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The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-18

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The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-18
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The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-18
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markahlc degree oil
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The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-18

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II. u. WILSON,
Passenger aud Ticket Arrnt.
No, 500 Main street, Memphis, Tenn.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-18

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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-10-18
Life of Gen. Sheridan.

The first Life of Sheridan published
since his death is from the press of j.
A. 81 r. A. Reid, Providence, r. L.
The authors of the work are Frank A.
Burr and Richard j. Hinton. This
work was projected by the publishers
long previous to the sickness and death
of the gallant general, and long before
any literary work connected with the
name of Sheridan was announced. 1t
was designed, and has been completed,
with the intention of making a fitting
popular historical memorial to a brave
American soldier. Consistent with
this plan, no expense has been spared
in illustrations, and in all the other
requisites in fine book-making. Fhe
publication of the work has been pur-
sued with the single aim of doing well
a work which was we'll worth doing.
In this they seem to have well succeed
ed. The book contains some $50 pages,
is literally illustrated and written in a
bright chatty way that makes it easy
reading. 1t is especially rich in an6c-
dOtes of this great general whose life
and acts had SO much t. do with the
great rebellion and was SO filled Will
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-10-18
They Were Delegates.
Nss0 York Sun.

Sixty men with beaming faces have
suddenly appeared in the Hotel st.
George, Brooklyn. They are different
from any other guests there or at any
other hotel. They are greatly given
to large diamonds and spherical abdo-
mems. They come tagging along to
bed at A and 6 o'clock in the morning,
and when not in bed or at meals al
ways assemble in the barrOOm. They
are delegates to the state convention
of liquor dealers. At breakfast, the
head waiter decided that they would
like coffee as soon as they sat down.
Each one was served with a cup, and
then the head waiter ordered an i'm
mense dish of breakfast rolls put on
the table, "Don't hand them around"
said he, "they will prefer to help them
selves and be left alone to talk" The
dish was put on the table and then
happened the queerest thing ever seen
at that hotel. The 60 men all rOse and
made one combined reach for the rolls.
The plate was emptied at onc The
steaks and potatoes were served in the
same way, the walters held aloof, and
the liquor men were intensely happy.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-10-18
SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS.
What a Lady Teacher Thinks Of ''Cram-
ming"


Eev York Star.
A lady, who is principal of one of the
largest and finest of our public schools
in which tile system of examinations
has been abandoned, says:
"These examinations of the school
are really examinations of me. My
pupils standing is my standing. l an
Judged by it. Sometimes when think
that all are we'll prepared some of them
may fail me. / worry and fret Ito my
self and within myself more than any
one knows. | labor and strain-some-
times it is almost agOny-to prepare
them. | heartily denounce the forcing,
examining process. 1t is wicked and
wrong and unreasonable, and very
often defeats itself. l cannot help
what have to do, and to go through
these examinations these children must
be forced and strained. l can see
plainly, and so can any intelligent per-
son, that the children suffer in health
and in mind. 1t is cruel, it is unjust,
and is very Improbable.
"Many-I say many, and L know
what L say and mean livery many
children memOrize lessons and "a re-
peat them like a parrot; they tug,
struggle, push and pass their examina-
tions simply because they are showed
or hoisted through by machine-like
methods. They can glibly repeat many
things that they study, of the sense
and practical application of which they
are utterly ignorant. Girls, of course,
are naturally more prone to spells of
exhaustion and fainting, but the fire.
quency of such instances is not an or
binary but an extraordinary feature. L
have instances in mind of girls who,
realizing hat they had but a short pc
riOd togo to school, and because of the
poverty of their parents they must soon
begin to earn their bread, with COM
mendable ambition and diligence la
bored with all their might to advance
as fast as possible labored harder
than some others who learned easier !;
labored beyond their strength until
they were stricken down from sheer
brain and body exhaustion. One of
these | had cautioned repeatedly, and
even urged her to take Il rest for a
while.
"She was neal graduation, and felt
that unless she could pass examina-
tions then she would never have an
other chance. She studied hard and
learned slowly and with difficulty, but
was persistant and determined. She
was an unusually amiable, sweet tenn
pered, quiet girl, whom everybody
loved. [ had noticed her growing
pale and thin, and knew that she vas
straining all of her mental and physi-
cal powers in the contest for success.
One day, in the class room during reci-
tation, the book slipped from her hands,
she pressed her fingers against her
temples, and exclaiming in a mOurnful
voice that l shall never forget ooh,
Miss @ my head, my head, my
head y sank down in a faint. She was
taken home and brain fever set in, and
on the very day of the closing exercises
of that term she was buried. She was
undoubtedly the victim of brain over
work. This was an extreme case, but
| assure you that / have seen many in
stances of girls injured for life from
the same cause"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-10-18
A Story of Patti.

