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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-08-02
CURIOUS FACTS.

Corea has cave from which
wintry wind perpetually blows.
The force of the wind is such that
strong man cannot stand before it.
1t is estimated that 1t least $780,
100000 Of the governments paper
money supposed to be in circulation
has been lost or destroyed. BY the
sinking of a vessel on the Atlantic
coast some years ago $1,OOO,OOO in
greenbacks was lost.
A medical man, who kept nightly
record of his pulse for FIVE years,
says that every year it falls through
the spring until about midsummer,
and then rises again through the
autumn to November or December
Then comes second fall and rise,
eliminating in February.
An eminently practical German
scientist is said to have applied a
mild current ofelectricity to swarm
of bees, quickly causing them to fall
to the ground in a stupe6ed condi-
ton. The bees could be safely han
died while in this condition, and if
the electrical current were not too
strong, no injury was done to them.
A Norwegian invention for the
production from skim milk of a new
material which has been called lactite
or milk ivory. has just taken practi-
cal shape, and factory FORTS produc-
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-08-02
SCHOOL BOOK ERRORS.

The report on the second prize com
petition for pointing out errors IL
school books, just issued by the
Pope manufacturing company of
Boston, is exceedingly suggestive.
This company offered five bicycles to
the persons pointing out the grea test
number of errors in textbooks now
IN use. The result was rather sur
prising. There were $3.50 alleged
errors received, of which 673 were
admitted by publishers and authors,
and 3114 rejected, while in 1873
cases no answers were received,
many whose books appeared ex.
tremelv faulty declining to give any
assistance and even putting obsta-
Giles in the way. On account of the
difficulty OF securing a jury of eX
perts to decide the disputed cases the
matter was allowed to rest there,
but even 673 mistakes is a rather
discreditable showing. However
cranky, however obsolete in stvle
our children's school-books may be,
we ought to be assured of sound
teaching on such points as are given,
and there is some force in the recon-
mendation of the report, that a
board of specialists be appointed
who should see to it that our text
books are kept free of gross errors.
In this country, where man does
not know enough to do anything
else he generally sets to work to
make a school-book, and as in many
cities the adoption of books is a mat
ter of politics rather than Of scholar
ship, it is not surprising that large
proportion OF our textbooks are Of
deplorable quality. There is d no
more saddening experience than to
go through library stored with
dead school books, compared with
which the traditional dead door-nail
is as lively as grasshopper, and see
the countless row OF cheap, shoddy
books made to sell, by men with just
intelligence enough to handle a coal
shovel. Better times are coming for
our schools, and among the most
convincing signs is the vast improve
ment in the quality of the textbooks
in the past few years. The Pope
company is doing useful work in
this direction, as we'll as in the move
ment for good roads, and what
ever advertisement they get our of it
is acknowledgements Repub-
lican.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-08-02
NAIL IN a HORSES HOOP.

Any kind of punctured wound re-
healing of any wound must begin at
the bottom of it, and if other wise the
diseased matter in the wound will
become inclOsed in it, and must break
out in time in some way or another.
Thus, an incompletely healed wound
will in time become an abscess, that
NAV give much trouble, especially in
the foot which, being enclosed in its
horny covering, affords no escape for
the pqs formed. and this burrows
among the tissues, forming a fistula,
or spreading SO that the bones of the
foot become diseased and the horse
is ruined. The first thing to be done
is to remove the nail, if it or a part
of it remains in the foot, then to en-
large the opening and reach the bot
tom, injecting some active liniment
or other stimulant, and keeping the
opening free for the escape of pus I'M
til the healing advances to the sur
face, when a simple protection to the
side will be sufficient until the heal
ing is completed. Care is TO be ex-
ercised to keep the wound clean by
frequent injections of warm water
with a few drops of carbOlic acid in
it, and if the foot is infamed, poul-
tees are to be used. The entrance
of sand or grit into the wound is to
be strictly avoided.-[Germantown,
Pa. Telegraph.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-08-02

