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VIII wonders Never Cea.et

Following close upon NJ. Faure's invention
for the storing Of electric energy, comes the
announcement that another French scientist,
Carriere by name, has invented heat maga-
zine which he calls ''thermophere, in
which he is able TO concentrate heat from the
sun to almost any amount and transmit il TO
any distance TO do the work Of wood and coal
A visitor to Carriere's laboratory was shown
the thermophere, a cubcal box of metal, about
one foot to a side, upon which he placed his
hand and found it a little cooler than his own
temperature. NJ Carriere then drew from the
box piece Of moist thin silk, and immediate
ly the temperature of the box began to rise
and presently it became so hot that the visit
or was compelled to withdraw his hand. A
pan of water placed on the box boiled in three
minutes, and the inventor said that there was
heat enough in the magazine, if properly
used, to warm comfortably the new opera
house in Paris in the coolest weather and for
an entire season. Such an invention seems
incredible, but stranger wonders have been
drawn from the arcana Of nature. The in
ventor says that he secures the heat by con-
centrating the rays Of the sun upon thin plates
of very tough metal, and preventing its es-
cape by perfect non-conductor. When the
latter is removed the heat develops itself.
The invention has been patented and if Il can
be made practical it will work an astounding
revolution in the worlds economy. Possibly
the time will come when we shall not only Or
der boxes of electricity to run our factories
and light our houses, but we shall purchase
boxes Of the suns heat instead Of tons of coal
and cords Of wood to warm our rooms and do
our cooking
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-08-12

AN ANCIENT AQUKDUCT RE OPENED. After
a breach of 1000 years the aqueduct built by
the Emperor Augustus TO supply Bologna with
water was restored to use June >. Nineteen
hundred years ago the imperial engineers tap
ped the Setta near its junction with the Reno
about IL miles from Bologna, and brought
its water to the city through an underground
passage. They followed the course of the
Reno, tunneling the hills, sinking their work
beneath the beds of the precipitous torrents
which rush from the mountains into the river,
and bringing the waters to the gates of the
city, where they were divided, one portion 60
ing TO supply the public baths, and the other
probably destined for the fountains of streets
and public squares The work of tunneling
aud the masonry were so thoroughly well done
that both stone-work and brick-work are still
as solid as the rock itself, the only consider
able breaks being where the turbulent Reno
had washed away with its clayey banks several
portions of the aqueduct, or where the head
long torrents which rush down into its stream
had excaVated their own beds and carried
away the artificial substructure. The restor-
alton of this important work is due chiefly to
Count Gozzadini, who caused an accurate
survey of the aqueduct TO be made about 20
years ago, and in 1864 published the results
Of the investigation in an elaborate memoir.
Since then the work of restoration has been
going on with thoroughness and skill caleu-
lated TO make the new work as enduring as the
old. The aqueduct was originally made of
brick and stone oemented with lime and vol
canic sand, and the unbroken portions re-
manned as hard as granite
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-08-12

ERRoNEoUs IDEAS ABOUT TREADNG WATER,
FLOATING, ETC.-A great deal has been writ
ten about how to prevent drowning of late,
and in most cases it has been assumed that
any person can keep the head above water,
even in heavy sea, by initiating dog, or
any other animal. which, as soon as it gets
overheard begins to walk precisely as on
land. Now, as a matter of fact, any person
can keep ahoat by treading water, but it does
not follow that the first attempt will prove
successful. Admitting that it is nothing
more than ordinary walking in water-better
described as walking up stairs-few persons
will succeed on the first trial. Not only
must one know how TO do it, but he must ac-
quire a certain confidence in his ability, which
only comes after few trials Another very
erroneous notion prevails among people who
have not tried the experiment, which is that
since the human body is lighter than water.
q person has only to lie on his back, perfect
ly still, and he will float. In the first place,
no one can lie on the back in the proper po-
sition for floating without considerable prac-
tice. The instructions are simple enough
Throw the head well back, SO as to keep the
nose and mouth as high out of the water as
possible, keep the chest near the surface, and
do not bend the body. But no one can do
this at first In the second place, probably
not one man in fifty, even among good swim
mers, can float without moving hands or feet.
This is is not matter of skill but of specific
gravity. If the body happens to be light
enough, as compared with the water dis
placed, then it is possible to float in this way
otherwise it will sink, and this is the ordina-
ry experience of gil who make the trial But
everybody can swim on the back and easily
keep afloat in that position by slightly NOV
ing the hands or the lower limbs. We great
ly doubt many of the wonderful stories that
are going the rounds of the press about ship
wrecked voyRgers who have lived many hours
and travelled many miles by floating, swim
ming, and treading water in heavy seas.
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Miscellany.


