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Took q Bet.

Some years ago an engineer, now
of one OF our great railroads, was sup
erintending the construction Of new
road in Pennsylvania. After supper
one evening he strolled into the "sittin
room" of the country tavern, where
some twenty men were seated around
the stove, smoking and chatting. A
regular down-east Yankee was ex-
pounding the remarkable strength of
the arch, its use and application in
mechanics, and illustrating his re-
marks by paving half-bushel meas
nre.
"You amt no idee," said he, show
strong the arch is if We set it right-ii
ye know how. Now there's the egg
nothin's got a prettier arch than the
egg and if you set it right it's mighty
strong. Why, ken set an egg Oh this
floor in sich shape that ye can't break ii
with this half-bushel measure"
A general murmur of sneering disbe-
lief ran around the room; but the YAM
kee was game.
81 said l kin, and kin, and I'll bet
the drinks for the crowd on it."
Our engineer hated Yankee, and
though reserved man, he could not
permit Yankee to bluff whole party
with such an arrogant and preposter-
Gus statement, so he quietly said,
"I will take that bet."
An egg was brought in from the
kitchen and handed to the Yankee.
He took it and stood it upon the floor
in the corner OF the room.
Our engineer did not even attempt
to fill square corner with round
measure, but paid for the drinks and
retired, sadder and wiser.
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tenn, and casually throw them out
the back door while the other guests
are listening to the "Maiden's Prayer
in the parlor. Under the new deal the
host will enjoy the dinner much more
than he used to do with his thumb
cut off and quart of dressing in
his lap. No man feels perfectly at
homo If he has to wrap up his cut
finger in rag and then scoop hand
full of dressing out of his vest pocket
Few men are cool enough to do this,
laughing heartily all the time and tell
ing some mirth-provoking anecdote
meanwhile. 1t is also annoying TO
have twenty guests ask for the "dark
meat please" when there are only
three animals cooked, and neither one
of them had particle of dark meat
about her person. Lately have adop-
ted the plan of segregating the fowl by
main strength, using the fingers when
necessary, and then wiping them in an
oH-hand manner on the table cloth.
Then l ask the servant to bring in that
dark hen we ordered, so that we might
have an abundance of dark meat. II
the servant says theae is none, smile
and tell the guests that the brunette
chicken by some oversight has been
eaten in the kitchen, and shall have to
give them such relics as may be al
hand. This simplifles the matter, and
places me in far more agreeable place
relative to the company. My grea,
success, however, in carving is mainly
confined TO the watermelon. The wa
termelon does no} confuse inc. Ialways
know where to find the joints, and
those who do not like the inside of the
melon can have the outside. Now, nv
great trouble with fowls is, that one
day have TO assassinate a Mormon
Shanghai pullet, with high, expressive
hip homes and amalgam palctot. This
makes me nervous, because they are
30 dissimilar and their joints are in
different places. The Mormon hen is
round-shouldered and her collar.bone
Is more than on the bias than the
Nebraska fowl. This gives totally
different expression to her features in
death, and, as l have said, destroys
the symmetry of the carve. be-
gan my education in this line by
carving butter in hot weather,
and gradually let up to the
quail on toast. In carving the quail,
first mortgage your home and get the
quail. The quail should be cooked be-
fore carving, but not until the chronom
eter balance and otherorgans have been
removed. Place your quail on the toast
iedhig giRGifs d6wh between the shotGil =
oder blades, bisect the polonaisc. An
hermethod isto take the quail by the
hind leg and eat ii asking the:gucsts
to do the same. This breaks up the
fe cling of stiffness that is apt to prevail
at formal dinner party, and while
each one has his or her lose immersed
in quail, good feeling cannot fail to
show itself.
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Oh, emile Hands.

