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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-09-08

PAssUMPsIe) RAILR0AD.
NEWPORT.
Thursday Evening, Sept. Z,
at $50 p m, weather permitting.
ANGLO-JAPANESE
F IR EW0R K S
on the water near the Lake shore, at Newport.
GRAND ILLUMINATION
OF Memphremagog House, Hotel Grounds and
Steamboats,.
ST. JOhnsbury COrnet Band,
W H. Herrick Director, assisted by Mr.. Fred
Mullaly, the eminent COrnet SOOist.
PROGRAMME OF FIREWORKS:
FLOATING FOUNTAINS
of Brilliant Chinese and Indian Sparkling Fire
with Petard Explosions.
ROCKETS
with Contrasting Colors and Meteor Trails
MADRAS FIRES,
Illuminating the surface of the water and chang
ing color during combustion.
SCHOOL OF FIERY DOLPHINS,
playing on the surface and beneath the water with
wonderful effect.
JEWELLED FOUNTAINS
discharging Clouds of Golden Sparks, with great
Flights of Ruby. Emerald Topaz, and
Amethyst Points.
FIRE WHIRLWINDS,
ascending in Circles of Golden Flame
WATER SERPENTS,
OF Submarine Divers chasing each other over ant
under the water,
ASTEROID ROCKETS,
with Pendant Jewels of Grand Duration ant
and Changing Colors.
HEAVY SHELLS,
with Golden Rain wil-o.the- wisp Stars, Weep
ing Willow Effect, etc.
GRAND JEWELLED PYRAMID,
showing a great variety of Kaleidoscope Changes
with COpiOus Showers of India Gold
Fire and Jewels.
ECCENTRIC GLOBE,
Revolving both Horizontally and Vertically, will
Brilliant and Peculiar Effect
WHIRLING SUN,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-09-08
Memory Of Evil Company.

But never an angry word
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-11-09
HUMOR OF THE DAY.

Where are the men of 76 ?" shrielSs
an excited exchange Oh, to Halifax
with the men Of seventy-siX. Give
us the women Of twenty-three.-
Ha1Ckeye.
Who has any right to sneer at the
inventive genius Of woman when one
in New York has discovered process
by which cat skin can be made to look
like seal ?-DetroH Free Press,
a man in Elgin, Illinois, put on a
clean shirt with such energy the other
day that he broke an arm. 1t is duty
which one likes to have off his mind
as soon as possible. e.-Ffee Press.
Typhoid fever is now the fashion
able disease. Having it is prima facie
evidence that you are in easy circum-
stances and passed the season at a
summer resort.-Phtlddelphjo NeaCs.
A man never realizes the littleness
of his own abilities so much as when,
after backing his own boots, he is
greeted by the first boy he meets with
the customary "Shine ?'-LoOeU Citi-
zen.
Several of our exchanges are de-
voting considerable space to the i'm
pOrtance of cooking girls" It's no
use. We don't want them cooked.
The raw damsel is good enough for
us.-Hartford Times.
Mrs. Partington honored us with Il
call this morning. She is looking well,
and she says she is like the windows
of renovated hOuse-a8 the old
panes are out OF her, and the pneu-
matics are things of the past.-Bostos
star.
"Pa, I'll be right sorry when you
get WELL" said little Austin boy to
his sick parent. "Why, my son ?"
Because | won't get any more empty
medicine bottles to sell. l sell 'em for
five cents apiece to the drug store" -
SJtingS.
"Few men are born to rule" and
that is what the bookkeeper thinks
when he comes in after lunch and
finds the old man has been trying to
close an account on the ledger with IL
scattering pen and nickel ruler
Boston Bulletin.
In the German army more attention
is being paid to the science, of aero
states, and officers are being trained
to make balloon ascensions. This will
fit them to come to this country and
amuse the population on the Fourth
of July.-BOStoR Post.
A New York man says he keeps
chops and steaks for several days in
the hottest weather by burying them
in meal. Meal is good thing in any
weather for steaks and chops. We
more particularly refer just now to the
morning meal.-Danbamy Neacs.
The ruling passion strong in death ;
John" feebly moaned a society lady,
who was about shuf1iing off this mortal
coil; "John, if the newspapers say
anything about my debut into another
world, just send me a dozen marked
copies" s."-Ne1O York Commercial.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-11-09
NO. 38.
After A While.

