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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-07

One Coroner's jury-a jury in Newark-has
had the good sense to adopt THE TRIBUNE's
suggestion that the sale of the toy pistol should
be prohibited by law, and Judge Depue yes
,terday, i'll his charge to the Grand Jury, con-
Cured in that opinion.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-07

( A letter from Mr.. Darwin was a notable fea
ture of the proceedings of the Social Science
Association yesterday. 1t related to cues
ton with which science has hardly concerned
itself yet-the mental and bodily development
of infants, and suggested number of points
statistics of which might throw light upon the
educational methods to be used with children.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-07

Let the Apaches go learn of the accomplished
and versatile Kamloops, and make war no
more. delightful story comes from British
Columbia. Some of the sagacious Kamoops
robbed store in Grand Prairie, and were
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-07

hThere is symptom of an attempt to revive
the Worlds Fair project. We are promised a
systematic agitation when Congress assemblies.
If the promoters of the idea will abandon the
mistakes that have been committed, and avoid
the mistakes that have been threatened-es-
pecially with respect to Central Park-the
new movement may have better success
Probably later year than 1883, however
would have to be selected
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-07

The people have no interest in politics. They arc
thinking only of the President.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-07

There are abundant evidences that the Reppbli-
cans of this State are IN mood for wranele and
in no position for one either for they are all Garfield
"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-09-02

JUDGE ToURGEE ON THE CHRISTIAN CITI
IzEN. THE amphitheatre at Chautauqua was
filled with an eager throng several days ago
which had gathered to listen to an address by
Judge Tourgee on ''The Christian Citizen" F"
For an hour he talked in an entertaining way
of the responsibilities and privileges of the
Christian citizen. The term citizen, he said,
signifies coordinate element in selt-goyern-
ing community and he defined Christian as
term including every man who believes in the
teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, or is inibued
with his teachings or, if not, knows that he
ought to be. In the course of his address he
said in substance Christianity is not like the
dreamy religions of the drowsy East 1t is a
positive, active aggressive faith. 1t has no
passive voice The Christian is sent out into
the world as a bomb is hurled from a mortar
to hit somebody, and to hurt somebody: and
if he doesn't do it, it isn't the fault of the pow
der behind him. Christianity is the mother of
the Republican idea. A popular notion pre-
walls that the nearer a man would keep to God,
the further he must keep away from politics.
This is a criminally fallaeious notion. What
is political government 1t is the big human
end of religion. The responsibility of a coun-
try's future rests upon its people. A nation
is not good by accident. But the chronic
grumbler says that the political life of to-day
is so corrupt. l don't believe it, l believe in
the public purity OF to-day. l believe that
our moral ethics, as a nation, is at its highest
mark to-day. have no sympathy with that
class of people who keep calumniating our pol
ical life, and whose only mission seems to be
to praise God and find fault. We only see
the bright side of the past We forget the in
iueuee of the past, A few years ago a crime
could be forgotten before it reached the State
line. To-day deed of shame is read on three
continents before the blood of the assassin's
knife is dried. If these charges are true,
whose fault is it l say, emphatically, the
fault of those Christians who won't do their
political duty. Prayer and voting once q year
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-09-02
Miscellany.



