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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-02-18

be one of the most inourablo defects OF
bis character"
Lord Loing smiled. 'Nry dear sir,
nothing Of that sort ia incurablc, il wo
can only find the right woman"
The tone ia Which he spoke suggested
to me lhathehad got "theright woman,"
and I took the liberty Of saying so.
He at once acknowledged that I had
guessed right
"RomNyno is, as You say, a difficult
subject to deal with" ho resumed. 'Tf
1 commit the slightest imprudenco, I
shay excite his suspicion-and there
will be an end of my hope of being oi
service to him. J shall proceed care
fully, L can tell you. Luckily, poor
dear follow, he is fond Of picturcs It's
quite natural that ] should ask him to
see somo recent additions TO my gallory
isn't it? There is the trap that [ cet /
L have a sweet girl 10 Tempt him, staying
at ny house, who IS o little out Of health
and spirits herself At the right mo-
ment I shall send word upstairs. She
may we'll happen TO look in at the gal
lery (by tho merest aooidon0 just at the
time when Komayne IN looking at my
aew pictures. The rest dcpenaz, 1T
course, on tho effect she produces. Il
you knew her, L believe vou would aereo
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Uncle Anr Il.,s I'd -.

Uncle Aaron ive4 near Hartford, and
was n matler-ui,in.t mln. His barn
and out-housCs fairly swWnld with
rats, and Uncle = ron was telling q
friend nom another town VINO was vis-
iting at his house low be was troubled
by rats and how be had seen a hundred
at least at time. Tie friend laugh-
ingly told him a hundred was q gooG
many rats, and begged him 10 take on
lew.
Uncle Aaron replied thet he was Gx-
ing trap, and If bis friend won wait
a lew DAYS he would show him haul
If rats which Wo0ld convince him he
was not lying.
"All right," ;" answered his friend: II
you will catch anywhere rear hun.
dred just let me know"
Uncle Aaron, too, said "all right"
adding, IN lei you know"
When his friend started for home the
last thing he said wa5; BE sure and
let me know how many rats you catch.
A hundred IS g good many.N
The trap Uncle Aaron was at work on
was q sort Of Q atform almost as large rs
biz barn door, and tie plan was to
weight it with heavy rocks, raise one
end about three feet from the floor, ard
have il so rigged that the pull of q string
would spring it and let il fall to the
floor, making it decidedly uncomlort-
able for any living thing that might
happen to be under it. Ailcr arranging
it to his mind he began to bait It. lie
threw meal ali around and under the
trap, and went to n pllce conveniently
near and watched things. He did rot
have to wait long before he counted
| twenty rats busilY INVESTIGATING that
meal. But they did not 60 under the
platform. This WAS kept Up ior several
days, and after while tie patient
watcher who spent an hour or two
every day in eing them naneuver,
had the satisfaction Of seeing several OF
the rats venture under the trap,
Then he knew his plan would be sue
cess. He could pull the string almost
any time of cay end catch q dozen or
twenty, but he wns "lyine low - for q
bigger haul. The upraised platform
was no longer a terror to the animals.
They took the bais from under it %
readily - could be uosired. Finally
Uncle Aaron thought the time was ripe
to pull the string. he had not baited II
the night before, SO tic rodents would
have keep appetite Whcn Le sprins.cd
the cheese crumbs and meal iiat morn
ing. After doing this lie took an hi.
| pOSlllOn aIu NtltN.lf 7 lirh N-1 ttl-
sort of piouecT-came gliding oDI anc
began to parta'za Of tlo feast. Mex 9
pair came cut; then three cr lougi tAcg
A dozen. They came from ali ci-ec
tiors. Uncle Aaron was aciuany trem
bling with excitement. Tie could hardly
keep bis hand from pulling Jhe string
But be waited urli hc sF.ce uldof .ni
platform seemed fairiy ahve with tll
rats; and then-he rp ed. Down wen
the. heavy platform with q crash. 4
number Of TIE rats va e 81. % se.iaocr
ing eff: but Uncle Aaron .elt ocniaCn
that lie had nailed soue Of .cnl. As I'D
came up he saw hc,ds and tails pio
! trading. and lie thought nc would siv
them all a good square chance tp dt'
before he raised tie trap. lie val GO
till night. and then he li,ied II. B..