for corresponding period while in
charge of the man aware of the ex-
pertinent reached 1131 pounds.
The excess Of 267 pounds was in
favor of the man who MIXED to dry
ness. The experiment proved that 1T
pays to get all the cow has to de-
liver. Also that it is a matter of i'm
portance that the udder be emptied
as rapidly as possible in manner
acceptable to the cow-this because
of the effects of the richness of the
milk in fat globules. Another i'm
portant feature in milking to dryness
is that the first milk drawn is most
aqueous, while the last contains
most butter fat. While not strict
~ result of this experiment, it dem
onstrates anew the teachings of the
experience that proves that incom-
pletely MIXED COWS have tendency
to diminish their yield German
town, Pa, Telegraph.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-08-02

ton is about to start operations in
Iceland. This new material bears
close resemblance to real ivory, and
in addition can be made in black or
any color desired.
The largest and most wonderful
spring of fresh water in the world is
on the Gulf coast Of Florida, in Her
nando county. The Wekochee riv-
er, stream large enough to float
small steamer, is made entirely of
water spouted from this gigantic
well, which is ninety feet in diameter
and about seventy feet deep. The
water is said to be remarkably pure.
Flora E. Hingley of Marlboro, VT,
has a Gala fifteen years old, and a
popularity Of the plant is that it
has never grown new bulbs. II has
seven leaves, one of which is four feet
three and one-half inches in height.
The blossom, which is seven by five
inches in size, stands four feet and
one inch from the ground. Miss
Hingley has also a single variety
fuchsia, three feet across, having
thirtvnine branches bearing from
two to six bulbs and blossoms
each, and Storm King which meas
ures two feet across and has forty
three budded branches
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-08-02
A MILKING EXPERIMENT.

Five COWS were MIXED for weeks
by two different persons, each milk
er serving two weeks, both being
competent, one of them doing his av-
erage milking and not aware that
an experiment was under way; the
other was fully informed as to the
nature of the experiment and expect
ed to contribute his best skill for
the purpose in view. In the case of
the one unaware of the experiment
the yield of milk from the FIVE COWS
for two weeks was S64 pounds.
The yield of milk from the same cows
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-08-02
SUMMER B0ARDERS.

I would respectfully announce to those
wanting quiet place fo1 few days outing
that am prepared board them or care
for those wanting to board themselves. I
have good cottage to rent, good boats,
good stable for horses and shady grove
for picnic parties. Will meet parties
short notice. Telephone in house. Terms
reasonable.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-08-02

1t is a good time to look over
your business stationery and
make sure that you have
a full assortment of
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-08-02
THE SKIM-MILK CALF.

The gentleman who says he can
raise as good a calf on skim-milk as
on full, sweet milk had better pause
and look over his woolly, hollow
eyed calf. Such sayings are like
thousands of others, not founded on
fact. If it were said that fairly good
calves can be raised on skim milk,
then we would have the trnth. Any
man who is competent judge can dis
tinguish a calf fed on skim-milk from
one fed on full milk as far as he can
distinguish calf from a sheep.
That bright. smooth cast of hair.
that sprightliness which marks the
difference between the activity of the
calf and the old cow, that lustrOus
eve and mellow touch which char
acterize the calf fed on full milk, is
wanting in the skim milk calf. The
skim milk calf wears a forlOrn look.
He is a melancholy calf, which seems
to say: II have been robbed" In
the days of stone jar churn it was a
common saying of the skim milk calf
that he had been knocked in the head
with the churn dasher. To keep
pace with the times. we should
transform the adage and say that
the skim-milk calf is drowned in the
separator.-[ Rural Life
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-08-02
ALL SORTS.
All Free.

