The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-02-14
Life in the Pamuas

A writer in the Overland Monthly
gives the following interesting items OF
life in Buenos Ayres: He was sitting
with the American proprietor of a quinta
one warm noon-time, with doors and win
dows all open, and slipping glass Of
wine, sudden, but not unpleasant scnsa.
sation, like quick, light chill, which
lasted not longer than a half of second.
At the same time sharp click proceeded
from the bottle and wine-glasses as il
they had been raped by some small OBJ
jcct. "That's the ARE What's the
aUe ?" asked the guest. "If you lift up
that bottle" said the host, "you will find
it cut in two; and you will also discover
that the glasses have shared the same
fate" This was found to be true. Nc
satisfactory explanation can be given Of
this phenomenon. but it is thought tc
be entirely electrical. ia dog Or Other
animal should happen to be heated at the
time it comes in contact with the attire
it is instantly fixed in its then position
If a dog is about to scratch its ear, his
hind leg would be held rigidly, as il
in the act, for several successive days
Mankind are not wholly exempt from it,
influences, and people who have beer
caught in that position by the aire are
frequently seen with their heads turned
half round,as if looking over their should
ers. The effects are readily reduced by
poulticing, and have never occasioned
serious Affections
The country is so level hole cannot
be filled in one place without digging a
hole in anorher,an as beef worth nothing
and the flesh will rot in the open air
the hides Of slaughtered cattle used to re-
pair roads when quilted, the hides, horns
and tallow being first removed, the offa
given to the buzzards. The flesh becomes
hard as soe-leather, and resists the veal
and tear of carts and animals with re-
markabe endurance when laid down il
is loosely covered with sand, which work,
in and becomes soldifed with the flesh.
guard is maintained for one or two day,
to keep the buzzardS from destroying tn,
whole, but it indurairs so rapidly that j
is not possible for the hnz4ards to tear il
after iorty-eight hours.
A Spaniard was putting up gninta-
farm house-had several large bricl
kilns in operation, aud the fire was fec
with live sheep. The animals had beeI
shorn of their wool and We're then pitched
into the terrible furnace, where they wer'
consumed rapidly by the fierce heat en-
gered by the fat, With which they wer,
loaded. There are millions of sheep il
Buenos Ayres, and, although the custom
of burning them in brick.kilus obtains al
over the country, their number steadil,
increases. A fine fat animal can b,
bought after shearing for twenty cents.
DR.. Guthrie says" Before God ant
man, before the Church and the world,
impcach intemperance. | charge it witt
the murder of innumerabe souls. In thi
country, blessed with freedom and plenty
the word of God and the liberties of tru,
religion, | charge it as the cause-what
ever be the source elsewhere-of almos
all the poverty, and almost all the crime
All almost all the ignorance, and almos
all the irreligion Tat disgrace and atilic
the land. Il am not mad, most noble Fes
tu.. speak the words Of truth and so
berness.' | do, in my conscience, bcliev
that these intoxicating stimulants hav'
sunk into wretchedness more men and wo
men that found grave in that delug
which swept over the highest hill-tops, en-
quilting world Of which but eight wer
saved"