The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-07-28
NEWS ITEMS,

Explores atc now prospecting the sol.
mines Of Patagonia, md find rich samples OF do.
and orc.
How long will my chop be, waitcr?'
angrily asks hungry man in restaurant. ga
bout I'VE inches, SIR was tho accurate reply.
Borse.sausagc aud steaks are gottins
ihshlonablo In Germany, even as ia France
Twill be our turn next.
Would be contributor: wish yor
would toll Inc something to write about Editor
Wen Right about face.
A Yankee wanted the bridge of Sigh.
pointed out to him, and then offered to bet Amer
ica mad several bridges twice the size
The Chicago Common Council have
passed an ordinance making the fire limits and
INC corporation limits co-oxtensive.
Three thousand acres of cottpn have
been planted in California this your The cror
looks very well.
Young ladies' at Saratoga are throRn
into " conniptions" because the gentlemen Der.
sist IN dancing without gloves this season.
The Western Reserve College at Hud.
son, Ohio, an institution under Presbyterian in
huence, will honcelorth receive women as stu.
dents.
AT Round Lake, at tho Methodist
camp meeting last Sunday, speaker shouted
We are surrounded with idols and another
brother cheerily replied Hallcluiah."
That meeting which Mr.. Parkhurst said
vas to occur between the comet and our planet nm
tho I'D Of July must have been unavoidabiy
postponed
Many Of the trade guilds and compa.
mes Of England are very rich. The Grocers'
Company has just given 500. coo for a new winc,
to tho London Hospital.
Camp Meeting at Eypiuk, n. II. does
not begin until August "a, but people have al
ready begun to occupy the cottages on the camp
ground.
a Virginia sheriff asked a murderer
II no wanted to make speech On the gallows
and the man replied: Guess not; it looks like
rain, aud don't want to get wet; go on with
the hanging
Thomas Foley and Thomas Gleason got
INTO drunken quarrel ut Manchester, y. IL.
monday evening, in the course Of which Foley
STABBED "ieason In the lungs, innicting dangerous
The Atlantic cable Of 1866 has been
repaired apd j, now in working order. With
three lines in operation, one would suppose that
tho competition might be sufficient r. reduce the
rates.
n Rochester drunkard crawled under
a bush On the verge of Anescc Falls. and Sent
there Until bis uneasy twistings brought his legs
over tho abyss policeman found him lust in
time to save his life.
The poormaster iu Troy was called
upon by woman who said that h.r husband was
lead ana she was destitute A visit to her house
found the body in a sixty-dollar casket. and three
carriages in the funeral procession.
1t pays in France to feed horses for
the butcher. From s26 to $50 is given for an
animal IN f"ir condition, and about thirty thous-
ana OF these animals are eaten annually. Horse
meat Is sold for about half the price of beef
French statistics show that there are
cities of fifteen thousand inhabitants in that
country without physician. The same figures
also Indicate that the perccntum Of mortality is
Iightest where there are iewest doctors
Washington's debt Is so large that real
estate deprecated rapidly. Building lots which
were held for 81 per foot year ago now sell for
- cents. No prudent person will invest in real
estate there except at very low figures.
a preacher in Pensacola, Florida, was
recently compelled to break of in the midst Of
his sermon, the frogs near the church keeping up
such an uproar that his congregation couldn't
hear him.
The Press Of St. Paul MIN, com.
plains that the Jones family is too numerous. 1t.
reason is that, because there is another member
of the family who gives the same initials and is
charged with theft. W. L, Jones has begun H.
bel suit for $4,000 against the Press.
Esther Shaw, of Davenport, Iowa.
worked thirteen years in one family before asking
for cent of pay. The exchange from which We
learn the fact says " Needn't write for her she's
dead. That shows how foolish she was not to
nave waited thirteen years longer.
Here is a japanese recipe for keeping
meat fresh in Lot weather; 90 Place it in 4 clean
porcelain /. ISL, and pour very hot water over it
50 az to cover IT, Then pour Ill upon the water
The air is thus qG.te excluded ana tie meat pre-
served
The Adcertisey OF Savannah. Ga.
states for fact that trade ia rat:leshakes and
is sprnging up in that city. The col.
orcd people catch the roptilss alive and sell them
for from fifty cents to a dollar each to dealers
who in turn ship them to Europe
The Chief Justice OF Manitoba has de.
cded that the Court of Queens Bench of that
Province has jurisdiction in the case of Lepine,
the accomplice Of kicl in tho murder of Scott
This decision Indicate that Kicl VIII eventually
be brought to trial
il9tels Gu the American plan arc said
to pay better in the lon, run thaa those on the
'o-ca!lcd European plan. \ grea, doal Of waste
Is necessarily tho result Of tho latter system, and
the uncer,aiuty to the quantity Of food to be
prepared daily entail. great expcu-. at first
class house.
At Sequel Beach, favorite California
watering place, families camp along The shore,
bringing their own cups plates, pots and pans
blankets and bedticks. They get their provisions
rom country store, catch fish, dig clam, cook
With driit-wocd, and enjoy out door life in prim-
tive style
From q late report on the animal pro-
luctions of the Pacific it seems that our mining
Territories and States arc but little more than
gold and silver producing colonies of England.
Within Twenty-Five years those States and Terri.
cries have produced 81, 5Sj ca O34 in silver and
gold, Of which England has secured the larger
part.
A new safety-belt or lile-prcserver was
ested recently on the Seine at Paris, in the pres
,nco of several French admirals. 1t consists of
IN india-rubber ring which encircles the neck and
will support man on the water for hours with
ut the least effort on his part, and even with his
othes ON.
As nothing has been done by the Unit.
ID States army to protect the frontiers of Texas
gainst marauding Mexicans, Gov. Coke has au-
horized Col, Bcnayides with a command of State
roops, TO follow the Mexican thieves and chas- /
iso them wherever found.
The Russian Mennonites settled 10 Ne.
'raska have introduced novel heating appara.
us in their houses. II consists Of a large fur /
lace, with long, crooked Auc constructed of ma.
onIy, the whole adapted to straw as fuel. Large
oors open direct from the furnace into the rooms
djoining Fire is u be kept up an hour or two .
u the morning and it is estimated that the ma.
lnry of the furnace and smouldcring embers will .
ctain heat enough to maintain warmth all day.
Traces of murder hayo been discov.
rcd near Goose Pond, two miles from West Cana /
n, Y. H., quantity of human hair and several |
eces of scalp having boon found near rock
ihich was spattered with blood, trail was
ound near by, rs if body had been dragged a.
,ng. and place where u few shoveiuls Of dirt
ad been thrown out, aud then the work apparent
y abandoned. Appearances indicate that the
ced has boon done some time, and a French
lan named Bulie went away 10 work CA the "a
{ June and has not since been seen it is thought
e is the victim of the tragedy.
The New Hampshire farmers are re.
,icing in the prospect of plentiful crops. Corn,
heat and oats look remarkably we'll, while pc.