Serene and lovely in her radiance tender,
The queen Of night ascends her azure throne;
Mid all the starry garland Of Gods Hplendor,
In that bright throng we see but her alone.
with modest mien mid heecy clouds now drifting
She hides her lovely face from mortal eyes,
But soon the breeze, the silyery veil uplifting
Reveals the glorious empress Of the skies.
Broad fields are flooded with the dazzling brightness
Her radiance nils the lofty forest halls;
The placid brooks reflect the glisening whiteness,
On rock and hill the sheeny splendor falls.
Her pure, fresh breath in coolness DER us stealing
Brings to the tired soul the sweetest rest;
And sick hearts now receive the blessed feeling
She pours like balm into the wounded breast
The cares Of day now drop from tired mortals
As her sweet influence Is around them shed;
Meath this calm eye, watching at heavens portals,
Softly and gently droops the weary head.
What knowst thou, watcher at the gates Of glory,
OF those miss from this fair, earthly shore7
Does thy calm eye, undimmed by ages hoary,
Behold them walking on that star-paved floor?
Mid crowns and flowers and harps Of heavenly sweet
ness,
As round the throne the blessed angels throng,
Surrounded by Gods greatness and completeness,
DO thoughts OF earth e'er mingle with their song2
We know that there, beyond eAth's gloomy portal,
Though none return our longing eyes to greet,
On that bright shore, where love becomes immortal
Earths children shall again their loved ones greet
Then IN that land where fields are ever vernal,
Whose glory streams from azure sky afar
Forever, mid the holy light eternal.
Wen need no brightness Of sun, moon or star.
From tie German.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-08-12
Summer
Complaints

AT this season, various diseases of the
bowels are prevalent, and many iircs are
lost through lack of knowledge Of a safe
and sure remedy. PERRY DAVIS PAIN
KILLER is sure cure for DiarrhUa, Dys-
cntery, Cholera, Cholera Morbus, Summer
Complaint, etc, and is pegectty cafe.
Read the following:
BAISBGGDGE, n. Y, March -, 1881.
PERRY DAVIS PAlN keller atUeT Jaiis 20 GtoTd
'"'"" 'eHp l"i crahl ana ltlh M ia tl1 slGlnaen'
NIcHoLyILLE, N. Y, Feb. ., ISL
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have used your PAIS KILLER in severe cases uf
cranp, colic an cholera mo:busand i gave almost
instant '''''' cARSEsvILLt, GA, Feb .. ISL.
For twenty years have used your PAlS KILLER
cninpaints, and it aisay ores Would not feel sa.s
without & bottle in the house j. Is lXIL
Have used PERRY DAVIS PAiS KIIIER Il for twelve
ySSri ySS .o is e i sIS os Of 9d tbs sfSS fs No nohr'
ONEIDA, N Y, Feb 10. isl,
aWSys gsn gTe- neiiate hs rei WSad hardy dare
to 20 to bed without bottle in the hogse q ss,,,
CoSwAYBoRo s. O., Feb p, ISL,
Nearly every family IN this section keeps a bottle
in the house. DE. l.. MOTION
CREFELD. kuEHIsi PRUSSIA. Feb. Z, 1871
Ihave known PERRY DAVIS PAIN KILLER almost
from the day 1t was introduced, and after years OF
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J. s. POTTER, u. S. Consul.
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q MONTAGUE ST, LosDoE, ESQ.
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relief r. CLARIDGE.
No family can safely be without this
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For sale by all druggists at 25c., SOC.
and 81 90 per bottle.
PERRY DAVIS & son, Proprietors
Providence, X. |.
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WHAT THE BABY's NAME WAS TO BE.-The
wife of Jacob Squires resident of distant
"outport," where school-masters were scarce,
applied to the parson for the baptism of her
baby--the tenth it turned out to be, for our
fishermen as a rule are blessed with large, or
as they expressively put it, ''heavy" families.
The good lady explained to the parson that
her skipper" had gone to the Labrador, and
had left express orders that on the arrival OF
No. 10, if girl, she was to be ohristened by
the name of "Hyena" The parson was startl-
ed and shocked at the idea of labelling an in
FAINT with such a dreadful name, and told the
mother that she must have made mistake,
and that it would never do to give the name
of beast of prey to a Christian child. Mrs.
Squires persisted in saying that there was no
mistake and that she dare not diverge from
the order of her skipper. After much per-
suasion he induced her to defer the baptism
till the shippers return. On his arrival he
called ON the parson and explained that his
'old woman" had made mistake, and that
he had directed the baby to be christened, not
"Hyena," but 'Joseph Hyena." The parson
pondered a moment, and then the mystery
cleared up. ooh, l see it; Josephine you
want to name your child" That's it exact
ly, parson," said Jacob "but you see we
couldn't rightly get our tongues around it
when we saw it in print. We can call her Jo-
sey for short, bless her little heart, so Joseph
Kinney be it. Newfoundland Letter.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-08-12
August.

