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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-02

A curious discovery has been made by
an antiquarian in New York state, which
goes to show that the famous Sixteen tuz-
ze is an older affair than has been hither-
to supposed. In Albert Durer'S famous
engraving of " Molancholia." among the
numerous objects of mental perplexity
with which the intellectual female figure
Is surrounded, there hangs, prominently
upon the wall, this self.samo Sixteen Puz.
ze, with its columns of figures so arranged
as to equal thirty-four when added hori-
zontally, perpendicularly, or obliquely.
This engraving was the work of Albert
Durer in 1914. and its iell purpose seems
to have been recognized BY him, inasmuch
as he associated it with the allegorical
representation of one of the worst forms
of insanity.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-02

A Danes SKIN.-Not very long ago a
portion of hard dry skin was found under
meath the embossed head of u huge iron
nail that was fixed into the door of the
Chapter House, Mt Westminster. Upon
this skin were found several hairs. Mr..
Quekett, curator of the museum Of the
college of surgeons, recognized the hair to
be human, and asserted that it belonged to
a fair-haired person. In former times the
Danes used to come up the mouths of the
English rivers TO pillage the churches.
When they were caught they wese skin
ed, and their skins nailed to the door of
the church they attacked. In the course
of time, all the exposed portion would
peel off, that covered by the nail would
remain protected, and thus bear testimony
to the cruelty of our ancestors. In the
college of surgeons may be seen three
specimens of human skin, presented by
Mr.. Albert Way, viz, Portion of human
skin, said to be that of Dane. from the
door of church at lladstock, Essex
a second specimen is from Copford, in
Essex, and third from the north door of
Worcester cathedral.-CurioSitieS of Nat-
urat History, 6y Fr0nk BucElam.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-02

The peril of employing highly educated
young men rs clerks was again illustrated
recently. A woman stopped at a green
grocer's and asked" lis them lettuce fresh? ;
You mean that lettuce" suggested the
clerk, land it is fresh" Then you'd
better eat it," she snapped as she walked
on. The grocer rushed out and asked the
clerk what on earth had happened to anger
her, and the young man replied: "Why,
nothing. only | corrected her grammar.
You have turned away one of my best
customers! Only yesterday she came in
and asked me how l sold those white
sugar and got an order for whole barrel.
Hang you, sir! but if them customers
want grammar they don't expect to find
her in grocery! No, sir! And if you
see she again you want to apologize in the
most humblerest manner"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-02

WEIGHED AND FOUND WANTING.-Hcre
comes wording, You can not mistake
him. His eyes. his hands. his heart are
full of business. Stocks, dividends, per-
centages, scrip. buyer, ten days, II
buyer, thirlys." His happiness is sue,
cessful bargain; his eternity, SO many feel
front by SO many feet deep. He wants tc
90 to Heaven, because where there is SC
much gold it must be that money is
easy The most tremendous question he
ever asks himself is: How low can buy
these goods. and how high price can
get for them?' The day is full of rush
and din, and he sleeps and sweats under Il
nightmare of dollars. The Sabbath is a
vulgar interruption, and he hopes, on his
way TO church to drum up Il new customer
Day by day he has been weighing confec-
tion, weighing fruit, weighing meat, weigh
ing ice or weighing coal, not knowing
that he all the Time was being weighed
| pile up beside him ON his side of the
scales, The hogsheads, and the barrels, anl
the money vaults. and the storehouses
and the cargoes but all these gave to the
wording no additional weight At the
very moment We were congralulating him
III The tine store, and the full bloodeC
stock, and the princely in ONE, God ant
The angels were looking upon the scent
and ann unrng the solemn truth :"Weigh
ed in the balance and found wanting. -
De Watt Tdtnaage.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-02

