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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-11-25

SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS are offered you by the Bur
ngton route. 1t will pay you to read their advertise
ment, to be found elsewhere in this issue.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-11-25

London Truth thinks that every girl should learn
to cook potato 30 that it is white, meay, and Of del
icate flavor.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-11-25

There is an opening in Corpus Christi for some en-
terprlsing old man. The Oldest inhabitant has just
died and left vacancy.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-11-25

In parts of France, boiled apple pulp is mixed
with -four for bread.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-11-25
THE GREAT
BURLINGTON ROUTE.

- - - IL ~ ~ a ~ ~ NV Z. Il A<e
e4-No other line runs Three Through Pas
sengcr Trains Daily between Chicago, Des
Moincs, Council Bluffs, Omaha. Lincoln, st.
Joseph, Atchisun, Topeka aud Kansas CITY.
Direct connections for all points IN kaneas,
Nebraska, Colorado. Wyoming, Montana, Ne
yadn. New Mexico, Arizona, Idaho, Oregon and
California.
The Shortest, Spcediest and Most Comforta-
bic Route via Hannibal TO Fort Scott, Denisnu,
Dallas Houston, Austin. san Antonio, Calves
ton and all points IN Texas.
The uncQualcd inducements offered by this
Line to Travellers and Tourists, are as follows:
The celebrated Pullman 1G-whrcD Palace
Sleeping Cars run only on this Line, c., Il. &
Q. Palnce Drawing-ioom Cars, with Horizons
Reclining Chairs. No extra charge for Seats
IN Reclining Chairs. The famous G.. r. & Q.
Palace Dining Cars. Gorgeous smoking Ours
fitted with Elegant High-llncked Rattan he
velvng Chairs Tor the exclusive use OF first
class passengers.
Steel Track and Superior Equipment COM
bned with their Great Through Car Arrange
ment, makes this above all others, the favorte
Route TO the South, Southwest, and the Far
West.
Try IT, and you will nnd travelling a luxury
instead OF discomfort.
Through Tickets via this Celebrated Line
for sale nj all Offices In the United States ard
Canada.
All information about Rates Of Fare, f!rcr-
ing Car Accommodations, Time Tables, a.
will be cheertully given, and will send FRI ,p
any address an elegant County Mop of Unit
States, in colOrs, by applying to
j. q. A. BEAN, Gems Eastern ARer.
306 washngton-st., Boston, and 3iT Broadway, MY
PERCEVAL LOWELL, Gen. Pass. Agt., Chicago.
I. J. POTTER, Gen. Manager, Chicago.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-11-25

Nd inventor and proprietor Of the celebrated Celery
and Chamomile Pills. These pills are prepared e1-
pressiy to cure Sick and Nervous Headache, Neural
gia Nervousness, Paralysis, sleeplessness aud Dys
pepsia and will any case, matter how obsti-
nate, II properly used. They are not cureall, but
only for those special diseases They contain
phine opium or qunine, and are not purgatve but
regulate the bowels and constipation by curing
removing the cause Of Il. They have charming ef-
feet upon the skin, and lovely quieting effect upon
the nervous system, simply by feeding Its ten thous
and hunPry-yes in some cases, neutrality-suspicious.
They make or create nerve matter, and give power,
force and buoyancy TO the nerves. aud in that way in
crease mental power, endurance and brilliancy Of
mind. Nobody that has nervous system should neg
lect to take them two three months In each year.
q nerve food, n for no other purpose.
Sold by all druggists. Price, 90 cents a box De-
pot, log No. Eutaw street, Baltimore Md. By mail
two boxes for 81 six boxes for $780, any address,
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-01-28
Actresses, Arts.

