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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-10-11

THE Chief of the Bureau of Statis-
tics reports that the total values of the
exports of domestic provisions, tallow,
and dairy products for the month and
the eight months ended August 81,
were as follows: .H,..s. ..-
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-10-11

Total for August Sl2 e6U 06l ,23T .3l7
Total fo eight months ended
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-16
The Utility of Neatness in Dress.

Neatness is, however, the great de-
sideratum to economy in dress. If the
toilet is carefully made, the dress tidy,
well fitting and neatly put on, and the
collar or frill spotless, the effect can
scarcely fail to be attractive. TO keep
garments fresh and and neat much
pains is necessary. The dress must be
brushed or at least shaken when taken
off, and be carefully hung up, not
tossed down on a chair or the bed in a
crumpled heap. Gloves should be
tenderly smoothed out, frills rolled up
and Strengthened and ribbons smoothed
over the fingers, tightly rolled up and
pinned with fine needle; pin is apt
to leave the mark behind it in I'M
slightly holes.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-16
From Washington

IT is stated that ex-Secretary Blaine is
preparing work of political history under
the title of Twenty Years of Congress-:
from Lincoln to Garfield. A History of Ma
tional Legislation from 1851 to 10 l."
Two notable weddings took place the
other evening at the capital. Miss Alice
Stanwood Blaine, eldest daughter of ex-Sec-
ietary James q. Blaine, was united to Colonel
John j. Coppinger, United States army, at
Mr.. Blaine's residence, and Miss Mary
Walker Brewster, stepdaughter of Attorney
General Brewster, was married to Robert j.
W. Koons of Philadelphia, at the Epiphany
church. President Arthur and many other
prominent personages were present at both
weddings.
OLIVER Q. II. DooKERY (Republican) has
withdrawn from the contest for the seat of
congressman-at-large from North Carolina.
FURTHER nominations by the President:
George w. Wivitz, of Pennsylvania, to be
secretary of legation to Russia; La Rue Peck,
of New York, to be United States consul al
Fort Erie, Canada; Harry p. Dill, of Maine,
to be United States consul at Guelph, Can
ada; William White to be United States
Judge for the southern district of Ohio Lot
Wright 10 be United States marshal for the
southern district of Ohio.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-16
South and West.

The lumber manufacturing firm of Ferry
and Brother, of Grand Haven, Mich, the
head of the house being United States Sena-
tor Ferry, has failed. The firm has for
thirty years conducted large business.
The liabilities, it is thought, will amount to
upward of $4,000, contracted in large par.
by the failure of tie firms Utah mines.
JOHN G. PARKER, n molder, about to be
tried at st. Louis for killing Michael Payton,
a baker, in a saloon last August, suddenly
drew pistol in the courtroom and
shot his wife, who was sitting beside him,
killing her instantly. Parker then shot him.
self, inAicting wound from which death
soon resulted. An investigation showed
that Parker's wife had consented beforehand
to be killed by her husband.
w. S. BATTLE. of Raleigh, N. c., has failed
with liabilities placed at $235,OOO.
THREE miners were killed by the caying in
of the Esmeralda mine near Deadwood, Da-
kota.
The prevalence of smallpox in the south
western part of Virg mia has created panic
among the people.
SEVERAL earthquake shocks which knocked
down stovepipes and cracked windows have
occurred in various sections of Indiana and
Michigan.
In a collision between two trains on the
Dayton and MID an road at Kirkwood,
Ohio, four men were killed, the engines were
totally wrecked, and one passenger was
badly scalded
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-16
Japanese Folk Lore.

