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The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1883-01-25

The agent sho sold Mrs Peters The Go.
lumhia csrpet-sbaking mashine explained
70 her the way ia which II worke,l, The
machine consisted oi large sire.gau1e
cylinder, ia which carpet could be placed
aud which wss rcvolsed Al high rate Of
speed by clock work Within the rylln.
der was collection Of ilails aud brushes
which, when pn, In motion hs its rovolu
tion. thoroughly beat and swept the cat.
pet III. agent assse,teL that his nadine
would thoroughly remove ell dust and rx.
trancous substances from the texture Of
the carpet, would destroy moths and other
deleterious insects, aud would impart a
beautiful gloss to the surface Of any esrpe.
rug or blanket that might be submitted to
its action. When he bad tested its effect
upon the parlor carpet, Mrs Peters wAs
40 charmed that she bought the machine
on the spot, and as soon as the agent bad
gone she took mp the diniug-room carpe,
and put il on the cylinder
For some reason the machine could not
be made to work, and Mrs, Peters. think.
ing that there must be something wrong.
took out the carpet and crept Into the cyl.
inder in order TO see il any Of the fails or
brushes were out Of order Suddenly.
and without the least warning, the diabol.
ical machine began to work Tho eylin
der revolved with tremendous rapidity
and the fails and brushes did their whole
duty. Tho machine could not be stop.
ped until the clock.work ran down, aud
the agent had warranted IL to run twenty
minutes. During that time the machine
was busily occupied in removing all dust
aud extraneous substances from the tex.
ture Of Mrs. Peters, in destroying all
moths and other deleterious insects, and
impartiug beautiful gloss to Mrs. Peters
surface, In fact, il did everything the
agent said il would do, but when four
weeks later, Mrs. Peters was able to rise
from her sck.bed, her first act was to hire
a colored man TO cart the machine down
to the river and throw it into the deepest
available pool.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1883-01-25
HOW WATCHES ARE MADE.

II will be apparent TO any one, who will
examine a SoLIp Com WATCH, that aside
from the necessary thickness for engray.
ing and polishing, a large portion OF the
precious metal used, is needed only to
stilfen and hold the engraved portions in
place, and supply the necessary solidity
aud strength. The surplus gold is actual
ly needlss so far as uTnITY and beauty are
concerned. In JAMES BOSS PATENT
GOLD WATCH CASES, this WASTE Of
precious metal is overcome, and the SAME
soLIpny AND STRENGTH produced at from
one.third to one half Of the usual cost OF
solid cases This process is Of the most
simple nature, as follows: plate Of nickle
composition metal. especially adapted to
the purpose, has two plates OF SOLID GOLD
soldered one on each side. The three are
then passed between polished steel rollers,
and the result is strip fheavy plated
composition, from which the cases, backs,
centres, bezels, &c, are cut and shaped by
suitable dies and formers. The gold in
these are sufficiently thick to admit Of all
kinds Of chasing, engraving and enamel
ing; the engraved cases have been carried
until worn perfectly smooth by time aud
use without removing the gold.
THIS Is THE ONLY CASE MADE
WITH TWO PLATES OF SOLID GOLD
AND WARRANTED BY SPECIAL GER
TIFICATE.
For sale by all Jewellers Ask for Illus
trated Catalogue, and to see warrant.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1883-01-25
Nine Noteworthy Trees.