A great many tricks Of stage costume
spring from personal defects. In what
ever cut Of waist Modieska appears, there
is always a bunch Of flowers OF bow
placed at the left Of her open corsage.
When this device is not resorted to, a
little strap Of silk will be tiailed across
diagonally, or alittle fan of lace will sud-
denly spring from the left corner, in or
der to hide scar on the breast that
looks as if it might be the result of
wound from poniard, souvenir" of q
romance.
Poor Lucille Western was afflicted by
birth-mark. She was n regular female
Esau About her waist there was thick
growth Of silky brown hair, which ran up
to point in front. Where it came above
the tops Of her dresses it was carefully
shaved but the skin always remained
blue. So Lucille wore huge cross
dangling just above that portion Of her
anatomy.
Parepa Rosa had a deep vaccination
scar far down her robust arm, and when
her sleeves were very short knot of
ribbon or a trail of flowers used to cover
It. Before she grew so extremely stout,
she wore a golden band abeve the elbow
to hide it, but when her armlet got to be
as big as waistcoat she abandoned the
oddity. One night, speaking Of the scar
to an American girl who sat in her dress
lng-foom, the Yankee offered Parepa an
immediate and effectual concealment of
the offending spot. She took one of the
candles off the toilet table, and holding
1t above the arm let one drop of the
melted wax fall upon the place, and
there was no further need OF concealinp
devices. A dash. of fesh-tinted powder
completed the cure, and Parepa's make.
np-box forever after contained bit o.
wax candle.-NeaC York Mirror
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-01-28
beef Tea.

Mr.. Wilkinson Of st. Mary's Hospital,
London, advises the following improved
method Of preparing beef tea;
The meat is cut into small pieces and
placed in the evening, in ON earthenware
vessel with sufficient cold water to cover
the meat; in this it is allowed to remain
all night. In the morning the meat is
taken out, placed in other water, and
boiled for several hours. The meat Of
the previous day is then passed through
mincing machine, and put into the
cold liquor in which the meat was stepped
the previous night, and upon this the
boiling liquor from the days beef ten
is poured, and the whole well stirred and
it then forms the complete beef tea. The
characteristics of good beef tea are that
all the nutritious elements of the beei
should be made available; and by the
\ process carried out as above this is effect
ually done, the albumen, fibrine, and
gelantine being all retained and takeI
by the patient. Moreover, by the above
method a much smaller quantity Of mea
is required than under the ordinary
mode, and il would, consequently, no
become a Jelly il allowed to stand: bu
by adding larger quantity of beef thi
result could Of course be obtained
(This forms with us what is called bee
ieIly.J 1t should, however, be remarke'
that in very hot weather the beef te
cannot be made in this manner, as i
would become sour from the length q
time required for its preparation.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-01-28

" All, sir" she says, sadly, handing
me the card ON which she had been pom
Cling, "some day you will be sorry
for this. You do not trust me-
Certainly am brute. The accent
of reproach in her voice haunts me; the
sorrowful glance Of her eye-how pretty
she is sit down to my breakfast in
the morning, half inclined to call at the
address given, and apologize for my
heathenish distrust
How delightful to see her in her own
peculiar atmosphere, ministering to the
sick brother who is all she has in the
world; to look upon, if one cannot en-
JOY, the beautiful tenderness of a gentle
sister to an afflicted brother.
But my letters wait, and L toy with
them. This is hand / know. What
does Fred want, | wonder2 / tear it
open read
DEAR JACK; What a queer chance if you
have stumbled upon my ring. was obliged
to run down to Rnmford late last evoning, and
never missed it till we slackoned at Ilford. Al
pretty taking I've been in. II it's mine, the
crest il inside. You know ita mailed hand
| holding lance, and the motto; Armed at
all points, Verify, truth is stranger than fc-
tion. Keep it for me. FRED FYNINa.
AAAlbbA NAAll ~ Ao A9IlNhS "
call myself names. Ii is almost super
huous 20 add that when / called Mt GER
tain address in Easton Square, to in
quire for Miss Lucy Hamilton, the lady
was not to be found. Probably the
''dear Alfred" had required speedy
change Of air; probably brother and sis
ter were even embracing in rapturous
gratitude over the relic Of one lost to
them SO lately. Was that dear one not
lost. but transformed? Had the silver
haired patriarch Of the first visit
changed to the dashing buck of the
third2 And was the virtuoua teacher Of
youth only the tendar sister in masquer-
adc? On my word, believe SO dare
say they are enjoying the joke. Possi-
bly, it is n dodge often repeated But
what am to say to Fred2
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-01-28
LnnIander,s Home.

