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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-10-27

How UNITED STATES PAPER MONEY IS
MADE Recent discussions about the signing
of tue new gold certificates bring into notice
the interesting process of the manufacture of
American paper money. United States notes
are printed on paper made at Dalton, small
town in Massachusetts,, and each blank sheet
of the peculiar paper used is guarded almost
as carefully as if it we're already printed and
signed. The mill in which ii is made is one
of the oldest in the country, having been es-
tablished in colonial times. The grayish pulp,
which is the embryo form of the paper, pass
es between heavy rollers, and, as 1t moves
along, bits of blue and red silk thread are
scattered over its surface. From the pulp
room to the vaults in which it is stored until
it is sent to Washington, it is jealousy watch
ed 1t is carried to Washington in small iron
safes like those used by the express compa-
nies, and some of ii is kept in the treasury
vaults for years, until it is needed. The mere
possession of any of this paper by an unau-
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-10-27

SHOT FIVE MEN IN FIVE MINUTES. 1t
does not seem to be generally known that
Dallas Studenmeyer, United States marshal,
who was recently killed at Ell Paso, is the
same man who achieved such notoriety few
months ago by killing five men in as many
minutes. The circumstances as then related
are about as follows Studenmeyer had been
elected marshal of Ell Paso, and the day after
the result was declared the ex-marshal and
four of his friends came suddenly upon him
while he was sitting in front of the Ell Paso
hotel and opened fire with shot guns and six
shooters. Studenmeyer jumped up, and,
drawing his pistols, shot every one of them
squarely through the heart, killing the whole
five instantly, except ,he ex-marshal, who
lived an hour. Things were made so uncom-
fortably warm for him that he had to leave
Ell Paso. The Mail gets these facts from an
eye witness. StudeDmeyer wandered around
the country, visiting Galveston, Brenham,
Fort Worth, Laredo and other points, aud
finally went back to his death. He is describ-
ed as a medium. sized man, very quiet and not
easily aroused; but he was invariably on hand
when wanted. He was held in dread by the
desperadoes, and his loss is universally re-
GREETED by his fellow officers Ga!UestOn
Mail
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-10-27

A speed of so miles an hour was recently
attained over a 10 miles stretch by an express
train on the Boston and Providence road
A cat knocked loaded pistol from shelf
in Louisville, Ky, on Tuesday. The pistol
was discharged when it struck the floor, and
the ball pierced the heart of little child play
ing with his toys
-"How will this do for the centre of Main
street p said ono man, pointing to lone tree
in Texas prairie on September 10, 1872.
Denison, town of seven thousand inhabi-
tants, now surrounds the spot.
"A boy only ten years old, in the industrial
school at Feltham, Eng, deliberately hung
himself last month because the master pre-
vented him from bursting frog which he
had skillfully inflated with blowpipe.
The church of Latter Day Saints sent out
from Salt Lake City, last week. 80 bishops to
make proselyting tour of Norway, Sweden
and Denmark, some of them passing through
England and Scotland.
The Philharmonic orchestra of New York
has adopted the European low concert pitch,
or reformed diapason, and its adoption will
probably become general in this country.
The pitch is about semi tone below the COM
mon pitch and is the same to which Bee
thoven and Mozart were accustomed. The
French pitch, which ID substantially the same
as the German, fixes @ of the treble at 522
vibrations. Ordinarily the change will not
be noticed, but it win be Of great advantage
to the voice, and in instrumental music will
add fullness, solidity and softness of tone.
-Rookport, N. Y, has recently been the
scene of extraordinary kite-hying. A doctor
was boasting of what be could do in that line,
when two lawyers offered to furnish him with
the string if he would repeat what he claimed
to have done. Their offer was accepted, and
he required them to procure 5000 feet of rope
three-eighths of an inch in diameter. He
made his kite frame of lumber two inches
wide and half an inch thick, and covered il
with Manila paper, Its area was nearly two
hundred and fifty square feet. The monster
rose lightly till all the rope had been paid out,
and fioated at the height of over half mile,
until it was hauled down by running the rope
under pulley and hitching horse to it.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-10-27