. counted one hundred and twenty-tw'
dead rats.-Hafti0sd (CoAss) TINES.
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On the question of submitting him
self to medical advice (which 1 nov
earnestly pressed upon him) Romayne
was disposed to be equally unreason-
able. But in this case events declared
themselves in my favor.
Lady Berrick's last reserve of strength
had given way. She had been brought
to London in dying state while we
were at vange Abbey. Romayne was
summoned to his aunt's bedside on the
third day of our residence at the hotel
and was present at her death. The inn
preston produced ON his mind reused
the better part of his nature. He was
more distrustful OF himself, more acces-
sible to persuasion than usual. In this
gcntler frame of mind he received well
come visit from an old friend, to whom
he was sincerely attached. The visit
of no great importance in itself--led,
as have since been informed, to very
serious events in Romayne's later life.
For this reason l briefly relate what
took place within my own hearing.
| Lcrd Loring-well known in society
as the head of an old English Catholic
family, and the possessor of a magnih-
cent gallery of pictures-was distressed
by the change for the worse which he
perceived in Romayne when he callod
at the hotel. was present when they
met, and rose to leave the room, feeling
that the two friends might, perhaps, be
embarrassed by the presence of third
person. Romayne called me back.
"Lord Loring ought to know what has
happened to me-" he said. II have no
heart to speak of it myself. Tell him
everything, and if he agrees with you, I
will submit to see the doctors" With
those words he left US together.
1t lis almost needless to say that Lord
J Loring did agree with me. He was
I himself disposed to think that the mora.
j. remedy in Romayne's case might prove
e to be the best remedy.
= "With submission to what the doctors
/ may decide" his lordship said, "th'
e right thing to do in my opinion, is t.
] divert our friends mind from himself
1 see plain necessity for making com
, plete change in the solitary life that h'
: has been leading for years past. VIII.
shouldn't he marry. A woman's in
auence, by merely giving new turn t.
tis thoughts. might charm away tha
,t horrible voice which haunts him. Per
haps you think this merely sentiments
I. view OF the case? Look ct it practically
., II you like, and you come to the sam
conclusion. With that fine estate-an
with the fortune which he has now il
herited from his aunt-it is his duty I
marry. DON'T you agree with meT
"I agree most cordially. But 1 81
NJ serious difficulties in your lordshil
to way. Romayne dislikes society; an
~ ss TO marrying, his coldress towal
women seems $50 far as 1 can iudge)
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A Little Ons,s sIoleh RlAe.

"Oh, mammal - n showing.
"Yos, daring; irhas jg pa.W.'
"lsnt it nice, mUlDma; $ i know
wanted to i've TO Eear tie leigh bells
again"
"Hu5h, my child mlm-.a vii not let
you die. No. 5lgNr2 rcc shall have
many sleigh rides yet he.ore you de
mo, not many, animal il l could
have just one, IL would be so rice
1t was last Tuesday, ard u litsie girl
who had seen thesnow come md 20 nine
times, lay dying in hcr humble home on
ST.. Antoine stree. Mtets and weeks
the fever had burned within her and its
fierce fire showed i,sr Ia Tie deep blue
eyes and the lovely, iunoc ni face. I G
mother, an ever Cl-s.lu- watcher nl the
sufferers pillow, had never given up
hope, but the child, with That know ledge
which seems u come IN all before death,
knew that she would nevcr join Ler
merry rlaymaio7 uv on the school
ground. Dsy b. day ns HE fever burned
sho had wished for the snow 10 come
and when the White a.-,s on tlc other
day the loving Wuia,r changed the
child's position that She ll, ,-ht UuwArn-
ed, catch the FIRST glimpse OF the heocy
snow. The enid rgsd ont into the
furriod cir lon, and sanss.ly, and then
when the pam made iCr Wrltne, she
turned tn appealing ioGS to tie sad
faced mother, and said;
"But, mamma, don't believe | shall
ever have another sleigh ride. Now
promise me If this snow is on the ground
when die you'll have my coffin carried
to the grave on n sleigh"
"Why, my sweet child, why do you
make such a requcat3 You shall not
die-you win grow better io-morrOw."