There IL 4 etrenge sweet solsce in the thought
That all the yoes we suffer here below
May, as dark and 1ideous garment wrought
For us to wear, whether we will or no
Be cast aside, with a relieving smiles
After little while.
No mortal roaming but hath certain end;
Though far unto the ocean-spaces gray
We sail and sail, without a chart for friend,
Above the skyline, faint and far away
There looms nt last the one enchanted isle
After little while.
Oh, when our cares come thronging thi-F
and fast,
With more of anguish than the heart czes
bear,
Though friends desert, and, as the heedleas
blast
Even love pass by us with a stony stare,
Let us withdraw into some ruined pile,
Or lonely forest aisle.
And contemplate the never-ceasing change
Whereby the processes of God are wrought,
And from our petty lives our souls estrange
Till. bathed in currents of exalted thought,
We feel the rest that must our cares beguile
After little while.
Nathan ID. UTuer.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-11-09
SCIENTIFIC NOTES.

A French paper says at Is re.
! markable fact that there are no rats in
! the islands Of the Pacific ocean. Re
peated attempts have been made to
acclimatize the rodents there, as the
flesh is much esteemed by the natives
as an article of food But the attempts
thus far have failed, as they invariably
die of CONSUMPTION"
Among the instruments at recent
scientific meeting was one exhibited
by Sir F. Bramwell, employed for
ascertaining the velocity of trains and
the efficiency of brakes. With this
! apparatus it was found that a train
weighing 125 tons ran five miles five
yards after steam was shut off while
travelling at u speed Of forty-fve
miles an hour. The line was level and
the day perfectly calm.
Sensations are transmitted to the
brain at rapidity of about 190 feet
! per second, or at one-fifth the rate of
sound; and this is nearly the same in
all individuals. The brain requires
one-tenth of a second to transmit its
orders to the nerves which preside over
voluntary motion; but this amount
varies much in different individuals,
and in the same individual at different
times, according to the disposition or
condition at the time, and is more
regular the more sustained the atten-
tion.
Experiments upon over four hundred
individuals of all classes, ages and oc-
cupations show how great is the diver
sity of opinion as to the size of objects
seen through the microscope. The OH
ject used in the experiments was a
common louise magnifed to theoreti-
cal size cf 4.66 inches. The majority
of observers underestimated this
value; two estimates were
only one inch seven We're over foot,
and one was at least five feet. New
students of the microscope usually re-
ceive an impression somewhat larger
than the real value, and adhere to it
for considerable time.
DR.. Mittendorf states that Ameri
can students are less afflicted with
/ near-Sightednes than German stu
dents. The affection is developed by
sedentary occupations and lack of ex-
ercise, women being therefore more
liable to contract it than men. 1t
usually appears in childhood, rarely
after the twenty-tirst year. Weak
glasses of slight blue tint should be
worn early to stay its progress, as
blindness often follows neglect of
treatment. In his paper on this sub
ject DIR. NJ. tells Of a fine horse in Ber-
lin which became intractable and was
found TO be suffering from near
sightedness, but was as docile as ever
after a pair of glasses had been fitted
to its eyes.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-11-09
"Wire the Gentleman"

The new verbs which the rush of
progress brings into use are often
stumbling-blocks to the simple. The
fun comes in when ignorant persons
get frightened at them and go off with
out asking what they mean. The
Louisiana Commercial says
Two young women entered an in
telligence Office and one of them asked
if there was any situation open.
The agent said he had just received
a letter from gentleman in Pough-
keepsie, asking if they could send up a
servant girl. The agent explained
what work she would be required to
perform and the wages she would
get.
The girl consulted for few mo-
ments with her companion and then
said she would go.
The agent gave her the necessary
directions and told her at what time
she would have to be at the station,
with the assurance that she would go
through all right. The girl listened
attentiyely.
"Now you must be sure and go
through all the way" said the agent,
"and not get off"
Yes" said the girl.
"And don't let anybody talk to you
and ask you to go with them," said
the agent.
"Yes," said the girl.
81 will write at once what time you
will get there and they will expect
you," said the agent. "You will get
there tomorrow"
"Yes," said the girl.
"If you have any difficulty when
you reach the railroad station, wire the
gentleman" handing her his card,
land lie will meet you at the station"
"Tll not stir peg, so l won't. I'll
engage to wash, iron and plain cook
for the family, but I'll not do all this
and wire gentlemen for fourteen dol
lars month, so / WON'T" and she
went out of the Office.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-11-09
The Virtues of CoHre.


