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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-04-13
Match Making.

The better kind of matches undergo
what is called "frame-dipping," which
consists in arranging the splints, already
cut to the desired lenghth of the match,
in square wooden frames, at equal and
short distances from one another. The
composition is spread by spatula on a
smooth stone or metallic surface, warmed
by steam, in uniform layer of some
thickness. The prepared frame is placed
horizontally upon this, so that all the ends
of the splints sink 10 the bottom of the
composition. When the frame is remov.
ed, each splint is found dipped with q
small button Of paste, which in drying nc.
quires the ordinary ovoid shape.
After all the dipping has been done
the matches are dried in rooms especially
adapted for the purpose - ar.ifcially
heated and fire proof The last thing o
all is boxing" The splints are removed
from the frames or loosened from tn,
bundles, as the case may be, by persons
who are known as "emptiers." The SAM
persons act also as "boxers" or "ldders,
which names express the duties they hav'
to perform. "Cross-cutting" is done prio
to "irame.flling," but with bundles, a
was intimated, it follows the dipping
The vapors OF the phosphorus escape il
several Of the processes +; in mixing tn
composition, dipping, drying, and boxing
The better class of manufactures hav
separate rooms for each Of these, and onl
the persons especially engaged in ther
can inhale the poisonous emanatiopI
But in some instances the entire bushes
in done in one small room, and all th
work people are more or less exposed
Scri6ner for April.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-04-13
Fall of Rents.

The New York Bulletin makes bold to
say that the "time is close at hand when
6 per cent. must be accepted as the gov
erning rental" upon real estate in New
York. Considering the complete securi-
ty of an investment in a business block
on one Of the principal streets OF the me-
tropolis, and tina; or per cent. is the
average rate on similar property in Lon
don, this is not, perhaps, extravagant.
The World says that, along Broadway
from Bowling Green to l4th street, $50
street numbers, there are $50 which dis.
play the card ITO rent" There arc many
whole stores and buildings vacant. From
Chambers street to Union square are ma
ny whole stores and parts OF stores which
have waited from one to six years. with
out tenant, A loft. which has been
rented in years past for $4,000. is now
refused Mt $4,000. In contrast with
these rates, we find a wholesale drug
merchant in Chicago boasting OF his abil-
ity TO extend his business, because he is
able TO secure ''a fne marble front, five
stories. and basement "a feet by l4O,"
for $4,000. Rents have had a fearful
tumble in Chicago, and business is prob.
ably more active there than at any other
large city in this country.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-04-13
This is the way the Montpelier A

This IS the way Tue Montpelier Nv
gus and Patriot feels over its delinquent
subscribers list: "IIave you ever seen a
citizen of African descent recumbent IN
the repose Of death, with copper coins
lying on his eyes, and then seen some pu-
issant mean white slyly slide up and
steal those cents 7 Such a thief would
be despicable libel on humanity, but
even he would not be more Objectionable
in our view than a person who will de-
liberately steal reading matter for himself
and family by taking paper, and not
paying for it."
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-04-13

Business seems to be dull in San An>
tonic, Texas, just now The He, aid
says; Times are so hard that, when a
boy who goes out on Saturday to collect
bills for leading dry goods establish
ment comes home with seventy-Gve cents,
and has the ceiling of his pants worn out
by the boots Of the customers from whom
he has collected it, the proprietor regards
il as a good day 'or collections
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-04-13
VOL. XL.
Fireside Musings.
ON HE'D. xI, 1l-lG.
ny A. n. MILLS.

