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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-11-06
FOR THE Fun OF 1T.

Gen. Malone is reported to have
abandoned politics.-[New York
Press. That is the sort of politics he
always had ChicagO Mail.
Uncle Jacobs, aren't you ashamed
to be seen here so often ~ Laws,
v Honah, dis place am respectable
ter some places where | am seem
Racket.
why did you yell Hay at the
horsecar :" I'm the hope that the
horses would hear me and stop. The
driver wouldn't pay any attention
to me- - Harper's Bazaar
Husband (gloomily II lost SOC
last night playing poker" Wife
And yet you can't afford to buy me
a bonnet ~ Husband-"Well,
should say not Racket.
In the Restaurant Waiter, these
eggs are old and very unpleasant
Call the landlord But | assure
you, sir, you will find him very much
more unpleasant. Il Fliegende Blat-
ter.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-11-06
TENDENCIES OF ARISTOCRACY.

Why is it that some boys belong
ing to the incest sort of people will
persist, in spite of the choicest infiu-
ences and the most persistent efforts
to guard them from the vulgar, in
acting precisely as if they did not be
long to nice people at all? There
are such, and they are a dreadful
trial to their parents. An actual
case in point is that of young Arthur
Swellby, fifteen years old, of Beverly
and the Back Bay, who was com
pletely missing all the other after
noon, after school, and turned up at
about seven o'clock in a very dingy
and disreputable condition.
"Where have you been, Arthur ~
Cambridge" said the boy.
Did you walk ,"
Walk Hum Guess not. | rode
over on a swill cart, and came back
on a hearse!"- Boston Post.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-11-06
TRANs-AFRICAN IRA VEL.

The Dark Continent, according to
a French writer, has been crossed
from coast to coast just sixteen
times Here, according to this
writer, is a complete chronological
list Of the crossings:
1SO2-11-from Angola to Tete, on
the lowerZambesi, by the Portuguese,
HonOrate da Casta.
1S3S-4S-from Mozambique to
Benguela, by the Portuguese, F. ].
COimbra-
53-56-from Benguela to the
mouth of the Rovuma, by the Portu-
guese, Sylvia Porto
1S54-56--from San Paulo de
Loando to Quillimane, by Living
stone.
1865-66-from Tripolis to the
Gulf of Guinea, by the German, @.
Rohlfs.
1873-75-from Bagamoyo to the
Benguela, by Lieutenant Cameron.
1S7477-from Bagamoyo to the
mouth of the Congo, by Henry NJ.
Stanley
1877-7e-from Benguela to Port
Natal by the Portuguese, Serpa
1SSO-S2-from Suakin to the
mouth of the Niger, by two Italians,
Matteuci and Massari.
1882 S4-from San Paulo de Loan
do to Saadani, by the German, Major
WiSSman.
1882 S4-from Port Natal to Ben
guela, by the Scotch missionary.
ArnOt
S4S5-from Mossamedes to
Quillmane, by two Portuguese,
Campello and Ivans.
1SS5-S6-from the Stanley Falls
to Bagayomo, by the Swede, Lieu
tenant Gleruff.
1SS5-87-from the mouth of the
Congo to Quillimane, by the Aus
TRAN, Oscar LEM.
1SS7-S9-from Angola to Mo
zambique, by the Frenchman. Cap
tain Trevier
1SS7-9O-from the mouth of the
Congo to Bagamoyo, by Stanley
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-11-06
Special Notices.

An honest Swede tells his story in plain but
unmistakable language for the benefit of the
public. lone of my children took a severe
cold and got the Group. 1 gave her tea
spoonful of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy,
and in five minutes later gave her one more.
BY this time she had to cough up the gather
ing in her throat. Then she went to sleep
and slept good for fifteen minutes Then she
got up and vomited; then she went back to
bed again and slept good for the remainder
of the night. She got the Group the second
night and l gave the same remedy with the
same good results. l write this because 1
thought there might be some one i'll the same
need and not know the true merits of this
wonderful medicine CHARLES y. THoMP-
SEEN, Des Moines, Iowa. so cent bottles for
sale by Flint Bros.
Many old soldiers, who contracted chronic
diarrhora while in the service, have since been
permanently cured of it by Chamberlain 5
Colo Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. For
sale by Flint Bros.
For lame back there is nothing better than
to saturate flannel cloth With Chamber
1ain's Pain Balm and bind it the affected
parts. Try it and you Will be surprised at
the prompt relief it affords. The same treat
ment will rheumatism. For sale by
Flint Bros
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-11-06
THE MAPLE sUGAR BOUNTY.