WHAT GLOVES ARE MADE OF.-The mate
rials employed in the manufacture of gloves
are very numerous, and are by no means al
ways what they seem. Kid gloves can be
manufactured of skin which no kid would
own, and calfskin, dogskin and lambskin all
play an important part in this industry. I'm
questionably kid is the only superfne mate
rial used, and great interest attaches to the
breeding of the animals whose skins are de-
voted to this purpose. They are never allow
ed to be fed or to eat grass, and as soon as
they cease to sucklo are killed, that no gross
element may enter into and mar the texture
of the skin. The dressed skin is then as fine
throughout as that with which the most cost
ly kid gloves have familiarized us. Experts
in leather can at once detect the real baby"
kid, as we may call il, from that which has
belonged to a grass-feeding animal. All eath
ers used in making gloves are imported, eth
or in a dressed or undressed condition gen
orally the former. Here they are dyed, and
a very large domestic trade is now growing
up which bids fair in time to interfere seri-
ously with the importation even of French
gloves But the finest kinds of domestic
make are little, if any, cheaper than those
which find their way from Paris; for, the
material being imported and labor expensive,
- and s. pair represent the prices asked
and obtained.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-10-27

Jesse, one of the Lies Encroyabes, broth
ers, now playing with the kiralfys, has been
interrogated as to the system of training for
first class contortion acts The reader will no
doubt be surprised to learn that no rubbing of
the joints with buzzsrds' grease or sleeping
between oil-bankets is necessary, and that
genuine ease and proficiency can be acquired
only by long practice. Mr.. Jesse, who is now
in his 2Sth year. has had 22 years experience,
having been appronticed to John Wilson, a
well-known circus man of California, at the
age of six years. At the time he began to
learn he was only an ordinary boy, not at all
remarkable either for strength or agility.
When his four years Of apprenticeship had
expired he was pronounced a fair contortion-
ist and offered good salary by Wilson. At
this time he was able to do ''easy kicking" "
and by continuing the exercise has been able
to acquire astonishing powers The contor-
zionist, he says, is never allowed to do any
heavy lifting or jumping, because such exer-
else contracts and stiffens the joints.
"To be able to tickle your ear with your
toe, said he, you have only TO take about
two hours practice daily for four or five years,
and it is best to begin early" The boy who
begins to learn is put through every exercise
that will make the joints timber without cre-
atiug muscle. One of the first things be is
made to do is to take the foot in the hand,
lift it up, and pull the leg toward the body.
When this is done daily for ten years he be-
comes a fair contortionst, and to succeed af-
ter the business is learned man must keep
sober. Whiskey and beer stiffen the joints.
1t is also held TO be bad idea to eat peanuts
and other indigestibie food. In the third act
Of BLACK Crook" where the three perform
ers named appear, most of what is done is
called easy kicking'-that is, kicking over
heads Hard kicking consists in throwing
the leg along the back and Otherwise putting
the joints to an unnatural strain. While the
gyrations and contortons of this act are fair
ly bewildering to the spectators, they are not
difficult to the actors, though the work is very
exhausting in its nature. The ease and grace
which characterize their movements are the
result of years of training, and cannot be ac-
quired in short time by the aid Of any balm
Or ointment Ennvp
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-10-27

No doubt that one of the most potent short
eners of life is anxiety Some men leada life
of constant care in providing for bare subsist-
ence, others in protecting the abundance they
have. In either case the habit is an unprofit-
able one. In adversely there is nothing gained
by fretting, and the man of wealth need not
borrow trouble. But the habit is one readily
acquired, and grows rapidly unless sternly re-
pressed. The best way to overcome it is
always to look on the cheerful side of any
thing. Act your part well; be thrifty, indus
trious, courageous, remembering that ''suth-
cient unto the day is the evil thereof" and
coroding care will seek other companion
ship
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-10-27
NEW LONDON NORTHERN RAILROAD

