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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-12-22

HNANTED-N PARTNER WITH
~ $1,000 young, active basinosi man,
having had experience in the mercantile trade,
can hear Of raro chance {, go En- as partner in
an Old established bouse in this village. None
need apply without Che above requirements
Address JOHN JOHNSON,
3stf Middlebury, Vt
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I KINGSLEY a son, Dentists.
< Ir SrNrs. BnEwsrrn's btoCt,
10 MIDDLEBUEN, VI.
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~ f.. SMITH, Attorney aud toun-
10 sollor at law. u1ico over PostoMoe,
Middlcbury, \ g.
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..uGtness GarQa.

q gNLEGTRO PLATING, 10y S. HOL-
j. ynN lnr MupirrtpY. VI
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Out of the ten million women in Amer
lea there isn't one who won't scream at
the sight of a rat
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Cincinnati women psrsist in drawing
their baby carriages into the street'csrs,
and the men have to get out or stand up.
on the platform.
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: !. MEAD, Real Estate Broker.
10; MlunLtttAN, d.
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"lIad - SIR" said Henry Erskine 10
u dilatory carpenter, "been there to build
the ark, we should not have had the hood
yet"
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y general meeting in the evening. Al-
dresses by ministers Of various dcnoinina-
tions Closing exercises.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-09-04
Wheat and Physical Vigor.

Nothing is more sure in the chemis.
try of life than that the great bread.
eaters are the great thinkers, or that
the phosphorus which wheat contains,
in the outer kernel, Immediately be-
meath the husk, is the feeder of brain,
and the material substance which pro-
vokes to thought, study, reason and all
the forms of nervous energy.
There are Psychologists who attribute
the remarkable success of states like
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois to the boun-
ty and perfection of the wheat crop, and
the intellectual stimulus, or rather
food, which it affords the brain. Ger
tainly no commonwealth of the world
has evinced a higher sense of law and
order, or more rapidly developed So
in the world. The constitution of Indi-
ana, for instance, the very center of the
wheat zone, beyond comparison the
best in the union, produces the highest
result i'll our civilization.
There is a southern wheat belt, which
includes Australia and part of South
America, where civilization equal to
that of the central north of the United
States in growing up. But the full
value of wheat as civilizer will never
be fully realized until wheat-meal takes
the place of bolted flour, and the PEG.
pie learn to make bread without yeast
or rising. Good bread is emphatically
the "staff of life," but the commercial
article is the way to dyspepsia and pre-.
mature death-Scje,ace Of Health.
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The Reindeer.

The wealth of the Lapps consists in
their reindeer, which arc their only
standard of riches. A herd of thou
sand makes a man opulent with six
hundred he is passing rich three hun
dred give him modest competence, ard
fifty mean absolute poverty. A Lapp
who owns only fifty reindeer must hire
himself and his little flock to his
wealthier neighbor in order to support
his family. The draft on these animals,
in truth, is immense. They are re-
quired to supply their masters with
food and drink, shelter and raiment, and
to serve as horse, OK, COW, sheep, goat,
and all the domestic animals into the
bargain. They draw the sledges, and
pillow and harrow the soil they give
the milk from which are made the curds,
whey, cheese, and sometimes butter,
that form so large staple of the Lap
land diet their flesh is good eating,
and supplies the meat of the household;
and of their skins are made not only the
wearing apparel for both sexes, but the
mating and covering of the tents and
kayaks of the Lapps, while their sinews
and tendons supply the place of pack
thread, and their fat feeds the lamp that
feeds the darkness of the arctic nights.
Moreover, they are of little expense, as
they browse all day on the lichens and
reindeer moss that grow plentifully
among the rocks, and are driven back at
night by the herdsmen to the Enclosure
where we see them, and where they are
penned and MIXED. They are only
MIXED in the summertime, and yield
then but very small quantity, though
their milk is SO rich that it must be di-
luted before it can be drunk.
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The Coming Harvest.