An elm near Lawrenceburg. Tenn is
l05 feet in diameter from tip to tip OF it-
branches, and 800 feet in circumference
George II. Cook, Of Lancaster, Pa, has
pear tree in bis yard which recently had
ripe frpit apd blossoms on ITS branches a,
the same tiae.
A Pennsylsania walnut tree that was
hollow, aud nine feet in djapeter, wag
sawed down lately aud the stump is used
as pen for . number OF hogs.
A cherry tree in Carter county Ken.
tucky, is l3 IL feet in circumference aud
GO feee: high, and its branches shade o
plot Az feet across.
Near the Fair stleet depot, Kingston,
N. G., is grand old elm II il of bouques
shape and during the present season ovef
200 birds built nests in its branches
At the mouth Of Grassy Run, in Spring.
hill township Pa, there stood sycamore
tree that was hollow at the butt, and John
Brooks used it as stable for his horse.
In Green county, Miss, is double pins
tree which has two distinct trunks % feet
apart, uniting 80 feet above the ground,
forming at that point one sold trunk.
round and symmetrical.
tree recently cut IN Mexico. Mo-,
measured nine feet through, near tho
ground and was also ITO feetibigh. Tho
first limb grew ont at hight OF 80
feet from the roots The tree was at least
300 years old. When it fell IL squirrels and
one coon we're killed.
In the village OF Pedur, in india, grows
marvellous palm. Some children plucked
its fruit at o'clock one afternoon, and
fiocked early the next morning TO gather
more but they found the branches nov
far above their heads. They ran 10 their
parents with the story that date tree
which they saw on the previous day lying
upon the ground was now standing. Oh.
seryaton disclosed that the tree had been
changing its position every morning and
evening. The tree is II feet high. not M
cludIng the leaves andistems. One who
has seen il writes. "At $50 the tree was
almost lying towards the west The foot
of the tree was at an angle OF five to seven
degrees with the ground. and we were
given to understand that il bad already
comm eneed TO rise from 4 clock. A hand.
ke,ebief which had been tied by the
nuasia ~ Sae OF the leaves, 80 that its
other ead might just touch the ground,
had risen six inches. Al s p. m. the k'r-
chief wss IL inches from the ground, and
AT . a. no. nine feet. --PAibiie{phia Press.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1883-01-25
American Fortunes.

Reviewing the rapid growth of Ameri.
can fortunes, the Elmira Telegraph says;
Twenty or thirty years ago-say thirty
the richest man in the United States was
not worth more than Marcus Crassus, the
richest man in Rome in the days Of Pom
pey and Julius Caesar Sl0,000,000 to
s15, 10000 When old Stephen Girard
of Philadelphia died it was said he was
worth sl5, 100000, bnt in fact he was not
worth $40, ,000,0 He was then the veal
thiest man in the country. When Cor
nelius Vanderbilt died his estate was reck'
oned at $40, 900, 900; Al few years after that
the Stewart estate was reckoned at $780,
100000. These were the richest men in
the country ten or dozen years ago, and
there were hardly twenty others worth one
fourth as much each. What q change has
taken place since the death of Vanderbilt
The wealth Of his son, William H., is
now reckoned above Sl0O,000,000. Jay
Could a bankrupt ten years back, is sup
posed to be worth S5S, 00,000; Stanford
Crocker and the heirs of the estate OF Mark
Hopkins range from $50, ,000,0 900 to $780,
900, 900 each. There died man in New
York, Moses Taylor, whose property is
yariously stated at from $50, 100000 to
$50 900, 900, and he hardly attracted any
g M
have become those of equal rank in for
tune. Twenty years ago the richest man
10 Sau Francisco was thought to be Will
liam G. Ralston and the aggregate of his
possessions did not exceed $4,000 900.
At that time two men kept an humble sa.
loon on Washington street, between Mont
gomery aud Sansome streets, whose whole
possessions could not have been cashed
for S25, 600
They became partners OF two other men
in mines on the the Comstock lode The
last two were not rich. The fortune OF
the four men did not reach $4,000 Now
one of the first two is worth $4,000, 900,
and one of the last two. is supposed to be
worth $50, 1000, 900 or more. 1t is stated
on good authority that two brothers named
Armour made $1,000, 900 in one year in o
'corner" in pork. James r. Keene in
1872 was poor man in San Francisco
SO poor that at times $40 piece looked
as big to him as a full moon. He is now
rated $4,000, 900 nabob in New York,
all OF it the result OF eight or nine years
successful speculation.
1t took Stephen Girard lifetime to
make half as much, and yet he was ac-
counted the sharpest and luckiest mer-
chant of his time. About the year 1863
there went to California by way of the
Central and Union Pacific railways par
ty of visitors from Chicago. Among them
was George Pullman, the Inventor Of the
palace sleeping car. He was then but an
experimeuter, an adventurer on the wave
OF fortune. He was understood to be
worth good deal less than nothing. His
wealth is now estimated at from Sl5, ,000,.
900 TO $40. .O00,0 600 and increasing at rate
that will make it 100000 if he lives
| ton wears more
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1883-01-25