"For weary with the days toll and vexaton,
My ht art and brain throb on so fl,rce and will /
long TO feel thy fingers smooth ny tresses,
As when tired child.
No other hands like thine can still lie throbinR
Or lnll to quiet rest The weary bran;
No other hands 80 gentle, soft and teler
AS thine in hours OF pain.
Dear handsl that long since folded on by bosom
Laid dow thy work for other hand 10 do
Oh, come In spirit. with the old-time prosure
That once so well knew,
Oh, gentle hands, reach down from the immortal
Down through the earth.mists from tn spir.
home,
And stil this pain; with all the old careses
plead for thee to come.
Was 1t thy fngcrs2 or am dreaming?
Was IL thy pr essurc on my forehead cold,
Ailayed the fever heat, the weary anguish,
AS in those days Of old?
Was 1t thy hands. or wind blown through tn
case ement.
That ined up the tresses from my bpw;
That lulled the pain an d checked the pulse quicl
throbb ing?
Oh. wou Id that nigh. knowi"
-IE.P. s. /
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nonsense to her husband, and some tc
me, and then coaxed me to eat, which
l declined 10 do, knowing what would
be the result. l tamely submitted tc
her caresses and leaned against her
hand, and she gave little scream ol
dismay.
"Why, Arthur, darling, this is q
tame turkey; somebody's poor pet see
he has a string on his neck. Why
dearie, l couldn't kill that turkey and
eat him for anything in the world.
should choke"
"Nonsense, Dora," said my new
master. " We can't throw away money
like that. If anybody was so hard
hearted as to sell pet turkey, I don't
see why we shouldn't eat him, my
precious"
"But can't eat pet turkey, dear
I'd rather not have Thanksgiving
dinner. It's too horrible. l had pet
turkey once"
Here the door-bell rang loudly, and
hale old gentleman clustered in
with hinge brown parcel in his arms
My new masters father-in-law, Mr.
Hornbeck, who, by the way, held that
mysterious mortgage on the Tompkins
farm. lie had brought dressed turkey
by the way of present, with the
proposition that he should come and
help eat 1t. Then Dora relatedArthur 4
experience in buying live turkeys, and
/ was paraded befor Papa Hornbeck.
"I DECLARE" said he, rehectively
that looks like handsome turkey ole
man Tompkins had; pet of his little
boy, Freddy, who called him some out
landish thing. He's been stolen, proba-
bly,"
The kind old man actually made in
quiries the next day, and meeting
Freddy first, his sympathies were en-
listed, 4and 1 was sent home. MIR.
Hornbeck, finding that matters were
rapidly going to the bad on the Thomp-
kins farm, reduced the interest on the
mortgage, and from that time things
took turn for the better, and Mrs.
Tompkins began to look more cheerful.
l was very, very happy and glad to be
at home again, though the fate of my
comrades and my own hair-breadth
escape made me changed turkey.
Kitty and Freddy pamper me good
deal, but life is very uncertain thing
especially with turkeys about Thanks
giving time.
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New Methods I'm Carving.
BILL NYE's IDEAS ON IT'S ADVANTAGES
THE EDUCATION OF A CARVER.

BILL NYE's IDEAS ON IT'S ADVANTAGES
THE EDUCATION OF CARVER.
Speaking about carving, there is a
prospect now that in our best circles,
within short time, the old custom of
making the host demolish the kilndried
poultry at dinner will become extinct,
and that servant at sideboard will
take hand-saw and a can of nitro
glyceine and shatter the remains, thus
giving the host chance to chat with
his guests instead of spattering them
with dressing and casting gloom and
gravy over the company. This is a
move for which have long contended.
1t places the manual labor of a dinner
where it belongs and relieves a man
who should give his whole attention to
the entertainment ofh his friends at table,
You would not expect your host to
take off his coat and kill the fowl in
your presence. in order to show you
that it was all on the square, and il Il
not customary to require the proprietor
to peel the potatoes at table for hi
guests to prove that there is no put-ur
job about it. Therefore, claim tha
the lamented hen may be thoroughly
shattered at side table by an athlete a
81 per week and still good faith towart
the guests be maintained. II any ont
be doubtful or suspicious, etiquett,
will permit him to stand by the side o
the hireling carver and witness the in
quest. Still II would be better fun TO
him to sit at the table, and II the part
given to him are not satisfactory, b
can put them in his overshoes pro
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CHURCH DIRECTORY.



