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The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1864-05-20


DISEASES or OvER-WoRKED MEN.-
Time was when the very phrase, dis
eases of over-worked men, would have
been considered foolish and ont of the
question. Now it conveys truth of
national Importance, which the nation
must consider. From being compar-
atiyely idle world, we have Of late be-
come an insane world Oh the subject
Of labor So long as the muscles
merely were employed, 50 long little
harm was done; we remained men;
now we aspire to be gods, and we pay
the forfeit of our ambition. From
oyer-work we get class of diseases
the most prolonged, the most fatal
The sons of our best men go down Mt
noon, and SO accustomed are we 10
the phenomenon that we cease TO re-
gard it as either strange or out OF
place It is through the mind, now,
that the body is destroyed by over
work; at all events, it is so mainly.
The men of intense thought-men Of
letters, men of business who think
and speculate, men of the state who
are ambitious to rule these men are
sacrifices. With them the brain has
not merely to act ON its own muscles,
bidding them perform their necessary
duties, but til one brain must needs
guide a hundred other brains, and all
the muscles thereto appended. An
electric battery works a single wire
from the city to Brighton, and does its
work well, and goes on some months
before it is dead or worn out. Can it
do the work of hundred wires. Oh,
yes, it can, but it must have more acid,
must wear faster, and viii ultimately
die sooner. We may protect the
plates, make the battery to an extent
self-regeneratiye as the body is, but
in the main the waste is in excess OF
the supply, and the wear is certain as
the day. Men of letters, men of bust
ness, who do their business through
other'hands, and DO great business
and men immersed in politics, suffer
much the same kind of effects from
oyer-work. They induce in themselves
usually, when they suffer from thi'
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THE FATAL TRICK.
rHR1IIlNa sKrrclr.


Bounds with one lashing spring the mighty
-Wde waving TO and fro,
Hs angry tail, rcd roll his ewes dilatcl grew
Whore his yastneek just Iningle- with the spine
Sheath in bis iQm the deadly weapon lies.
IfA'de HaroFs P8graoage
Upon one evening party OF collegi-
ans and young bloods of the town had
met together at my rooms to play and
carouse. In fact, it was a regular
! meeting Of the hunters, who assembled
twice every week We kept it up iol-
i MY until midnight, having in that time
managed to get full Of Bacchus, when
S0mers proposed that we should sally
i forth and astonish the town by some
well-planned and well-dirccted piece
Of mischief Without any one Of us
having very clear conception of our
i actions or intentions, we hailed the
4 proposition with drunken rapture, and
j started forth.
4 travelling menagerie had arrived
IN town the day before, and among the
wonders was young bear. The poor
4 animal had been SO well beaten, that
Il e became very humble, and acquired
humber OF amusing tricks. OF this
we We're all aware, having visited the
saFinahagerie the day before. Just as we
4 passed the spot where the animals were
connned' 1t occurred to me what rare
& sport 1t would be to CAPTURE vonno
= bruin, and place him in the chemical
q iecture-room, to astonish, ON the noxt
Gay, the professor and the class
NO sooner had made tbe nronoei.
uon to this effect, than it was adoptod
and all volunteered their assistance in
y carrying 1t into execution. The tent
y OF pavilion which covered the beast
: was erected in the yard of the princi-
pau tavern The cages each CONTAINING
& Inv Ino VI more animals, were iron grated
s. 800, standing ON wheels, by means
: ~ winch they had been dragged into
.I"n' They We're arranged around
'n9 interior Of the tent, forming n cir
s ouar array of wood and iron. Not
IA Lo 8'umg that any one would disturb
6. Il nv y, ANIMALS the showmen and inmates
n',t .le Tavern left the tents entirely I'M
"'cned Thus we were afforded 4
sa aI"r held in which to execute oul
III lint After several of our number
a ."u oeen posted as sentinels. the rest
lePt IN under the canvass and entered
'ne arena. 1t was sometime before We
,d I'ia' IN the deep darkness of the place
q p .euOliy the cage in which our frienC
!. s truln nae, mad been put to sleep. After
so oaaiolng over divers things which lay
t6 5a.'efed about, and peering here ant
toIe IN the dark, we found the obiec
i -. = our search There, in a substantial
%se' was the dim outline of the animal
j .N TWO white eyes flashed drops of fir,
beng aroused from his quiet Stun
4 Inc next difficulty that occurred tc
t ~ was the mode of conveying him t
' ao college, which was several hundred
,ra distant. Some of the Jewellers
paopoSed that we should throw a halteI
V W. ms neck, and so drag him along
4 so we rejected this, not from any per 2
sonal fear, since we had arrived ~ H.,
punt which makes one oblivious y
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1864-05-20