The skylark's song: "Arise, arisei
On free, glad wings awake tue air;
On, on, above, the light is there;
Pass the faint clouds aud know the skies.
o bluenessl deep, endless height
unveiled sunl
o ecstasy of upward hightl
mount mount o skiesi o sunl"
The sparrow's song: "Let bo to soar:
Skies blacken under night and rain;
wild wings are weary all in vain.
Lol the fair earth, the fruitful storel
And the dear sunbeams travel down
And warm our caves,
And bring gay summer to the town.
o suni o blOoml o safe, warm eaveslh
The linnet's song: 40 Joy Of springi
o blthe surprise of nfel And flowers
Wake in the birthday April hours,
And wonder, and are fair and bring
New promise of new JOY to be.
hope nowl
o blossoms breaking on the treel
livel dayl happy NowH
The night-owl's song: "The flowers go dead
Weak flowers that die for heat or cold,
That die ere even spring turns old;
And with few hours the day is sped:
The calm gray shadows chase the noon
Night comes, and dusk,
And stiffness, and the patient neon.
stillnessl and oh long, cool duskl"
The thrush's song; so welded willsi
loves delight She mine, hersl
And every little wind that Btirs,
And every little brook that trills,
Makes music, and / answer II
With Love, love, love-
o happy bough where we two sit
love! love! songl lovew
The ravens song: "waste no vain breath
On death-born joys that fade from earth,
Nor talk Of blOssoming Of BIRTH
For all things are part Of death,
Save love, that scarce waits death TO die.
Spring has its graves;
Our yew trees see the green leaves lie.
churchyard yewsl o smooth new grayesl"
The song OF the sweet nightingale,
That has all hearts in hers, and knows
The secret Of all joys and woes,
Aud till the listening stars grow pale,
Aud fade into the daybreak gleam,
Her mingled voice
Melts Joy and gladness In a dream.
She doth not sorrow nor rejoice.
She sings: Heart, rest thee and be free,
Pour thyself on the unhindering wind;
Leave the dear pain Of life behind;
LOosed heart, forget thou art. and be.
Opainl o Joy Of life! o love!
My heart is these.
o roses Of the mooni o stars above!
Dead, waned, still with me; am these"
Good Words.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-09-02

well-known engineer on the Union Paci-
fc, who has slight impediment in his speech
had an interview a few days since with his
division superintendent the nature of which
gradually leaked out and became source of
considerable fun for the boys The story goes
that on recent run his engine had collision
with COW, resulting disastrously to the ami
NAL in question. BY rule of the railresd
company, such accidents must be reported by
the engineer and conductor in writing, but
for some reason the engineer forgot his duty
on this occasion until he was summoned be-
fore the railroad magnate for private investi-
cation.
Mr.. -" said the superintendent, chow
is it that you have failed to report the killing
OF a COW on your run of such date p
Il d-d-d-don't remember any s-s-such acci-
dent" replied the knight Of the foot-board
scratching his head thoughtfIlly.
"Well, you certainly must have killed COW
on that run, for it was reported in due form
by the conductor" insisted the superinten-
dent.
'N-n-n.no, d-d-d-didn't," said the engi-
neer.
Now, Just think little, and see if you
can't remember it," said the persistent inter-
rogator
mo. l c.ki-ki.cant remem- IN m m m -ber
ki-ki-killing any COW. 1 d-d-do remember
st-st-striking one, b-b-but looked out of the
wi-wi-window and saw her lying on her BIB
b-back by the side of the Lt.track, moving
her feet"-motioning with his hsnds-'to go
ahead, and t-t-took it to mean that she was
all right"
He was warned not TO be too sure of such
signals in the future. e.-OmdhG Bee.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-09-02
IN GENERAL.

