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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-08-19

Next Sunday Rev. J. II. Farnsworth will
preach in the Universalst church at .. 30 p n
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-08-19

On Wednesday, the 18th, about 60 of our
good people, from the tottling infant to the
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-08-19
The following reply was sent

To Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Osborne, Eng -
Your maestys kind inquiry finds the Presidents con-
dtion changed for the better In the judgment OF his
medical advisers there strong hope OF his recovery
His mind s entirely clear aud your majestys kind
pressons of sympathy most grateful to him, as
they gratefully acknowledged by me.
(Signed) LUCRETIA II. GARFIELD.
Mrs. Garfield and her children were once
more buoyant with hope. They were greatly
alarmed Tuesday, although Mrs. Garfield did
not allow her apprehensions TO interfere with
her efficiency in the sick room. Marshal Hen
ry of the District of Columbia, just back from
Ohio, says that Garfeld's mother and the rest
of his family still retain their confidence in
his recovery. "We are praying for him, -
said his mother.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-08-19
IN, no ! we give IL as tonic.
Some Hope on Tassday.

The evening bulletin of Tuesday was as
follows; 1.-The Presidents symptoms are still
grave, yet he seems to have lost no ground
during the day, and his condition on the
whole is rather better than yesterday. He
has vomited but once during the afternoon
The enemata are retained. At present his
pulse is 100; temperature $50, and respira-
ton, 10. The vomiting was occAsoned by
shifting the President from his back TO his
side. The matter expelled was entirely wa
ter, of which he had partaken during the day
to relieve his thirst. The condition of the
wound was declared to be satisfactory, the
discharge being ample.
At II P. NJ. the patient was sleeping quiet
ly.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-04-22
Life In the Polnr Regions.

1t is impossible to form an idea of
tempest In the polar seas. The icebergs
are like floating rocks whirled along
rapid current. The huge crystal mount
aims dash against each other. back
ward and forward, bursting each
other with a roar like thunder.
and returning to the charge, until
losing their equilibrium, they tum-
BILE over in cloud of spray, upheaving
the ice-felds, which fall afterward like
the crack of a whip-lash on the boiling
sea. The sea gulls fly away screaming.
and often a black shining whale comes
for an instant putting to the surface.
When the midnight sun grazes the hor-
lion, the floating mountains and the
rocks seem immersed in a wave of beau
tiful purple light. The cold is by no
means so insripportable as Is supposed.
We passed from q heated cabin at 80 deg.
above zero to AZ deg. below zero in the
open air without inconvenience. A
much higher degree of cold becomes,
however, insufferable if there is wind.
At 10 deg. below zero a steam, as from
boiling kettle, rises from the the wat
er. At once frozen by the wind, it falls
i'll fine powder. This phenomenon is
called ice-smoke. At 40 deg the snow
and human bodies also smoke, which
smoke changes at once into millions of
tiny particles, like needles of ice, which
fill the air and make light, continuous
noise, like the rustic of silk. At this
temperature the trunks OF trees burst
with loud report, herocks break up and
the earth vomits smoking water. Knives
break in cutting butter. Cigars go out
by contact with the ice on the beard. To
talk is fatiguing. At night the eyelids
are covered with a crust of ice, which
must be carefully removed before one
can open them.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-04-22
How To Make NJ