THE GRo1oGY or CANADA The Pro-
vincial Government of Canada has late
ly issued volume ernbodying, With
much Few matter, the condensed sub
stance of all tho previous annual re-
ports which from time to time have
been published ly the authority of the
Colonial Legislature since the estaB-
lishment of tho Geological Survey of
Canada in 1913. The preparation of
this bulky octave of nearly n thousand
pages has been carried ont by the in
defatigable director Of the Survey, Sir
William Logan; and the stfle in which
the work has been got up, the preci-
sion Of the drawings, and the accuracy
; of the wood-cuts, may almost challenge
comparison with the execution of sim
liar scientific productions on this side
of the Atlantic There has been 4
steady persistence in the conduct of
this remarkable Survey, honorable
alike to the successive Governments
that fdyt encouraged it and to the Of
ticers who have carried out the work.
London Saturday Rerielc.
In this thick octave says the Mont
real Gazeite, we have the result of TWEEN
ty years scientific labor-and such h
borl No man can know but the one who
has worked with or beside Sir William
Logan, how he can and does toll. No
man else can tell with what pains-tak-
ing perseverance, and scrupulous con-
scientiousness, he has wrought out
every problem which it has become his
duty to solve.
He has truly labored according to
the motto, FeStina lel,te, but laborcd in
cessantly as no other man has done
whom we ever saw. He has never
spared himself when hard work was
needed. The chief of the staff was
ever ready to do the largest amount of
hard work-even of drlidgery. Who
ever else he might spars, he has neves
spared himself.
He has studied out most yafefully
the principal features of Canadian ge-
ology, and is now at work on the mora
minute details. He has laid down
with wonderful accuracy'where mining
engineers should go to seek for that
which their employers desire to find.
He has told the world where our prin-
cipal deposits of economic minerals arc
to be met with. This was the labor he
was set to do, and he has done it we'll
And meanwhile he has had the OPP
| portunity of solving some of the great
problems over which the naturalists
and sauanS of the world have been puz-
cling. The scientific world owes him
a debt of gratitude which has been
often and most warmly acknowledged,
most cordially by those of most emf
hence in the scientific world of Europe.
He and his assistants have enriched
not ConGda alone but the whole world
Of science by their labors.
Not every geologist, has been blessed
with such assistants as Mr. Murray,
DR., Hunt, and Mr. Billings, the last
named, Canadian by birth, bringing
Canadian science, added honor. A
portion OF this volume OF Canadian
Geology has been written by DIR.
Hunt, than whom there are very fe%
more accomplishe, chemists living,
very few whose authority in matters
pertaining tohis science would be moro
readily accepted anywhere.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1864-05-20

To CATcH RATs,-When house is
infested 10y rats which refuse to nibble
at toasted cheese and the usual bats,
few drops of the highly scented oil
ofrhodium, poured on the trqsttrn of a
cage trap, viii almost invariably attract
it full of the miscellaneous rodents"
before morning. We have known this
to be tried with the most axsteordi-
nary success Where trap baited
with all manner of edibles had failed
TO attract a single rat, the oil Of rho,
dunn caused it to be COMPLETELY crowd
ed night after night, until the house
was cleared of the noisome visitors.
The same oil of rhodium is used by
some keepers of rat pits, Sho when
their hands are smeared With it, do
not hesitate TO take the animals up by
the dozen.
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proved to be plans and details Of fed
cra1 forces anil movements, snugly
rolled together The mischief was in
the pistol, then, though none but a
woman would have thought of it, and
so it was that he carried his informa-
ton to his rtlsf friends with rural
prCcliyities. The woman's purpose
was gained, and when the officer re-
turned, his ''next best fiiond' had
vanished like an Arab, or vision, and
he had hardly time to turn about be-
fore he was under Arrest T. Taylor
a AaahrWc.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1864-05-20

