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The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-11-25


Boys under fifteen, having the consent
of the parents, will be received into the
New York nautical school on the follow
ing conditions First, they must be of
sound constitution second, they must
evince some aptitude or inclination for a
sea life. When pupil has passed success
fully through the prescribed term, from
eighteen months to two years, he will be
awarded a certificate bearing his rating and
general character, which will always insure
him employment. On leaving the school,
efforts will be made to obtain for the boys
holding certificates positions on board the
best ships out of New York.
A NEW KIND
of entertainment, called the Lady WASH
ington tea party, for the Brooklyn matern-
ity charity, comes off at the Academy of
Music next week. 1t is intended to repro
duce, as far as possible, an exact copy of
the republican court at Washington, and
General and Lady Washington will be rep
resented. The management have secured
the use of the uniforms of the Putnam Pha-
lanx of Hartford. The costume of the
evening will be the court dress of 1778, and
! the guests will appear In that dress. O.
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-11-25

A Washington dispatch says the secre-
tary of war has authorized General Ord to
issue army clothing to needy sufferers in
the grasshopper district, and directed him
to report by telegraph when il will be the
most needed, This welcome order will go
far to relieve the wants of the men, but the
women and children will still have to lc
furnished by private contributions.
Connecticut western news., 1874-09-11
Noble Devotion.

"Fay," writing from Saratoga to the Louisville Courier-Jou7nol, says :- Wonder is maiden lady whose hair is almost snow white. She looks very gentle, refined and delicate. A light shawl covers her shoulders, and even on this bright morning she has to avoid the draught. A gentleman, who seems to regard her with the tenderest care,
 moves her chair and otherwise seems solicitous about her health and comfort.
 Some are puzzled to understand the relationship that exists between the two besides, there is nameless some thing which tells that he is neither husband, lover, nor brother. These relationships are common and easily defined, but in these days of degenerate honor it is rare to find man devoting himself to a woman past her youth, and who is nothing more to him than 8 friend, but who is sister of the girl who years ago was to have been his wife, and would have been but that death interposed and the bridal robe became her winding-sheet. No other love has since entered his heart, but he preserves his loyalty to her memory by a brothers love and protection to her only sister. And she, in spite of ill., health, has performed her mission in life by supporting and educating or phan nephews, so that as she declines in years she has those about her who think an .'old maid the dearest and
 best of women" = ! = " -
Connecticut western news., 1874-09-11
Bad Beverages.

A New York correspondent of the Boston Journal writes: "Our com munity is greatly stirred by the revela- tions made on the adulterations of food. The practice runs into jellies, and espe- cially teas and coffees. A great many men are particular about their coffee.
 They buy the berry, burn it carefully, and have the aromatic beverage made under their own eye. After they have done all they are only drinking white beans. There is a machine here for splitting beans and growing them.
 They are then dried to the color of coffee and soaked in solution which gives the coffee taste. Teas are sold here cheaper than the pure article can be bought in China. There is not tea enough in all China to answer the American market, to say nothing of the million pounds consumed in Eng land alone. Then there is mile of houses with boilers and coloring mat ter in the open ports of China, run by English and Scotchmen, whose busi- ness it is to doctor the tea for the mar ket for which it is intended. This inn pure article, made in huge kettles and dried in pans. is called by the Chinese cheat-tea. We have houses here that openly advertise that they can color and make over. teas of any brand or style required, and offer to repack it in the chests 50 as to defy detection. The tea trade here requires capital of over thirty millions" ..- .-..
Connecticut western news., 1874-09-11
A Patent Bug Killer.