The new law is that our maple
sugar must be 80 to 90 degree test.
What will our dry maple sugar be,
and also what will good grained
tub sugar test? Do you think our
farmers will or can make it so as to
get one cent of bounty!
The above question was addressed
by Caledonia county man to the
state experiment sta ton, and director
Cooke answered it as follows:
Maple sugar as made III this state
will most of it run over 80 per cent
and very little of it will run 90 per
cent. The law is that sugar which
runs over 90 per cent shall have q
bounty of two cents per pound, and
that which runs over 80 and less
than 90, a bounty of one and three
fourths cents q FOUND. Sugar that
is we'll made, boiled down until it is
hard enough to make small cakes
will run 90 per cent. Sugar that IS
boiled until it is nearly grained and
then poured into tin pals in the
ordinary Vermont custom makes q
sugar which does not all of it be
come grained. On tipping the can
over on to its side, more or less
molasses will run out. Such sugar
will scarcely run so per cent, most of
it will run between rs and so. If,
however, this sugar is allowed to
drain for two or three weeks, that
which is left III the can will run 80
degrees. The last run of sap which
makes the dark, black sugar will run
rs per cent or less. 1t will be seen
then that it Is possible to make q
sugar which will run 90 degrees and
get a two cent bounty, but in prac
tice, it will probably net the farmer
more money to make sugar that will
run about 80 degrees and get the one
and three-fOurthsc cent bounty. There
ought to be but little sugar made in
the state that will run less than 80
degrees All of the figures are given
for sugar that IS well made. ANY
impurity will of course reduce the
per cent of sugar, and especially any
heating which will discolor the sugar
as, forinstance, when sugar partially
burns on the bottom of the can, will
lower the per cent of sugar very
rapidly. ANY person who gives the
business enough care to make good
quality of sugar can easily get the
one and three-fourths cent bounty.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-11-06
$1,000
Given Away at E. N. RANDALL'S

During the month October propose give away part
profits certain goods Now time the
best trades offered you.
UNDERW EAR25 doz. ladies Merno and pants, silk stitch
ed pearl buttons &c., regular price &c. few dozen ladies Merno
vests and pants &c., regular price 5 % dozen white jersey vests
&c., regular price 81 IL &c. 20 dozen all WOOL good quality
scarlet pants &c., regular price ST. 20 dozen all WOOL fine
quality scarlet vests and ST. regular price $2 10 do heavy
quality scarlet vests and $685. regular price Sl62 L.
CHLDRENS UNDERWEAR--A great variety the lowest pr
30 pair ST Corsets to close &c. TOWESJust received
special lot special prices they big drives TO- IL IL and
special nduoement for this month sell all dress
goods 10 cent discount Do you know what that means? It
that 25o goods % l2 50 goods you 45c Is
not that worth saving?
HOERY25 dozen ladies wool hose 7c regular price 25c We
have good assortment at the lowest prices for both ladies and chill
want to money remember the place.
IL. N. RANDALL'S, II r. r. STREET.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-11-06
Old Doctor Drun,n.Oud

After many years of patient study and ext peri
mcnt has given to the world a preparation
which is an absolute and permanent cure for
every kind of Rheumat ism. Ask your drug
gist for it The price is So, but it is a large
bottle and will cure you, the money will
be returned If you are offered something
else, write direct and we will send you a bottle
by Express prepaid. Dr1mmOnd Medicine
90 $3.50 Maiden Lane. New York.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-11-06
LAMPS.