Of course, Col. Mapleson's book
would be incomplete without some
stories of Patti, says the New York
Sun. On n occasion, at Boston, he
tells US, when he was only able to offer
the famous prima donna $500 instead
of f1000, which he had engaged to pay
her beforehand for each performance,
she was unwilling to receive the
money.
The agent declined the money and
formally announced to me that my
contract with Nine. Patti was at an
end. | accepted the inevitable, con-
selling myself with the reflection that,
beside other good artists in my compa-
ny, 1 had now 98O0 to go on with.
Two hours afterward Sig. Frauchi
reappeared.
90 cannot understand" he said, chow
it is you get on SO we'll with prima
donna, and especially with Nine. Pat
ii. You are a marvellous man, and a
fortunate one, too, l may add. Nine.
Patti does not wish to break her en-
gagement with you, as she certainly
would have done with any one else I'M
der the circumstances. Give me the
98O0, and she will make every prepa-
ration for going on to the stage. She
empowers me to tell you that she will
be at the theatre in good time for the
beginning of the opera, and that she
will be ready dressed in the costume
of Violetta, with the exception only of
the shoes. You can let her have the
balance when the doors open and the
money comes in from the outside pub
lie, and directly she receives it she will
put her shoes ON and ut the proper mo-
ment make her appearance or the
stage" l therefore handed him the
$500 l had already in hand as the re-
suit of subscriptions in advance. 81
congratulate you on your good luck"
said Sig. Franchi, as he departed with
the money in his pocket.
After the opening of the doors [ had
another visit from Sig. Franchi. By
this time an extra sum of f160 had
come in. [ handed it to my benevo-
lent friend, and begged him to carry it
without delay to the Obliging prima
donna, who, having received 996O
might, L thought, be induced to com
plete her toilet pending the arrival of
the G40 balance.
Nor was l altogether wrong in my
hopeful anticipatiOns. With a beam
ing face Sig. Franchi came back and
communicated the joyful tidings that
Nine. Patti had got one shoe on. "Send
her the f4O." he added, "and she will
put on the other"
Ultimately the other shoe was got
on j; but not of course, until the $40
had been paid. Then Nine. Patti, her
face radiant with benignant smiles,
went on to the stage, and the opera al
ready begun, was continued brilliant
ly until the end.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-10-18
The Little Chair.
Detroit Free Press.