We read once of an ingenious gentle man, who utilized mice by making them spool cotton, the winding power being conveyed through a little tread mill, which the small rogues kept in motion as squirrels do @ wheel-oage. Other experiments with the mischief makers of house and corn. field may pay equally we'll, as the following proves. A correspondent says: ''.'-' , .--,' .1''...,"
 There has been a crow in this neigh borhood for the past year that is so in- telligent, and has taught himself to be so usefal, that his case goes, far to prove that these birds may easily be trained so as to be of much value.
 This bird belonged to a gentleman whose farm is mostly cultivated as a fruit and garden farm, and the first idea he had of his usefulness was one day when the crow followed him to the squash field where he was engaged in fighting his annual battle" with the black -and d-striped7 bugs, which render it some years almostimpossible to raise single squash. r9 E.. 5.w s'=
 The crow watched his masters pro- ceedings with great apparent interest, first looking out of one eye and then turning the other, as if to study both sides of the question: ,--as is the habit of crow-people,-when with 8 single jump he bounced upon the bugs, and from that time took the whole business upon himself, turning up the leaves and peering under them in the most comi- cal manner. devouring all the bugs, in a very short time clearing thea entire piece, and whatwas more, he performed the same office for the neighbors for some miles around, watching the plants for the whole season.
Connecticut western news., 1874-09-11
Half an Hour in a Mill Wheel.

The following account of the rescue
 of little girl from death, at Cape Tor
 mentine, is given by paper, published
 in Hamilton, Ontario: "About four
 weeks ago little girl, some three years
 old, daughter of MT. Allan, of Cape
 Tormentine, wandered to her fathers
 saw-mill. After @ short time the
 father missed her, but thought she had
 returned home. It occurred to him to
 look down into the mill wheel, when he noticed what he considered piece of stick protruding out of one of the vents. The wheel had at the time 8 strong head of water on. The mill was stopped, and MT. Allan proceeded to the wheel. To his horror, what he thought was a stick was his child's leg, much discolored, black and blue. The agony of the parent was intense at the discovery. The sight, he says, will never be erased from his memory and this, with the fact that through the dreadful stiffness of the gurgling and black waters, and the excitement of hope, the child was heard to moan, added to his emotion. Measures were taken to relieve what was certainly thought to be ifeless child. An aperture was made by the removal of stave from off the wheel, when the lit- tie girl was taken out, terribly bruised about the body and lower extremities. She was carefully rubbed, and as soon as possible warm appliances had and the child, through the mercy of Divine Providence, is now doing well. What makes the escape the more extraordi- nary is the fact of her having first passed through and been sucked under what is termed the Hume, distance of some thirty five feet, then drawn into the wheel and whirled around for 8 period of twenty minutes-for about that time previous she was prattling in her fathers presence"
Connecticut western news., 1874-09-11
Loneliness of the Ocean.

One who has neve rtraveled upon the ocean expects to find it somewhat thick ly populated. He thinks of the vast travel and traffic that goes over the waters, and he is ready to imagine that the great deep is alive with it's hurryJng to and fro of the nations. He reads of lands "where commerce whitens every sea-" and he is ready to think that the ocean itself is as full of sails as the har- Dor of some mighty metropolis. But he finds his mistake. As he leaves the land the ships begin to disappear. As he goes on his way they soon all vanish, and there is nothing about himSb but the blue sea and blended sky: Sometimes he may meet or overtake solitary ship during the day; but then, again, there will be many days when not q single sail will cross the horizSn.Ia There are spaces measured by thousands of miles, over which no. ship has ever passed. The idea of a "nation's commerce whitening every sea-" is the widest fancy. If all the ships that have ever been built were brought together in, 8 single fleet they would fill but hands breadth of the ocean. The space, therefore, that man and his works oc- cupy on the sea is as small in extent as tho hold on it by his power is slight and superficial. Both together are as nothing. The ocean covers three fourths of the surface of the globe, and by far the greater part of this vast ex- panse is and ever has been entirely free from his presence and visitation,
Connecticut western news., 1874-09-11
Springing Out of Bed.

