The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1857-03-04

years has been unparalleled. Property
for which two millions were offered threo
years ago, was lately sold at $40 600
AHEAD OF THE AGE.-It is said Cam
bridge Professor is about publishing a
scientific work. so learned that nobody
can read it undcrstaudipgly but himself
If little learning is so dangerous, it is
lucky that a great deal is harmless.
MoUiD RocK.-A process has been
lately discovered by New York chem.
list, whereby quartz rock can be liquifed
aud moulded into blocks suitable for
building purposes, at cheaper rate than
clay can be made into bricks A Patent
has already been procured for the in.
| vehtion, and it is spoken Of in the high.
est quarters as one Of the most valuable
Of the day.
The Country Gent leman asserts
that Pigs do not like dirt they are FL.
thy because they are crowded into it.
An experiment was made lately in Erg.
land, which showed the porker did bet.
ter, and made more Of hog of himself.
when properly brushed, combed and cur
ried, than when left to pursue the scjuc.
tivefeutanglemcuts of the mire. 1t is
not stated whether Pig had his tail put
into curl papers or not. Perhaps this is
reserved FOR the next kiuk, in the pro.
gress of Pork Reform.
- Girardiu. the leading Editor Of
Paris lately sold his chair for one kun.
dred and sixty thousand dollars. The
reason he assigns for abdicating the fore.
most position on the Continent is. the
decline Of the power of the French
Press. Tho Government rednires
that every newspaper article should be
signed by its author Of course in
France there are no
d" Thanks to the eve" of Thompson Jones and
Brown"
"A correspondent of the Times is
endeavorirg to get up bunting party
for the west. A letter from Fort Loav.
enworIh states that an English Baronet.
now in the field, took with him an outfit
costing one hundred thousand dollars
The single item Of ammunition which
was brought from T., gland amounted to
three tons in weight In the party is per-
son on high salary. whose sole business
it is to manufacture flies for bait. which
lie is said to do with extraordinary skill.
PoRrERs SPIRIT contains a spirited
cut representing the State Board If -.
rlculturc Of Massachusetts as they az.
peared while passing the resolution
decking horses to the four minute stan.
dard. A majority Of the board are rep
resented with asses heads, aud look very
grave and respectable indeed
Tho articles on 'Websters Private
Correspondence" and on HarpOr's Peri.
odlcals, in Putnam's Month/y are cx
ceedipgly well written, though we can.
not fully iudorse their sentiments. The
yankee story about Love Brainerd." in
the same Magazine contains the best il.
lustraton of the genuine old fashioned
New England womau,-now about ex
tinc' which we have ever seen,
The Home Jou,Uak always con.
tans certain gossip of the sparkling sort
especially attractive to the gentle sex.
Among other things We, this week, learn
that new business has been opened in
in Paris by French woman. 1t is a
secret polce,'to ascertain where husbands
are, during their absence from home. and
report to the wives She has established
an Office and furnishes reports every eve
ning,.. at four dollars per head. Tho
Parisian Ladies who patronize tho shop
must differ materially from the devoted
wife who wrote to her husband in Cali
fornia, that "the longer be remained a.
woy, the better she liked him"
The same paper gives an account of
Fashionable Fair lately held, in which q
certain Princess officlated as saleswoman.
A crusty old Count who would buy moth
ing, coming by her stand was cxhorted
to purchase. He declined unless he
could buy ripglet of her hair, She
Immediately cut it off and named the
price at one hundred dollars, He paid
the money, but was somewhat NOR.
tilted in ascertaining afterwards, that it
was part Of wig
GESIo ScorT's NEW GEoGRApny OF
BRoADwAy.-New York begins at Cham.
ber's Street; all below there is mere
vulgarity. From Chambers TO Canal
the eye of delicate person is shocked
with every variety of cloak and costume.
The over parmepts of tho woman arc all