The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-08-26
GENERAL NOTES.

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1t is said that many bicycle riders are
by a disease somewhat like the
i'blind staggers," which attacks their
The amount OF business done by tour
LIST agents in this country is enormous.
There are four firms on Broadway,
New York, that sell $4,000, 900 worth of
q year.
The entire debt of the United States
does not an cunt to the national income
for five months in the year. In 1865
The debt amounted 10 $7S % per capita
in 1880 it was 1877 "A per capita.
The police commissioners of St.Louis
have instituted war on the hip-pockct
in issuing an order for the rigid en-
forcement of the law against carrying
concealed weapons.
There were ZIG failures in the U. S.
and Canada during the past week,
against "a the previous week, which is
above the normal weekly number Tor
the past seven months.
The bellies of a California town make
weekly (not weakly raids upon the sa-
looms, and talk in great primer capitals
to the young bloods there assembled.
The girls are said to he of the best fam
lilies.
1t is said that the peach crop in Mas
sachusetts promises 10 be larger this
year than for q long time pas, and that
dealers are purchasing the fruit on the
trees, taking the risk of its loss by frost
or otherwise.
A resident of San Jose, CAL, sent to
New York for three pairs of blankets,
the finest to be had for money, and now
California newspapers are jubilant
wei the fact that, when they arrived,
one pair was found to bear the brand of
a San Jose wooden mill.
On the mountain which separates
the towns of Petersburg, N. Y. and
Pownal, VT, tnerc is a stone which
marks the spot where New York, YER
mont and Massachusetts, meet. A per-
son standing with one foot on the stone
is in three states as we'll as three coun-
ties.
Les Mondes publishes the following
method of Distinguishing spurious
honey: A solution of 20 parts of honey
in GO parts of water mixed with alcohol
gives a heavy white precipitate of dex-
trine, if glucose has been added. Gen
uine honey, when treated the same way
rarely becomes milky.
Many smokers wonder what the let
tcrs "T. D." on a clay pipe mean, and
some one has found that they stand for
Timothy Dexter. "My Ldfd Timothy"
the eccentric Newburyport man, who
endowed a clay pipe factory, wrote q
book with a few pages of punctuation
marks in the back, and insisted on Sec
ing q mock burial of himself, at which
he whipped his wife because she did
not weep enough.
Prof. w. s. Scarborough, a graduate
of Oberlin college, and IN occupant OF
the chair of Latin and Greek at WILDER
force university, has been engaged for
six years in the preparation of a Greek
text book which is about to be pub
lished. The author is a full-blooded
African, and is probably the first of his
race TO write a Greek book, though in
bygone centuries Greek was common.
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neighboring parts of Africa.
In the accident TO the Plymouth Rock
in New York bay, the other day, the
most abject cowardice was displayed
by many of the male passengers. Some
of them assaulted with stools men who
had secured ife-preservers and robbed
them of them, and even tore life-pre.
servers from women and children and
strapped them about their own worth.
less carcasses. Even some of the EN-.
ployes of the boat joined in this unman.
ly struggle.
A New Jersey banker, robbed of his
watch and chain, advertised a reward
of 800 and "no questions asked" Tho
other day he received n reply, asking
him to call at a saloon in West Broad.
way, where negotiations for the trans
fer of the purloined goods would be en-
tered into. There he met two men
He paid them 500 and was handed il
return the gold watch and chain. A
that moment Detectives Handy and Fo
garty, who were laying in wait watch
ing the transaction, pounced upon thu
two men and took them to the station
house.
Three dogs, a bull, a shepherd and
little white cur, have been imprisoned
on Taylor's Island, Just below Suspen
sion Bridge at Niagara Falls, for som,
time, the first having been left Their,
when the ice went out last spring, Will,
| the shepherd arrived by some mean
about four weeks ago. They have beef
kept alive by food swung Over to then
daily from the bank, and this weel
James Brown, q boy of II, climbed
down to them at the risk of his life an,
rescued the bull and shepherd by carry
ing them OIL in n bag. The little dol
was too wild TO be caught.
Neal Dow complains that the church
es are not earnest in the cause of tota
abstinence, and to their influence he at
tributes the slow progress made in tn
work of extcrminating the liquor trai
ic. "Whenever," he says, "a popula
vote comes directly upon the question
of license or prohibition to grog-shops
a large number of church members ar
found upon the side of license. Ii
many of III states there is an annua
vote in the cities and towns upon tn
question of license or mo license an,
wherever and whenever the license
ticket wins it is by the helping vote @
church members"
The Memphis Appeal, in an articl
upon the progress of the negro as a la
borer, says: 1t is an undeniable fac
that the negro is making his way, an,
is winning II forward position
than had been thought possible in Tn
same generation that saw him q slave
While that people can produce a Doug
lass and \ Senator Bruce it is impossi
BILE utterly TO despisc them. Their chill
dren are absorbing education with
power of assimilation they have neve
been credited with possessing, an,
events are proving that as working