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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-08-20
HOW THE CZAR IRA VELS.

When the Gar travels in Russia
the precautions taken for his safety
could not be greater if he were in an
enemy's country, says a writer in
the Philadelphia Telegraph. A bat
talon of infantry is detailed for
every two miles of distance, and al
lowing 500 men as the effective force
of each battalion, every spot of
ground on both sides of the track is
covered by sentinels within easy dis
lance of each other The Gar is
suddenly whirled off to the station,
accompanied by the chosen - of his
body guard, without pomp or cir
cumstances, swift and silently. The
Gar always travels in a train or FIVE
carriages. His carriage is built in a
peculiar style.
The windows, while ample for
light, are high, so that a person sit
ting down is invisible from the out
side, and the sides of the car are
fortified with plates of steel conceal
ed in the ornamental woodwork, but
strong enough to resist a bullet.
There are two sentry boxes in the
carriage, one at each end, and each
looking out at an opposite side
from the other. The guardsmen on
duty in these apartments are shut
in from any observation of the in
interior of the carriage, but at in
tervals of about two feet the whole
length of the saloon, are electric
buttons communicating with the
guard chambers, as we'll a with the
two carriages, one containing the
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-08-20
CONCORD & MONTREAL R. R.
June %, 1891.
Passenger Service
from St. JOhnSbury.

For Woodsville, Plymouth, Laconia, Til
ton, Concord. Manchester, Nashua, Lowell
and Boston, 1 40 (ex.), $50 a. m, 2. 81 Eek
p. m. Arrive Boston sos a. M, 4.45, $50
p. m
Sundays 40 a. m, arrive Boston sos a m.
The 1.4O a. m. train daily has through
passenger and sleeping cars.
For St. Johnsbury via Plymouth and Wells
River.
Leave Boston 900 (ex.) a. NJ, 1.15, us
(eX.) p. Sundays us p. m.
(ex.) p. N. Sundays 7.5S p.
Leave Nashua Jc. 1912 (ex.)s a. M, 2. Of, $50
(ex.) p. Sundays $50 p. m.
Leave Manchester 10.41 (eX.) a. m, 2.5o,
Leave Concord 11.15 (ex.) a. M, 3.25, $40
(ex.) p. Sundays $40 p.
Arr. st. Johnsbury $40, 500 pm, 2. II a. m.
The a. m train from Boston (week days.
and the 7.15 p. train daily have through
passenger and sleeping cars.
T. A. MacKINNON, w. A. STOWELL.-
Gen. Manager. Acting Supt.
F. E. BROWN, G. P. and T. A.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-08-20
Travellers Guide.
BOSTON & MAINE R. R.
PAssUMPsIC DIVISION.
SUMMER ARRANGEMENT, June 20, 1891
Trains Leave st. = ohusbury.

GOING SOUTH.
For Concord, Manchester, Nashua Lowell
and Boston via White River Junction,
lao m, IL. 25 a. M $50 m, O. ~ al
ia p. m, 5.54 p. m, 1910 p. N. Arriv-
ing at Boston, $40 a. m, ass and $50
D.
For Concord, Manchester, Nashua, Lowell
and Boston via Wells River and Plymouth,
1.4O a. m, $50 a. m, "a p. m. Arriving
at Boston, $40 a. m, 4.o5 p. m, $50 p. n.
For Bellows Falls, Northampton, Spring
field, Hartford, New Haven and New York,
For Newbury, Bradford, Fairlee, Thetford,
Norwich and White River Junction, 1928
am, S.56 a m, 9.44 a. m, "a p. m.
For Passumpsic, Barnet and McIndoes,
1925 a.. m, $50 a.. m, 9.44 a.. m, 5.54
p. m, 1910 p m.
For Wells River, 1925 a. m, lao a. m.
$50 a. M, IA a. m, 2.34 p. m, 5.54
p. m, 1910 p. m.
GOING NORTH.
For Lyndonville and Newport, 2.22 a. M,
3.15 a. m, 1915 a M, 3.13 p. m, 4.27 p.
M, 90 p.
For West Burke, Barton and Barton Land
ing, 3.1o a M, 1915 a. M, 4.27 p. M,
For Stanstead and Derby Line, Massawippi,
North Hatley, LennOXville and Sherbrooke,
3.15 a. m, 500 p.
ForQuebec via Sherbrooke and Grand Trunk
Ry., 3.15 a. M, 8. 10 p. m. 500 p. m.
trail Ry., 3.15 a. m, 500 p.
For Montreal via Sherbrooke and Grand
Trunk Ry., 3.15 a. 500 p.
For Montreal via Newport and Canadian
Pacific Ry., 2.22 a. m. 3.13 p. m.
JAMES T. FURBER, D. J. FLANDERS,
Vice Pres. and Gen. Man. Gen. Pass. Agt.
H. E. FOLSOM, Div. Supt.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-08-20

