Saturday, July 3, 1884," never hav-
ing been changed since that fatal
morning, is priced memento in the
home of ex-President Hayes.
Oatmeal, long considered good ar
ticle of diet in dyspepsia, is believed
by many physicians to be a prolific
cause of that affection. DR.. Bartho-
low says that Carlyle suffered greatly
from dyspeptic symptoms, which were
invariably aggravated after eating
oatmeal.
The annual meeting of the American
tract society vase held at New York
Wednesday. The number of volumes
published during the year was $4,000;
of tracts, card packages and wall-rOlls,
etc, {, 1863, 200. Donations and lega-
cies received, S97, 900. From other
sources enough was received to swell
the amount to 1857 900. The expendi
lures were 1852 900.
The jury in the case against Prof
Hjalmer Hjorth Boyesen, who was
charged with having slapped little
David w. Tovey, at Northampton,
l.. L., in 1888, and thereby caused the
boys deafness, brought in a verdict
for S4OO against the professor.
Florida has a growing popularity as
a winter resort. Two years ago, be-
tween the months of October and
March, $4,000 visitors spent IA week or
more in the State, most of them re-
manning the entire winter. Last year
their number increased to Al 900; and
for the season just closed, their num-
her has not been less than $4,000.
The law of Kansas sentences a muir
derer to death, but the sentence does
not take effect unless, at the eXpira-
ton of one year, the Governor signs
the death warrant, when, if that is not
done, the prisoner is confined under a
life sentence. No Governor has ever
been elected who would sign death
warrant, and for this reason there are
now about thirty death sentenced
prisoners in the penitentiary.
Take IA slip of paper and place there
Oh i'll figures your age in years, drop
ping months, weeks and days. Multiply
the sum by two; then add co the re-
suit obtained the figures 3,768; add
two, and then divide by two; subtract
from the result obtained the number of
your years on earth and see if you will
not obtain figures you will not be like
ly to forget.
The new postal law increasing the
unit of weight upon all letters from
half an ounce to an ounce, that goes
into effect July |, will be attended by
at least one curious result. The post
age rate in Canada is three cents per
half ounce. Canada postage on an
ounce letter will be six cents, while
American postage will be two cents.
1t is understood, therefore, that Cana
dian merchants and others who send
large quantities of letters and pack
ages by post will arrange to mail these
articles this side the line, thus getting
the benefit of cheaper rates.
The decision of the United States
supreme court affirming the constitu-
tionality of the Edmunds law, which |
keeps MormOns out of the jury box by |
a belief in the rightfulness of
pOlygamy a ground for the peremptO-
ry challenge of jurors, is proving to be |
the worst blow yet for Mormonism.
Several prominent pOlygamists, who |
have been convicted by homogeneous
iuries will, under the terms of this de-
cisiOn, serve term in the peniten-
tiary, while the Federal authorities
feel their hands greatly strengthened
by it and fearless grand juries are in
dieting eminent MOrmOns and fearless
petit juries are trying and convicting
them. Among those recently arrested |
are a bishop and the nephew of 10
Smith, the founder Of the so-called
church.
The war of the rebellion, so far as
actual hostilities are concerned. was
over by the first of June, 1865, but
President JOhnsOn's proclamation de-
elaring the insurrectiOn at an end was
not issued until August 20, 1866. Sec
rotary Lincoln, referring to the same
subject at the last session of Congress
reminded the Senate committee on
affairs that "the Supreme