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Tolland County press., 1883-01-18
TOLLAND.

An entertainment and oyster supper will be given at the town hall on Tuesday evening, Jan. 23d, under the auspices of the Lee M B. church. Oysters and oth- CT edibles will be served in the best style. Go and see the magic lantern, from 7 to 8 o'clock.
 (FRoM "RETsEL."O
 Vital statistics, 1882: Births-11 {; males 7, females 4. Marriages - 12. Deaths-16; under one year, 3 3; between one and twenty years, 2 2; between twenty and thirty, 2; forty and fifty, 1 fifty and sixty, l sixty and seventy, 3 !: seventy and eighty, B; eighty and ninety, 1. Dis ease epilepsy, l {; old age, one, 1 ; drop sy, 2; paralysis, l i; scarlet fever, 1 ty- phoid fever, 2; bright's disease, 1 con- sumption, /; pneumonia, 1 other dis eases, 5.
 A merry sleighing party from Staf- ford passed through here Tuesday after noon, en route for Rockville.
 The ladies of the Lee M. B. church will give an oyster supper at the town hall Tuesday evening, Jan. 23d, and at the same time polyopticon Cor some oth- CT tieon) exhibition will be given which it is expected will be we'll worth seeing. the instrument showing pictures six feet in size. Admission free suppers 25 and 50 cents the avails to assist in paying the pastors salary. Give them a full house-help their exchequer.
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Blind Bride.

The American Farmer, in speaking
against the use of the blind bride, says:
Eve know not who invented this instru-
ment of horse torture, but we know that
he did not understand the anatomy and
physiology of The eye of horse. HUI
man vision is binocular-that is, we see
the same object with both eyes-and so
adjust the axis of vision that the object
appears single though seen with both
eyes But thieves of horse are placed
on the side ofthe head and the axis OF
each eye is nearly at right angles with
the Longitudinal line OF the body, so that
it is impossible that the same object can
be distinctly seen with two eyes. Now,
by binding the eye in the direction in
which it vas intended in its
construction that it should see, it is
forced to use an oblique vision, as if
we should coyer the front of our optics
and be compelled to see only by the cor
ner of our eyes. This unnatural and
constrained use of the eye, must to a
greater or less extent, impair vision, If
not entirely destroy it. The object for
which the blind bride is used is not ac-
complished by it. A horse is more read
lily frightened when he cannot see the
object of his dread than if he can have
fair view of it. But it is surprising TO OBJ
serve with what tenaeity men hold on to
an absurd and cruel practice, when a
moments reflection would teach them
better. Nineteen out of twenty horses
you see in harness have blind bride
on, and if YOU ask the owner to explain
lis benefits, or why he uses 1t, he viii be
utterly unable to give rational answer.
We are not surprised that draught horses
are subject to diseased eyes-We wonder
that they are not ali blind.
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MAKING UP.

Deity the powder she applies
To neck and chin, to face and brow,
q lack if the pablic's piercing eyes
Could gaze on the lady nowD
First the powder. white as snow,
Till the skin takes on the lily's hue.
And not line is left to show
Where Time has drawn his pencil
through.
Next, from its quaint, metallic case
She takes the rouge-but not too
much
And straightway on the lily face
The roses bloom beneath her touch.
No vulgar caub of common rec
is that which beauties her lips,
But Just the warm rich red tint instead,
Which natures self could scarce eclipse.
And nov, y IN dextrous hand she draws
The eyebrows, arcned and delicate,
In strict accord with Beauty's laws,
Not curved too much, nor yet too
straight;
The lashes, then, ere penciled dark,
And Just beneath is traced line
You scarce detect it now, but mark
How large her eyes. and tow they shine!
This mass of wavy, golden hair
She dons 1t as she does a dress;
IT'S false, bnt what of that? It's fair
Is she who wears il more or lessf
Now comes the laciDg and the hose,
Che buttOniEg of dainty shoes
and things whereof no poet knows
Who cultiyates q modest musel
So ends the making up" at last
And there your Juliet stands complete;
You know her rosebud days are past
That when you meet her on tn street
She looks her nearly twc-score years
You know all this, and yet, just now,
You'd swear she is wast she appears
That Times the CHEAT, and not her browl
New Yorl. Clipper.
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FLATFEET
MaIformations Caused by Bad
Shoes-Why Women Run Awk-
wardIy