FOR SALE.
The Morrill, House, Willow place. Price
reasonable.
w. H. PRESTON,
Real Estate Agent.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-08-20
New Advertisements.
SPEGTAGT,ES

I have full stock of Spectacles and. Eye
Glasses IN all the styles and best manu-
features at just half regular prices and a
good fit guaranteed. Periscopic Spectacles,
Frameless Eye Glasses, Aqua Crystal Specta-
cles, etc, are the very best made Will be
sold at the same prices others charge for
cheap goods and just II the price YOU pay
travelling Everything in Optical
Goods at lowest prices. Call and see how
easy can fit you.
GEO E GROW
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-08-20
Have You Noticed That
E. D. STEELE & co.
Garry goods from
How do They do 1t?

By putting the knife to all unsold goods the last of
the season, making prices that close all odds and
ends, selling below first cost anything that has
moved slow
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-08-20
ST. JOHNSBURY AND
LAKE CHAMPLAIN R. R,
Beginning June 90, 1891.
Trains Leave ST. JOhnsbury.

GOING WEST.
For Danville, West Danville, Walden, Green's
boro, East Hardwick, Hardwick, Norris
vile and Hyde Park, 900 a. m, 3.1S p.
M, 6. O5 p.
For Johnson, Cambridge Junction, Burling-
ton Fletcher, Fairfield, Sheldon, Highgate
and Swanton., 900 a m, SIS p.
For Stanbridge, st. Johns, and Montreal via
East Swanton, 3.1S p.
GOING EAST.
For East st. Johnsbury, North Concord,
Miles Pond and Lunenburg, $50 m,
7.O5 a. m, $50 p. m, $50 p. m.
For Whitefield, Fabyans, Crawfords, Glen,
North Conway, Fryeburg, Portland,
Brunswick, Lewiston, Augusta, Watervile,
Bangor and st. John, $50 a. m, 40 p. m.
H. E. FOLSOM, D. J. FLANDERS,
Supt. Gen. Pass. Agt.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-08-20
Special Notices.
What Ais You.

If you have sudden darling pains in the
joints muscles, and it recurs every time you
get cold, and appears in new places without
leaving any of the old ones, the best thing to
do is to send five dollars to the Drumm ond
Medicine Co., 1850 NJ alden Lane New York,
for bottle of DR.. Drumm onds Lightning
Remedy for Rheumatism. 1t will cure you.
Be wise in time, and do not be fooled with
anything else. If you have got the above
symptoms you have got the Rheum atism,
and if the druggist tells you the truth he will
say DR.. Drummond's Remedy is the only
known cure Sold by Boynton and Calder
wood
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-08-20
Now is the Time.

Everything in the line of summer goods to be closed
out at sacrifice Light suits for men, boys and chill
dren at your own price Straw and light stiff hats at
one-half first price % ct. hats now IL IL cts. 30
ct. hats now % cts. $l.OO hats now 30 cts. $500
hats $l00, etc. ETC. Thin Coats, Vests, Blazers,
Negigee and Fancy Bosom Shirts, sashes Belts ETC.,
etc., at less than first cost. No dead season with u.s.
prices do the business.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-08-20
ALL ABOUT A PIANO.

have for sale at very low price two up
right Pianos. Good ones and but little
used. Also new upright Piano made by
the Smith American Piano Co., which l can
sell at lower prices than you would have TO
paw for anv other first-class make. Send for
Catalogue and description to
10 Clinton Ave- ST. Johusbury, Vt
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-01-23
to go, but he went without good
night kiss BostOn Herald.
Wasn't q Hint.

Yabsley-see here, Wickwire, you
are married man and ought to know
something about the ways of women.
I want to ask your opinion on a little
matter.
Wickwire-Well?
Yabsley-I was calling on a young
lady last evening-no, I didn't say
11:3O she began asking me abont my
favorite breakfast dishes. I'd like to
know whether she was limiting towards
housekeeping, or intimating that it was
time for me to go home.-Indianapolis
Journal.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-01-23
The Growth of Brains.