Is ii not strange, in these days OF cheap
stationery, to think Of time when both
parchment and papyrus had become so
rare aud SO exorbitantly expensive that
both Greeks and Romans were in the hab-
it Of using palimpsest, which was simply
an old manuscript with the former writ
ing erased? Thus countless works Of
authors now celebrated, whose every word
is held as priceless by the people Of the
nineteenth century, were destroyed by
their contemporaries. Verify those proph
cts lacked honor Many were the expedi-
ents resorted to by the early scribes to
obtain a supply OF writing materials
There was no scribbling paper, whereon
to lot down trivial memoranda or accounts
but the heaps Of broken pots and crockefy
OF all sorts, which are so abundant 10 all
Eastern towns, prove the first suggestion
for snch China tables and plates as we
now use, and bits Of smooth stone or tiles
we're constantly used for this purpose and
remain to this day. Fragments Of ancient
tiles thus scribbled on lsueh tiles as iha,
whereon Ezekiel was commanded TO por.
tray the city Of Jerusaleml have been
found in many places. The Island Of III
ephantine in the Nile is said TO have fnr.
uished more than hundred specimens o.
these memoranda, which are nov 10 yAri
Gus museums. One Of these Is soldier
leave Of absence scribblei on an old vase
How little those scribes aud accountant
foresaw the inieres. with which the learn
ed descendants Of the tarbarians Of thl
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1883-01-25

Telemachus, it will do you ever SO much
good, il every once in q while you will go
away by yourself for an hour or two and
get real we'll aquainted with yourself.
"As q man thinketh, SO is he.' And you
will never "know thyself' thoroughly un
less now and then you get alone and SIT
down and talk to yourself, cross-examine
yourself; learn what you know; what are
your ambitions, your aims, your hopes;
what is your real character, because, my
dear boy, your reputation may be one
thing and your character quite another.
Sometimes it does happen, ia this faulty
old world, that really good man, man
whose character is above reproach, may
bear the reputation Of rascal, and once
in while, two or three times in while,
in fact, rascal wears the stolen reputa-
tion OF an honest man. Go away now and
then. my boy. and sit down all by your
self and think Think Of nothing under
tho sun only yourself. Yes, | know, my
son, there are men who never think Of any.
thing else, and God never made more use
less men; but that is because they do all
the thinking about themselves publicly
aud aloud. They never think alone.
You will be honest with yourself when
you are alone, my boy man is apt to
be honest with himself in the dark. He
does not pose in heroic posture when he
has no audience. When he stands face TO
face with himself, with no human eye TO
watch him, and no human ear to listen to
his confession, and only his Maker.
who knows every secret motive and
thought OF his life, to see and TO listen,
a man has to be honest. How could be be
hypocrite then? Why. my boy, / some
times think when the two men went up
into the temple to pray, the Pharisee was
partly led 10 pray as he did because he
prayed for an audience; TO the congrega-
tioE rather than to God. He had his po-
sition in society and in the synagogue to
maintain, and he wanted every man who
heard that prayer TO know Just what kind
OF man Le WAS and how good he was and
SO he told all the good things about him.
self that he knew. Il am not as other
men are --eYtortioners, unjust, adulterers
or even as this publican" But the poor
publican, standing sfar of r. all, that
was what made him honest; be was away
from the crowd; nobody could hear him
he was alone with God; the omnipoten,
and omniscent, who knew the secret heart
Of the publican better than the poor mar
knew /, himself, and knowing this stand.
ing face to face with himself, he had 10 bs
honest; he saw and knew how weak ant
faulty he was; how msrred was all bis lif,
with brigh, promises and poor. broken
incomplete fulfllment. aud as he faced
himself and realized how weak and iauli,
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1883-01-25
isle wonld one day TREASURE their rough

