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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-01-21
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.


In 1769,,, M. Cugnot, a Frenchman
constructed locomotive steam engine
designed for use on common roads, II
ran on three wheels, and was moved by
the impulsion of two single acting
cylinders, the pistons Of which acted
alternately on the single front wheel.
This machine would travel at the rate
of two or three miles an hour, and would
carry four persons, but the boiler was
so small that 1t was necessary to stop
about once in twelve or fifteen minutes
to get up steam.
The English guinea was called because
the gold OF which it was first made was
brought from Guinea by an African
trading company. Originally it was in.
tended that the guinea should be worth
20s., but owing to number of errors in
calculating the proportion of the value
OF gold and silver, it never circulated
at that value. Sir Isaac Newton Fixed
the true value of the guinea, in relation
to silver, at 2Os. 3d., and by his advice
the crown proclaimed that in future it
should be current at 21s.
A rapid penman can write thirty words
in minute. To do this he must draw
his pen through the space of rod, six
teen and half feet. In forty minutes
his pen travels furlong. We make op
an average sixteen curves or turns of the
pen in writing each word. Writing
thirty words in minute we must make
480 to each minute in an hour, 28. 800:
in day of only five hours, 144,OOO: in
q year OF 300 days, 42,200,0 900. The
man who made 1000, 600 strokes with
his pen was not at all remarkable.
Many men--newspaper writer's, for in
stance-make 1000, 900. Here we have
in the aggregate mark of 800 miles
long to be traced on paper by such a
writer in a year.
About 100000 American voters
marched to the polls and deposited
their ballots for presidential electors on
the second day Of Nov ember last. Whata
tremendous army II the 10, ,OOO, 900 men
were divided into little squads or pla-
toons Of five there would be 1000. 600
O. such squads. Now, giving each squad
the space Of three yards, the 1000, 900
squads would require 5000, 900 yards
The distance betweea New York and
San Francisco is about 1900 miles.
One English geographical mile contains
about 1000 yards, and so 5000 miles
would contain 5000, 900 yards, Just the
length Of the great line.
Three blue-bottle flies, says Linneus,
will devour horse as soon as q lion
could doit. The statement is no doubt
somewhat of an exaggeration, but it is
not 30 far over the mark as it may be
supposed to be. Ono fly, it has been
stated, will produce 10000 eggs, and no
sooner are the maggots Matched from
them than they set to work with such
vigor that in twenty-four hours they
will increase in weight 200 times. In
about three weeks every one of them
may have become perfect fly, half of
them, perhaps, females, each capable of
dead rat or high" leg Of mutton that
threatens to breed pestilence in the
lir.
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A" Good TO Puil.o

A number of ladies visited New
York public school, and one of them
thought that she would question the
tots, and see how much they knew about
the senses.
What We're the eyes for?
For seeing.
Yes-and what would be the result if
we had no eyes? And she asked the
little ones to shut their eyes tight. Ay,
yes. They understood.
And then the cars. What were they
for?
Hearing.
Yes; and now stop your ears up as
tightly as you can. All what sad
thug it would be to have no ears. We
should never hear the birds sing any
more, and never more hear mammals
voice.
And then came the nose. What was
that for?
Somehow the little ones seemed puz-
zled at this point. About the eyes and
ears there had been no question--but
the nose? They looked up into the
lady's face curiously. evidently with an
answer ready, but not quite sure of be
ing right. Finally the questioner saw
an intelligent smile upon ono chubby
little face-one of the four-year-olds-
and she said to the child
"Ah, Miss Dot, you can tell me what
the nose is for. can't you? Come now,
speak up. Don't be afraid What is it,"
A few twists and Fuckers, and then,
with a wonderous sparkle OF the great
brown eyes
"'Eb-I dess its for mamma to tate
hold OF to pull !"
That closed the examination for the
day
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Bravery L. of no Nation.

It is admitted on all hands that the
Afghans, of whom we are hearing SO
much just now, fought bravely, and the
same as to the Zulus. In Sir Charles
James Napier's " History of the Adminis-
tration in Scinde" there is a story relat-
ing to the brave hills-men of Trukkee,
which is we'll worth repeating. 1t was
their custom, when their friends fell
fighting bravely, face to the foe, to strip
them and leave them unburied, but to tie
round the right wrist thread either of
green or red. The red thread was the
very highest honor that n brave man
slain could receive. In the course of
one of Sir Charles James Napier's cam
paigns eleven out of an army of English
soldiers lost their way in the mountain
gorges, and came " full butt upon fort
guarded by forty of these formidable
mountaineers. The little band of eleven
English soldiers at once attacked the
fort, and reduced the number of the
mountaineers to sixteen. They them
selves were all slain, as might be ex-
pected. When the English came for the
dead bodies OF their comrades they
found them naked, under tine open sky,
with q red thread tied round the wrist Of
every man. The savage hills-men had
bestowed upon the corpses OF their
enemies the highest honor in their code
Of homage to the brave.
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saMoUs MEN OF MUSCLE.