A large stock of lamps of all kinds from Is
cents up to SO. Fine decorated parlor
lamps for $3.50, nickle student lamps $3.50,
new hanging lamps complete So 90, fine with
spring $3.50, extra fine library lamps with
prisms, spring extension and decorated
shades, new styles 81 to $5-g1eat bargains;
lightning lamps for stores that give a big
light, 60 candle power, from 50 up, hand
lamps CSC, large 35c-, stand lamps SOC,
large lamps with shade 75c. and 81. You
can save money here on lamps.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-11-06
It is better to Give
than to Receive

It has afforded great satisfaction receiving the decided bar
which thorough search the market has revealed and hope
take greater pleasure giving patrons of the greatest
bargains good seasonab articles which be found the United
States Every first class style and quality every great
discount from their market value.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-11-06
Yarns, FlannelS,
Bed Blankets, and
Cotton FIanneIS,

At surprisingly low prices Fruit of the loom cotton &c., fair
bleached cotton &c. New carpets rugs window shades Ho
land shades 25c Silk umbrellas elegant ne everything Prices
cannot be beat Good buying is the Open till Tues
days, Thursdays and Saturdays
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-11-06
GUNS, REVOLVERS,
RIFLES!

The Boston Variety Store is the cheapest
place to buy guns, pistols, revolvers, cart
ridges, and all such goods. Some great bar
gains in rifles and revolverS.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-11-06
GLOVES.

Everything and all kinds of gents gloves
up to 81 .5O. A few oil tan gloves worth 81
for soc. pair, nice driving soc, fine gloves
75c. and 81 A lot of gloves to close at half
regular prices. Valises, bags, grips, clubs,
canvas cases and all styles of hand bags, ali
prices from soc. up. A good large valise for
81. All kinds of ladies hand bags CSC. and
up, baskets of all kinds, office, scrap, work
stands and baskets, large lunch baskets of
all kinds Everything in artist materials,
etc. Bird cages from SOC up, all kinds large
cages 75c. to 81, pictures, frames, chromos,
oil paintings. Frames made to order cheap.
Boxing gloves, type writer's, bicycles, safe
ties, baby carriages, wagons, rocking horses
toys, games and everything in fancy gods,
watches, clocks jewelry, silverware, pocket
books. purses, plush goods, albums, scrap
books, everything in dolls, every kind of n
rubber stamp made to order.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-11-06
Here They Are.

All wool, roadoloth fanne AZ in wide, per yard, s4S
All wool, double fold tricot Fannes, %
Half wool, dark mixed Fannes SO in. wide, 10
Fine assortment plain Henrietta good cOlor 38 in wd 10
Black Henrietta, all wool, 46 in. wide only $50
All wool Henriettas and Sges, all coors SO in wide, so
Farmers Flannel lizard pan" %
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-11-06

SPOOL thread &c., dress braid &c., best lining Cambrcs &c. yd
So dozen ladies 75 and pants &c., SO do ladies M and
&c., 40 dozen genemens &c. underts and drawers &C.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-11-06
Musical Instruments,

Violins, Banjos, Guitars. Accordians, Con
certeinas, Banjeaurines, Flutes, Flies, Drums,
Tamborines. Ocareinas, Autoharps, Music
Boxes, Comets, Clarinets, and all musical in
struments. Also the very best violin, banjo
and guitar strings. Cases and all trimmings
violin bows all prices, CSC. to $3.50, fine
bows 81 so, strings 1Oc., good strings 15c.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-11-06
Watch the next

weeks ad. of the Peo-
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-03-19
The Canteen System.

A recent announcement to the effect
that the "canteen system" was to be
introduced in the military post at Fort
Smelling awakened no little curiosity,
not only among the younger generation
of civilians, but among Grand Army
men, veterans of the war of the rebell-
ion. The canteen system, as under
stood by the latter, consisted during
the eventful years intervening between
1861 and 1865 in smuggling peach and
honey and commissary whisky into
camp. This is, in reality, about all the
canteen system of which the old boys
in blue were cognizant. But the can
teen system which it is now proposed
to Introduce into ~the-Americou- Army
is altogether different one. 1t is an
adaptation of a custom now general in
European armies, particularly so among
English troops. There is to be ''wet"
and dry" canteen. The wet canteen
consists simply of a post club room fit
ted up with IA library, games and re-
freshment annex, where. for an exceed
ingly small sum, the private soldier can
procure coffee, tea, cocoa, or chocolate;
eggs, soup, or Il square meal. The dry
canteen will dispense articles of wear
ing apparel, notions for the toilet and
all the stocks usually found at the post
traders or the suffers. Both will be
under government control, and, instead
of exorbitant prices being the rule. first
cost is all that is expected from Uncle
Sans blue coats. The canteen system
has proved a success in Europe; that it
will be in the United States is regard
ed as undoubted.- Paul Pioneer
Pr.oee
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-03-19
VARIOUS USES FOR AMMONIA.