TRAINS LEAVE BRATTLERORo AS FOLLOWS
Going south.
4:20 a. for South vernon, Springfield, Miller q
Falls, Fitchburg, Boston, and all stations the
New London Northern railroad. Sundays, only
connects for Springfield. Mondays, starts from
Millers Falls, leaving there at :O5 a. m.
10000 a. M, for Conn. River II. r., Millers Falls
Palmer, Fitchburg, Boston, Hoosac Tunnel &c.
$3.50 p. m mail for New York, &c, via Springfield.
4:45 p. M, steamboat train for New London and ais
for Conn. River r. II,
Going North.
TrAinsarrive in Brattleboro-
10 :26 q. m, from New London and New York.
II :48 p. M from Millers Falls HOosac Tunnel Bos-
ton, Fitchburg, &c.
4:2O pm from New London.
5:47 p. M, from Springfield, New York, &c.
10:ll PM. from Boston, Worcester, Hoosac Tunnel
and all stations on New London Northern road,
and from Springfield, New York, sc.
@. W. BENTLEY, Gen. Supt.
New london. Conn. Oct. LIST. 1852.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-10-27

VERMONT Valley RAILROAD.

r.I.ss O ttaas l1'i dn tnisPcaS ssPt 2S ri s1
sG5ifS@177 = iesi7@h leave BnATTLEBoRo for all
points North at 10 $50 a. m d..
6 100 and 10 80 pm.
The 1920 p M. train is express for MontroRl via
White River Juncuon) with sleeping car attached.
The 10:3Oa. m. train Is mail train for Montpelier,
st. Adams, Rutland, Burlington, Montreal, the Pas.
sumpsic road and the White Mountains
The 600 pm. train is mail train for White River
junction and Rutland.
Trains leave BELLOWS FALLS for the South, con %
Meeting with the Connecticut River line at Brattlebo-
ro, follows; Montreal express train at 80 a. m
mail and accommodation, 40 q. m. ; afternoon ex-
press 4 100 p. m.
The 80 a. m. train arrives in New York at IL 100
IN. ; the 9:lO a. m. train at :45 p. m.
AUthcse traius make close conn ection with Boston
Albany Il. r., both east and west Of Springfield.
% ]. MuLLIaAN. Superintendent.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-10-27

If young lady bids you take heart, it is
by no means certain that you can take hers.
Many man wrecks himself with his best
impulses, but he reserves his worst ones for
the use of his friends.
If it is really true that the good die young,
it helps to reconcile man TO the fact that he
is considerable of a sinner.
Ben Franklin said that soft words butter
no parsnips, but they have helped elect many
a man to office for all that.
''He that loses his spirits loseth all l' mourn
fully exclaimed Jeems, as he dropped bottle
of whiskey on the pavement.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-10-27

INTERESTING FACTS FROM THE CENSUS.
At the meeting Of the American statistical
association recently, Gen. Francis A. Walker
presented a highly interesting paper on the
nativities of the population of the United
States, in which he showed from the tables of
the census of 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880 that
the Irish have relatively decreased during the
thirty years. so that, whereas in 1850 they
formed 43. > per cent, of the total foreign pop
ulation, they now form but 27.76 per cent
They form 3. per cent of the total population.
The English, Scotch and Welsh have main
tanned their proportion during the three dec
ades and the Scandinavians and British
Americans have greatly increased the British
Americans now forming nearly IL per cent.
of the total foreign population. In 1850 the
Germans formed nearly one-third the total
foreign population; in 1880 they formed 90
per cent of the total foreign population,
showing a slight decrease in the decade.
Gen. Walker also exhibited the striking pha-
ses of interstate immigration, showing that
nearly % per cent. Of the native-born popula-
ton are living in States and Territories other
than those in which they were born, and that
nearly as many more have moved from their
native towns and counties, but without leav-
ing their State. Illinois, Missouri, Kansas,
Iowa and Tennessee lead in this category in
the order named. New York is the tenth
State. During the last ten years, it also ap-
pears, there has not been any material change
in the city-ward movement of the native pop
ulation from the states and territories. The
only exception, in the case of forty five cities,
is Chicago. Ninety-f five per cent. of the pop
ulation of Richmond are native, and other
Southern cities exhibit similarly large pro-
portion. In the case of Boston the proper
tion is 73 per cent, and of these 81 per cent.
were born in Massachusetts
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-10-27