There was an auction at one of the
down town auction houses recently.
A pale, sad faced woman, i'm a plain
calico gown, stood in a crowd. The
loud-voiced a%uctioneer finally came to
a lot OF plain and somewhat worn fur
niture. It had belonged to the pale
the mortgage on it. One by one the
articles were sold, the old bureau to
One the easy rocker to another, and a
bedstead to a third. Finally the auc-
tioneer hauled out a child's high chair.
1t was old and rickety, and as the auc-
tioneer held it up everybody laughed
everybody excepting the p~ale-faced
Woman A teal trickled down her
cheek. The auctioneer saw it, and
somehow a lump seemed to come up in
his throat aud his gruff voice grew
soft. He remembered a little high
chair at home, and how it had once fill
ed his life with sunshine. 1t vas emp
ty now. The baby laugh, the two lit
tie hands hat were nee held out to
greet ''papa" from that high-chair
were gone forever. He saw the pale
faced wOman's piteous looks, and knew
what it meant, knew that in her eye
the little rickety high-chair was more
precious than if it had been made of
gold and studded with diamonds. In
Imagination he could see the little
dimpled cherub which it once held
could see the chubby little fist grasping
the tin rattle-bOx and pounding the
chair full of hicks could see the little
which had rubbed the paint off of
the legs I; could hear the growing and
laughing in glee, and nOw-the little
was empty. He knew there
was an aching void in the pale-faced
woman's heart there was in his own.
the day may come and go,
but you never get over it. There is
one to dress in the morning, no n
to put to bed at night. "DOn't laugh !"
said the auctioneer softly, as somebody
facetiously offered ten cents, "many of
you have little empty h~igh-chairs at
home which money would not tempt
you to part with" Then he handed the
clerk a bill out of his own pocket and
"Sold to the lady over
and as the pale-faced woman
out with the little high-chair
in her arms and tears stream
ing down her cheeks, the crowd stood
back respectfully, and there was a sus-
picious moisture in the eyes of the man
who had bid ten cents.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-10-18
Ragged but Content.
st. Louis Globe Democrat.

About 9 o'clock one morning recent
ly, a unique Immigrant outfit passed
through the city, en- route East. On
the canvas which covered the wagon
was printed in large, bold letters,
kansas or bust" 1'he team consist
ed of a mule, poor and lean, about is
hands high, matched with a donkey
not over IA hands high. What little
furniture they had vas piled up in the
centre of the wagon, on which yer
seated an old woman and six or seven
girls, while the old gentleman walked
by the side of the wagon, holding the
lines, and occasionally punching the
animals with a long whip-pole which
he carried. Underneath the wagon
were six h~alf-starved ours, varying in
species from a "yaller" dog to a New
fonndland. The entire family, from
appearances, was destitute of clothing,
but in view of the fact exhibited con
tentment by singing "The Sweet By
and by" and other variations.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-10-18
The Mechanical Stump Speaker.
Worcester GGzeta.

The English are going to try a new
political device, it is said, but natural
ly it is founded on an American inven-
ton. Mr.. Gladstone is going to make
a great speech in Birmingham next
month, and an attempt will be made to
reproduce it on an Edison phonograph.
If the machine works we'll, it will be
taken around the country to repeat in
town halls and clubs Mr.. Gladstone's
speech in Mr.. Gladstone's own voice.
1t is a droll notion, but it's success is
conceivable. While the novelty lasts,
there would be no lack of listeners.
But it opens al infinite range of con-
lectures as to the use of the phOnO-
graph in practical politics. Imagine a
tariff speech piped out the night be-
fore election in every considerable
hall! Imagine hand organs, with pho
nOgraph attachments, from which
swart sons of Italy can grind out
speeches, instead of old opera airs, I'M
der the front window of residences, re-
gardless of the politics of the inmates
We are hereby reminded that the pho
nOgraph is a very long time getting up
on the American market.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-10-18
Magazines.

A new candidate for favor in the
magazine reading world is "The Home
Maker" edited by Marion Harland.
There is something in this magazine
for every person in the household from
the baby up to the grandmother. Home
work, health, fashions, literature, etc,
all come in for consideration. The
magazine is handsomely printed and
illustrated and the contributors to the
first number include the ame of many
who are we'll known in the literary
world. 1t can be procured of local
dealers for 20 cents.
"Tbe Grammar School," published
by the Inter state publishing com
paBy of Boston, is a monthly magazine
of instructive reading for young peo-
pie. 1t not only aims to furnish enter
tainInent for younger readers but In
formation and instruction rs well and
will be found specially helpful as a
companion to the younger students In
their every day school life. Subscrip-
ton terms are very low.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-10-18

Baron Carl Won Gotta, head of the
great German publishing firm which
issued Goethe's and Schiller's works,
has just died. The house was founded
as early as 1910.
A Jersey 20 down in Georgia was
SO incOnsOlable for her calf which died
when six weeks old that she would
neither eat nor allow herself to be
MIXED. The calf's hide was put
where she could see and smell it, and
the trouble was ended.
1t is estimated that the 500, 900 peO-
pie of London who use the railways in
going to and from their business save
five days of time a year each. Allow
ing that their average earnings are
eI00 per year each, in the sense that
time is money, the total money saving
for the year amounts to 9S30, DOC.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-10-18
A Secret.

