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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-01-03
BICYCLE RAILROAD,

The theory that this new kind OF
road was built on is very simple.
As the name implies, it is nothing
more than a bicycle railroad, each
car being merely bicycle capable OF
carrying forty or fifty persons, instead
OF one or two. These big bicycles
are then placed inside of structure
so built that it will hold them, and
hold them so securely that no mat
ter what happens, the passengers
can IN no way be injured or thrown
out. This structure consists of a
single steel track running along the
side OF upright beams which sup.
port an overhead guide that serves to
steady the cars, and through which
the electric current is carried to the
mOtOr-iUr the cars are propelled,
heated and lighted by eictecity.
Every car has two wheels, one at
each end, ana IN the motor cars the
propelllng machinery is placed just
above the wheel. An invention has
recently been made, however, by
means of which the propelling mo-
tor will be located inside the wheel,
and Will be capable of attaining a
speed OF one hundred miles an hour.
AS the cars are firmly held between
the upper and lower rails, no matter
how fast the bicycle train goes, it is
impossible for it to run off the track.
There might be danger from coils
ions, but this has been foreseen, and
the road when it is built, will be di-
vided into sections. When a train
is in one section it will automatically
cut off the electric current from the
section it has just lett, SO there will
be thus no power there topropel any
other train. That section will there
fore be "blocked', and such an ar
rangement in rairoading is called
the block system" There is the
possibility, however, of a wheel
breaking; but even such an accident
would not be serious, because the
cars would only settle down one inch
into shoe arranged for that pur-
pose, and slide along the track until
they stopped easily from their own
friction. They could not possibly
settle down far enough for the guide
wheels to lose their hold of the
guide beam overhead
The cars in operation are almost
noiseIess. Each one weighs, with
wheels, motor, and trucks, only six
tons. The motor cars can seat thlr
ty-six people and the passenger
coaches will hold sixty.six persons
- Harper's Young People.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-01-03
EGGS IN WINTER

II is useless 10 look Tor large guam
titles OF eggs from the heavier breeds
Ot fowls. Where one wants both
eggs and market fowls, it is well to
keep more than one breed. Anentire
flock OF uniform color ism pleasing
10 the eye, but a mixture is more sat
SiaCtOry asan all around flock. Last
winter | had a flock of thirty FIVE
hens, ranging from puIIets to hens
four years old. They were mixed
lot; some Plymouth Rocks, some
grade Langshans, a few light Brah-
mas. and a goodly proportion of
.:oWn Leghorns and their grades.
.ney had been laying well all sum-
mer, with scarcely any decrease in
egg production at melting time, as
the pullets were then beginning to
Jay. At the beginning of cold wea-
;her their house was lined with
building paper, and six or eight in
cheS of sand thrown on the earth
floor. As long as the ground was
bare they were allowed the run OF
the yard, but were kept shut in on
cold and stormy days, The feed was
a warm mash in the morning, with a
teaspoontul OF cayenne pepper in it.
This mash is very easily made. AT
breakfast time every morning the
teakettle is filled with water and put
over to heat. By the time breakIa st
was over the water was hot. 1t was
put into large pail and stirred with
mixture OF bran and mddlings, as
thick as could be.
On the floor we had quantity OF
cut straw and chaff, and into this
were thrown four quarts of mixed
corn, oats and wheat at about four
o'clock in the afternoon, so that the
hens could scratch it out before dark
Fresh water, with the chill off, was
before them every day. All the meat
scraps from the tables and the offa
OF butchcring days, bones with som,
meat on, all went to furnish ANNA
food in absence of insects. Now to
results. Ga no day through the en-
tire winter did they layle than hall
a-dozen eggs, and through Januar,
and February the average ran iron
ten to twenty eggs every day, wit
occasionally as many as twenty-four
When the snow lay deep on tn
ground for weeks at time, and tn
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-01-03

