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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-07-07

latter would receive nom ne French army chest 900
france every month hs most urgent expenses, b.
sides having his Austrian and Belgian troops paid BY
the French government.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-07-07

recently met with severe repolse. On the 18th they
driven by the French and imperial Mexicans into
the villages or Victoria and xichu, where they lost ffiy
killed.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-02
Taste In Wall Paper.

To people who are furnishing
houses, the following advice with re-
gard to wall coverings will prove ac-
ceptable;
The choice of wall paper should be
guided in every respect by the desti-
nation OF the room in which it will be
used. The most important question
will always be whether it is to form n
decoration in itself, or whether it is to
become a mere background for pic
lures. In the latter case the paper
can hardly be too subdued in tone
Very light drad green mot emerald),
and the silver gray can be found
suitable for this purpose, and two
shades of the same color are all suili-
cient for one paper. In drawing
rooms, embossed white on cream color,
with very small diaper or spot of
gold, will not be anliss, where the
watercolor drawings are hung. As q
rule, the simplest patterns are the
best for every situation; but where
the eye has to rest on the surface of
the wall alone, greater play of line
in the patterns may become advisable,
1t is obvious that delicate tints admit
of more linear completely than those
which are rich or dark. Intricate
forms should be accompanied by quiet
color, and variety hues should be
chastened by the plainest possible out
lines. In color, wall paper should op-
pose, instead of repeating that of the
! furniture and hangings by which it is
surrounded. Some people conceive
that the most important condition Of
good taste has been fulfilled in every
/ bit of damask in one room is from the
same piece, and every article OF furni-
ture is made Of the same wood at
this rate the art of house fitting
would be reduced to very simple
process. The real secret OF success
in decorative color is, however, quite
as dependant OH contrast as on simi
larity of tint, nor can real artistic
effect be expected without the employ
ment of both.
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No. 1902.
Gait an Indication Of Character.


Observing persons move slow--their
heads move alternately from side to
side, while they occasionally stop and
turn round, Careful persons lift their
feet high, and place them down fat
and firm. Sometimes they stoop
down, pick up some little obstruction
and place it quietly by the side of the
way. Calculating persons generally
walk with their hands IN their pock-
cts, and their heads slightly inclined.
Modest persons generally step softly,
for fear of being observed Timid
persons often step off from a sidewalk.
on meeting another and always go
round stone instead of stepping over
it. Wide-awake persons "toe out,
and have long swing to their arms,
while they shake about miscellaneous
ly. Careless persons are forever stub
bisg their toes Lazy persons scrape
about loosely with th> s,sheels and are
first on one side of the walk and then
on the other Very strong-minded
persons have their toes directly in
front of them, and have kind of
stamp movement Unstable persons
walk fast and slow by turns. Ven
turous persons try all roads, frequent
~ climb the fences instead of going
through the gate, and never let down
q bar One-idea persons and very sell
fish ones 'toe in" Cross persons arc
apt to hit their knees together Good
natured persons snap their fingers
every few steps. Fun-loving people
have kind of a jig-movement.
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A SENSATION NOVEL The following
extract from a most deservedly popu-
lar work called ''The Rover; or, The
Boot-Black Wife's Sisters Niece" is
awfully thrilling. We will not insure
any young lady against fainting away
at the close of this terrible and terrif-
ic extract:
"A dark frown o'erspread the hand
some and courtly features of Fcrnan-
do, the Rover.
why, Why? he asked, brandishiug
his silver handled sword furiously,
will thou not believe me, beauteous
Maria de Argylye? BY this good
sword do | swear | love thee--truly
wildly, passionately l love thee :
Then why stand 80 coldly aloof from
this bosom that is bursting for thee?
The beautiful girl essaycd to speak,
but could not.
'Ha |! exclaimed Fernando, the Ro-
ver-and a sardonic smile lit up his
face-'thou lov'st another
MOI she tremblingly, yet with dig
nifty, replied.
Then why not come to this bosom ?
wildly repeated the Rover.
Because, sir, she replied, drawing
herself up to her whole hight, Tn
afraid yer gassin !"
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1t takes 100000 fat cattle to supply