In the inferior races the head ceases
to grow after twenty years of age. In
the superior races the head of the in
telligent and educated man increases
in volume until thirty -fve, forty and
fifty-fve years. The skull has reached
it's maximum development when the
bones composingit are welded together
so as to render the sutures invisible.
Once the sutures are solidifed, the
further growth of the brain is impossi-
BILE, which is said to explain the insur-
mountable difficulty experienced in
trying to teach illiterate adults. The
qualification varies according to the
investigating activity of the brain. 1t
takes place between the ages of twen-
ty-two and twenty-five years in the
task-worker, between twenty eight
and thirty-fve in the middle-class
manual professions, and after thirty
five in educated persons who practice
intellectual professions. Recent ex-.
periments in the female colleges of
Russia prove that woman's head,
though naturally smaller than mans,
is susceptible to similar development
under educational treatment. The
skulls of great thinkers grow through
out life. The frontal sutures of Pas
cal, Rousseau and others who lived to
ripe old age were found open. Com
parison of the Individual skulls of diff
ferent races discloses the singular and
important fact that in the inferior be-
ings the qualification of the sutures
begins in the frontal, or intellectual,
region of the brain, and terminates in
the occipital, or animal. In the case
Of the civilized man, on the contrary,
the qualification, beginning much later
in life, starts in the occipital, passes
to the parietal bone, and thence to
the frontal, thus giving till the last
moment the fullest scope to the supe
rior functions.-Chicago News.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-01-23
How Money Increases.
The natural accumulation of mon

The natural accumulation of none
is great deal more rapid than the
average person imagines. The legal
rate of interest in New York state is
6 per cent. per annum. If $4,000
were put at 6 per cent. interest, and if
the interest were compounded semi
annually, the accumulation at the end
of twenty-five years would be $43,8OO.
Many of the fortunes in America are
the result of investments in lands and
enterprises. The country is growing
very rapidly, and the increase in the
value of land keeps pace with the
growth.-New York World.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-01-23
Laid 1t to Lightning.

Aunt Belinda recently visited Pitts
burg for the first time in twenty years
and she has been entertaining the
family circle at Scarletsville with sto-
ries OF strange sights and perilous pas
sages in the city ever since.
"Your Cousin George took me, to
ride on them cable cars" she says,
"and the way them things tear rounds
something frightful. Scared me bit,
but I never let on till the car stopped
one time awful sudden. Threw me
sideways and Igrabbed Georges arm.
We had to lay there a good while, for
they'd run out er lightnin'!"-Pitts'
burg Dispatch.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-01-23
Just Wanted to Know.

"Katie," said he, when the time
came for him to take his departure,
"do you think you care enough for me
to link your lot with mine? Couldyo
leave this home and be happy in an
other with me?"
eyes, Augustus, I think 1 could"
softly, but unhesitatingly, answered
Katie.
II didn't know whether to ask You
or not" continued Augustus, $50 I
thought I'd see how you felt about it. !"
And having satisfied himself as to her
feelings toward him, he took his hat
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-01-23
Consumption.

"Gastly monumental epitaph to
one-third OF all the deaths in the
world; huge vampire beneath the
black shadows of whose wings crouch
widows, orphans, and a multitude OF
bereaved. The evils and ravages OF
war and pestilence wane and pale
with insignifcahce before this mighty
spectre, that is stealing the brightest
and fairest of our land"
The Popular Science Monthly pub
lished an article by the eminent DR..
Felix L. Oswald, on "The Remedies of
Nature" in which he gives statistics
to show that consumption causes
three times as many deaths in the
United States and Canada, as the use
of Intoxicating liquors, and still
greater per cent, in Northern Europe.
The most careful investigation shows
an aggregate of nearly 100, 900 deaths
annually in the United States, ITO,
600 in Great Britain, so, OOOin France,
100000 in Russia, and $4,000 il
Northern Germany. In our own
country, Massachusetts annually
loses 10000 from lung diseases; Bos-
ton, 1000; New England, 10000;
New York swells the number to not
less than 10000.
The death roll for theUnited States,
for consumption, catarrh and bron-
chitis would amount, at the above
rate, to about 100000 in a single
year. Abiding to the fact that forty
nine deaths occurred in one week by
consumption, in that city, the Phila-
delphia Public Ledger says: "The
havoc of lung disease goes on, with
heavy count, all the year round. Yet
the doctors, in their conventions, have
almost ceased to talk about phthisis
(consumption), with any of enthusiast
tic research, while they give us no end
OF brilliant light upon sewerage and
the deaths from bad drainage. It is
a discredit to medical science, that
such well-de6ned diseases as American
lungs present, should yet be SO little
under control, and the skill of our ex-
perts should still be baff1ed."
| Another paper, in speaking of the
subject, says: eff any other disease
prevailed to such an extent, we would
| have immediate and rigid investiga-
tions as to cause and remedy. That
this is not the case in regard to lung
disease, can only be attributed to the
fact that medical science appears to
have exhausted itself in that direc-
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-01-23
Watching 1t.