One of the greatest requisites for
year of prosperity is an abundant har-
vest. Much depends upon the crops.
The past season has been an extraordl-
nary one, and the harvest of the present
year bids fair to be much larger than
ever before. The hay crop has been i'm
mense everywhere. Corn, potatoes and
wheat, the three great food products of
the United States, have yielded enor-
mously III most sections. The state OF
Ohio alone will produce $4,000, 900
bushels of corn. The cotton crop will
be the largest gathered since 1860.
Good prices for all the grain we may
choose to export are guaranteed by the
fact that there is large deficiency In
the European market, creating a de-
mand which will far exceed the supply.
The immense crop of cotton viii keep
the wheels of our factories busy, be-
side providing for large exports.
Money, which has been scarce among
the farmers, in less than a month 8
time will be in good supply in exchange
for the crops.
Taking it altogether, and after a
thorough review of the condition of the
various manufacturing and mercantile
branches of trade, there seems to be
every prospect of an unusually prosper
GUS future. There are constitutional
GROWERS in every community who will
insist on the contrary, and take seem
ing pleasure in so insisting, just as
there are business men who will Cry
tsmall profits and "hard times
with continuous influx of twenty per
cent. on their transaction. Such men
cannot keep back the prosperity of the
country, any more than Mrs. Parting
ton could keep back the tide with her
| broom
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Hygiene and Heat.

The hygienic uses of artificial heat
are not valued as they should be. Most
housekeepers having fixed a date for
lightning the fires, and an equally pre-
else one for extinguishing them, they
remain as invariable as the laws of the
Modes and Persians. Thus whole
family may be frozen or roasted if, as
often happens, cold day should come
sooner or a hot one later than the uni
form domestic calendar will allow. The
house should be heated whenever gen
eral warmth is required. The mere
sensations. moreover, are not alone to
be consulted. There are frequent occa-
sions, although comfort may not seem
to require it, when the fires should be
lighted. During long prevalence of
wet weather, whatever may be the sea-
son, though it should be midsummer, a
thorough heating of the house, stimuli
taneously with the wide opening of
doors and windows, is, we are persuad-
ed, essential to the healthfulness of
every dwelling. This il! especially SO
in all regions liable to miasmatlc dis
eases. Thorough artificial heating of
the house is one of the surest safe
guards against agues of all kinds. Dur
ing the prevalence of pestllentlal cpl
denies the dwelling, wherever situated,
and whether it be winter or summer,
spring or autumn, will be made by fire.
quent lighting of the furnace fire more
secure from invasion.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-09-04
A Romance in High Life.

At the gaming table the Duke OF
Richmond incurred debt of honor to
Lord Cadogan, which he was unable to
pay, and it was agreed that his son, a
lad of fifteen, who bore the title of
Earl of March, should marry the still
younger daughter of Lord Cadogan.
The boy was sent for from school and
the girl from the nursery, clergyman
war in attendance, and the children
we're told that they were to be married
upon the spot. The girl had nothing
to say; the boy cried out, "They
surely are not going to marry me to that
dowdy!" But married they were. A
post-chaise was at the door the bride
groom was packed off with his tutor to
make the grand tour, and the bride was
sent back to her mother. Lord March
remained abroad for several years, after
which he returned to London, a we'll
educated, handsome young man, but in
no haste to meet wife, whom he had
never seen except upon the occasion of
their hasty marriage. So he tarried in
London to amUse himself. One night
at the opera his attention was attracted
to beautiful young lady in the boxes.
"Who is that ?" he asked of a gentle
man beside him. "You must be a
stranger in London" was the reply,
mot to know the toast of the town, the
beautiful Lady March" The Earl
went straight to the box, announced
himself, and claimed his bride. The
two fell in love with each other on the
spot, and lived long and happily
together and when the husband died
she also died of broken heart within
a few months.-GGLGTy.
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Nutritious Food.

We learn from Chambers Edinburgh
Journal that very interesting report on
the comparative nutritive properties of
food was lately presented to the French
minister of the interior, by Percy and
Vanquelin, two members of the institute.
The result of their experiment is as
follows: In bread, 100 pounds are
found to contain 20 pounds of nutritious
matter; butcher meat, averaging the
various sorts, contains only 81 pounds
in 100 pounds French beans, %
pounds; peas, % pounds !; lentale, IA
pounds; green's and turnips, which are
the most aqueous of all vegetables used
for domestic purposes, furnish only s
pounds carrots IA pounds, and what
is very remarkable, as being in opposi-
ton to the acknowledged theory, 100
pounds of potatoes only yield 35 pounds
of substance valuable as nutritious.
According to this estimate 1 pound of
good bread is equal to IL or pounds
of best potatoes ; and IS pounds of
bread and 80 pounds of butcher meat,
are equal to 300 pounds of potatoes.
Or, again, pound of rice or of broad
beans is equal to 3 pounds of potatoes,
while 1 pound of potatoes is equal to
4 pounds of cabbage, and to pounds
of turnips. This calculation is con-
sidered correct, and may be useful to
families where the best mode of sup
porting nature should be adopted at
the least expense.
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Beaten at Their Own Game