The action of coffee is directed
chiefly to the nervous system. 1t pro-
duces a warming, cordial impression
on the stomach, quickly followed by a
ditfused, agreeable and nervous eX-
citement, which extends itself to the
cerebral functions, giving rise to in
creased vigor of imagination and in
tellect, without any subsequent con-
fusion or stupor such as is character
istic OF narcotics. Coffee contains es-
sential principles Of nutrition far eX-
ceeding in Importance its eXhilarating
properties, and is one of the most
desirable articles for sustaining
the system in certain prostrating
diseases. AS compared with the
nutrition to be derived from the best
of soups, coffee has decidedly the adj
vantage, and is to be preferred in many
instances. The medicinal effects of
coffee are very great. In intermittent
FEVER 1T has been used by eminent
physicians with the happiest effects in
cutting short the attack, and, if prop
erly managed, is better in many cases
than the sulphate of quinine. In that
low state of intermittent as found on
the banks of the Mississippi river and
other malarial districts, accompanied
with enlarged spleen and torpid liver,
When judiciously administered it is one
OF the surest remedies.
In yellow fever it has been used by
physicians, and with some it is their
main reliance after other necessary
remedies have been administered it
retains tissue change, and thus be-
comes a conseryator Of force in that
state in which theneryOus system tends
to collapse because the blood has be-
come impure it sustains the nervous
power until the depuration and reOr
ganiZation of the blood are accom-
plished, and has the advantage over
other stimulants in inducing no in
furious secondary effects. In spas
modic asthma its utility is well estab
llshed, as in whooping-cough, stupor,
lethargy and such troubles. In hys-
terical attacks. for which, in many
cases, physician can form no diagno-
sis, coffee is great help.
Coffee is opposed to malaria, to all
noXious yapors. As a disinfectant it
has wonderful powers. As an in
Simultaneous deodorizer it has no equal
for the sickroom, as all eXhalations are
Immediately neutralized by simply
passing a chatting dish with burning
coffee grains through the room. 1t
may be urged that an article pos
sessing such powers and capacity
for such energetic action must be in
furious as a. article of diet of
habitual employment, ana not
without deleterious properties; but no
corresponding nervous disarrange-
ments have been observed after its
effects have disappeared, as are seen in
narcotics and other stimulants. The
action impaired to the nerves is natu-
raj and healthy. Habitual coffee
drinkers generally enjoy good health.
Some of the Oldest people have used
coffee from earliest infancy without
feeling any depressing reaction, such
as is produced by alcoholic stimulants.
philadelphia Times.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-11-09

Tiger Killing in Java.

The following Is q translation Of an
extraordinary report published in the
Jaoa B5des the chief paper Of Batavia:
" Yesterday, so says the Mataram, a
newspaper at Djoodjakatra, there took
place here the announced clearance
among the tigers belonging to his
highness, the sultan, in Older to make
room for fresh supply when the new
tiger pens will be built. At about 10
A. NJ. the sultan. the resident military
commander, assistant resident and
other spectators appeared behind, the
Kraton and seated themselves in a
grand stand constructed for the pur-
pose. Thousands of Javanese flocked
to the spot to see the combats. Soon
fight between royal tiger and a buff
falo together in pen commenced. The
tiger was several times tossed into the
air and then gored to death by the buff
falo, which had been made as furious as
possible by peppered water, burning
nettles and red-hot iron bars. The
combat lasted fully two hours. After
ward began the ramQolsen or tiger
flight. On the plain alongside the
Kraton stood Javanese armed with
stout spears fifteeft to eighteen feet
long, drawn up in rows ore behind
the other, forming altogether an e&f
traordinary large square. The two
foremost rows lay kneeling, the two
hindmost stood erect In the center
of this open space were thirteen
straw-roofed rooden pens, in each of
which was tiger. At given signal
a musical instrument called the gam
elan begins playing martial
air to slow measure. Three
tiger keepers then step out of
the ranks and approach the cage. Two
of them bear each burning torch,
with which they set fire to the straw.
The tiger, frightened by the shower Of
sparks; is then forced out into the open
space, but knows not whittier to turn.
1t moves around and seeks whittier it
either by desperate spring to get
away over the human wall which
keeps it inclosed or tries to creep
through underneath. But it falls
pierced by the many spears which have
struck it. 1t utters a savage cry, which
is drowned by the applause and shouts
of the multitude. In silent agony it
strikes around furiously with
its mighty paws. The shafts
of the spears often break like glass.
In such cases single blow might cost
the life Of any unfortunate within
reach of its claws. 1t is afterward
killed in due form. This scene took
place in the same way thirteen times
successfully with as many tigers, the
festivity closing at 2 p. NJ. Only u
few accidents occurred. One soldier.
by i'll luck, received spear thrust
when combating with tiger, and WAS
severely wounded in the leg. A native
received bite when one of the tigers
broke through the square and was
killed outside it, after causing great
cOmmotion among the spectators. An
affecting scene presented was that Of
a large tigress bringing forth Il cub
while she was heinz slain"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-11-09
In the Mining Town.

