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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1880-01-07

DRNTOTONO Every wound or in
l ElNOlUNO, jury, even by accident,
or any disease, entities
a soldier of the late war, to pension. All
pensions by the law of January, 1879, began
BACK at the date of discharge or death of
soldier All entitled should apply at once.
Thousands who are now drawing pensions
are entitled to an increase. Soldiers and
widows of the wur Of 1872, and Mexican war
are entitled to pensions. Thousands are yet
entitled 10 bounty but don't know It. Fees
in all cases only $1,000. Send TWO STAMPS
for new laws blanks and instructions to
NAT. WARD FITZGERALD. U. S CLAIM
ATTORNEY, Box 5S6, Washington, ID. c.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1880-01-07

POI ON
spurts OF disgusting mucous from
tho nos,rlls or upon tho tonsils, Waiery Eyes
snuiIios, DuIllnz In tho Ears. Deafness
Cracking sensations 10 tho Head. Iniermib
tent Palms over tho Eyes. F1tid breath,
Nasal Twang. seabs In tho So'Irils, and Tick
Inns In the Throat IRE
SIGNS OF CATARRH.
No other suoh loathsome, treaeherou'
and undermining malady euraea mankind
Oneath Of our Children die Of diseases
generated by its Infeetious Poison, and
onefourth Of living men and women drag out
miserable exiStenees from tho same cause
While aslocp, tho impuritiea In tho
nos,rils arc necessarily swallowed Into
tho stomach md inhaled Into tho
lungs to poison every part Of tho system.
DR.. Wei Do Meyers Cntarrh euro
absorbs tho purulent virus and kills tho
soods Of poison In tho farthost parts Of
tho system. II will not only rcliovo, but
certainly euro catarrh at any stage.
II Is tho only romody which In our judg..
msnt has ever yet really ourod case OF
Chronic Catarrh.
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,memb OF fanny Cured OF Chronic Ca'arfh'
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years Chronic Catarrh.
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inLaw) Cured Of 10 yehrs Chronic caiarrh'
Mrs. john DouanrY, Flshklll, N. Y, Cured OF
sycara Chronic Caarfh.
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City, Cured OF u years Chronic Catarrh
A, Il, THoRN, 1879 Montague st., Brooklyn, (self
and SOM Cured OF Ca,arrh.
Roy. WV. ANDERSON, Fordham, n. Y, Cured Of
30 years Chronic Catarrh.
MILE. AIMEE, Opera Prima Donnal" have 70.
ccved very great benefit from IT,
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My family experienced immediate relief.
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Wei Do Mayors Catarrh euro Is
tho most important medical discovery
since vaccination. II IL sold by oil Drug
gists, or delivered by d. d. DEWEY x Co.,
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clubs. six packages for $3.50. DR.. Wei
Do Meyers Treatise Is sent FREQ to
anybody.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1880-01-07
HOODS sARsAPARiLLA

Works through the blood, regulating, toniHg
and invlgoratiag all the functions OF hebody'
Sold by druggists, Price 81, OF slS iorta'
C.L HOOD s. CO., Lowell, Mass
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1880-01-07

Wv VIZ Wv" o'H"'' p'~S>", II
some bread at the same time. The
food being prepared, the child lay
back on the bed and the opening in
the side was exposed, 1t was only an
inch in length and presented the ap'
pearauce of a badly-healed cut. 1t
was little inhamed. | stood by and
saw the doctor take one piece after
another and carefully introduce it with
the torceps into the stomach, until the
plate was nearly empty. The child
complained little at times, but did
not appear TO suffer any. She finally
said, "My stomach is full" and as
there was no more steak the doctor
desisted. Finally some cotton was
placed in the opening, bandage put
on, and she sat up and was soon tondl-
ing her playthings.
The following additional facts may
be of interest to the medical fraternity.
No particle Of solid food has passed
through the chlld's throat since the
accident, A grain Of rice nearly
strangles her. Milk is also injected
into the stomach through the opening.
The only possible danger is from the
wound closing up, hence it is kept
open with cotton. At first plug of
expansive cotton was used. There is
no reast why tho child should not
become stout and healthy. The food
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-07-29
The Fearful Cost OF War.