WHAT TO DO WIN oAE's MONEY

4 woman who probably voices the
question OF u great many other Wo-
men write 10 ask how she shall IN
vest her savings. She is Il working
woman who has accumulated a
small sum. which she naturally wish
Is to use IN accumulatIng more. Inc
amount she has saved IS not large
enough for her tOinyest III realestate
Or in any large enterprise.
About two years ago this same
question was asked, and we put the
problem before the leading bushes
men and hnanciers. They answered
the question almost unanimously.
They advocated the saving OF the
money in savings banks at a small
rate OF interest until such time as
there should be sufficient money to
invest in good first class mortgage
or in desirable real estate. The rea-
son for this decision was that women
are seldom fitted by education and
training to take part wisely in ven
lures. They are likely to be the prey
Of designing spectators. They are
almost 'hVar'ao'y ihcaPao'e OF tax
ing care OF themselves " ahN So't u
speculative scnefhe' ne savings
banks oiler d secure p'actIor deposit
ing money ana the income rom
them, while small, is certain. Four
per cent assured ana sa'c' Is Oe'te'
LOT most women una" larger pro'''S
ana sr'dte' riNNn'
"nch inc S'na sum mas grown TO
NC a cohs'oeraDIe one "rst mort
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-01-03
SUNOL'S KINDERGARTEN TRAIN
ING.

1t was charming April morning
when Prof. Earl Barnes, in the beau
tiiul quadrangle at Stanford univers-
ity, asked if | would like to see the
Stanford kindergarten, says writer
in the Journal OF Education. When
in the midst OF stables, sheds and
yards, where horses aud colts of rare
beauty and fabulous prices were on
every hand, we were ushered into the
colt kindergarten, shed about go
by 100 teet In this shed was a six
teetwide tan track, separated from
the inner space by railing. In
either focus stood a trainer with a
long lash whip, with cloud snap
per.
A six-months.o old colt was ushered
upon this track with no line or strap
OF any kind upon him. Finding him
self at liberty under such unusual
conditions, he sprang forward at a
gay gallop, but the whip was crack
ing at the end and he turned and
flew back, only to be similarly greet
cd al the other end when he turned
again he found the door open into
the ward and he was free. The next
day it was less strange, and so day
after day he spent five minutes on
this track. 1t was not long before
ne was so much at home that he
took square trot when, for the first
time, the whip did not crack and he
could 60 round undisturbed. Here
he comes daily until he is strong
enough to go in the suky or under
the saddle Here the colt gets move
ment, grace, strength and familiar
ity with the track. 1t is said that
Robert Bonner of New York, J. Nj @.
Forbes OF Boston and other turf men
laughed when they learned that
Senator Stanford was to train his
colts by the kindergarten method !;
but when i'll single season that kim
dergarten sent out three colts to
break the three great records of the
turf, Bonner telegraphed for Sunol
AT any price, and Forbes paid SIS
600 tor AriOn.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-01-03
SHOE PROPERL Y.

1t is found that most maIadles re-
sulting from horse shooting are due to
uneven and unbalanced wall (alI that
part OF the hoof that is visible below
the hair when the hoof is placed on
the ground) in connection with an
undue height OF the heel. II the heels
are allowed to grow too high the
greater part Of the weight is thrown
forward upon the bone structure OF
the limb and the bones OF the foot are
forced forward against the wall in
front.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-01-03

thermometer lowering around zero,
they were kept in the hou'e all the
time. The house is sixteen by twenty
four feet, and besides the hens there
were two cocks and ten hen turkeys
kept in it. With eggs from eighteen
to twenty four cents dozen 1t is
worth while to "luss" with hens
Correspondence Agriculturist.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-01-03
KNIGHTS OF The MACCADEES
or The WORLD!
The Deputy Supreme comman-
der Expresses His Gratitude.


Deputy Supreme cc% hnaa o the Wcfd
Emporium, Pa, Dec. Is, 1893.
DR.. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind, ou
Gentlemen;-I feel very grateful to you
and your valuable medlclneIDr Miles, re- re-
was was almost blind from loss OF power in the
optic nd5 nerve. Her eyes looked perfectly nat
uFral, but there was a gradual failure Of sight
until on some days she could hardly tell day
iight from darkness. We had several pre-,
remedies, but without success. We happened
to see in paper accounts Of what Dr. Miles
Nervlne had done for others aud purchased
a bottle one day of DR.. Lamb. 70 our great
10y it restored her eyeslght., | BOUGHT Two
bottles more and they made final cure;
Thanking YOU for what 1t has done for us,
can and wifi recommend IT to others.
Yours with gratitude,
GEO. DICKINSON.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-01-03
HORNLESS JERSEYS.

Mountain Brook farm, Roxbury,
w., is owned and managed by w. /.
Simonds. The farm though une.
ven has been carefully cultivated and
enriched that it produces enormous
crops OF hay and corn. both field and
ensilage. This year Mr.. Slmonds
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-01-03
THREE MONTHS LATER.