''Tis the last time, darling" he gently said
As he kissed her lips, like cherries red,
While fond look shone in his eyes of brown
My own is the prettiest girl in town:
io-morrowthe bell from the tower will ripo
A joyful peal. Was there ever a king
80 truly blest on his royal throne,
AS shall be, when claim my own?n
Twas fond farewell; twas a sweet good.
bye;
But she watched him go, with a troubled
sigh;
so into the basket, that swayed and swunc
Ger the yawning abyss, he lightly sprung,
And the JOY of heart seemed turned to woe
AS they lowered him into the depths below.
her sweet young face, with its tresses brown,
was 'ie falrest face in the mining town.
Ao! the morning came; but the marriage
beH,
algh up in the tower, rang mourning l,nell
For tie true heart buried meath earth and
stone
Far down IN the heart of the mine-alone,
hsorrow-peal on her wedding day,
ror the breaking heart, and the heart of
clay;
And the face that looked from her tresses
brown
Was the saddest face in the mining town,
linus time rolled on in its weary way.
Until fifty years with their shadows gray
Had darkened the light of her sweet ewes,
glow,
ana had tnrned the brown of her hair to
STOW.
Oh! never kiss from husbands lips
or the clasp of n child's sweet finger-tips.
aad bfted one moment the shadows brown
r"m the saddest heart i'll the mining town,
Far down in the depths of the mine one day,
In the loosened earth they were digging away
They discovered a face, so young SO fair
From the smiling lips to the bright brown
hair
Untouched by the finger of times decay.
When they drew him up to the light of day.
The wondering people gathered round
To gaze at the man so strangely found,
Then n woman sprang from among the
crowd.
With her long white hair, and her slight form
bowed;
She silently knelt by the form of clay,
And Kissed the lips that were cold and gray.
Then the sad old face, with its snowy hair.
On his youthful bosom lay pillowed there.
he mad found her at last-his waiting bride:
And the people buried them side by side.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-11-09
A Curious Disposition.

Three ladies were seated in Agath
Fosters parlor Miss Fortescue, large
dark and of uncertain age who mon
opolized the most comfortable arm
chair Mrs. Becker, shrunken an,
sandy, who was constantly slidin,
off the sofa and reinstating hersei
with jerk, and Miss Agatha herself
who sat apart from the others, glanc
ing uneasily out of the window. as i
distressed by their garrulity. Mis-
Agatha was fair young woman, will
a noble head and a cOuntenance eX
pressive of all grace and goodness. Yet
at this moment she entertained feel
lngs decidedly hostile to her callers
who had run i'll, with the familiar free
uom of fellow boarders in a family hotel
TO chat away the afternoon. At heart
they were immensely sorry that Miss
Mamie Foster hadnoty tyetreturned from
suburb, where she had gone the day
before. Miss Mamie, Agatha's cousin
companion and chaperone in one, was
Tar more to their taste; she was more
attentive, more easily impressed, more
sympathetic, they thought. She never
sat looking out the window when they
t.,were retailing their choicest bits of
scandal for her especial benefit. But
then she was woman of years. How
ever, they still fingered; it was a
pleasant place. The Fosters had the
handsomest suite in the building-and
furnished with such taste! Such car
pets! Such decorative art! And the
Fosters weie tip-top people. There
were four of them, Miss Agatha. her
two bachelor brothers, ten and dozen
years her senior, and Miss Mamie, who,
since their parents death, had kept the
children together. The winter day
drew to close, the room grew dusky.
and still the ladies fingered.
Agatha could endure it no longer:
this, of all days, she was without pa
thence. She rose quickly.
"Ladies," she said, with an indig-
nant culver in her sweet contralto
voice, "you must excuse me. 1 cannot
listen to such conversation %
There was silence a moment; then
Miss Fortescue lifted her cumbrous
frame. "Oh, certainly. L quite un-
derstand. We will withdraw. We
do not wish to Offend"
"Oh, certainly" family echoed Mrs.
Becker, sliding from the sofa for the
last time and preparing to follow.
Agatha's impatience only increased
And allow me to say" she ex-
claimed, with no compunction, "that |
think ladies might be better employed
than with their neighbors' affairs."s
Good-afternoon," said Miss Fortes-
cue, savagely.
Good-afternoon," sneered Mrs.
Becker.
"Good riddancew cried Agatha,
sharply, ere the door had closed.
To-day of all days." sic said, as
she walked to and fro in the dusk.
Presently the door opened.
"All in the dark, Agatha?" asked
CHEEKY voice.
Fl thought you wo Id never come,
Mamie" was the swift, unnerved re-
Why, what is the matter, my
dear?"
81 have just put Mrs. Fortescue and
Mrs. Becker out Of the room, and it
has annoyed me-"
Dear me, what had they done?"
"The same old sickening gossip.
Miss Bruce tlirts on the street; Mrs.
Gray holds her step-child to the fire to
burn it, and so on and so on"
"They get their ideas from the
morning papers" said Mamie, calmly,
unclasping her fur-lined circular. |
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-11-09
The Discovery of Porcelain.

