St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-03-20
MEN, WOnEN AND EVENTS.
A Pictmrcsnue Cnree

or who died in Washington last week, ha
a picturesque and adventurous caree
He had visited nearly every civilized po
: ton of the globe and claimed several ri
ers as his friends. He saw service in til
70 Crlmean war, and while in Sumatra wa
i. instrumental in a movement for incitin
= the natives to a revolt against Holland
8 Later he was sent to TOnquin by tn
r French government in some official ca
: paclty, and thence drifted to China
! where he organized the first STEAMSHIP
company under the Chinese flag Shortly
. after the Civil War he landed at Sar
Francisco and was successful in securing
the enactment OF the Moreno laws for
the protection of coast fisheries. In 1872
be organized a transpaciic cable COM
pany, in which Leland Stanford was in
terested, and finally a charter was OBJ
tanned from congress for constructing a
| cable He again went to the Orient and
later visited the Hawaiian Islands, where
he gained the confidence of King Kala-
kaua. The latter, angered at the refusal
OF the cabinet to approve loan of ST.
100000 by the Hawaiian government
for the building of the proposed cable
dismissed the members and selected four
new conclllors, Moreno being designated
as prime minister. Moreno carried
things with high hand and after five
days of power was forced to give up
the place. He was still favorite with
the king, however and the latter Sc.
cretly commissioned him as minister to
the United States and every court in
Europe, but his appointment was soon
revoked. He took three young Hawaii
ans to Europe to be educated, and about
1882 returned to America, living in
Washington since that time He was
about seventy years old.
German postmasters have been so an
noyed by eccentrictes in the shapes and
sizes of the envelopes inclosing mail mat
ter that bill is to be introduced in
the Reichstag prescribing the size and |
shape of envelopes. Postmasters in this
country are watching the bill with inter
est, and hoping for a similar one. The
CHEF annoyance is the delay in stamping
the letters with postmark and canceling
stamps, for these odd shaped and odd
sized missives will not pass through the
stamping machine in such a way as to
'eceive the stamp properly, and have to
De gone over again by hand.
Signor Matteucci, who has been study.
ng Vesuvius for many years, saws that
rom July, 1895, it kept constantly active
or more than four years, the flow of
ava ceasing in September, 1899. The
lepth OF the crater was then over GOO
eet. Last April the lava rose to within
40 feet OF the top, when a series of ex-
'loslons within the crater began. Some
blocks of lava were projected 1900 feet
'erpendicuIarly into the air. One block
weighed thirty tons, and Signor Mat
euccl estimates that it took $4,000 ,
lorse power to eject it. Five hundred =
thousand cubic yards of lava and ashes .
we're belched forth in April and Nav.
he crater is thirty feet higher than be-
ore so that Vesuvius rises now A 300 =
eet above sea level.
Cain Mlnninger, who always boa sted
hat his odd name would never shorten {
lis days, died Thursday in Powder Mill 5
Hollow, Pa, aged 90 years. Heinvariably |
old nqurers that he freely forgave his I
parents for naming him after the muir {
ierer OF Abel, and he could only account I
or the strange selection of a name, in I
hat II was biblical, without any regard t
as to the crime Cain had committed. c
was strange character and |
one OF his pastimes was to hunt up by t
personal inquiry and by correspondence, '
all the other people with strange biblical |
names tie had on his list at least five {
elderly men named Cain. He discovered f
only three named Judas. Absaloms were i
plentiful, He found two named PLATE y
with Pontius omitted nine named Poti. I
phar Old man Minninger was extremely t
well read on the old sect of Cainites and c
bis defence OF his name was that Cain
was not a murderer in the common '
sense OF the term, but that the name !
only symbolized the victory of the super. c
Tor power over the interior.
General Harrison was always q firm S
lr'enu OF the soldier. He was proud of
the TACT that he was veteran and II &c
SAID that the title of General by which he
was known to all his most intimat re- &c.
soclates, pleased him more than any that
was bestowed upon him during his sue.
cessful political career. TENSE two seIec.
lions taken at random from his pub
hshed speeches will show how highly he
regarded his comrades
1t is no time now to use the anotbe