There are 5000 persons engaged in the
manufacture of pottery in England and
Wales.
Scotland derives q million and half of
dollars per annum as rental for sporting
grounds. The Duke of Westminster pays
$4,000 for one tract.
1t is told as a fact that several Lon don
shopkeepers having heard of the success of
drummers in America have started drum
corps in connection with their establishments.
The Island of Cyprus is overrun with
goats. 1t is estimated that there are 230, 900
of these amin ais on the island, and planting
is almost useless on account of their ravages.
"A novel piece of railroad engineering is
found in Sonoma county, Cal. In the upper
part of that county may be seen an actual
railroad bed in the tree tops. In wide and
deep ravine the trees are sawed of on a level
and the lum Der and ties are laid on the
stumps.
Charles Sumner wrote in February, 1861
mot that love the Union less but Freedom
more, so l now in pleading this great cause
insist that freedom, at all hazards shall be
preserved" and the autograph is now owned
by gentleman in Kingston, N. Y.
The Soyrau and Orenberg railway bridge
across the river Volga, in Russia, just finish
ed, cost IS, 900, 900. Where the bridge is
built the river is more than mile wide.
The fourteen piers which support the girders
are 100 feet above the mean level of the wa
ter, and the girders 3G4 feet long and 80 feet
wide.
One of the interesting discoveries recent
ly made by the United States geological and
coast survey is that the Bahama banks ex-
tend in an almost level plateau nearly 200
miles wide of the Carolinas, drawing to
point off Cape Hatteras, only % miles from
the shore.
M. G. Griffin's dog aroused his master
the other night at Omaha, Neb., and Griffin
found that some one had tried to break into
his store. The next day the dog barked 80
loudly at man in front of the store that
Griffin became suspicious and had the fellow
arrested In jail the prisoner confessed that
the dog had given him away.
A correspondent of the San Antonio
(Tex.) Press, who recently visited Rev. W.
H. H. Murrays Texas farm, says he has on
his place half dozen horses worth $50, 900.
1t has been generally believed that orchard
fruits will not thrive in Texas soil, but Mr..
Murray has succeeded in raising apples,
pears and peaches in abundance.
The largest stone slab ever quarried in
the United States has recently been placed
before the new residence of Mr.. w. II. Van
derblt, on Fifth avenue, New York. The
stone measures % feet inches by 10 feet, is
eight inches thick, and weighs about A, 900
pounds. 1t was quarried at Barreville, Sulli.
van county, N. Y.
True heroism was displayed the other
day by Chicago boy of 16 named Rust.
While out boating with his younger brother
near Ashland, Wis, a storm came up Nei-
ther of the lads could swim, but the older
one unhesitatingly fastened the only life-pre-
server in the boat about his brother, and
then met his own fate as the craft upset
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-09-02

PAINTING ON THE EDGES OF BooKs.-It
seems there is to be revival of the beautiful
and now almost forgotten art of decorating
the edges of books with water color paintings.
Though most of our readers may have heard of
books thus embellished, probably few have
seen examples or understand the process,
many fine and valuable specimens of which
are in existence in the collections of the
wealthy. book thus treated bears no out
ward token of its extra decoration, the edges
are always gilt and it is only when the book is
open and each leaf is slightly separated in a
slanting position that the pictures are discover
ed The decoration is generally, but inaccu-
rately, described as being painted under the
gliding, whereas it is in reality painted on the
extreme edge of the leaves Before the artist
commences, the book-which is strongly sewn
and the edges made perfectly smooth-is bent
back SO far as to expose one side Of the ex-
treme outer edge of each leaf to view, and in
this position, the volume being firmly secured
by wise between two boards, the artist be-
gins aud completes his work, taking great care
to prevent the colors used getting under the
edges of the leaves into the book itself, which
they are apt to do if too moist or if laid on
too heavily. The edges are finally gilt in the
usual manner, the painting being only visible
when the book is open and the leaves are
bent back. Large sums of money have at var
ious times been given for books thus treated,
and several talented lady artists in England
have lately turned their attention to this prof
liable and novel class of decorative art.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-09-02
THEY MUST co!
Nj. HAWLEY
Offers this week
Offers this week

AT 25c., a lot Of Shetland
ShaWlS heretofore sold at 55C.
At 6Oc., 1856 Shetland ShawIS
worth 70 TO 95c.
At 1.1O, 6j Shetland ShaWIS
worth $1,S5 to $3.50.
Few Extra Fine Shetland
ShaWlS at reduced prices,
At 25C., lot of OId-faShiOned
BalmOral Skirts, worth so to
75c.
At &c. a yard, lot of BrOCade
Dress Goods, worth 1OC., lot of
summer prints worth 7 and &c,
lot of 15C. Striped Lace Bunt-
ingS, odd patterns of black
ground, striped Grenadines,
and a few 12 IL ct. figured
Lawns.
At 1OC. a yard, large lot of
IL 1-2C. BrOCadeS and Monte
Cloths.
At 15C. a yard, lot of odd
Dress Patterns worth % to S5c.
At 2jC. a yard, lot of Novel
ties in Dress Goods, worth SOC.
Al SOC. a yard, Dress Goods
worth 75c.
All Fancy Ribbons at just
half price.
I Silk Mantilla, worth $15,
for $40.
1eIegant Satin de Lyon Man
tilla, worth 1925, for $t5.
A few Light Walking Jack
cts, Linen Busters and Para
soils 10 be closed at reduced
prices.
Broken lines i'm LiSle Gloves
and Hosiery TO be cleared out
now.
Lot Of large Fly-Nets for horses,
75c.
Have just opened new line of
Calico Wrappers and Aprons.
Best 5O-cent Corset ever offered
for the money.
N. |. HAWLEY.
Corner Store, Brooks House Block.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-09-02