isle wonld one day TREASURE their rough
notes.
still qusintsr were the writing materials
of the ancient Arabs, who, before the time
Of Mchammed. used 10 carve their annals
on the shoulder blades of sheep; these
''sheep-bone chronicles we're strung 10.
gether. and thus preserved. After awhile
Sleeps bones were replaced by sheep's
skins, and the manufacture Of parchment
was brought to such perfection as 10 place
1t among the reiinements OF art. Wc hear
Of ,ellnnls that we're tinted yellow. others
white. others a rich purple, and the writ.
ing thereon was in golden ink, with gold.
en- borders and many oolored decorations.
These precious manuscripts were annoint.
ed with oil OF cedar TO preserve them from
moths. We hear Of one such in which
the name Of Mobammed is adorned with
garlands OF tulips and carnations painted
in vivid colors. Still more precious was
the silky paper Of the persiaas. powdered
powdered with gold and silver dust,
whereon were painted rars illuminations.
while the book was perfumed with altar
OF roses or essence Of sanial.wook.
OF the demand for writing msterials one
may form some slight notion from the vast
manuscript libraries Of which records have
been preserved as having been collected
by the Caliphs both OF the East and West
the former in Bagdad. the latter in An.
dalusia-where there were eighty great
public libraries besides that vast one at
Cordova We also hear Of private Libraries,
such as that OF tho physician who declined
an invitation from the Sultan OF Bokhara,
because the carriage of his books would
have required four hundred camels. II
all the physicians Of Bagdad were equally
literary the city could scarcely have con
tanned their books. as we hear that the
medical brotherhood numbered $50 Ii.
censed practitioners.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1883-01-25

SLEEP THE BEsr BIsT "A physician says
that the cry for rest has always been loud.
er than the cry for food. Not that II is more
important but il is often harder 10 obtain.
The best rest comes from sound sleep.
OF two men or women otherwise equal,
the one who sleeps the best will be the
most moral. healthy and efficient. Sleep
will do much 10 cure irritablity OF temper.
or pcevishness and uneasiness II will re-
store to vigor an overworked brain. II
will build up and make strong weary
body. II will cure headache. II will
heal broken spirit II will assuaae sor-
row, Indeed we might make long list
Of nervous and other maladies that sleep
will cure. The cure Of sleeplessness re-
quires clean good bed. sufficient erer.
else TO produce weariness. pleasant occu.
pati n, good air aud not too warm a room.
clear conscience aud avoidance Of stimu-
lsnis and narcotics.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1883-01-25

/ Next Sunday. at midday precisely, the
Catholic church Of NJ Was invaded by
the ban and the srriere ban of the German
sabre-trAilers. Not q single citizen was
here On all sides one saw blue uniforms.
with gilt buttons, spiked helmets and hel.
NETS decorated. A gilded chair had been
reserved for tho military governor OF NJ.
The Cure Schlegel entered the chancei
at the head Of bis clergy. He had laid
aside the red ribbon which ordinarily dec
GRATED his breast; and had dopned dark
chssuble. as In siga Of mourning; his face
was as white As the alb he wore; he did
not seem to perceive the crowd in the nave
and his eyes we're fixed upon the crucihx
above the high altar.
As for Richter. he had disappeared since
the evening OF his interview with the Cure.
Ha had locked himself up in his house,
ceased to give lessons and refused all en-.
trance TO visitors Then Sunday morning
he dressed himself all in black and went
by roundabout way to the church. In
short he hid himself from public gaze like
man who has just committed some bad
action. And finally, instead OF leading
the choir himself. as usual, he had dis.
missed the organist and taken his place at
the great organ up stairs.
Midday was striking upon the cathe.
dral clock. when the military governor
entered with an escort of soldiers with
drawn swords. The organ then uttered
drawing and dismal melody, and the cere.
mony was as lugubrious as funeral ser
uice. The chant resembled a psalm for
the dead and the organ uttered groans
like one in the last agony. BY order Of the
governor the Cure Schlegel began to sing
a Te Deum and Richter accompanied him
upon the organ.
For while only the musician, feverish
and impatient, let his fingers wander over
the ivory keyboard.
Suddenly lightning flashed from his
eyes; he tossed his long hair back; his
whole frame became animated and his fin
gers stifiened their touch upon the keys.
The languishine organ awoke to life; it
uttered brazen sounds caught up and re-
peated by all the echoes Of the naves; and
all the stained glass windows trembled as
though they would fall from their oaken
frames.
The Cure Schlegel Immediately rose
with all his clergy, but after a moment re-
sumAd the attitude Of prayer.
The German audience seemed in con-
sternation; each looked at the other A
sort of tamult arose in the church az
though OF . panic; the governor arose
from his gidsd chair and hurried from
the church. Richter was playing the
Marseillaise Gpen the organ!
The same evening the choir master left
the city in spite Of the German police He
never returned
The Cure Schiegei recently died quiet
and happy death, after expressing one
last lesre--that the first Te Deum sung
for French victory in NJ should be
played upon the same organ by the mu-
sican Richter.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1883-01-25

The BREATH OF SUSPICION. 1t was just
before the curtain had gone up for the
third act when Smith, who had been out
TO "see man" noticed Brown seated a
few rows in front OF him. "Do you see
fellow over there?' he said, 10 his wife
She nodded assent. "WelI," he continued
II hate that fellow like cat hates hot
soup, and il ever get chance III para
yze' him. Then his wife asked: Are you
going out to see another man after the
close Of this act? Smith hiccoughingly
allowed that he was. well, tell you
what to de, dear: when you come back you
go over to Mr.. Brown and breathe on
him; that will paralyze him.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1883-01-25
What the Cell Can Do.