1t takes 0UU,U lat cattle 10 supply
London one year.
Prentice thinks there's no other
dust SO binding as gold dust.
Westminster Abby has just cele-
brated its S00th anniversary.
The largest aims house in the world
the Freedmen's Bureau.
There are 1000 Catholic churches
and chapels in the United States.
New York is estimated to be worth
six hundred millions of dollars.
If any .one speaks evil of you, let
your life be SO that no one will believe
him.
The taxes of one New York tobacco
merchant amount to$30,0O0 month.
Teamsters may do brisk business,
but wheel-barrow men carry all before
them.
One insurance company III New
York shows n business last year of six
millions of dollars.
Fewer people die with rush Of
blood to the head than with rush of
victuals to the stomach.
Wife (complainingly): 81 haven't
more than third of the bed" Hus-
band (triumphantly): That's all the
law allows you"
There now" cried little girl,
while rummaging drawer in a bu-
reau,' "gran'pa has gone to heaven
without his spectacles.
The woman who rushed to the sol
diers earns" has been sent to prison
for having Government property in
her possession.
Madame" said gentleman to his
wife, 'let me tell you that facts are
very stubborn things" "Dear me,
you don't say So" quoth the lady,
what fact you must be-
A Missouri paper announced short
time since that the wife crop in Gas
conada yielded $4,000 gals" The
next week the editor came out with an
, 'errstum-f for wife read wine"
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A GENUINE OLD FoGY,-There lives
a man in the town of Marion, Wiscon-
sin, who is sixty years old, and who
never went to a bar of any kind and
took drink of ardent spirits; never
attended theater or show of any
description; never took chew of to-
bacco, or smoked a pipe or cigar;
never went to ball or danced step;
never played game of cards, bill
lizards, dominoes, dice or checkers, or
any game whatever that is played for
money; never courted but one woman,
whom he married and lives with yet;
never joined any order or organization
except the Christian Church, of which
he is yet member, and never had
his name in a newspaper but once,
which was when he was married, and
so refuses to give his name for publ
cation now
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-02
Vegetable Instincts.

A tree which is fond OF water, when
planted near some brook will set off all
its principal roots in that direction
How does it know the water to be
there? And how does it know that it
will be able to reach the border Of it :?
To say, in popular phrase, that the
water attracts the roots in that direc-
ton, is to invent new and very re-
markable sort of attraction that pulls
at roots in the ground, and turns
them out at the point of starting-is
something created TO account for
the fact in question, which is even
more difficult than the fact itself
Mr.. Madison, for example, had an
aqueduct of logs, which, in reaching
his house, passed by tree especially
fond OF water, at considerable dis
lance from it. Abreast Of the tree
there was an augur hole in the log
that had been filed with a plug of soft
wood. Exactly thitherward the tree
sent off long stretch of roots, which
forced their way through the plug,
corking up the passage, and were
found there drinking bike so many
thirsty animals Was it then the soft
wood plug that attracted these roots ?
1t certainly should be, on the attrac-
ton principle; for the water was just
as near at other points as here.
1t is said that strawberry planted
in sand with good earth little way
off, will turn its runners all in the latter
direction, and if the good earth is too
far off to be reached, the plant will
make no effort on that side more than
on the other which is equivalent to
the saying that the plant has, in its
lite-principle, an instinct Of measure
ment. 1t does not measure the
ground and then itself, and then com
pare the two; but it has an adaptive
power by which, without comparison,
1t graduates its action by its possibili-
ties.
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JOSH BILLINGS ON LAUGHING. -Laff
ing is strictly an amuzenent, altho
sum folks make a Dizziness oy it.
1t haz bin considered on index oy
charakter, and there IL som so cluss
at reasoning that they say they can
tell what n man had for diner bl see
ing him laif.
never saw two laff alike.
While there. are som who don't
make emmy noize, there are som who
don't make anything but noize-and
som, again, who have musk in their
laff and others who lafI just az a rat
duz who haz kught n steel-trap with
hiz tale.
There IL no mistake in the asser-
shun that it IL cumfert to hear som
laffs that com romping ont ov mans
mouth like distrik school ov young
girls just let out tew play.
Men who never laif may hav good
hearts, but they are deep seated-like
sum springs, they have their inlet and
outlet from below, and show no spark
ing bubble on the brim.
don't like n glSglef; ms KIND OF
laff is like the dandylion, broad yell
ler and not bit oy good smell about it.
1t IL true that emmy kind oy la1,
if it IL honest, IL better than none;
but Civ me the latf that looks out ov
mans eyes, fust TO see if the coast IL
clear, then steals down into the dim
pie ov hiz cheek and rides in an eddy
thare awhile, then waltzes spell at
the corner oy hiz mouth like q thing
ov life, then bursts its bonds oy beau
I ty and fills the air for moment with
a shower ov silvery-tongued sparks,
then steels back with smile tew its
lair in the heart tew watch agin for its
prey-this il the kind ov laif that !
luv and amt afraid or.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-02
The Best Bed.

