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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-19

Professor Crudelli, of Rome, points
out in the Practitioner that the keep
ing of plants in ill-ventilated rooms
may cause malarious infection even in
regions where malaria is unknown.
Professor Eichwald, of st. Petersburg,
reports the case of lady who was at
tackled by true intermittent fever while
living in room containing plants, yet
after the removal of the flower pots a
cure without relapse was effected.
The unwholesome influence is said to
be due not to the plants, but to the
damp earth in which they grow.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-19

In Dallas comfy, Texas, lives J. L..
Shirley, who is probably the only man
in the United States who has used
greenbacks for gunwadding. lie went
duck hunting with $300in currency in
his pocket, and not having any gun
wads, he used paper in loading. lie
became so engrossed with the sport
that he forgot all about his currency,
and had shot about $50 of his wad be-
fore he discovered his mistake. He,
how ever, killed thirty-seven ducks,
which cost him a trine over S1.2j
each.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-19
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

Women are now eligible to school
Offices in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Vir-
ginia, Massachusetts,, Michigan, Min
nesota, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Wyom-
ing, and to any Office in Wisconsin ex-
cept State Superintendent. Mississippi
has a State Board of Education, which
includes the Governor, Lieutenant
Governor and eight other persons, one
of whom is woman.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-19

An establishment has been op = Il
in London called THE Health Home
by a Doctor Que tin, who proposes to
cure all diseases by dietary system.
The patient IS handed by 4 servant in
black and gold card specially pre-
pared, on which he will find his soup,
if soup is allowed his fish, if it is
permitted his joint, if it suits his con-
dition, and so on to the coffee. There
also will he find Inscribed the mineral
water suitable to the state of his liver,
with directions respecting the dessert,
which Will consist of a digestive pill or
two, a pcpsin sandwich, or some equally
attractive novelty.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-19

culation by Jeffries," it's va!.;e will be
in its present form, SOS, 224, 900. But
no price at all can be set upon stone
which is still in the rough state, and
regarding the true character of which
the greatest uncertainty prevails.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-19

The old Mormon temple in the little
village of Kirkland, o., twenty-three
miles east of Cleveland, is undergoing
repairs, and is, according to the Cleve-
land Leader, to be rededicated on the
9th of next April in the presence of a
thousand Mormons from the West, TO
the propagation of the faith once de
livered to Smith, A few members of
the old Kirkland community remained
behind when their brethren departed to
a new field, and still survive, faithful
to the tenets Of Mormonism, minus,
it is said, the polygamy doctrine. The
creed of the rejuvenated Church is en-
pected to make a vigorous declaration
against plural marriages, and in that
case it's deciples will be tolerated in
Northern Ohio.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-19

The area planted to potatoes in Eng
land, in 1882 was $1,000 acres less than
in 1881, and the total deficiency in the
crop as compared to last season is 50O,
900 tons. In Germany the official re-
ports of the potato crop estimate ade-
liciency of fifty per cent. or equal to
11,750,000 tons, while in some Of the
other continental countries TIE potato
crop was almost complete failure.
The prices of potatoes in England are
fifty per cent. higher than at the same
time last year. 1t is evident no Euro
pean potatoes will be shipped here
during the next six or eight mont 9t
least.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-19