ny A. II. MILLS.
There's an undiscovered country
Just little ways ahead,
Lying close upon tho borders
Of the cities of the dead;
And though seemingly so near us
None its secrets ever learned,
For of all who'vc gone to seek it
Never one has yet returned.
'Tis land whose vast proportions
Are of limitless extent,
Unto whose far distant out-posts
Human thought has neer been sent;
While its hosts of countless millions,
Once inhabitants of earth,
Have been crowding to its borders
Since creation had its birth.
'Tis world of light and glory
So the ancient seers tell
Where the saved from earth's pollutions
May henceforth securely dwell;
Not tear to dim their vision,
Not wish INDUCED in vain,
Not dread of separation,
Not sigh of grief or pain;
But where Christ their elder brother
Shall extend to them the hand
And disclose to them the wonders
And the glories of that land;
lie shall lead them by still waters
And to pastures green and sweet,
And shall give them full permission
OF the trcc Of life to eat.
have loved ones in that country,
(Who, indeed, has not as well y
And how much while here priced them
'Twere in vain to seek to tell
Father, mother, wife and children,
Dearest titles earth affords,
Gone before, while here linger
Der their dear remembered words.
Can it be that shall ever
Meet them on that blissful shore
Can it be that having met them
We shall separate no more?
Can il be that youth and vigOr
Shall return to us again,
As the hidden buds of winter
Open to the early rain ?
o, for faith which shall not waver
In the darkest hour of need;
o, for glimpses of the immortal
As earth's vanitics recede;--
For hope which like an anchor
Still unyiclding, steadfast, sure,
Shall through all lifes varying changes
Even to the end endure.
Then a few more days Of patience
And little farther on
We shall greet our dear departed
In that world whore they are gone
Shall the weary way-worn spirit
Find the rest for which it yearns,
In that undiscovered country
Whence no traveller returns.
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A Western editor did not wish TO hurt
the feelings Of a gentle poet, but apollo
gized for the non.appearance Of long
and tender poem by saying: beautiful
Spring was crowded out of our Sunday
edition to make room for an account Of
the great snow storm"
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-04-13

NJ RS. JACKSON, HAIRDRESSER,
lVA North Pleasant street, Middlcbury, Vt.
Has constantly on hand, for sale, Hair Switches
of various shades of color, o suit all customers
She will pay the highest price for head hair and
dpmbings. Custom work dnna with 49, -.----.
~promptness, and satisfaction guaranteed. She has
also lately added to her facilities and is now pro-
pared to straighten combngs and to bring the
roots all together 2m3
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-04-13

NEW HARNESS SHOP.-I HAVE
~ opened new Harness shop, in II. L. Shell
don's Block, over Pierces tobacco store. am
prepared to do new work, coarse and fine, and re-
pairs Of all kinds, promptly and in the best man
nor. My terms will be easy us at any other
place. solicit the public patronage, and natter
myself can suit my customers.
JOSEPH z. GAUDET.
Miidlebury, Vt, March l5 1875. marl 6m3
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I)AINTING.

DAINTING.
l have opened Paint Shop over Lucia &
Dewoys carriage shop on Cross Street. where
having twonty years experience, will do any
thing in tho line of Carriage, Sign. and 0rnamen
tai painting on short notice, in the best manner
and in modern style.
Inns GEO w NICHOLS
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-04-13
DUSIN ESS.

- USINESS.
- The Downer, Bolton 4 Allen mill will be
put in operation for saving custom logs, at once
the csntrol of the new proprietcrs. Bring in
your logs. The sash and door branch, continued
with the mill, will also receive jog.
MARTIN 4 tt PIPER.
December, 1874 4Otf
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-04-13

The original greenbacks- frogs.
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MRS. MARY HILL,
OF BRIDPORT,

OF BRlDPORT.
Having rented Mrs. Jud. Wright's house
as desirOHs Of taking sir or eight taJls
6oarders. For further particulars in
qutre Of
5lw6 Mrs JUD. WRIGHT
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A patient waiter "a young doctor,
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-04-13

IT s. PUTNAM would inform the
L L speople of Middlebury and Addison County
that the old Cotton Mill is in full operation, and
that he is prepared 10 furnish carpet warp and
batting of a superior quality, at the lowest cash
price.
Middlebury. Doc 10, 1872. 39;tf
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-04-13

+ r. SAYKE, Dealer in Household
LIE Provisions, a general assortment of Gro
ceries, Flour, Cheese, Lard Teas, Codees, Sugars,
Oil, Tobaccos, DC. Cash paid for Prime Butter
at my store any day in the week.
loft MIDDLEBURY. VT.
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ASON DAVENPORT, Fire lnsur-
- anoe Agent, will write policies in the Farm
ers' Mutual and other companies represented by
M. J. Francisco in Rutland.
Also the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New
York. Office at j. l.. Luttolph's Store. 40
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-06-24
The Priest and the Surgeon.