It is known that feather bed is
ruinous to health. A mattress is bet
ter but in the course of a generation
or two. either will become considera-
bly, loaded with the carnations from
the bodies of those who sleep on them.
When we consider the immense
amount of animal refuse which is con-
stantly escaping from the pores of the
skin, the conviction is forced upon US,
that what we sleep on needs puriiica-
ton once in n while, Just as the clothes
we wear have need to be taken to the
wash-tub. A straw bed is better than
mattress for we can throw the
straw away when it becomes unclean,
and the expense is not heavy. But,
nice and clean as q straw bed is, it has
troublesome rattle while it is new,
which to some persons, Is suggestive
of ghosts or midnight robbers. A
light, elastic plank is very pleasant, if
supported at the ends, and covereb
with blanket Sleeping on the floor
is pleasanter than it seems, and there
is no danger OF break ng ones bones
or tumbling out of b s Mgny 81 our
soldiers have found sleeping III snow
drifts or mud puddles, to agree with
them; and it is certain that mud
pupdie in pure atmosphere is more
wholesome sleeping accommodation
than the most luXuriant bed in an un-
ventilated chamber.
But Of all the beds ever invented,
the best, most wholesome, and perhaps
the cheapest, is the hammock. You
need no bedstead, no mattress, no
cumbrous trappings ofany kind. You
can lie at perfect ease in it, all the
making of the bed that is necessary,
is TO hang 1t up, and put a blanket or
sheet into it. as you may prefer 1t
should be we'll hung on two stout
wrought iron hooks which are secure
" fastened into the wall on the oppo-
site sides Of the room Ifyou want to
rock yourself. us you rock your babies
IN the cradle, you can do ii with no
trouble at all There is none Of that
feeling of unyentiiatcd closeness,
which there is about feather bed, for
the Whole concern is as open as shad
net There is no fear of yermin talk
ing their lodging in it. for every shred
Oft is exposed to view, and there IS
no room for the creatures to hide
There is no difficulty about cleaning
It, for YOU can dip it into a bucket Of
scaiding water. Nor is there any
trouble about moving it, for when it
is rolled up and tied the bundle is no
larger than your lat.
Any body who viii try hammock
for few nights viii wonder that they
ever could enjoy the pondrous Old
things known as bed and bedstead
Try it,
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ADJUSTMENTS OF GREAT MEN.--Spi-
noza, after some hours of close study,
would join the family with whom he
lodged and take part even in the
most trivial conversation. A favorite
amusement of his was setting spiders
to fight each other So much interest
did he take in their combats, that he
was often seized with immoderate fits
of laughter DIR. Samuel Clarke, the
Bible commentator, used to amuse
himself by jumping over tables and
chairs; and Swift, by running up and
down the steps of the deanery. Shell
ley took great pleasure in making pa
per boats, and watching them rs they
iloated on the water He used up in
this way the hy-leaves of the books.
which he took with him on his pedes
trian excursions. On one occasion,
finding himself on the north bank of
the Serpentine river, and without any
materials for INDUCING that peculiar
inclination which the sight of water
always inspired, he twisted up fifty
pounds bank note, and committed it
70 the waves. While Petavins was en-
gagged on his Dogmata Theological, his
principal recreation at the end of every
second hour was to twirl his chair fos
five minutes. Barclay, the author of
the Argeneis, and DAudilly, the trans
lator of Josephus, diverted themselves
during their leisure hours by cultivnt-
ing trees and flowers Tycho Brahe
amusad himself with polishing glasses
for spectacles; and Socrates in playing
with children.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-02
AT THE SEA SHORE.