but, mamma, promise me, VIII you
Please, mamma, please"
Yes, darling, yes.'
"Ch, THANK you, mamma-that's &c
nice. See, it IS growing dark outside
Pull the bed nearer the window
mamma, so that ogn see the street lamp
There, see-the -ilakes-they giisier
st--like-diamonds. 1t will be sleigh
ing in the morning, mamma, and shal
hear the bells"
Like tho nowlake that falls upon thC
warm Garth she melted away, and nc
ore knows whether she woke to heai
music and bells on that morning w
shall one day open our eyes upon.
Yesterday passers-bY turned TO lool
at a small funeral procession, and won
dered why the undeiis sker had put hi
hearse upon runners OetToa Free freSs
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sftctsQf 6ctiHfy, and restoring hcdlfhyJ Jpacficns
WEBSTER.
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the many forms of Liver COM
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Blood, and Functional Derangc-
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1-2 Id. bottles, 40 cents; Six bottles,
S.. Accredited Physicians and
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and by D. B. Dewey & Co., 40 Dcy
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The average weight OF an adult man
IS ii0 pounds 6 ouEcei.
Number OF bones, 2i0.

The average weight OF an adult man
is 40 pounds s ounces.
Number OF bones, 2io.
The skeleton measures one inch less
than the height OF the living man.
The average weight of the brain OF a
man is q pounds; oi woman, = pounds
IL ounces.
The brain Of Il man exceeds twice that
OF any other animal.
The average height Of an Englishma2
is 8 feet inches; of a Frenchman. ,
sset inches; and OF Belgian, feet o4
inches.
The average weight OF an Englishmsn
IS l5) pounds; Of kfenchman. $50
pounds; and OF Il Belgian, li0 pounds.
The average number of teeth is 50.
A man brealhcs about 90 times in &
minute, or 1900 times in an hour.
A man breathes about Is pints Of ali
in minute, OF W warcs OF hossAeaas
in q Gay.
Aman gives oI4o9 per cent. carbonic
eas OF the air ne raspires; respires, 10
66G cubic feet OF carbonic acid gas m
tTonty-four hours; consumes 10 bof
cubic feet of oxygen in twenty-iour
hours equal 10 10 capic ihcIies ol Voin-
mon air.
A man annually contributes to yeee-
tation l24 pounds of carbon
The average of the pulse in infancy *
100 per minute; in manhood. So; at 80
wears. 60. The pulse OF females is more
/ frequent than that OF males.
The weight OF the ciIcul aiing blood
4 is about twcnty.oi aht pounds.
The heart beats seventy-five times in
a minute; sends nearly ten pounds OF
blood through the vGlns anu arteries
each beat; makes four beats while we
breathe once.
$40 pounds or one hogshead one ana
one-quarter pinis OF blood pass through
the heart IN Cne hour.
1900 pounds or tweriy-tour hogs
heads four gullo or 10, 7s25 pints pass
through the heart in twenty-tour hours
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his pony-cnaise tOOk nlnl away. Ills
last look rested-not on me-but on tn,
old Abbey.
My record of events approaches its
conclusion.
On the next day we returned to the
hotel in London. At Romayne's sug-
gestion sent the same evening to my
own house for any letters which might
be waiting for me. His mind still dwelt
on the duel; he was morbidly eager to
know if any communication had been
received from the French surgeon.