MaIformations Caused by Bad
Shoes-Why Women Run Awk-
wardIy.
The chiefsurgeon of the Swiss Federal
army declares that the Swiss examining
surgeons are compelled to reject every
year 500 rocruits-the strength of one
battalion-for malformation of the foot
resulting from wearing badly fitting
shoes. The human foot is in reality a
bow so elastic that at every step it ex-
pands and contracts, lengthens and
shortens. 4 line drawn through
the center of the great toe should
intersect the heel. But, despite all
the books which have ever been, writ
ten on the anatomy of the organ in
question, and those whose business it is
to co ler it, act as if the foot were solid
piece of mechanism. They cabin, crib,
and contine the big re, which requires
room for lateral expansion, until 1t Is
forced against its neighbors and is tor
tured by corns, bunions, and sometimes
painful Inflammation of the joints. Flat
footedneSs is due TO many causes sonnec-
ted with improperly made shoes; yet, if
people would insist on their foot gear
being constructed so as TO allow tne
toes free action and the instep its due
play, it would be quite possible to cure
the mischief.
A pair of perfect shoes, the Swiss
medical colonel contends should, when
placed together, touch only at the toes
and heels. The soles should follow the
sinuosities of the feet, and to give room
for their expansion, should exceed
them by about one size" The peculiar
awkward running gait of women and big
girls is due toa weak kneedness charac-
teristic of the sex, owing TO the different
way the upper support of their limbs
grow aS they approach maturity This
condition is we'll seen in pictures and
statues, and forces the woman in running
TO move the knees around each
other. ano throw the feet out in
Il succession of small semi-circles. In
men, on the contrary the knee cap looks
q little outward, instead Of straightfor-
ward, aud their knees are quite free.
The result of the high-heeled, high
legged boots now in vogue for woman is
to render the natural condition defor-
nifty, and by throwing the weight ofthe
body on The inner ankle 10 break
down the arch of the foot, and produce
fiatfoot or complete eyenness ofone or
both feet.
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broad linen straps should be sewed and
not pinned. sIn putting an the babes
socks" continued the pro tenn. mother,
cleverly thrusting little pink foot into
its woolly covering, ''be careful about
tootsy wootsey's little toes. Il don't
like'e little toes all turned up do 'e?n
and the illustration lifted up his voice
and howled a denial
Miss Hobart then took small piece of
soft rae and washed out the child's
mouth, something, she said, that should
be done alter each meal. General adj
vice was then given on keeping the babe
away from strong light; how to handle
1t properly, and how to soothe it to
sleep when fretful. The lecture was
concluded by practical illustration
showing hSy to change the bed-clothing
expeditiousy and without discomfort to
the mother. The babe comfortably
dressed and growing with delight was
handed back to its mother, and the au-
dience dispersed. .
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The good ship Thr zee Bells Three Bells,
The good ship Three Bells;
God bless the crew
And the captain true,
Robert ColIyer's Career.

The Rev. Robert Collyer told acongre-
CATION, at Springfield, Mass, how he had
made his way from the pulpit. Fifty
years ago he was child in Yorkshire,
England. with unlettered but industri-
Gus parents, who put h.. at the trade Of
blackslnithing. He worked eight years
with an employer who died ofdrink, and
he thinks Dlat it was only love of read
ing that kept him from the same fate.
His firstjpreaehing was as a Method st ex-
horter, and Tor the first ten years of his
ADMINISTRATION his income from that source
averaged Is cents a year, his living being
earned as q blacksmith. lie came to
America with his bride in 1850, and du-
ring the panic of 1857 he carried a bod
for 4 while. Twenty years ago he became
a salaried preacher, going over from the
Methodists to the Unitarians, and has
since been very successful.
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1t is an old saying that "a I
ROYALTY i'm a School Room.

The Crown Prince of Germany, who
takes deep interest in the village schools
near his estate at Potsdam, visited the
school at Bornstedt the other day to see
the newly-appointed master. He had
scarcely entered the room when mes.
senger arrived with a telegram sum-
moning the master to come to his moth
er, who was dying in q neighboring vii
lage. The Crown Prince insisted tina.
the master should instantly depart.
"But the children-the school-how can
| leave them?" cried the agonized and
perplexed man Tut never mind such
things" answered the Prince; 81 will
teacn the school until the vicar comes TO
prepare candidates for confirmation.
Col rum and may you find her yet
aliver" So for more than an hour the
heir to the imperial throne examined
and instructed the children, until the
vicar came, to whose care he then en-
trusted the school.
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FARMERS COLUMN.
Farmers Hints