ry tidoshot watch brings in
some treasure Of oceans store,
ai iho waves. like children lct loose at play,
BROW them about in careless way
Andleaye them upon the shore
ndI gather them ono by one
Ana treasure a quaint concct
Ai thc gray old cliffs look seiemnly down,
and iho turret- smilc in the distant town,
Anl the waves sing at my feet
And tbiuk Of that soundless sea,
Which only fine dead cross DER,
Sud tlt tide il death. and disease the wave,
And oar souls the treasures snatched from ii
crave
and Heaven the pleasant shore
And sometimes the sen is calm,
And tew waves sing hymn of rest,
An1 the tide rocks the soul on tender arm,
I'M finds a shelter secure from harm,
in The garden of the best.
And sometimes the waves dash high,
~ the gates Of the shuddcring tomb,
Andthe tempest shrieks, aud the surges roll,
And ONT on stormy sea the soul
lauehes 90 meet its doom.
The tde Rooc- its treasure long sometimes,
Ahdtho wild waves about it play;
Anaagan, IN the turning Of hand,
mere log bu a shadow upon the sand
Ihe spirit is far away.
ana look ont over the sea.
hen back where the cliffs look down,
ana hot sad, but serious, take my way
Up Ihe rugged steep of the rough pathway
Ihat leads to the distant town.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-02

DOES IT PAY TO MAKE BUTTER p
Statistics kept by the Massachusetts
State Reform School at Westboro,
shows that it costs there $4S,95, to
keep a COW a year In our own State,
actual statistics of 80 townships gave
an average of 12l lbs. of butter to a
COW. The New York Tribune thus
states the result
"Now, 12l lbs. OF butter at 40 cents
per pound, amounts to s4S,40, which
leaves nothing for the use of the CAPT
tai invested on for the labor involved
in milking
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-02

The BEST WAY.-When the honey
moon passes away, setting behind dull
mountains, or dipping silently into
The stormy sea of life the trying hour
OF married life has come, Between
the parties there are no more illusions,
lhe Ieyerish desire of possession has
gone, and all excitement receded.
Then begins, or should, the business
q adaptation. If they find they do
not love each other as they thought
'hey did, they should double then
a'Slduous attention to each other, and
be Jealous Of everything which tends
III lhe slightest way to separate them.
Lille Is too precious to be thrown
away III secret regrets or open differ
e.ees' And let me say to all those to
"hom the romance of life has fed, and
VINO are discontented in the slightest
degree with their conditions and re-
"hons, begin this reconciliation at
once.
renew the attention of earlier days
Dfa" your hearts close together
Ia'N the thing all over. Acknowledge
your ialts to each other, and deter
Iine that henceiorth you will be all il
WI 10 each other; and my word for it
you Will find in your relation the
o"ee'est Joy Garth has for you. There
=" no other way for you to do. If YOU
aio happy at home, you must be happ,
o'o"l me man or woman who has
1s'~ed down upon the conviction tina
~ or she Is attached for life to an un
'H5eaml yoke-fellow, and there is NJ
'ty ol escape, has lost life; there is II,
r ruolt too costly to make which cal
, la'ose to its setting upon the bosom
'ne missing pearl.
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How jim WILSON nEcAME 4 TEMPER
ANcE MAN.--The following story was
told by Professor Stowe in a recent
temperance lecture;
There was ono jim Wilson, very
rum customer, of Cumberland, Maine,
who.used to get converted at every
August campmeeting, and soon after
getting drunk again, would keep drunk
pretty much through the rest OF the
yea Rev. Mr. Richardson having
got hold Of him at casp-meeting,
made this prayer:
80 Lord, Thou hast many times
converted this poor sinner, and now
ain hast Thou made him a subject
Thy saving grace. We pray Thee,
. Lord, to take him home, and to 40
u aop, for if he remains on earth he
will be drunk again in less than q
week !"
The prayer was answered to some
purpose; for it SO frightened the poor
subject of it, that from that day he
became a reformed and temperate
! man.
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FASHIONABLE PRECIsIANs. might
AS wen be out of the world as out Of
the fashion, says the fine lady. as she
Fanays herself III coniUTi&itT with the
latest rescript of Queen Alamode, re-
gardless whether in obeying it she
does or does not violate the require
ments Of taste, the properties OF civil
ized society, and the laws OF harmony.
As the action should be suited TO the
word and the word to the action, in
oratory, so should the figure harmo-
nize with the dress and the dress set
of the figure. But not "a whit does
the slavish worshipper Of fashion care
for congruitv If jacket-like coats are
in vogue, Nour attcnuated dandy
whose latitude and longitude are
those Of bean-pole, will wear one Of
them with as much self-complacency
as if he were the very mould Of form.
SO, too, your "dumpy woman Of ton
insists on her five yards of hoop skirt
when that is the regulation allowance.
In point of fact, the slaves of Fashion
Nre the merest Journalists IN existence.
They wear the uniform Of the hour,
whether it becomes or deforms them,
and arrange every fold of it methodi-
cally, according to the existing formu-
In, whatever that may be The result
is that ultra fashionable people are al
ways stiff and stacy. They have a
madeup, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES APP
pearance, that is horribly anti-poetic.
If ladies who thus hteralize the mode,
think that their close resemblance to
the fashion plates adds to their fascin-
ations they are mistaken.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-02