Murat Halstead, editor of the Circin-
natl Commercial, writes from London !:
"The sporting sensation of the moment
is the grand successes of the American
base ball and cricket players in their
contests with the English. That the
Americans should have yesterday
doubled the scores of their English OPP
ponenSs in their own special game
(cricket) has excited amazement. The
scene of the games is attended by brill
liant companies Of gentlemen and gaily
dressed ladies', the latter showing a
keen interest in the contests. The fine
and shapely appearance of the Ameri-
cans excites general admiration, and is
not unlikely to relieve the English of
any apprehensions they may have that
the Anglo-Saxon race is dying out in
the United States. am bound to say
that the English youths are showing
themselves far removed above any jeal-
ousy, and the young men across the sea
have already been offered inequalities
sufficient to make their visit here very
pleasant. For Americans these sue
cesses have a peculiar interest, as the
poor show made by the Harvard oars
has by no means been forgotten"
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worthy afterwards, whom he shouldpro-
coed to annihilate on sight. He had
already pitched Lcngworthy's tale-tell-
ing coat and waist coat into the back
ward, when that unsupported gentleman,
having left by the train, arrived on the
scene in high state of excitement and
perspiration.
Good gracious ! What's the mat
ter, Mrs. Longfellow? Howdy, Tom"
"You're a nice one, now aren't you, 3"
said Tom, promptly knocking Long
worthy down, portmanteau and all /;
snow then, sir, explain yourself; what
does this mean ?"
"TIl be hanged if I know" said Mr..
Longworthy, picking himself up, with
very much the expression of a man who
has suddenly broken in on lunatics. He
have knocked brother Tom down, but
the fact of it was that Tom was a
deuced big fellow, with muscles like
whip cord, and it wouldn't do.
"Only to think of that cravat, too,
Mr.. Longworthy. Oh, what deluded
woman I have been what would you
care for my wedding dress SO long as
YOU had your own ever till death Susie.
I know all about it look at that letter |;
I have read every word of it. Can you
face me after this ?"
Here Mr.. Longworthy had the bad
taste to laugh, long ard loud, an evil
dence that the humor of the place was
catching, since no man in his sober
senses, who had Just received a black
eye from his wife's brother, would have
laughed like this.
''This is too good, by George Come
here, Tom, I'll tell you what this is /;
it's no use to explain to Harriet, she
wouldn't believe me. This letter was
sent to young Bigelow, our clerk, who
absconded with two thousand dollars
three days ago. The firm intercepted it,
or rather, with the sanction of the law,
used this as a means of detecting the
chap, who had made arrangements to
elope with old Barker's daughter, it is
supposed. I was sent on with an officer
to Paxton to help bring him back. But,
confound it, I got left, as usual"
"And you don't love any other
woman, Jasper ?"
This very penitently.
Not that know Of" said Jasper,
wondering if his eye would swell
much.
ST don't think I'll ever marry, old
boy" said Tom, rather sheepishly he
and Jasper ha5 always been such
friends.
eff you find a woman who isn't
curious in the least, marry her, Tom,
but always burn your letters, or any
body else's which you happen to get
into your possession. By this time
the cook had let the tomatoes spoil,
the dinner was late, and poor Long
worthy cursed young Bigelow from the
bottom of his soul, and taking a half
holiday went out of town with brother
Ton.
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Paisley ShaWls.