What is claimed to be the greatest but
ter COW in the world is owned by Samuel
I. Earle, of Queen Anne county, Nd.
She is said to be of Jersey breed. In
thirty days last fall eighty seven pounds
of butter were made from her milk, at
the rate of nearly three pounds per day.
Five thousand dollars is the modest price
asked for the animal, at which no doubt
she will continue to be firmly held
The Mobile Register very truly says Of
California plums, which are regular
commodity in our markets as we'll: "They
are very attractive in appearance, but
" zen one has invested in lot of them
under the impression that they are in
tended for eating purposes he will find
himself very successfully playing the
part of an "April fool.' As an edible
fruit they are not quite so paatable as
young gourds taken raw or on the half
shell, without either catsup or Worcest-
er sauce. What California intends for
us to do with them is a puzzler."
A great many people think eight gall
Ions make bushel, but nine gallons fall
short of bushel by about seventy-njne
cubic inches. The trouble arises from
the difference in the size of quarts. The
dry measure quart is larger than the IL
auid measure quart. Seven men out Of
ten-and among them seven physicians
think that there are $50 grains of quiz
nine in an ounce bottle, whereas close
scrutiny of their old arithmetics would
show that there are 43T l-2 grains.
These are both lessons of an eminently
practical character, but the ordinary
school methods are too dreamy to reach
anything practical.-Farmer.
The soil of eastern Massachusetts has
always beer thin and the climate bleak
and forbidding for the purposes of agri-
culture and pomology, and yet, by sci
entifc farming and great attention to
market gardening and the production of
fruits, more money per square mile is
doubtless realized by the culture ofthose
lands naturally SO thin and poor, than is
earned on the same number of acres of
the richest alluvian in the country. This
fact should ever be a standing admoni-
ton to the cultivators of the broad acres
ofthe west, who annually skim over wide
surfaces to obtain returns which some
industrious and ingenious eastern farm
ers gather from their gardens.
The Mississippi Valley Horticultural
society will hold its fourth annual meet
ing in New Orleans, commencing Feb 81
and continuing four days. 1t is ex-
pected that it will be the most import
ant horticultural meeting ever held as
it will be attended by visitors from
every portion of the United States, in
Guiding fruit growers and fruit deale Is.
Besides attending to business matters
there will be social pleasures provided
through the hospitality of the citizens of
New Orleans. A large numberof papers
to be read, are on the programme, by
prominent gentlemen. Trains will
leave Chicago on Monday, Feb. 10 at
$50 p. m, with fares for the ronnd trip
at excursion rates from that c ity.
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He silently handed her the warrant
| for the arrest of dark, slender youth,
name assumed, whose capture was inn
! portant TO the government, and against
! whom there was strong information
| The paper went on to state he had been
| known to be connected, on important
| occasions, with some of the most prom
| inent rebel leaders, and large re-
ward was offered for his arrest, alive or
dead. The lady flushed and paled as
her eve ran over this document, and
| her agitation was not lost ON the dra-
| COON With sudden resolve he said
turning to his men,
There is no necessity to search furth-
er, believe"
And despite of the evident sulkiness
and disaffection of the disappointed dra-
goons, he gave the orders 10 remount
| and return to Wicklow. Nor could he
fail TO mark the sigh of relief that es-
caped the Fps OF the fair girl he had
sought unavowedly to serve. He, in
courtly manner renewed his apologies
to the host; trusted for the happiness of
meeting the lady, and, if possible, serv
ing her; and, with new ightness in his
step and the cloud off his brow, sprang
into the saddle. As he did 50 loud
shout broke from the watch set at the
rear Of the hou g. and the dragons
quickly appeared, dragging with them
slight dark -compIexioned youth, whose
appearance Indicated the sharpness of
the struggle he had made to escape.
A week afterWa1l the police annals
we're full of the escape of the rebel cap
tured at Glen Allen. and the suspicion
attached to Howard, the dragoon cap
tain, who was supposed to have given
him facilities to elude his captors
Though that could not be proved, How
ard was officially reprimanded for his
want of vigilance, and, taking the hint
ne retired at once from his position in
the army. The day Capt. Towards res
ignation was accepted, the master of
Glen Allen cottage and his fair relative
prepared to Join the young outlaw of the
family in his refuge at HaYre. The cot
tage bore dreary aspect, all except the
garden, in which stood the fair lady to
whose influence the exile owed his safe
ty, and by her side stood Capt. Howard
You viii forget that you have ever
seen me. You will forget you shall re-
ward me" he was saying earnestly and
yet smilingly.
az" size murmdred brokenly, "shall
never. while life lasts. forget or cease to
be grateful for your generosity. But l
am poor and obscure. who have been
wealthy and influential What could /
do to compensate your generous act
your loss?"
much lady," he said, gently. "This
little hand, nay do not remove it's
worth thousand such acts, thousand
such losses. Let it repay me-"
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An Awful RESPONSIBILITY