When the messengers returned with
my letters the Boulogne postmark was
on one Of the envelopes. AtRomayne's
entreaty this was the letter that I
opened first. The surgeons signature
was at the end.
One motive for anxiety-on my part
was set at rest in the first lines. After
an official inquiry into the circumstances
the FrenSn authorities had decided that
1t was not expedient to put the survivor
of the duelists on his trial before
court of law. No jury hearing the evil
dence would find him guilty of the only
charge that could be formally brought
against him-the charge of "homicide
by premeditation." Homicide by
misadventure, occurring in duel, was
not punishable offense by the French
law. My correspondent cited many
cases in proof of it, strengthened by the
publicly expressed opinion of the illus
trious Berryer himself. In n word we
had nothing to fear.
The next page of the letter informed
us that the police hal surprised the
card-playing community with whom we
had spent the evening at Boulogne, and
that the much-bejeweled old landlady
had been sent to prison for the offense
OF keeping gambling-house. 1t was
suspected in the town that the General
was more or less directly connected with
certain disreputable circumstances dis
covered by the authorities In any
case he had retired from active service.
He and his wife and family had left
Boulogne, and had gone away in debt.
No investigation had thus far succeeded
in discovering the place of their retreat.
Reading this letter aloud to Romayne
I was interrupted by him at the last sen.
tence.
"The inquiries must have been care
lessly made" he said. "They ought tc
have applied to the police. I will SEE
to it myself"
"What interest can you have in tbs
inquiries?' exclaimed.
"The strongest possible interest,"" ht
answered. at has been my one hopt
to make some little atonement to The
poor people whom 1 have SO cruell.
wronged. If tho wife and children art
in distressed circumstances (which
seems to be only too likely Imay plac'
them beyond the reach of anxiety
anonymously, of course. Give me th,
surgeons address. shall write instruc
tions for tracing them at my expense
merely announcing that IN Unknown
Friend desires to be of service to tn
Generals family"
This appeared to me to be most i'm
prudent thing to do. L said so plainl
and quite in vain. With his custom
airy impetuosity ho wrote the letter g
once, and sent it to the post that night
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What felt and feared in this rS;au;-
nrle state of things matters little. The
one chance that could see for Ro-
mayne was to obtain the best medical
advice. 1 sincerely encouraged his idea
OF going back to London the next day.
We had sat together by the hall fire
for about ten minues, when he took out
his handkerchief and wiped away tho
perspiration from his forehead, drawing
a deep breath of relief. eft has gone +,
he said, family.
"When did you hear the boys voice ?"
asked" do you hear it continually ?"
"No, at intervals sometimes longer,
sometimes shorter"
"And, thus far, il comes to you sud.
ienly, and leaves you suddenly?'
"Yes,"
"Do my questions annoy you p
"I make no complaint" he said,
sadly. "You can SEQ for yourself-I
patiently suffer the punishment that 1
have deserved"
I contradicted him at once. cit is
nothing OF the sort It's nervous NAL
ady which medical science can control
and cure. Wait till we get to London"
This expression of opinion produced
no effect on him.
al have taken the life OF fellow
creature" he said. "I have closed the
career of young man who, but for me,
might have lived long and happily and
honorably. Say what you may, I an of
tho race OF Cain. He had the mark set
on his brow. I have my ordeal. De-
Jude yourself, il you like. with false
hopes. L can endure-end nope roi
nothing Good night"
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A Pnrlsisn "Lion."