4 TENNEssuE LADY MAKES HIM
MARK. Gen. Fisk, Of the freedmen 5
bureau, il a speech at Cincinnati the
other day told this story: 4 few
weeks ago there came into my head
quarters at Nashville a Tennessee la
dy, elegantly attired in silk and velvet,
10 talk with me, az She said. | gave
her a seat She took it with AN air.
and sad she wanted TO recover her
property seized by the government.
She abused it heartily, and read me q
lecture on Yankees and abolitionists,
and execrated them for killing her
husband in battle. for he had only
gone with the South to fight for its
rights. l gave her the circular to
read which contains the conditions OF
the government for claimants to com
ply with. She asked me to read it for
her. ] told her | had 10 time; that
she had better read for herself and
then i'll up the blanks provided to
prove the legitimacy Of her claim.
Then she admitted chat she could
neither read or write.
own that while pitied her, felt
q little mischeyious; 50 | pointed to
that young Ohio clerk, and told her
that he would write out the docu-
mcnts for her, She was Mortified, and
asked me with sharpness and asperi-
ty, can than uigger write 2 Yes,
madam, said. and he Will attend to
the business for YOU. With some re-
luctance, she went to his desk lie
arose, bowed, and gave her seat, and
made out in fine round hand the
necessary statement, and then read il
for her. 1t was then offered for her
signature, but when she drew off hen
glove, ! saw splendid diamond spar
kle on her finger as she made her mark.
l pitied her from my heart; the supe-
rority, the real superiority Of the ne
gro was seen in the simple transac-
ton. The poor woman perhaps felt il
then herself, for she wept, came to hel
senses, regretted her harsh remarks
about the niger, and went away
with ideas more becon ing a recon
structed woman than when she came
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St. Adams Business Directory.

,,,u.ry ~ DAVIS, ATTORNEYS AND
X C0rESEILORS AT LAW and Solicitors i'm
!, ,,.,, Onico in the rooms formerly occu-
.i h White & Sowles, Gadcombs Building,
usn- VI. Oily
r,rrFy PARK DAVIS.
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~ BrCK. ATTORNEY AND COUNSEL
VI. L0R AT LAW. Also, Agent for first
-s-. Insurance Companies, and for obtaining
soldiers pay. &c..
0ac. oyer Weeks store. l-H
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CARRl8 sRoTnEns, IRON MEB-

TNRRAR BROTHERS., IRON MER-
CHANTS.
Dealers 10 Nails, Glass, Oils, Paints, Agricul-
tlia. Tool. which we offer at low cash figure
Corner Lake and Mai. streets.
It, Adams, March rs, 1864 i-F
IIrM. p. YALIxI1 dealer in Stoves and
" Tin Ware Fave Troughs manufactured
al pal u1 to ORDER and the setting OF Wood
a1l Coal Furnaces promptly attended to- lO2
nnun.lte Tr.mont House. st. AIbAns. VI.
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Q.a United States Commissioner, Commits
s.'1.r of Deeds for the States of New York,
ys..achusctts. and other States. He will give
r@.mrt attention to all professional business
NH which be may he entrusted.
s. Ntaus Nov 4, 1854. Il
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JT-EAD - DUREN, Druggists and
" Aul.h aries VI Gcines OK the best
quaN Prescriptions illed with care. t@ncy
gn5,r It. Ai1.as. Vt. 90
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C,HAs. 4 = MARSH, GROCER, Stafford
\ Block North Main Street, st. Adams, VT
Agent fog Wilcox & Gibbs Sewing Machines.
Tm, Machine received the highest premium
ST Ae Aya England Fair at Springfield and tho
Vermont State Fair lOa