Those who have used DIR. Kings New
Discovery know its value, and those
who have not, have now the oppor-
tunity to try it free. Call on the ad-
vertised druggist and get trial bottle,
free. Send your name and address to H.
E. Bucklen & Co., Chicago, and get a
sample box of DR.. Kings New Life, Pills
tree, as well as copy Of Guide to Health
and Household Instructor, free. All of
which is guaranteed to do you good and
cost you nothing. Flint Bros. drug
store.
Salt and vinegar will whiten eggs
which have become stained.
Electric Bitfers.
This remedy is becoming so we'll known
and so popular as to need no special
Bitters sing the same old praise A
purer medicine does not exist and it is
guaranteed to do all that is claimed
Electric Bitters will cure all diseases of
the liver and kidneys, will remove
pimples, boils. salt rheum and other af-
fections caused by impure blood. Will
drive malaria from the system and
prevent as well as cure all malarial
fevers. For cure Of headache, cOnstipa-
ton and Indigestion try Electric Bitters.
Entire satisfaction guaranteed or money
refunded. Price so cts. and $1.OO per
bottle at Flint Bros. drug store
Red clover tea we'll sweatened is high
ly beneficial when children are afflicted
with whooping cough.
Bucklen'S Arnica SaIve.
The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, letter, chapped hands, chilblains
corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi-
II
is guaranteed to i've perfect satisfact on,
or money refunded. Price % cents per
box. For sale by Flint Bros.
Dotted Swiss muslin is dainty for Win
dow draperies, toilet tables and bed COW
erings.
Blessings are not always sugar-coated.
No, neither are pills-but DR.. Pierces
Pleasant Pellets are, and they are gem
uine blessings in (sugar-coated) disguise
to the sufferer from biliousness, cons tipa-
ton, indigestion and all arrangements
of the stomach, liver and bowels.
Buy them and try them,
You cant make mistake,
They're powerful, yet painless,
And pleasant to take.
Oranges and lemons will keep well if
hung in a wire net in cool and airy
place.
Woman --?
Woman is a conundrum most decidedly
Still we do not propose to give her up.
let woman have her health and spirits
and she is the sunshine of the house. But
suppose she is sick, what then? Why,
then there is a shadow over all the house
Happily in thousands of homes, such
shadows have been removed. Thanks
to DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription,
the diseases and weaknesses incident to
their sex have been removed, and with
health restored, their bright spirits have
come back, and the household has pass
ed from the winter of its discomfort to a
glad summer of comfort. Oh, suffering
women, for your own sakes, and for the
sakes of those about you, use these SIM
pie means and be healed The only rem
edy so effective in nervous and general
prostration, Female Weakness" period
ical pains, irregularities and kindred all
ments, that it can be guaranteed or sold
| on trial.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-08-02
EXPERIMENT STATIONS AND EX-
PERIENCE.

Successful farming never can gain
from experiment stations all the
knowledge needed. The stations
can only help. There is tendency
toward looking TO the stations for
all the advance knowledge. This is
a mistake. Farmers will still have
to be learners from their own exper-
fence, on their own soils, and with
their own surroundings and appli-
ances. With all that the stations
can do, the farmer will have to make
his own specific application. This
calls for the application of sound
judgment, and the better the judg-
ment is trained through practice the
higher the success NJ aine Farmer
The Bessemer indicator., 1894-10-20
INTERESTING ITEMS.

An insurance journal suggests
company to guarantee She genuineness
of alleged foreign nobemen.
A calf with two well formed tails is
the curiosity of resident of Marshall
county, Alabama,
The smallest child in North Caro-
lima was born to Mrs James Delap OF
Thomasville, N. c. 1t weighs only
two pounds and is alive and doing
well.
The British tars get $l2 month,
the American Jack twice as much and
better treatment. This difference is
supposed to account for the desertions
from the British feet in the port of
New York.
A New York woman hearing a
burglar in her house noiselessly left
her bed, and, going to the room
whence the noise came, locked the
door. She then awoke her husband,
who captured the thief and handed
him over to the police.
Under a law passed by the last
legislature OF New York, the salary of
the mayor of Long Island City was
raised from 1000 to $500. When
Mayor Sanford went to draw his sal
ary for the first time under the new
act, he refused to accept the increase.
Some men who were digging we'll
at Live Oak, Fla, found about ten
feet below the surface of the ground
tree that was petrified only on the
outside. The trunk was split open
and the inside was found to be filed
with honey. which had been shut up
in the tree for many years.
At the Riverside park, New York,
the other day, comparatively young
man shot himself while sitting on q
bench, but attracted no attention, and
carriage nfter carriage filed with gay
occupants rode by the corpse without
suspecting that it was dead body.
For several hours he lay there until q
dilatory policeman, thinking he had
slept long enough, touched him and
the dead body rolled from the bench
70 the pavement.
The Bessemer indicator., 1894-10-20
NEWS AND NOTES.

