St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-07-27
Museum Notes.
Interesting Specimens Loaned the In
Stitution by Mike Nolan.

Some interesting specimens from
Japan and the Philippines have re-
Gently been loaned by Mike Nolan of
Gallups Mills, a soldier in the Spanish
American war. Perhaps the most in
teresting is a group of four boloS
with their cases, showing the common
weapon of the Philippine officers, pri-
vate soldiers, boys, and even women.
There is also a spear-head used on
3O-foot pole, which was operated from
the inside of the barbados. Another
weapon is a most ordinary looking
cane which slips apart about six in
ches below the handle and reveals
the sixteen-inch sword ready for
treachery or self defence. The other
Philippine articles are trophies such
as a cane made of water buffalo horn,
two shells common on that coast,
little silver case and one made of
bamboo, two rosarieS and pair of
canvass shoes made. by the natives.
During a stop at some japanese port
a number of articles of hand work
were obtained, among those exhibited
being a small brass vase, an embroid-
cred emblem, a mans knitted silk
undershirt, two fans, two colored pic
lures of Japanese life in lacquered
frames and lacquered box.
A Vermont coin issued in 1887 has
been loaned by Adjutant F. w. Seller
of the Hartford office of the Salvation
Army. 1t is placed in the table case
at the south end of the balcony with
other loaned coins.
The flower list for the past month is
as follows: Homework, June 20;
maple-leaved arrow-wood, yellow hop
clover, sweet-scented bedstraw,
mountain maple, wild grape, fruit of
bishops cap, rough cinquefoil, and
curled dock, Goldie's fern, white or
true wood sorrel, evening primrose,
snowy lady'S slipper, and daisy flea
bane, June %; black-eyed Susan,
pineapple weed, and tumble mustard,
June "a; messy stonecrop, enchanter's
nightshade, white avens, silvery or
hoary cinquefoil, sheep laurel, and tall
leafy green orchis, June 27; hedge
mustard, climbing false buckwheat,
Stevens buttercup, creeping butter
cup, and red pimpernel, June %; but
ter and eggs, Spiny SOW thistle, and
Buxbaum's speedwe1, June 20; clear
weed or richWeed, June 80; Indian Gu
cumber-rOOt, common milk weed, and
moneywort, July 1 smaller enchant-
er's nightshade, agrimony, shinleaf,
partridge vine, fruit of swamp fly
honeysuckle, and Maryland figwort,
July 2; common st. Johnswort, white
melilot and great mullen, July 5;
basil-weed, fire-Weed, hedge bindweed,
and buckwheat, July 6; monkey
flower, spreading dogbane, blue YER
vain, green adder's mouth, pale spiked
lobelia, broad-leaved arrowhead and
Canada thistle, July Z; fruit of red
baneberry and 1opseed, July 9; rabbits
foot clover and Eastwood or linden,
July IL; wild yellow lily, field thistle,
sweet elder, and meadow-sWeet, July
2; red yarrOw, virgins bower, stag
horn sumac, bushy or fragrant golden
rod, musk mallow, July Is; mother
wort, poke milkweed. European bell
flower, wild onion, white campion,
spotted touch-me-not, deptford pink,
slender ladies' tresses, American wild
mint, Indian tobacco, Canadian tick
trefoil, July Is; marsh worried mint
cut-leaved water hoarhound, steeple-
bush, thoroughwort, fragrant ever
lasting, grass-leaved ladies' treSses
hemp nettle, early sgoldenrod, marsh
skull-cap, corn SOW thistle, bulb bear
ing loosestrife, hemlock water parsley
and low or marsh cudweed, July 10.