All YEARLY the summer waiteth now,
Her work perfected Silently she wrought
Through shower and sunlight. All the breezes caught
Her meaning. Zen the poppies on her brow
Soothing to slumber and the tired BROOKS low,
Half dried in pebbly beds, murmur her thought.
Now pulsing life the wondrous secret tells.
For 10! the flower that dropped its leaves in May
Hangs crimson-rpe upon its bough to-day,
And that small handful Of earth-buried grain
Waves fair and golden Ger the wind-swept plain,
And the flowers waits in well-stored cells.
Oh, rare, sweet silenceI work in secret done
Shows marvellous when brought to light Of sun.
-BOstOn Transcript.
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AsH-ToNIC
A Perfected Purifier OF the sv,tem.

A Perfected Purifier of the System.
ToNIc.-" Increasing The strength, oJpiatinq The
CBscM u DEBILITY, and restoring healthy functions"
WEBSTER.
For Indigestion, and Dyspepsia,
the many forms of Liver Com
plaint, Impure and Impoverished.
Blood, and Functional Derange-
ments attendant upon Debility, and
for Building up the weak, Ash
Tonic is doubtless the most prompt
and certain remedy yet devised. In
1-2 lib. bottles, 10 cents; Six bottles,
S. Accredited Physicians and
Clcrgymen, who may desire to test
the Tonic, will be supplied with not
exceeding six bottles, at one-half
the retail price, money to accom-
pany the order. Sold by Druggists,
and by ID. b. Dewey & Co., 40 Dey
St, N. Y.
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Must Have been There Himself.

There are people who in the hottest wealth
er will get up in the morning long before the
flies have begun to open their wings to the
rising sun, and they will cook and hastily
bolt scanty breakfast, rush madly around
the house after collars, bonnets, umbrellas
and fans, put up lunches that are not fit to
be eaten, spend six hours on a railway train
in order to have one or two hours Of "enjoy-
ment" at a lake side, get home late at night
tired, exasperated, fused out, and the next
morning they will crawl to work with aching
heads, aching backs and rebellious stomachs,
and say that they have had day out.
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Iiniin1ent.
The most Powerful.