IF history is tobs believed, Phstyiina
Or orotona, could Jump distance d
fifty-six feet.
Among the Greeks the successful
athlete was crowned with laurels and
loaded down with wealth and honors.
The Roman Emperor Maximinus was
upward of eight feet in height. and.
like Milo, OF Crotona, could squeeze to
powder the hardest stone with his fin.
gers and break the leg Of horse by q
kick.
While q prisoner in Germany, Richard
l., accepted an invitation to a boxing
match with the son of his jailer. He
received the first blow, which made him
stagger; but recovering, with q blow of
his fist he killed his antagonist on the
spot.
The famous Scanderbeg, king OF
Albania, who was born in 1414, was A
man of great stature, and his feats of
sword exercise have never been eaualed.
On one occasion, with his cimeter, he
struck his antagonist such blow that
its force cleaved him to the waist.
Polvdamus, of Thessalia, was of colossal
height and prodigious strength, and IL
Is said, alone and without weapons.
killed an enraged lion. One dav, il is re-,
corded, he seized q bull by its hind
feet. and the animal escaped only by
leaving the hoof in the grasp Of the
athlete.
Maurice, Count of Saxony, was
especially noted for the surprising mus
cular power of his hands. On one occa-
sion, needing corkscrew, he twisted a
large iron nail round into the required
shape with his fingers, and opened half
dozen bottles of wine with it, Another
time he picked up q dozen of hoiseshoes.
and with his hands snapped them in two
as readily as if made of glass.
Topham, an Englishman, born in
l7l0, was possessed of astonishing
strength. His armpits, hollow in the
case of ordinary men, were with him
full OF muscles and tendvns He would
take bar Of iron, with its two ends
held in his hands, place the middle Of
the bar behind his neck, and bend the
extremities by main force until they met
together, and bend back the iron
straight again.
Milo six times won the palm at both
Che Olympic and Pythian games. He is
said to have run q mile with four-year-
old OK upon his shoulders, and after
ward killed the animal with one blow of
his fist, and ate the entire carcass in
one day. So great was his muscular
power that he would bind cord around
his head and break it by the swelling
pressure of the veins. An ordinary
meal for Milo was twenty pounds Of
meat, as much bread, and fifteen pints
of wine.
ssrutt, an English authority on games
and amusements, speaks of Yorkshire
jumper named Ireland whose powers
were marvellous. He was six feet high,
and at the age of eighteen leaped, with
out the aid of spring board, over nine
horses ranged side by side.-Brentano,
Herald.
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The Story Of the Shoe.

The modern shoe has been evolved by
succession Of slight notifications and
enlargements out of very simple
primitive covering. In the ages Of stone
and bronze man appears to have pro
tected mis- foot by piece of bark OIL
leather laid under the sole and fastened
in very simple manner about the foot
with straps. Out of this grew the san
dal with its broader and more elaborate
bands, reaching above the ankles, such
as We see il represented in the art OF
ancient Egypt and later. From the
sandal, again, was developed, by the ad-
dition of fine leather below the straps,
as we'll as the broadening of the straps,
the germ of ahe shoe proper, an arrange
ment illustrated by the Greek half-boot.
Tho completion OF this process of de-
velopment was the doing away with
the band and making Of the upper
leather hrmer.-Cornhia Mogazine.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-01-21
Mngnanimity Of a Savage.

Information from the Lower Brule
agency, in Dakota, is that the Brule
Chief Medicine Bull was shot by the
accidental discharge of the revolver of
Mr.. Beveridge. the agency clerk. A
council had been called to discuss the
proposition for a right OF way for the
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul rail
road across the Sioux reservation. Tho
Indians were violently disputing, and
the whites present deemed it prudent
to arm themselves. Beveridge's re-
volver dropped from his pocket and
striking the floor at Medicine Bulls
feet was discharged, infiicting serious
wound. Medicine Bull called his In
dams together and charged them 10
molest no one because of the accident,
and to show his good faith presented
his best horse to Beveridge. He is an
influential chief and did much toward
keeping the Brules at the agency dur
ing the Sitting Bull war.
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Suatyp a Upfa.
Of thousand things that the year snowe

