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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-07-17
Hnrr Rannna Trees Crow.

It is a peculiar fact that but one
bunch Of bananas grows on a tree.
After the fruit has been cut the tree is
then cut down to the ground, and from
the stump another tree sprouts which
bears another bunch the following
year. The greatest trouble of farmers
is to keep the farms clear Of sprouts.
They shoot up from the roots of the
tree for a radius of ten feet and grow
like weeds.
AS the fruit is cut from the trees it
is placed on the backs Of little pack
donkeys and transported in this way
to the coast. One donkey can carry
from three to six punches, according to
the size of the punches and the dis
lance from the coast. In the season at
Baracoa there are more than 5000 don
keys that stretch along in a line for
miles, plodding toward the coast with
their loads of bananas.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-07-17

Here is an Australian dog story from
the back blocks: A sheep dog had been
brought from a station into a small
township and fretted after the sheep.
One day not a child was to be seen
about the place, and as evening came
the township became alarmed. Search
was made, and the juveniles were
found huddled up in the corner of a
paddock, where the dog had rounded
them up. He had no sheep to look aft
er, so he took the children. The mar
rator Of this lie guarantees it as fact.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-07-17
The Collection,

While lecturing his congregation
rather strongly on a recent Sunday
about slack attendance and small col
lections a minister of a church in an
English city used the following elo-
quent and forcible sentence: Eyes,
brethren, our collection of little over
Is last Sunday included no fewer than
900 halfpennies. We all know about
the widows mite, and am sure we are
very glad to receive it; but l don't
think there are 500 widows In this con-
gregationp'
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-07-17
Geographical Distribution of Hair.

Geographical Distribution of Hair.
The geographical distribution of the
hair over the habitable world is, as re-
CARDS the color, very precisely def1na-
BILE. The xanthocomic or light haired
races are to be found north Of latitude
4S degrees, which cuts off England,
Belgium, the whole of northern Ger
many and a great portion Of Russia.
Between this parallel and latitude As
degrees, including northern France,
Switzerland and part of Piedmont and
passing through Bohemia and Austria,
there Is sort of debatable land of
more or less dark brown hair, and be-
low this line we come gradually upon
the Melanic races. The people Of Eu-
rope therefore present in the color Of
hair an almost perfect graduation, the
light flaxen of the colder ATTITUDES
deepening imperceptibly into the blue
black of the Mediterranean Shores
Gentleman's Magazine.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-07-17
Witness My Hand.

In the early days only few schol-
ars, priests and clerks knew how to
write. 1t was then customary to sign
a document by smearing the hand with
Ink and impressing 1t upon the paper,
accompanied by the words, "Witness
my hand" Afterward the seal was in
troduced as substitute for the hand
mark and was used with the words
above quoted, the two forming the Sig
nature. This is the origin of the ex-
preston as used In modern documents.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-07-17
Sincerely your friend,
Queer Land Tenures.

Some Of the tenures in England are
very curious. A farm near Broadhouse,
in Yorkshire, pays annually to the
landlord a SNOWFALL in midsummer and
a red rose at Christmas. The manor Of
Foston is held by rental Of two ar
rows and loaf Of bread. An estate in
the north of England is held by the ex-
hibition before a court every seven
years of certain vase owned by the
family, another in Suffolk by an annual
rental of two white doves.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-07-17
NnxeI Ammunition.

During the sieges of medieval times
1t was very common for the beleaguers
to throw from their catapults and 9TH
er military engines dead bodies of dogs,
swine, together with pieces Of horse
flesh and similar carrion into the city
or castle besieged in order that the de-
tenders might by the stencil of this
putridity be forced to q surrender.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-07-17
A Little Drama.

In the morning workman kissed his
wife and children and went to help q
hundred others tear down a building.
During the day he slipped and fell.
Then came an ambulance and hos
pital and then a bit of black Grape on
an obscure dooE.
His children went on without their
father.
His wife, whose life had been bound
up In that of her husband, grew pale
and died.
Helplessness killed the little ones.
Yet in speaking of the accident men
said:
1T was not SO bad. Only one man
was killed."-Chicago Journal.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-07-17

Mrs. Catterson-I thought would
come and tell you that your Harold has
been fighting with my Bobbie and set
tie the matter If I could.
Mrs. Hatterson-Well, for my part,
have no time to enter into any dis
cussion about children's quarrels. !
hope am above such things.
I'm delighted to hear that. I'll send
Harold over on a stretcher In an hour
or so."-Harper's Bazaar.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-07-17

Educated Egyptian-You have no
wonderful hieroglyphics in your coun-
try, sir; no mysterious inscriptions, no
undecipherable relics of an ancient lit
erature whose secrets the wise men Of
the world have tried for ages to dis
cover.
Tourist-No, we haven't any of those
things, but (brightening up) we've got
our railway guides. London Fun.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-07-17