BELIEVING THE CURE PERMANENT HE WANTS
EVERYBODY TO KNOW 1T.
Emporium, March 20, 1894.
DR.. Miles Medical Co.:
Gentlemen What we wrote you last De
cember about our daughters eyes, still holds
good, and we believe the cure permanent
Please publish this for the benefit OF others
/ hone your valuable medicines will reach
The afflicted in every home and hamlet and
nation on earth. Thankfully yours,
GEO. DICKINSON.
DIR. Miles, Nervine Is sold on n positive
guarantee that the first bottle will benefit.
Ali druggists sell it atS1 6 bottles for IS, or
it will he sent, prepaid, on receipt of price
by the DR.. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-06-14
Change of Time on the "Big Fou
Route"

Now Train TO Cincinnati and Wash
ington, d. C.-Commencing Sunday,
May 90, the Big Four Route will In ad-
dition to their regular service put on
new train leaving Chicago daily at j.
o'clock noon, arriving at indianapolis
Clio p. m. Cincinnati 9:05 p. m, connect
ing direct with the Washington eX-
press on the Chesapeake & Ohio Ryp
arriving at Washington, ID. c., next
day at S:45 p. m, Baltimore 4:54 p. m.
This will be an elegant electric-lighted
vestibuled train with parlor, sleeping
and dining car service. Take this train
for Washington and the cool summer
resorts Of the Allegheny and Blue
Ridge mountains of Virginia and the
sea shore. Send for tourist rates and
time cards. Depots Twelfth and Park
Row, Twenty-second street. Thirty
ninth street and Fifty-third street
Clyde ParlO. City ticket office, 2S4
Clark street.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-06-14
Epworth League. Chattlnooga.

The route to Chattanooga over the Louis
vile & Nashville railroad is via Mammoth
Cave. Americas Greatest Natural Wonder
Specially low rates made for hotel and Cave
fees to holders OF Epwortn League tickets.
Through Nashville, the loca tion of Vanderbilt
University. the pride OF the Methodist church,
and along the line between Nashville and Chat
tanooga where many OF the most famous bat
ties OF the war were fought. Send for maps of
the route from Cincinnati Louisville. Evans
vile and St LOUIS, and particulars as to
rates. ETC.. to C. L. Atmore. General Passenger
Agent. Louisville. Ky. or Jackson Smith, ID.
Z. A., Cincinnati. o.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-06-14
HALF FARE
To Chattanooga and Return for the
Epworth League Convention in June.


Epworth League Convention in June.
On June 25th. 26th and 9th, 1895, the
Monon Route will sell tickets at rate
OF one fare for the round trip from all
points on its line 10 Chattanooga and
return on account OF the Second Inter-
national Conference OF the Epworth
League. These rates and tickets will be
open TO all. Tickets will be limited 20
return fifteen days from date of sale,
but can be extended fifteen days by de-
posting with agents Of Q. & c. or Nash
Vile & Chattanooga Railways before
June 30th.
A choice Of routes via Cincinnati, the
Blue Grass regions of Kentucky and
the mountains of Tennessee, or via
Louisville and the cave regions of Ken
lucky, with side trips to Mammoth
cave at a nominal expense, makes the
Monon route the most desirable line
between Chicago and Chattanooga,
Tenn.
The day trains of the Monon route
both via Louisville and Cincinnati car
ry parlor ears and dining cars. serving
meals same as at first-class cafe. Pa
t0ns can order what they want and
need only pay for what they get.
The evening trains carry luxurious
palace sleeping cars from Chicago to
Cincinnati or Louisville. The sleeping
car rate from Chicago to the Ohio
river, or from the Ohio river TO Chat
tanooga, is 81 per berth, whether occu-
pied by one or two persons.
Parties wishing TO view the noun
tain scenery of the South should leave
Chicago Oh the evening trains, so as to
make the trip from Cincinnati or Lou
isvllle to Chattanooga by daylight, ar
irving at Chattanooga for supper.
Those wishing to visit Mammoth cave
should leave Chicago at 5:32 p. m, ar
irving at Louisville for breakfast, and
at the cave for dinner. remaining at the
cave until next morning, leaving at 9
o'clock. and arriving at Chattanooga
for supper.
The side trip from Glasgow Junction
to Mammoth cave will cost but SIPS;
hotel bill and cave fees will be very rea-
sonable. The guides go into the cave
between and o'clock p. m. and at
o'clock in the evening, thus giving those
who wish n chance to make two trips
In the cave same day.
Further information, with time ia
bles, maps and pamphlets, will be fur
nished on application to any agent OF
the Monon route, or by addressing
Frank J. Reed, General Passenger
Agent, Chicago.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-06-14
The Serpent's Trick.

