St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-11-13
Facts In Few Words.

| III pea dressing reluTu u pllIOW-
covers must be noted. The stitt.rolled
holsters are still used, but their obvious
fraud has long been considered inartistic,
and many housekeepers prefer the sleep.
ing pillows to be placed upon the bed
during the day. When this is done, for
the purpose of cleanliness, extra covers
are required, and the so called shams are
used. Instead of mechanical adjustments
to hold these in place, they are supplied
with backing of sheer muslin, which
converts them into an actual case that is
drawn on over the other pillow. A we'll
dressed bed is an important part of the
modern well.equipped bedroom, folding
beds having been relegated to the list OF
expedients necessary often but never de-
sirable.
Sleepy grass is found in New Mexico,
Texas, and Siberia. 1t has a most in
furious effect on horses and sheep, being
strong narcotic or sedative, and caus-
ing profound sleep or stupor lasting
twenty-four to forty eight hours.
Since the last freeze in the Florida
orange district in the winter Of 1899,
special attention has been paid to orange
culture in the south part of Florida, and
it is said that the states product this
year will amount to a million and
| quarter boxes. Carload shipments Of
the crop to northern points have already
begun.
The empress OF China, when she is
travelling, carries with her some 5000
dresses. These fill 600 boxes, and are
taken care of by over 1000 servants,
All the churches, religious societies and
interests of St. Louis have presented a
petition to the worlds fair management
asking for the erection i'll the worlds
fair grounds of a building for the hold
ing of religious meeting, conventions,
etc, and for the display of such exhibi-
tions as the various religious bodies may
desire to make.
Andrew Carnegie has given $4,000
for the erection of library building at
Los Gatos, Cal.
The war against trailing skirts as
means of communication of diseases is
carried on with vigor in Germany. Thus,
at Ems the authorities have put up
notice that no long skirts are to be ad.
mitted within the precincts of the gar
dens, and the keeper excludes women
whose skirts are in his opinion too long,
while outside of Dresden notices are post
ed on the trees that wearers OF trailing
skirts will be 6ned.
Prof w. D Gibbs, of the Ohio State
University, has been elected professor OF
agriculture and director OF the expert
ment station at the New Hampshire
College of Agriculture and Mechanic
Arts, at Durham.
There is a remarkable wheat stack on
a farm near Stradbroke, England. 1t
was built in 1878, and the owner made
a VOW that he would never thrash it
until it realized % shillings a sack,
price which has never been offered. The
stack stands on an iron support two feet
from the ground, and it is in an excellent
state of preservation. Ii is estimated
that the stack contains $50 bushels
General Adelbert Ames, of Lowell
Mass, who was the Reconstruction
Governor OF Mississippi, has presented to
the Mississippi Historical Society his
papers and the documents relating to
his administration.
Rev Samuel Scovlle the son-in, law of
Henry Ward Beecher, has become asso-
clate pastor with DR.. Hills OF the Ply
mouth church in Brooklyn.
The Society of American wars is rails.
ing funds tor the erection in San Francis
co of monument to John Paul Jones.
The Shah of Persia has become a cam
era tiend and has had large darkroom
fitted up in the palace at Teheran.
The tourist in Egypt now takes a
trolley on the main street OF Cairo that
carries him direct to the pyramids. In a
short time line will be built, equipped
with American cars, to run from the
ocean front at PIT 9us to the Parthenon
at Athens.
A curious point in Swedish criminal
law is that confession is necessary before
capital punishment can be carried out
A recent traveller in Central Africa
gives several instances of the capacity
tor sleep developed by his Arab servants.
He mentions one of these men as being
undisturbed by the discharge of firearms
within two feet of his head.
]. Mcneil Whistler the artist, is most
particular about the service at his table.
His dishes are all of silver and the nap.
kins, ETC., are all of the finest damask,
marked in one corner with his crest, the
famous butterfly.
A majority Of the manuscripts received
by the Harpers in competition Tor
place in the series of IL monthly novels
OF American life were by women, though
all but two of the II chosen were BY
men.
In commercial sense Puerto Rico is
almost entirely without forests.