To make money is the HABIT If every
bodys ambition. Nobody ro-ts for love
neither do they work for fnn Bnt they
want to make money. and rnoLe It hon
estly. How are we to do tLis9 Some
people have better facilit;as ID better
locatlonsfor making monev ~ -, we have.
That may be very true, bnt Iet II be i'm
pressed upon your minds az necessity
OF making your store attract;ve buy as
close as possible, and be cort1;ai and DO
lite IN manner. People will notice the
former and latter of these ran,,isites more
than anything else. What Il more pleas
ing to customer than ,1eat clean
store, and, above all. a nolite and
accommodating storekeeper5 II is, Of
course, very necessary to spend enough
money to meet your actual requirements,
but never go In debt and see that you
do not spend more than Won make. 1t is
again necessary to carry ON the credit
system TO certain extent When YOU
know a customer to be honest reliable
and trustworthy, credit him Int credit
ing Tom, Dick and Harry will never pay,
and IN the long run you will find it SO.
Somebody that You do not know well
enough to trust, might ask Won to credit
him for twenty-five cents worth of this
or fifty cents worth of that, and will set
tie up with you regularly for a short
time, but he, knowing that he can get
credit from you, viii keep on Increasing
the account until You get anxious and
present the bill, and in three cases out of
four, You will get nothing from him. 1t
is better to sell ten dollars worth of goods
for cash than twenty-five dollars for
credit. Anybody that has been carrying
on a credit business will tell you the
same thing. Above all things, be honest.
If n customer wants pound of this or a
pound that, do not give him a pound and
a quarter or seven-eights of a pound but
give him just one pound, for by giving
him too much, you are chesting your
self, which is Just as sinfb as if You
cheated him Devote your whole time
in pursuit of your business. If you have
any time to spare, devote 1t either to
arranging the goods in your show cases
or upon the shelves, or read something
that will benefit you and your business,
find out where you can buy your goods
the cheapest for cash and go there, no
matter how long You have been buying
from the other man BY doing these
things, your business viii prosper
Neto York Grocer.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-04-22
SCRAPS OF SCIENCE.


Po1Ror recently stated to the French
| Academy that wOrmwood proves remark
ably effective as an insectifuge, driving
away every kind of insect, as well as rat
tlesnakes and other serpents.
A NEW method of reproducing photo
graphs in colors on China will, it is pre-
dicted, completely reyolutionize that art.
1 By the new process a dinner-plate can be
converted into veritable work of art at
a slight expense not one-twentieth of
the cost by the plan of hand-painting.
An invention which must prove of
much importance in architecture and
sculpture has recently been made by DIR.
Gehring of Landshut, Bavaria. By
means of an enameling liquid, he claims
TO be able to render any kind of stone or
cement harder than granite, and gives it
the appearance of any other mineral de-
sired. The enamel may also be applied
to metal, and is said to effectually pre-
serve it from rust.
METEoRoLoGIsrs have found that
United States storms usually advance
from the Upper Mississippi Valleys to-
ward New York and New England, less
frequently toward Virginia, and seldom
toward the Carolinas. American storm
centers most frequently pass off the coast
between ~ and 80 degrees north latitude
The great waves of high barometer, with
fierce northwest winds in their front,
usually advance from the Rocky Noun
tains toward Virginia and the Carolinas.
but less frequently toward New England,
SIC. G. BIGNAMI SoRMANI, of Milan,
finds that the density of snow at time of
falling varies remarkably. During his
observations he has found snow so dense
/ that it weighed over thirty pounds to the
/ cubic foot, being nearly half as heavy as
water, while the liGhtest snow weighed
( by him showed but n trife more than
/ two and half pounds per cubic foot
/ 1t Is assumed that the density of new
/ fallen snow is ordinarily about eighth
| that of water, or, in round numbers
/ eight pounds each cubic foot
NJ. BLERzY describes an interesting
experiment in physics which is readily
/ performed by any person. Place an
/ iron pot full of water on the fire. When
the water is boiling vigorously, remove
/ the pot; then, if the hand be brought
/ into contact with it, only moderate
/ heat Is felt. But Immediately the water
! ceases TO boil, the sensation of burning
/ is received. The only risk attending the
/ experiment, states NJ Blerzy, is that Of
/ blackening ones hand.
DIR. J. HoLETsCHEK has lately given a
review of the worlds knowledge of the
asteroids, or the group of bodies which
revolve in orbits between those of Mars
and Jupiter. OF the 200 planets of this
group which had been discovered W. to
/ July, 1879, So were discovered IN the
{ United States, 60 in France, 2S in Ger
many, II in Austria, Is in Great Britain,
IL in Italy, in Asia, and l in Denmark
Professor Peters, of the Clinton Observa-
tory, has discovered more 800 than any
other single observer. The orbits of 1T
were calculated in Germany, those of As
in the United States, and those of the
others IN Austria, France, England Rus
STA and Sweden. No satisfactory theory
has vet been advanced to account for the
existence of these remarkable little
worlds.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-04-22
The Thugs PeculIarItIes.