The Cleveland Leader speaks of the
jury amendment to the constitution
of this state as zone of the most in
teresting changes in the system of court
practice which has been made in any
part of the United States for many
years back" It refers to it as "aradi-
cal Innovation" and anticipates such
satisfactory results that the practice
may be extended to- the criminal
trials. In regard to this it says:
That is the field in which reform is most
needed, for it is in trying to save villains
yers are most likely to "fx'' one or two
scoundrels in jury: If a system like the
one which is about to go into force in
Minnesota had been in operation in the
Illinois criminal courts when the murderers
of DR.. Cronin were tried, the result would
have been that at least three of them would
have gone to the gallows. Then, it is
probable, one at least would have turned
states evidence in trying to save his neck,
and the greater villains who kept in the
background while their tools and dupes did
the work of butchery might have been
brought to justice 1t is the general rule
that when only one or two men refuse to
dict, the majority IS entirely right, and the
small opposition due to crankiness or devil
try. Jury reform is sorely needed every
where, and all experiments in that direction
will be watched with hopeful interest by
lovers of justice.
Should the innovation prove as bene-
fetal in operation as it's friends
anticipate, there will be strong effort
to extend it to the criminal practice.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-01-23
Strength Of Ocean Waves.

1t is on record that the waves of the
German Ocean once broke in two a
solid column of freestone thirty-six
feet high and seventeen feet in diameter
at the base. The diameter at the place
of fracture was eleven feet At the top
of the Bound Skerry Of Whalsey, in
Zetland, the waves have broken out
of their beds, which are eighty-five feet
above the level of the sea, blocks of
stone weighing from eight to ten tons.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-01-23
The Ways Of the Bat.

When you see the bat darling about
IN the evening, he is taking his supper.
He lives as the swallow does, on in
sects in the air, and, although his
sight is very poor, his touch and smell
are SO sensitive that he has no diff
Guilty in catching his prey, even when
flying so very fast. When cold wealth
er comes on the bat ceases to fly about
in search of food. He doesn't need it.
He seeks a well-sheltered nook, where
lie is not likely to be disturbed, and
quietly takes nap till next Spring.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-01-23
SHAKESPEARE OR BACON
Some Nuts for Ignatius DonneIly
to Crack

W VI aON
1 have said that the merely typo
graphical or mechanical imperfections
of the Folio suffice to prove that the
book is none of Bacon's. 1 have not
referred, and shall now refer only in
the briefest manner, to wholly diff
ferent class of facts that lead inevita-
bly, to the same conclusion. If the
Folio were as we'll printed as any of
Bacon's acknowledged works-the
Essays" Of 1926, for example-there
would still be interal evidence, album
dant and decisive, that the volume
can not be the authors final revision
of his Dramatic productions. Certain
of the plays are manifestly nothing
more than slight remodeling OF earl
Ter work by other hands. lt
Others are apparently pieces left un-
finished, and completed by another
playright-in some instances so in
ferior that the author can not be sup
posed to have been a party to the
transaction. If it be said that all
the matter is from one and the same
hand, this is not absolutely inconceiv-
able, if the collecting and publishing
of the works have been done by an in
competent or INSCRIPTIONS editor
after the authors death; but how can
we explain it if the author himself is
editor? Why, to refer to a single play,
should "Timon of Athens be left in
the state in which the Folio gives it
pure gold with large admixture of
the basest alloy, stuff utterly un-
worthy the prentice days of the dra-
matist? Scarcely a critic of the pres
ent century has been willing to regard
the play as the work of single hand.
Portions of it are written in the
merest burlesque of verse-as if the
author had no ear, unless an asinine
one-and the thought and sentiment
are in keeping with the versiication;
while other portions bear the marks
of the poets maturest period. Ac-
cording to the Baconians, this was
one OF the latest plays, if not the lat
est play, their philosopher wrote; and
Timon is meant to represent himself,
deserted by his parasite friends after
his fall. Could Bacon have written it
as we have it, or, if any inferior writer
had q share in it, would Bacon have
printed it all as his own? These and
similar questions have never been put
to the Baconians, so far as am
aware, and respectfully submit them
to Mr.. Donnelly's consideration.-Dr.
w. Role in Mort America Review.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-01-23
A Study of Bacteria.