Dr. Hall does not approve of the old doctrine which was formerly instilled into the minds of children, that they should spring out of bed the instant they awake in the morning. He says that cup to eighteen years every child should be allowed eight hours sleep, but time should be allowed to rest in bed, after the sleep is over, until they feel as if they had rather get up than not. It isl very great mistake for per- sons, old or young-especially children and feeble or sedentary persons-to bounce out of bed the moment they wake up; all our instincts shrink from it, and freely kick against it. Fifteen or twenty minutes spent in gradually waking up, after the eyes are opened,
 and in turning over and stretching the limbs, do as much good as sound sleep, because the operations set the blood in motion by degrees, tending to equalize the circulation :; for during sleep the blood tends to stagnation, the heart beats feebly and slow, and to shock the system by bouncing up in an instant and sending the blood in overwhelming quantities to the heart, causing it to assume gallop, where the instant be- fore it was in a creep, is the greatest absurdity. This instantaneous bounc- ing out of bed as soon as the eyes are open will be followed by weariness long before noon." -...o......,.,... 7. i. .:.
Connecticut western news., 1874-09-11
SuperstitiOuS Terror.

One of the first weaknesses which rational human beings should educate themselves out of is the foolish fear of something white" in the dark, or any belief in "apparitions," or visible spirits. The consequences of this cow ardly infirmity may be fatal to one's self, or even to others. The following distressing incident occurred some time ago to couple of ladies-sisters- members of respectable family, in Norfolk, England: -....- ..
 One night the door of their sleeping room opened, and, by the sound of light footsteps, they were convinced of the entrance of some person into the cham Der. At the same time the curtains at the foot of their bed were hastily un- drawn, and 8 female figure resembling that of a servant who happened to be i'll in the house appeared, and, throwing up her arms with groan or strange guttural, immediately vanished. Ex- ceedingly alarmed, the ladies sought to shut out from their sight repetition of the vision by concealing thelr heads beneath the bed-clothes !; and so they lay till next morning; when, upon ris- ing, they were shocked to behold, lying cold and dead at the foot of their bed, the unfortunate invalid, who, without doubt, finding herself worse in the night, had made her way into the ladies' chamber, and there, unable to ask for the medicine or assistance she required, expired in the attempt. ....,0 ,a
Connecticut western news., 1874-09-11
An Old Custom.

Cremation is an old institution among the Kohls, native people in the East Indies. Soon after 8 persons death the body is placed on 8 pile of wood, with the head to the south and the feet to the north, and burned. The prosper ous relatives of the deceased send presents of gold, clothing, and rice, which are placed upon the funeral pyre and burned with the body, while oxen are sacrificed, in order that the dead one may not be in want of anything m the next world. All these rites are per formed in silence, the men standing around the pyre in groups and quietly watching the flames. The ashes and the unconsumed bones of the deceased are gathered together and placed in an urn. This urn is often kept for some time in the dwelling house, but is finally deposited in the family vault, which is formed by a large flat stone, three feet in width by five in length, resting on small stones a foot high from the ground. The urns are placed side by side under this stone. The ashes of each Khol are buried in the village from which his family originally came. AL though the deceased may have been living for many years in distant will lage, his relatives carry his burial urn back to the place from which his an- cestors came. After the place for the urn haa been prepared in the vault, a cross is made out of two blades of grass and placed on top of the urn. The burning of the body and subsequent burial of the ashes are accompanied by costly banquets to the friends and of an adult thus costs his family about one-fourth of their personal property. In order to check the gluttony of the guests at these funeral festivities large quantities of pepper are put in the fnoH
Connecticut western news., 1874-09-11
A CAROLINA WATER-SPOUT.
A Singular PhenomenOn--Six Hundred Acres of Water Lifted Up to the
 

