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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-05-16

Some people often wish that they
were dead, and if this involved their
living byand-by instead of
now, how many will wish it, on read
ing the prophecy of the Rev. Mr.. Fincke
an English clergyman who travelled
much in America ten years ago lie
now ventures to tell what he thinks is
i the future of "Englishry," by which he
means the English-speaking peoples on
the globe, century hence lie calcu-
lates that by that time there will be
one thousand millions of them living
under the same institutions and cher
ishing the same ideas, social and politi-
cal, in the United States Canada, Ans
tralia, South Africa and Great Britain.
The SOO,OO0,000 which he assigns to
the United States will overflow into
Canada, into Mexico, Guatemala,
Colombia, Bolivia and Peru. afterwards
into the valley of the Amazon, and
the whole range of the Andes, into the
islands of the Pacific, across which
they will join hands with their kin
dred in New Zealand and Australia.
The English settlements in South
Africa, now essentially American, will
spread over Southern Africa, pushing
the natives to the equator. The Amer
lean farmer is to furnish the type of
this new society. There will be no
savages or scrls, few drones or men of
luxury; all will he able to read and
to write and to use their requirements.
They will have homes of their own
and property enough of the very best
and most cducativc kind-that is, in
land-to yield to their intelligent in
dustry sufficient means of support
They will have no social or political
superiors, and will manage their own
affairs. There will be few or none
looking forward to paupers fate.
The lives of the majority will be spent |
in the cultivation of their own land on
the same terms which the American
farmer now culliyatcs his. Morality |
will in this society have a tremendous
force, because as there will be only
one morality for all, and not, as now Il
separate morality for each class, it will |
be supported by the opinion of all.
Women will play Il larger part in the
work of society than they have ever
DONE No pursuits will he favored by |
endowments or bountics. The com
petition between nations will be intel
lcctual, not military competition.
Oratory, painting, sculpture and arch
itecture will grow under it as never
before. Money will be in greater use
and the precious metals have higher
value than ever. Religion will have as
strong II hold as ever on the human
heart. At the head of this mighty
community the United States will stand
morally though not politically. The
President of the United States will be
its foremost man, and "the predomi-
nant power" will be the press.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-05-16
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.

Tastes consist in the power of judg.
ing, genius in the power of executing.
There is no doubt that thinkers gov
ern the world, and it is quite as GER
tain that the world governs potentates.
The way to avoid the imputation of
impudence is, not to be ashamed Of
what we do, but never to do what we
ought to be ashamed Of,
The persons most anxious to add to
their wealth are generally those who
don't know how to make any good use
of what they have already.
The best means to learn our faults is
to tell others of theirs; they will be too
proud to be alone in their defects, and
will seek them in us, and reveal them
to us.
These two things contradictory as
they may seem, must 60 together, man
ly dependence and manly independ-
ence, manly reliance and manly self-re-
lance.
Our best words will rule the world
some day. Their meaning will flash
out some time. Speak them boldly,
and trust the growing soul of the race
for future compensate IN.
Anything that makes the heart
warmer, anything that makes the cur
rent of affection run fuller, anything
that makes gratitude and love and
honor and truth and reason stronger,
makes the man stronger.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-05-16
A Chinese Cemetery.

Thecemetery seemed to be the most
curious of all the sights connected
with Chinadom in San Francisco. |
came upon it in the course of long
stroll and was, as it happened, almost
the only outside spectator to peculiar
ceremonial rites on theannual propitia.
ton of the spirits of the dead. This
burial place is not grouped with the
Others in the general Golgotha at Lone
mountain, but adjoins that devoted tC
the city paupers, out among the melan-
choly sand-dunes by the ocean shore.
1t is parceled off by white fences into
Enclosures for large number of sepa.
rate burial guilds, or tongs, as the
Fook Yam tong, the Tung Sen tong
the Ye On tong, etc. One has Difficult
ty to persuade himself that he can be
awake when witnessing the doings &c.
tually here taking place in broad sun
light and in Iankeeland 1t is the
practice of this people to convey the
bones of their dead to China, but pre-
liminary funerals take place in regular
form. One of the frst-class often en-
lists all the "hacks" in San Francisco.
The bones are left in the ground wear
or more before being in fit condition
for removal, and over these the rites of
Precipitation are performed. AS
fingered in the vicinity toward 3 In
the afternoon, first one, then another
express wagon" of the usual pattern
drove up. They bore freights Of
Cinnamon and Chinawomcn, and curl.
ously assorted provisions. The
"hoodlum" drivers, though conducting
themselves most peaceably, seemed to
wear certain sardonic air at having
to draw their profits from such class
of patronage. The provisions were
unloadcd, and taken up and laid on
small wooden affairs, of which there is
one in the front of each plot. Most
conspicuous among them were numer-
Gus whole roast pigs decorated with
ribbons and colored papers. There
were, besides, roast fowls rice, salads,
sweatmcats, fruits, cigars and rice
brandy. The participants set to work
at once to fire revolvcrs, bombs and
crackers, kindle fires of packages of
cOlored paper, make profound gent
Elections before the graves, and scatter
libations of the food and liquors.
Only the larger articles were reserved
to be taken home again. The din and
smoke increased; the strangely CARRIED
figures pranced about in the midst like
sorcererS. The goblin-like roast pigs
doomed out of the semi-obscurity with
a portentious air. 1t might have been
some saturnalia at Eleusis, or a verita
bic witches Sabbath. - HarperS Mag
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-05-16