/ LEFT NOTHING TO HIS FAMTLY.-How
often is this said of II man who dies, own.
ing no property! How often in their
ignorance are good men saddened by the
thought that. having no money to bestow,
they can bequeath nothing to their chill
dren. But every child is an heir, and his
inheritance is indefeasable. First of all
are his memories of his parents and home.
All !lf men and women could dictate to their
lawyers on paper or parchment what
memories they shall leave behind them,
how differently would the record read, in
so many caSes But memory is a record
not open to amendment, nor subject to OBJ
liberation by another's will. We shall be
remembered chiefly for what we are
happy if there be even one who will think
OF what we wished or tried to be. Every
day and year, therefore, adds to the pos
sessions of our children and friends, in
their memories of us. How inadequately
does money represent one, when compared
with ones self! The trite truth that it is
not what man has, but what he u.s. that
measures him, never seems less trite than
when one thinks what he will be TO his
friends when he has been ten years dead.
And so man who has no property to
devise, should not be unhappy. IL give
and bequeath to my dearly y-beoved wife Il
good name.' Isn't that "a good start to Il
last will? If man can honestly and
proudly write that, and then descend to
possessions that are expressed in figures,
so much the better But there is the best
authority for giving the preference to the
intangible bequest. And il in his inmost
soul the father feels that among the un-
enumerated legacies. ea"h dear one LEFT
behind will have Il memory of him as
kind, loving. tender and true, how dare he
think that he shall die poor? These are
treasures that no heirs quarrel over, and
that require no probate outside of the
heart. They are veritably " laid up in
Heaven" Why do the errors of the old
spiritual materiaists still keep men look
ing beyond the stars as the place where
" their possessions beP-GoldsH Rule.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-02

COOP NIGHT; BUT GIVE ME Your
HAND. Such were the words of II dear
little girl to her father as he sat by her
couch one evening and had bidder her
good night Good night; but give me
your hand" She wished to feel the clasp
of that fathers hand till she fell asleep.
How sweet to know that if an earthly
father delights to take the hand of his
little daughter as she is about dropping to
sleep. much more does our Heavenly
Father love to hold our hand in His as we
go at night into the silent land of uncon-
seriousness. How blessed to feel that in
answer to the prayer, Good night, Lord !;
but give me Thy hand" He will not leave
nor forsake us; that in the grasp of that
Fathers hand His children may sleep the
sleep which God gives to His beloved. If
we take in ours that hand which was
pierced for us on the cross, even the night
of adversely will he to us II good night.
And in the valley of the shadow of death
we will fear no evil, Even there shall
Thy hand lead me-" That hand will lead
us in safety to that land of love, where the
parting words, Good night" shall no
longer be spoken,fo the Lamb is the light
thereof
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-02

MAGIC POLISHING CLOTHS. For some
time past, there have been sold, rs polish
ing cloths. square pieces of calico with
which metallic articles could be- polished
and cleaned without the invention of
other substances. They were simply
impregnated with mixture of soap and
tripoli, and tinted with coralline. For
piece of fabric 70 ON. (27s inches) long
and 10 cm. "A inches) wide. the following
quantities are sufficient: tripoli. 2 grams.
(30gr.); CASTLE soap, grams (50gr }
water, 20 grams. 1880 gr). The soap is
dissolved in the water, the tripoli added,
and a little solution of coralline added,
10 impart II rose color. The fabric is then
impregnated with the mixture and dried.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-02

OF the late Bishop Ames the following
anecdote is related: While presiding over
a certain conference in tho west member
began TRADE against the universities,
education. etc., thanking God that he had
never been corrupteds by contact with
college. After proceeding thus for few
minutes, the bishop interrupted him with
the question. "Do understand that the
brother thanks God for his ignorance"
" Well, yes" was the answer; "you car
put it in that way, if you want to-"
"Well, all have to say" said the bishop
in his sweet, musical tones, I" is that ths
brother has great deal to thank God for.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-02
ANEcDorE OF BIsMARCK.-A peasant,

ANEcDoTE OF BIsMARCK.-A peasant,
being rather tipsy, staggered up against
the Princess Bismarck, and the chan
cellor gave him a push out of the
way. The state of the man was such that
he readily fell; but, quickly picking him
self up, he again approached and begged
pardon of the prince in such polite and
humble terms before rapidly disappearing,
that the latter heartily regretted having
treated the offender SO roughly. "These
fellows" said Bismarck to his wife, "have
incredible good nature. and now feel that
I should almost like to beg pardon of him
myself," .
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-02