Water, earth. salts and the gasos-the
raw materials which the plants suck mp
are changed within the cells into starch
and sugar, woody fibre. slbumen and wax.
oil and resin, into powerful medicines and
deadly poisons. The simplest plant pos
esses an art which the most skilful chem.
ist has not yet been able TO learn from it,
1t is true that the chemist can artifcially
prepare in his laboratory many OF the sub
stances which the plant cell likewise pro-
duces. He can convert the starch OF the
potato into the sugar which gives the wine
grape its sweetness; this, again. he can
transform into the fruit acids which, IN
connection with the sugar. give the ber.
ries their fresh and agreeable taste; he
can even produce the flavor OF the fruits
from the fusel oil which be obtains from
the fermentation Of the sugar. He can
make the oil OF bitter almonds from ben
zoic acids He can, with as good art, imi
tate the pungent taste Of the pepper and
the biting one of the mustard seed, and
the narcotic poison which only the night
shade has hitherto prepared for the heal
ing of sore eyes. He can produce from
the sap Of frs the crystal needles of van
lila, for which Mexican orchid has here
tofore been obliged to give up its pods;
from the distillation OF wood he obtains q
smoky fluid, from which he procures sal
icylic acid, for the production Of which
the flowers of the meadow-sweet or the
bark tissues Of the willow were formerly
required; and from this he makes also the
ink lcoloring gallic acid, which formerly
only little wasp knew how TO draw out
by its sting from the cells Of the oak, and
the aroma OF the woodruff. He has made
the work of the cells in the madder root
superAuous, for he has fabricated its
costly dyes, along with hundred other
| splendid pigments, out of tar oil and stone
coal; and is now on the point Of taking its
work from the indigo plant by artificially
producing indigo. But a raw material
which has at some time been brought forth
out Of living plant cell always lies at the
foundation Of all these manipulations OF
the chemist, wonderful as they are. And,
notwithstanding the immense progress
that modern chemistry has made within
the last ten years. its art is still limited al
this point; no prospect yet exists that II
will be able, artifciaily, to produce the
most important Of all the substances that
go to build the bodies of animals and
plants. and TO form their living cell tissues
protoplasm. or the envelope Of the plana
cells. the matter OF the IN mugcles and nerves.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1883-01-25

Que tol Of good bone dust contains as
much nitrogen as eight and halt tons u
fresh stable manure aud as much pLos-
phOrie acid AZ 10 tons Of fresh stable ma
nufe. But one tn of "a mtnnre contains
more potash than hye tons of bone nnst
~ Dope dnst aud ashes mako ro,1plrie
fertilizer.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1883-01-25

bytery; the pries, gave himself up to
prayer But any one Who could have
seen the face OF the old musician As be
ssnded his way home thrcsgh the shaa-
o~~ Of the night would hsse noticed that
tears we're rolling down his cheeas
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1883-01-25

There are huDJrei aud four boys born
10 every hundred girl. Mature ssid u.ly
make aIlowanees ior breach oi promise.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1883-01-25


A farmers wife hustled into a store in
town up the Hudson the other day, aud
went for the proprietor with;
"Mr. Davis, bought six pounds Of sug-
ar here few days ago. and when l got
home ! found stone weighing three
poundslin the package"
.'Yes maam."
"Can you explain such s~indle. sirf"
II think can" he placidiy replied.
"when weighed your eight pounds Of
butter the other day found the three
pound stone 10 the crosk. aud when
weighed the sugar the stone must bare
slipped Unto the scales. We are both
growing old, Mrs. Jones, and ! presume
our eyesighi has become more or less a.
fected.
She looked a. him for half moment
over her brass bouad spectacles aud then
said she had three dozen eggs which she
wanted 70 exchange for some hooks and
eyes aud red shirt bnttons - Wal Stree
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