In the small town of Zeitz in Prus.
sian SaXony, lived two women, Frau
Schmidt and Frau Feustel, occupying
adjoining rooms in the same house. In
February, 1881, each was made on the
same day the mother of triplets, all
boys. This was a decidedly curious
coincidence in births. The Rev. Mr.
Busch, of Winona, Mimi, whose five
children were all born on Sunday, has
been the subject of some newspaper
paragraphs, but his case is less note
worthy than that Of a resident of Mid
dletown, Conn.,, three of whose children
have the same birthday-Nov. Is. A
less remarkable coincidence is noted
in the case of Mrs. William Mining,
of Mount Auburn, O., who celebrated
on one day the anniversary of her birth,
of her wedding and of the birth Of a
grandchild. Why should accident have
ordained that the same company of
MINISTRIES should have visited Washing
ton on the day that President Garfield
was inaugurated, on the day that his
remains were borne in state to the
capitol, and on the day that the grafton
was pronounced upon him by Mr.
Blaine?
An odd coincidence was reported not
long ago. In 1862 a fire destroyed the
city of Kingston, Jamaica. On the day
of the fire Aaron de CordOva was born
Aaron de Cordova's grandfather was
the first man ON the island who erect
ed a building. After the fire three
months ago in the same place the pres
ent Aaron de Cordova was the first
man who erected building 1t was a
curious fate which ordained that the
son of the Austrian Baron Carl Won
IIofer, and Andreas Hofer's great
grandson, should perish by a bullet dis
charged during rifle match, being the
fifth member of this distinguished
family slain by such wound. Three
years ago one Lewis IIiltz, of indie
pendence, No., killed Joseph Melody,
but was acquitted on the ground of in
sanity. Two years later, on the same
day and at the same hour he received
fatal sunstroke on the same spot
where he committed the crime. Coin
cidences relative to deaths are numer-
Gus if not always very noteworthy.
On April 10, 1882, Edward Goss
was buried at Troy, in this state, from
the same house at which, in 1870, the
same clergyman had buried his brother
James. Both brothers died on the
same day of the month at the same
hour.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-05-16
knowledge in a Nutshell.

A cubit is two feet.
A pace is three feet.
A fathom is six feet.
A palm is three inches.
A league is three miles.
There are 275O languages.
A great cubit is eleven feet.
Two persons die every second.
Bran, twenty pounds per bushel.
Sound moves 743 miles per hour.
A square mile contains GAO acres.
A barrel of ice contains COO pounds
Slow rivers flow five milssper hour
A barrel of pork weighs 200 pounds.
A barrel of flour weighs 1856 pounds
An acre contains 1910 square yards,
Oats, thirty-three pounds per bushel.
Barley, forty-eight pounds per bushel'
A frkin of butter weighs Sc pounds
A hand (horse measure) is four
inches.
A span is ten and seven,eighth
inches.
A rifle ball moves 1000 miles per
hour.
A storm blows thirty-six miles per
hour.
A rapid river flows seven miles per
hour.
Buckwheat, fifty-two pounds per
bushel.
Electricity moves 22S,0OO miles per
hour.
A hurricane moves eighty miles per
hour.
Coarse salt, eighty-five pounds per
bushel.
A tub of butter weighs eighty-fou
pounds.
The average human life is thirty
years.
Timothy seed, forty-fve pounds per
bushcl. :
The first steamboat piled the Hudson
in 1907. -.. ...
The first horse railroad was built in
1862.
A days journey is thirty.three and
one-eighth miles.
Ungratefulness is the very poison Of
manhood.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-05-16
Artificial Eyebrows.