A curious sale is held annually at a
store-house in the Rue des Ecoles,
Paris. The articles sold are of two
classes, such as the garments of muir
dered man or the weapon with which
a murder was committed, which have
been offered as evidence in the trial,
and are sold at the expiration of six
months if they remained unclaimed ;
and such articles as have belonged to
deceased prisoners, or have been found
and delivered to the police authorities,
and have not been claimed by their
owners. 1t is said that large prices
are often paid for property that has
belonged to notorious criminals.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-19
pUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Man advertises, then realizes.
The best press-A press of business.
"Come down." said the Young man,
stroking his upper lip.
The use of iron cannot increase the
running qualities of a dog, but tin can.
Men who have money to loan take
the greatest possible interest in their
business.
A Michigan horse ate ten pounds of
starch without feeling very much
stuck up.
Freckles are not 50 bad. 1t is said
that one girl does not object to seeing
them on another girls face.
Some OF the Asiatics are now cook
ing their meals ON American stoves.
This is preferable to the old style of
serving up Americans on Asiatic
stoves.
A marine disaster: "Yes,' said the
captain of the ocean steamship, 1--WE
had very expensive trip this time.
Very little sea-sickness; passengers ate
frightfully."
Women are such queer creatures that
no man can understand them. Indeed,
it has been generally conceded that the
only way to find a woman out is to call
xvbar, cha il NOT in
The papers very kindly tell the poor
man how to make a nourishing soup
out of small piece of meat. # they
would only tell him how to get the
meat his wife would be much more
obliged.
4 vermont lawyer has printed book
to prove that the earth is 100000
years old, and that there is no reason
why people shouldn't live thousand
years. Probably they don't just out
of sheer laziness.
Julia, my little cherub, when does
your sister Emma return?' Julia-"I
don't know" Didn't she say anthing
before she went away ~ Julia-"She
said, if you came to see her, that she'd
gone till doomsday.
A matter of multiplication: Teacher
-"Why, how stupid you are, to be
sure. Can't multiply cight-eight by
twenty-five? I'll wager that Charles
can do it in less than no time Pupil
81 shouldn't be surprised. They say
that fools multiply very rapidly nova
days"
The reason that an express train
alwas proceeds a milk train is not be
cause its speed is greater. 1t is be-
cause the cow-catcher on the engine is
used to catch the COWS in time to be
MIXED before dark. After they are
caught they are run on the side track,
the COWS, we understand, doing the
switching themselves.
A medical journal says that when a
man wants to sneeze and cannot, if he
goes into the sunlight he will find the
exect equal to that of snuff. The in
formation must prove great comfort
to man when an elusive sneeze seizes
his nasal organ about 9 o'clock p. M.
He can make trip to some country
where the sun is shining, or defer the
sneeze until next morning.
THAT THIRvISH DAME.
In childhood days ere yet she knew
The words of gifts, she'd freely take
The Observation-Disclosures, toys and such
He offered for her friendships sake.
In later years, when older grown,
Quite different things she took like this
His arm at parties-hat and stick
, WIENER he called,-perhaps kiss.
In turn, she took his purse. his time,
His love, this thievish dame,
: Not then, it seems, was she content
, For last of all she took-his name.
The number of higher arithmeticS
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-19

According to Il comprehensive sta
tistcal return lately published in Ger
many, there are in Europe ninety-two
cities with more than 100000 inhab-
tants, out of which four capitals
show each amillion population, as fol-
lows London, 1882 ,44O; Paris, 2,225,-
go; Berlin, I,l22, 800; Vienna, 1,lO3,-
10, Out of the ninety-to-cities and
towns referred to, England claims 26,
Germany l6, Italy IL, France 10, and
Russia s. The others are divided among
thesmaller States. There were in the
United States in 1880 twenty cities
having 100000 inhabitants and upward
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-19

A young man of Providence has
been travelling in the West and South
west for two years, riding for the most
part on express trains which could not
afford to stop to put him off between
the principal stopping places. He made
it rule never to sass" the conductors
who let him alone until they reached Il
suitable putting. of place. In this way
he saved enough money to pay for his
board and lodging. Now and then he
suffered hardship, as when he was put
off on an uninhabited island in the
Mississippi and nearly starved to death,
but generally he Jared well, and expe-
fenced no discomfort,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-10
THE FOURTH OF JULY.
A Protest Against CurtaiIment of the Privi-
leges of the Small Boy.