One Of the first things to attract the
attention of Baby Clarence was grand
mas hatrack, made Of a pair of deer
horns. One afternoon when he was 3
years old his papa took him to Captain
G.'s park. When relating the Incidents
Of the trip to his mamma on their re-
turn, he exclaimed, "And, oh, mamma,
I saw deer, and he had hatrack on
his headw-Current Literature.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-07-17
The Circus.

written for the CALIFORNIAN with ap'
ologies to w. H. Drummond.)
One grande magnifque circus troupe
pass on dis place las week.
on Friday night we go for see
he show. OATS one picnique!
San Cat'rine car to Bleury St.,
transfer heem up de hill
1en walk to'roo mud OATS thick enough,
Vour rubber boot to fill.
NIoniee dat crowd was never stop
ne paper tell mex day
nat twenty thousand peep was dere
II look, for sure, dat way.
De animals was tres jolie,
we walk all roun' for see
We pass by monk an grizzlie bear
De lions; den-sapre!
We pass on cage and ho-lee smoke,
nat hippopot mus mout
ne crowd fall back WE'LL tink me,
Am glad don live Sout'
He was all mout' and leetle eye
LAX gimet bore you troo,
He's eat tree bale of hay one tam
He's wish he could eat you'll
Dat animal dey call giraffe,
He's head walk on de sky,
His t'roat was half mile long, for sure,
lHe's tax heem year for die.)
Den all the crowd pass on beeg tent
And sit heem down for see
wat was TAX place inside de ring,
(Dat seat was hardin onjeeD
"Nfon cheval Castor" he was nowhere,
Dat horse called "Silver King"
Was dance aroun' and walk de cake
An waltz lax anything.
De elephants dey are so large,
Mais, stand on tubs-sapre
Dat fellow train dem up so well
Dey know so mooche as me.
De acrobat turn summersault
An come down on hees head
You t'ink he got no bones at all
or he would be keel dead.
De clown hees tear himself aroun'
De crowd laff fit to bus
You say Dat foul will not lafF'
"Den wall somehow you mus!
Ma frien' I've tole you quite enuff,
You miss de ver' bes tam
You never had if you don go
To de show lax me, de sam
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-07-17
Many inst Like II.

'Those new neighbors Inundated me
dreadfully today"
"Howw
"Why, they sent over to borrow our
Bible; said they had forgotten theirs
when they moved. And I'm almost
sorry let 'em take It"
"But why"
Because 1t doesn't look as If it ever
had been used. "-Cleveland Plain Deal
or
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-07-17
We'll Concealed.

"What was the matter with Proud
foot that he made such a fool Of him
self last night?"
"Oh, somebody had offended him I'M
Willingly, and he was standing on his
dignity"
"Oh, was he? I wondered what had
become Of it"-New York Commercial
Advertiser.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-07-17

Ladies and waiting maids among the
ancient Greeks and Romans wore plain
hoops Of gold or silver in their ears,
and as time progressed these became
more elaborate, precious gems being
set in them.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-07-17
Vengeance.

Returned Traveller Il have often
thought Of that young Mr.. Tease and
how he used to torment Miss Auburn
about her hair. Did she ever get even
with him?
Old Frlend-Long ago. She married
him.-Illustrated Bits.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-07-17
One Way of Looking at It.

Mabel-Miss Small is treating poor
tombstone shamefully!
Ethel-Oh, really, I haven't heard
anything.
Mabel-Haven't you? They say she's
going to marry him.-London King.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-07-17

Twelve was on the point of striking.
ITO think" cried the fair girl in an
guish, 1--WE will never see each other
again till tomorrow nightw
"Bear up, sweet onew was his en-
couraging remark. "Time will pass.
Besides, I'll write to you when I get
home and in the morning."-Philadel-
Dhia Times.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-07-17
landed was Mr.. Bridgman. Mr.. Clapp's
telegram was as follows:

telegram was as follows:
H. L. BRIDGMAN,
Secy. Peary Attic Club,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Our benedictions. May you return
safely bringing the Pearys and the Pole.
H. L. CLAPP.
The day following to Mr.. Clapp's
great delight he received an acknowl-
edgment of the telegram just as Mr..
Bridgman was starting on his north
ward trip. Mr.. Bridgman wrote,
Dear Mr.. Clapp:
Many thanks for your telegram. If
good wishes count for anything we have
won already l shall count on seeing you
on my return.
Sincerely your friend
H. L. BRIDGMAN.
The CALIFORNIAN joins with Mr.. Clapp
in his wishes for a safe return, both Of
the relief expedition and the Peary fam.
lily. Lieut.. Peary has many friends here
where he is well known from his three
lectures in Music Hall,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-07-17

Blood oranges are sometimes arti-
fcially produced by injecting a few
drops of claret through a small aper-
ture in the rind.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-08-01
Continued Next Weekly
CURIOUS TRANsLATIoNs.
Some Funny Results When Foreigne,
Tackle the Kings English.