At certain factory a number OF
young women were working at small
tables, each tlble covered with little
instruments and things, the like of
which | had never seen before. At
one table two girls were threading
needles with fine, silky hair and sew
ing them in little squares on thin,
transparent gauzc.
"Those girls said the professor,
"are making some of those beautiful
archcd eyebrows you may sometimes
see in bathrooms. These sewed on the
net are the less expensive kind and
and are only used on special occasions.
The real brow is very expensive, and
can only be made by person of great
skill"
| begged him to explain the opera
ton of giving person eyebrows who
was born without them, and leading
me into a most elegantly furnished
parlor in which was large dentists
chair, he continued:
1.-THE patient sits here. In this
cushion to my left are stuck score or
so of those needles you saw heing
threaded. Each stitch only leaving
two strands of hair; to facilitate the
operation a number of needles must
be at hand. AS each thread of hair is
drawn through the skin over the eye
it is cut SO that when the first stage
of the operation is over it leaves the
hairs bristling out an inch or so, pre-
senting ragged, porcupine appear
ance. Now comes the artistic work.
The brow must be arChcd and cut
down with the utmost dclicacy, and Il
number of hours is required to do
it,"
at must he very painful and tcdi-
ous?"
"They don't say that it a picnic ex-
cursion," laughed the professor; "but
eyebrows, small as they are, are very
important in the makeup of the face.
You have no idea how odd one looks
when utterly denuded of hair over the
eyes. The process have described is
painful, but it makes good eyebrows,
and adds one hundred per cent. to the
looks of person who was without
them. 1t is, too, much better than
the blackening and cosmetics 50 many
people use, especially people who have
mere pretense of brows comprising
only few hairs"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-05-16

AS an instance of what the Federal
officers have to contend with in per
forming their duties, little matter
was developed in the United States
land Office at Santa Fe, n. NJ, recent
ly, which conveys the idea precisely.
Luis Martin called at the Office in COM
pany with several witnesses and made
affidavit to the effect that since 1912 he
had occupied plat of forty acres of
ground four miles from Santa Fe, had
constructed various and sundry cor
rails, houses, stables and out-houscs
thereon, and desired to take the neces-
sary legal steps to secure the property
as his own under the homestead law
The necessary documents were imme.
diately made out, Martin made oath to
them, and was about to make final
proof of publication, when Joaquin
Montoya came along and swore that
Martin had never lived on the specified
property, had resided in Santa Fe all
his life, and had not improved the land
and, in fact, had no claim upon it what
ever. These statements were substan-
tiated by several trustworthy citizens
and as result Mr.. Montoya located
the land as his own under the home
stead act, built residence thereon,
and has now gone actively into the
poultry business.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-05-16

vcnomous snakes is almost incredible. Yet
Consumption, which is MS willy and fatal rs the
deadliest Indian reptile, is winding its coils
around thousands of people while the victims
are unconscious of its presence. DIR. r. V.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery" must be
used to cleanse the blood Of the scroiulous i'm
puritics, for tubcrcular consumption is only n
form of scrofulous disease. "Goldcn Medical
Discovery" is sovereign remedy for all forms
of scroiulous disease, or king 's-evil such rs tu-
mors, white swellings, fever sores, scrotulous
sore eyes, us well as for other blood and skin
diseases. BY druggists.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-05-16