r. j. Burdette.
1 hold these truths to be self-evident: That
all boys are created young; that they are en-
bowed with certain inalienable rights that
among these is the right to go to the circus
and the right to shoot fire-crackers on the
fourth of July; that to secure these rights
governments are instituted among men. and
to limited extent, among women, deriving
their Just powers from the consent Of the
governed, and if there is any nation or peo-
pie more governed by everybody than boys
nobody ever heard of it; that, when
ever any form of government becomes de-
structive of these ends, it is the right
of the people to alter or abolish it, and of
the boys to ignore i, and TO institute new
government with a mayor fourteen years
old or under, who shall wear no shoes, and
only one suspender or none laying the
foundations OF the government on such
principles and organizing its powers in such
form as to them shall seem most likely to
effect their safety and happiness. And by
this declaration l will ever stand
A fourth OF July without fire-crackers!
Oh, worshipful masters, well might the
Fourth of July fall always upon the Sab
bath day. What was the fourth of July
made for, if not to fill all the day with
smoke and smell, the joyous bray of the
brass band and the fam of the drum? Did
our fathers die for Mayor King, of Phia-
delphia? Not one solitary father The
IaineT WHO was uetdlleu TO ule lOr Mayor
King heard that he wasn't going to allow
any fire-crackers on the fourth of July, and
the noble man girded up his loins and lived
until he was 104 years old, and died under
protest even then, drawing his revolution
airy pension with one hand and his last
breath with the other. The rest of the
fathers died for the boys and the fourth of
July. Where was the mayor-any mayor
when the boys of Boston boldly demanded
their rights Of a hostile general? And did
they do this; did these patriots scarce yet in
their teens maintain their right to coast on
the common, a right that is still accorded the
boys of Boston; did great Warren bleed at
Bunker Hill, and Washington pray at Valley
Forge and swear at Monmouth; did seepless
Marion ride and Lafayette unsheathe his
sword that the boy of to-day might enjoy the
inestimable privilege of going to picnic on
thy fourth OF July, carrying a big basket
loaded with cooked rations for eight people
through July sun down a dusty lane two
miles from the station, and then enjoying
himself by alternately going to the spring a
mile and a quarter for water for the crowd,
taking care of the baby and swinging the
neighbers children until his arms ached and
it Yves time to carry the basket and rafting
dishes back to the train? Is this the kind OF
a fourth of July our fathers died to perpetu-
ate? Must our boys go up to SILVER every
year over the prospect of this sort of thing
because We have outgrown our taste for noise
and smoke?
Forbid it, heaven!
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sun SPOTS.
Professor Draper Thinks They Are Not Re
sponsible for High Temperature

Professor Draper Thinks They Are Not Re-
sponsible for High Temperature.
Interview in New York Tribune.
| 1t has often been asserted and believed by
| great scientific men that seasons of extraor-
binary heat on the earth are more or less de-
pendent on and are caused by spots on the
suns surface, but for my part 1 am not dis
posed to give much credence to the theory
In the first place, the logical effect of the
spots ought to be to reduce our heat, in so
far as they obscure so much of the suns disc;
but then, of course, the heat might be- not
| subordinated to, so much as coordinate with
the spots. They need not be dependent on
them, but on some unsupported phenomenon
some atmospheric disturbance in regions
which we cannot investigate-which is
also responsible for these holes, whatever
they are, in the sun. But even this doubt
One case of the heat and the spots coming
! together might we'll make an impression
| dence would not dispel. In this way l fancy
a belief has grown up which hardly stands
the test of investigation. For one thing, if
they really do increase the heat, or give us
the thunderstorms they must do it all over
the world; at all events they ought to. But
in fact, they do not In South America, for
instance, so far as can be seen, there is no
| connection between them whatever.
| On the other hand Mr.. Lockyer has very
seriously supported the theory, and in India
| the astronomers are firmly convinced that
the spots are in some way responsible for the
terrible heat and droughts which now and
then cause such miserable famines by the
failure of all crops. 1t is possible that they
might have an effect in the tropics which
they would not have here owing to
the much greater regularity of at
mospheric movements there than here. In
the tropics, for instance, you can tell the
time of day by the barometer. That sounds
absurd to us, l acknowledge; but so it is
The rises and falls are so regular that the
highest point is almost invariably at 8
o'clock in the morning and at the same hour
at night, and so ss it rises and sinks man
may make pretty shrewd guess at the hour.
Then again the trade winds tend to steady
the atmospheric arrangements, and so some
places may be affected by influences which
do not touch others. Just now, must con-
fess, We are having hot weather. and there
are also spots visible on the sun, but
should be sorry to say that it was anything
more than accident. This conclusion is con-
| frmed by recent observations at the Kew
! Observatory, near London, which have failed
to establish any certain connection between
them, and | should certainly recommend
people to look elsewhere for the cause OF the
| heat
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-10