A little ammonia in tepid water will
soften and cleanse the skin.
Spirits of ammonia inhaled, will
often relieve Il severe headache
Doorplates should be cleaned bv rub
bing with cloth wet in ammonia and
water.
If the color has been taken out of
silks by fruit stains, ammonia will
usually restore the color.
To brighten carpets wipe them with
warm water in which has been poured
a few drops of ammonia.
One OF two tablespoonfuls of am
monia added to pail of water will
clean windows better than soap.
A few drops in a cupful of warm wa
ter, applied carefully will remove spots
fl ON paintings and chromos.
When acid of any kind gets on cloth
ing, spirits of ammonia will kill it, APP
ply chloroform to restore the color
Keep nickel, silver ornaments and
mounts bright by rubbing with wooden
cloth saturated in spirits of ammonia
Grease spots may be taken out with
weak ammonia in water; lay soft white
paper over and iron with a hot iron.
Ammonia applied two or three times,
on fresh cold-sore will kill it. 1t will
drive it away if used when the cold
sore is first felt.
A tablespoonful of ammonia in a gal
lon of warm water will often restore
colors in carpets; it will also remove
whitewash from them.
Yellow stains, left by sewing-ma-
chine oil, on white, may be removed
by rubbing the spot with cloth wet
with ammonia, before washing with
soap.
Equal parts of ammonia and turpen-
tine will take paint out of clothing,
even if it be hard and dry. Saturate
the spot as often as necessary, and
wash out in soap suds. --.ia
If those who perspire freely. would
use little ammonia in the water they
bathe in every day, it would keep their
flesh sweet and clean. doing away
with any disagreeable odor.
Old brass may be cleaned to look
like new by pouring strong ammonia
on it, and scrubbing with a scrub
brush, rinse in clear water
Put teaspoonful of ammonia in a
quart of water, wash your brushes and
combs in this, and all grease and dirt
will disappear. Rinse, shake and dry
in he sun, or by the fire.
Flannels and blankets may be soaked
in pail of water containing one table
spoonful of ammonia and a little suds.
Rub as little as possible and they will
be white and clean, and will not shrink.
One teaspoonful of ammonia to a
teacup of water will clean gold or sill
yer jewelry; a few drops of clear aqua
ammonia poured on the underside of
diamonds, will clean them Immediate
ly making them very brilliant. Good
Housekeeping.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-03-19
CANNON MADE OF LEATHER.
They Were Successfully Used in Ancient
English Warfare.