Ears on HORSES. 1t is a good sign
for Il horse 10 carry one ear forward
and the other backward when on a
Journey, because this stretching of the
ears in contrary directions shows that
he is attentive to everything that is
taking place around him; and while
he IS going he cannot be much ia
tigued, or likely soon to become so.
Few horses sleep without pointing
their ears as above, that they may re-
ceive notice of the approach of objects
in every direction. Whom horses OF
mules, says DIR. Anott, "march in
company at night, those in thercar di-
rect their ears forward, those in front
direct them back, those in the ccntel
turn them laterally or across; the
whole troop seeming thus TO be tctua-
ted by one feeling, which watches the
general safety
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] saw they entertained the same fears.
There was another crash and growl.
The professor stopped ngain, and the
class looked around in dismay. Those
who were acquainted with the cause
Of the noise could scarcely keep their
countenance In spite of the alarm
under which they labored, there was
something SO ludicrous in The nrowl.
especially when we figured to ourselves
the coming consternation of the class.
that they could hardly refrain from
laughing outright Thcprofcssor, who
could not tell from whence the sound
proceeded and thought it u trick of the
class, reproyed them severely and then
continued his lecture, Gentlomen,
said he, prepare for a brilliant expert
ment; ] viii show you most startling
effect.
And he did Hark there was a
sudden crash, as if every bottle in the
place had been destroyed at once "a
smoke rose up there was n terrible
howl That made the blood curdlo and
the marrow thrill and, through that
frail glass Father of TRUTH we had
mistaken the cage there leaped forth,
mfurialcd with tie burning liquid
which strcamed over him-h0rror -
an untamod roval fioerl
No words can describe the conster-
nation of the class PotIfcd by hor-
motionloss there we sat. Nota
muscle quivered. So lirid were we with
intense fear. Tt was oar preservation.
Maddenea with the pain. the animal
rushed ON with terrific bounds. and
meeting with no obstacle. PASSED down
the stairs into the GREAT ian. There
AS he leaped and rolled and howled in
his aeonv the eldest daughter Of our
ianitor. coming with q message. unwit-
tinelv entered. She screamed and
fell The tiger. frantic with the acid
which was eating 10 his very flesh.
needed her not. On hepassed and the
eirl lived Better had sbe died for
never arain shone the liqht Of reason
I'm those vacant ewes From that dav
forth She was n oibbsrino. incurable
IDIOT
Onpas.oIthe tioer-on, on tbrouob
the street. with the nopulace avingfo
eyorv side for shclterLrast bis oid mis-
ON whore tho keopers stood WONDERING
mt his escape -on he went bound after
bound howino screomino wifi ooonv
on he went. While bohind him before
and around rose the MINGLED crv Of
men women and children tho tier
the tioorr
At the extremity of the main street
traveller was ri,lnr onietlv to his
home He heard fine noise behind him
and ca4tino liz ovea around saw tba
cause III, snn,ye1 lis horse Who
started sno,tinr viii te,-ro,. for H.
SAW the con,ina If tbe MIGHTY animal
os won as iii master II was in vain
Tho tioer notod not tba man H. onlv
ea,y tbe teriifsd stead ono lean tbe
distance vas INST eaved and he str-c',
his claws into the hind quarters of the
horse. who. upmindful of his double
u T. D
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selected 4'ottru.
EOR. WHAT SHALL I ASK ?