The lion Of the hour in Paris is the
MARQUIS OF San MRlaio, the Sicilian
nobleman who, alter running through
his patrimony. took 10 teaching the
Young gentlemen OF Florence how to run
each other through. He is said to be
the best fencing master in Europe. and
lie most fabulous stories are told of his
skill and courage. He is an Italian
d'Artaguan, and he carries the sears of
twenty-five wounds received in actual
warfare. lie has fought no less than
forty duels in his time. One Of them
was with a young kinsman who had in
suli ed him grossly, and whose mother
iuterceded in her sons behalf. San
MalatO kept his engagement with the
rash youngster, but fought him with
averted face. SO as TO give him every
chance. To learn the exquisite art CT
fencing of this great master costs ten
dollars a lesson. and the fee for permis-
sion to Try an assault of arms on him is
twice that amount.
Philadelphia has Mormon church
I 1r c...4 ,..,,,, l,ar4 TINT has bnQD
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Land in California has not been so
cheap within msny years rs IL Is at
present. Some of the vely best land in
Napa valley-and there is hardly any
inner or more beautifully situated land
anywhere-is now offered at about $50
an acre. Landno far from Menlo Park,
which was ten years ago sold for $500
an acre, was lately sold at $50 an acre.
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Mr.. j. IL. Eatcs, Newspaper Advertising
Aren't, Al Park Row Crimes Building), New
YORK. is authorized to contract for advertisement
in the Register at our best rates.
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cnrnon ntMEcroKY.



Eopifrt Meeting in the Court House, Rev. C.
UIn14rd pasiOr SABBATH services at 10 40 a. m.
end y. u.; sunday acnool at IL j. m rr"Ho
meeting Iuufaua. eNehlh E. az "Si"vh' ,,t
coaq5c c4aftoaai-Corner Pleasant ana Nam sts
Rev. ~ =. uOuSer, pastor. sunday services az
10: 10 An. ana 1900 rM. ihursday cNehlht
SS;,,bo1,1tNN N7,rts PIeasantst Rev. II. L. Mead,
pastor. sand4y seI. ices at l0;45 4. NJ. AM
, go I'm. IuUI-das evening prayer meeting al
7:,3. Jia.s mecuA- oH FRIDAY evening at 100.
E1.ycnD0{-St s.sph.n's Cbarct-Aiain-st. Key
Wn. d. ilicy, recon. sunday school AT II
An, SUNDAY serNIee= at 10 40 AN. and ;Uu fM'
D. atH Cdttyac-N ypndge-st. Rev. r. Gun
baths, Iii-h Mass 1T l6.09 All; Nespers ana
bgHeGicti"n at t.; 6J f.A.
LAST NIpDLLRURY.
Il.faodis.- ----- pastor. Sunday scrNlces
at2:OJPM
vEgOTESFs.
Eapfia-Rev. David +. Estes, pastor Sunday
services at l0:45 AN. and 700 Pm. Week.!
drawer meeting on Thursday evening 1900
licthDaiSf--hcv. NJ. \. wicker, pastor. SUNDAY
eryiees at 1890 and 100 Pm. Weekly ifay"
meeting ou Thursday evening at :oO
Lyssto,ui-St. IAifs ch9rch-Eov. +. rs ler'
ecior. gunday services at l0:i5 Ash. ant 900 I'M
4 riGdy evening at - up.
Mission Chapa-Dr. II. \. lngni M nEniay
services at ~ :Ij AM. and 1900 , NJ. Weekly
prayer meeting ou 1hursary eveni g.
Roaan CaiLolc-i.e,. r. Cunni Cha a, pastor.
eryices, alternate Sabbaths; lisn LASS ut 10 u
An; Nespor5 and benedictiOn al 800 rh.
Congregationai-Kcy George Y. Han, pastor
Sunday services al 10 ~ AN. ana wv I'M. NOeh-
' prayer meeting ON Thursday evening Al i;W'
IUION.
Cougrtqafiouol--Eev. j. 4. Deyine,, pas'oo,
SUNDAY services at Ii, y. NJ, and 3, 4. NJ
Thursday evening prayer-Meetng at 100 D. NJ
nRIsIOL.
