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Sharp County record., 1880-09-02
Australian Women.

Our hostess is a specimen Of the rare
womanly beauty which ripens into such
perfection beneath the ardent Australian
sun. Indeed, the traveller cannot fail
to be struck with the general appear
ance of the Australian women. | think
they possess greater charms of face and
figure, and more delicate, refined style
of beauty, a9 rule, than their Northern
sisters. The Australian woman is
generally tall, well-proportioned, agile,
1.-THE of limb, and has all her features
cut in classic mold or rather a Grecian
or aristocratic type. In plain words, l
think Australian women are more gen.
orally graceful in figure than English
women. The climate has doubtless
much to do with this, but beauty is not
by any means confined to the Weather
classes. The free out-ot-dOOr life, the
abundant fare, the freedom from many
foolish kinds of conventionality which
handicap the English girl, all 90 in favor
of the Australian. One is surprised to
find 50 many really beautiful faces and
faultless figures in all ranks; and the OBJ
servant student of " the human form
divine must come to the conclusion
that so far as outward beauty is con-
cerned, the race has not deteriOrated
by its transportation to the antipodes.
The Australian, however, must strike
her flag to the fresh rosy cheeks and
ruddy warm compilations of the village
besuties of the old country. Clear COM
plexions are not the strong point OF
Australian bellies.
Far more freedom is accorded to
Australian girls than mothers in En-
gland would ordinarily think consistent
with propriety. The Australian beauty
is quite able to hold her own in railway,
omnibus or steamboat. 1t is not con-
sidered at all uncommon or remarkable
to see her go shopping, travelling or
visiting without male escort or female
chaperon. Whether the girls are i'm
proved by this, or the reverse, may be
mooted point; opinions vary. Aus
tralians are certainly quick, intelligent
and self-reliant. Their detractors, who
may not have had the same degree of
liberty accorded them in their own
youth, will occasionally hint that they
are just little too strong-minded, i'm
pulsively forward, and free spoken. Let
us assume that this is pure jealousy
IlgLiS' Life In AUStrQIi0.
Sharp County record., 1880-09-02
Blind Dogs Buff.

The Indian and Chinese boys have
discovered a curious way to utilize dogs
in their games. They frequently play
ball and make dog do the fielding.
Their last trick is to cover dogs head
with gunny-s sack, and make him play
the leading role in the game of blind
mans buff. The dog enjoys the sport
as much as anybody, and allows the
youngsters to tie the sack over his head
without protest. They then scatter with
a wild shout, and the dog, singing out
one of the crowd, runs him down, fol-
lowing him by the scent alone. In one
instance the writer saw the dog pick his
way across a plank which bridged a
stream, and on one occasion, when a
bov took to water, the dor lost the scent
and declined to trust himself to the
stream. The dog will sometimes chase
a boy five minutes before catching him.
The white boys have tried utilize a
dog in this manner, bt1Ce SI2le to
make the animal Sc fun
comes in, and all efshed by G. &:CIwink
dogs with cunnv.sl a .a Sruit-
less. Dols tlesY .. is is
that dogir 81. HL'o the
ADVANCE a Wcbster's NatiOnin
pans aps rial DictiOnan
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Sharp County record., 1880-09-02
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


