St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-01-31
NOTE AND COMMENT.

L . DdIuuIl Is going ~ SStdollSll
museums in Boston, Chicago, New
York and Philadelphia. When the
museum at Boston is open it will be
entirely proper to ''see the elephant
while enjoying an outinga at the Hub.
Forepaugh promptly sent on his
check for $4,000 to bail out Harry
Taylor, his employee who killed an
old man at Springfield last June
while the circus was showing there.
The killing was unprovoked and
cowardly.
The state board of health have is
sued the first number of their new
publication entitled 1.-The Sanitary
Visitor" The pamphlet contains
little original matter but many valu-
able health hints together with the
text of the health bill which passed
both branches of the Legislature and
was vetoed by Gov. Dillingham;.
The old and reliable 45tna insur-
ance company's ad. appears in an
other column. This company shows
a steady gain from year to year in
membership, surplus, income, assets,
new business, and gain in insurance
for 'SS of over five and a half mil
lions of dollars.
A petition presented in the Senate
by Senator Morrill, from Vermont
farmers urges Congress to increase
the duties on various farm products.
The farmers of the United States, the
petition saws, are undersOld in many
of our cities and towns by the pro-
ducts of ill-paid or unpaid foreign
labor.
Vick's annual floral guide improves
each year and this season it has come
out changed in every respect, en-
larged and filled with new cuts. 1t
contains three elegant Autographs be-
sides a fine plate of the late James
Wick and his three sons who now
manage the business. Fifteen cents
forwarded to Rochester, N. Y, will
bring the guide on return mail.
All who want a first class daily
with the latest Vermont news there
in should take the Burlington Free
Press whose prospectus appears in
another column. Every department
of this provincial daily is well edited,
while the Kaleidoscope man has
national reputation as a humorist
and his side-splitting jokes are copied
into papers all over the United States.
P. F. McClure's article on Dakota
in the February Harper's comes at
time when every one is seeking infor-
nation about the coming states.
The territory makes a fine education
al showing, having 1905 public
schools. They are supported by
direct tax upon the people, amount
ing, in a recent year, to 81 ,633, SCI
a sum which Mr. Mcclure says, is
larger than that devoted to the
same purpose by any one of twenty
four states.
Claus Spreckels, the sugar king,
who is fighting the sugar trust, is, it
is needless to say, much pleased with
the decision of Judge Barrett, against
the trust, in New York Spreckles is
putting half million dollars worth
of machinery into his new Philadel-
phia refinery, and says that after
June l the establishment will turn
out 100000 pounds of beet sugar
daily There is no necessity of i'm
porting sugar cane when we have
beets enough in this country to sup
ply the whole world with sugar. he
said
The state fish commissioners de-
clare in their report that the English
sparrow must go and recommend
that the Legislature pass a law for
their destruction. They say they
have seen dense f1Ocks of these birds
destroying grain; also that they
drive away the song and insect-eat-
ing birds and thus are probably re-
sponsible for the plague of apple-tree
worms. In our opinion if the Eng
lish sparrow does not go the other
birds within fact numerous instances
could be cited where the sparrow has
driven other birds away