A writer in Science says that while
as yet we have discovered no way of
avoiding contagion which comes to us
in the air, we arej just beginning to find
out the extremely important fact that
the air does not become contaminated
with bacteria unless they are allowed
to dry. Recent Investigations, he
adds, have shown a smaller number
of bacteria in the air of q well-kept
sewer than in that of poorly venti-
lated schOOlrOOm.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-01-23

of kickers of the first water settled
once, though. When the Chicago 4
North Western built it's Elkhorn Val
ley line through Nebraska the COM
pany had q division superintendent
at Norfolk named Bronson. He YVES
a milk-and-water chap who had
Sunday School and who was run by
the men, who were in an utterly de-
moralized condition. They were led
by a switchman named Lynch, a big
bully of a fellow, who boosted Of
chasing two superintendent out
of the country. Finally the company
transferred Bronson and sent Ed Horn,
now q superintendent on the Iron
Mountain, down in Arkansas, out to
reorganize things. Horn was young,
athletic, and had a fighting reputation
Lynch resented Horns arrival, and
announced that heproposed to thrash
him inside of a week. The fight came
on in this way: Horn commenced
operations by firing all men who we're
drunk on duty and by making the
boys do days work ever day. Three
days after he arrived Lynch refused to
obey orders. The yardmaster went
up to Horns Office and reported the
case.
"Send Lynch to me- said Horn.
"When Lynch came Horn closed the
office door, locked it, and put the key
in his pocket. Then he let down the
tops of the windows to that the crowds
of yardmen, who were gathering on the
platform could hear as we'll as see
what was going on.
"Lynch, you have been saying
around town that you could lick me.
Now you refuse to obey orders. I
want you either to furnish your lick
ing or 60 back to work, don't care
(WHICH said Horn. The switch
man twenty pounds heavier than the
young superintendent, began to weak
en-. He did not want to go back to
work and lose prestige with his fellows,
but he was in doubt as to the out
come of a battle. Outside the yard
men held their breaths. Finally Lynch
commenced to pull off his coat. Then
Horn stepped quietly to the door, I'M
locked it and threw it open. Turning
quickly he caught Lynch by the collar
with a firm grasp and kicked him out
of the Office, down the platform and
through the yard to his post. Now
60 to work and obey orders when you
get them,' cried Horn, who walked
quietly back through the crowd, re-
marking as he entered his Office; I
don't propose to let anybody run
this division Or get drunk except the
superintendent In two weeks Nor
folk was the model yard on the west
end of the Northwestern system.
Horn had struck the only kind of
policy that would win on the from,
tier" chicago Herald.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-01-23
Conclusive Evidence.

LadyDowager-I am at last thor
oughly satisfied that the wife Lord
Henry brought from America used to
be an actress.
Countess Flango-How did you find
out?
Lady Dowager-I renowned them
both yesterday, and she clasped her
hands, took three steps to the right,
sobbed convulsively for fifteen Sec
onds, and then turning about, tower
ed to her fullheight and defied me-
Grip.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-01-23
Inviting an In vitation.

Youths Companion.
A minister had Travelled some dis
lance to preach, and at theconclusion
of the morning service waited for some
one to invite him to dine; but the con-
gregation dispersed without noticing
him.
When the house was nearly empty,
the minister stepped up to a gentle
man and said: Brother, will you
come home to dinner with me today"
"Where do you live?"
"About eighteen miles from here,
sir"
"No; but you must dine with me-"
answered the brother, with a flushed
face, which invitation the clergyman
gravely accepted.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-01-23
The TWinerS.

The hop vine is said to be sinistrorse
because it twines with the motion of
the sun, that is from, right to left.
Beans, morning-glories and all other
species of climbing plants, with the ex-
ception of one of the honeysuckles, are
dextrorse, turning opposite to the ap-
parent motion of the sun, or from left
to right.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-01-23
Pooling a Spider.

If tuning fork, when vibrating, is
made to touch any part of a spiders
web, or the twigs or leaves by which the
web is supported, the trembling of the
web, ompletely deceives the spider, so
that, after rapidly finding which radial
line is most disturbed, she runs along
this one and attempts to secure the
tuning fork, and struggles in vain to
find a soft spot in the armor OF her
prey.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-01-23
Made no Difference.

A gentleman was looking at suite
of rooms in an apartment house. He
found them satisfactory and said to
the janitor:
"I'll take them"
"Have you any children, sir?"
eyes, two"
t'Then I cannot let you have the
rooms"
"Why, my children areboth married
and live in Iowa."
"That makes no difference. My or
ders are not to take in any tenant
vino has children"