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The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-07-13
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Asimitting the Arctic ocean to be
open navisable, and thst navigator
had made q circle and sailed around
both continents, this fact would not
prove the earth round, any moro than
you leaving your Office and travelling
around the four squares leading to and
from it and arriving at the same start
ing point would prove the ground and
houses composing said block round and
revolving. ID
The six divisions composing the
earth represent six persons lying on
their backs in q vast body Of water
with their faces upturned TO the sky !;
North America-A man on his back,
his head pointing north, his feet south !;
South America His wife on her back,
her head pointing to his feet; her long
hair, resembling Mary Magdalen's at the
foot Of the cross, twisted around his
feet representing tls Isthmus Of pAaa-
ma. connecting North and South Amer
ica. Three thousand miles distant to
the east, Europe, another man, lying ON
hts back head pointing sane. ~ their
feet sAfdcas q negro, his short hair
leaving space between his head and
their feet representing the Straihu Of
Gibraltar thai. separates Europe from
Africa.
To the southeast another man lying
alone (Australia). his head pointing to
the north, his feet south. To make
these ak persons round and revolving,
the left hand Of Australia should grasp
the right hand Of North America. There
are but two why's Of doing it: First, to
bend the earth outward, downward and
under second, to bend inward, upward
and across. You must either put the
continents back to back, or face to face.
In the first position, you would have a
continent turned upside down, which
common sense will teach you cannot be
the case. .r..s. ..s.,.
In the other, you would have the in
habitants of the two continents like
Harry Bobs, bobbing their heads against
each other. If you would keep travel
ing west from Bethlehem, and George
W. Childs, ESQ.,, east from Long Branch
until you would reach your offices, you
would never get there. When Gen.
Grant was in Pekin, he was in the same
position as the Irishman in Cork. He
was in Pekin's own town, head upand the
sky over him. No difference where you
go on earth, you are standing on your
feet, head up und sky over you-proves
the earth fiat. See Measrs. Eaton and
Hiles, Of the Washington, Richie and
Campbell, of Western schools.
OKane, in Philadelphia Times.
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MANAGRNEEr OF SICK CHILDREN.
The vicissitudes necessarily incident
toan outdoor and primitive mode Of life
are never the FIRST causes Of any disease,
though they may sometimes betray its
presence. Bronchitis, nowadays per-
haps the most frequent Of all infantile
diseases, makes no exception to this
rule; q draught Of cold air may reveal the
latent progress Of the disorder, but its
cause is long confinement in vitiated
and overheated atmosphere, and its
proper remedy ventilation and amid,
phlegm-loosening (saccharine) diet,
warm sweet milk. sweet oatmeal por-
ridge or honey-water. Select an airy
bedroom and do not be afraid to open
the windows; among the children Of
the Indian tribes who brave in open
tents the terrible winters Of the Hudson
Bay territory, bronchitis, Group and
diphtheria are wholly unknown; and
what We call /" taking cold might often
be more correctly described as taking
hot; glowing stoves, and even open fires
in . night-nnrsery, greatly aggrsvate
the pernicious effscts of an impure at
mosphere. The first paroxysm Of Group
can be promptly relieved. by very sim
pie remedies /; fresh air and rapid for
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-07-13
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Citing the $50, OOO, 900 Of silk fabrics
produced in this country, Consul Peix-
otto. writing from Lyons, remarks that
we have not . single ailk flsture worthy
Of the name, and are dependent entirely
upon Europe and Asia Tor the raw ma
terial. There are two questions: Can
We raise silk? And con we reel it? The
first has already been answered. because,
having ascertained that the mulberry
will do we'll in this country, ability to
raise the worm follows. As TO reeling,
the impossibiity Of competing by hand
labor with 80 cents aday paid Europe
for reeling and 6 to 10 cents in China
and, Japan is evidently hopeless. Ma
chinsry must find the way ont Of the
problem, il there is any. An American
engineer, who "beheved it possible to
invent machinery which, by the use and
application Of electricity. would not only
EeEcome existing difficulties and pro-
Aace . superior quality Of thread, but
solve at the, Same time the all-important
labor question, and render silk-reeling
in the United States as possible and
profitable as anywhere else in the
world." has been studying the subject in
Europe. and Mr.. Peixotto thinks he has
been successful. The decline in French
flatures he ascribes to inferior crops,
decreased consumption of pure silk
goods. superiority Of italian fla
tu,es, and competition in China and
Japan. The picture in his minds eye is
the successful establishment here of
every branch Of silk industry, from the
leaf to the perfected fabric, and he fiat
ters himself that what the cotton gin has
done for cotton this new invention
(Which, he does not describe) may do for
silk, and that this country may accom-
plish in silk allit has accomplished in cot
ton fabrics. There has been marked
cheapening Of silk already. very fair
black fabrics now being obtainable at
retail for $l.50, which would have cost
$225 fifteen years ago, and this is not
quite all ascribed to appreciation OF
currency. Of all textile materials, silk is
the warmest, the lightest relative to
warmth, the most flexible and most agree
able to the body, far the strongest, and
is incomparably superior i'll respect to
dyeing and facility Of weaving. To have
the material produced in this country
would probably be of some advantage
to the mills, and. although the picture
presented here is sperhsps too fattering, it
has an interest as suggesting pleasant |
possibility, for silks may not always be |
the rare fabrics they now are.
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QUEER s0OlEz1ss LS,x1R4x..