That was a beautiful thought to which
DR.. Huebsch gave nttsrance last week in
sermon and one that might be rcmem-
hered with profit by us all. He declared
that all the stations which we pass on our
life pilgrimage derive their true value
from the memories that gather about them.
And all our departures are the beginnings
OF chapgeful journeys which also lead to
new departures in the right direction, the
promised land of noble aims and ends
being always kept in view. This idea
lends to human life its significance and
gives to human history its Importance.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-02

CUTTING IIoT BREAD.-One day compa-
ny arrived Unexpectedly. Supper was
Just over and no bread had been left.
had Just taken from the oven some deli
cious looking light bread, but it was toe
hot to cut. We live in country place
where there is no baker. In my bewilder-
ment | happened to remember that in
Mrs. Whitney's Cook Book, Just How,
she suggests heating a knife, in order to
split open a hot short cake. Why, thought
|, may not smoking hot light bread be
sliced witha a hot knife 1t is the cold sur
face of the steel applied to the warm
dough that produces disagreeable clam
miness. l heated my carving knife and
tried it. The bread sliced beautifully, and
as | piled it up to bring to the table. put
it on plate upon which had laid fresh
napkin, Cor the contract of the hot bread
with the cold plate would have produced
the same sodden clamminess on the sur
face of the lower slice. OF course,
would not recommend the slicing of hot
loaves except upon emergencies. AS a
frequent diet it might prove injurious, but
not more so than other warm Breads
american AgriculturiSt.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-02

1t is both the curse and blessing of
American life that We are never quite con-
tent. We all expect 10 90 somewhere
before we die, and have better time
when we get there than we can have at
home. The bane of our life is discomfort.
We say we will work so long, and then
we will enjoy ourselves. But we find it
| just rs Thackeray has expressed it."When
| was n boy" he said, "I wanted some
taffy-it was a shilling-l hadn't one.
When was man had n shilling but
didn't want any taffy." But say not one
word against that splendid discomfort that
all the time makes man strike for seme-
thing better. like this idea that every
boy born in America dreams of being
president No man has any right to be
better tomorrow than he is doing to-day.
But all that will come by keeping close to
a manly and dutiful life. While we are
going steadily along to whatever future
awaits us. the grandest thing We can do is
to feel sure that what we are doing for a
days work, with all that we do besides, is
just the most blessed thing, so far as we
can do, and that we are very likely having
the best time that can ever come to our
life; that this work and wife and home
and children, all they are and all they
mean. beats the world. The saddest thing
ii 6hr life is our discomfort when we ought
/ b h2more contented. 1t is our birthrght
j<gsziBi the good of life as we go along, in
these simple and pure things that to all
true man and womanhood are like rain
.fld. sunshine to an apple tree. But when
/ .ae WI not believe this, and dream that
/ Tie abast of our life is to come when we
" 5T4nade our fortune, then we sell our
lizzttght for mess of pottage; but worse
Ithanr Esau, the pottage gives us the dys.
fpepsia. .xnd then we lose the birthright and
pottagetogether.-Roden CoIlycr.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-02

GIRL BABIES IN CHTNA.-Moung Ed
win, Burmese, who has been educated
in this country with a view of sending him
as Baptist missionary to Burmah, lee
tured last week in Baltimore. Speaking
of the deplorable condition Of women in
the east, owing mainly to peculiar relig-
ious teachings, he said: Girls in China
are believed to have no souls, and to kill
them is not murder, and therefore not to
be punished. Where parents are too poor
to support the girl children they are dis
posed of in the following way: At regular
intervals an appointed officer goes through
a village and collects from poor parents
all the girl children they cannot care for,
when they are about eight days old. He
has two large baskets attached to the end
of bamboo pole and slung over his
shoulder. Six infants are placed in each
basket, and he carries them to some neigh
boring village and exposes them for sale.
Mothers who desire 10 raise wives for their
sons buy such as they may select, The
others are taken to the government
asylum, of which there are many all
through the country. If there is room
they are taken in, if not they are drown
ed'
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-02