Official returns give the Russian losses in
killed and wounded as about 80, 600 officers
and men, but as we showed lately by.
letter of the London Times correspondent,
these figures do not nearly tell the awful
story. Over III, 600 Russian soldiers have
died in battle or in the hospitals and 9S,-
0n0 have perished by sickness and famine,
while the Roumanians add $4,000 men TO
the roster On the Turkish side it is es-
timated that 80, 900 have died in battle and
80, 900 in the hospitals. To make the
frightful list complete it would be neces-
sary to add th3 uncOuntel thousands of
massacred women and children. We have
seen no estimate of the waste Of treasure
in this war. Russia would no { dare to
show how much her credit would be i'm
paired by contributing her share of 1t. We
have before US, however, the figures snow
ing the cost of some of the modern wars in
which England has been engaged, which
may give some idea on the subject. Her
old French wars cost her about $5, 900, ,000-
600; her share of the Seven Years wal,
$4l5, 900, 900; the revolt of the American
colonies, $3.50, 100000; the two opium
wars with China, $44, 900, 900; the Kaffir
WuT, SlO,uOO,OOu, anu VIC Aug SolulaA Ca
pedltion, $40, 100000. Russi4's Crimean
war cost her $500, 600, 900. and the same
war cost England 81, 900, 600, 00O; France,
$500, 600, 900; Turkey, $50, 600, and
Sardinia, $3h, ,000,O 900. These figures enor-
nous as they are, only represent fractions
OF the material losses entailed by these
various conflicts. To form inadequate idea
of their ruinous results we should consider
also the stoppage OF commerce and produc-
ton, the destruction of factories and ship
ping, and the mortality among the able
bodied, useful and productive members of
society. How much Russia has suffered
in tt e ate war by the latter of these causes
she will probably only appreciate should
she be called upon at the present time to
maintain the expenses of a war with Great
Britain.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-07-29
Boiled l'otatpes W.. Love.

''What are you reading, Mary!' inquired
practical man living on East Long, De-
trolt, of his wife one day.
"Just the sweetest love story you ever
hearh of, replied his wife, enthusiast
cally.
"A love story2"
"Ies. and you Just ought to read it
''Ain't you got over that YETI" inter
rupted her husband.
''Got over what ?"
"Why, that love business. That-that
molasses contract between young idiots.
''Do you mean"
Eyes, | mean the milk and mush stuff
children indulge in. thought that would
have been taken out of you by this time.
Now what's that story about?'
81 am right here where he"
''WhoP
"Why, the lover, of course, has just res
cGed her"
''Who in thunder is her Z"
''Oh why don't you keep quiet. He has
just rescued the girl he's in love with from
a gang of robbers and
"How many was In that gaPgl'
''Let me see," said the wife thoughtfully,
''There were forty-two, and he"
NOW, do you mean TO say that young
feller took grl from forty-two robbers all
by himself"
"Yes, and the story says he killed thir-
teen in the attempt, and"
"Mary, hand that paper right to me.
Fork it over"
"Whyf"
'"Now," continued the husband, as he
crushed it up and put in the tail of his coat,
that's the biggest lie | ever heard. I'm
going TO take this paper outside the corpo-
ration and bury it two feet deep, and then
see if can't get an act passed by Congress
to suppress its publication. I'll be back by
supper time, and l want you to hump your
self around and have some boiled potatoes
and corn-bread. That will help cake some
of this nonsense out of vou."
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-07-29
Greek Fire

