St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-10-01
Odd Items from Everywhere.

The hand of Jim Stevenson, Lexlng-
ton negro, is said to measure eleven
inches from the wrist to the tip OF the
middle finger. The thumb nail described
as of the size of half dollar.
How some people eat at Eaton Rapids,
Mich, may be guessed by the record OF a
housewife who in year has baked "a
loaves OF bread, 729 biscuits, 140 cakes,
1856 fried cakes, 191 pies, and 1,O26
cookies.
There is a young skeptic in one of the
public schools in Cincinnati, according
to the Enquirer OF that city. Gold"
said the teacher, with as much empress
ment as if he had just made the discovery,
''cod contracts and heat expands. y
Then" asked the new boy, what is the
reason them Alaska fortunes shrink so
the further south they git?"
Mark Twain's trip on the glacier has
beer beaten by five Swiss tourists, who
recently went down the Gwachthorn, in
the Dammastock district on an avalanche.
They got to the foot of the mountain
alive but considerably bruised.
After little Johnny hal come out of
church, some one asked him how he liked
the sermon. pretty well" he replied.
"The beginning was very good, and so
was the end; but it had too much mid
de-"
An auditor at a japanese theater is
allowed, for small extra fee, to stand
up, and the unfortunate individual be-
hind him has no right to demonstrate or
to rise and get a peep at the stage. He
may hear, but he cannot see.
A German paper calls attention to the
extraordinary fact that in Aachen alone
800 tons of steel wire are used up an
nually in the manufacture OF needles
100000 in number, valued at
$1,5O0,000.
The German war office has determined
to furnish artificial teeth gratis to such
soldiers as may need them.
A New York matchmaker recently ac-
complshed the feat OF drilling hole
through common pin from head to
point.
"Ah." said the cheerful optomist, re-
ported by "The Cincinnati Enquirer,
1.-THE thirteenth superstition has been ex-
ploded at last. A fellow who located
claim No. 10 on Eldorado Greek made
one of the richest strikes of the year"
YES" replied the hidebound pessimist,
land a woman married him before he
got out of the country. lguess 49, is
still in the ring"
Pekin's Kin Pan is the oldest news
paper in the world, having been pub
lished continuously for nearly a thousand
years. II began as monthly, became
weekly in 1861. and since the beginning
of the century has been daily. 1t now
publishes three editions day and in
order to prevent cheating by the vendors
prints them on paper OF different colors,
the first being yellow, the second white,
and the last gray.
The city council of Zurich, Switzerland,
has ordered that there be posted in
every street car on the municipal lines
the following notice: Women have the
first right to the seats in the interior of
this car" Heretofore, when a man has
offered his seat to woman it has been
regarded by her as an insulting famil-
iarity, and it is predicted by the Swiss
and German newspapers that the attempt
to enforce this ordinance will encounter
obstacles from the women themselves.
Near Homer, Mich, a man started
duck farm last spring with two ducks.
The eggs laid numbered 100. and he
raised to the marketable age 116 ducks.