St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-01-08

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Sitting Bull yields to the influences
of civilization and uses napkin as
regularly as anybody. He spreads the
1 linen in his chair carefully and sits on
it,
Work on the Bartholdi statue ped
estal stops every morning at seven
o'clock for want of funds. 1t promi ses
to be want Of the long felt variety.
New Orleans newspapers abnse Julia
| Ward Howe ronndly because she gave
no women in that city a chance to help
in running the women's department.
Crow Indians in Montana will here
after bury their dead instead of expos
| ing the bodies on raised platforms to
destruction in the open air. Mission
aries brought about the change.
Mary Hammond, an expert Boston
shopping bag thief, is under arrest.
When she was caught she had 10 hand
bags, several pocket-bOOks, rings and
table-c cloths concealed about her per-
son.
A Chicago man gets living shoot
ing snow birds right in the heart of
the city. He uses an air-gun, sells the
birds for 60 cents II dozen, and they are
served in restaurants on toast to cpl
cures and invalids.
The stone tower of the Philadelphia
city hall will be $40 feet high, the iron
work is to run 1875 feet higher, and a
statue of William Penn will have its
head 5:}5 feet above the pavement
The work is to be finished in 1886.
Large fortunes are rare in Switzer-
land. Public salaries are small, the
president of the COME Iteration gets
only $4,000 a year and few judges over
$3.50. a man with $500 year is
reckOned very well oft, and one with
$1,000 is rich.
Rates of living in Washington are
higher than ever before. A senator
who has to live on his salary found
that sitting room and two bedrooms
on the fifth floor of a hotel for himself,
wife and daughter would cost 1910 a
week.
Some Denver men have raised
enough money to get the Crow Indians
to sign paper authorizing Il lease of
3, 000, 900 acres of their immense reser-
walton in Montana ut cent an acre.
The citizens of Montana have sent to
the Senate IL petition 81 feet long urg-
ing it to use it's influence with the sec
retafN of the interior not to allow the
lease
Rev. Larne, who went to the Welsh
mountain region of Pennsylvania to
convert the BuZzard tribe of thieves, re-
ports that many people in the region
never saw minister until he went "a
mong them. And this within 100
miles of very good Philadelphia.
The Young Mems Christian associa-
tiOns of this country have enjoyed
great prosperity the past year. Eighty
societies own buildings valued at So
100000. The total number of assOcia
tiOns in the United States is $50 and
the membership numbers nearly no.,
600.
Victor Hugo went to see the COM
pleted statue of Liberty enlightening
the world, by NJ. Bartholdi, and smil
ed with qualification, when a bystand-
er, seeing the poet and the statue fac
ing each other, exclaimed "Behold
Two giants are regarding each other ~
The United States senator will be
called from his ramblings about the
capitol by an electric bell which has
been put mp in the chamber. One tap
announces the call of yeas and nays,
two Il call of the Senate, three the go
ing into executive session, and four
adjournment.
One of the simpletons who bother
the attendants in public libraries is
said to have actually made the follow
ing request in the public library of one
of our cities II don't recOlleCt the
title of the book | want, but there was
Il remarkable passage i'm the last part
which should remember if | saw it,"
King Leopold of Belgium gives $4O,-
600 year to African missions from his
private purse. He explains his liber-
ality to Il missionary by saying: "You
know that God took away from me my
son, my only son, and then he laid
Africa upon my heart. | am not
spending the revenue of Belgium on it,
but my own private resources, and !
have made arrangements that when |
die this civilizing and evangelizing
work i'll Africa shall go on"
The shifting oil field makes deserted
towns as well as live ones. Pithole,
Pa, had 10000 inhabitants IL years
ago, with railroad, two daily newspa-
perS and all things to match, but a
man who Went through the place the
other day says that all that now APP
pears sis "a log cabin, the dismantled
wing of an old hotel, some decaying
timbcrs and II little clearing in the for
est so saturated with oil and salt water
that nothing will grow upon it. A poor
demented old man is new the only in
Iabitant."
A man in West Newton, n. Y, earns
his bread and butter by supplying the
townspeOple with hot water. He has
fitted up an immense iron tank and
into it has run all the steam escapes in
the vicinity. The steam condenses
and makes the softest and purest water
in the world. He has also fitted up IA
tank wagon in which to deliver his
stock. In the morning he supplies hot
water for breakfast, at noon he makes
IL second trip, and at supper time Il
third, and sometimes one in the even
ing, while ON wash days many house
holds obtain all their water from him.
The novel idea has taken we'll and the
business is increasing.