I'll tell you something. - says little Belle,
/ of course / won't - cries tiny Sue,
'Criss-eross, HOpe-tO-die, Black-and blue"
"well, then" whispers the little maid.
My papa a great. big man, 3 afraid"
10, isn't that funny enough r. laughs Sue,
papa . afraid, and mine is, too"
mot of bears or tigers or bumble-beesi
It's something q thousand times worse than thes'
Its a terrible thing, that goes up and down
Through every city, village and town,
And my papa says he almost knows
That things will be ruined wherever it goes.
Yes, isn't it dreadful T. says Belle, with a sigh,
1T will swear and. papa says, steal and lie.
1 'spect it has horns and cloven feet
And, SueI what do you s'pOse it win cat J"
Then closer together drew each little maid,
Looking about as if half afraid
They might see this thing with cloven feet,
And find it liked little girls to eat.
And even they fancied they heard it roar,
As it gobbled them up and cried for more.
20. it's name" cries Belle, lis SO dreadful, too;
Does your papa call it Republican Sue 2"
Sue shakes her head. 20, it can't be that,
For my papa calls it a Democrat"
Lizzie NJ. Hadley in Boston Journal.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-10-18
A Rash Prediction Fulfilled.
Septenaber Gcr1hners.


When the roads forming the line be-
tween Philadelphia and Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania, were chartered in 1885
and town meetings were held to dis
uss their practicability the Honorable
Simon Cameron, while making a speech
in advocacy of the measure, was so far
carried away by his enthusiasm as to
make the rash prediction that there
were persons within the sound of his
voice who would live to see a passen-
ger take his breakfast in Harrisburg
and his supper in Philadelphia on the
same day. A friend of his on the plat
form said to him after he had finished,
"That's all very well, Simon, to tell
to the boys, but you and l are no such
Internal fools as to believe it," They
have both lived to travel the distance
in a little over two hours.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-10-18
Steam Cooking.
Good

The steamer is a kitchen utensil that
is not used enough, for many kinds of
food are better steamed Than boiled
and the operation is better done in this
way. 1t is better to steam fish than to
boil it, and oysters are delicious when
cooked in this way. They are drained,
laid on a plate and steamed for about
ten minutes, until they look white and
plump. The liquor is used for a dress
ing, after beating and mixing with an
equal quantity of cream, the liquor be-
ing thickened with Il little cOrn-starch.
If plum-cake is steamed for three
hours and then baked for an hour it is
better than when baked in the Ordi-
nary way. Stale bread and biscuit
can be rendered as fresh as when new
10y steaming five or six minutes. Do
not let the condensed steam drop on
the bread when the Owe is removed.
Butter the bread as it is removed and
pile lightly on a hot dish. Tough
fowls are made as tender as chickens
by steaming as long as two hours or SO
if they are veterans +; fill with "a stuff
ing of read-crumbs, ETC., before put
ting in the steamer. A useful size of
steame is one about twelve inches
high and fitting over an ordinary pot.
Steamers may be got small enough to
fit a tea kettle, or big enough for sew
eral compartments. Things that are
steamed can not burn, and once owe a
pot of boiling water, the hurried house.
keeper may dismiss them from her
mind, only taking care that the fire
does not get SO low as to let the water
cease boiling. This must not be done
for an instant.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-10-18
No One indispensable.
St. Louis Globe Democrat.

