St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-12-18
BREVITTES.

The great Pulitzer building, the
monumental new home of the New
York World, was opened last Thurs
day, amid big display of fireworks
and in the presence of large number
of official and other guests
Lionel, the little son of Mrs. Fran
els Hodgson Burnett, who died of
consumption last week in Paris, was
not the original of Little Lord
Fauntleroy," as has been said by
some papers. That was Mrs. Bur
nett's other son, Vivian. The disease
which caused Lionel's death was the
result of the grip.
In Buffalo the regular boarders of
the hotel, where Mrs. Henry M. Stan
ley and her mother stayed, quietly
fitted up their apartments before
their arrival with the costliest and
most beautiful articles of furniture
from their own rooms. For three
days Dorothy and her mother are
said to have simply marveled at the
oriental magnificence of American
hotel life
The first of the commissions result
congress, that to consider the pro-
posed International railway, opened
in Washington Dec f. 1t is said that
there will probably be no great engi-
neering difficulties to surmount.
The trouble will come in reconciling
the interests of the countries to the
west of the Andes and those on the
east.
The nihilist trials now in progress
at St. Petersburg before a section of
the senate will last until the end of
the year The prisoners are many
and are tried in patches. The princi
pal figure in the group now on trial
is the sister of q high official in the
ecclesiastic administration, who re-
sided i'll a house belonging to the
synod, in which the police found both
dynamite and revolutionary docu
ments.
The expenditures for pensions for
the year ending June 80, as now of
ficially stated amounted to $1O9,-
257, 534. In the previous year we
paid $S7, 644, 1911, while in the
year before that we paid $50, 2SS,
5OS.77. The cost of the German
army, it may be interesting to note,
is for this year estimated a t SOL, 1885,
293. Besides our pensions our army
costs $50, 100000.
At meeting of the Boston Homeo-
pathic Medical society last week, Dr.
Conrad Wesselhoept presented a pa
per i'll which, though he advocated
the death penalty, he deprecated its
present methods of infection. Hang
ing and garroting he considered
equally horrible. Electricity has not,
as yet, shown any better results
Execution should be done privately,
with an air of mvstery-no publicity,
no visible paraphernaIia. The agent
which would do this is chloroform.
1t is swift, sure, painless and silent.
Mrs. Henry Nj. Stanley is so very
tall and Mr.. Stanley is SO very short,
says the New York Sun, that when
they are out together and are seen
from a distance he looks like little
boy out with his mother. The New
York ladies who have seen Mrs. Stan
ley all agree that she does not make
any effort to appear less tall than
soc is. Her straight, clinging skirts,
long waists, hair pulled high on top,
tall hat on top of that, and feathers
surrounding all add at least nine
inches of unnecessary length to her
figure. Mrs. Stanley has been spok-
en- of as beauty, but it is the keen
intelligence that shines III her great
eyes which wins her the greatest adj
mIratIOn