"GreeK flre'-or, rs II is sometimes
called ''Saracen fre"--was the most inn
portant war material men had before the
invention of gunpowder. Twice the city
of Constantinople was saved by the use of
it. IL is said to have been invented by a
Syrian, who, deserving from the service of
the Caliph, revealed his secret to the en-
peror. The ingredients, if not also the
mode Of darting the fire, were KEEP a Sc
cret for upwards of 400 years, and it is
quite uncertain now what were actually the
component parts of that which, Joinville
says, ''came flying through the air like a
winged long-tailed dragon, about the thick
ness of Il hogshead, with the report of thun-
der and the velocity of lightning; and the
darkness of the night was dispelled by this
deadly illumination" 1t is generally con-
sidered, however, that ''the fire" was com
posed of naptha, mingled in certain pro-
portions, now unknown, with sulphur, and
with pitch obtained from evergreen fir.
This mixture, ignited and blown or pumped
through long tubes of copper, which were
mounted in the prows of galleys, and fanci-
fully shaped into the form of monsters,
produced Il thick smoke with loud ex-
plosion, and flame, fierce and obstinate,
which no amount of water could eXtin-
guish. When used for the defense of walls,
it was poured in large boilers from the
ramparts, or was hurled on javelins by
means of tow which had previously been
stepped in infammable material. Against
1t the bravest soldiers went in vain; their
imagination recOIled from thing so subtle
and terrible Horses fled from it in dire
fright; ships were burnt by it; there was
no way of standing against it. The Greek
emperors. sensible OF the enormous advan-
tage which an offensive weapon of such a
kind gave them, invested it with mystcr-
ious history, and appealed 10 the supersti
ton of their subjects for the preservation of
the secret OF the manufacture. They said
that an angel had revealed the composition
OF Greek fire TO the first Constantine. for
the express purpose of maintaining the SUI
perior:ty of the empire over the Barba-
rians; and that whoever betrayed the secret
TO foreigners would incur not only the pen
atty of treason and sacrilege, but the spe-
cial venge 4nce of the Almighty. In the
twelfth century, however we lind it used
by the Mahometans in their wars with the
Christians; and from that time it came into
pretty general use, until the invention of
gunpowder pat it out of date, ana caused
all entire revo ution in the art OF war.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-07-29
ATarrihIe ENnprience.

Adolph Hintzky went out on the noun
tains of Eastern Pennsylvania alone TO
chop wood for the charcoal burners, and
nothing was seen of him for three days. A
hunter by the name of Hines, passing
over the mountain, tracked rabbit under
large, heavy tree. To his great surprise
he found a man lying under the limbs OF
the tree in the snow. The man still lived.
Hines dropped his gun and game and ran
off To the nearest cabin for assistance.
Hines and another man went back and
found the man to be HIntzky, a prisoner
under the tree, half buried in the snow.
BY the light of their lanterns he was cut
out and freed. He could not stand at first,
and was nearly dead. His ears were
frozen and his feet were terribly frozen.
With great difficulty he was taken to a
house. His story was that he was cutting
down tree, before it fell he sat on a stone
TO eat his dinner, suddenly violent gust
of wind blew through the gorge and the
tree fell with a crash, Ct TSlng the unfOr-
tunate woodman under its heavy branches
He was rendered senseless by the blow,
but the stone upon which he sat saved his
| life. The force of the blow was averted.
The man had raised himself up, and when
the tree fell it pinioned him. One of his
arms he could not move at all; his body
was held to the earth and he was prisoner.
On the evening of his first days imprison-
ment snow fell All that night, the next
day and next night he was fastened in the
snow, and his life was slowly ebbing away.
| On the third day he was in terrible agony,
he fed himself with snow, and thus palti
ally quenched his thirst His boots had to
he cut from his swollen feet, his robust
constitution prevented death. He was
about 35 years of age, and he wore a coal
! lined with hair.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-07-29

