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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-10-29
HOW THE GOSSIP STARTED.

Country Postmaster Ito asslstant)
'Jes look up John Trotter in tibet
commercial agency book, an see
how much he's worth"
Assistant Ga young female).
what's stayin' up the street, writes
ter, ism t it? ?"
Postmaster. Yes; an this is Their
third letter this week"
Assistant (poring over book.
"John-Trotter. Ireckon it's gettin
pretty serious, cause he answers 'em
right away. John-Trotter. Here
he is-one millionI'
Postmaster. "Whatl"
Assistant. Look fer yerself, eff
yer don't believe me. Thet's what it
says"
Postmaster. mo wonder she's
allus writin'!''
Assistant (giggling). Yes; I'd
jest come in ?"
Postmaster Yes" Pause.
Assistant Suddenly. Say, say,
look a-here! Here's box fer Miss
Budd from a N'York jeweller, an it's
addressed by tibet Mr.. Trotter.
Registered, too. l reckon it's a ring.
He oughter be able ter buy a pretty
good un."
Postmaster { examining box J..
Eyes. thet's what it is, mos likely.
Here, keep an eye on it while l run
out a minute. There goes Barkins
across the street, an he might
like an item fer their Gazette. Exit
Assistant (soliloquizing). Would
MT l jes like ter see it, though
guess it's set all Ground with great
big diamonds, n cost er hundred
dollars" [Sighs.
Extract from the following issue of
the "Topton Gazette:
what will our beaux say when
Miss B., who is spending the sum-
rner in our midst. announces her en-
gagement? Alittle bird tells us that
the ring has come, and the donor is
worth several millions. Our boys
have no chance, but we bear you no
i'll feeling. Mr.. T, and extend our
good right hand and best wishes. -
IHarper's Bazaar.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-10-29
PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE MOON.

Prof. Weinek, director Of Kepler's
old observatory at Prague, has been
engaged for some years in making
photographs of the moon, with the
idea of securing perfect map of the
moons surface. While engaged in
this work he received a negative
from the Lick Observatory. He saw
that his own laboriOus work with
an inferior instrument could never
vie with the results obtained at
Fort Hamilton, and he offered his
services gratuitously to the Lick
astronomers, saying that the match
less moon negatives he had received
would save him years of effort in his
task of completing a lunar map
Prof. Holden thinks that about
sixty moon pictures will be required,
and that the expense of drawings
and heliogravure plates will be
about $4,000. The observatory has
not funds which it can devote to
that purpose, but that ought not to
delay the work Of a single day. 1t
will be a singular reflection on the
generosity of California if this inn
portant work is allowed to languish
and Prof. Weinek's friendly offer to
come to naught for the lack of sum
which to any millionaire is only a
trif1e.-[ San Francisco Chronicle.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-10-29
HOW He CAME BY HIS NAME.

There is a man in Washington who
has most uncommon name, and
paper in that city tells how he came
by it. His mother was on the look
out for something original, and on
the day before his christening she
noticed on the door of building the
word "Nosmo." This struck her
fancy. Now for a middle name.
Later, coming along by the same
building, she saw on a door the
name King" All, this was what
she was after. "Nosmo King Jones
he shall be- and he was christened
so. On the way home from the
church she passed the same building
again. The doors were all shut, and
behold the doors with the names on
them she had selected were shut to-
gether, and she read, not "Nosmo
King" but mo Smoking" and her
heart was broken.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-10-29
A PERSEVERING REPTILE.

NJ R. Beasley, who lives six or
seven miles from Starle, was return
ing from town with his wife when
their buggy ran over a rattlesnake.
The enraged reptile, in trying to get
to Mr.. Beasley and his wife, got en-
tangled in the wheel, and was turned
over, and as he fell forward he made
a desperate effort to bite the horse,
but by that time the animal was
making good time under the whip,
and fortunately jumped the reptile.
The snake. not being satisfied with
the result of his fight, followed Mr..
Beasley nearly a quarter of a mile,
when B. Haynes came to his rescue,
and, after some thirty minutes. they
succeeded in killing the monster,
which measured fourteen feet and
had twenty-three rattles and one
button His hide is now stuffed, hold
a half-bushel of BRAN Exchange
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-10-29
THINGS WELL SAID.