In large, but rather low room, with
walls and roof Of rough-hewn planks,
and with beams stretching from wall to
wall in every direction, were assembled
at least twenty-five persons Of all ages
and both sexes Most Of them had taken
off their skin blouses and hung them on
the rafters near the huge wood fire, fit to
roast an OK at. Thehalf-stewed garments
and the steam from the dirty persons of
those in front of the fire caused most
unsavory odor, which prompted us TO
make our stay as short as possible. All
around the apartment, except near the
door, were ranged the sleeping-shelyes,
the major part Of which were already oc-
cupied-men, women and children all in
discriminately mingled together, not dis
tinguishable tothe unpractisede the one
from the other, and appearing like moth
ing else than mere animated bundles Of
fur. From the group congregated around
the fire no cheerful laugh, no buzz Of
conversation, no noisy merriment eman-
ated-all were silent and still; perhaps
they did not wish to disturb the sleepers;
but, Judging from their solemn and lu-
gubrious countenances, their gloominess
seemed but too natural and very far from
assumed or constrained. Well, in the
ioyless and monotonous life these poor
people lead, it is not surprising that all
innate merriment about them is soon
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-01-28
Monldn,t Cali Yam Is.

Bill Jones had been to sea, and, on his
return, he was relating to his uncle an
adventure which he met with on board
ship. 81 was one night leaning over
the taffrail, looking down into the
mighty ocean," said William, "when
my watch fell from my pocket, and inn
mediately sunk out Of sight. The vessel
was going ten knots an hour; but, moth
ing daunted, / sprang over the rail, and,
after long search, found the watch,
came mp close under the stern, and
climbed back to the deck without any
one knowing / had been absent. :"
"William," said his uncle, opening his
eyes to their widest capacity, chow fast
did you say the vessel was sailing !"
Ten knots an hour" replied William.
"And you dived down into the sea,
William, and came up with the watch,
and climbed mp the rudder chains !"
Yes, uncle" "And you expect me to
believe your story?" "Of course" re-
piled William, "you wouldn't dream
of calling me a liar 2" civilian. +" said
his uncle, gravely, "you know / never
call anybody names but if the Mayor
were to come to me and say, Josiah, /
want to find the biggest liar in town, l
would come straight to you and say,
William, the Mayor wants to see you. :"
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-01-28
Blue Monday.

A recognized institution in England is
"blue Monday" the direct fruit of the
beer drinking which is there tolerated
and allowed. The working Englishnan
is welded to his beer. He feels that it
is the great comfort, and one of the very
few enioyments of his life. And not
only is the chocolate room or any like
contrivance "slow," but there is about
it an implication that he is taken in
hand and managed by his betters, like q
child, which he not unnaturally resents.
Rightly or wrongly, he feels more
ashamed at being treated in this way
than he does of being drunk once a
week-once, however, being here a word
Of wide Specification. For in these cases
the same drunk often extends from
Saturday night to Monday, and not in.
frequently into Tuesday, Many first
class artisans, knowing their own pro
pensity, absolutely refuse to work fol
any man more than four days week.
The social effect Of this habit on the
community may be imagined.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-01-28
The Finger Print.

GREAT deal of mans cunning has
been called into play for the detection OF
criminals. Sensational books descant on
tbe exact shape OF the shoe, the pegged or
natched sole, the worn-down heel, which
traces the murderer has left on the gar
den walk. Edgar Poe's ingenuity is
naupht when compared with the art of
detectives in the popular romances.
Once the microscopists declared that the
nec,lliarity of a mans hair was such as
"a distinguish it from that Of any other
individual. There was once, too,
famously ludicrous gag boutamurdered
mans eyes, which were to have photo
graphed in them the exact carte de Utstte
Of the assassin. Chemistry, physics, have
all been called upon in turn to bring
murderers to Justice. To mark man
who had committed one crime, so as to
facilitate his detection when suspected
Of another guilty act, led to branding.
We are much more humane to-day, as
We photograph rascals, and expose their
yillainous portraits in the Rogue's Gal
jery. But here is a Chinese trick which
is more than curious, for it seems to
have some basis of fact to substantiate
its use. Chinese criminals from the
earliest times have been made to give the
prints Of their fingers and thumbs
siust as we make ours yield their pho
tographs." The tips Of the fingers and
thumbs are slightly blackened, say with
dauh Of printers ink, and then pressed
on sheet Of white paper; then out come
the idiosyncrasies Of these fingers. Now,
this new process of Identification is based
on the fact that those fine lines which
/ form loops and patterns, starting some-
times from a common center about half
way in the last joint Of the finger, are
never alike in any two persons, for the
fingers have distant skin physiognomies.
There seems to be heredity about. it,
md children Of the same parents have
the same identical lines. Now when, a
murderer leaves his tracery on a wall,
his hands red with the gore Of his victim,
it would be curious to study the PEE
cularities of the horrible imprint he may
have left, and the minute whorls or loops
which might identify him. Lesser
crimes, such as pilfering, might bring
about their detection in this way. Ones
decanter of choice brandy bears on the
glass d certain smuggy imprint, or pot
ofielly in the closet shows baby's sticky
fingers, and then Bridget or little Billy
is summoned to Justice.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-01-28
ONTHE EVE OF THE WEDDING.