4 company ~ South African savage
Zulus are now amusing the people of Lon
don, and among their performances they
show how they get light without matches.
Some straw being laid on the ground as a
bed, two eticks were placed on it few
inches apart to form support for third
stick, which, was laid across them, having
deep notch cut Ia it to receive the blunt
point of the drilling stick. This was
twirled like chocolate-muller between the
palms of the hands, and when the twirlers
hands reached the bottom they were either
dexerously Suited to the top again, or
another of the Africans squatting round
took and relieved the first. A spark was
obtained in the charl dust in about five
minutes, and was received with shouts OF
delight by the firemakers, one of whom
carefully shielded 1t in handful of the
straw, soon famed it into fame.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-07-29
Corduroy jim"

Some time in the year 1855 number OF
adventurous spirits from California, con-
ceived the idea of going into the heart of
Mexico to seek their fortunes. They FORM
ed a colony composed partially of miners,
but principally of reckless. careless men,
ready to retrieve their shattered fortunes in
any way. The colony, known to history
as the La Paz, was fitted out and started
from San Francisco the sane year. Upon
arriving there they were not received by
the Mexican government with that hearth
ness and cordiality now extended to i'm
migrants seeking that promising land.
They were looked upon as flibusters, ar
rested, imprisoned, sometimes decorated
with balls and chains and generally treated
as prisoners of war. Failing to find on
Mexican soil the Ell Dorado of their hopes
they planned an escape and returned on the
John l.. Stephens, on July second or third,
in time to celebrate the national holiday.
They told their story of their woes to their
friends as only forty-nineIs could. Much
interest was excited and an effort made tC
secure the national Intervention in their be-
half So confident were they Of success!
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-07-29
A FAREW ELL.

Thou goest, and abide. Like some gray
tower
CrumLlng to ruin on desolate mountain
height
Death-silent save for screaming eagles 3
fight,
nv patient day waits Times corroding pow r..
While thou, with wins Of flame through
Loves vast space,
Like some great planet trAversest all
spheres.
/, all i'll vain, at lonely fount of tears,
Must strive to quenoh my souls tn .rst for thy
face.
But, mid thy varied splendors sometimes
pause,
And stay sometimes thy sweep OF radiant
wing,
And lid Thy voice old songs to memory
sing,
For dirges on my broken life's lost cause.
Which thou hast sung, while stood by thy
side,
In those long buried hours before Love
died.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-07-29

He who loses hope may then part
with anything.
Sin is sturdy, and will rebel, where
it cannot reign.
Gods words. however sighted, are
not wind, but fire.
The ChrisJian lite is not knowing nor
hearing, but doing.
Benefit your friends, that they may
become your friends.
The error of moment becomes the
sorrow OF whole life.
Their tongues and their tears are
women'S best weapons.
Love, faith, patience-the three es-
seutials ID happy lite.
Love is lowliness; on the wedding
ring spaIk kles DO jewel.
G0d's anger Is holy. bis fire Is
pure and without smoke.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-07-29
SIR William Herschel's First Telescope

Sir William Herschel arrived in England
from Honover, his birthplace, about the
end of the year 1859, when he was in his
twenty first year. He was bred prOfes-
sor OF music, and went 10 live at Halifax,
where he acquired by his own application,
a considerable knowledge of mathematics;
and, having studied astronomy and optics
IN the popular writings of Furguson, he
was anxious to witness with his own eyes
the wonders oE the planetary system. He
accordingly borrowed from a friend tele-
scope, two feet in foc6l length and ha wing
directed it to the heavens he was so de-
lighted with the actual sight of phenomena,
which he had previously known only from
books, that he commissioned q friend to
purchase for him III London, telescope
with a, high magnifying power. Fortunately
for science, the price of such an lnstrL-
ment greatly exceeded his means, and he
Immediately resolved TO construct tele-
scope with his own hands. After encounter
ing the difficulties which every amateur at
| first experiences. in the casting, grinding
and polishing ofthe metallic specula for re-
| tlectIng telescopes, he completed In l776, a
rehectlng instrument, five feet in focal
length, with which he was able to observe
the ring of Saturn and the satellites and
belts of Jupiter. This telescope was COM
pleted when he resided at Bath, where he
acquired by degrees and in his leisure
hours that practical knowledge of optics
and mathematics which was necessary for
such task. His experience in this scien-
tifc art were of the most remarkable kind,
and by 1871 he had constructed so many
telescopes as to be better furnished with
the means of surveying the heavens than
were possessed by any other astronomer,
in any of the fixed observatories of Eu-
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-07-29