The prediction has frequently been made
that the common use of coal as fuel in our
houses and factories would come to be re-
garded as bungng and dirty arrangement
of the past, which we should be heartily
thankful TO have escaped. Few people, how
ever are aware that ''the good time coming
is almost here, and that the process of man
ufacturing water gas for heating purposes has
already had its practical application on a con-
siderable scale and has proved a nemarkable
success. The Yonkers N. Y, fuel gas COM
psny has spent over 800, 600 in the construc-
ton of apparatus for making water gas by
the Strong process and has laid two and a
half miles of gas mains through the business
and manufacturing portions of the city, where
the gas is now used in thirty different places,
including q hotel, a restaurant, 16 private
houses, several factories, tin shops, jewellers
shops, tailors' shops, laundries, etc. II is
now running four horse power gas engine,
and is soon to be applied to one of ten-horse
power, and appliances are constructing for
the use of the gas in fOrges and for smelling
metals. In short it is rapidly finding its way
into every department of industry where heat
is required. As the fuel gas is of higher cal
orihc power than common illuminating gas,
special appliances for its use have been re.
quired, and time has been necessary to devel-
op the best and most economical methods of
using it. The gas costs less than 10 cents
per 1000 feet and the established price is 30
cents per 1000 feet, which is satisfactory to
all consumers, and profitable TO the manu-
facturers. The present production is about
400, 900 feet per day, and the amount is soon
to be doubled. The cost of the gas as CON-
pared with coal is not given but the fact
that the gas is being rapidly introduced is evil
dence enough of its utility. Even at an equal
cost with coal the saving in labor in handling
fuel, the freedom from dust, the possibility
of shutting off the heat the moment it may
be dispensed with, and the economy of space
are considerations of great Importance. The
Yonkers' experiment will be carefully watch
ed, and unless there are serious drawbacks
not yet heard of, the prospect is that the fuel
gas system will be rapidly introduced in all
our cities.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-09-02

AN IMPORTANT ENGLISH INVENTION. If the
promise made by recent English invention
is fulfilled, the age when rust shall no more
corrupt is at hand. In 1876 Prof. Braf of
London found that iron and steel, subjected to
the action of superheated steam, would be COW
with a coating of oxydul-oxid of iron, pro-
cess of oxidation being formed by the combi-
nation of the iron with the acid of the steam,
Mr. Bower, an English engineer, conceived
the idea OF accomplishing the same result
with air which Prof. Braff had effected by
means of water although the acid in the one
was in chemical union and in the other me-
chanical The iron 10 be treated is placed in
an air.tight chamber, in which the process
consists of a series of oxidations aud de-oxi-
dizing operations, produced by certain combi-
nations of air and carbonie gas under high
temperature. The coating of oxydul-oxid OF
iron thus given protects the iron and steel
completely from rust, and is of such a fine col
or that the objects are ready for the market
as soon as taken from the oven and cooled.
The process is said to be very cheap, and ii is
predicted that it will be utilized wherever iron
and steel are subject to rust from exposure to
air or water such as in railroad iron, bridges,
machinery of all kinds and cooking utensils.
For the last mentioned purpose ordinary iron
can thus be made to take the place of tin and
enamelled ware. The expensive and made
quate method of galvanizing iron would also
be replaced by the new process.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-09-02
NO. 35.

aren't enough. We are not TO stand on the
pinnacle of our own purity, and scold at evil
we must meet our own personal duty, by put
ting our shoulder to the wheel of government.
Oh, those cowardly Christians who wrap
themselves in the mantle of their own right.
eousness, and will not enter the great battle.
A Christian, citizen, ought not to allow any
political question in which he is interested TO
be decided without active work on his part.
Every man must do his duty before he grumb-
les at the perverseness of politics; and this
means that ne must give all time he reason
ably can to the solution of all state problems" !"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-09-02