QUEER SOO1EILESsLN,IlRAN.
Fashion has shown ~ some strange
yagaries ID Japan. Fi1st lshs 41ed hen
attention on pigs, then On. rabbits, then
ON roses, then on speeds, and now she
is all for societies. Some societies there
are which. through good or III report,
have come 70 occupy niche in the tom
Pic OF notoriety, as for example, the 30
ciety Of Protesters in Tosa, the Society
OF Patriots in Osaka. the Society Of 10y
aiists in Kaga. the Friendly Brothers OF
Toxic, etc. All these re intelligible,
though sometimes NOT Intelligent, asso-
Citations, aiming at some utilitariau, phil.
aosophical or political. eeal, but Of late
there have sprung up here and there
strange brotherhoods with strange pur-
poses snd strange titles. Thus we have
had the Fall Together Society and the
Pauper brotherhood Of Nestori Project
ure, as we'll as the Seaweed Society Of
Wahayama, SO called bec6nsa its MEM
bers-eloct, for the sake Of distinction or
necessity, clothe themselves in Investments
tattered like. tho /" ragged wrack Of the
yeasty brine" - "
Quaintest and most melancholy Of Ill,
however, is the latest social excrescence
Of Kumamoto. the society Of sekannihi-
lation. The principles Of it's constitu-
tion are three ~ That its members
must have no private capital, floating or
fixed (2) that they must look to moth
ing but their own right arms to support
and protect them; and o. that they
must be in session every day Of the 365,
the purposes Of their session being to say
what they please, eat and drink as much
as they like, sleep when they fancy and
concern themselves about nothing that
does not affect them personally. Some
suggest that this is revival Of the old
Buddhist doctrine Of practical Nirvana,
but it seems very much more likely that
these self-annihilators are disciples of
Russian Nihilism, and that they
consist of youths formerly afiliat-
ed to the notorious "Brea.h Of
God Society,"" which gave the au-
thorities 80 much trouble at the time of
the Satsuma rebellion. The aDlatus del
from which these gentry borrowed their
title was the tornado that shattered to
pieces the great Chinese armada off the
coast of Chikuzen in the time of the
Yuen Emperors. It was in fact bar
MISUNDERSTANDING blast. and those
who called themselves by it's name were
the head and front Of the anti-foreign
agitation. With them were associated
the Household Divinity sect, who, as
their name implies, were equally conser-
vative. Little, if any, of this spirit now
remains, and it would be extrsvagant to
fancy that it has inspired the self-anni.
hilators of Kumamoto. They do but
one Of those unhappy phases
into which the unemployed ami almost
energy Of the disinhcrited
was bound to drift. Let us
hope that they will work no more evil
thad their title suggests. Japan Mail
N ~
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A NEW MOTHER sHIproN.