Sone runny RESULTS Hnen EOfelKnel
Tackle the Kings English.
Current Literature: The London
Daily News lately mentioned curious
news item which appeared in an Ital-
ian paper-the translation Of an Eng
lish dispatch about a man who had
killed his wife with a poker. The Ital-
ian editor explained in an ingenious
footnote; we do not know with GER
tatnty whether 'pokero' is domestic
or surgical instrument" 1t was like
wise an Italian paper that not long ago
translated The Absent-Minded Beggar
into "A Distracted Mendicant." APP
parently, therefore, it is not only
French .transLators who have trouble
with our colloquialisms, though they
also have to resort to desperate meas
ures to support their TRANSACTIONS.
Thus it is that French version of
The Spy explains how it was that
Cooper's hero could hitch his horse to
a locust-which he translates "sauter-
elle;" grasshoppers, it informs us.
grow to great size in America, and it
is customary for stuffed specimens to
be placed in front of the houses of ma
tives, to be used as hitching posts. A
recent French version of an English
novel, translated Walsh-rabbit as ''un
lapin de Gales" explaining that the
Eares of Wales grow to great size and
afford delicious meat.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-08-01
A Kitten Blocked the wnv.

Philadelphia Press: Motorman Casey
OF the Union Traction company was
held up and defied by small kitten
the other morning. incidentally traffic
was delayed for twenty minutes ana
many passengers were provoked.
Casey was a trifle late and was try
Ing to make up lost time. He stopped
to take on few additional passengers.
When they were aboard his conductor
gave him the bell' and wondered why
the car did not start. He went out
on the front platform and found Casey
kneeling on the ground making frantic
sweeps with his switch rod at some
thing beneath the front wheels.
Whats wrong?" he asked
It's kitten" replied Casey.
The small intruder was comfortably
perched upon brake shoe and resisted
all efforts to coax her forth. Finally
Casey bribed a youngster to crawl in
and abduct her and the car proceeded
on it's way.
One tiny kitten did more than CAP
johnson. 1t blocked the Union Trac-
ton company.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-08-01
College Athletics.

Detroit Free Press: When my SON
went to college," said the father. I
told him that would not permit him
to join the gymnasium and waste his
time with athletics when had sent
him there to study"
did he obey your" inquired the
friend.
II told him that If he didn't would
simply exercise the old-ttme preroga-
tive Of father over his child and
thrash him.
Did 1t answer"
"Not after the first year. BY Jove.
when he came back after his freshman
course he had some way got breadth
of shoulder and a development Of b1ceps
that convinced me that my paternal
prerogative would be safer If didn't
try to exercise it,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-08-01
Six Doctors This Time.

South Bend, Ind, July 29th.-Six diff
ferent doctors treated Mr.. J. o. Lande-
man Of this place for Kidney Trouble.
He had been very Ill for three years,
and he despaired of ever being well.
Somebody suggested Dodd's Kidney
Pills. Mr.. Landeman used two boxes.
He is completely cured, and besides los
ing all his Kidney Trouble, his general
health is much better than it has been
for years.
No case that has occurred in st. Jo-
seph County for half century has ere
ated such profound sensation, and
Dodd's Kidney Pills are being well
advertised, as a result of their wonder
full cure Of Mr.. Landeman's case.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-08-01
The Interrupted Story.
Atlanta. Constitution: when /

Atlanta. Constitutions: when I,WuZ
a young man. said the stranger from
Georgia, st
You have been Dragging about what
you did as young man for the last
hour interrupted the tall man.
las I wuz a-sayin'.' continued the
stranger. when 1 WIZ a young man
could
20 bosh" exclaimed the tall man.
LET up!''
Take fellsr, like this-h'ist him
up, like this-an' pitch him head-over-
heels outen the winder. like that!" con-
Guided the stranger.
And when the tall man quit FOUNDER
ing in the roadside dust he scrambled
to his feet and meekly asked the sta
ton agent when the next train would
be along.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-08-01
BEST FOR THE BOWELS.

No matter what ails you, headache to q
cancer, you will never get we'll until your
bowels are put right. CASCARETS help
nature, cure you without grippe or pain,
produce easy natural movements, cost
you just 10 cents to start getting your
health back. CASCARETS Candy Gu
thartic, the genuine, put up in metal
boxes, every tablet has G. @. q. stamped
on 1t. Beware Of limitations.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-08-01
An Example.