In the Norway summer one comes actually
to yearn for little Christian darkness 10 60
to bed by. Much as he may crave a stronger
sun by day. to keep him warm, he would like
to have reasonable nighttime for sleeping.
At first there is q stimulus, and weird sort
of triumphant sense of outwitting nature, in
finding ones self able to read or write by the
suns light till nearly midnight of the clock.
But presently it becomes clear that the out
whiting is on the other side. What avails it
that there is light enough for one to write by
at ten o'clock at night, if he is tired out, does
not want to write and longs for nothing but
to go to sleep? If it were dark, and he long
ed to write nothing would be easier than to
light candles and write all night, if he chose
and could pay for his candles. But neither
money nor ingenuity can compass for him a
normal darkness to sleep in. The Norwegian
house is one-half window in their long win
ters they need all the sun they can get; not
an outside blind, not an inside shutter, not
dark shade, to be SEEM streaming, flooding,
radiating in and around the rooms, comes the
light, welcome or unwelcome, early or late.
And to the words ''early" and ''late" there
are in a Norway summer new meanings; the
early light of the summer morning sets in
about half past two; the late light of the sum-
mer evening fades into a luminous twilight
about eleven. Enjoyment of this species of
perpetual day soon comes to an end. After
the traveller has written home to everybody
once by broad daylight at ten o'clock, the fun
of the thing is over: normal sleepiness be-
gins to hunger for its rest, and dissatisfaction
takes the place of wondering amusement.
This dissatisfaction reaches its climax in few
days; then, if he is wise, the traveller pro-
vides himself with several pieces of dark-green
cambric, which he pins up to his windows at
bedtime, thereby making it possible to get
seven or eight hours rest for his tired eyes.
But green cambria will not shut out sound,
and he is lucky if he is not kept awake until
one or two o'clock by the unceasing tread and
loud chatter of the cheerful Norwegians, who
have been forced to form the habit of sitting
up half their nighttime, to get in the course
of year their full quota of day -time.-"H.
H." IN September Atlantic.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-09-02

and in the car right across from him two
men were arguing as to the probable result
of the election. Says one--"Hancock's the
man." mo, sir. Garfield ii get it," was
the reply. Suddenly an Adventist sitting
behind them, spoke up and said my friends,
do you know who is to be our next Presi-
dent2 1t is the Lord who is coming at
once, with His angels, to reign" Quick as
thought, Jenkins, who imagined that some
third party candidate had been mentioned,
sprang up, slapped the Millerite on the shoul-
der and cried out, "Bet you $25 he don't
carry Missouri. "-Des MOines Mail.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-09-02

The PoPE's APPRECIATION OF A JOKE
Popes as well as Protestants are not inappre-
ciative of a mild joke. When the present
pontf was a cardinal and legate at Brussels,
the following incident occurred He was one
day writing in his study, when house-paint-
er, who was employed in painting the ex-
terror of the legation, slid down a rope and
looked at his Eminence. The cardinal turn
ed round, and the man slipped down the
rope quickly, muttering, "What an ugly mug
for cardinal !" His Eminence started from
his chair and went toward the door determined
10 have the rude fellow discharged but as he
went past mirror he looked at himself, aAd,
eonfessing that his 'mug" was ugly, smiled,
and resumed his seat, continuing to write as
if nothing had happened. September Harp
eg's
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-09-02
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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-09-02

KoUMIss. The Tartars and some other
equestrian tribes, from time immemorial it is
said have practiced the art of brewing sort
of beer from mares milk and in latef times
they have learned how TO distill this beer and
procure from it very potent brandy. Koumiss
is the native name of the mares milk bee
and rack or racky of the koumiss brey
This koumiss has at times become celeI
among enlightened people as a health
"a fact, by the way, not at all extraor
and not necessarily dependent upon Q
quality of the koumiss. Scientific 4