The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-10-15

Two-thirds OF the worlds tror ,ble lies
stwecn an extinguished light and the
: dge Of the bed.
a good conversationalist mny make
himself heard ~ feast, mt The small
boy lies the cake. 10y Wy '''"'
A man is supposed tc he n his mime
at forty, unless he kw ,cLs his printing
out before that time.
Last year 10000 ew cars were built
IN tne unltou otstS >. This year 1t Is ex-
Pecteo 1o'ovV WIZ be added to the roll
ing stock OF theS country. MS
~ makes y oung man feel very much
ASH some " .ngs in the world were all
warn 70 sing Come to my bosom. come,
love" unoF window, and then hap
pen 10 sec sign To Let " on the door,
| ore kv id word spoken to tramp may
cheer~b IS whole future life. Remember
this W hen you see him walking off with
yodr' AK and fifty feet of your garden
bose. a-r .-...
TIE other day a swarm of bees lit on
tapear tree, and the boy who bareained
todrive them off with horsewhip hasn't
got eyesight enough to see whether his
sisters fellow kisses her on the porch.
or hurriedly deposits the thing smack
on her lips OsUeqo Record.
A farmers wife, in speaking of the
smartness, aptness and intelligence of
her son, lad six years old, to lady
acquaintance, said: He can read
fiuently in any part of the Bible, repeat
the whole catechism, and weed onions
as well as his father" Eyes, mother"
added the young hopeful, land yester-
day l licked Ned Rawson, throwed the
cat into the well, and stole old Hinck-
ley's gimlet."
The projected tunneling of Mount
Blanc is engaging the serious attention
of French engineers, and, contrary to
common opinion, they characterize it
as an easier undertaking than that of
the Simplon route. The estimates of
cost tor executing such work are, In
the case of the Simplon, about $27 ,O00,-
600, and In that OF Mount Blanc only
SIS, 0O0, 900. Furthermore. it is claimed
that the Mount Blanc tunnel will make
the journey from Paris to Genoa some
ninety-seven kilometers shorter than by
the Simplon route. The location of the
tunnel is a point which has given rise
to various opinions, but that which
meets with special favor from the adj
vocates of the enterprise is from
Chamounix to Courmayeur.
John Dye, the expert in counterfeiting,
says that a close study of good notes is
necessary for those who would readily
detect bad ones. Some OF the latter are
fully rs fine as the former in workman
; they can be distinguished. He repre-
sents counterfeiting as having greatly
increased of late, and the operators as
, backed by plenty of capital. In the
case OF base coinage, he says that some
! of their product costs more than half its
, apparent value to make. He showed a
coin that had exactly the weight, size
and touch of genuine fve-dollar gold
piece; but cut into the edges showed
|, that 1t was shell of gold with plati-
! mum filling. The actual value Of the
: metal in it was two dollars and half,
and the making must have cost half a
: dollar more.
Chung Han, late Chinese ambassador
, at St. Petersburg, who was condemned
Q to death some time ago for having
signed treaty with Russia without due
, authorization from Pekin, will not be
exc cuted for some time to come. De-
1 cember, it appears, is considered par
], ticularly suitable time of year for cut
0 ting off peoples heads in the dowery
realm, and Chung Hans decapitation
: has been postponed to that month in
n Difference to the high rank of the
doomed mandarin. Toward the end of
edCQ year llSbS Vi CTlluludlS stHltuCtu W
7 the extreme penalty of the law are for
q warded by ali the provincial governors
to Pekin, where the minister of justice
runs his pen through the names Of those
he sees reason to pardon, and the en-
peror himself subsequently exercises his
supreme right to commute sentences of
excessive severity. There is some
chance, therefore, that Chung Han may
still be let off.
The honors accorded to the American
exhibitors at the fishery exhibition at
Berlin were quite numerous. They
were as follows: Address of thanks
. and gold medal; one honorary prize |;
!. gold medal, with special honorary
J diploma; nine gold medals, exclusive
of the special ones before mentioned |;
fourteen silver medals; twelve bronze
medals. and seventeen honorable men
tions-in all sixty-nine awards to the
United States Large as is the number
! of prizes for America, they might have
been very much augmented, for the
overwhelming superiority of the Ameri-
can exhibition over those of all other
J countries was conceded from the very
! first day. But the American exhibit
, was for the most part collective one,
! made by the United States fish commits
sion, and for this reason comparatively
, few American individuals. so to speak.
received awards.