A LOUISIANA SwAMP.-And what sur.
roundings! Endless colOnnadeS of cy
presses; long motionless drapings of gray
mess; broad sheets on nois0me waters
pitchy black, resting on botIomless ooze
cypress knees sludding the surface; patch
rs of floating green, cleaning brilliantly
here and there; yondrr where the sun
beams wedge themselves in, consultations
of water-lllies the many -hued iris, and a
multitude of flowers that no man had
named; here, TOO, serpepts great and
small, Of wonderful colurngs and the dull
and LOAF hesome moccasin SLIDING warily
off the dead tree in DINNER rccesses the
COW alligator. with her nest hard by;
turtles century old; owls and bats
raccoons, opossumS, rats. centipedes and
creatures of like vileness; great vines Of
beautiful leaf and scarlet fault in deadly
clusters maddening mosquitoes. parasitic
insects, gorgeous dragon-tlies and pretty
water lizards the blue heron, the snowy
crane, the red-bird, the moss-biI d, the
night-hawk and the chuck ll'swidow
a solemn stiffness and stihed air only now
and then disturbed by the call or whr Of
the summer-duck, the dismal ventrilo
quous note of the rain crow or the splasl
of Il dead branch falling into the clear
but lifeless bayou Mr.. Tabte's aeV n0re
IN Scrlbner.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-02
TERMS FOR ADVERTISING.

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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-03-31
WON EN-.

LeucorrhGa. Excessive Flowing, Painful
Monthly Periods, Suppressions when from IN
natural caHses, Irregularities. Weak Back. Prolap,
sus Failing of the Uterus AnterYersion anc
Retroversion Bearing down Sensations, 1nterna
Heat, Nervous Depression, Debility, Dependency
Threatened Miscarriage, Chron Congestion, Infia-
nation and liberation of the Uterus, Impo-
tency Barrenness, or Sterility, and Female, Weak
pess.
Added to these are the pangs, the troubles, the
wearing strain Of maternity, and which often do
more toward breaking her Constitution and weak
enfng her other efforts than all else Of her labor
and duties en- HGSse. II is in this direction that
oEe often discovers that which it most pitfGl in
the life OF such woman. she labors on through
the period of CESSATION the last possib moment
often over eXcrting herself, and often doing her
and her offspring irreparable injury. The result of
all ths Is that the mother at thai period of life
when she sh ould pPss The threshold of vigorous
and cheerful old age. often broken down and.
after "A year two of intCleraOle suffering Is hur-
ried of 10 til nearest chnrchyard
= bottle or two of Shorev,s investigator taken
during the year, will not only make woman g
life light ana happy, but will cure permanently
most of her complaints. Sold by all druggists al
one dollar per large package. Sold in Des MOines
wholesale and retail by
C. II. WARD & 90 and by druggists generally
FULLER Il ULLER,
Wholesale Agents, Chicago.
Depot. So Cedar St New York. 6-26nwf&w
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-03-31
he precedenc6.

The fact is becoming daily more appar-
ent to the Democracy of the country, that
che one man best fitted to lead the party
20 victory is Senator David Davis of Illi-'
nois. 1t is useless to deny the necessity
for placing at the head of the Democratic
ticket, a man whose name will not only
command The full vote Of his party, but
the dissatisfied elements of opposition
outside the regular lines. so that victory
will be 50 overwhelming as to preclude the
chance of sharp practice and render tech.s
meal objection useless. Senator Davis, is
man who is not only emInentlyl qualified
for the position. but is possessed of intrepid
courage aud observation-disclosures man who
would not tolerate any attempt to deprive
him of his rights if elected, but would in
sist upon his installation, with that dignity
and irmness which enforces respect and
commands obedience. With Davis and
Potter as the Democratic leaders, defeat is
out of the question
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-03-31
Giants Chosen Frisnas.