The worlds coal mines employ
100000
A dealer announces: Great bar
gains in corsets"
Nearly all the beef. mutton and
poultry used in Florida comes from
the North.
At the race track people still some
times touch the backs of humpbacked
people, just for lucls
citizen of Vermont has sent to
Governor Russell of Massachusetts, q
golden eagle stuffed and mounted,
measuring seven feet four inches
across the wings.
Paris will amuse the world Mt the
exhibition OF 1900 with the greatest of
all telescopes, which will cost Mt least
$500. 900. and it is expected to bring
the moon near enough to see objects
no larger than the towers OF the
Brooklyn bridge.
While Thomas ORourke was driving
a hack just outside the village of Fort
Lee, N. j., he ran over a dynamite
cartridge lying in the roadway.
o'Rourkc, who Is seventeen years Of
age, was hurled several feet away.
and received injuries which, II not
fatal, will make him a paralytic for
life. The hack was completely
wrecked. the two horses injured, and
two men on bicycles knocked down.
Two other dynamite cartridges were
found near by. 1t is not kaown
whether the cartridges were r-Aced
tAsFs BY accident or design.
The Bessemer indicator., 1894-10-20
AN INUNDATED TOWN.
flooded by Immense Nolam- OF
Thick and Impure Water.

Schneidemuhl, town in the pro-
vince of Posen. Is disturbed, our Ber-
lin correspondent says, by remark
able inundation. At the corner of
one of the streets there stood a pump
whic yielded bad water. Last autumn
1t was removed, and borings for an ar.
tesiau well were begun About tho
frat of July spring was reached,
1sst the water which gushed forth was
thick and impure When a depth of
200 !eet had been sounded an immense
volume of water flowed, and ran down
the street &c the Kuedow rivulet.
The water was allowed to flow for
weeks in the hope that it would be-
come clear. But a bout a week ago great
cracks became visible in the neigh bor-
ing houses Attempts were now made to
stop up the spring. The conduit pipe
had been removed long since. But the
water still gushed forth. Great car
loads of sand and stones were thrown
in but the water penetrated every
thing. The work goes on day and
night; experts from Berlin, Dauzig and
Konigsburg have been summoned, but
nobody can do anything. The houses
rounda bout are more and more endan-
gered, and the pavement has begun to
get loose. One day lately the alarm
bell was heard calling the fremen.
The water had forced for itself another
passage and no longer flowed down
the gutter, but invaded the cellars of
the houses. Jhe water of the great
lake near Naustettin has since then
sunk many feet The number of
h>dses threatened is ,welve. and the
have all had to leave.
The Bessemer indicator., 1894-10-20
HE WAS HARMLESS.
a Flannel N,xh.-Robs and the c.

4 Flannel NiRht-Robs and the Con.
sternation 1t Caused.
He was going north on a Chicago
street car. He had bundle on his
knee. and from the way he hitched
around and looked at the men on
either side of him it was evident
that he wanted to talk to some one.
He finally selected the man on his
right, who. was dapper little fellow
with eyeglasses and gold headed
sane.
LIVER bothered with the rheu-
matics'" suddenly inquired the man
with the bundle.
The dapper man never moved an
eye winker.
I'm having it considerable this
fall" said the other. Strikes me in
the right shoulder and can't wash
the back of my neck more'n half the
time. You look as If you might be
subject to it."
The dapper man looked straight
ment betraying life was jerky mo-
tion OF one toe
"Bin a-buyin' flannel night
5hlrt, persisted the man with the
bundle. Some advised me to get
medicated flannel and some said the
common red flannel would do. Which
sort do you think is best?"
The dapper man was now flushing
up. and his eyes turned to the door,
but he gave no other sign.
"I paid dollar for this" contin-
ued the bundle man as he united the
string, land he warranted 1t not to
shrink. I'd like to ask your opinion
Of the goods. Have paid too much P"
He unwrapped the paper and held
the shirt up to view. It was red
flannel night-shirt. which appeared
to be nine feet long, and at first
sight the dapper little man turned
whittier than flour, got up and fell
over his cane and got up again, shot
outdoors and dropped off. Everybody
else laughed heartily, and after look
ing around in a surprised way the
old man began doing up the bundle,
and observed:
"He needn't have been scarf of
me. Lands save him, never hurt
oobody in my life."
The Bessemer indicator., 1894-10-20
PATH THAT cuTrs.
Confidence Of Patients in a Physician
Ability often Defeats Death