The most Powerful,
Penetrating and Pain-relieving
q remedy ever devised by man. 1t
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1t heals Wounds, and it cures
RHEUMATISM,
Sciatica, LumbagO, ScaIds,
Burns, Stiff Joints, Cuts, Swell
ings, Frost bites, Quinscy, Salt
Rheum, Irch, Sprains, Calls, and
Lamencss from any cause. Suf-
ferers from
PAIN IN THE BACK,
Fever Sores, EruptiOns, Broken
Breasts, contracted Cords, Neu-
ralgia, Palsy or dislOcated limbs;
and owners of horses, planters, me-
chanics, merchants and professional
men everywhere, unite in saying. that
CENTAUR LINIMENT
brings relief when all other I.ini-
ments, Oils, Extracts and Embroca
tons have fl lied.
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NO. 81.

tion, does not appear by any means equal to
the quantity of water which the three upper
lakes receive, it has been coniectured that a
subtorranean river may run from Lake Supi-
rior, by the Huron, TO Lake Ontario. This
conjecture is not impossible, and accounts for
the singular fact that salmon and herring are
caught in all the lakes communicating with
the st Lawrence, but no others.
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large upon, but my letter is already long
enough. have merely indicated what in
general way we have seen there are details
of special interest that must be left for talk
hereafter. think every day of Bratteboro,
and especially wonder il the work upon the
new depot is going on. Shall know where
am when get back?
Yours very truly, J. DRAPER.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-08-12

A MYSTERY ABOUT THE AMERICAN LAKES
Lake Erie is only GO to 20 feet deep. But
Lake Ontario is 592 fee. deep, 230 feet below
the tide level of the ocean, or as low as most
parts of the Gulf of st Lawrence and the
bottom of Lakes Huron, Michigan and Super
ior, although the surface is much higher, are
all from their vast depths on level with the
bottom of Ontario. Now, as the discharge
through the river Detroit, after allowing for
the probable portion carried of by eVapora-
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(aStOria 80 Dose.

- 30 cents. A Mothers
remedy for sleepless and irritable
Children. The Recipe of Old d..
Pitcher, Free from Morphine, and
not Narcotic. Formula published
with each bottle. For Flatulency,
assimilating the food, Sour Stomach,
Feverishness, Worms, and Disor-
dered Bowels, CastOria has the larg-
est sale of any article dispensed by
Druggists.
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FROM EUROPE.

SOME NOTES OF DIR. DRAPER's JOURNEY ABROAD
IMPRESSIONS OF SCOTLAND, ENGLAND AND
FRANoE-NAT1oNAL NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
PATHY WITH AMERICA.
Letter 10 a Friendl
HOTEL p IrALIE, VENICE
Sunday, July II, 1881.
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THE MILK PROBLEM. "

The subscriber having a large stock OF the oes'
Jersey cows that can be found in Windham county,
and can therefore furnish the best milk that is put
upon the MARKET will supply all responsible customers
for the old price of ) cents per quart. VIII also
deliver milk to my customers morning or evening" or
both as they prefer.
5ltf j. O. NEWTON.
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q French Chrome and Lithograph Cards for two S-ot
u stamps Choice and very attractive. Address
dCards, y Phoenix once, Brattleboro, Vt.
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But 1865 saw the beginning of a still more
important enterprise. About that time, at
session of the Rutland county court presided
children, were arraigned, found guilty of some
petty offense, and sentenced TO hard labor in
the state prison. A gentleman who listened
to their sentence profoundly impressed by
what seemed to him, considering the nature
of the offense and the extreme youth of the
offenders, Judicial severity, took occasion not
long afterward to have an interview with
Judge Kellogg. To his surprise the judge
declared that he had taken the most merciful
course open to him. He said, in substance,
that il was discretionary with him to send the
young offenders to the county jail or to the
state prison that he deliberately chose the
latter; that our jails were schools Of vice,
from which the young were almost sure to
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SETH W. FowLE s. SONS, ProPrietors, SO
Harrison Avenue, Boston. Sold by all Druggists.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-06-16
The Wrong Model.