THE Paris correspondent of the Graphic
tells the following anecdote: Dupuytren
was famous surgeon but brusque and
unpublished. One day, as he re-entered
his house, he found installed in the ante
room an old priest, who had long been
awaiting Lis return. "What do you
want of me?" growled Dupuytren. Il
wish you to look at this, "meekly replied
the priest, taking off an old WOODEN
cravat, which revealed upon the nape Of
his neck a hideous tumor. Dupuytren
looked at it. you'll have to die
with that" he coolly remarked. 81
thank you, DOCTOR" simply replied
the priest, replacing his cravat, and
am much obliged to you for warning me,
as can prepare myself as well as my
poor parishioners, who love me very
much" The surgeon, who was never
astonished at great things, looked upon
this priest, who received his death SEN
tence unmOved, with amaZement and
said: "COme tomorrow at eight o'clock
to the Hotel Dieu and ask for me-" The
priest was prompt. Inc surgeon pro-
cured for him a special room, and in a
months time the man went out cured.
When leaving he took out of a sack thir-
ty francs in small change. at is all |
have to offer you, DOCTOR" he said; 81
came here on foot from R in order
to save this" The doctor looked at the
money, smiled and, drawing handful of
gold from his pocket, put it in the bag
along with the thirty francs, saying, at
is for your poor" and the priest went
away. Some years later the celebrated
doctor, feeling death to be near, be-
thought him of the good priest and
wrote to him. He came, and Dupuytren
received from him the last consola-
tons" and died in his arms
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-06-24
How Shall the Children Get Money
How SHALL we put children in possess

How SHALL we put children in posses
sion of the moneys upon which they are
| to exercise themselves benevolently?
"Let them earn it." is usually the first
| answer to this inquiry. Very good, but
| how shall they earn it? If by honest toll
Of any kind, all right. Such labor will
degrade no child, and the lesson that hon
est toll brings its rewards cannot be too
early learned. These earnings may be
| by service rendered parties other than
| the parents of the child. In such cases
| the matter stands purely on business
PLATFORM it is subject to business condi-
tons, familiarity with which cannot be
made too early il ones life.
But sometimes bargains for work and
compensation are made between the child
| and its parent. In some cases the only
opening for earning money is here. In
such cases arrangements must be delicate
" made. No child should claim fnan-
cial reward for any service done its par
ents All the service needed by the par
emit which the child can possible render
parents call. Why should not the boy
black his fathers boots, or shovel the
snow from his fathers pavement? So
completely is the boy under the fathers
control and bound by love and gratitude
and filial subordination, that no such wish
should start query in the youthful heart,
but when expressed it should be prompt
ly, fully, freely met.
And yet, while care is taken that the
mercenary spirit does not come between
the parent and his child, it still is practical
BILE so to adjust service and compensation
that parental authority and flial duty
shall by no means suffer. A clear under
standing of the principles here stated will
guide any thoughtful parent to proper
settlement of the details of business ar
rangement with his child. Cases are men
toned here where a child earns money by
doing without butter, or cake, or coffee;
or by getting up promptly in the morning;
or by folding napkin; or by pulling out
gray hairs, and by many similar devices.
If abstemiousness is needed, or if medi-
cine is to be taken, or if orderly, punctual
habits are to be formed, far better allow
them to stand on their own menits and to
be acted upon accordingly. Habits of
self-mastery must be learned in these
minor moralities, pand better let them
bring their own rewards than to append
an eXtraneous pecuniary consideration.
The discovery of gray hair in ones head
and other accidental matters, to which re-
wards are sometimes appended, cultivate
a looking for happy hits, for lucky vent
ures; in short, it fosters the expectation of
profit without toll and so makes big
contribution to the rampant speculative
spirit of the day
The rule applying to all these methods
of furnishing the childwith money should
be, let him do genuine work for which he
earns genuine wages. Weld together,
even in childhood, the two great ideas,
"toil' and " triumph. Req. g. A. Peztz,
IN Sunday School Times.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-06-24