''Let me give you bit of history"
said downtown leather merchant to
a n. Y. Journal reporter, THAT many
Il student has overlooked. The objects
of peace are not all that leather fig
ures in, for it is to leather that we owe
the introduction of light artillery.
Leather cannon have been actually
tried on the battlefield, and what is
more, turned the tide of one of the
greatest battles of modern times. The
inventor of leathern artillery was
certain Colonel Robert Scott, Scotch
man in the service of Charles l. of En-
gland.
He constructed guns of hardened
leather and experimentally tried them.
The result was that they were pro-
nounced superior to guns made of
brass or iron. The colonel, however,
did not live long to enjoy the greatest
triumph of his invention. He died in
1851, and a monument erected to his
memory l have seen in churchyard
in London. This monument represents
him as an armor-clad, fierce looking
man, wearing a heavy mustache and a
pointed beard.
''In the very year of the cOlonefs
death the effectiveness of his leathern
artillery was amply proved on the
memorable field of Liepsic where,
Sept. z, 1851, Gustavus Adolphus
achieved his splendid victory over the
imperialists under General lilly. 1t
is said that it was owing to the inven-
ton of Colonel Scott that the victory
was obtained.
The guns were found to be SO easi-
L., 81 ~
fly from one field to another, and thus
artillery be brought to bear when most
needed-a thing impossible with the
heavy artillery of that period. Certain
it is that leathern artillery was used in
this great battle by Adolphus. though
it is equally certain that the guns were
never used afterward. The reason of
that, however, was that the leather
guns having demonstrated the value
of light artillery, way was discover
ed of making the metal guns lighter,
and the greater durability of the latter
gave them the superiority.
CAS- used in the battle of Leipsic the
leather gun consisted of a copper tube
of the thickness of parchment, strength
ened by iron plates running parallel
with the length of the gun, bound with
iron bands. The tube was then bound
with several coatings of cord, with a
cement of massic between each coat
ing. and the whole inclosed in case
of tough leather. The weight of the
gun was such that two men could easi-
ly carry it"
In the year 1890 snuff box manu-
facturer named Richmond invented a
leather cannon, which was tried under
inspection at Woolwich, but it did not
prove as successful as some of its fore
runners. The celebrated Peter Pindar
satirized the affair in these lines:
Richmond, watchful of the states salvation,
Sprnkling his ravelin's DER the nation,
Now buying leathern boxes by tons,
Improving thus the nature of great guns
Guns blest with double natures, gid and
rough
To give broadside, or pinch of snuff.
The great Napoleon was not above
using leather as means of defense.
He put the leather cuirass upon twelve
regiments of his cavalry.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-03-19
SOON OVER.
A River Springs Up ana Dies Away In q:
Hours Time.

A sudden thaw in spring is a COM
mon enough cause of the swelling and
overflow of rivers, but few people have
experience of what might be called
magic rivers" which disappear al
most as suddenly as they are born. One
such, however, is described by W. H.
Mallock in his account of Cyprus, en-
titled In an Enchanted Island"
On certain evening there was sue
cession of thunder showers, and then
all the night a heavy and ceaseless
downpour. This" said my host in
the morning, ''ought to bring down
the river" l asked what he meant
by this, and he answered that the river
below US was rarely anything more
than dry bed of pebbles, just as it was
now.
But generally once-sometimes three
times-in the year it would suddenly
fill with water, flow for an hour or
two, and again become dry and silent.
| felt that the sight must be curious
and wished that l might be able to wit
ness it.
About 4 o'clock in the afternoon a
servant came to my bedroom and asked
me to go into the garden. There
found my host with an opera-glass
standing on the bank
''Lookr' exclaimed he, pointing. 1T
is coming! Listen! You can hear it.
listened and looked. 1 at last
caught sound, faint and uncertain,
as leaves rustling in a dream. Then,
suddenly, far away on the plains,
saw something flash, like the head of
pointed spear. Gradually this pro-
longed itself into slim, shining line,
which presently took curve. For
time its course was straight; then ii
curved again.
In ten minutes, over the brown sur.
face of the field the water had stretched
itself like a long, silvery snake, and the
sound had heard, growing every in
stant more distinct, explained itself to
the ear as the voice of the stirred peb-
bles. The river channel skirted the
bottom of the garden. and thus, as the
flood went by we had every opportuni
ty of observing it. 1t pushed itself for
ward, headed by mass of pebbles and
scum; it split itself into fierce rivulets,
which a moment later were drowned
in the body of the stream; it gurgled
against banks; it circled into transitory
whirlpools.
Gradually, as we watched, its volume
seemed to diminish, and in an hours
time there was only trickling rill, over
which child 5 years old might have
stepped
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-03-19
Feeding Chickens By CIockwork.

Fred Leach of Ansonia has some fine
poultry, and he believes in feeding
them as regularly as he eats his own
meals. He is unable to be at home at
night before the chickens go to roost.
and in order that they may be fed
without fail he has rugged up an ap-
paratus which works like charm
The usual quantity of corn is placed in
a tin can, which is suspended from a
string and weight. An alarm clock in
the outer coop releases the spring at a
certain hour, the can turns bottom
side up, and the corn is scattered.
There are four coops and each has its
can, all working at the same time
NeaO HdUeae Pdttddiatna.