To spill the medicine is sign of re
covery.
To bite the tongue indicates that the
food is begrudged.
Twins of opposite sex were often
welded to preclude the necessity of
cruel separation.
A woman stepping over an edge
tool, sword, razor or knife, spoils the
edge and temper.
A bean dropped into the well fol
each day a journey is supposed to last
will preserve the travellers feet from
foot-sores.
The dead are placed with the head
ing to the north ; no one who de
sires to survive until morning should
rest in this posture.
The gridiron used for broiling fish is
held above the head and thrice turned
as charm to prevent the fish from ad.
herring to the metal.
III traveller before commencing
journey writes the character shin (red)
on the palm of his left hand and ticks
it off he will be preserved from harm.
The poorest will not wear cast-off
sandals, "fearingto step into another's
Shoes" Signs for luck are seen every
where, and when a girl begins to play
on the three-stringed guitar she
touches her wrist with her lips for
luck.
A piece of paper bearing the I'M
preston of black hand is employed
to ward off an attack of smallpox. A
piece of red paper with three of the
characters for "horse' serves similar
purpose. A rice spoon is also used.
Garlic is hung up to protect sufferers
from chills and colds.
Some women are liable, when sound
asleep and dreaming. to have their head
leave the body, still slumbering, and
roam about, the head only attached to
the body by an almost imperceptible
film. 1t is dangerous to arouse them
till the head returns to its original
position.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-16
SamSOn'S Strength.

Abundant hair is not a sign of bodily
or mental strength, the story of Sam
son having given rise to the notion
that hairy men are strong physically,
while the fact is that the Chinese, who
are the most enduring of all races, are
mostly bald, and as to the supposition
that long and thick hair is sign and
token of intellectually, all antiquity,
all Warehouses; and all common obser.
walton are against it. The easily
wheedled Esau was hoary. The mighty
Caesar was bald. Long-haired men are
generally weak and fanatical, and men
with scant hair are the philosophers
and soldiers and statesmen of the world.
London Lancet.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-16
Nothing Fit to Eat.

In Lounsbury's life of James Feni-
more Cooper, good story is told of the
novelist while travelling in the wilder
ness bordering upon the Ontario. The
party to which he belonged came upon
an inn where they were not expected.
The landlord was totally unprepared,
and met them with sorrowful coun-
tenance. There was, he assured them,
nothing in the house that was fit to
eat. When asked what he had that
was not fit to eat, he could only say in
reply that he could furnish them with
yenison, pheasant, wild duck, and soCne
fresh fish. To the astonished question
of what better he supposed they could
wish, the landlord meekly replied that
he thought they might have wanted
salt pork!
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-16

Long before the Romans the Etru-
rians employed the sunshade, and the
people of the Eternal City were not
slow, when once the individual
umbrella had been introduced to shelter
the spectator at the circus on days
when it was too windy to permit of
the use of the velarium, in making it
serve them in their walks at the baths.
The two slaves who carried the fan
and the parasol we're de rigueur in the
train attendant upon the noble Roman
matron wheneer she took her walk
abroad upon the Appian Way. The
Romans umbrella for protection
against rain seems to have been a
simple piece of leather. Pliny gives
an elaborate account of the materials
employed in the manufacture of
parasols, beginning with palm-leaves
and osiers and going on to silks and
stuffs and gold and silver, with orna-
ments of ivory and precious stones.
We even read of umbrellas of women's
hair, or at least of an umbrella
couture which would compare
favorably with the most elaborate
triumphs of hairdressing in Africa at
this time or in France or England dur
ing the last century. Juvenal records
the gift to friend of an umbrella
and quantity of yellow umber-more
by token, profound commentators bid
the student reflect that the adjective
green" does not refer to the umbrella,
but to the spring time. In more mod
ern days the umbrella was adopted in
Italy as an accessory of elevated rank
and by the church in its festivals. The
Doge of Venice had his famous UNI
bIella so long ago as 1116. Il wonder
full structure of golden brocade, sur
mounted from the close of the thir-
teenth century by golden statuette of
the Annunciation, and in the Basilican
churches at Rome an umbrella Of state
was suspended from the roof and other
umbrellas were carried over IL G heads
of the titular cardinals. While there
have been attempts made by drama
lists and historians to show that under
Henry L. and Henry III. the fair ladies
who followed the chase shielded their
faces from the too rude kisses of the
sun with sunshades fringed with gold
and enriched with pearls, NJ. Uzanne
rejects these stories as impossible, on
the ground that though the parasol
mentioned in the description d
rIsle DIES Hermaphrodites," it was
very rarely used and then had to be
carried by a strong servant, so great
was its weight. The lady's parasol,
he thinks. was carried into France
from Italy, like the fan. and he quotes
from one of the Dialogue of
Henri Estienne, printed in 1873. to
show that at so late time as the last
quarter of the sixteenth century the
parasol was but little known among
the French. In the Italian "mys-
teries of the two preceding centu-
ries, by the way, there seems to be
little doubt that in the scene of the
Deluge" the Creator came on
the stage with his umbrella up. Even
late in the seventeenth century, We are
told, the parasol was but little used
save by few ladies at court, while
men let their finery be rained upon I'M
complainingly. OF at least without
having recourse to the shelter of the
parapluie.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-16
A Charming Custom.