PROVISIONING A STEAMSHIP. Three thous-
and five hundred pounds of butter 5000
hams, 900 pounds biscuits-not those sup
piled to the crew; 1000 pounds of dessert
stores" muscatols, almonds, figs, ETC., exclu-
sive of fresh fruits, which are taken in at
every port; l, 800 pounds of jams and jelles,
G,OOO pounds of timed meats, 1000 pounds
Of dried beans, 3, 600 pounds of rice, 5000
pounds of onions, 40 tons of potatoes, GO, 900
pounds of -four and 20, 600 eggs Fresh veg
etables, dead meat, and live bullocks, sheep,
pigs geese, turkeys, guinea birds, ducks,
fowls fish, and casual game, are generally
supplied at each port of call, or replenished
at the further end of the journey, so that it is
difficult to obtain complete estimates of them.
Perhaps two dozen bullocks and 60 sheep
would be fair average for the whole voyage,
and the rest may be inferred in proportion.
The writer has known % fowls sacrificed in a
single day to make chicken broth. We,
therefore, shan't starye, even if We are day
or two behind time, which is considered a
great enormity now. The mention of chick
en- broth suggests sea. sickness, and sea-sick-
ness conjures up the doctor, and with tine
doctor is associated medicine. His dispensary
is as well furnished with drugs as any chem
lists shop in country town, and when we
observe that, among other things, it contains
- ounces of quinine, 1 gallons Of black
draught, 20 pounds of Seidlitz powders, a
gallon of castor. oil, and half a hundred-weight
of EPSON salts, it is evident that if the sick
people do not get well it is from no lack of
physic. Four thousand sheets, 1000 blank
cts, 5000 towels 1000 pounds of various
soaps, 1000 pounds of candes-except in
those vessels which are fitted with the electric
light 1000 knives 200 plates 900 cups
and saucers, 5000 glasses-fancy what a
handsome income the amount represented by
annual loss from breakage would be 500
figures exhibited in the provedoring of one
ship alone Think what they would amount
up to when multiplied by the number of ships
in each company's fleet, and then try to real
ize the fact that this department constitutes
only one, and by no means the greatest, of
their incidental expenses. ChamberS's Jour
nal
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-10-27
GEO. E. GREENE, Druggist,
Agent for BrattIebOrO,

OUR HOTEL is now open for the season. EH-
cellent appointments aud catering. JOHN LINDSEY
& SON, Proprietors, North Auburn, Me. sl-Is
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-10-27
AM RESTORED To HEALTH,

From drinking Auburn water, and thank God for It.
l have gained Is pounds since at the Lake Auburn
Hotel aud am cured of constipation aud kidney aec-
tion. ]. W. BROWN,
Oak street Boston
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-10-27

AuJnn Water aoW 6edutity your skin,
restore youthful aotigity, cure Brights Disease
fthe Kidneys, Diabetes, Constipation, Deaf
ness and Dyspepsia.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-10-27
LAKE AUBURN
Mineral Spring Water

Has cured me of bad breaking out Of pimples on
my hands aud face. say this that others may know
Of its blessing. LIZZIE HERRICK,
LyndeborO, N. H.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-10-27
Lake Auburn Mineral Spring Water
HAS SAVED my LIFE.

had what feared 10 be Bright's Disease Of the Kid
ney's. am well row. GEO. l. CUSHING
Alderman Of Lowell, Mass
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-10-27
HAVE BEEN CURED

OF terrible pains in my kidneys and back from using
Auburn water. cannot live without it.
f. +. KELLEY, Lowell, Mass
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-10-27

az nSA per day at home. Sample worth So free
DO 10 DIV Address sTIRsoE Co., Portland, Me
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-10-27

BRArTLEBoRo VT, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1882
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-11-04
Singing Horses.