Baptist Meeting in the Court House, Rev. c
Aibbard, pastor. Sabbath services at 10 AS a. m
and p. m; Sunday school at IL p. m. Prayer
CongregationaI-Corne Pleasant and Main SITS
Rev. 81 l.. B. Spearc, pastor. Sunday services
N:45 AN. and 1880 Pm. Thursday evening
prayer meeting at 1900.
Aefhodisf-North Pleasant-st. Rev. M. b. Mead
pastor. Sunday services at 10:45 A. NJ. ant
l:00>P.M. Thursday evening prayer meeting a
I:00. Class meeting on Friday evening at I: 80.
Kpiscopa}-St. Stephens Church-Mafn-st st. Rev
VIM. j. Tilley, rector. Sunday school at Il
An. Sunday services at 10 AS An. and :O0P.M.
Roman CathotSo-Weybridge-st Rev. Ed r
Nalony, pastor. Sunday SERVICES, alternate Sab
oaths; High Mass at 10:Oo AM; vespers and
Denediction at :30P.M.
EAST MIDDLEBURY.
Aethodta- - pastor. Sunday services
at3:00pN
Bapttst-Rev. David II. Estes, pastor. Sunday
services at l0:45 AM. and 1900 Pm. Weekly
prayer meeting on Thursdayevening at 100.
Aethodist-Rev. M. A. Wicker, pastor. Sunday
ervices at 1:00 and 100 Pm. Weekly prayer
meeting on Thursday evening at 7: 100.
Epssoopat-St. PGurs Church-Rev. G. J.
and Z 90 Pm Friday evening at p: 90.
Aission Chdpei-Dr. IL. A. Ingham. Sunday
services at 10: As AN. and 7:00 Pm. Weekly
prayer meeting on Thursday evening.
Roman Cdth0iic-Rev. j. Kerlidon, pastor.
Services, every Sabbath; High Mass at lO:Oo
4. NJ; vespers and benediction at 80 Pm.
unasy ssTscos a aM ssad Pa WeeR
prayer meeting on Thursday evening at 1900.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-12-01

The Chinese students who appeared
at Pekin the present year TO compete
in the annual examination numbered
$3.50, the largest number ever known.
The examination halls were arranged
for 10000. Three competitors, In dis
pair at finding themselves unable to
write essays on the subject that had
been placed before them, made deter
mined attempts at suicide
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Personal! TO Men Onlyl!

THE YoLTAIC BELT Co., Marshall Mich. will
send DIR. DYES CELEBRATED ELECTRo-FOLTAIC
BELTS and ELECTRIC APPLIANCES on trial for
thirty days 70 men lyoung or oldl who are
Manhood, and kindred troubles, guaranteeing
speedy and complete restoration OF health and
manly yigor. Address asabove. k.B.-No risk
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CUTICURA

and CUTICURA SOAP externally and CUTICURA
nnooIvrNT internally will positively cure every
species oil Humor, from 10 Cvmmon pimple TO
Scr ofula. Price of CUTICURA, small boxes, 50c =:
large boxes, Sl.00. CUT1CURA REsoLvENT, si
per bottle. CUTICURA SOAP, 25c,; CUTICuRA
SHAVING SOAP, 15c. Sold by all druggists
Depot, WEEKS & POTTER, Boston, Mass.
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PosT-oFFICE NOTICE.
MAILS ARRIVE.