There is custom prevailing among
the inhabitants of the Sandman Isl
ands, which may throw light upon
the civilized use of wedding cake.
When a native girl whose exceptional
beauty has brought her many suitors
is knocked down with club and car
ried off by her accepted sutton, the
welded pair, within forty-eight hours
of wedding, the send cup of poison
distilled from the hulahula tree to each
and every one of the brides former adj
mirers. If any recipient feels that he
cannot become reconciled to the mar
riage, he drinks the poison and dies ;
but if he decides that he will survive
the loss of his intended wife, he throws
away the poison, and feels bound in
honor never to show the slightest sign
of disappointment. BY this admirable
system the husband is spared the pangs
OF jealousy, and be able to live on
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-16
friendly terms with the surviving ad.
mirers of his wife.
Woman in Indin.

A learned IIindoo lady. Pundta
Romabai, who has devoted her life TIC
the promotion Of female education in
India, recently aroused great interest
by course of lectures in Bombay. She
is widow and barely twenty-five years
of age. Her lectures have drawn out
large numbers of IIindoo and Parsee
ladies, on whom she is already declared
to have produced something of an
electric effect" She dwelt at great
length in the lectures on the benefits
arising from education and the i'm
pOrtance to women of cultivating and
embellishing their minds if they wished
to advance with the progress of the
times. After she had finished one of
her lectures the ladies present were
asked to express their thoughts on the
subject. One of them, after a slight
pause, gathered courage, stood up and
spoke, and nearly half a dozen others
followed, vieing eagerly with one
another for the privilege of gracefully
speaking to the audience in praise of
their able and learned sister" Even
themost hopeful of women's advocates,
a native paper adds, were "hardly pre-
pared for this singular but most de-
lightful spectacle"
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-16
LADIES' DEPARTMENT.