Hello, Mistuh Busy Bee,
Wuckin' all day long.
Why. fob can't you stop like me.
Jes' to sing q song?
Gatherin' up De honey sweet,
Stackin' 1t in tiers,
Savin' mo- dan you could eat
In dozen years.
Hello, Mistuh Busy Man, Is
You is wuss dan him,
Case he'll sleep de winters span.
In some corner dim
Bot er you should take rest,
Pattern after me,
Mistuh Man, fob time so pressed,
An Mistuh Busy Bee.
Washington Star.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-08-01
A Noinnidance

Washington Star: II suppose it is mere
~ coincidence said the young man
who Is anxious to learn.
What is?" inquired the experienced
friend.
The fact that most sensa tional reform
ers have been men who were so rich they
didn't need any more money or so poor,
they had lost hope Of getting any
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-08-01
A Fishing Song.

Fur off from the city
From the dusty town;
Green bank Of a river
An the cork a-goin' down!
Fish. fish, fish,
An the line a-goin' "swish!"
An the perch is sich beauty
When he's fried an in the dish!
Fur off from the city
Cheeks a-tannin brown;
Ripple on the river
An the cork a-goin' down!
Fish, fish, fish,
An you realize yer wish:
An amt the perch a beauty
When he's fried an in the dish!
Atlanta Constitution:
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-08-01

A correspondent has discovered n
number of oddly-named persons in
Georgia counties. Among these names.
we have Sorrowful Williams, Increase
Thomas, Merciful jenkins, Angel Jones.
Salvation White, Happiness Johnson.
Purity Scott and Paradise Lee. 4
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-08-01
Do Your Feet Ache and Burnr

Shake into your shoes, Aliens Foot
Ease. powder for the feet. 1t makes:
tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cures
Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Hot and
Sweating Feet. At all Druggists and
Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE.
Address Allen s. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-08-01
In the Country.

In the Country.
In. town, she'll ride bicycle
Through crowded Chestnut street,
Or backward from trolley car
Alight upon her feet.
She's not afraid of anything
At home, as she'll allow,
But In the country, she exclaims:
"Oh, goodness! There's a cowr'
Philadelphia Bulletin.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-08-01
Revised verslon.

San Francisco Bulletin: PHILOSOPHER,
The way Of the transgressor Is hard.
Innocent Victim (wiping away the blocdt
Hard on the other fellow!
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-08-01
Would Rather Not.

Atlanta Constitutions: ledge said the
TRUTH" 4
why, of course you arel"
Well, den go ahead en- sentsncs me
fust.''
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-08-01

Mrs. Winslow's soorHrNa SYRUP for Children
tectliing, soften the gums, reduces Inflammation,
allays pain, cures wind collie. 25c bottle.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-08-01
Wif.ly sarntitnda.

Life: He-I got that dressmaker,s-
bill Of yours today, and paid it. It
was $500 and took every cent had"
She-"How good OF her. Oh, told
her to divide the bill into four quarters
and send you one at a time
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-08-01

Piso's Cure is the best medicine We
ever used for all elections Of the.
throat and lungs William O.. Ends
ley, Van Buren,, Ind, February ~.
1900 X -
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-08-01

Madame" said Croisette. gravely,
after pause SO prolonged that her
smile faded pitifully from her face,
scared by our strange looks, your
husband has been some time away
from you? He only returned, I think,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-10-17


c. Earl Brown, wealthy mining
man from Leadville, Col, ARRIVED in
Kenosha to make an effort to locate
his mother, Mrs. James Brown, who
disappeared from this city under mys-
FERROUS circumstances more than 20
years ago.
One hundred cases of smallpox
were found on the Odanah Indian res
ervation. which lies along the North
western railroad, 10 miles south of
Ashland.
Mrs. Dorothy Seifert, aged 20, com
mitted suicide at Fond du Lac by
hanging herself with clothesline.
William Hartung died in Kenosha,
aged sc years. He was one of the
early vessel owners on Lake Michi-
gan, having started at Southport in
1s40.
Fred Hubner for q years super
visor of Jefferson, died in Ixonia, aged
IS years.
L. J. Lindsay, who was elected pres
ident Of the Wisconsin State Baptist
convention at the session in La
Crosse, is well known in the business
circles of Milwaukee.
John Tauchen, a shoemaker, 40
years old, was found dead in bed at
his rooming place in Madison. He
had been drinking hard.
The contract for erecting the new
state agricultural college building at
Wisconsin university has been award
ed to r. c. Mccarthy, of Madison, for
$143179.
J. w. Dunegan. OF Stevens Point,
has organized a state bank at Plain
field.
Miss Elizabeth j. Christie, one of
the oldest and most prominent edu-
Gators in Wisconsin, died at her home
a Racine.
Mary Bailey Starkweather died in
Kenosha, aged "a years She was the
widow of J. b. Starkweather and
moved to Kenosha in 1874. She was
the last survivor of the founder Of
the Methodist church in Wisconsin.
Charles Seaman. son OF United
States District Judge w H Seaman,
died al Sheboygan, o0ed 80 years.