A NEW MOTHER sHIPToN,
When lawyers fail to take fee,
And juries never disagree;
When politicians are content,
And landlords don't collect their rent;
When parties smash all the machines,
And Boston folks give up the beans;
When naughty children all die young,
And girls are born without tongue;
When ladies don't take time to hop,
And ofiice-holders never flop;
When preachers cut their sermons short,
And all folks to the church resort;
" IN back subscribers all have paid,
And editors have fortunes made;
Such happiness viii sure portend
This worh iunst soon come 20 an end.
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PLEASANTRIES.

a 1ooD housewifs's affairs arc like a
motion to adjourn" always in order"
Why are seeds, when sown, like cato
posts? They are planted in the earth to
propagate.
AwoMAN who has four sons, oil sailors,
compares herself with year, because
she has four seasons.
What constitutes revolution Of the
earth? First comes the spring, then
the summer set and the fall. Needless
to go winter further details.
IF red is adopted as the fashionable
color in cities like New Orleans, where
cattle are allowed to roam the streets,
gored dresses will come into general use.
-Picoyune.
THERE is only slight difference be-
tween c hand-organ and an accordion.
One is worked with q crank, and the
other generally by q "crank. - Yoak-
srs StatesDaIn. -
An exchange says "There Is no
royal road to raasrinany." Correct;
both King and pauper have TO walk
right up to the Captains office and in
terview the old man.
"WHo, inquiries the Oil City Derrick,
in loud voice" who ever heard Of
self-made woman?" We have heard Of
hundreds Of them-made up almost en-.
tirely by themselves.
IT Is said that kerosene will remove
stains from furniture. 1t has also been
known, to remove the furniture, stains
and all, with the stove and red-headed
servant thrown in ofttimes.
A YOUNG lady at an examination in
grammar was asked "why the noun
bachelor was singular" She replied
Immediately, "Because it is very singu-
lar they don't get married"
"pLL never starve, my DEAR" he said =
Unto his rural BRIDE II
As through the garden-walk the two IA,
Were strolling side by side. ':3sa
The little farmers girl looked up -,
And "Why? she archly said :
"Because" quoth he, "fn you have
little hoe-maid bred.n
JOSH BILLINGS says: "I haven't
much doubt but that man sprang from
the monkey, but what bothers me is
where the monkey sprang from"
Why, Josh, monkeys spring from trees.
1t is astonishing that man of your per-
ception should never have noticed this
fact.
A WITNESS being interrogated as to
whether the defendant in the case was
drunk, replied: "Well, I can't say
that exactly, but I saw him sitting in
the middle of the floor, making grabs at
the air and saying he'd be whipped if
he didn't catch the bed the next time it
ran round him.
A LONDON newspaper says that short
honeymoons are in fashion now. Some
brides are contented with three days re-
tirement. A few extend the period to q
week. A whole month is hopelessly old
fashioned. No one thinks of such q
thing in these fast-goins times. The
pace is too great.
".MY brethren" aid Western minis
ter, =" the preaching of the gospel to
some people is like pouring water over
sponge-it soaks in and stays. Toothers
it is like the wind blowing througha
chicken coop. NJ. experience Of this
is that it contains more
chicken coops than sponges.
SOME one took Charlie up and asked
him if he was his papa's boy. He an
swered, "Yes." "And your mammals
boy, too?" eyes," replied Charlie.
" Well, how can you be papa's boy and
both at the same timer"
"Oh," replied Charlie, quite indiffer-
entity, "can't a wagon have two horsesP"
NEW MOTHER sHIproy
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WHOEVER is an imitator by nature,
choice or necessity has nothing stable;
the fexibility which affords this apti-
tude is inconsistent with strength.
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Marriage notices and deaths, pot ex
ceeding six lines, published free. al
oyer SIX lines charged for at regular ad
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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-12-04
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