Poverty stares many independent
Lutheran pastors of Hessc and else
where in the face. Their papers tell
the saddest tales of suffering and pro-
pose fund for their relief.
Native Christians on the islands of
New HebrideS recently shipped to Lon
don some 300 pounds of arrow root to
pay for an edition Of the Old Testament
now being printed for them in their ma
tive tongue.
-Oberlin College has secured dona-
tions to the amount of Sl50,OOO toward
an endowment Of S2j0,00O. There have
been heavy annual deficits in the ex-
penses of the college, which the new
endowment is expected to remove in a
year or two.
AT the International Educational
Congress to be held in Brussels, Bel
cium, soon, the admission OF women to
the State Universities is to be one of the
prominent questions. The Belgian
Minister of Public Instruction will pre-
side.
The Bishops of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church South at their recent
meeting at Chattanooga selected nine
teen clerical and nineteen lay delegates
from that Church to attend the Ecumen-
zeal Council, to be held in London in
August, 1881
There is in the Diocese of Virginia
brotherhood for the benefit of the
families of deceased clergymen. When
eger clergyman dies, each member of
the brotherhood pays $40. In one year
when there were four deaths, 5,493
was collected and paid over.
The National German American
Normal Board of Trustees, consisting
of Messrs. Schemm, of New York;
Klemm, of Cleveland Soldan, of St.
Louis; Klamroth, of New York; Frank
Furth, of Milwaukee; Schneider, of
Cleveland, and Andersen, of Davenport,
Iowa, have been instructed to appoint
committee in every State to work in the
interest of Normal Schools.
The Irish University bill provides
| l1dG VIC uOIlOio anu o0S lOo0 VI UHO A0"
Irish University shall be open to women
as well as to men. A society has been
formed to procure the endowments of
scholarships and other means of aid for
the higher education of women ill Ire
land. 1t will also take measures to OBJ
tain for women in the principal cities in
Ireland the university education which
will'enable them to avail themselves of
the privileges of the new university.
The three great windows of the
Protestant Episcopal Cathedral in Oma-
ha, Neb., are to be memorials Of three
great missionary Bishops-Selwyn, Pat
terson and Kemper. There are to be
thirteen other windows in the Cathe
dral, with paintings Of the Savior and
the apostles. The window for St. James
is the gift of the children baptized by
Bishop Clarkson when he was rector of
St. James, Chicago The Cathedral
in Omaha was designed by Mr.. Har-
rison, the architect Of the Stewart
Memorial Cathedral in Garden City,
L.
Sharp County record., 1880-09-02

Courageous as Everett was ha felt his
pulse quicken and his hand went in
stinctively to the revolver, which, de-
spite the Doctors verdict, he had per-
sisted in bringing with him.
"Hark! Was that a stealthy foot
step outsider"
The next moment came low whistle
instantly answered from the house, and
then a shadowy figure, issuing from the
building, glided noisely to the garden
door, and opened it to admit two others.
They've got the ladder" whis
pered DR.. Bistoury, as the three phan-
toms crossed the garden. "Be on the
lookout, my boy; you're going to see
something worth seeingm
The ladder was soon planted against
the mysterious window; and Badger
Bill, after whispering to his comrade to
"keep an eye'' on their worthy confed-
crate, assembled, and cutting out pane
so dexterously that the sound was bare
ly audible, put his hand through and
shot back the hasp. His two assistants
mounted after him; and Bill, stepping
cautiously into the room, turned the
"bull' s-eye" of his lantern upon its in
terror.
Instantly the treacherous, servant re-
coiled with stihed cry: "Ain't that a
coffin over yonderP" whispered he trem-
ulously. "Good gracious! suppose
there should be dead man in it, and
"S'pose you should be thunderin'
big foolr' growled Bill savagely. "Shut
your mouth, will yer, or thar'll be an
other dead man somewhar round soon.
I'm a-goin, right in-I amm And he
stepped resolutely forward.
Crash! the coffin-lid burst open and
a skeleton, thrown out in ghastly relief
by the red light that famed in its eye
less sockets, started up with hideous
rattle, thrusting forward its bony arms
and grinning jaws, as if about to spring
upon them. The Sauce qa5 peuh of Ma
poleon was not more decisive. The
honest servant gave one yell sufficient
to wake the whole neighborhood and
rolled on the floor in convulsions. The
second burglar, leaping backward,
dashed his head with such force against
the corner of bureau that he dropped
as if felled with an ak; while Badger
Bill, making frantic rush for the win
dow, overturned the ladder and fell
crashing along with it, breaking his leg
in the fall.
"You see now, Harry" said the Doc
tor, as they went up stairs after seeing
their unbidden guests marched off by
the police. that my night-watchman
did know his duty, although there s
nothing more unearthly about him than
a few concealed springs, which are re-
leased upon the approach of any one,
and little phosphorus. As for this
wonderful room you see it's only lab
oratory after all. But the stories that
people told about it amused me so much
that must plead guilty to having given
them a good deal of encouragement.
Now, let us be off to bed, and | think
you may sleep in peace after this, for it
strikes me it'll be some time before
anybody robs nay house again"
And. indeed, no one has ever at
tempted it since. Chambers Journal.
Sharp County record., 1880-09-02
A Fish That Swallows Bigger Ones.

