The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1854-06-07

on Collect Pond, in this city, about the
date specified above. We never read or
heard of RumseJ doing so.
The first permanently successful steam
engine in the world was that of James
Watt, in 1869 and the first permanent.
ly successful steamboat, for which Watt
built the engine. was that of Robert Full
ton, in 1907, in New York Scientific
american.
Whot Notable Men Ate and Drank.
DIR Rondolet, an ancient writer on
fishers, was so fond of figs, that he died
in 1865 of surfeit occasioned by eat
ing them to excess. In letter TO q
friend, DIR. Parr confesses his love of
"hot boiled Holsters, with a profusion of
shrimp sauce. "-Popo who was an cpl
cure, would lie in bed for days at Lord
Bolingbroke's, unless he was told there
were stcwod lampreys for dinner, when
he arose instantly and came down to
the table. A gentleman treated DR..
johnson 10 new honey and cloutod cream,
of which he ate so largely that his en-
tortainer became alarmed. All his life
time DR.. Johnson had voracious attach
ment for leg of mutton. Atmy aunt
Ford's" says lie, II ate so much of a
boicd leg of mutton, that she uaed to
talk of it. My mother, who was affected
by little things, told me seriously that
it would hardly be forgotten" Dry.
den, writing in 1890 to lady, declin-
ing her invitation to handsome sup.
per says; off beggars might be choos-
ers, chine of honest bacon would please
my appetite more than all the marrow
puddings, for I like them better plain,
having a very vulgar stomach"
DR.. George Gordyce contended that,
as one meal a day was enough for a Ii
on. it ought to suffice for a man. Ac-
cordingly for more than twenty years
the Doctor used to eat only n dinner in
the whole course of the day. This sol
itary meal he took regularly at o'clock
at Dolly's chop house. \ pound and a
half Of rump steak, half Il broiled chick
en-. plate of fish, bottle of port. a
quarter Of q pint Il brandy, and tank
ard Of strong ale satisfied the doctors
moderate wants till four o'clock the
next day and regularly engaged one
hour and half of his time Dinnor O.
yer, he returned TO his home in Essex
street, Strand, to deliver his six o'clock
lecture on anatomy and chemistry
Baron Mosores, who lived nearly to
the age of ninety used to 90 one day in
every week without any dinner. eating
only round of dry toast at tea Ari-
osto, like true poet, seems to have lit
orally feasted on fancy Few could live
more frugally. In one OF his poems be
says of himself, " that he was fit per.
son to have lived in the world when a.
corns wcro the food Of men. when
Bohingbroko invited Swift to dine with
him, he talked of the dishes ho would Of.
fer "a fe for your bill of fare" said
Swift, "show me your bill of com pany :"
Milton was fond ofa glass of water and
a pipe. A modern poet, who was asked
by lady of fashion what he would like
for dinner, answered. peppermint cor
dial and black pudding"
FRENcH TAsrE.-Ralph Waldo En-.
crson, has the following remarks on the
plcasurablo and business habits of the
French 4: "Thc contributions of the
French to the useful arts and the
comforts OF life, are highly creditable.
Their taste, equipnge, furniture, all are
very fine and elegant. In designs, fash
ions, dress, etc. all nations copy after
Paris. There is a law of gradation in
fashion, and the skillful miliner can
determine what peculiar modification
the next style will bring out, by the last.
If we strike discord, we must prepare
the ear for the true note by few inter-
mediate notes. So in fashion. One
style must be only slight step in ad-
vance of its predecessor. A Paris mil
liner couid make tho Blooncr costume
popular, at last, if she would only ap.
proach il by degrees, despite the satire
of Punch. French patterns are the mod
els for the world, and all others are col
lated from them. The French taste. in
most instances, is to correct for our peo
pie, and our designers are more engaged
in corrupting them, so as to adjust them
to our taste, than in searching out new
designs In word, the French excel
in dress, dancing, cookery and in police.
Tho latter has no equal anywhere. 1t
is most admirable and excellent in all
its parts
"ln word, the French arc a nation
wise in their pleasures and most foolish
in their business. The opera is the soul
of Paris, and Paris is France. In Paris
what can be said can bo sung, and what
cannot be sung can be danced. Give
France good government for twenty
four hours, and no matter what il may
be afterwards In that short space, ey-
erything bubbles up, and then gives place
to novelty. In two days the most i'm,
portant affair is forgotten, and the
great tide sweeps on unmindful of the
PAST. Madame de Stael says that
Paris must have something new every
three months, to captivate the nation
France is the empire of bagatelle.
Its idea is amusement. Its pleasures
are all refined and arc made the most of.
Mirabeau remarked with his last words;
'Oh light headed thrice light -headed.na.
tion 7 As an illustration of their gid.
diness, when the allied armies captured
Paris, the citizens forgot in few hours
their defeat, in the splendor Of the show.
The women are graceful and beautiful
but the control of French Cupid is
never longer than few days at most.
The hero is he who invites the spectre
that haunts him, to drink wine with
him French life wants veracity still
underlying all this levity, there is much
of good in the French character Ma.
ture has scattered generous and beauti-
full souls among them-Fenclon, Mon,
tesquieu. Pascal. and noble and beauti.