Never fix the price OF anything so
low that you can't afford to adver-
tise it,"
Circulars hit only once, if at all,
and are then consigned to the waste
basket"
Don't advertise spasmodically-
keep at it. Your particular line of
goods may not be wanted today !;
they will be sought tomorrow, or
the day after
Don't run the same card from
January to December. Change oc-
casiOnally. Don't get into a rut.
Have some vim"
people won't and can't guess that
you have good thing"
Success means thought. 1t costs
no more to publish good matter than
poor. Prepare your matter carefully;
make it attractive; don't crowd; let
your catch lines be bold"
There should be a point to every
advertisement. State your point
and stop right there. Don't keep on
just to fill space"
'Judicious advertising
Creates many new business.
Enlarges many an old business.
Revives many a dull business.
Rescues many a failing business.
Saves many failing business.
Preserves many large business.
He who in the world would rise,
must either fail or ADVERTISE"
Your advertisement is your repre-
sentative. 1t need not be large or
imposing. but should be honest and
respectful.
advertising is to business as a
man well shod; without advertising,
man will always plod."
advertising is an eloquent and
effective salesman - distinguished
from the verbal salesman in this,
that while the latter talks to one
customer the advertising salesman is
talking to tens, possibly hundreds,
of thousands"
courageous, intelligent, persistent
advertising means the largest posi-
sible success in any particular line. !"
Mountaineering means the limita-
ton of business to personal infu-
ence -
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-10-29
ONE ADVANTAGE OF CONSOLIDATE
ING THE RAILWA VS..

There is another feature of this
question that is perhaps hardly
taken into account in the public
mind, because it's bearing upon it ap-
pears, a t first glance, to be remote;
but we are dealing with problem
of the future, and the time is coming
when it's close relation to it will be
appreciated. The existence of an I'M
doubted security for institutions and
for the great mass Of conservative
investors of limited means, who de-
mand above all other qualifications
security that will be safe, and who
rely upon their investments for the
incomes which are to support them
selves and their families, is soon to
become a necessity in America. Our
government bonds are constantly be-
ing called in and cancelled, whilst the
surplus capital of the country is con-
tinually increasing. Unless a stable
and safe security for the multitude is
forthcoming, it does not need the
astuteness of a hnancier to compre-
bend the possible situation of the
future when the investor who seeks
an assured income from his savings
will have to place his reliance upon
the wisdom of his own selection
among list of many hundreds of
railway stocks and bonds, subject to
all the serious fluctuations that fol-
low in the wake of selfish compete
ton and inefficient management.
The writer has never regarded the
existence of a large national debt as
an evil III a prosperous and growing
country like the United States, whose
obligations do not affect the credit
of the government and are not sig
nificant of any financial embarrass-
ment; but our people have decided
otherwise, perhaps not unwisely ;
nevertheless there must be a substi-
tute for the people to invest their
savings ina security that shall pos
sess the confidence of the entire pub
lie. What shall it be? 1t seems to
the writer that nothing will be safer
than shares or bonds of the united
railroads of this country, and few, if
any, other securities will be so easy
to negotiate or raise money on. IF
this is true, why should not a very
large number of the people who use
these roads invest their money in
such an organization, and thus be-
come, to large entent, the owners
and controllers of the railroads that
they use ?-[C. P. Huntington, in
North American Review for Septem-
Der.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-10-29
A BIG LOCOMOTIVE.