A Singular PhenomenOn--Six Hundred Acres of Water Lifted Up to the Clouds.
 The Augusta Chronicle and Se,atiae
 gives the following account of @ water
 spout at Langley, s. O.:
 A dense cloud was first seen ap. preaching the pond, being apparently considerable distance up. Nothing particular was thought of it, the citi' zens of Langley being at the time occu. pied in trying to keep cool-a hard thing to do with the thermometer at one hundred degrees in the shade. But presently startling circumstance oc- cured. The cloud had halted over the pond, and established connection with the latter. A genuine water. spout had in fact been evolved, and an immense quantity of water was rushing skyward through the liquid conductor. When
 first seen, the water-spout was near the dam, and travelled slowly across the pond until it reached the railroad trestle-work, a distance of mile and a quarter from it's starting point, when it disappeared, and the cloud moved ma jestically of, carrying with it thousands of gallons of water which had been drawn from the pond. The latter, GOV ering an area of 600 acres, was, in fact, lowered fully two inches. The huge column which joined the upper region to the expanse of water below, re- sembled a cone in form, and rotated horizontally with exceeding rapidlty. The marvellous speed with which the column turned impressed the beholder immediately with the idea that it was associated with whirlwind. This was most probably the case, as 8 tremep- dous wind passed over Augusta from the direction of Langley some hours afterward. The heavens were brilliant with incessant flashes of lightning after the spout described above had disap- peared., There was no rushing noise connected with it, as is the case in some instances. The water underneath the clouds just before the spout formed was in state of great agitation. Waves rolled angrily, and 8 perceptible bulge was seen. As the cloud halted 8 sort of funnel protruded from it, and dropped slowly down, becoming larger as it heightened, the broader portion of base being at the surface of the cloud. When it reached point about one- fourth the distance between the cloud and the pond, the bulge of the surface of the latter rose to meet it, and the two at length joined, when the water from the pond commenced ascending into the cloud, whlch moved slowly to- wards the trestle-work. The waves in the waterfall leaping and tending to- ward the spout-and the spout itself continuing the verticle motion referred to above. The outside of the watery funnel was dark, and not well defined, while the center was much lighter, being of bluish east. This would seem to indicate that the column was partly hollow, the dark portions repre- senting the sides. There can be no doubt but the immense quantity of wa ter which was transferred from the pond to the cloud was literally sucked up. The spout finally disappeared, as if it had been drawn bodily up into the cloud, while the latter quietly moved off to parts unknown. Not a drop of rain fell during the occurrence or after wards.
Connecticut western news., 1874-09-11
The Cats Lesson,

The Cats Lesson, "Now, children" said Fuss, as she shook hel
 head, " It is time your morning lesson was said," So her kittens drew near, with footsteps
 slow,
 And sat down before her, all in arrow. Attention, class !" said the cat-mamma, And tell me quick where your noses are!" At this all the kittens sniffed the air, As though it were filled with a perfume
 rare. Now, what do you say when you want 8
 drink" t
 The kittens waited moment to think, And then the answer came clear and load You ought to have heard how those kittens
 meow'd! Very wen. 'Tis the same, with 8 sharper
 tone,
 When you want 8 fish or 8 bit of & bone. Now, what do you say when children are
 good7"
 And the kittens purred as soft as they
 could. |" And what do you do when children are bad ? When they tease and pull P Bach kitty
 looked sad. Pooh! !" said their mother. s'That isn't
 enough;
 You must use your claws wben children are -4 rough. " And where are your claws7 No, no, my
 dear"
 GAS she took up paw). "seel they're
 hidden here"
 Then all the kittens crowded about, Ts see their sharp little claws brought cut. They felt quite sure they should never need To use such wsapons-oh, no, indeed! But their wise mamma gave a pussv's
 "pshaw ]"
 And boked their ears with her softest paw. " NOW sptisss as hard as you can," she said Fat every kitten hung down it's head. '> Sptisss! say" cried the mother cat But they said, 70 nanny, we can't do that" '" Then go and play" said the fond mamma '" What sweet little idiots kittens are An, well! was once the same, I suppose And she looked very wise and rubbed her nose.
Connecticut western news., 1874-09-11

A BAD BUTLER. Reuben Butler turned up at Stanwix, Arizona, with some gold dust. He had really been paid off with it, but his lying represen- tation was that he had got it from 8 marvelously rich claim which he had discovered. Aaron Warden, in order site of the claim, fed and sumptuously treated him until he supposed he had gained the desired information. Then Butler went away, and Warden hur- riedly organized an expedition for sur reptitiously grabbing the claim. The hoax was not understood until the fooled schemer had spent large sum of money. .".-e.... -.-.. ..--. -,
Connecticut western news., 1874-09-11