e"'eN ottO
OF thousand things that the year showed
under--
The busy old sear that has gone away
How many viii boom in the spring, wonder
Brought TO lie by the sna OF Msyf
Will the rose tree branches, 90 wholly hidden
That never roso tree seems TO be,
At the sweet springs cali come forth as
hidden,
And bud In beauty and bloom tor thes
win the iair green earth. whose throbbine
bosom
Is hid like maids In her gown at night,
Wake out OF her sleep, and with blade and
Gem her garments to please my sightf
Ovor the knoll, in tho valley yonder,
The loveliest buttercups bloomed and grew ;
When the snow has gone thnt driited them
under, .a
Will they shoot up sunwsrd ani bloom
anewi
When wild winds blew and q sleet-s storm
pelted
L iost loWel Oh l'iceiCss WOItbj
II walk that way when SHOWS have melted
viii the gem CLEAN up from the bare brown
earthl
laid love that was dead or dying
For the'year to bury and hide from sight;
But out If a trance will It waken, crying,
And push to my heart like leaf to the
lightf
Under the snow lie things SO cherished
Hopes. ambitions, and dreams OF men,
Faces that vanished, and trusts that perished-
Never to sparkle or live again.
The old year greedily graspnd his plunder,
And covered it over and hurried away.
Of the thousand things that he hid, wonder
How many will rise at the call OF Mayi
Oh, wise young year, with your hands held
undor
Your mantle OF ermine, tell me, pray'
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-01-21

Some support to the theory that not
the brain alone but the whole nervous sys-
tenn may really be the seat of the mind,
is afforded by Professor o. @. Marsh's
latest researches concerning the extinct
reptiles of the Rocky mountain region.
One mammoth skeleton, belonging to q
creature which he has named Stego-
saurus, must have been clothed with q
body as large as that of an alligator,
while the brain cavity corresponds in
size to that Of dog.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-01-21

The island OF Madeira has no lakes,
ponds or permanently flowing rivers,
owing to the porous nature Of the vol
canic soil.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-01-21
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
MIDpLhBURi.

MIDDLEBURY.
Baptist Meeting in the Court House. Rev. C.
HiDbard, pastor. Sabbath services at 10 AS q. m.
and p. m. sunday school at IL p. m. Prayer
meeting Thursday evening at o'clock.
CongTegati0nat-Corner Pleasant and Main SITS
Rev. 4. T.. Hooker, pastor. Sunday services al
10; 10 Am. and 1900 PM. Thursday evening
Nethodist-North Pleasant-st. Rev. NJ. Il. Mead,
pastor. Sunday services at lO:i6 A. NJ. and
200 Pm. Thursday evening prayer meeting al
7 co. Glass meeting on Friday evening at 80.
Episcopal-St Stephens Church-Mainst Rev.
VIM. j. Tilley, rector. Sunday school at Il
An, Sunday services at 10 :i5 AN. and ;Cop;M.
ninghin, pastor. sunday services, alternate Sab.
batns; High Mass at 10 90 AM; Vespers and
beuediction at 6: 80 Pm.
EAST MIDDLEBURY.
Methodist - pastor. Sunday services
at 2:00PA .-.
yERGENsEs.
Bdpt,st-Rev. David +. Estes, pastor. Sunday
services at l0;45 AM. and 1900 Pm. Weekly
prayer meeting ON Thursday evening at 90.
Methodist-Rev. NJ. A. Wicker, pastor. Sunday
ervices at 900 and 700 Pm. Weekly prayer
meeting on Thursday evening at :0O:
Episcopal-St Paurs Church-Rev. +. s. Fisher,
ector. Sunday services at 10 As AM and 90 Pm.
Friday evening at / 90.
services at lO45 AN. and 1900 Pm. Weekly
prayer meeting on Thursday evening
Romgn Cathonc-Rey p. cunningham, pastor, y:
An; Vespers and benedcton at :00P.N.
Congregdtional-Rev. George f.. Hall, pastor.
Sunday services at IL; 40 AM. and 100 PM Week.
Y prayer meeting on Thursday evening at 7 co.
EIrTON.
CongregdtiOHaI-Rev j. A Deyine, pastor
Sunday services at IL, \. NJ, and o. T. NJ
Thursday evening prayer-meetng at I 90 T. Nj
BRISTOL.
Aartnt--H. u. Quimby, pastor. sunday Servi
ras n nsiS "a audi x n ed
day evening.
6aptist-W. D. Hail. pastor. Sunday services,
10 40 u. M, and 80 p. III. Prayer meeting Tues
day evening.
Gathoiic-P. Cunningham. priest Services once
IN three weeks
Evangelical Adpent--Prayer meeting eyory Fra.
day evening at Elder D. Bosworth's.
.Methodisf- sunday servlceB l0:45 q, m. aud 100
p. m. Thursday evening prayer meeting o3e.
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The wealthy Chinese use ross leaves
to flavor thciI tea, also orange flowers.
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Agent, Al Park Row (Tlmes Building), New
York, is authorized 10 contract for advertisement
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New-York tribune., 1881-09-01