The Smithsonian Institution has rn-
oeiyed very curious specimen of the
fish kind, recently found on the fishing
banks of Gloucester, Mass, by Mr.. A
Howard Clarke. 1t rejoices in the name
of ChiaSmoduS NIGER, and its peculiar
and distinguishing feature is the fact
that its rapacity leads it to swallow
fishes which are twice as large and
weigh four times as much as itself. 1t
is enabled to do this from the fact that
its mouth is very deity cleft, its teeth
bent and that its stomach has an elias
ticity resembling India rubber. When
1T commences to swallow It's dlnnar its
Sharp County record., 1880-09-02

If Mr. Isaac Platt, of Geneva, N.
Y, lives until the next Presidential
election day he will cast his eighteenth
vote for President. His first vote was
cast for James Madison in 1S0S Mr..
Platt is ninety-four years old.
Sharp County record., 1880-09-02

"A Reading (Pa.) man only sixty
five years old has been married three
times, and the father of eleven pair of
twins. He has forty-one children in all.
Sharp County record., 1880-09-02

-Amula is the popular toilet wash
for tan and freckles.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-02

''Digby, will you take some of this butter ;'
Thank you, ma am belong TO the tenn
perance society-oan't take anything strong,
replied Digby.
1t is Just as easy for child to fall into a
tub of cold water, as into tub Of hot water,
and yet we never read of q childs falling into
q tub of cold water.
A law student stated what he alleged to be
a legal maxim, as follows: "When ono or
two innocent parties must suffer, the culpable
one must bear the loss.
Country people are always good. The wife
may SOW tares, rip and darn in the house,
while the husband goes down to the meadow
and dams the brook.
A bridal couple, from Washoe Valley, at
breakfast conversed Rs follows: Shall
skin your pertAter, honey2" 'No, thank you,
dearie, have got one already skun,"
'You Just take bottle of my medicine, "
said quack doctor TO a consumptive, land
you'll never cough again" 'Is it SO fatal as
that !" gasped the consumptive.
modern philosopher thinks 1t is mis-
take to suppose that women have stronger at
tachments than men. A man is often attach
ed TO an old hat but, he asks, "who ever
heard of a woman being attached to an old
bonnet?"
An Irishman adorned with blue rosette
went into an apotheoary's shop and said 10
the assistant, IF you plaze sir, I'm timper-
anoe man but if you have any soda water Of
the strength and quality of whisky, I'll trouble
you for little"
The young man who sat up on Thanksgiv-
ing night to see the shooting stars, saw none
until he entered his room in the dark. He
then collided with a half opened door, and es-
Inmates that he saw in half second, 80, OOO,-
OOl of them. The odd one was the lost
BielA's comet.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-02

II was New Years night. An aged man
was standing at the window. He raised his
eyes towards the deep blue sky, where the
stars were floating like white lilies on the sur
face of a clear, calm lake. Then he cast
them on the earth, where few more helpless
beings than himself were moving towards
their inevitable goal-the tomb. Already he
had passed sixty of the stages that lead to it,
and he had brought from his journey nothing
but errors and ronorse. His health was de-
Btroyed, his mind unfinished his heart sor-
rowful, and his old age devoid of comfort.
The days of his youth rose up in a vision
before him, and he reached the solemn mo-
ment when his father had placed him at the
entrance Of two roads, one leading into q
peaceful, sunny land, covered with fertile
harvest and resounding with soft, sweet
songs; while tho other conducted the wan
derer into deep, dark cave, whence there
was no issue, where poison flowed instead Of
water, and where serpents hissed and crawl
ed.
He looked towards the sky, and cried out
in his anguish ooh, youth return Oh, my
father, place me once more at the cross-way
Of life, that may choose the better road ~
But the days Of his youth had passed away,
and his parents were with the departed. He
saw wandering lights float over dark marsh
es, and then disappear. Such" he said,
were the days Of my wasted life !" He saw
a star shoot from Heaven, and vanish in dark
ness athwart the church yard. "Behold an
emblem of myself !" he exclaimed and the
sharp arrows Of unavailing remorse struck
him TO the heart.
Then he remembered his early companions,
who had entered life with him, but who, hRv-
ing trod the paths of virtue and industry,
were now happy and honored on this New
Years night. The clock in the high church
tower struck, and the sound, falling on his
ear, recalled the many tokens of the love Of
his parents for him, their erring son the
lessons they had taught him the prayers
they had offered up in his behalf Over
whelmed with shame and grief he dared no
longer look towards that Heaven where they
dwelt His darkened eyes dropped tears,
and with one despairing effort, he cried
aloud, Come back, my early days Come
back :"
And his youth did return for all this had
been a dream, visiting his slumbers on New
Years night. He was still young; his errors
only were no dream. lie thanked God fer
vently that the time was still his own that
he had not yet entered the deep, dark cavern
but that he was free to tread the road leading
to the peaceful land where sunny harvests
wave.
Ye who linger on the threshold Of life,
doubling which path to choose, remember
that when years shall be passed, and your
feet shall stumble on the dark mountain you
will cry bitterly, but cry in vain, "Oh youth,
return Oh give me back my early days :"
--,JedH Paul Richter.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-02