There was once a dry goods clerk in
this city whose exalted opinion of him
self led him to frequently remark to
his associates that the concern could
not possibly get along without him.
This came to the ears of the senior
partner, and the old gentleman called
the clerk into the private office and
said: "Mr. Jenkins, you have been
very efficient and We appreciate your
services, but | hear that you nave re-
peatedly asserted that if you were to
die the concern couldn't possibly sur
vive it, and this has worried both my
self and partner very much, for you,
like all men, are liable to die very I'M
expectedly. We have, therefore, con-
cluded to experiment while we are in
health and see if the concern will sur
vive your absence. You will, there
fore, consider yourself dead for one
year, aud we will make an effort to SO
consider you for that length of time"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-10-18
Superstitions in Hungary.

Curious survivals of medi8valism
+ continually being met with in the
Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Bur-
gomaster of Zuraki in Galicia, has just
instituted a prosecution before the
criminal court of SolOtwina against a
man for having, "by his malicious sor-
ceries and lamentations, caused a hail
storm to devastate the fields of Zuraki
on July g." The damages o~ccasioned
by his uncanny power over the ele-
ments are laid at 5000 forins.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-10-18
Farm for Sale.

Onefourth mile outside the village limits of st.
Johnsbury, at the head of Pleasant St, within the
village school district, containing one hundred and
very productive for wheat, oats, and all crops
grown in northern Vermont. A thrifty wood lot
of fifteen acres. Well watered, with good water
at house and barns. Buildings pleasantly situat-
ed, and in all respects a desirable place for a resi-
dence and for profitable farming: A portion OF
the purchase money can remain if desired.
RICHARD W.
June 20. 1887. Aft
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-10-18
How to Choose an Orange.

The very sweetest orange and rich
est is the black or rusty located fruit.
Pick out the dingiest orange in the
box and you will get the best. Anoth-
er way to choose oranges is by weight.
The heaviest are the best because they
have more weight of juice. Thick
skin oranges are apt to be dry ; they
either weigh less because of having so
much skin or because of the poverty of
the juice in these particular specimens.
A slight freezing on the tree causes this
condition of things in otherwise fine
fruit. The "kid glove" oranges are
two varieties of small fruit grown in
Florida from stocks brought respec-
lively from China and Tangiers.
They are called "Mandarin" and "Tan-
garine." They may be eaten without
soiling a kid glove, because the skin is
loose, and the little ''gores" or pockets
of juice come apart very clearly and
without breaking. All the above ap-
plies to Florida oranges. The Jamaica
and Havana oranges are much paler
yellow, and their juice is usually of
a more acid quality.-[The Caterer.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-10-18

On the front of a building in Oak
land, CAL, mostly occupied by an IN
dertaker, is another mans sign, which
reads, "Spirits Rectified."
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-10-18
Time for that Man to Sign the Pledge
Baltimore American.

baltimore American.
A man in Connecticut says he saw
Al snakes come out of a big water
snake.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-12-27
BRIEF TELEGRAMs.

CNcrNNArr. ONO, December ga.
Johnston suicided at his home IN Avon
dale about . Z this morning 10y snoo'-
ing himself through the head with .
revolver. He was one OF the most
prominent politicians in Southern ONO,
DepressiOn on occount Of the dea'h Oh
his wife, is supposed to have been the
cause
CLARION, PA, December 21-hon.
James T. Moifet. member of the present
Congress from The ,Twenty-eighih as
trici, has been admitted to the asylum AT
North Warren, as private patient ihe
difficulty seems to be excessive nervous
ness. which was brought on oy the sruu'
Gus labors of the recent campaign:
OMAHA, NEB., December pa bee spe'
cial from Loup, Neb., says The sherman
County Bank made an assignment TINS
morning. and is now in charge OF the
sheriff W. VI. A. Thies has been absent
from the city for some time, but L: T.
Whaley the president of the institution
is on the ground.
EscANABA. Mich, December 26.--Dr
Mulliken, an old physician OF this place
heretofore hearing gilt-edged reputa'
lion. was arrested to-day charged with
running forty young girls. Tie was
released on bail and has jumped the town
The town is terribly excited and threatens
to tear Mulliken limb from limb IL he Is
recaptured