The chosen friends of the Grant, are
The whiskey thieves. revenue plunderers
and bribers and corruptioDists generally
at least such Were the sort who sur
rounded him during his term, and would
do so again if Grant were the president
Referring the Pennsylvania crowd who
have jast been convicted of bribery in that
state, the New York Sun says:
The Court of Pardons of Pennsylvania
have denied the petition of William 81.
hemble and others who have pleaded that
they were unwilling TO contend with the
Commonwealth to the indictments charg
inR them with attempting to bribe certain
members of the Legislature of that State
Sentence, it is said, will probably be
passed upon the culprItS to-day.
Our readers will remember the trial OF
8 civil suit for libel which Mr.. Kembie
brought against the editor of the San. sew,
eral years ago, for publishing accounts Of
some OF his misdemeanors. An homes;
jury refused to give him SO much as six
aud u quarter cents damages
There are still worse men than Kembip,
who, like him. were as thick as thieves
just as thick-with Grant when be was
50 office before, and would be as near to
him we're he reelected.
A third term to Grant would constitute
q terrestrial Paradise 10 the unconvicted
public piundereTs.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-03-31
The English Elections.


The electoral methods in England are
about as radically different irum ours as
they could we'll be made. 1t is not known
for years beforehand, as 1t is with US,
when the elections are to be held. When,
on the 8th day of March, the Ministry
announced that Parliament would be dis
solved on the ODD, the declaration took
the country by surprise. Parliament was
dissolved on the 23d. and on the next day,
the oath, writs for the new elections were
issued from the office OF the Speaker of
the House OF Commons, directed TO the
Sherltfs of counties and to other returning
officers in the Doroughs and the UNIVERSE"
ties. The elections for boroughs must
take place within four days after the re.
ceipt OF the writ, and for counties within
eight days. The writs are returnable in
twenty-one days. Thus the result of the
battle will be pretty well known by the
middle OF next week. instead of dragging
along and keeping the country excited and
business unsettled tor four six or twelve
months, as In this country Were il
possible for the party 10 power iu our
country TO order national eiectIeu on
such very short notice as Lord
Beacons6eld's Government has ordered
the present series of Parliamentary
elections, it would be furiously de-
nounced as a snap Judgment" intended
70 ioreStall public opinion and deprive
the people OF q fair choice. But would
l. nos, on some accounts at least, be pre-
Ler1oie 10 our prese Mt methodist There
oouiu not at any rate, in SO brief q time
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-03-31
The Victim

of youthful Indulgence. successes. sc.
he who is now suffering for past vices,
as indicated by weakness, losses. de-
posits, sediments, irritation. dyspepsia,
nervousness, dependency, melancholy
tendency to mania He who is in pre-
mature decline. will get immediate and
permanent relief and cure by using
''Wells' Health Remover :" 1t is espec~
tally designed for just these cases and
or those who are older. and are lacking
an animal vitality and vigor 1t enables
the system TO recuperate rapidly and
supply the drain thereon, Don't fail &c
try it. Sold by druggists at Sl.0O, OF
sent by express on receipt of price
Advice free. See circular with bot
ties. Adde'S E. s. Wells, So Barclay
st New York
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-03-31
DR.. SHOREY'S
Kidney investigation.

A SPECIFIC in the CURE of ALL DISEASES
81 the Urinary Organs, Irritation of the neck Of
the Bladder, Burning Urine, Bright's Disease,
elect Gonorrhee In all its stages, Mucous
Discharges, Night Emissions, ongesuon of the
Kidneys, trick Dust, Deposit, Diabetes Infiam-
alton of the Kidneys and Bladder, Dropsy of the
Kidneys, Acid Urine, Bloody Urine Pam in the
Region of the Bladder, Pain IN the Back, Urinary
Calculus Renal Collc, Retention of Urine. FIRE.
ouent Urnation Gravel in all its Forms, inability
to Retain the Water particularly in persons advan.
ced in life. The INVESTIGATOR restores the
Urine to its natural color, removes the acid and
icatiDg Drink.
The following are among those diseases II which
SEES Of