The Baldwin Locomotive works Of
Philadelphia have just completed
for the freight service of the Ell lie rail
way the largest compound locomo-
tive in the world. The weight of the
engine is 1875, 900 pounds, exclusive
of the tender. 1t has three pairs of
driving wheels sixtytwo inches in
diameter. The weight on these
wheels, which is the measure of the
power of the locomotive, is 100000
pounds. It's length is Sc feet and
height 16 feet. 1t is expected that
this engine can be run at saving of
from 80 to 40 per cent over the same
size single expansion engine.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-10-29

money. For though | own a farm
of twenty-five acres, l had to fly like
the lark from the field of wheat for
fear of my lie from a frantic scolding
wife. So, have a great many ideas
in hre-escapes for buildings. But
money makes the mare go, which
leaves my mare to totter fall and
die it is said and it is true that there
is nanny Socratus in the hands of a
plow an NANNY a Uleses herding
sheep" The connection between the
invention of fire-escape and the un-
comfortable behavior of this gentle
mans better half may be inferred,
but what is "a Socratus in the hands
of a plow ?"-[ Harper's Weekly.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-10-29
ADVICE FOX THE IA sTIDIoUs.

Certainly, bananas ought never to
be peeled entirely and the skinned
fruit taken in the fingers. Thisi not
nice at all. 1t IS admissible to peel
the fruit gradually, eating as it is
peeled; it is better in this case, to
nearly sever the mouthful with the
fruit knife before attempting the bite,
as it is never elegant to leave the
print of the teeth in any article of
food. Very dainty folk, however,
object even to this way of eating the
fruit, as after one or two mouth
fuls the skin hangs over the hand in
an undesirable way. Such prefer to
cut the banana through longitudinal
ly, skin and all, and then with spoon
or fork, prefera bly, the former, take
out small portions at a time New
York Times.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-10-29

THE CENTAUR COMPANY, II Murray Street, New York.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-10-29

am lame. The best way to make
sure about a shark is either to break
its skull when you get him aboard,
or fire two or three bullets through
its brain. - Harper's Young People.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-10-29
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The Penn's Grove record., 1891-01-30
NEWS OF TIE WEEK.

The trial OF the crusaders In Platts.
burg, Missouri, began on the Dist.
Two of the defendants, Mrs. Brls-
tol and Mrs. Barrett. pleaded guilty.
The oatmeal mill ard elevator in
Msleppa, minnesota. belonging TO F..
NJ. johnson, was burned on the 21St.
Loss on building, $50. 600. Fifty thou.
saud bushels Of grain were lost,
David skiwinsk, a New York
travelling salesman, hsnged himself ut
Dudley, Peuna., on tue 221, because
he received a letter from a young
woman Of Huntingdon breaking of
their engagement.
Bertha oeers, 80 years ole, shot
and fatally wounded James Hartley, In
san Antonio, Texas, GU the 22d, aud
Then committed suicide. They were
overs aud quarrelled.
"A despatch from Si,vertou, Colo
radc, says that PGdlewsk', who as
~sasaiDated General Solver skof in Paris
a few months ago, or q man very
closely resembling him, recently ap.
peared there. He purchased a burro
and disappeared 10 the mountains,
-Ex-Councllman c. E. Pratt. of
Railway, n. J., con ml.ted suicide on
the 22d by shooting himself on the
family farm rear that place. He had
been suffering from m~elancholia.
by the breaking of au elevator
chain in Baltimore, on the 22d. eight
men were pIecIpitated to the bottom
Of the shaft, u distance of nearly so
feet. Henry Waugh Is thought 10 be
fatally injured The others injured are
James BroughtoB, John Burroughs,
Michael T. Mason, Frank Kelly AID
John Connolly,
The mine disaster at Marisss. No,
on the 2lst, was more serious than AZ
first supposed. William Dobson, of
Wilkesbarre, died or the wight Of the
2lst, and William StTaKsr died on the
22d. Three others are not expected TO
recover.
Two unknown men from Pomerey,
Pa, were found asphyxisted by gas IN
the Eureka hotel, in Baltimore, on the
morning OF the 22d. The name of one
is supposed to be Samuel DER.
The storm of the gath and 25'h,
changing from rain to slset and snow,
and accompanied by high winds, pros
trated all the telegraph wires between
Philadelphia and New York, ard also
cut of communication between Phila-
delphia and points South and West,
One wire was open to Baltimore and
another to Reading, and some slight
service was had on those wires. A
despatch from Norfolk, Virginia, re-
ports the signal service wlEes down
along the coast.
An electric motcr ear on c strest
car line between Indianapolis ard tbs
suburb Of ~Irvington jumped the track
on the Gath, and tunnel bottom side
up In a ditch. Mrs. Mary Brosn and
Mss Minnie Frederick, of 1rviDRto1,
wsrs badly. and perhaps fatally, 10.
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