81
Promiscuous murder, says an East
Indian correspondent of the Boston Com
haereidt Bulletin, is by no means in
dulged in by the followers of Thuggee;
there are certain classes who may trust
themselves alone with these people and
feel perfectly secure, viz. oil-venders
aud musicians washermen and poets,
blacksmiths and carpenters. Ganges
water-carriers and cripples are among
the protected ones As rule they will
not take the life of woman, though the
temptation of possessing a great booty
win sometimes draw them into it; but
even then it is a AIohammedan who Is
chosen to commit the deed; for the Mo
hammedans as q people have less repug-
nance to shedding blood than the Hin
docs. In committing their murders,
strangulation is the method practiced.
This mode of causing death has become
a part of their religion for two reasons,
apparently; first, it is the most silent
manner. and second it leaves no blood
stain to tell the-tale.
AS | have said before, the son gener-
ally adopts the business and religion OF
his father, and is trained by the father
TO fill position of equal Importance to
his own, but with the Thugs it is little
different as far as the religious teacher
is concerned, as the parent seldom init
ates his child into the most abhorrent
practices of their creed. The child al
first is taken ont by the gang. being LED
tosuppose that the party is simply upon
a trading expedition. After a few
months it is admitted to him that theil
object is robbery; a share of the booty
being allowed him quickly overcome'
the boys scruples, if he has any, which
is very rarely the case.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-04-22
FACTS FOR rae CuRI0uS.

The number of bones in the human
body Is 240. The average number of
teeth Is 30.
THE velocity of the electric waves
through the Atlantic cables is from Z, 600
to 5000 miles per second.
A MAGNET weighing two ounces sus-
tains weight of three pounds two oun-
ces, or twenty-five times its own weight.
The oxygen of the air aids and facilitates
the termination of plants, and seeds
buried so deeply in the ground as to be
out of reach of the action of atmospheric
air viii exhibit no signs of life.
The tiger does not naturally possess,
but easily acquires, a love Of human
flesh. When he has once tasted it, the
spell of mans supremacy Is broken, and
ever after that, 1t is said, he prefers it to
any other.
THE director of the Bureau of Stats
ties at Vienna has made some interesting
researches concerning the comparative
longevity of women and men IN Europe.
He finds that out OF 102, S3l individuals
who have passed the age 30 years, 60, =
303 are women, and only AZ, 52S are men.
In Italy, IA alleged centenarian women
are found for 14I men of that age.
A HOLLOW tree in Southern California
has been converted into dwelling.
Doors and windows have been put in,
and floors built for eight stories, the en-
trance being made by means of a ladder
| Outside the topmost room is a.small bal
cony, shaded by the foliage of the tree.
/ The occupant expects to get rich by
/ having no plumber bills to pay.
VAsco NUNEz DE BALBOA, a Spaniard
| of wonderful courage and adventure,
smuggled himself ON board ship in n
cask, IN order to join m expedition to
! Darien, IN 1910, commanded by Fran
cisco de Encisco He ultimately obtained
n supreme command Of the new colony,
and in 1913 discovered the Pacific ocean
from the top of a mountain on the 18th
mus Of Panama.
a wELL-KNowN Paris scientist, DR.. De
launay, has made the curious discovery
that to ascertain the qualities of an ap.
plicant cook 1t Is sufficient to give her 9
! plate to clean or sauce to make and
watch how she moves her hand in either
act If she move IT from left to right, OF
in the direction Of the hands of a watch,
| you may trust her if In the other way
'l-she Is certain to be stupid and incapa
bic. Similarly the intelligence of PEG
pie may be gagged by asking them tC
make a circle on paper with pencil
and noting in which direction tht
hand is moved. The good student.
in a mathematical class draw circles freu
left to right. The inferiority of tn,
softer sex las well as of male dunces) j.
shown by their drawing from right t.
left asylum patients and children dC
the same. In a word, centrifugal move
ments are CHARACTERISTIC Of intelligence
and higher developments centripeta
are a mark of incomplete evolution. A
person, as his faculties are developed
Z, may come to draw circles the opposit,
way to what he did in youth. DR. De
launay has some further extraordinary
conclusions rs to the relative positions
of races in the scale ofdevelopmentf from
the way they wind their watches anC
make their screws.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-04-22