The Boston Courier tells this story
1t is not new, but is good: Binpo. the
artist, saw very picturesque fellow on
the street the other day. His un-
kempt hair flowed down over his
shoulders, and his long beard reached
his waist. An old buttonless velyeteen
coat, battered SLOUGH hat, and a pair of
old-fashioned -breeches added to
the singularity of his appearance. Binoo
Thought he would look spIendidly in q
picture with proper surroundings. and
SO he gave him a five dollar bill and
told him to come to his studio the newt
day. He forgot, however, to tell him
that he wanted him to serve as a model
and when at the appointed hour the
uext day Bingo opened his door in an.
swer to a knock he found clean shaven
man with closely-cropped hair and a
plug" hat in hand, confronting him
81 have come, as you told me'n said
the man, showing very white set of
teeth.
Yes, and you can go again. You're
no use to me now," Numbered Binoo
as he violently slammed the door,
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cially at the siege of Malta w.a,o j, \

cially at the siege of Malta. wl,ero j,
had to scale high parapets of rocks A'y
The Janissaries were in the beioS. !,
their splendid fame during the ra;ra . =
the Sultan Solyman the Maenifcent !; y
the seventeenth century. After :. u
this celebrated corps lost its superio s;als
The * tribute of children, had NV
three hundred years, gradually ces a'ss'
and the force was kept up BY voIuptass'
of any kind. The Janissaries hess s.S
corrupt and insuborGinate, and ;ns saa's
of making conquests for Turkey s tSa
often turned upon their masters -,
became more terrible to the Sult.sa
than to the Nations around. Thew y
posed Sultans. and murdered Suliars
and made new ones. and Turkey w.,
cursed by the very troops of which ~ NJ
had once been so proud. N
Mahmoud H., who was a fierce ana
daring man, resolved to save bis ow INV
head, and protect Turkey, by destrona
ing this dreadful soldiery. In lsss Z
led the rest of the army against ~ i
Janissaries, surprised them, and af,as
a dreadful battle, defeated them. EicL,
thousand were burned in their barraeEs
before they could escape Fifteen tbon
sand were slaughtered in the strugols
to defend themselves. The rest M VII
banlshed from the country, and becaus
scattered among the armies OF Eurone
The Janissaries were forever dissolvss
and their name lives now only in his
tory.--Reteaa z. Je'skias. IN Ha,per,
Young People. -1.
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" Going to School,"

Glass in geography, stand up. Now,
who can tell me who was King of the
Cannibal Islands 400 years agoP What!
can no one answer this gravely impor-
tant queryP Is it possible that you
have knowingly kept yourselves in the
dark on point which may one day de-
eide the fate of the nation? Very well;
the whole class will stay for an hour
after school as punishment.
The ''B" class in geography will
please arise and come forward for trial
and sentence. Now, then, in what di-
rection from San Francisco are the
Mangrove Islands? What can no one
answer? And you boys expect to grow
up and become business men, and YOU
girls to become wives, and yet don't
know whether the Mangrove Islands
are north, east or southwest of San
francisco! shall send the boys up to
the principle to be thrashed, and the
girls will have no recess.
The class in history will now take the
prisoners box, and tell the jury
whether sunfiower seeds are among the
exports of Afghanistan. No answerp
None OF you posted on this momentous
question? Two-thirds of you on the
point of leaving school to mingle in the
busy scenes of life, and yet you do not
know whether Afghanistan exports sun
flower seeds or grindstones! For five
years [ have labored here as teacher,
and now | find that my work has been
thrown away. Go to your seats and /
Will think up some mode of punishment
BETTING your crime 80 IS
The advanced class in. mathematics
will now step forward. One Of YOU
please step to the blackboard and Illus
traGe the angular rectangle northeast
corner of q quadrangle What? No
one in all this class able to make that
simple illustrationp James and John
and Joseph and Henry, you expect to
become merchants. and Mary and Kate
and Nancy and Sarah, you are all old
enough to be married, and vet Won
confess your ignorance OF angular rec
tangle quadrangulers before the whole
school. John, suppose you. became a
wholesale grocer. DO you expect to
buy tea and sugar and coffee and spices,
and sell the same again without refer,
ence to quadrangles? Mary. suppose
you go to the store to buy four yards of
factory at ten cents yard. How are
You going to be certain that you have
not been cheated if you cannot figure
the right angle of triangle? All, me.
L might as well resign my position and
go home and die, for the next gener-
alton will be SO ignorant that all ed
ucated persons will feel themselves
strangers and outcasts. "-DetroI Free
Press.