RooHEFoRT. "A gentleman who crossed the Atlantic in the steamer which bore Rochefort to England, says that the marked admiration of the "fu- eitive of Noumea for young ..Ameri- can lady afforded much amusement to the other passengers. Rochefort being unfortunately for the fair object of his adoration- unable to speak word of English, used to wrap himself in 8 tiger-skin and tax ga seat on deck, where he could watch the beautiful de- stroyer of his peace of mind, and look all that he was unable to say to her,
Connecticut western news., 1874-09-11
A Hint to Youne Men.

In 1854 young gentleman registered his name in the city of Louisville, Ky.
 He had a pretty good wardrobe, such as young men usually have, including a gold watch aud chain He was in search of occupation. At the expira- tion of two weeks he took an inventory of his personal effects: s' Out of work and no business.' He had brief in terview with the proprietor of the hotel.
 His trunk was left as security for his board bill :; he hypothecated his watch for the loan of ten dollars, and having kissed the tip end of his coral fingers to kind and sympathetic landlord, he went diving for the ,' bottom He found the bottom on Water street, where steamer was being discharged of cotton by Dutchmen, negroes and Yankees. Having purchased pair of heavy boots, blue shirt and overalls, he commenced rolling and piling at the rate of five cents per bafe. Tn three weeks he was promoted to the position of { marker,' at 8 salary of forty-five dollars a month, and at the expiration of nine months he had right to grow mellow over salary of one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month.
 To-day this gentleman is. one of the largest business operators in Bay street.
Connecticut western news., 1874-09-11
The Anthrax Fever.

The epidemic among the cattle in Connecticut still rages. It was at first supposed that the disease was spinal meningitis, but after the post-mortem examination of several of the animals it was definitely settled that it was solely 8 disease of the spleen and intimately allied to charbon or blackleg. Many deaths occurred from this disease in the fine herds about Newtown, Conn.,, and it was especially severe on the farm of MT. Fairchild, who had brought over 100 fine young steers from Illinois. A veterinary professor of reputation de- clared that the cause of the disease was the rich pasturage. which made blood very fast, and produced pressure on the venal valves above the spleen in tie animals, thus inducing the disease, rotting the spleen itself, and finally causing death.' It was hoped that by prompt attention, giving the animals carbolates of soda, lime and iron tonics and stimulants that they might be saved, but by later adviees it seems that anthrax fever is still making sad havoc among the herds of MT. Fair child and also among the cattle belong ing to MT. Stillson. MT. Falrchild has AdA UW0AUy A1O10 O1 LID CuGoA0 dOudOhONs of which number six succumbed, and MT. Stillson lost three out of the four animals taken sick. A post-mortem examination was made by Prof. Greasy of one of the animals, the result con firming the previous statements that the spleen was diseased in the manner heretofore described, and that death ensued therefrom. It is 8, peeuliarity of anthrax fever that no poor cattle are attacked only those in fine and healthy condition. Farmers and stock raisers should look to it that the mo- ment one of the herd withdraws from the company of the rest, and appears larguid, or is seized with trembling, they immediately seek the assistance of some veterinary surgeon, who will treat the animal for anthrax fever and not spinal.meningitis. rr .., .g...
Connecticut western news., 1874-09-11

The production of wine in the United States in 1870 was 22, 450, ,O0O gallons, of which California yielded 7,OOO, ,OO0 New York, 2,250,OOO i; Illinois, 1,20O,- 900; Missouri, 1000, ,00O i; and other States, 1,000,0 ,00O.
Connecticut western news., 1874-09-11

It is stated that the yellow fever has n'stp never appeared lon in any climate e at an level. The highest elevation it has visited in the United States is 460 feet,
Connecticut western news., 1874-09-11

They who talk much should beware of those who listen attentively.
Connecticut western news., 1874-09-11

The girls of an Illinois school amuse themselves by splitting at 9 mark.