are novelties.
Camels' hair bonnetts in braided
bands are late Partisan novelties.
Stylish costumes of cloth or velvet
are trimmed with natural gray lynn.
Black velveteen is favorite walking
suit of the dressy New York woman.
Walking suits of velveteen are
rivalling plush costumes in popular
favor.
1t takes an artist to place bird or
birds crest effectively on lady's hat
or bonnet.
Knots of ribbon of several shades
are worn by some in place of flowers
on the corsage.
The newest linen collars are stand
ing clerical bands with finely EN-
broidered edge.
The fashion just now is an en-
broidery worked in gold threads on the
insteps of fine stockings.
Skirts, when made of velvet or cloth,
plush or velveteen, need not be
trimmed at the bottom.
Cedar red is the new shade for kid
gloves, and heavy lines of embroidery
N black decorate the backs.
Young girls should avoid heavy vel
vets; simple muslins and soft, clinging
materials are much more attractive.
Moyenage necklets of silver or
enamelled gold are replacing the mus
lin cravats that have been SO long
worn.
Long matinee" sacques for mornings
in the houses are made of plush, and
worn over blouse waist of satin
surah.
Tulle and satin are favorite mate
rails for ball dresses, as are satin and
cashmere or nuns yelling in delicate
evening shades.
Black dresses of fine camels' hair or
shoodah cloth have a collar, cuffs, vest,
and panels of black velvet, with cord
Of gold on the edge.
Moonlight-blue satin with embroi-
1ery of silver threads and founces of
white lace is one of the most elegant
materials for reception dresses.
Russian sable trimmings are made of
the tails of the animals, in perpendicu-
lar rows that form stripes of darker
brown than that of the bodies.
A gentleman cravat of terra-cotta
satin, striped with gold, and scarf
pin to complete it, is worn by ladies
with double-breasted Prince Albert
frock coats of olive green cloth or
velvet.
The chasseur hat of green or brown
felt, with high, sloping crown and
long cocks plumes, is favorite with
blonde young ladies, who wear it
pushed back from the brow, to show all
the front hair.
Serpent green with golden tinges is
one of the colors most fashionable for
velvet or plush suits, and slight CLINT
of terra-cotta enhances its beauty.
Black Spanish lace with thickly
corded designs is the rich trimming,
and with these two odd shades make
unique coloring.
Mastic gray cloth paletots are fashion
able for children. They are semi-fit-
ting, and are long enough to cover the
childs dress. They are braided in
rings of large size, and have square
pockets and a wide collar of brown
great cart-wheel shape is worn with
this cloak, trimmed with brown plush
irnnery
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-16

The thirty-eight savings banks in
Rhode Island have 1l2,472 depositors
and S48, 320,67l deposits.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-16

Adversely has ever been considered
rs the state in which a man most
easily becomes acquainted with him
self, particularly, being free from flat
tereTs.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-16

A company at st. Louis turns out
200 dozen shovels day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-16
MISCELLAN EOUS
BRYCE'S BAKERY.

Only one quality of CRACKERS made, and
that the best. Wholesale price, Gle cents, and
retail 10 cents per pound.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-16
PERSONAL AND LOCAL.


Manager Cheney Announces His Afds-MOve-
ments of Officials of the L., N. A. & G.
L. A. Lewis, Western manager OF the Eric fast
freight lines, returned to Chicago yesterday.
General g. W. Bentley, late superintendent of
the New London Northern road, has taken the
business management of an Eastern newspaper,
the New London Telegram.
George GriscOm, superintendent of the c., II.
& D. lines, left on Saturday last TO assume the
duties of general manager of the Pittsburg,
CHARTERS g. Y0ughiogheny road,
T. J. Burns, engineer who recently left the
Chicago st. Louis Il Pittsburg road, is making a
big runnin g-record on an engine which hdnls an
express train the Vicksburg g. Mississippi
road.
President Bennett H. Young R. s. Vestch and
DR.. +. ID. Standiford, of the l., N. A & c. rail-
road. Hon. Isaac Caldwell, of Louisville, Mr.. w.
S. Culbertson of New Albany, and several other
gentlamen left for Boston and New York oIty on
Saturday last, in the directors coach of the Lou
isville, New Albany & Chicago road.
J. HI. Cheney, ice-president of the Lake Erie
IL Western road, by circular gives the following
his list OF officers, their respective positions
and headquarters: ID. s. Hill, general superin-
tendent; w. S. Weed, general freight agent; g.
W. Smith, general passenger agent; A. j. Cas-
later, auditor and assistant secretary; A. ID.
Thomas, assistant treasurer; T. II. Perry, chief
engineer and purchasing agent, Lafayette; H.
l.. Cooper, superintendent OF equipment; W. +.
Hackedorn, general attorney, Lima, o.; W. p.
Jenkins, travelling freight agent. Lafaye Ind.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-16
LUMBER DEALERS COMPLAINING.
Eastern Roads Arbitrary in Their Rulings
Regarding Weights.