To the Editor OF the Indianapolis Journal
Your correspondent does not know that
General Ben. Harrison is, or even wishes to
be, candidate for President. l have hitherto
thought it premature to express even per-
sonal preference for that gentleman, who can
now with great propriety be called the Little
Giant of the West. As the public journals
have brought this question before the people,
you will not misapprehend the motives of
one who took some part in the campaign of
1910 for presuming to say that no name yet
mentioned in connection with this candidacy
would fire up the masses and inspire the en-
thusiasm as the grandson of the hero of Tip
pecanoe, whose unprecedented popularity
swept over the country like wild-fre in 1910.
The writer was then too young to vote, but
caught the inspiration that enthused the
people, as did nearly all the boys, as we'll as
the girls, women and children, and, indeed,
every one else except what few Democrats
were found, who were hardly enough to
make political fight interesting.
The boys learned to play the fife, beat the
| drum and join with the girlsin singing hard
cider songs, waving handkerchiefs, devising
notices, petting coOns and shouting them
selves hoarse for Tippecanoe and Tyler too.
The writer rode as one of the white-headed
urchins that made up the major part OF the
| inmates of the Buckeye cabins, so popular at
that time. This cabin was one of the de-
signs that headed the Preble county, Ohio,
delegation on its march to the grandest
rally then ever held III the West at Dayton,
o., near the close of that campaign. The log
cabin was followed by a canoe made from
the largest buckeye tree that could be found
in the county. Then followed a delegation;
the soldiers of 1872; then spendidly uniform
ed light infantry companies. Then came
such an outpouring OF people, with all kinds
of emblems and notices and numerous
bands of music. was not able to count the
number or estimate the enthusiasm of the
people, who came up singing, shouting and
laughing at salles of wit.
No one who was alive at that time can
ever forget the log-cabin, hard-cider fun of
1910. There is good aterial in Senator Har-
rison for reminding the fire of the old Wing
canvass of fortythree years ago His spot
less private character, his vast legal attain
ments his craftsmanship and his unimpeach-
ed record as a senator, taken in connection
with his patriotism, his struggles to elevate
himself without fortune and by his own ef-
forts, make him a true representative of his
illustrious ancestors. j. w. HERvEY
INDIANAPOLIS, July 9, 1888
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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIEs.

Freiberg & workum's distillery, at Cincinnati,
burned yesterday. Loss, $4,000; fully in-
cured
James keenan, and George Gaisel are TO row
three-miles with turn race for a thousand
dollars.
An exciting canvass is now in progress in the
Cherokee nation, where a general election takes
place in August.
prize fight is being arranged at New York
between Jimmy Murray and George Fuljames
for 81. 500 side.
Burglars ROBBED the house OF John Pierce near
Millershurg, Ohio. Sunday night of about
$500 and a gold watch.
The embankment at Exeter, N. H, on the land
of the Newmarket Manufacturing Company
caved, and three men were killed.
At Mddletewn, N. Y, the night watchman at
FRANKLIN Furnace shot n burglar dead while rob-
Ding the store of the iron company.
The Florida Keys are going into the cocoanut
trade extensively. More than 100000 trees
have been planted there in two years.
few more of the riugleaders in the Ely, Vt.
riot have been arrested. No further demon
stratiens by the miners expected.
Odd-fellows' Hall at Red Wing, Minu and tw 0
adjoining buildings were burned on Sunday
night. Loss, S25, 900; insurance, $4,000.
An old man named Seaman committed suicide
BY jumping from the upper story window of the
infirmary near Bellefontaiue, Ohio, yesterday.
Charles Briggs. who murdered his wife at
philadelphia on Saturday, was committed to
await the action OF the grand jury. At the In
quest the prisoner swore tie woman was not his
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-10
THE CITY IN BRIEF.