The union of Scotland with England
in 1907 was the moving power which
first developed the energies of Paisley,
exhibited first in the manufacture of
coarse chequered linen cloth; then imi-
tations of striped muslins, called "Ben-
gals ;" and then chequered linen hand
kerchiefs. After a time lighter style
of fabrics was introduced, such as plain
lawns, lawns striped with cotton, and
others ornarnented with figured devices.
Rather more than a century ago, the
making of sewing thread, known by the
name of "ounce thread" and "nun's
thread" was commenced, and carried
on for many years to very large ex-
tent. When cotton made its astonish-
ing advance in our manufacturing dis
tricts, the Paisley linen thread gave way
to cotton thread, which is still largely
manufactured there. About the COM
mencement of George I'LL 8 reign the
Paisley weavers introduced kind of
silk gauze, which was so admirably
wrought as to supersede for a time
everything else of the kind. The trade
prospered greatly; companies came
down from London to establish new
firms at Paisley, and these firms not
only employed the weavers of Paisley,
but those also of all the villages in its
vicinity, as we'll as establishing ware
houses and agencies in Dublin, London,
and Paris.
But the article manufactured was one
peculiarly dependent on fashion, and
fluctuations took place so suddenly and
completely as to bring it to ruin. Under
these circumstances the men of Paisley,
instead of Responding, betook them
- 40 oh
raised to great eminence, and opened
field for the employment of a great
number of females in tambouring or
embroidering muslins. About thirty
years ago the game trade again revived,
and, together with the plaid or tartan
trade, is now carried on to some extent;
but all of these yield at present to the
shawl manufacture, which, introduced
about forty years ago, now forms the
staple product of Paisley. The general
character of the processes of shawl,
weaving bears much analogy to that of
carpet-weaving. In both cases the wOr-
sted yarns and the silk and cotton
yarns are dyed before using in the loom
or the shuttle; in both cases draughts-
men are engaged to prepare patterns,
which are divided into squares to facili-
ate the adjustment of the loom !; in both
cases the whole fabric passes through
shearing machine to cut and level the
surface. One of the most marked
differences between them, however, is
this,-that the shawl has sometimes a
plain centre with a figured border at
two or four of its edges; and in such a
case the border is woven as a broad web,
containing several repetitions of the
pattern, which are afterwards cut as
under and each is sewn on to shawl
edge
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Burns Estimate of Fashionable Fe-
male Youth

Three or four letters of Burns hith-
erto unpublished, SO far as we know,
have Just appeared in The Athen8um.
One of them contains some advice to a
young lady in the stilted yet genial
style of the time. It is not so very
inapplicable now, mesdemoiselles.
CHOW" says the kindly poet, after his
professional brocaded compliments are
paid, " let me add few wishes which
every man, who has himself the honor
of being father, must breathe, when
he sees female youth, beauty and inno-
cence about to enter into this much
chequered and very precarious world.
May. you, my young madame, escape
that frivolity which threatens Univer-
sally to pervade the minds and manners
of fashionable life. To pass by the
rougher, and still more degenerate sex,
the mob of fashionable female youth,
what are they Are they anything ?
They prattle, laugh, sing, dance, finger
lesson, or perhaps turn over the pages
of fashionable novel but are their
minds stored with any information,
worthy of the noble powers of reason
and Judgment, or do their hearts glow
with sentiment, ardent, generous and
nuuudu6 AL1lA GLllS C1O"u VI
nothings, may you, madame, be some
thing May you be a character, digni-
fed as rational and immortal being p
Burns estimate of fashionable female
youth" in that tea-drinking time in
which he wrote agrees perfectly well
with Mr.. Ruskin's opinion in modern
days but the Oxford Diogenes has
passed beyond the gracious giving of
advice, and has nothing left apparently
but sad and bitter criticism.
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Onnlav,s Onnundrum.