To cureGthe dangerous habit of soaring
at any new object, the Oregon Farmer
says MY plan when riding horse, and
he scares at any object along the road, is to
speak to him kindly. Then stop him as
soon9as convenient Let him stand and
take a good look at,the object he scared at,
then give him few gentle strokes on the
neck with the hand and coax him up to the
object DO not whip him nor urge him
TOO hard at first; but give him to see that
he Is not going to be hurt. Then have
him 20 up and smell of the object-if it is
not a dead animal or some other offensive
thing. When this has been done few
times his confidence in his master and him
self has been gained. | find he viii soon
stop if he sees anything he does not under
stand. Some viii say they do not want a
horse to STOP lie viii not stop many
times, for he will soon learn that he is not
going to be hurt, and will not scare. /
find that some horses scare from having
their foretcps hanging over their eyes,
which gives objects the appearance of NOV
ing.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-11-04
Milking Qualities.

A copious flow of milk, sustained through
many months, is quality which has been
produced by art in donfestication. Wild
cattle rarely provide more than enough
milk to rear their own offspring, and the
flow of is of comparatively short dura-
ton. Small in volume, the milk is rich in
quality, but the tactical organs soon dry off
again. This, of course, is in harmony with
the requirements of the young animals In
a wild state, and is a correlation of the
rowing life and the haphazard feeding of the
dams. More milk than the calf requires
under such conditions would be a waste Of
material energy which nature does not en-
courage. 1t would, moreover, be an en-
cumbrance to the mother Wild cattle are
neither good mixers nor good fatteners,
and in parts of England where calves are
allowed to run with their domesticated
dams generation after generation, the breed
of such animals is not famous for milk-giv-
ing. Like that of the mare and eve, the
milk is smaller in quantity, rich in quality,
and of short duration. The desultory and
irregular sucking of calf or foal or lamb
is not conducive to the development of a
large flow of milk, and it distinctly tends
to shorten the flow. Hand milking of a
similar character has the same effect
Young people are allowed to learn how to
milk on COWS which are going dry for calv-
ing, not on those which are still in full flow
New beginners soon dry up a cows milk,
and bad mixers do the same. Heavy
milking properties, then, are artificial, in
the sense that they have been developed
under domestication, and, by careful breed
ing, for given end; yet, like many other
qualities, which are little more than mere
germs in nature, they become hereditary
by long usage. Few sorts of animals, if
any, are more susceptible than cattle of
being moulded into what we want no ply
steal quality is SO easily trained and devel-
oped as that of giving milk. 1t is func-
ton which, constantly varying of itself,
can be dwarfed or extended at will. By
means of intelligent training, kind treat
ment and intelligent breeding, it can be
developed and made hereditary; an oppo-
site system keeps it in state of nature.
The nature of COW and the food she re-
ceives have great deal to do with her
milking powers; quick and silent hand
milking does the rest. The practice OF
hand milking COWS has all along tended
greatly to the development of the tactical
glands, and this development has become
hereditary in our best milking breeds. The
ewes of the Larzac breed of sheep, from
whose milk the famous Roquefort cheese
is made in France, have been hand MIXED
for generations, SO that their milking pro-
perties are now considerable and inherited
By repeatedly exciting the teats it is even
possible to cause an animal that has never
borne offspring to yield small quantity Of
milk, and cow sometimes remains barreh
several years after having had calf, Civ
ing profitable quantity of milk all the
while London Lire Stock Journal c-s