Adreat-H. i. Quimby, pastor. Sunday serYi-
ces 10 :i5 q. M, and 80 p. IN. Prayer Ntdhe''
day evening. ,.
Eapaisf-W. D. Hail, pastor. Sunday seryices'
10 AS -. H., and 80 p. m. Prayer meeting Iues'
day evening.
in rec weeks. -.
EraAoe}ical Adrent-Prayer meeting every FRI
DAY evening at Elder u. Busworthh. am,
Meihodtst- sunday services lO3o a, m. ana . UV
y. N. 1Aursday evening prayer meeting o'9o'
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Philadelphia has Mormon church
Of forty-nine members TINT has been ex-
isling since 1860.
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His pony-chaise took him away. His
last look rested-not on me--but on tn,
old Abbey.
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LAST NupDLLRuRY.
Ii.iAodis.- pastor. Sunday scrNice-
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Cougreqatioual-Rev j. 4. Deyine,. p9s'oo,
Sunday services at Ii, y. NJ, and .. H. M
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-10-22
Potted Ham.

aRilNhNNAoAASh
Potted ham is sold in small tins at a
very high price; it is most excellent
article for travellers lunches and similar
uses. TIC make it, lean and very ten
der boiled ham is required; the meat is
chopped fine and afterwards beaten in
a mortar, an old-fashiored wooden one
is excellent for this purpose. The ham
is beaten to a paste, adding butter if
needed, to make the particles stick to.
gether, and il desired, little mixed
mustard may be added. II to be kept
long it should be put In jars, and melt
ed butter poured over the surface to
cover it and exclude the air. Spread
upon slices OF bread it forms the most
perfect sandwiches imaginable. 1t is
an excellent way in which to use up
the odds and ends OF a ham, there always
being portions that cannot be cut into
presentsble slices.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-10-22

the following bit OF valuable testimony:
When Mrs. McGibbon was preparing
10 act the part OF Jane Shore her servant,
a rather ignorant country girl, told her
that there was a woman OUTSIDE VINO
wanted the celebrated actress 10 give
her an order for box. docs she know
me? II think not" "Neli, her re-
quest is very odd. Can she have her
faculties about her, do you Think? Il
think she have" was the servants re-
ply. "for | see she had summit tied up
| in a red silk Handkerchief"
A hint is something which no man Is
willing to take, and especially when the
hint intimates that the gray matter OF
your brain is wanting and that the rest
of il is mere lumber. The times must
be pretty well out of joint when man
is not even permitted to think well oil
himself, but must listen to the gratult-
Gus information that his opinion OF his
own intellectual calibre differs material
ly from that of the rest OF the world.
There is little use in living in repub bile,
and there is no moral value in universal
suffrage, if one can't honestly believe
that it is his individual vote that saves
the country at every election. When
this fiattering unaction is destroyed re-
unbGcism will vanish from the lace
Of the earth. But we were talking about
the amount of significance which can
he given to a mere hint. A country
man whose legs and body resembled a
pair of compasses, who was undoubted'
iy made perfectly: but at the came time
made in such proportions that the
material was mostly wasted before his
head was manufactured, sought an ap,
pointment in the backwoods as a school
teacher. By some perverslty oil human
nature q man who knows he is not MT
for anything else always regards himself
az specially adapted to teach school or
write poetry. He made application to
a trustee of the "deestrict," plainly in.
timating that he was willing to be asked
a few easy questions in "rithmetlc and
Biography" The trustee waived the ex-
animation, however, perhaps for the
best OF reasons, but declared that h9
could always tell really good teacher
by his gait, and asked the applicant to
walk off bit and show his PAGES. The
poor fellow stretched his compasses to
their fullest extent and struck gait
which would have put the seven league
boots to shame. When he turned the
trustee had gone into the house and
shut the door. The man OF "rithmetic
and Biography" felt ga little frustrated"
but took the hint and went on to the
next village.