he who s1ws courtesy rsaps friend
ship,
Ity i cannot tea lighthouse be q
%cAuCle,
JOS Ielp &c iorlo character as ,rsly
as trials.
Our natur g consists IL u%otion-rer
feet rest IN death,
Our sorrow Is tire inverted image Of
our uo5leCess,
Every uar is hero to some woman;
every WOMAN IS a heroine u one man.
Most Of our mis- orj1nes are mure
Enppollable than the Comments {! cur
rieLds upon them.
lIear both s des AMI I'll shall Be dear
neal QUE and you may stiil b. u tile
dark,
Ir-u try Pays debts, while des2air il
cIeasetA them,
silence is deep as eternity; spse-h is
shallow as time,
a man re=e4 iVTslves a woUaa 10;
making HIN feel SHY,
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-01-30

II e~vil.doing were the matter Of sin
cege concern to every heart that II
Oh 1T tote, nomere p!tyfor pain would
interfere with the just measures taken
TO prevent its occurrence.
Oufnions which are equa IL honest on
b1ih sides should no affect personal es.
I EN- or social int, course.
Wien a man gets to love WORK, hi
llf- Is d happy one.
The man who has nothing is unde.
the bon rage OF lahor; the man who has
property is under he bondage Of care.
Peollo Hh can la SPOILED by honest
raise are 10 account TO b-gin With,
The mar who dos his best does as
uueh as q KIN "a 10.
If you were to take the conceit OUT
of some people tbeis wouldn't 10 enough
lett TO curry,
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-01-30
FiFTy-FlRST CONGRESS.

II ths United States Senate, IN The
24.b, Mr.. Stewart offered an amend
men, 10 the Closure resolution, o,
which fe lad given notice on I hurs'
day, He then spoke at length in o.
position to the Closure and Force
! bill, Mr.. Aldrlch asked unanimous
consent that debate on the psLdiug
re.oiut on be limited to half an hour
| 10 each Senator, but Mr. Cockreil Oh
jplted. He then asked that the limi-
latiou bs made an hour, which Was
also G elected TO. and finally proposed
that g vote be taken on the resolution,
on Monday next This mat sin lar
objection, and debate on the Foice
biz. vas continued until, at e.15 P,
NJ, the Senate took q recess unit!
Monday noon
HOUSE.
10 the House, on the 18th, diiiat0ry
tactics we're resorted to by the Demo
Gratis, aud 1t was some time before the
Journal was approved, After succeed
ing Ia Iassing q private bill the House
adjourned.
In the House on the Gath the Jour-
nal vas approved, after the customary
parliamentary furnishes. Tue Naval
ApE ropristion wss cons dered IN Com
mittes of the Whole, but not disposed
Of. Adjourned.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-01-30
MOTHERS OlRL


She sits securely by my side,
Ny bpAUy iittls lass
The word l. cod, the world "a 8tie,
I let The. cold word pavsi
with Mary smiling up at ne,
care not what ths world may %.
She looks. into ing faded tace,
NV bonuy little lass,
But does see the NriuSled place
Where Tines rough footsteps ptA4l
she maasures ne Uy loves " Euie,
And thinks mamma IS beautiful
ehe axis me many curious things,
NV bonnie little lass.
"Be nuggets shaking out their win1s''
She saws when snow showers pass
kiss her happy face and say
ANGELS have surely passed TINS "as
She looks at ne with serious eyes.
My bonnie Title lass,
Right up 10 nine the sweet thoughts rise
That through her laSnss pass
She pats my cheek, win smile and 101
AID softly asks. Does you know 0JAf'
And though I anuot answer her,
My bonnie. little lass,
@ eel little questions QuRtn'lS Stir
The flpplinE words mat pass
rs Col a Quaker cause, you Know
He ihee ; and thous the verses so
She ho'ds her head against my heart
NV bonnie tie lass;
he evplids Troop. her tired lips rest
~Herth0uyhts 10 dream,anG pss.
VII Ie bending dow 10 kiss that curl
Ihsar her Whisper, Mother 90 II!
COCK EJAssEssp'1!
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LESSON ~sCRKOGNDINTs.