We all deplore the terrible ravages, of con-
sumption but only few of us seem to have
common sense enough to take the proper
means of preventing it. Hale's Honey OF
Horehound and tar, taken as a remedy fo1
Coughs, Colds, Difficult Breathing or Hoarse-
ness, will effect radical and rapid cure of the
ailment, and avert all danger. Sold by drug
gists.
Pixies Toothache Drops cure in one min
ute.
The Flesh Speedily Reunites when obsti-
nate sores are cleansed with Glenn's Sulphur
Soap. OF Druggists.
Hills Hair and Whisker Dye, black or
brown, so cents.
Eminent DR.. J. J. Caldwell, Baltimore Md.
states: have used Colden's Liquid Beef Ton
ic largely in Debility, Febrile, and Nervous
Diseases, and have found it one of the most
reliable ofnutrient tonics now in use or to be
found in pharmacy" Take no other) OF
Druggists.
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Cure for iberia,

As cure for diptheria, the following
remedy is said to be incompatible: A
correspondent of the Philadelphia Re-
cord says it is from an English doctor
who never lost patient. zone tea
spoonful of sulphur in a wine glass of
water. Stir with stick, not with metal.
Use as gargle, allowing some to pass
down the throat When not possible to
use as a gargle, blow little powdered
sulphur through luill into the throat
This gives instant relief" The CORE
spondent adds: at is now known that
diptheria caused by animalcu 9 Just be
low the roots of the tongue, and pow
dered sulphur is the most powerful agent
and least harmful known. My own
children had the diphtheria--one of
them severeiy-growing wolse under
the care of a good physician. | sus-
pended his medicines and applied pow
dered sulphur on a fiat stick Ga fair
pinch, the child projecting it's tongue),
just across the lower part of the tongue.
This gave immediate relief, and alter
two or three applications the child re-
covered. In large town in Western
New York there was an epidemic of
diphtheria, and every case was fatal no
to the time this remedy was made known
to the people there, when only one child
died of all those who used 1t. | have
mentioned it to others with like re-
suits"
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Annt Retsen,s ..simnsans., J,
From the Boston Medical aud Surgical


From the Boston Medical and Surgical
Journal
Mr., EDITOR: One day, not long ago, /
was called here, at Hampton, Va, to see
an old coiored woman ofthe ''fo-de-war'
type, black as the ten of spades (which
is ten tines blacker than the acel, ex-
tremely voluble, and anxious to impress
me with the importance of her "simp-
sons, OF which she WAS determined
should have full and clear understand
ing before | prescribed. She talked SO
asst, and had such a list of miseries that
at last told her 1t would be impossible
TO prescribe a medicine which would
cure all her aches and pains unless took
them down in writing | produced pencil
and paper. and told her to be-
gin again which she did with great
gusto. | wrote as fast as | could,
but only succeeded i'll getting p ortion o.
her story, which | give verbatim ct lit
ertum. | think II will prove at least
as interesting to your readers az some
pages of Uncle Remus:
"My mis'ry, doctor, wuks right up
from bofe my legs, al up through my
stummick, an wig waggy! Den my
righ' shoulder, doctor Law sakes!l
Dat yer Misty in right shoulder pow'iul
bad sometimes. Den | has shootii.'
pains all up an dowd my spine, dread
lull an Jumps in my TANKS, an burnin
all over my right side, an roariii' yes.
honey. an awful roarin' in my head, an
de bones all loose in my head Den
has pains in bofe shoulders an my in
sides dey workin' jes' like maggots!l an
| has draggln' in my stummiek an my
sistums very bad. Efyou b'liye me, doctor
dar's patch o. Misty in de small O. my
back, an when stan up pears like my
insides dey stickin' 70 my spinel an
wallowin' in my head, an | dom got no
appetite, an pears like every minute l
gwine throw up my insides. | can't
drink no fresh water, drinks all my wa
ter billed! In de night you can hear my
head roarin' an buzzin', and den my
bowels gets to workin' an you can hear
'em acrackin' an babbin'! an dey all a
shakin' an trimblin'. Den | has q
holiness in the bone of my neck, yes,
doctor, right in the bone of my neck,
an at fuss pang riz up, right acrost my
neck, an riz an bustl | knowed it wasn't
a blood-vessel else I'd died sure!"
Yours truly
J. d. BouTELLE, M. ID.
HaD,pfoo va
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A MEMORIAL PSALM.