SCIENCE DRIVES Us TO RELIGION. If
were in danger of becoming skeptical, be-
lieve that fresh and vivid appreciation of
the scientific revelations concerning our globe
would appall me into faith. To think of this
ball whirling and spinning about the sun,
and to be an atheist Its covering less in
comparative thickness than peach-skin, and
its pulp seething fire, and to feel that we
are at the mercy of the forces that lash it
like top around the ecliptic, and of the raw
ing flames that heave and beat for vent; not
more than an eighth of its surface inhabita-
ble by man seas roaring around him, tropic
heats shifting his brain, polar frosts threaten
ing his blood, inland airs laden with fever
sea winds charged with consumption hurri-
canes lowering in the sky, earthquakes slum-
bering under his feet the conditions of life
dependent on the most delicate oscillations of
savage powers over which the wisest man is
powerless as a worm, to think Of these and
not have any confidence or belief in power
superior to these pitiless forces, not to have
an inspiring faith that the land was made for
human habitations and experience, and is
sheltered by ceaseless love from the hunger
of the elements Why, could as easily con-
ceiye of a person making his home uncon-
oerned in an uncaged menagerie as of a man
at rest in nature, seeing what it is, and not
feeling that it is embosomed in God Go to
nature, my brother; go to the unroofed uni
verse go to the awful pages of science, not
to learn your religion, but to learn your need
of ito learn that you are houseless with
out the sense of God as overarching you by
his power, pledging his care to you, twisting
the furious forces of immensity into pro-
teoting tent for your spirits home.-T. Starr
King.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-02

HORACE GREELEY's FIRST LITERARY Ar
TEMPT.-Russell Warren, who taught Horace
Greeley how to set type while publishing the
Poultney (yt.) Northern Spectator, is now
living in St. Louis in his s1st year. Mr..
Warren says the first attempt Greeley ever
made to write anything was on a monstrous
squash sent into the office. Several of those
employed about the Office, Greeley among
the rest, wrote descriptions of it, the under
standing being that the best account would
be published. Greeley's account went into
the waste-basket Shortly after this the pub
Usher of the Iris, in town near by, offered a
premium for the best story contributed.
Greeley competed, sending in story about
Gen. Stark, and though he did not get the
prize his story was published and was his
first composition to appear in print.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-02
Miscellany.
N.wYeor,, N,rhtattho Ola uou.r

New Years Night at the old House.
Tho mistress mused by the glowing Gre
when the year was Ia it's Whne;
Aud the frozen boughs, a. the wind blew higher,
Knocked At tho window pane
Like guest unhidden, and long delayed,
who hummed thro his beard, US be knocking stayed,
tender chromatic strain,
The nrelight gmmercd on book and bust,
And the curtains fern-wrosght sweep
Swelled and swayed In Hudlen gust
As the door unclosed, and like one aslecp
She saw how 4 long proeosai'n came,
Man, and maiden, and stately dame
As II each had tryst to keep.
tryst, with the house that vas once their own,
A tryst, one night in the year,
where the sweetest hopes bad budded and grown,
Where the Lord had draw so near
In birth and death, in gain and in loss,
And fed them with mama that dropped from the
when the days we're empy and drear.
Tenants Of by-gone years we're they,
Holding their tenures one hour again;
Living their lives in the oldtime way
Burying wedding, toilingAs then;
Greeting their guests with welcome Kind
Eating life's apple all clean iom the rind,
Then calling 1t bitter, like nen.
The bride, in her veil like q ,ladowy mist,
Came silently up the stair
The bridegroom beside butthey shuddered, wist,
At the sound Of beseechini prayer
At the sobbing wall Of fun.ral hymn,
And their fair young faces lcoked pale and dim
BY the funeral torches gh'e'
Softly the dirge died away the ear,
The rooms were all lit antashine
with Jew els and satins and 1omen's gear
Fashioned in quaint desiR
And the voices Of yiols rang oud over al
While the feet Of the dancer we're swift TO the call
And the goblets brimmed yer with wine.
Ah the lights qunched the vios all mute,
The red wines all spilled a the floor,
The garlands all wthered ad dead under foot,
The guests all flown Away-as breeze
whirls the ghosts Of a thistl,away out Of sight
when the chimes Of the Jew Year rang out on the
night
with master hand touching the keysl
The mistress musod by the unng arc,
while the bells kept ringin' on,
Saying and singing, 40 sou aspire
From the plane Of the yeAthat is gone;
The dust Of old errors shake n at its bier,
Grid thysen for the one and so thou wilt hear
The voice Of the Lord in IL dawn
Felicia Ross johnson.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-02