The power Of continuing motlonless
with the uplifted head projecting for
ward for an indefinite period is one of
the most wonderful of the serpent's
muscular feats and is one of the high
est Importance to the animal, both
when fascinating its victim and when
mimicking some inanimate object, as,
for instance, the stem and bud of an
aquatic plant; here it is only referred
to on account of the effect it produces
on the human mind, as enhancing the
serpent's strangeness. In this attitude,
with the round, unwinking eyes fixed
on the beholder's face, the effect may
be very curious and uncanny.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-06-14

city. Letters and kilograms have
reached her from Cincinnati, Chicago
ana many other points, commencing
her action. Mrs. Griffin had accompa-
MED party Of ladies to the theater.
and after they had been seated the two
young men came in. OF what followed
she said to the writer: when the cur
tain had dropped for the first time one
OF them asked, May we get out? and
| politely replied that he could not. He
insisted. and l decided that 1 would
show him that in America a woman
has some rights and privileges. He
called the police. and L confess that
excited me. and had the manager or.
dered me TO vacate my seat, 1 should
have refused TO obey, as had paid for
the seat"
Manager WISER Informed the man
that the lady had a right to hold the
seat, and then the men were finally
compelled TO sit down. A storm OF APP
plause followed from the occupants OF
the lower floor who witnessed the pecu-
liar scene. The public and the press
have applauded Mrs Griffin so strong
ly that Manager WISER will discard the
pass check system, as the theater has
water and all modern conveniences
connected with each floor
Mrs. Griffin is a highly educated wo-
man. She was born in Allen county,
Fort Wayne. She Is a graduate of the
Valparaiso College and at the age of
20 was an instructor in the schools in
Allen and Porter counties. Indiana,and
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-06-14
JETSAM.

The leather trade is one of the many
that Is once more fairly prosperous.
Last year was the slackest since the
war in the matter of railroad construc-
ton.
When shad first made their appear
ance In California they were worth sl.2O
per pound.
Socrates was said to remember the
faces and names of all who attended
his discourses.
Jonabad Almanor, the famous lIngu-
list, could converse in twenty-seven diff
ferent languages.
Beethoven could remember any selec-
ton of music he had ever heard and
reproduce most OF II.
In Constantinople II Is strictly illegal
either to buy or sell hashish, though
the law Is freely violated. --
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-06-14
A Coincide

"Many years ago. says David Nor
ton. of Oldtown, Maine. II set out a
chance apple-tree that sprang up near
our premises, and cared for II until il
grew into a fine large tree, bearing a
splendid variety of fruit, unlike any
teing I had ever seen. The children
thought n great deal of the apples and
in compliment TO their mother called
them the mother apples After the
tree had been bearing a few years
was in a Bangor market one day, and
there was a barrel OF apples just like
those at home, and l thought, Now I'll
find out what they call en- So / in
quired where they got them. Mr.. So
and-So raised them out in Hermon.
was the reply. We'll. what kind of APP
pies are they? What's their name?
Mother apples" said the market-man.
looking me right in the eye. Now, that
beat me all out. and I've wondered at
the strange coincidence ever since that
these apples, raised twenty miles away.
where they never saw or heard of our
mother apples at home. should have
the same fruit and give IL the same
name. or II they were first. that my
boys should have hit the same name
without knowing it,"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-06-14
DIR. ANNA LENNON GRIFFIN.