o, love, before wepart tonight,
Before the last " / will I is spoken
Before the ring has touched my hand,
Of pure, true, endless love the token
Before the church with holy rite
Her blessing on our love has given,
Look straight into my eyes with yours,
And answer me in sight OF Heaven.
Is there within your heart Of hearts
One lingering shadow Of regret
One thought that you have chosen me-
oh speak-'tis not too late even yet.
Is there in all this world Of ours
One You have ever known or seen,
Whom, II you had earlier seen or known,
You would have crowned your chosen queen?
Is there? ! pray YOU tell me now,
And will hold YOU bound no more
will not finch to hear the truth.
II could not be so sad, so sore,
To know II now, as it would be
If by and by shadow fell
Upon the sunshine Of our home;
So, II you ever loved me-tell.
I'd hold you pure from blame, dear love;
And would leave you free as air,
To WOO and win that happier one;
All this for your dear sake I'D bear.
will not say how / would pray
That God might have You in His care;
That would be eAsy--when think
OF you, my heart is NIL one prayer.
But could join her name with yours,
And call down blessing from above
On her who had robbed me of my ALL
My life--ny light--Iny only love?
Yes even that I'd try to do;
Although my lonely heart should break,
I'd try to say, g God bless her too,
Through binding tears for your sweet sake
I'm looking up into your eyes;
But, though my own with tears arc dim,
] read that in their true, clear depths,
Which tells me- ''You may trust In him.
wiIl-I willl--Itneeds no words,
Though yours are flowing warm and fast,
And eloquent with truth and love;
Forgive my doubts--they arc the lastl
Chambers ,TONl,DdL
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-01-28
Another New Plant.

A curious plant has been discovered in
Wisconsin, which produces kind Of
cotton and fax from the same stalk. An
exchange says: It has already been
woven into fabrics, and, as any article
that will make as good cloth as can be
made from this plant viii make good
paper, it has been called the paper
plant. 1t can be planted in the spring
and cut in the fall and winter. It
bleaches itself white as it stands, and it
will yield three or four tons to the acre.
From q single root that was transplanted
last spring grew twenty large stocks,
with three hundred and sixty-five pods
containing the cotton, at least sixty
seeds in each. From this root were OBJ
tanned seven ounces Of pure cotton, and
over pound Of fax. 1t is a very heavy
plant, and grows from six to seven feet
high.
liz the end, like crime, all incivility is
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-01-28
HUMORs OF THE DAY.

