The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-07-30
TIMELY TOPICS.

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1solna, Austria, was verv wicked
man. He it was who insured his life
for very large sum, murdered ped
dler, dressed his body in his clothes and
passed himself off for the dead man.
The fraud and crime were soon discov-
cred by finding the true Gunbaum alive
and the peddler dead. 1t is likely he
will get his deserts, for there is not
much false philanthropy laying round
loose in Austria, where Justice is both
swift and sure.
With some people prosperity is harder
to bear than adversely, although most
of us are reckless enough to take the
risk. William Zollinger was killed by
prosperity. He was an honest, sober
hard-working man in New York. He
invested his savings in real estate, which
rose, and one day recently he sold,
realizing over Sl2, 900. He had no faith
in banks, and didn't know what to do
with his cash. His newly found wealth
became burden to him. and he went
and got drunk. He was found dead
drunk in the gutter in one OF tie vilest
localities in the city with $l2, 900 un-
touched in his pockets. He was lodged
in the ststion-housc, and became crazy,
fearing that his arrest was conspiracy
to rob him. During the night he took
off his vest, twisted it and tied it to an
iron bar, put his head through the arm
hole and hung himself
Doctor Guillasse, of the French navy,
in recent paper on typhoid fever,
speaks of the great benefit which has
been derived from the use of coffee. He
has found that no sooner have the
patients taken a few tablespoonfuls of
than their features become relaxed, and
come to their senses; the next day the
improvement is such as to leav no
doubt that the article is just the specific
needed. Under its influence the stupor
is dispelled and the patient rouses from
the state of somnolency in which he has
been since the invasion of the disease;
soon, all the functions take their natural
course and he enters upon GONZALES
cence. Doctor Guillssse gives TO an
adult two or three tablespoonfuls of
strong black coffee every two or three
hours, alternated with one or two tea
spoonfuls of claret or Burgundy wine
little lemonade or citrate of magnesia
to be taken daily; after while quinine.
An interesting history of the develop
ment of the Russian army during the
last quarter of century has lately been
published in st. Petersburg. On the
first of January. 1853. the Russian army
comprised 27,7l6 officers and 966, 3s2
men, beside 70, l44 Cossacks. During
the Crimean war the strength of the
armed forces of the empire was. of
course, largely increased, and, accord
ing to the official returns, included on
the first of january, 1856. no fewer than
4i,eI7 officers and 275, asa men. The
active army numbered. it is stated, ga
654 officers and LILO, lS4 men; the re-
serve troops. 1876 officers ana 572, l5S
men; the Irregular forces. 3,640 officers
and l6S. .69l men; the militis, 5,647 Off
GERS and 36a, ,42l men; and the Cossack
troops. 3,44l officers and l56, ,726 men.
In 1863. when, according To the returns
OF the minister of war. the Russian army
numbered SIS. 997 regular troops, IL was
calculated. after II careful examination
of the strength of the several units OF
the army, that the probable real strength
of the regular troops did not exceed
3S5 600 men. On the twenty-hfth of
November, 1879. the Russian army
comprised 9os generals, 2i,4l4 officers.
and $50, i65 men, while on the same
date the reserves numbered 742. l44 men,
and the Cossack troops, l,972 officers
and 81 ,359 men, with los, ,940 more men
on furlough.
In the matter of accepting and pub
fishing the revised edition of the Bible
the American Bible society have 70
solved to wait the verdict of competent
judges, based not alone or chiefly upof
the high reputation OF the eminent mer
who have devoted SO much time to this
work, but upon the book which EN-
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