previous Arrangement sham row at once
began between our boys ana the Pursu.
ers' and so well was the thihg uohe tIas
tne citizens (for every man, woman anu
cIlllo In the village was up P lIcn19 II "
prevent what they thought "oulu NC
sangunnary affray.
Inc burly Justice, seeing 'He '"In ~
,alrs seemed TO be taking, ana eAcI'eu
beyond measure, mounted the morse
block and commanded the peace SO vo-
clieronsly as almost TO be heSrd III tls
adjoining counties OF TINS ota.e anu
kentucky. This restored quiet, our
Dogs protesting TO be lnw-aoldl1g oI'l-
zens. The old man also slnnhere g; Gown,
though he insisted that ne hao 1he IISl t
10 be little out Of humor at the oUys
for robbing him Of his gal, ana sep 4!. IN
gering round and "cussln H''io u"
the outside.
After the row had been squeiched' tne
women Of the village orgSniHeG
search for the lost maiden, WIN we"
of shielding her from the Wra'h Vi INC
irate old man. -.
1t was not long before was oisoGS
cred by one Of them, ana she, "i11
another, made o dash at me. L scut'leu
off as fast as I could, but l 9uhg my
boot in my lawn calico and made per
feet ''shuckin" of it in my haste: 1t tore
nearly off at the waist and split IN two,
and by the time got to the next fence 1
had trail two yards long. had great
trouble in climbing that renee u can
see how a woman can climb fence, no
way: in fact. / half climbed and nall
rolled over, burst the strings round my
waist, ran ont of al the balance OF my
lower female harness threw my bonnet
back on my head, raised the yen' and
almost ran over some more women VINO
were looking for me, and l heard one oil
them say,l as passed 'Lordy, Nate
what ,r1s thafsS : didn't stop to eN-
plain bntlnade good my escape.
Toe vas not to be thus outdone. He
,erse,,,red. and in a short time succeeded
IN citing away with the right Martha
Jase. and the two were made one. But
Mrs. Joe would never speak to me after
Yards. for the reason, [ suppose, that l
came so nigh beating her out of hus-
band.
II was the nearest l ever came to being
married. aud though Joe-doubtless in
stigated by his wife-Gave me a terrible
throshinr some eighteen months after
the escapade, never recall it without
hearty laugh.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-04-22
moNosYLLABLE POEM.

Think not thst strength Hes In the bg round woro,
Or that the brief and plain must needs De weak
To whom can this be true, who once has heard
Tho cry for help, the tongue that all men SPEAK,
When want or woe or fear is al the throat,
So that each word gasped out Is like shrek
Pressed from the heart, or strange, viid note
Sung by some fay OF iend7 There Is strength
Which dies II stretched too far OF spun too nne
Which has height than breadth, more depth
and length.
Let but this force Of thought and speech be mine,
And he that will may take the sleek fat phrase,
hich CLOVIS and burns not, though II CLEAN ana
shine;
Light, but not heat-a flash without blaze.
Nor is II strength that the short word boasts
II serves of more thsn tight or storm 20 tell
The roar Of waves that dash on rOck-bound coasts,
The crash Of tall trees when the wild winds SWELL
The roar Of guns, the groans OF men that die
ON bloOd-stained fields. II hiss voice as well
Fer them that far-of on their sick beds lie,
For them that weep, for them that mourn the
dead,
For them that laugh, and dance, and CLASP the hand
To Joys quick step, as well as griers low tread.
The sweet plain words we learnt at first keep time,
And though the theme be sad, or gay, or grand,
With each, with all. these may be made TO chime,
In thought, speech, or song, or prose, or rhyme
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-04-22
The Fruit.Gromer,s Best Frlend.