the windows and note the progress of the
flowers, the upspringing grass. the creep
ing vines, and see the first bursting of the
buds upon tree and shrub. You can have
hanging baskets in every door and recess,
for you can take them out of doors for
water, and run no risk of spelling the
carpets or blockading the water pipes, and
you can plant herbs, and lay off patches
of ground for your favorite plants and
garden-seeds Your kitchen is clean, and
even if not your own, you can do what
you please in it; its closets smell of thyme
and sage and fragrant caraways instead of
generations of mice and reaches, and
you have woodbine trailing up against
windows, instead of an iron grating and
the contents of the ash-barrel. No won
der the warm, light biscuit, or the good
brown bread, tastes so sweet coming from
the bright stove oven; no wonder the
chicken pot-pie melts in your mouth, and
the potatoes lie like pile of snow upon
the dish. What opportunities for house
keeping are here! The place suggests
generous kitchen aprons, covering the
neatest and incest of print dresses, and
larder always ready for company.
Perhaps you despise these humble OPP
portunities; but they are not to be de-
spised. If you cannot write a story you
can live one, and if it is not gay and
brilliant one let it be a practical and do
nestle one. Find out what possibilities
are in you for an exquisite cleanliness,
for kindly care-taking, for bountiful
providing, for a cultivation of the beauti
full, and develop them. Doing it for
yourself you will do it for your home, and
thus render it source Of comfort and hap
piness to your own family and an example
to your friends and neighbors. Hearth
and Home.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-06-24
German Cerem0nials.

OF customs we can only speak very
generally as regards a country where
every province has it's own peculiar ira
ditions, an dwhere a conservative affec-
ton has preserved these with an almost
religious exactitude.
Very unpleasant, according to our
ideas. is the rule that strangers must
make the first advance. Thus, when you
arrive in town where you propose to
remain for any length of time, you will
provide yourself with an introduction or
two you will procure a list of the Hon
0rGti0re7s, or honorabilities, of the place,
and you will drive from door to door
leaving cards. These cards will present
ly be returned, and shortly afterward
footman or EaqaS05s de place will call, ask
to see the Herschqften, and will then IN
due form deliver his masters message,
requesting the honor of your company
at dinner on such day, at three, four or
five o'clock, as the case may be. When
you arrive on the festive scene it will be
your duty to request the hostess to intro
duce you to all the ladies present. This
she will do, presenting you to the excel
lencies and distinguished persons first,
the tour being made according to the
incest graduation of etiquette, so that be-
ginning with an Embassadress you will
end with a Lieutenant's wife, and then
IN turn have to receive y0nsr court, name
", the husbands of all those ladies to
whom you have been doing reverence.
The courtesyings, the obeisances, the
compliments, at once embarrass, annoy
and tickle you. Your stiff backbone
doesn't take kindly to the prosrations;
your knees resent the genufections; you
scorn to grovel, yet you fear to offend;
you feel ridiculous in your unwonted an
tics, and are afraid of falling; and yet
a sense of humor would make it
difficult were you more at ease,
to abstain from shouts of laughter
at the bobbing, sliding, gliding and
grimacing in which you are playing such
an unwilling par. You feel that these
ladies who dip and wriggle as to the
manner born are criticising your want of
grace, your rustic air, your wooden
jointed reverences, and yet you swear to
yourself by all your gods that no inch
lower than is consistent with your ideas
Of personal dignity will you sink before
these your fellow-creatures The blood
rushes to your face, partly in pride, part
ly in embarrassment, and you wish your
self well out Of this gdL6re; yet YOU are
angry with yourself with an unreason-
ing anger for your want of philosophy
and your unpliable spine. Experience,
it is true, will make these scenes famil-
lar and Indifferent to you; you will gath
er courage to preserve your natural gait,
to grant your limbs the freedom to which
they have been accustomed, to be polite
and pleasant, and to go your own way
without attempting to ape manners that
went ont of fashion in your own country
a century ago. It is only the first step
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-06-24
Adventures of a Diamond.