The Yonkers Gazette calls the minis
ter's fee "the Tux on matches. We can
match TINT; the shoemaker's fee is tho
tax on mems soles
A LITTLE girl reproached with DISC
betienee and breaking the command
ments, said, "Mamma, those command
ments break awful easy
WHEN man offers to read your for
tune out Of the grounds Of coffee cup,
set that man down for a cup and sor-
erer. Darlington Hdwkege.
We average age Of hog is only fif-
IT, ~ cars This always consoles us
f,,,,. @meu mttgce man spread himself over
~ ~. 80 9 railway car.
!. he, lHE ilrst 1Ase white man secs MI
Lnslisu L,liiwas ii.s 2oach he thinks he has
s.iueA .It'eilns american photograph
Nor everybody will bSahlo n III H.
Nautch girls, but eyeryEeIy nom IN ~
pretty good idea Of their DIX y 'il IL sSs" nnt
ting two hornets down the hF ~ sS,diJa dJJ
back. Boston Post. ss...ti ts-..i
A MAN in Cation, Steuben Count,
", has raised cabbage around the het
Of which thirteen smaller heads were
clustered. Exchange. Probably the
cabbage was on the table.
A FEW days after going to wake,
Bridget asked her mistress for her
money "Are you going to leave ?"
Yes, ma'am, I'm going to marry tho
corpse husband. He told me tOIs ne
1 me of ne Wdhe|
| SAYS his laniord to Thomas
! Your reut muht raise,
I'm 80 plaguily pinched for the pelfn
+" Raise my rentlp replies Thomas,
Your honors main good,
For never can raise II nyeefp
Ir is now said that tho inventor Of the
Brush electric light received his first
hint from brushing black cats back the
wrong way This should teach MS not
to despise the small and apparently use
less things in nature.
II SAY, Glen, cried two disputing
darkies, appealing for decision to a sable
umpire, (which is right -dizactly or
dezactly?" The sable monarch reflected
for moment, and then, with look Of
wisdom said, II can't tell perzactly."
ToDDLEKNs is q very small man, in
deed; but he said he never minded il at
all until his three boys grewup 10 be tall,
strapping young fellows, and his wife
began to cut down their old clothes and
cut them over to fit him. And then he
said he did get mad.
ttB0w can best increase my sock2i
Said tanner John to Thomas;
| I" BY making six Of one,'' quOth Tomt
"Ho miracle promise.
A simpler process meier was known.
Whatialt2 Well now, s'poBin'
You put that yearling COW TO sleep,
Twill make heiter-dozin
= Yoaker's Gazette.
One night Uncle Harvey, keeper Of a
poor house down in Maine, was walked
by the groans Of one Of the old men.
''What is the matter?" he asked. 'Im
dying, Uncle Harvey" said the old man.
''I'm dying; 60 and get me doughnut;
] must have suthin' to pass away the
time.
FITTING emblems are not always mp
preciated. The neighbors Of poor fel-
low who died erected tombstone to his
memory, and had placed above it the
conventional white dove The widow
looked at it through her tears and said
s1t was very thoughtful to put it there.
John was very fond Of cunning, and IL is
an especially suitable emblem"
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-01-28

4 sausvs i tan lines Of sOAd miniOn.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-01-28
Mann. Labor y. Machinery.

i ,oan, ne"r seelH III, to have taken possession
= lm' ,linn ~ lest by the inventive
genus ot man maS,i S,ipey MIGHT lie pro
duced capable Of acSt,,S,,i;sis;ne, - ,,,I,oh
as to remove the neeet ;aI ls ~ y ,,,,,ni ,,,u
labor, and, ms n conseq12 IA ti,a,,
themselves should be unae' lssv .in
livelihood. So widely have ~ s.,m s;an's
been imbibed, even by men Of y ,a,ont am
intelligence Of a comparatively %;asL
order, that they have advocated in sti6s,,,
terms, upon the rostrum and elsewhere,l
the desirability OF not only banishing
new machinery, but inventors also This
opposition has mnde the path Of those
who possessed suiliciententerprise to lead
them to devise new methods, aud new
apparatus to effect the same, not only
unpleasant, but generally unprofitable;
whereas il mankind had been more fully
endowed with wisdom and brotherly
love Il very different state Of affairs would
have existed.
The cry that sthe rich are growing
richer and the poor are growing poorer,
MS the result of the introduction Of now
machinery is not trne. In fact, the use
Of machinery is constantly improving the
condition Of all classes; and the advance
that has been made by the masses to-
ward higher civilization the last half
century is simply wonderful, and is due
. to the development Of the inventive
genius Of man. That. there is not an
equitable distribution of the products Of
the farm, the mine, and the manufactory
cannot be denied But whore does the
fault lie? Not with the machinery either
Of old OF new design.
| Let the reader look back with the aid
Of proper books Of reference to the con
dition Of things fifty years ago. AT that
time it was beginning to dawn upon the
minds of the most progressive that steam
railways were possibility; but every
thing for the next ten years was in the
crudest possible condition, no more bike
the comfortable railways Of to-day than
n two-wheel springless ox-cart is like a
4 modern pleasure carriage. Then travel
was slow and tedious for all classes, rich
or poor. Now the rich, and the poor as
well, may travel five hundred miles COM
fortably III twenty-four hours. Then the
mails we're weeks In going and coming
| where days will now suffice. Then tele-
| graphs were unknown, but now any one
may send message to a friend hundreds
Of miles away for few cents, and get an
answer almost at once, whereas it for
merly required several days if not weeks
4 for message to go and come. These
and hundreds OF other improvements
that have been inaugurated are open tC
the use and benefit Of ALL and have
greatly lessened the most arduous work
Of the laboring man, while the necessity
! for his services is in no wise less now thar
formerly In fact it may be truly sale
that the day laborer car now enjoy many
things that the wealthiest men half {
century ago could not obtain. .--Nc1
York Mercantile journal.