The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-06-20


The total amount of lumber cut last |
year is put down at 1884, 21G,000 feet.
A three cent stamp becomes a sent
stamp after you have mailed your letter.
why are boots and shoes like door
mats? Because they are worn by the
feet.
The number of people in the United
States using tobacco is placed at 49,
000, 900.
There is one kind of canned goods
that goes off quicker than any other
The young man who wouldn't fall in
love was undoubtedly afraid of being
miss-led.
We must have patience, as the young
physician remarked when he folded up
his.diploma.
"Good buy" as the overjoycd sales
man said when the liberal customer
turned to go.
The Southern Pacific railroad is ON
plOying 5000 Cinnamon in the construc-
ton of its road.
The man who believes he can move
the world should begin at Wheeling,
West Virginia.
A Boston belle, of Beacon street, has
two French snails for pets. Thoy live
in clover and lettuce.
Nine acres of farm situated on Lake
Ontario have been washed away during
the last twenty-five years.
Spell "pupils" backward, and you
will discover the nature of many a one
among. them Boston Transcript.
Scientific men generally believe that
the bed of the Pacific ocean was once
above water, and inhabited by men.
In the Arctic regions, when the Their
mOmetcr is below zero, say thirty de-
grces, people can converse mile apart.
If Ben Franklin were to walk into
Philadelphia now, with his loaf OF
bread under each arm, he would be
jagged with the rest of the tramps.
This has been good season for the
Newfoundland seal fishing. 1t is rough
~ Jlllb ObU,ONU SChlS INV Y
been taken, giving about l0G, 200 cwts.
of oil.
An ambitious yong writer having
asked, "What magazine will give Inc
the highest position quickestr' was told,
ga powder magazine, If you contribute
fiery article"
The human skeleton consists of more
than 200 distinct bones. So when a
man says every bone in his body aches,
you may know that he is landed pro-
prietor of 200 acres.
A correspondent in a Baltimore paper
says that in q case of terrible burning
followed by lockjaw, which came under
his observation, the patient was cured
by the application of dog fat.
Nine. Catacazy, wife of the Russian
minister at Washington, during Grants
administration, is dead. She had the
reputation OF being the handsomcst
woman at the national capital.
"Father," said cobbler's lad, as he
was pegging away at an old shoe, "they
say that trout bite good now" "Wcll,
WE'LL" replied the old gentleman, ''you
stick to your work and they won't bite
you!"
Now the winds that softly breathe,
and the flowers that garlands wreathe,
gentle hint of summer in the mind
implants; and so do the beetles and the
spiders and the ants Yonkcrs Ga
zette.
Bachelor Sam Scudder, of Wild Cher
ry Creek, is quite bald. When the girls
see him coming they say, "IIcre comes
Bal'sam of Wild Cherry, and then they
all begin to cough. "-TCincinnat Satur-
day Night.
Three women were on trial, in one
day, in New York, for throwing vitrol
in the faces of men who had discarded
them. The men were all terribly dis
figured and half-b,inded. Two of the
women were sentenced to five and one
years imprisonment, respectively.
There were running in the United
States, April /, 495 distilleries, 4SS of
which used daily 20, 0S7 bushels of q ain,
making 100000 gallons of spirits. The
other seven of the distilleries used mo-
lasses at the aatc of 1856 gallons daily,
and obtaining thcrefrom 7,477 gallons
of spirits.
Delaware and Rhode Island are the
sleeve buttons of the Wertern IIemi-
sphere. New York Herald. And
Kentucky furnishes the studs Boston
Post. And New York furnishes the
Albany Argus. And Missouri
the Vest.-[Chicago Newspaper Union.
And Washington tho schurz.
Parchment was introduced in the
third century d. c. Paper was made
from rags in Italy A. ID. 1914. Letters
assumed their present form in the four
teenth century. Envelopes were in
vented in 1920. In 1866 DR.. Stephan
invented the postal card, of which four
hundred millions are now annually used
in Europe.
The process of tanning human skin
has just been accomplished at a morocco
factory at Lyon, Mass. Two skins,
about one foot and half square, OF
white and black persons who were
hanged, were furnished from a Boston
dissecting-room, and the process of tan
ming was remarkably successful. The
skin, ms IL now appears, resembles n
piece of French kid.
A lady in Madrid, Me-, was in a
house which was struck by lightning.
A valuable gold watch which she wore
stopped at the time, and although Jew
elers have repeatedly examined it and
pronounced 1t perfect in every particu-
lar, ii cannot be made to move. 1t is
so charged with electricity that watch
makers say no part of il can ever be
made 10 do duty if taken ont and put
into another set of works.
Beside a straw stack sat tramp
A jolly tramp and wise
Who. while he patched his tattercd coat.
Did thus soliloquize;
II seems sew sad that my lone life
Doth ever downward tend,
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