The following story is told about the
French writer, the late Jules Janin, and
the famous Sancy diamond:
The old Princess Demidorf used to
wear the Sancy diamond as a shawl-pin.
One day she went with her husband and
Jules amin TO visit the Louvre, and tax
ing off her shawl because the gallery was
very hot gave it to Janin to carry, at the
same time asking him to put the dia-
mond pin in his pocket until she should
ask him for it. Now you know that the
Sancy is worth 100000 francs, and
Janin put it in his vest pocket with the
same sdng.tfro5d as if it had been new
piece of glass. On getting into her car
riage the Princess asked for her shawl
but forgot to inquire for the diamond,
and drove off, The next day she sent
round to Janin for her precious stone.
But no diamond was to be found. The
vest, a white one, had gone to wash and
with it the Sancy. Off went Janin in
trepidation to the domicile Of his wash
erwoman. In order to avoid suspicion
he asked her quietly if she had found
anything in the pocket of his vest.
No." said she.
Quite sure?" asked he again, becom-
ing liVidly pale.
"Ah, yes, 1 did, by the way; big
piece of glass. My little boy has it now;
he is playing with it in the yard
And Janin rushed out to recover the
gem, the brilliant colors of which were
delighting a batch Of dirty urchins, who
were even then discussing the propriety
of SCATTERING the jewel into thousand
sparkling fragments.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-06-24
Marauding In Mid-Air.

THE peculiar method in Mr.. Donald
sons balloonacy-namely, that OF SKIM
ming along at little distance above the
earth's surface with drag-rope trailing
to regulate the voyager's speed and ena-
BILE him to hitch up" for terrestrial re-
freshments-may be eminently condu-
GIVE to the comfort and convenience of
the aeronaut, but it involves certain
counterbalancing disadvantages for
jewellers on terra .firnaa in connection with
fruit-trees, flower beds, greenhouses,
etc, to say nothing of personal peril.
The spectacle Of several hundred yards
of suspended cable thrashing across coun-
try like Boanergian whip-lash, tearing
through horticultural products, devastat-
ing clothes-lines, perchance swapping up
here. and there an unconsidered infant,
denuding shingled roofs and crashing
window panes, is well calculated to cause
trepidation in the rustic mind and to di-
minish the hospitality of the reception
accorded to visitors from the clouds,
whose advent is thus destructively her
aided Last year the most notable OF
Dir. Donaldson's performances was the
wrenching off of farmhouse chimney,
and this, with the limited facilities then
at his disposal, was as much as could
have been expected. In his latest ascen-
sion, few days ago, however, with the
monster balloon philanthropicaily pro-
vided by Mr.. Barnum, his soaring ambi-
ton sought larger game, and attempted
she abduction Of an entire detachment of
the travelling public. Starting from
Worcester his aerial course was shaped
toward Boston, at first wife no more seri-
Gus detriment TO property than is i'm
piled in the announcement that he " an
chored" at Ashland for supper. But on
nearing Natick passing railway train
caught his eye aud was incontinently
caught by his drag-rope, and the situa-
ton was for some time one Of much
gravity-of SO much greater gravity on
the part of the railway train, fortunately,
shat the cars were enabled TO hold to
earth until, afser long tussle, the Off
Gals succeeded in releasing them from
bhe snare-No1o York World.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-06-24
Remedies for the Gapes in Turkeys
and Chickens.

AT the present season of the year
gapes in young turkeys or chickens will
appear. The young birds open their
mouths and gasp for breath as if they
were choking. If not relieved soon they
will die The remedy which we have
used with the best results to relieve
young chicks and turkeys from this dis
ease is TO take two or three horse-hairs,
twist them firmly together, double and
twist them again, leaving a small loop at
one end and tying knot at the other.
Take the chicken, open it's mouth and
put the loop into the windpipe, twisting
it about as you push it down, and pull it
out of the throat. At first your efforts
may not be successful, but after few
trials you will become quite expert in
performing the operation, so as to bring
out readily those troublesome pests of
the poultry-yard. Sometimes the worms
become 1oosened by means of the opera
ton, and yet are not brought out by it;
then if the chicken has not considerable
strength it will die. At other times
it will cough up the loosened
worms and swallow them again. After
the windpipe is rendered free from its
troublesome inhabitants the chicken
will show signs of drowsiness and often
fall asleep in your hand, so tired and ex-
hausted has it become from continued
gaping. Few poultry-raisers know that
the sole cause Of the gapes is the exist