Mr.. Cooley's memory is exceedingly
treacherous, and it often gets him into
trouble. The other night he was at
tea party at Smiths, and while the COM
pany sat around the supper table, Coo
ley suddenly concluded he would eject
a conundrum he had heard somewhere,
and so, in an interval of silence, he
said
"Pve got pretty good conundrum
I'd like you to guess. Can anybody tell
me why druggist who keeps his bot
ties downstairs is like a certain kind OF
musician ?"
Everybody at once began to guess the
answer, and Cooley sat there for a mo-
ment smiling. Presently, however, he
thought he would get the answer ready
in order to give it, and to his intense
alarm found that he had forgotten it.
He began to feel warm. He thought
the object over with all his might, and
he nearly had the answer several times,
but it always eluded him. Then he
became warmer, and then pt aspiration
began to stand out upon his forehead.
The company gave it up one after an
other, and, as they did so, each one
asked Cooley what the answer was.
Cooley smiled a CHASTITY kind of a smile,
as if he was keeping it back to torment
them, but the singular redness OF his
face and his peculiar behavior attracted
the attention of everybody, and the
more they looked at him the redder he
got, and the more profuse became the
perspiration.
"Come, Mr.. Cooley" said the host,
"we are all waiting for the answer"
"Out with it, Cooley" said another.
Cooley, we can't be happy until we
have the answer to that conundrum,"
remarked third. Cooley would have
given millions at that moment to have
hidden in the bowels of the Mammoth
cave ont of sight. At last he exclaimed !:
-ah-the-ah-fact is, that
ah-the affair-that is, the cOnundrum
the whole thing, your honor, is
joke. There is no answer to it, your
honor"
Then everybody said they didn't see
anything very amusing about jokes OF
such character, and Smith frowned
while Coeley heard the man say next to
his neighbor that the man Cooley must
be drunk. Then Cooley rose suddenly
from the table and bolted out through
the front door, About two hours after
ward, while ne was in bed, he all at
once remembered the answer, and he
instantly arose and went round to
Smiths. After ringing the door bell
for half an hour, old Smith put his
head out of the bedroom window.
81 know it now," shouted Cooley; 81
know it. It's because he has vial-ln-
ceIlarr''
$50 to thunder p calculated Smith,
and he shut the window with slam,
and went to bed. And now the Cooleys
don't speak to the Smiths, and old
Cooley carries the answers to his con-
undrums written on his shirt-cuffs when
he goes into company, so as to be GER
tain that he will have them when they
are wanted.-Sdn Francisco CAL.
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"KNoYEsT THOU THE LAND ?,

Mignons sweet and touching song, "Kennst
'du das Land 2" is thus translated for the New
York Evening Post by " NJ. II. J.: :"
''Kennst'du das land wo die citronen bIuhn,
I'm dunkeln laub die gold orangen gluhn 2"
Know'st thou the land where the pale ciron blows
Where, mid deep shade, the golden orange CLOVIS
The laurel high the soft winds gently WOO,
And myrtle low, meath skies of deepest blue
Know'st thou it weIl7
There there!
Beloved friend, would with thee repair.
Know'st though the house with stately colorado,
Apartments grand, all gorgeously arrayed?
The marble statues seem to whisper me,
What have they done. my darling child to thee q?
Knowst thou it well
There there
My guardian dear, would with thee repair.
Know'st thou the mount with cloud-encircled head,
Whose summit seeks the mule with cautious tread :;
Whose caverns house the dragons ancient brood :?
The rock precipitous the leaplng food?
Kaow'st thou it well
There there?
On father, take me with thee therei
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Treating the Wrong Disease.

Many times women call upon their famil,
physicians, one with dyspepsia, another will
palpitation another with trouble of the breast
another with pain here and there, and in thi
way they all present alike to themselves anC
their easy-going and Indifferent doctors, sep
crate and distinct diseases, for which he pre-
scribes his pills and potions, assuming then
to be such, when, in reality, they are all symp
toms eau ed by some uterine disorder; anC
while they are thus only able perhaps to pal.
late for time they are ignorBnt of the cause
and encourage their practice until large bills
are made. when the suffering patients are nc
better in the end, but probably worse for the
DELAY, treatment and other complications
made. and which proper medicine directed to
the cause would have entirely removed there
by institutlng health and comfort instead of
prolonged misery.
From Miss LoRINDA E. ST. CLAIR, Shade,
Athens Co., o., Oct. IA. 1872:
"Dr. r. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Your
Favorite Prescription is working almost like
a miracle on me. 1 am better already than l
have been for over two years"
From ELLA A. ScHAFER, GAINESVILLE, Ind,
Aug. 8, 1872:
"Dr. Pierce-I received tho medicine you
sent me and began using 1T immediately. As
a result of the treatment feel better than
have for three years"
From Mrs. JOHN K. HASnLIN, Odell, ILL.,,
March 10, 1872:
"Dr. Pierce-The Favorite Prescription has
done me good, which am very thankful for"