late date fixed for the Convention was regarded as
owing to the Presidents illness, as by that time"
crisis one way or the other"
There was 40 talk of candidates for the State of
hCes: Some members expressed themselves in favor
OF the renoInnat0n of the present State officers,
while others thought the selection OF an entirely
new ticket with names not identified with past diff
State. Pay
OPINIONS OF SOME OF THE COAIAIITTEEMEN.
Senator iIalbert of Binghamton, said: 1--WE
are going along smoothly in our district | am sat
Ished with New-York for the Convention. We will
nave TO put all our strength to the wheel to carry
the State this year. and therefore trust there will
De no references to past differences"
Mr. Vrooman, of Herkimer said EVERY hing
looks well with US With good ticket will
sweep the State this year. The people in dis
trlct however, are so Interested in the Presidents
yet OF he Sfate campaign"
Mr., Root, of James lown, said "TheIe has been a
SighI HsunderStandlng III our district in the nomi
nation of ASSemblymen, hut the committee is to
nset tomorrow to try to settle it, think salts;
Iactory I'M lcrstanding will be reached. We are all
Garfield men, too"
Another member OF the committee said 81 do not
think the selection OF New York for the Convention
the best selection that could have been made 1t is
The work Of Mr.. Conkling. lie has been sounding
members of the committee for week past and
think must be disappointed with his narrow major
lty; yet think if the President lives all will go
vel and we shall carry the State by a rousing ma
JOrity.'
The CALL FOR THE CONVENTION.
The committee issued the following call for the
Convention:
Headquarters REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTEE,
NEWYoRK, Aug. 81, 1881.
A Republican State Convention wi be held at
the City of New-Y0rk on Wednesday, the 9th day
OF t0ber next, at IL O'Clock. a. m., for the pur-
pose OF nominating candidates for State officers and
Tor the transaction of other appropriate business
The several Assembly districts VIII be entitled to
representa- ion according TO the accompanying
schedule pursuant TO resolution of the State Con.
vention, July 8, 1868.
THOMAS c. PLArT,
Chairman pro tenn.
EDWARD NJ. Johnson
JOHN w. VROOMAN Secretaries
HENRY A. GLlDDEN,
New-York tribune., 1881-09-01

The chairman then announced that the Conven-
ton would meet in New-York October at IL
o'clock a.
OTHER BUSINESS TRANSACTED.
MIR. Knapp then moved that when the committee
adjourn il DC to meet at the Fifth Avenue Hotel on
Wednesday, October 5, at o o'clock a. m, which
motion carried
Mr.. Patterson then moved that the matter of the
reorganization of the IVth aud XVIII Districts IN
this city be referred to tho he
publican Central Committee of the city, with
power. This motion also adopted. The ANth
District is now controlled by the friends of Sheri
dan Shook. who is opposed TO what Is Known as tle
"machine." and the Adoption OF TINS reSO. .utOn Is
said to mean reorganization in favor OF tine ma
chine in time 10 control the election OF delegates
to the state Convention The lNth Dlsttlct mas
been III trouble over rival interests for some tnne
On the motion or Mr. Knapp the committee
adop ed the following resolution il regard to the
representation in the Convention to nominate
Senator in the NNNlth District, this having been
yeXed question Tor some years:
Reyoiced,-That the member of this committee from
the AAVIth SoHgressoh Pf VfftS 20 sen
District the fact that rcalr'n az the sense OF
Tile committee the same settlement OF IN
such district as was heretofore recommended py ue
Republican state Committee.
The Committee then adopted the reapporuon-
ment of delegates reported by the secretary, and
adjourned.
THE REAPPoRTIoNAIENT OF DELEGATES.
1t was supposed by some of the members of the
committee that the reapportionment OF delegates
was unicr reSOIutioh "hich icduitou IL ~ "o ''O
upon the vote for Governor The reappOruonment
last year was made under this belief but 1t
proves now to have been q mistake. Secretary q. NJ
Johnson said yesterday in referring to this mat
ter: AT the Convention held in Syracuse July s,
1868, it was decided that the apportonment should
be made upon the vote cast at the Presidential cleo
ton in 1868 and every four years after basis of
delegate each Assembly district, and one add-
tonal delegate for every fifteen hundred votes or
fractional part of fifteen hundred votes more than
seven hundred and fifty Republican votes poled in
such district. The reappOrtionment made last year
was mistake which arose because the Gubernatorlal
election formerly was held at the same time as the
Presidential election. do not thn there will be any
objection 10 the adoption of this new apportonment
for the friends of the Administration certainly lost
votes at the last Gubernatorial election, ana this
will only give them fair representation.
The following is the apportionment as adopted
yesterday, and also that of last year.
New-York tribune., 1881-09-01