I'm Bureau county, Illinois. In 1885 she
entered the Womans Medical College
of Chicago, and she won the Rosaen-
CERT prize OF $50 in class of sixteen
graduates. After her graduation she
served a term as inferno in the Wo-
mans and Childrens Hospital of Chi
cago and since then has practiced med
icine in Fort Wayne. Cincinnati and
Muncie. She has lived there three
years. She served as secretary OF the
Delaware County Medical Society last
year and - a member of the District
Medical Society. Her practice is very
large in Muncie and Delaware County.
Her maiden name was Lennon and
she was married only few months
ago.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-06-14

A Geneva clockmaker has invented a
speaking watch. 1t is an application of
the monograph to the old-fashioned
repeater, whose springs and hammers
have been replaced by disc of vulcan
lied india rubber. AS the point moves
over the surface it emits articulate
sounds, indicating the hour, being an
exact reproduction of those produced
on cylinder by the human voice, and
which can be heard in an adjoining
room.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-06-14
THE PROMISED LAND.
Why the Tourist. Traveller and Student
Should Visit Utah.


There are two reasons, either one OF which
ought to be conclusive with every American
citizen:
Flrst-The trip from Denver TO Utah via
Rio Grande Western railway is the grand
est TO be found anywhere on the continent.
No European trip OF equal length can COM
pare with IL in variety and grandeur OF
scenery and wealth Of novel interest.
Second-You should go, because, when you
have made this wonderful trip you Will find
Utah at the end OF it-Utah one OF the
worlds famous spots and a land OF gold sill
yer, copper. iron and coal; OF lofty noun
tains and fertile valleys; OF vineyards, fruits
and flowers. Salt Lake City, the capital Is
OF great interest en- account Of It's historical
and religious associations Here are hot
thermal springs, warm springs, sulphur
springs, sanitarlum, parks drives, canOns
and the most healthful climate on earth.
Great Salt Lake. with the new and beauti-
ful Ssltalr Reach resort, OF Moorish design,
has no equal in America. Write to II. A.
Wadlelgh. Salt Lake City, for copies or
pamphlets, etc.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-06-14
HERE'S ROSES FOR you.
The Impulse to BE Generous Came
from the Flowers.

The Impulse to BE Generous Came
from the Flowers.
A prosperous-looking man was rid
ing westward on a Taylor street car.
In his hand he held a large bunch of
cut roses, covered with tissue paper. 1t
was the first communion Sunday, and
as the man looked out he saw young
girls in white dresses and yelling
hurrying along, says the Chicago Rec
ord. The Nineteenth ward man looked
at the cheerful girls. After they were
past his eye wandered again to the red
advertisement in the car; then he
looked at the roses, and at last noticed
little girl on the opposite seat. She
was poorly clad and had on a dark
shawl and was gazing intently at the
flowers. He noted her poor appear
ance and longing look and he suddenly
opened the tissue paper and took out
two large roses and said: Here, little
girl" Her eyes opened wider and she
said, ooh, thank you, misterw 1t was
very small happening in Chicago and
probably contains no moral. When he
got off with another man at May street
and they went into a saloon for a
drink and the roses were laid on the
bar he seemed to mediate and said:
God bless her little soul! wish I'd
given her all of them"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-06-14
Estimating the Value OF n M,rac,o.


On the authority Of a member of the
medical profession. the British Medical
Journal states that devout woman,
afflicted with an liberated stomach,
visited ST. Wlnetrides well. and was
duly cured by the saint. She. returned
home. boasting that she could "eat any
thine." including even pigs feet"
Whether she actually INDUCED I'm pigs
feet does not appear II properly
cooked they are harmless delicacy:
but, anyhow, the lady was suddenly
taken very i'll at teatime. The doctor
who was called In diagnosed perfora-
ton OF the stomach" and the next day
the poor lady died. One OF the first
requisites, take 1t. In estimating the
value of all cures" whether mirGcu-
lous or otherwise. is the subsequent
history of the cases. This is supplied
with great effect I'm the above instance.
But. perhaps. shall be told that the
saint does not insure against pigs feet
I'm cases OF liberated stomach.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-06-14

General De Quesada, Cuban patriot,
announces in New York: THE hour
has arrived" The hour may have just
arrived in New York, but it Is pretty
we'll advanced in Cuba. Cuban out
bursts this side Of Sandy Hook are in
teresting but not valuable. 1t is not the
hour but the guns and am9unition
which the Cubans are impatiently
awaiting to arrive.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-06-14

A new uprising against the govern
ment of Columbia has been discovered
at Barranquilla in the department of
Bolivar. Martial law has been declared
Valentine Weissman, of Evansville,
Ind, cut his wife's throat in three
places. He also cut off her breasts,
hacked her bosom and face and tried
to cut off her hands. In all he cut her
12i times. He also killed their babe.