FOR WHAT SHALL / ASK ?
oh ask not wealth
Tho raudy bubble glitters 90 deceive
T.. rain thorn to press thce Mheh aslccP'
n maketh wings. and le9Ycth nv ~ WI,
Ask not what wealth can give
Oh. ask not fame
TIL. empty bubble breaks at every gaze
.+,i,btr shadow stalks in midnight gloomi
If klls Il. hero, then ID haunts ms t'gnnn
Whore all its triumphs fail'
Oh ask not love
.rrq,c beart'si dol" breakoth the fondhoart;
III. smile is Oft decoitinl, and its power
M, m il fclt in sorrows darkest hour;
Ask not his trcachcrous dart.
Oh. ask not power
SOCK not burden that mnst crush thee down.
look at the thrones Of tyrants IN the dust'
Ask where thor might has gone
Oh ask not life
oNaf even nfa itself makes good the name.
How oft its victim Graves Che boon ~ DEATH
When guilt or SORROW yearns t0 yield the ureath
A-knlt Che huul iamc-
Ask fora broken heart
A grief for ali Che ills thy hand hath done;
pN5 Iui MA~lti ilH. lli u7Nt'an 'i e'.''
hops that trumph- DER the fear VI death
Ask and the goal Is won.
Ask flr a quiet mimi
heart atrest from all the jars VI strife.
A humble heart, that mover scars to iall
A heart TO blc-s the Hand that gives is all,
That priceless giitof sit
Ask for a f0unt of toarr
Ill heart to sympathilci 900 others Voc,
The sonl to feel for an the borrowing here.
and power TO point thom TO better sphere,
Whore tears can never Cow
Asb frr homo in heaven
Poor lonely vandorer on LIES troubled sea;
When wealth, and fame, and power, axe wrecked
and gone.
Aad an earth Establishments for ever flown
Ask for a home M Heaven, whore grief car
never be-
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A lady who keeps a French board
ing-house in New York, says she has
no objection to accommodate any Of
her countrymen except the Boa'd-ore
people.
Why is a swarm of bees like a
popular serialy Because they come
out in numbers.
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cause. ono or the other of the follow
ing maladies: Cardiac melancholy. or
broken heart, dyspepsia, accompanied
with great loss OF phosphorus from
the body; dialects, consumption, para
lysis, local and general; apoplexy, in
sanity premature old age Thoy also
suffer moro than other men from the
effects Of ordinary disorders. They
bear pain indiherently, can tolerate no
lowering measures, are left long pros
trated by simple depressing maladies,
and acquire in some instances a NOR
bid sensibility which is reflected in
every direction; SO that brislness of
action becomes ii1ltabilty; and quiet
seclusion moroseness. They dislike
themselves and feel that they must be
disliked, and if they attempt to be
Joyous they lapse into shame ut having
dissembled, and fail again into gloom.
DR.. Richadsoa IA Socia Rericr,
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-"Grace before meat" as the bella
said when she took the last reef in her
corsets just before dinner.
Wisdom and virtue are twin sis
ters. Bravery and honor are twin
brothers
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New explanation of the golden
mean To have gold and be too mean
to use It.
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Bounds with one la-hing spring the mighty
brute
Weekly Trinity journal., 1864-02-27
The Shadeless Shore.

We have muchloved friend; few brief years
We walk beside him down the path of life
And then it's over, and he steps before,
Or else we see our friendship turned to strife.
Thank God amid the dying loves Of earth,
We can behold land where deathess love has birth.
We have a home a circle round hearth
And merry sounds and pleasant sights there;
The wear goes round-there is an empty place.
The fire is out, the festive board Is bear.
But Ger deaths river, on the shadeess shore,
A home is gathering 10 be destroyed no more.
The eve is bright. the cheek is warm and fair
Youth health and pleasure rush through every vein
One days sharp agony, months long woe
Bids beauty bow down in the shrine of pain
Thank God. dire mschance, creeping ill,
With anguish and Woe our Fathers mansions FILL
We bask ourselves in weaths luxuriant court,
Darkness and hardness ere to us unknown;
Then suddenly wake from our bright dream
And riches and their fair train are flown,
How to know that on the changeIess shore
Dadems of fadeless gold are laid for us in store.
And oftentime on lifc's tempesuous sea
When our fra bark is tossed by wind and wave,
We should be carried down the whirlpool there
Did not a vision from atar of save
A bay where our fraagc boat shall moor
The dreary voyage passed. the raging tempest DER.
There are no scattered homes in that fair land.
No riven friends agony nor pain.
No broken hearts. treacherous fortune there;
No darksome grave where lifelong love is lain,
No trial. temptation and no sin;
The ransomed race Of men to angels are akin.
Heed not the thorns that strew thine heavcnward
Press onward, upward. glorious is the prize;
Forget thy sorrow Ger thy ruined home,
Beyond thy lost friends grave. lift up thine eyes
70 Him, who when lifc's troubled dream is DER,
Will welcome thee at last upon the shadeless shore.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1864-02-27
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION.

