The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1841-07-13

WIN the COinuion CounCl, ana spent rev
days at half the castles in the kingdom. He
was clever, easy, gentlemanly, and polite, and
did credit to the name of an American. He
wanted a wife-a girl with million. What
swell he would have cut at Saratoga But
Prince John aimed his falcon at too high a
quarry. He wanted Princess, or a Dutch
ess, or Countess, or a Right Honorable with
humping jointure /; but the nobility, though
all excessively polite, were on their guard
Some unkind wing had been circulating some
thing about Undertook" "Dutch blood"
"kabbitches," &c, and they refused to nibble
Now, had Prince John visited the city, instead
of the West end and made love to a bankers,
or butchers, or grocer's, or tailor's daugh-
ter, he might have bagged few hundred thou
sands quite readily but he did not take the
hint, so he left for home, and arrived Just in
time to help the old man pack up for the home
stead, and like a sensible, thinking fellow,
conceived it more prudent and more desirable
to buckle to with one of our own fair daughters
than all the Dutchesses in Christendom. So
we take leave of him, with best wishes for good
luck and happiness.
| AMERICAN Wool PRoDUCT.-To those who
have paid the subject but little attention the
amount of money invested in the production
ofiwool within the U. S. will seem surprising.
1t is very generally believed that this is quite
secondary branch of our general interest, in
stead of the most fruitful source of our wealth,
and best deserving the cherishing protection
of our government. As shown by the returns
of the late census we have in thiscountry, ex-
elusive of North Carolina, Michigan and Ken.
lucky, 19,0S5,96 sheep; and taking ten dol.
lars as the average value of land necessary to
sustain sheep and make fair allowance for
the price of the animals themselves, for the la
Dor necessary for their proper superintendent
with that required to prepare their product for
its first market, which are as much part of the
investment as the land which sustains them
the aggregate amount of capital invested in
this branch of industry will be at least two
hundred millions of dollars. This is certainly
an immense sum, and well deserves the atten.
ton of the General Government. At present
England supplies us annually with some ten
millions worth of broadcloths, and after all
chooses to import the wool from the Continent
to the entire exclusion of our own. In 1880
her entire import of this article was $780,
944 pounds, and while we had some 100000
600 pounds Of wool remaining at home, near
| ly two fiiths of the whole wooden manufac-
lures of Great Britain came into the United
States. And yet we have only S15, 100000
invested IN WOODEN manufactures. Ofthe ag-
gregate sum of wool grown in the U. States
in 1889, New York produced 1,012, l44 pounds;
Ohio 3,650,970; Vermont 2,257, 795, which,
in proportion to her population, is much the
largest amount grown in any State; Penn
sylvania 3,076,7S3; Virginia 2672, 014; Me.
1,465, 55l, New Hampshire, 1,2GO,99s; In
diana 1,2O2,2O9; Massachusetts 1,O55,591
Tennessee ,029, 516; and other states various
necticut and the 1854 of Louisana.-N y.
Tribune.
A SNAKE SToRY.-The following snake
story is told in the Louisville Journal
A gentleman from Bardstown has told us
singular snake story. A wealthy farmer, ma
med Field, near that place, went the other day
to sulphur spring upon his farm, where he
found some of his neighbors, who pointed out
| to him hole into which they had Just seen a
grounding run. Mr.. Field at once thrust his
hand into the hole, and, Selling what he sup
posed to be the grounding, pulled it out, when
it proved to be tremendous rattle-snake, hav-
| ing the extraordinary number of twenty-one
rattles. The neighbors, in alarm, retreated
from the spot, but Mr.. F. grasping the snake
firmly in one hand and drawing clasp-knife
from his pocket with the other, and opening it
with his teeth, cut off the head of the reptile,
though not till he had been bitten in both hands,
He resorted as soon as he could to the usual
antidotes, which were effectual. Our inform
ant saw him several days after the incident, in
good health.
CURE FOR THE TooTHAcHE.-At meeting of
| the London Medical Society, DR.. Blake stated
that he was able to cure the most desperate cases
of toothache, (uness the disease was connected
with rheumatIsm) by the applicat on Of the fol-
| lowing remedy to the decaYed tooth: alum re-
| duced 10 an impspable powder, drachms ;
Nitrous spirit Of either, 7 drachms mix and ap-
ply them 10 the tooth-Loneef.
THE SINGLE IDEA An OLD lady, who was very
| thoughtful but could never entertain but one
idea at the same time once entered the church,
and while walking up the aisle, discovered that
! her favnriie cat had accompanied her. Agreea-
| Bile to the first impression ofthe discovery. she
exclaimed, s'Why pussy, where do you thing you
ere eoing7 Looking up, and recollrcting she
was IN the church. she remarked, "There |
spoke right OUT Her attention was now arrested
by The smiles oflhe cougregatinn. which, together
with the voice of her last remark, induced the
exclamation, " Why Ia Pve spoke again. BY
this lime she was fully aware Of the impr"priefy
oil such solih'quy. and forthwith exclaimed in
evident CONSERVATISM, "Wby lud marcy, Pm
talking loud ell the Time"
Three or four naval vessels have been lost and
never heard of-viz. the sloop Of war Wasp,
Captain Blakely, LOST during the last war-she
had obtained victories over the Reindeer and
Avon, British soops of war, the latter of which
sank otter the action. She had also captured