All hands at the Adjutant- generals office are
busy erowdiDg things for the August encamp-
meut.
Lille Davenport, woman of the town, was
arrested early this morning for robbing an old
farmer of $50.
Roberts Park Sunday will picnic to.
morrow at louisville and Meridian st reet-sun-
day school go to North Salem.
The oldest old settler at the Broad Ripple
meeting, to be held on the 9th OF August is to be
rewarded with gold-headed cane.
The Heller-shoemaker libel suit has been post
poned until october Is. Judge Suit, of
Frankfort, was in town yesterday arranging for
the case.
yesterday for two years for horse-stealing He
was formerly reputable citizen but whiskey
got him down.
The stock of dry goods of j. W. Hess & Co. will
be disposed of on Friday, at which time sealed
bids Will be opened Judge Taylor, of the SUI
perior Court, is to confirm the sale.
The Stats museum only needs the west room
carpetod to be well worth showing to visitors.
The arrangement aud classification OF the Gu
riosites is all that could be desired.
Gottleib Wachstetter arrested, at 2
O'Clock this morning, by superintendent Rob-
bins aud Sheriff Hess. He gave bond for sd. 900
for his appearance in court, to answer to the
charge OF completely in the White robbery
Mr.. Louis Woerner has been appointed men,
i'll place of Mr.. F. A Maus, resigned. MIR. Woar-
ner and Mr.. Jacob Waehstetter will solicit sub
scriptions in the northwestern part of the city
Articles of association of the Citizens' Street
railway Company of Evansville were filed yes
terday with the Secretary OF State. The stock
is to he 0,0o0 The Subscribers are G. p Cor
ley, W. b. Rose, l.. NJ Rice, Henry L. Rose and
Charles l.. Wedding.
A vacancy has occurred in the office ofsprose.
cutting attorney in the Twenty fifth circuit con.
sisIing of the counties of Delaware and Ran
dolph, by the death of Thomas A. Spence of
Winchester. The Governor will appoint "a suc-
cessor in two or three days.
There is an opening for a little transformations
philanthropy. The inmates at the Northern and
Southern prisons nave two three hours of
leisure each day which they can give to reading
and self-improvement. Governor Porter offers
TO send any books, ma gaines, or other good ill.,
erature that may be left at his office to these
prisoners
Patrick Mummy and Mary Mcbride were mar-
RED yesterday by Father O'Neil at ST Patrick 4
Church. Patrick has been in Jail for month or
two, being the defendant in proceedings insti-
tuted ny Mary, and yesterday he expressed a
desire TO compromise the matter ny marriage
which was accordingly done, a deputy sheriff
acting as chest man"
Mary s. Snyder has instituted divorce pro-
ceedings against John L. Snyder, to whom she
was married in 1875, and by whom she has had
four children. She alleges drunkenness. failure
to provide, and cruelty. and wants the court to
compel John to give possession of certain Prep
erty she owns to the sheriff until the case is de-
cided. She also wants $1,000 aIimony and the
custody Vt the Children.
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and it was derived from his peculiar habitual
expression-"J Jesse"
! To every remark that was addressed him,
| to every assertion that was made in his pres
/ ence, be it a matter of dinner or death, he
had only one reply, and that was:
Jesse"
The girl was about seventeen, and was so
| carefully guarded that she was discontinued,
and used to have sly fiirtations with cowboys
/ and other hangers-on at the camp, which
would have ended in murder had the old
man discovered them. While he was at the
card-table, she was chatting at the rear of
her tent with one of her many lovers. And
one night she eloped.
The old man used to gamble all night and
sleep all day, and when he awoke one after
noon from his SAUNDERS, he detected her alb
sence. A cowboy named Bunny" was
also missing, and the old man, by making
inquiries, discovered that they had been seen
together during the previous evening. He
remarked ''jes-so," as usual. but he crawled
through the town like wildcat, and bor-
rowing a horse. buckled his revolver-belt
around him, and started across the prairie
toward the ranch where Bunny was en-
ployed
The next day he returned to Newton, said
'jess-so," as usual, but sold out his traps
and disappeared forever.
Two days later travellers along the road
reported that they had found in an ADAM
doned mud-hut, near the river, two corpses.
those OF beautiful girl and a stalwart young
man. They were on their knees, their right
hands were clasped, and Catholic PRAYER
book, covered with blood, Law on the floor
beside them. The old man had discovered
the betrayal of his daughter by Bunny"
had married them according to the Catholic
formula himself, and then shot them both
through the heart.