MAILS ARRIVE.
From Ripton, Granville, Hancock, East
Middlebury. Cornwall, West Corn
wall and Bridport.. LIB A. NJ
Way mail from north ............,..,e.5lP p M
New York, Rutland and Albany. 10 A. nj
way mail fror' SOUTH. 3;25 p. NJ
- dAILs CLOSE.
Way mail going south. ................., zee, 9:30M
way mail going north.................2 2: so T.. nj.
FOR Ripton, Granville, Hancock, East
Mlddlsbury, Cornwall, West Corn
wall and Bridport.. ort...................4: 4 90 T. NJ
closed mail for Boston and Rutland 4 40 p Nj
Closed mail for New York and Aibeny 7:46 p. M
MAILS ARRIVE.
From New Haven, the North, New York, Bost on
and tho West through Burlington, l 80. Pm.
From New Haven, the South, New York, Bos-
ton, and the West. 100 p. NJ.
From Richmond, Huntington, Huntington Cen.
or. and Starksboro, 7 90 p. NJ. Mondays Wednes.
ays and Fridays, at 4 80 p. IN.
From Lincoln, 8 P. M.
From South starksboro three times week ir-
Regularly
regularl
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vERaENNEs BRICK WORKS

would call the attention Of Builders, oontrao
ity OF Brick, which will guarantee 10 suit In quail
ity sud In price.
T. Persons can call OF me or send for Price List.
Brick Delivered ON Boat free. On cars at cost.
:" tssxsnnss, xpgl. lssi. WYNN is.iY
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MOTHER DIED FROM 1T.
j. w. Adams, Newark, Ohio, says: "Cuticura
Remedies are the greatest medicines on earth
Had the worst case salt rheum in this county.
My mother had it twenty years, and in fact died
from ii. believe Cuticura would have saved
her life. My arms. breast and head were covered
for three years, which nothing relieved or cured
until used the Cuticura Resovent (blood puri.
der) internally, and Cuticura and Cuticura Soap
externally.
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LEAVE vERoENNEs.
ADDISON RAILROAD

ADDISON RAILROAD
Trains leave III 100 a. m. and 20 p. m. arrive
at Leicester Junction 80 q. m. and 3 20 d. m.
Leave Leicester Junction 10 100 a. m. and :lC
p. m; arrive at tt II % p, m. and 40 p. m.
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PSORIASIS.

PSORIASIS.
II. f. Carpenter, Esq, Henderson, N. Y, cured
OF Psoriasis or Leprosy, of twenty years stand
ing, by the CUTICURA REsoLvENr internally and
CUTICURA and CUTICURA SOAP externally. The
most wonderful case on record. Cure certified
to before justice of the peace and prominent
citizens. All afflicted with itching and scaly dis
eases should send to us for this testimonial in
full.
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RAILROAD TIMETABLE.

TRAINS LEAVE MIpDLEBURY.
Doing South. Going North.
Mail.........n AS A. nj. Night Exp. .3 80 A. NJ
Passenger. .3 80 p. NJ. Passenger TO- 10 A. NJ
Express. .... s 80 r. nj Mail........3:50 p. M.
Passenger. IS 20 L. Nj
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| SALT RHEUM.

SALT RHEUM.
Those who have experienced the torments OF
SAT- Rheum can appreciate the agony endured
for years, until cured by the CUTiCURA REsoLv-
ENT internally and CUTICURA and CUTICURA
SOAP externally.
Mrs. VIM. PELLINGTON, Sharon, wis.
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PEATas pY yI9LEHGE,