Bon INdERsoLL.- Robert G., or, as he
is generally called, "Bob" Ingersoll, is a ma
tive of the western part of this State but,
when very young, removed with his parents
to Ohio, and afterward to Illinois. His youth
was passed on native prairies and in primeval
forests, and he grow up independent in char
acter and rugged in constitution. While in
his teens, he left home drifted around !;
picked up an education, studied law, and soon
acquired local reputation in Southern Illi-
nois as an eloquent pleader, His father was
a Presbyterian clergyman who was very
strict, but allowed "Bob, always a skeptic,
to express his radical opinions, because he
he wanted him to tell the truth. Inger-
soil is said to be one of the most, il not
the most popular of lecturers. His in6del
opinions prevent his engagement in regular
courses, and his dissertations on theologio
topics are attended mostly by men, either
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-02

young or old but women flock to hear him,
and are greatly pleased when he speaks on
subjects Of domestic nature He received
81, 200 for one lecture in San Francisco, re-
ported TO be the largest amount ever made at
one time by any lecturer. His wife and chill
dren share his heterodox views and have al
ways done 80. They are said to love him de-
votedly, and his home life is described as
happiness itself. Neither Of his two daugh-
ters now young women, has ever been in
side Of a church, even when they were trav-
cling in Europe. From his profession and
lectures he earns from $40, 600 TO so, 900 a
year, and spends most of it. He gives away
great deal in charity, believing that when
man saves he becomes selfish and begins to
petrify. He now calls Washington home,
and his practice there is mainly parliamentary
law. He has host of friends who are warm
ly attached to him, and he is reputed in pri-
vate life TO be as lovable as he is entertain
my y Times
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-02

Frit'cH BY Rec. j. d. Green, and Sung at The Chil-
drsn's SeTrice IN tie UHifdTdn church, Christmas
HiOTniHg, 4. u. 1879.

faltN ~ lAfts ~ ~ bfffNf AftA sunny Ht htF
dren's Serrice IN tie CHifdTfdn church, CHRIS
morning, 4. u. 1879.
HArkl the Christmas bells are sounding,
Sounding on the morning air,
Calling in the little children
To the house Of praise and prayer.
Down the ages comes the story,
Fragrant with the breath Of love,
How the infant child Of Mary
Came to bless us from shove.
Long the nations waited for him,
Hoping, fearing, doubling, some,
Till the heavens in mercy opened,
Angels shouting, "He has comeW
Come with peace to bless the nations
"Glory be to GOd on high"
Shout aloud the welcome message;
peace on eArth," the angels cry.
Glad the tidings, sweet the story,
HerAlded by angels then,
How the gracious God Of Glory
Father is to sons Of men,
Father is, and loves his children
As mother loves her child,
Ever patient, never weary,
Seeks to bless with mercy mild.
Come, thou blessed son OF Mary;
Holy Spirit, come, We pray.
SGnctify the gift We offer
God, We give our hearts to-day.
Take the childrens hearts, o Father,
Keep them ever in thy love;
Keep them pure and true, and tender,
Till with Christ they meet above.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-02

tors. Each subnltern had pocket -handker-
chief worth Cd, and Josille the pound Of to-
bacco know not whether any Of these
scenes arc enacted now, but this account is
so recent that it throws light upon the Bre-
ton peasant as I find him.-7he COrnhH
M110zine
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-02

SPURTS of disgusting Muou,
Snumes, Cracking Pains in tie
Hoad, Fetid Breath, Deafness, Rul
any Catarrhal C comp plaint, can be e'-
terminated by Wei De Meyers
( Catarrh Cure, n Constitutional Az
tidoto by Absorption. The most In
portnnt Discovery sine o Vaocinatiu
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-02

1t is sometimes pretty hard to decide which
gives the selfish more pleasure, to hear them
selves praised or TO hear their neighbors run
down.