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,ram Eoreb and frat fnds Tiists VIZ
follows MN, Then flows an conf
~ Kipgs o. ~ tw oi,ocFs MO 10 49,
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~ w. nrsjict;on nj a ,,nnha,, ,Ge coz,
ond vI. roda in ord,htr ooaIf.r i,
INA bsIief rbadt 10 Gnj
0f Jsrasl Ans "a roi Of the Mia fIis
- 10 ran.liof &c n,.onI ~ 80
noTer Of ,TeHoteM Ron fafaj @anncsi-
81 for b,s Lie and wns ralaesnJ 4
rnmua, nf "rI.Latic ain. sar for,b
tic snleairra of fEa T,ord ar tIjs co1,
Gnct ~ AbaL
Prarfs-Ganarja fine cop,tal. ,Tsz.
rasI IL. EyTTIts rssiJepce # aLab
TEa s,ts nj tba vineyar3 nj %,,b6tb is
SOL r. Lsrs Lson SO ~ h IN a
vine .cla3 mn INT hi. i. moi c2ytain.
SEM dstiooT. sh Tho yir,ar,,l nf Va,
L0tb t1@m 22'Ia nartin5 ~ >ehorLn
q AIMS 3 ii; Inc former be no at
Eau,,ra n,l 80 Iat,or a, ts,r,aI III
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-01-30
PHILApA. Pa. jar. 20.

PHILADA, Pa, jar. 20.
The man who has been annoying and
insulting female redestrIans Of Ritteu-
house Square for a month past was cap
tured last night by officer Gib'in, of
the Fifth police district, and Is Low be-
hind the liars of the station house at
Fifteenth and Locust streets.
The police have been ID tbs lookout
for Banks for a long time and his cap
ture was the result Of q suspicious
movement made by him which was OBJ
served ty Officer Giblin yesterday
morning.
Officers Matthews and Glblin left
the station house yesterday morning
shortly after 8 o'clock In their uni
forms. They were walsing up Walnut
street and we're near Nineteenth when
they saw q young man acting suspic-
iously. They started towards him
with the intention Of finding out who
and what he was, but when the nau
saw their uniforms he Immediately
took to bis heels and ran down Nine
tenth street.
Officer Giblin then suspected some-
thing wrong and he returned TO the
station house and donnsd his citizens
clothes and returning to the DeigtboT-
hood decided to stay there all day aud
watch for the fellow to come back.
SURPRISED BY AN OFFICER.
His labors were rewarded, for shortly
after . O'Clock the msu appeared on
the Walnut street side of the square
and as every female pedestrian would
pass he would make ar insulting L.
mark. The insulted persons would
generally scream and run away aud
the insultsr would dodge behlnd a
tree and await his next victim.
The officer watched the a for a
long while, and hnalIy managed to get
within a few feet OF bin. There were
two ladies' coming up Walnut street,
and tue oficer decided 10 hide his time
and catch the rascal in the act, When
the females arrived near the tree
behind which the man was hidi0g
he jumped from behind the tree aud
grabbed one Of the women, and tie
same time grossly insulted than. AZ
this ~juncture the officer came OF the
scene and grabbed hiB.
ne TRIES TO ESCAPE.
The man made n desperate EFFORT 10
rscape, but the officer choked him into
submission. The insulted oue had
in the meanwhile taken advantage Of
the officers capture, and it lie supposed
they, net wishing to have their names
mixed up with the rascal's arrest, had
taken their leave from the scene.
Arriving at the station houss the
man gave his name as George Banks,
age is years, and said that be resided
at 2l2S Webster street. He denied the
ofacer's accusations, which are virtually
the same as above. and gave some
plausible excuse for exposing his per-
SOL. He vas locked up and will be
given a bearing this morning by II ~
istrate Pole.
Banks 10 a tall young fellow, and
dresses well and is a fair looking young
man. 1t Is thought from his actions
that he is demsnted.