J. J. Flint, Vermont boy, raised 12,-
900 bushels of potatoes at Jamestown,
Oak, this season.
The Washington Capital says Senator
Edmunds is good man to keep in
mind when you are figuring the next pres
idency.
Walter Barney, II years old, was ar
rested recently at Swanton for breaking
into the stores of A. c. Barnes and B. c.
Sheldon. He has confessed
Lake Champlain is frozen over between
Whitehall and Crown Point, and naviga-
tion of the canal is about closed. The
New York & Lake Champlain Trans
portation company.s steamers are all in
and laid up, excepting one.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. d. Alfred of Fairfax
celebrated their golden wedding one
evening recently by receiving large num-
Der of the old inhabitants The average
age of those present was about seventy,
and all were beautifully entertained.
Hon. j. A. Page and wife and F. w.
Bancroft and Mrs. Bancroft start We'd
nesday for stay of six months in Cali
fornia. A large party from New England
will spend the winter at the same place
Monterey, and pleasant winter is antic
| ipated
Moulton Brothers of Randolph have
bought six more Jerseys, paying about
| So, ZOO for them. This makes nearly fifty
registered stock at the Green Mountain
stock farm. Last year the MoultoI
Brothers sold about 81 900 worth of but
ter month from forty COWS and heifers.
Mr.. H. N. Newell, the popular clerk o
the last two houses, has been assigned by
the pension department to duty in Esse,
and Clinton counties, New York, will
headquarters at Plattsburgh, with sal
airy of $4,000. He will go to Plattsburgl
at once. His many friends will be pleas
ed to learn of his success.
Several droveS of cattle, consisting o
yearlings, two-year-olds, and dry COWS
have been driven to Vergennes from tn
northern part of Vermont and from Can
ada, and find ready sale; cows at S25 ant
$50 head, and other stock at from 3
cents to cents per pound, live weight
Several thousand head, principally two
years-old, were bought during the pas
month by the Champlain valley farmer
for ''wintering."
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-12-04

finite jest on the part of their fellow
members, and it is loosely suggest
ed to be device of the democracy
to spike republican.gun.
The committee on debentures met
in the treasurer's office Tuesday
morning and received their pay roll.
The total debentures (mileage and
per diem) of the session of the gen.
eral assembly is s54, O34.70. The
incidental expenses of the session are
at least $4,000 additional, making
the total cost of the session $50, 900.
The member from Readsboro, having
the largest mileage, received the
largest amout, except the presiding
officers. The member from Mont
pelier, having the least mileage, re-
ceiyed the smallest amount.
Governor Barstow has re-appoint-
ed Hon. Wendell P. Rice superinten-
dent of the state prison and Hon.
George A. Eayers superintendent of
the house of correction. These gen
tlemen have proved themselves well
fitted for the peculiar duties of their
positions and the action of the gov
ernor will meet with hearty approba-
ton.
Of the 666 bills introduced this
session, 273 have become laws, leav-
1913 as the total number of Deaths
In 1880 there were 700 bills introduce
ed, of which 2S8 became laws and
412 were consigned to oblivion.
The new board of agriculture which
has been nominated by the governor
is as follows: Hiram A. Cutting of
Lunenburg, c. r. Pember of Wells,
Edwin r. Town of Franklin, Marvin
w. Davis of estminster, Elan E.
Goodwin of Hartland, Henry Lane
of Cornwall.
Mr.. Childs' bill to provide for a
general license liquor law, met with
an i9nominious death in the house
Monday evening. 1t seemed to lack
any visible means of support.
House bill 1874, the bill providing
| that the governor, secretary of state
and auditor of accounts be COM
mission with full power to contract
for the state printing, passed botf
branches.
The newspapers throughout the
state will hereafter receive 81. 80 pei
hundred for circulating the laws in
stead of $25 each, without regard tt
the size of their lists. The cost tt
the state is almost the same as be
fore, but it is now distributed NOR,
| justly. This act is good one.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-12-04
ADJOURN ED.

The Legislature adjourned on
Wednesday morning. The record
shows that the session has been a
very busy one, and the work complet-
ed has been of considerable import
ance. Much legislation has been I'M
dertaken which was needless, some
that was foolish; but the outcome, as
will be seen when the laws are pub
lished, has been the creation of some
new laws which promise to be bene-
fetal, and the amendment of others,
which will make them more easily I'M
derstood and more efficient. The
proposed constitutional amendments
were nearly all lost; some were killed
by remonstrances, others by the pc
culiar prejudices that often get away
with the good sense of legislature.
The new revenue measure which is to
H. d HSdFicI CdA vi CoI pOIdoIOHo
etc. is expected to reduce the burden
of the state tax to very small per
cent, and the repairs on the grand
list law of 1880 are such as promise
to make it more easily understood
and more difficult to evade. The
town system for schools, and for the
management of roads was not pop
ular in the House and went by. The
selection of state officers, such as
are chosen by the legislature, and the
appointment of Supreme court judges
are such as to cause no alticular
dissatisfaction, except in regard to
one of the Judges.
Orleans county appears from the
records to have had an influential
delegation. Senator Crane occupied
a prominent position both in the COM
mittees and in debate. DR.. Temple
ton attended to his duties more con-
stantly than he has done heretofore.
Of representatives, Mr.. Burke of AL
bany was both popular and lnfuen-
tial. He is said to have saved Judge
Royce, by well-timed speech, when
the chances were decidedly against
his election by the Joint Assembly.
Mr.. Bridgman of Barton took a
prominent part in measures relating
to taxation, highways and agricul-
ture; Mr.. Smith of Bloomington is
one of those level headed men who
rarely ever vote wrong. Mr.. Black
of Coventry, having had previous ex.
perience made very useful member
DR.. Erwin of Newport took par
in debates and served on important
committees. Mr.. Thompson of Iras
burgh was one of the first members
of the House, and few men did more
work on all the important measures
The members from other towns mad,
very respectable records.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-12-04
GOOD BYE.