Record of Fatalities In Various sora,s.
Annie Black, aged So, being ius,si,s,
arose from her bed in Brooklyn early yes
terday hscrning, and. running down to the
dock, jumped overheard and was
drowned.
Mrs. Fanny Rosenberg, afflicted with.
@elancholia, hanged herself yesterday in
Albany, n. Y.
J. H. RuAf, confidential clerk of Kauff.
man & Range, in Ga)yeston, committed
suicide yesterday. 1t is rumorei that he
stole SEQ, 900 from his employers.
The wife of an iron worker named
Thomas SqyHt, living in the outskirts of
Scranton, leapeq frGT AZ upper window
into the street and injured berSelf SC badly
that she died few hours latst,
Joshua and Samuel Shipley, brothers,
and Anton Weckemeyer were yesterday
threBn from the third story of house on
German street, Baltimore, by the breaking
of scaffold, and al ttfse ce-ionsly hurt.
Weckemeyer died soon afterwards.
A stranger entered the o:Sss.A Of br.
kess, ~ scranton, aud, pointing to his
leg said ap artery vas bleeding, Tho doc
tor aeated him in . chair, called in DR..
Gulick and tried to stop . varicoso yein.
which was bleeding pr0fusely. In a few
minutes the man died in the arms of the
physicians. He was an entire stranger.
t9d did not haye strength enough to tell
his name.
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BARR REBUKrS BOsl.ER
What He Says of Mixing Politics With Re.
1igiOn.

What He Says of Mixing Politics With Re.
ligi0n.
Daniel o. Barr, Of Pittsburgh, has writ
ten tue following letter "In the Phila.
delphia l4ress Of yesterday morning this
statement appears as having Lepp made
by James w. Bossler, of Carlisle, 10 a
New York Tribune correspondent Barr
of Pittsburgh, the Catholic Democrat
who ran for state treasurer and was de-
feated year or more ago, accuses Patti.
son and his friends of not supporting him
properly, and there are symptoms of a
considerable Catholic detection which will
vote for Beaver apprehond Mr.. Boss
ler's Star Route experiences have inoccu-
lated him with tho virus Of falsehood. His
statement is untrue in its length and
breadth. Ineyer accused Pattison and his
friends of net supporting me, but on the
contrary, knew they we're loyal friends.
In the nominating convention and in the
canvass Mr.. Pattison was my choice for
governor after our home candidate. Mr..
Hopkins. 1t is an impertinence. mixing
politics and religion as this man Bossler
does, b4t I stake my head on the assertion:
do not know : Catholic Democrat who
will vote for Beaver !; there may be such.
but do not know tn IN.
cd. o. BARR"
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ParagPaphlc Potnts Gl0oned From
Morning Mails,

ParagTaphlc Potnts Glooned From the
Morning Mails, =
Parsons steam tannezy at Benton, Ont,
was yesterday burned. Loss, $4,000.
P. J. Niles, comedian. died yesterday at
Lewis Station, n. Y of consumption.
john WaldrOn was arrested yesterday at
New York for selling counterfeit coin.
An incendiary fire at Le Mars, Iowa,
yesterday destroyed. six buildings involv.
ing total loss of $4,000.
e. Hinger, Of Detroit, Mich, superin-
tendert of the Imperador Gold Mining
company, was murdered at Panama on
Sunday night.
Mark Davis was yesterday arrested at
Denver. Col, for passing counterfeit
500 bill on the Pittsburgh National Bank
Of Commerce.
A fire yesterday in Demster's engine
works at Cuffalo, n. Y, destroyed nearly
the entire building. The structure con-
tained several occupants, among them
Henry Smith, builder :: Georges S. Morgan,
carpet beating works, and the Malschoss
file works.
A jury at Brooklyn, yesterday, awarded
Patrick Duffy So. 500 damages in a suit
against the New York s. Manhattan rail-
road company for injuries received in July,
1881, by being thrown off train on that
road.
During storm at Fairfield, Iowa. on
Monday night, wild ducks gathered about
the electric lights in great numbers, ex-
tinguished all but one and demolished
several globes. Nearly 200 ducks were
picked up within three hours.
The significance of tho passage by the
Chicago common council of bill to
fine minors for drinking in saloons lies in
the fact that it is the salOonkeepers' mea-
sure. and its effect is to shut off all testi-
mony against salnonkeepers which would
punish them for selling to minors.
John Crogan, the young man who shot
and killed Thomas Hammond on Monday
night in a liquor store in Washington
street, New York, where Crogan was EN-.
ployed as bartender, was yesterday COM
mittcG to await the result OF the inquest.
Crogan claims to have acted in self
defense,
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THE CHAMPAIGN.


