St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-01-14
NOTE AND COMMENT.


Only S82 bills were introduced in
congress on the first day of it's reas-
sembling. 1t is the old story, the leg
islators make up in quantity what they
lack i'll quality.
DR.. Hammond says that in thousand
years all white men will be bald. Bald
headed men console themselves with
the thought that they are just thou
sand years ahead of the times.
There's no getting ahead of these ice
men. Last year they threatened an
ice famine because the early winter
was too warm. Now they are threat
ening famine because it is too cold.
Jonas of Louisiana has been con-
firmed as collector of customs at New
Orleans. This case is said to be
parallel with B. b. Smalley's, whereat
the latter's friends conclude that he
will be confirmed without trouble.
The new New Orleans exhibition
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ure than the one of last year was. One
of the reasons for it is that the South
ern railroads refuse to convey passen-
gers at reduced fares.
Speaking of the benefit of retaining
Greek in college curriculum, James
Russell Lowell says that those who fa-
vor it are cold enough to have forgot
ten their Greek and too old to find any
necessity for beginning to study"
The RichfOrd Gazette charges that
Ex-Gov. Smith of Vermont and Ex-
Senator Blaine of Maine are joint own
ers of majority of the stock in the
Boston Journal company. If this is
true it accounts for good deal of the
milk in that cOcOanut.
The Vermont Standard at Wood
stock came out in new type with the
new year, and is greatly improved in
appearance. The Standard never low
ers itself to vicious or sensational jour
nalism, and we hope Mr.. Green will
print it for many years to come.
Maloney's last paper, the Richford
Gazette, says the case of the state
against M. j. Maloney for alleged libel,
ordered to special term at Burlington
Jan. 5, was not heard, the judges say
ing that the respondent "might return
home and remain until notified that he
was wanted"
Senator Frye hit the silver nail
right on the head when he said, "when
great republic like this takes rs cents
and stamps it as 100 cents it is coin
ed lie and not dollar. If it is not a
coined lie, then it is almighty poor
financiering, because it would be just
exactly as easy to take % cents and
stamp it as a dollar"
In the distribution of committees i'm
congress, Stewart takes POland's place,
18th on the judiciary committee, and
GrOut is on the committee on Missis-
sippi improvements and on the District
of Columbia. The bright Boston Rec
ord says: "Mr. GrOut of Vermont is
put at the foot of the house committee
on Mississippi improvements. That
committee has always been grouty
before the session was over"
There is lots of sense in the remark
of the Philadelphia Record that adver-
tisers who understand their business,
advertise more heavily in the season of
dull trade than in the season of lively
trade. 1t is the slow horse that needs
the lash, not the fast one. The steady
goers are the successful advertisers.
They build up great business by keep
ing themselves before the public sum-
mer and winter, and whether it rains
or shines, or is feast day or a fast
day.
"The worst nuisances | have to deal
with" says a young woman who is
working a farm in Dakota, "are the
men, young and old, who come ont to
see me. They are about the toughest
lot l ever heard of. | have had to
drive some of them off the place as
they seemed determined to stay.
suppose that it is SO every where, but it
seems strange that a woman can't go
ahead and accomplish something for
herself, without being worried to death
by all the old bummers, cranks, wi
bowers, and dudes within a 1000 miles"
EEAREIII IUEATIIER