Kaolin, hydrated silicate Of alum
mia, is absolutely refractory and
Opaque it constitutes the resistant
part of porcelain. Feldspars are sill
Gates of alumina and potassia, fusible
at a very high temperature into
beautiful transparent glass. If now
we mix quantity of feldspar with
kaolin, cover the mixture with layer
of feldspar, and heat the whole at Il
very high temperature, the feldspar
will melt and communicate to the
Opaque clay clearness greater or less
according to the quantity of it
present, and to the superficial part of
it that beautiful glaze with which all
are familiar. A part of the action in
this process is chemical, and consists
IN the production of a new crystalline
silicate formed by combination of all
the substances present. The discovery
of porcelain in China is traced back to
a high antiquity. The Chinese have GER
tainly made it regularly for at least
thousand years; many authors
fix the discovery at fifteen
hundred or eighteen hundred
years ago, but no evidence exists to
Justify our going back further than a
thousand years. The first pieces that
came to Europe were probably brought
by the Venetians at the end of the
thirteenth century. Charles VII, king
OF France, received a present of Chinese
porcelains about the middle of the
fifteenth century from the sultan of
Babylon; but it was not till the sixteenth
century that the importation of these
Oriental products by Portuguese and
Dutch merchants assumed real i'm
portance.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-11-09
How q Whaln Rraathns.

The windpipe does not communicate
with the mouth a hole is, as it We're,
bored right through the back of the
head. Engineers would do well to
copy the action of the valve of the
whales blow-hole Il more perfect
piece of structure it is impossible to
imagine. Day and night, asleep or
awake, the whale works his breathing
apparatus in such a manner
that not a drop of water
ever gets down into his
lungs. Again, the whale must of ne
cessity stay much longer period of
time under water than seals this alone
might possibly drown him, inasmuch
as the lungs cannot have access to
fresh air. We find that this difficulty
has been anticipated and obviated by
a peculiar reservoir in the venous sys-
TEN, which reservoir is situated at the
back of the lungs.-Frank auckland
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-11-09

An exchange acknowledges the re-
ceipt Of two books called "Matri-
mony" and " Heaps of Money from
Harper & Brothers. The publishers
were very thoughtful. When a man
indulges in Matrimony" he feels the
need of "Heaps of Money" Norris
tolOn Herald.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-11-09

A Norristown man, who couldn't
live within his income, was advised to
dispense with few luxuries. He i'm
mediately sold his gun and hunting
dog aud bought a share in yacht.
Many man would have smoked
cheaper cigar and made his wife wear
her last years dress. Herald.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-11-09

Corn is said to be late in ripenino.
but when fellow treads on your foot
you will find your corn is ripe, and
yell oh
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-11-09

Southern cotton mills now boast
1887 400 spindles, and the consump-
ton of cotton this year will reach
100000 bales, or one-quarter of the
amount used North,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-11-09

Birds and birds heads are much
used on hats and bonnets,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-11-09

To get up dinner of great variety
cooks should have wide range. '