St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-11-19

cleanest games, devoid of all offensive
brutal features that have been known
in the past, which reflected honor on
both sides.
The Harvard team was considered
a strong one, but the Yale one
showed surprising vigor and
strength. The student in the school
OF the Massachusetts, Technology in
Boston who married the couple in the
lions den at "the Zoo" has been
asked to withdraw from the institu-
ton. Having been warned before
hand, his excuse that he needed the
large marriage fee paid, is not con-
sidered a sufficiently good one in this
case
Prof. Darwin has concluded his
lectures on "Tides." Although they
were somewhat technical yet were
enjoyable. He stated that he found
Prof. Davis OF Harvard knew more
on this subject than any other man
whom he had met since he came to
the United States. This is the seth
season since the Lowell Institute lee.
ture course was founded, and it still
maintains its high grade OF lectures
and they are d~eservedly popular.
Prince Kropotkin, the Russian scien.
fist, better known in this country as
Stepniak the writer, recently gave
two lectures in the course, which
were highly appreciated, for he speaks
very good English. AS he was the
guest of R. E. Ely, the president OF
the Prospect Union of Cambridge.
port, he gave a very interesting lee
ture before them upon "The Socialist
Movement in Europe" he has been
a prisoner over in Siberia; hence his
experiences are thrilling.
Age has not dimmed but rather in
creased the popularity of DR.. E. E.
Hale as a lecturer and writer in New
England. The announcement that
six lectures on Boston local history
would be given by him and that
tickets could be obtained at the ar
senal at 10 a. m. a week ago Satur.
day morning, brought out n of the
largest throngs of people that ever
assembled there for that purpose.
The hall is said to hold from 900 to
1000 persons where the lectures are
given in the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, and so great was the
crowd of people that the ticketsgave
out and several hundred disappointed
persons went away; but an after
noon course has since been arranged,
to repeat the same lectures. He had
two maps of Boston harbor and the
Massachusetts coast as made out by
the early explorers. He had changed
his opinion and beliefof twenty years
ago, when all had supposed Miles
Standish and Winslow to have been
the first E%nglishmen to have visited
Boston,; now he thought William
Blackstone was the pioneer. and any
person living on Louisburg Square
has the right to believe that his
house occupies the place where his
hut was erected on that six acrefarm.
Boston is not as old in its formation
as the Green mountains. A great
deal of DRIFT was brought down in
the glacial period which filled up the
valley in and around the city. AL
though a champion of the Indians,
he considered the 40, 5000 New Eng.
land men rather of an inferior race
There were no indications of Indians
having lived in Shawmut. He hoped
that none of his audience were igno'
rant of the place where the "Bostor
Tea Party" was held. Not like the
alderman who conducted an English
man upon his first visit to the city
down to T wharf, about a halt a mil,
distant from the right place, to show
him Tea wharf! The same quie'
play of humor that you notice in hi
writings appears also in his lectures
The Daughters of Vermont hole
their first meeting upon Thursda,
afternoon in the Vendome and thei
annual reunion upon Monday even
ing, Nov 20. The Massachusetts
Sons of the American Revolution ant
the Sons of the Revolution are t,
hold a meeting when it is expected
that they will ratify the Nationa
meeting for the union Of both socit
ties. Col. E. S. Barrett of Concord
the president of the state society, ha
:. a long line Of notable historic ance:
tors; he recently received a gav'
:, for the society from John Leavit
l of Portsmouth, N. H., made frol
. a piece of oak from the frigate Coz
stitution.
, The Massachusetts, savings bank
unlike those of other New Englan
: states, are not allowed to make il
vestments in the West or outside
their own state and therefore ha,
f not met with such heavy losses {
some others. This reputation ft
safety and security has made son
depositors careless and indifferel
n about sending in their hank books