1t is said that Gov. Andrew, OF
Connecticut, has appointed ofate de-
tective to make further effort to
solve the mystery OF the murder OF
Mary Stannard, for which the Rev. IL.
FL. HAYDEN was tried.
CHICAGO has lady teacher of the
fiute. She probably does all the tluting
for her own dresses.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-07-29

SMOKERS are puff. ectly satisfied with
the appearance OF lhe open horse cars
on our sJreeta.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-12-15
LamoIne Count, court.

The only cast remaining on tine Jury
calendar Wednesday morning was that
OF Perkins v. West, Aplt., which was
continued.
The divorce case of Brown v. Brown
was taken up and a bill granted.
Wednesday afternoon the petit jury
were excused until Monday morning.
The grand jury rose Friday morning
and presented five true bills, and re-
ported on the public monies, and the
condition of the Jail. Judge Powers
congratulated the jury on the expedi-
tious manner in which they had taken
up and completed their work. Two
of the bills found were, one against
DIR. Smith, OF johnson, for manslaugh-
ter, &C., and n against Burt Mars
den of Stowe, for forgery, both of
which were put over until the April
term.
Saturday morning the new docket
was called and gone through, and like
the old docket nearly the entire list of
causes was disposed of, either by con-
tinuance, settlement or otherwise.
The Court thereupon ordered the clerk
to notify the jurymen that they were
discharged AMI adjourned the court
until the second Tuesday of January,
1881.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-12-15
AGRICULTURAL NEWSPAPER
THE sun FOR 1884,.

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The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-12-15
WGLCOTT,
Mrs. NJ. r. Hubbell goes to Cabot
this week to go into business.
Squire f. B. Walsh's health has

Mrs. NJ. r. Hubbell goes to Cabot
this week to go into business.
Squire E. B. Walsh's health has
been failing for some time past.
Laundering is very lively, teams
are in good demand, and every one is
in a hurry to get the most work done.
BENZ. Bedford has rented the
water power at Potterville and con-
tracted for twenty thousand logs of
Cornelius and Henry Reed, which
will make business lively in that direc-
ton for some time. They have en-
gagged 20 teams to commence as soon
as there is snow enough.
Mr.. and Mrs. Whitemore started
for MorrisvilIe the other day. When
they got on the bridge rear Mr.. Bug
bees, the horse fell down in such a
manner that it tipped the sleigh over
into the brook, throwing Mrs. White
more and a ~grandchild out into the
water, and on to the hind parts of the
horse, tangling his feet in her clothes,
and nearly tore them off from her as
they lay in the water. Mr.. Whitemore
managed however to place the child
on the bank, and keep the horses
head out of the water until his wife got
over the horse into the road. without
receiving any injury. The only dam
age done was a broken pair of thills.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-12-15
FAIRFIELD.

james Ryan lost a valuable horse
last Monday.
Miss Helen Northrop goes to
Iowa this week for her health.
Hay is in good demand here, SIS
a ton being paid by the pressmen.
F. M. Northrop writes from Sioux
City, Iowa, that his prospects are
lnnking M Rnsinase 10 improving.
"A. G.. Soule and John Rooney
very luckily escaped what might have
been a serious accident last Monday.
AS they were driving through the
covered bridge, their horse gave a
sudden spring for some cause or other
and landed plump.into the mill-pond
some Is or 20 feet below. The men
were tumbled out as the sleigh took
the railing, and were just saved from
a ducking and perhaps some broken
bones. 1t took a dozen men nearly
half an hour to fish the horse out OF
the water. John has Just taken to
himself a better half, but we don't
think that had anything to do with the
accident, for he has no insurance on
his life