TgvHE UNDERSIGNED BEING ABOUT TO IN
| situte a suit TO dissolve the co-partnerShip
heretofore existing between Dennis Desy, Tim
othy DeSy and the undersigned, John Desy. un-
der the and style of Desy Bros, - in
ranchn@. raising and selling garden vegetables
and produce. and in packing or freighting.
All persons are notified not to pay said Dennis
or Tim Desy any Indebtedness due to said firm
upon any account whatever, whether upon note
given to said firm a member thereof ac-
count of said firm or otherwise And all per-
sons are notified not to purchase otherwise in
tcrtcre with any property Of whatever nature be-
longing to said firm which may be in the custody
of said Dennis or Tim Desy. JOHN DESY.
Weaverville, Jan. 22d, 1864. 2.3t.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1864-02-27

THE SNAKE RIVER ExPLosIoN-Mr Kennedy, a
gentleman well known to the citizens, particu-
larly miners, of the Boise Basin, arrived in Ban
mock on Wednesday last direct from the Snake
river mines He brings no favorable report, but,
on the other hand, he is satisfied that the excite
ment has proved a complete humbug. Mr.. X.
informs us that large number of persons who
left here when this excitement was first caused.
their return and that a great many more
will follow He is satisfied, after diligently pros
pr citing, that no dggings exist out there to JUS
tiy needless rush in that direction. The let
ters reported to have been received by parties
here, from one Mr.. Thomas, speaking encourag-
ingly of the Snake river excitement, Mr.. Kenne-
dy thinks have never been received, as Mr. T.
is partner of Mr.. Kennedy's That there may
be good diggings in that direction, Mr.. X. does
not doubt; but he thinks it foolish in parties to
rush out without some certainty as the locality
of the mines. He says it is almost impossible
for stock to stand the trip, and provisions so
to make the venture decidedly danger
Gus owing to the lateness of the season Other
parties will be in in day or so, and will doubt
less confirm Mr. X. S statement.-Idaho Democrat.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1864-02-27

Trousers AND PErrIcoATs.-When men wore
tight pantaoons, women wore skinny petticoats
1t was at this time that the French Lord Ogleby,
in farce, giving his tailor an order for panta-
looms to fit tighter than his skin, ends with this
warning, :. Mind, that if | can get them on, |
shall not take them Towards the end of the
last century the French Revolution shook, with
all other things the empire of dress. 1t gave
liberty to the limbs of men 1t emanclpated
them from tight clothing hair powder, and pig
tails it banished breeches and buckles and in
troduced trousers. Pantaloons fingered for Il
time, but the steady tendency of the age was as
much to looser clothing as to liberal ideas. In
deed, the two went together, and trousers was
for some time adopted or opposed and reprobated
as an outward and visible sign of political opn-
ions. Cyril Jackson the Dean of Christchurch,
exerted all his authority and influence in his
college to put down trousers, regarding them as
symbols of revolution ; and his success in en-
forcing the tight apparel brought Upon him the
expression of regret that the Dean had contract
ed the loose habits of the age. At this period,
the female fashion was behind the age in ease
The petticoat was so narrow that it was difficult
to walk in it. 1t was, in fact, pantaloon of
one leg for two legs. The waste was just under
the arm-pits. This thraldom was broken by the
Peninsular war, which introduced what was
called the Spanish dress-very pretty, indeed,
but only the Spanish OF the stage. As If to IN
demnify themselves for their long restraint in
the narrow clothing, the ladies then shortened
their petticoats very literally and ankles were
no mystery. But emancipation was yet partial
and imperfect, the parallel to the trouser being
still wanting but it came with vengeance
with the crinoline-- The crinoline is the peg-top
tfouser exaggerated, and turned the opposite
wsy-the peg at the waist the wide end down.
wards. Women now live in tents-under can
vass, as it were. They expatate within their
airy enclosures. They delight IN the free and
easy. All their ways are unconfned. They walk
up and down within their premises They have
succeeded in the enroachment which would be
described by Blackstone as making larger es-
tate than they,are by law entitledto- They have
enormously aggrandized themselves. They are
geographically thrice what they used to be in
observation-disclosures