Confidence OF Patients in a Physieian's
Ability often DeTentz Death.
"You may be surprised when ! tell
you that believe in faith cures, "
said a Pittsburg doctor. III don't
belittle the faith or confidence that
my patients have in me 1t is a
great help in getting beneficial re-
suits from the administration of med
icine. In fact, faith or confidence is
requisite to accomplish great cures.
1t matters not whether it be faith in
God, faith in the doctor, or iaith in
the medicine prescribed. the etrecs is
just the same attribute my great
success to the confidence which
seem to inspire into the people Of .
house as soon as | enter it.
LAS an example OF this. not long
ago a patient of mine was visiting in
c veland. She became very sick
while there and beseeched her hus-
band to send for me. received tel
egram after telegram to come. and
even had a special train offered me,
but did not think it would be proper
to neglect my patients here. having
number of serious cases, Tor the
length of tins it would require me
to go to Cleveland After much So
licitatlon, finally agreed to 90 Ar
riving at Cleveland. | found that
had to go twelve miles into the sub
urbs. where | was met at the station
by the doctor in attendance. who had
given the patient up | saw at once
he was ratified, and talked over the
case with him until had got to the
house. There was met by the sor-
rowing husband. with tears in his
eyes. wringing his hands. and saying
in hushed, broken voice, Oh, doc
tor, you are too late, she is nearly
gone. II you had only come sooner,
doctor, you could have saved my
wife She has not spoken for four
hours, and is failing rapidly"
81 was ushered into the room
whore the patient lay and saw she
was extremely low. walked over
to the bed and placed my hand upon
her forehead It was cold The
iciness Of death could already be
felt, but did not lose heart. |
turned to the crowd OF sorrowiug
watchers and said; Why, she's zot
gone yet BY any means. had
hardly uttered the words before ne
eyes OF the patient slowly opened,
und looking up at me in mourninl
way, she raised her hands and ex-
claimed in dramatic manner.
Saved" 1t was not fifteen minutes
before the pulse began to De stronget
and the patient rapidly improved
under the administration OF medicine
until the morning, when | wa 2bIo
TO return to Pittsburg.
'She is living yet, strong, healthy
woman. That woman had simply
made up her mind that she was going
to die unless | came on there. The
impression was so intense that it had
an actual effect upon her condition.
and it is probable that the result
would have been death had she not
been able to expel the impression OF
death by the stronger suggestion OF
life which came when | arrived
her confidence in me"
The Bessemer indicator., 1894-10-20
OVER THe GLOBE.

European goldsniths maks up S24,
900, 600 into gold jewlery annually
A japanese inventor has patented
device by which every member OF
parliament may record his vote by
pressing an electric button at his
desk.
The publishers OF the Chicago city
directory claim that the statistics
gathered by them show that Chicago
has now a population of e,i60, 900 or
400, 900 more thuu New York.
Chariot Touge, the gifted author
ess. is 70 cars old but her nealth is
excellent She is living in a London
suburb. For more that fifty years
she has been devoted to literary work,
and has been one of the most prolific
of writers
Some 200 buses of the London GEN
eral omnibus company have been
fitted with accumulators for the pur,
pose of running electric lights al
night Only one lamp of six-candle
power is put under the center OF each
bus roof. and the cost of equipping
and running each bus is but sie
year,
Captain Regan of the Buffalo, y.
Y, police force has been unable to
End man who could wear his old
clothes The unfortunate individuals
who accept castoff garments were un,
able to fill out the coats of the big
captain. The other day, however
there wandered into the station an In
dian who was big enough to wear the
captains coat He wanted clothes,
and in a few minutes he was accom-
modated. An old uniform which had
seen considerable service was offered
to and accepted by him. The brass
buttons had been taken off the coat,
but two stripes of gold lace on either
sleeve attracted the attention of the
man from the reservation, and he left
the station as proud as If he had been
given an order for unlimited fire.
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