Many Of the leading orchard proprie-
tors in Northern Italy and Southern.
Germany are cultivators of the eommon-
black ant, which insect they hold in
high esteem as the fruit-grower's best
friend. They establish ant hills in their
orchards, and leave the police service of
their fruit trees entirely to the tiay col
onists, which pass all theirtime IN climb
ing up the stems of the fruit trees,
cleansing their boughs and leaves of
Indicators, mature as well rs embryotic,
and descending laden with spoils to the
ground, where they comfortably CON
sumo or store away their booty. They
never meddle with sound fruit but only
invade such apples, pears, and plums as
have already been penetrated by the
canker. which they remorselessly pursue
to its Businesses within the rerv heart
of the fruit Nowhere are apple and
pear trees so free from blight aud de-
structive insects, as in the Immediate
neighborhood of a large ant hill five or
six years old. The favorite food of ants
would appear to be the larvse and pupae
of those creatures which spend the whole
of their brief existences in devonring the
tender shoots and juvenile leaves of fruit
trees.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-04-22
ChIcago,s Match.Boxes.

Chicago is ahead of all cities in the
Union in one respect, and that lis IN the
employment of what are called watch
boxes" They have been in use but a
very short time, vet they have so demon
strated their. utility that people now
wonder how they ever got along without
them. They are made of wood, are
either square or sextagonal in shape, are
about three feet IN diameter and seven
feet high, and are provided with tele-
phone locked III a box through slot IN
which runs IA telegraph alarm lever.
Each box is provided with door that is
kept securely locked. The square boxes
are usually fastened TO a telegraph-pole,
while the sextagonal or newer form take
the place Of lamp-post Mt the corner of
a street, the lamp being placed on its
apex. Every member of the police and
fire departments Is furnished with keys
TO the doors OF the watch boxes, and
also with keys to open the boxes con-
tanning the telephones. Any RESPONSE
bic citizen who desires can procure key
to the doors of the watch-bOxes upon
making application at the police head
quarters. Each key is lettered and
numbered, and register of the names
and residences of the parties to whom
they are furnished is kept. The boxes
adiuncts are trim-bUnlt wagons, each
drawn by two good horses. They are
stationed at convenient intervals
throughout the city. Each wagon is
manned by a driver and two policemen.
We Will suppose a citizen Is passing
along the street late Mt night. when he
encounters a gang of drunken roughs
who assault him. There Is no policeman
within call TO assist him, SO the gang.
after pushing and jOstling him about,
go on their way. The citizen goes to the
next corner, takes out hls key and opens
the door of the Matchbox and pulls
down the lever of the telegraph alarm.
Each MATCHBOX has its number and To-
cation recorded, the same as ale fire
alarm boxes. In less than three minutes,
and often in a minute, the wagon Is at
his side with two policemen 10 assist
him. The citizen meanwhile has his key
remaining in the box, for while it throws
the lock-bolt back the same motion Sc
curelv fastens it in the box, and he can
not take it ont until it is released by q
special kew, which is only carried by
police and -firemen. If the citizen Is
badly injured the wagon takes him to his
home or the hospital while the police go
in search of the rutfians who have mo-
slested him. This is only one of the
numberless ways in which the box can
be made useful. 1t is also used by the
police to have drunken or obstreperous.
prisoners taken to the station-houses
without causing the patrolmen to leave
their beats, etc. They not only assist in
the captnre of criminals but, by making
their capture more easy and CERTAIN than
formerly, they prevent many OF them
from committing depredations. In case
of riot or time of great need peculiar
alarm is sounded ON the engine-house
bells, when every policeman in the city
goes to the nearest watch box on his
beat and receives instantaneous tele-
phone orders, telling him where to go
and what toado when he gets there.
These watch boxes only cost 500 set up
ready for use,
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-04-22
The Ginning Mining Expert.

The naodus opera,idi of the learned
Professor and the mining expert sent
here from the East or San Francisco is
about as follows: First, he is paid by the
parties who wish to invest a certain sum,
ranging from $500 to as many thousand
dollars, to examine and make report on
a certain mine on group of mines. Not
satisfied with this. he nsinuates to the
parties who own the property that for
consideration it might be made into a
good mine. He walks over the ground,
or goes through the mine as far as it
may be developed, talks wisely and
Iearnedly about bedded veins, blanket
lodes. silici6us limestone, porphyry, the
Devonian geological age, eruptive rocks,
assures. primary rocks, and schists. If
the owner does not see through the
game and offer handsome bonus Or is
too poor to put up anything, the chances
are that the report. of the expert will be
decidedly unfavorable, and the mine is
left unsold and virtually condemned. =.
Deauer (Col. } L1ter-Ocea,a. "a