Tho Ex-speaksrs ward Aroused to . hish
Pitch of Excitem0nt.-Mr. RandAll's
StrODg Speech for PattisOn.
Tho Fourth ward Democrats, at tn cir
meeting at Tenth and South streets, Phil
adelphia. Monday night, gave ex-Speaker
Randall warm reception. When he
entered the hall Chairman Hense!, OF the
Democratic state committee, was in the
midst of An eloquent peroration. but the
moment Randall was discovered making
his way toward the stage such a shout
went up as to cause the voice OF the
speaker to be completely drowned. MIR.
Hensel sat down, and the enthusiastic
crowd fairly lifted the ex.speaker on its
shoulders and passed him up on the stage.
It was some moments before silence was
restored sufficiently to enable MIR. Hcnsel
to proceed with his eloquent speech.
The meeting had been organized by the
election of Henry R. CoulOmb as chair.
man, and long list of vice presidents and
secretaries.
Mr.. Hensel presented strong arraign-
ment of the Republican party for its ex.
travagance in the management Of national
and state affairs. He said that the turkeys
now fattening were for Democratic
Thanksgiving, and that the Republicans
would eat crow after November 8.
At the conclusion of his address MIR.
Randall was introduced by the chairman
as the next speaker of the House Of Rep
resentatives and the next president of the
United States. He was received with
another storm of applause. His speech
was mainly directed to the Democrats OF
the Fourth ward, encouraging them to
renew their efforts to get out their vote,
and assuring them of . Democratic vic
tory in November. He said that he had
received advices q few hours since from
Indiana which satisfied him that that state
would give 20, 600 Democratic majority.
His speech was an earnest one, and
was interrupted almost every moment
by his enthusiastic audience. Mr.. Randall
told the people not to let the victory in
Ohio lead them to suppose that they
could win without work. They say, as
a last resort" he continued, in speaking
of the tactics of the Republican party,
that they are going to buy the Irish.
know something about the Irish. They
have been trying to buy them for the last
twenty years and have not been able to
get any of them yet. know that the
Irish Democratic vote is the last vote that
can be bought" Speaking of the labor
question, the speaker said " If there il
to bo any favoritism in legislation want
labor to have it. Laborers must have a
due share of the profits which their labor
produces. We therefore insist that we
are the friends of the laboripg man, while
we are not the enemies Of capitalists y
He said that Pattison twill come to
Philadelphia with 1000 Or 10000 major
itv over ReaverS'
While MIR. Randall was speaking g.
Davis Page, John L. Grim, Senator Ken.
nedy and Charles F. Iseminger entered the
hall aud were received with applause.
Each of these gentlemen delivered earnest
and eloquent addresses.
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KAWLlSsyILLf.
The News From tho Lower Ead.

Fho Nows From the Lower End.
lhSsn4ts are nov ripe and in abundance
in this vicinity. The boys are nov filling
their pockets with Drift money, which
they realize from the sales. The stores
are getting in Il large supply ut eight and
ten cents quart.
J. Republican mass meeting is a.lver-
tised at G. rHylur:s kGtfl. fer Thursday
evening. The posters bear the inscription
" Beaver, Brosius and Victory We
think it is high time tho party makes
sGIs illustration of some kind, rs thoir
"gooss" will soet ears ;u IMPROPER
The cool breeze on Sunday made our
farmers feel like huskins their corn aud
getting things fixed for winter. We hear
Of i6he I4ar Slo declares that he will be
dons with his 'eorh tAis H3ek, sH4 yill
thsn sit by the ire and watch tue Gara
cakes until the gen.ler spring days make
their appearance,
Owing to the inclemcncy Of the weather
fhe iyeeaE YES poorly attended and its
business was deferred nnt,i t4.e Aaxf EJECT
ing, v...:: 49, .''ii 10 ness Friday evening.
Henry Brenberger is chairman >" tue
lyceqm.