Past, the clash and clang OF battle,
Past, the terrors, trials, fears;
Past, the deadly roar aud rattle,
Yet we meet in tears.
Not shout of exultation
Breaks the silence, solemn, deep
On the death day of nation,
Is it strange we weep?
But the homage that we render
Softens with proud relief,
And a JOY supremely tender
Mingles with our grief.
For the heroes wrested from us
Havenot lived or died in vain,
And their aemory's bow OF promise
Spans our years of paint
Countless eyes have conned their glory,
Countless hearts grown brave thereby
Let US thank the God of glory
We bad such TO die!
Where had been the church's honor
When the overwhelming food
OF her foes rushed fierce upon her
But for martyrs blood?
Where the lofty acclamations
Ger the wrench of thraldom's chainf
Where the grandeur OF The nations,
But for patriots slain2
Shall we, then, in sad procession,
Heads low dropt upon the breast
Only bring our tears to fresnen
Graves wherelheroes rest?
Let us rather, as the laurel
Now we lay above the sod,
Learn their lives MAJESTIC moral,
Wait, and trust in Cod
Margaret J. Preston.
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How to Wash the Baby.
From the Philadelphia Press.

From the Philadelphia Press.
Thirty women listened for thirty
minutes last night in the Franklix
Institute to Miss Mary Hobart who told
them How to wash and dress a baby"
The lecture was illustrated. The illus
tration was kindly furnished by young
mother in the audience. 1t had a very
red face, very bright eyes, wee bit of q
nose and voice. The lecturer, fresh
faced handsome woman began by ex-
planning how to wash and dress newly
born infant, without drowning it in the
basin, or causing it to burst by tight
bandaging. White CASTLE soap is the
proper thing TO wash babe with" said
she, land the water should be at tenn
peTature of 100 deg. The babe should
not be washed little at time. Its
head, face and ears should be attended
to first, and then the entire body should
be immersed in the water, like this"
The illustration was placed in deep
basin filed with water, and the illus
tration manifested its disapprobation by
a howl. "In drying the child" con-
tinued Miss Hobart, as she lifted the
squalling bit of humanity out of the
bath, ". not rub the child much, but
pat it carefully until dry Rub it's back
if you like-that pleases a babe. Then
powder it with starch or Bermuda ar
rowroot," and the squaller was literally
besprinkled with white powder. "Some
mothers" said the lecturer, Sin drying
a child's ear dig it out this way" The
illustration bliLked its eyes, puckered
up its mouth and let out wild YELL
Use soft rag, wound around the little
finger" and as the action was suited 10
the word the illustration crowed CRATE
fully. SIN dressing" went on the
speaker, .'the bandages should be loose
enough TO slip two fingers underneath
and as the babe was deity turned on its
stomach it grunted a satisfied grunt
Then came the Il eklish operation of pin
ing the band. NJ IS Hobart showed how
to do it without sticking the pin more
than sixteenth of an inch into the ba-
by's back, proceeding. she aid, that
nearly all infants objected to. The lee
turer advised that when it was practic-
able, and could be done properly, the
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An old physician, retired from practice, hav-
ing had placed in his hands by an East India
missionary the formula of simple vegetable
remedy for the speedy and permanent cure
for Consumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asth-
and all throat and Lung Affections, alse pos
tive and radical cure for Nervous Debility
and all Nervous Complaints, alter having
tested its wonderful curative powers in thou
sands ofcases, has felt it his duty to make it
known to his sufferingfellows. Actuated by
this motive and desire to relieve human suf-
fering, will send free of charge to all who de-
sire it. this recipe, in German, French, or En-.
glish, with full directions for preparing and
using. Sent by mail by addressing with stamp,
naming this paper, w. A. MOVES 149 Pow
er's Block, Rochester, n. Y.