The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-01-28
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Hash.
Said he, "Let MS be one." And she
was won.
Comets are wearing as long trains
this season as usual.
Extremes meet. The man with corns
on his feet will quite likely show wry
lace.
The good things that belong TO pros
perity may be wished, but the good
things that belong to adversely are to be
admired.
"Do we eat too much" asked the "De-
troit Free Press" and out Of five
dozen clearinghouse keepers sixty an
swercd in the affirmative.
Vanderbilt will have one stone con-
tanning 1876 solid feet in his new house on
Fifth avenue, New York. 1t takes the
rocks to pay for such stones.
Out of total of 10000 railway en-
ployees in Great Britain and Ireland,
1000 are either killed or injured every
year.
care we bigger when we are younger,
papa Why, my boy?" because
uncle is bigger than you, and he is much
younger"
A correspondent who IS fond Of figures
writes that our national debt, in silver
dollars, could be removed by rail only
with the aid of $3.50 cars, carrying ten
tons each.
A Partisan has just purchased the
door through which Charlotte Corday
passed to kill Marat. It will be remem-
we. suppose the marks of her heels are
on it to this day.
Crackers that are not fresh can be
made to appear so by putting them in
hot oven for a short time. Watch
them carefully, as o minute too late will
serve to brown and spoil them.
Count Taaffe, the present leader OF
the Austrian ministry, is by descent an
| Irishman, not Welshman, as his name
and the old nursery ballad might sug-
gest.
A poor young man remarks that the
only advice he gets from capitalists is to
"live within his income" whereas the
difficulty experienced is to live without
an income.
Governor Wright, of the Indian Ter
ritory, is a converted Choctaw Indian.
Sometimes after presiding over politi-
cal meeting of his people he calls them
to order and breaches a sermon to them.
The announcement is made that
the bonded debt of Illinois, which in
1868 amounted to $l2, $50, 900, will in
few months be paid to the last dollar.
The Illinois Central railroad has, rs re-
| quired by law, contributed several hun
bred thousand dollars year to the pay
ment Of the debt.
Portions OF mastodon OF enormous
size were discovered recently in Wick
er's park. Chicago, in excavating forEa
sewer. The indications are that the
huge animal perished in an ancient
marsh or quagmire, and there is hope
of the recovery of the rest of the skele-
fton. The curved tusks are about seven
feet long.
A "voung naturalist writes us tc
learn show he can catch a live wasp, fol
scientific purposes, without injuring it?'
Right by the tail, son; right by the tiI
end of the tail. Squeeze hard, the
wasp won't mind it particle, and if il
seems to be injured any that you car
see, send us the bill and we'll pay for {
| new wasp.-Burlinr!-' Hapkeye.
At breakfast n remarkably light ONE
lette souff1e is served, at moment
when every one is engaged in deeply
interesting conversation. The omelette
is neglected and begins to settle down
from its appetizing airiness, to the
enormous disgust OF the little daughter
of the house, who exclaims: "Oh, ma,
do hurry The omelette is eating
itself"
A little girl IN Belfast, Me-, recently
dropped her doll and broke its arm. The
doll was favoYite one, and the accident
was to the child a calamity of the
severest nature. The tears started, the
little lips were trembling with grief,
when bright thought struck her. With
o beaming face she exclaimed: "Papa,
L don't know as L care, after all. Per
haps it will be put i'll the paper"
| Professor John Gamgee, an English
authority on the spread of contagious
diseases, says that this country should
oppose The building of the Panama
canal because it would increase the dan
ger of yellow fever. He claims that
yellow fever is ship disease never
originating on land, so the vessels pass
ing the pestilential regions of the
Isthmus would increase the difficulty OF
the quarantine of American ports. The
Nicaragua route is free from these objec-
tions.