A busy, a profitable and pleas
ant session has ended In the histo-
ry of legislation in Vermont, it is
doubtful if more harmonious OF a
more painstaking general assembly
has convened in the state house.
The members of the house seem to
have worked like well-broken team.
No personal jealousy or violent an
tagonism, no itching for leadership
or straying from the main line of leg
islative work, has disturbed the good
fellowship or marred the proprieties
of the session. Members have given
an unusual amount of time and cour-
teous patience to ascertaining and
hearing the expression of the out
side world upon the important meas
ures which have come before them in
committee In their reports to the
house we believe they have voiced
the popular wish more faithfully than
their fellow members in their dispo-
sition of the matter reported upon
have always done. Speaker Martin
has more than indicated the wisdom
of the choice of presiding officer
His committees were singularly well
constituted, and by their works it
shall be known and conceded that
they have been loyal to their
duty. The vote of thanks to him
was no affair of cold conventionality.
The house and senate have not al
ways agreed on some important as
well as on many unimportant meas
ures, but the two bodies seem to have
worked well and Understandings to-
gether. The passage by the latter
body of the revenue and the grand
list bills substantially as they came
from the house illustrates the GOOD
understanding which has existed be-
tween the two houses of the genera
assembly. Lieutenant-governor Pin
gree, as president of the senate, has
directed the deliberations of tina
body with modest grace and effici
ency entirely characteristic of thu
man.
The contest in joint assembly owe
the election of chief judge of the su
preme court and the debate in hous
and senate over the bill for the com
mutation of the sentence of Levi
;, Almon Meaker were the most nota
, BILE and most dramatic of any legis
q lative events for many years. Fac
! was witnessed by a large and brill
ant company Of interested spectators
: and the scenes of those occasion
will not soon be forgotten by parti6
ipants or lookers-on. We believ
the general assembly of 1882 ha
K done it's work well. 1t has left III
ID done two things, at least, of vital in
portance. These two things, reforl
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-12-04
LEGISLATIVE NOTES.

An amusing affair occurred at the
Pavilion Sunday evening. Senator
Idle of Caledonia and Representative
Meacham of Brandon occupy ada
cent rooms at that excellent hostelrie.
meeting approached Mr.. Meacham
went up stairs from the Office for the
purpose of locking his room before
attending it, but by mistake locked
that of Senator Idle instead. Now
the senator had been engaged to
speak at the meeting. but there he
was penned up in his room and could
not rouse any one from the office.
1t was of course the occasion for in
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-12-04

The New York Sun prints reve-
lation of Thurlow Weed showing that
John Whitney in 1881, made a con-
fession of the murder Of Morgan,
who revealed the secrets of Free Ma
sonry, the substance of which is as
follows: That after the meeting of a
chapter of Masons at Lewiston,
VIM. King, an officer in our war of
1912, and the member of the assem-
bly, from Niagara county. called
Whitney of Rochester, Howard of
Buffalo, Chubbuck of Lewiston and
Garside of Canada out of the room
and into a carriage furnished by
Mayor Barton. They were driven
to Fort Niagara, repaired to the mag
azine and informed Morgan, who had
been placed there previously, that the
arrangements for sending him to Can
ada were completed and that his fam
lily would soon follow him. Morgan
received the information cheerfully
and walked with supposed friends tc
the boat, which was rowed to the
mouth of the river, where rope was
wound around the body, to each enc
of which sinker was attached
Morgan was then thrown overheard
He grasped the gunwale of the boa
convulsively. Garside in forcing
Morgan to relinquish his hold, was
severely bitten.