RAILROAD INTERESTS.
ANOTHER ELEVATED ROAD s1rTT

John c. Watson, of Boston, yesterday fled
behalf of himself and all other stockholders Of the Man
haitian Railroad against the New York Elevated Rail-
way Company the Metropolitan Railway Company and
john f. Dillon and Amos L. Hopkins, Receivers of the
manhattan Railway Company. The plaintiff is the
owner or 600 shares OF tie Manhattan stock and he
brings bis bill to compel the New York Metropolitan
companies to pay to the Manhattan Company the
amount remaining due and unpaid upon the 900
OF stock issued to the two companies at the
time OF their virtual anaganation under the title Of
tne Manhattan Railway Company The bill
alleges that The Manhattan Company has become utterly
lhsoivent, ITS debts, including taxes, amounting to
%iooooo and its assets being less than $lO0000 It
is aso alleged that the Manhattan Company is operated
Nv q loss on St000 day and that animal deficit ex
.cc,s 3loo'tOo. Tho order JudDn Wesfbroolr
IN the State Court Restraints apputs
o uc iJah company from bringing
.tpci "i te elevated railway
piIgs tlis suiG TO compel them to the
nuhlisttth Coinnany the amount remaining due and
aiu upon the $4,000, 900 issued M the fine Of
& io tlt'iinauoh the receivers of the Manhattan
company pelnS also made defendants.
lHe pl aho charges that the bonds G6 500 600
@ isSt "a IN eI the tripartc agreement the New York
ho tne metropolitan Companies Illegal
il ifdu'iilcht, ana were received by
WI @ ~ kIoWledge that they The bonds
n.tsn fSliWay shares issued them which were dis
tlbned TO the shareholders the two roads IA div
ne hifhhattan shares have since fa Hen in the
y, iocent hodefs The bill asks that the tr
DC declared void, that accounting may be had nndc
elc ielse hat the $l3,0D00 900 in bonds NAV be ey-
up 10 pe cancelled, and that the defendants may be
10 appear and abide all orders and DEGREES OF
New-York tribune., 1881-09-01
TAMM1NY DINO UNCES M0NoPOL1Es

The Tammany Committee on ORGANIZATION
met Tuesday ana directed that the delegation from the
With Assembly District TO the General Committee be re-
organized This is the delegation recently headed bv
Colonel William Il. Roberts, who "dscipinedp out
OF the organization. The question OF opposition to rail-
road and other monOpoies then introduced in tho
form or preamble ana resolutions. The preamble re-
cites that the encroacments of monopocs upon public
rights demand the serious consideration of citizens
ed their duties and eyaded their with the STATE
The accompanying resolutions in substance as FOL
lows ~
ReSolred That the Democratic PARTY by s priocjples
history ana traditions, il competent SUSTAIN
rights OF the people embodied in the constitution and
therefore, IL Is its duty to combat the evils
which are fast concentrating the wealth OF the count,y
ment OF the whole people, that in pursuance of tIis
duty will earnestly strive not only enunciac Urp-
cpIes In Platforms but to embody them laws which
while recognizing the rights OF capital win protect
the public interests; that first step to this end the
Just ana conservative measures recommended the
Hepburn Committee shall be enacted laws: that
our laws relating to the OF money at elections and
chances for detection win be increased and that our
canals To which state ts perltV
sh. DC made Tree and improved ~ that they
the increased competition 20 which they now ex-
posed "
The resolutions were agreed to and recommended 10
the General Committee, which tomorrow night
1of adoption 'e''''
resolution also % that the
commend TO the next Legislature to provide FOR
INTO effect some OF the measures proposed by epalin
inc people OF the State ut the
Tor Railroad commissioners.