Eastern Roads Arbitrary in Their Rulings
Regarding Weights.
Western lumber dealers who furnish the East
eun markets, more especially the New England
manufacturers, with hard wood and walnut lum-
Der, are much annoyed by rule of the New
England roads which makes all bills-Of-lading
subject to correction. Frequently does it happen
that, after the most careful weighing on Western
scales, on reaching an Eastern point the
same car, laden with lumber ana sent
through without breaking bulk, is re-
weighed, and it will be reported as
underbilled 900 to 1000 mounds, and under
circumstances which show that there was no
ground for reporting that the was not billed
ont ut fndiauapolis at actual weight and IL Is
not only annoying to shippers, but dlshonorable
on the part of Eastern roads, who virtually say
that the Western agent gives dishonest weight
as the shippers do not ask Eastern roads TO
take their weight, but Invariably that of the
agent of the road over which the property is
forwarded. This is a matter which should re-
ceive the attention of Commissioner Fink, as
there is something crooked somewhere.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-16
miscellaneous Notes.

Tho Erie is advertising cut-rates from New
York to Chicago-S1S. 50-and no extra charge
for fast trains; tc Cincinnati, SIG.
Rumor has it that the Atohson, Topeka q
Santa Fe. the Denver and Rio Grande and Bur
hngtOn roads have begun war of rates west or
the Missouri river, directed against the Union
Pacific.
The Denver g. New Orleans Railroad Company
on Saturday last closed a contract with STRONG
syndicate OF railroad and business men to OPP
crate their road for year, in spite OF the war
against II.
The tonnage on the New York canals for the
first week in July was 172,6r2 tons. against
143,565 tons last year, showing an increase or
29,047 tons The shipments of wheat have IN
creased 217 900 bushels, OF corn 230,OOO bush
els and OF rye 90, 800 bushels.
The gross weight of the shipments overland
from California for the first five months OF the
year, was $4,000 tons, incluuing 5,l00 tons of
refined sugar. 1890 tons of wool, 5000 tons OF
wine, 1900 tons of canned salmon, 9, 100 tons of
ripe fruits and 1000 tons of canned fruits and
vegetables.
The route of the Fargo and St. Louis Airline
has been determined upon. The road will run
from Fargo through Wahpeton and BOls De
Sioux, enter Minnesota near Lake Travers, run
ming through Graceville, OrtOnvtlle and Fort
Dodge, Ia. The road will be put under contract
Immediately.
The highest tribunal of Nebraska has decided
that no one except the original purchaser of a
rOund-trip excursion ticket which is sold at
reduced rate can use IL, and that any other per
son tnan the original purchaser. attempting TO
Use such ticket, II put off the train or obliged
to pay full fare, cannot collect damages froInthe
railroad company.
The Huntington, or California, syndicate is
building, with all possible dispatch, railroad
from Eagle Pass, on the Rio Grande, TO the CITY
of Mexico, Which will be operated in connection
with the Southern Pacific. The same Syndicate
is said to have purchased the existing railroads
in Guatemala and propose TO construct other
roads and extensions into the adjoining Central
American Republics of Honduras and Nicaragua
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-16
The Fan Brood, Rnnte.

The first timetable on the Few Fail Brook
route from Buffalo to Pittsburg goes into effect
to-day. The line is made up follows: From
Buffalo to Lyons, New York Central; from Lyons
TO Corning, Syracuse, Geneva & Corning from
Corning to Stokesdale junction, Corning Cowan-
esque & Antrim; from Stokesdale Junction to
Williamsport, Jersey Shore, Pine Creek & Buff
falo: Williamsport to Philadelphia Philadelphia
d Reading, making a total length OF 400 miles.
The lines from Lyons to Willamsp0rt, where
connection is made with the Catawissa branch
of the Reading, are owned by the Fail Brook Coal
Company, which is rapidly developing into one
of the most powerful corporations in the coun-
try, controlling as it does, probably, the most
valuable coal plant in the United States, and
$40 miles OF railroad, which is being constantly
increased. The relations between the Fall Brook
company aud the Vanderbilt interests are of the
most intimate character, and the former supplies
IHe latter with all their coal. The new route