Fashion N Otes.
Daffodil and primrose brocades are
imported.
The shade of lilac known as "Ophe-
La has been revived in veilings.
Leather buckles appear among new
ornaments for hats, bonnets and dres-
Ses.
Sleeves of street costumes remain
tight and plain, and are larger than
last season.
Narrow bands of bright yellow vel
vet are now fashionable tied tightly
around the throat.
Gigot sleeves and epaulettes of rib
bon or ruching are considered good
form for indoor dresses.
Red in moderate quantities gives a
fine dash of bright color to black, gray,
pale blue and ecru dresses,
The most fashionable parasols are
all covered with lace. Their handles
are in every conceivable shape.
Dark brown, green, black, or blue
velvet is the most elegant trimming
for light-colored cashmere dresses.
Colored silk mitts are embroidered
in self colors across the hand, and on
the top which reaches to the elbow.
Red or green pompon trimmings are
fashionably worn on walking costumes
of tweed or nuns gray ladies' cloth.
The robe of black velvet does duty
for all occasions now in the same way
that the black silk dress formerly did.
Scotch plaids and Madras designs
appear in new ginghams and in fan
nels for skirts to be worn with ier-
seys.
Sun umbrellas match the color of
the dress, and are mounted on thick
oaken sticks, with handles studded
with gold.
The most fashionable travelling dres-
ses are braided. They come in all the
dark blue, red, green and brown shades,
and although simple, are very elegant.
Two aprons, one long and square,
the other short and much wrinkled,
and Topped around the hips, appear
OH the latest importations of French
dresses.
The new zephyr plaids make jaunty
lawn-tennis costumes, and the colors
Dftenest combined are olive, the new
,nodc of cranberry-red and pale prim-
rose yellow.
Bonnets and hats of pure white are
not to be worn ut ill this summer.
The nearest approach to these arc
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-05-16

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The English cabinet as now const

The English cabinet as now consti.
tuted, consists of fourteen members,
seven peers and seven commoners.
The average age of the peers in the
cabinet is nearly sixty, that of the
commoners a little over iifty-four, Civ.
ing of the whole cabinet the average
age of fifty-seven.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-05-16

DR.. r. '. Fierce, BnllnIo, n. y: DEAR
SiR,-I have TO thank you for the great relief
received from your "Favoritc Prescription. "
My sickness had lasted seven years, one of
which was in bed. After taking one bottle |
was able to be about the house, Respectfully,
AMANDA X. ENNIS, Fulton, Mich
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JopLN, Mo.-Dr. j. b. Morgan says; ~
find TINT Browns Iron Bit,ers gives entire
satisfaction TO all who use it,"
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Ets, FITS, T1ts,
successfully treated by Worlds Dispensary
Medical Association. Address, with stamp for
pamphlet, Buffalo, N. Y.
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Rheumatism, disordered blood, general de.
bility, and many CHI ionic diseases pronounced
incurable, are cured by Browns Iron Btters,
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ON Thirty Days Trial.

The Ohio Legislature has passed n Inv lcvyng
special tax varying from S3 on n buggy or
sulky to 1925 for II four wheeled carriage.
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Gnstrinc.
Ladies are particularly recommended to
Try GAsTRINE for hta lache, nausea, etc. All
druggists.
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ID. u. T. MSlORE,

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duets the best and liyClicst Agricultural Depart
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Market Gardening, Horticultural Matters, ,Agri;;
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S,:l.sssIih stories every week, House.
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week. Original letters from lady leaders on an
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Aunt A<itIie. aEnt Eva, gaybcllc,"
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Recipes, worth double subscription price, Youths
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CORRESPONDENTS No Sensational trash. Address
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"ROugh on Rats

Strnghtcn your old boots and shoes with Ly-
on's Patent Heel Stilcncrs, and wear again.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-05-16

We have several thousand testimonials in ia
yor Of Adamson's Botanic Cough Balsam. 1t
cures cough overtime.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-05-16

Oh, the orators voice is n mighty power,
AS it echoes along the green,
But the fearless pen has more sway o err men,
To sound the praises of Carbolino.
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FAIRFIELD, Iowa DIR. J. l.. Myers says:
g Browns Iron Bitters is the best iron preparr..
,tion have known in my 30 years practice"
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CURRENT ITEMS.

A million feet of lumber are annu-
ally turned into baseball bats in this
country.
The Earl of Jersey has given to la
boring men in one of his OXfordshire
villages, fifteen acres of ground, in
plots of from half an acre to three acres
each.
A careful estimate places the losses
by fire in this country for eight years
at $593,447,609, or $74, lSO,69l per
year. The sum annually paid for insu-
rance is reckonod at Sal ,022,679
The famous Baron Stult2 is probab-
ly lone instance of an ennoblcd tailor.
He was created a nobleman by the
Grand Duke of Baden. The orphan
house attached to the convent of Lich-
tenthal was founded by Stultz.
The kingpf Bavaria has appointed
a niece of the late Richard Wagner to
be Royal Professor of the School of
Music" this being the first appoint
ment of the kind which has ever been
given in Germany to a lady.
A gentleman from the Sandwich
Islands says that the race of natives
of those far-0H GASES of the seas is fast
disappearing that there are less than
10000 full-blooded natives, where, 100
years ago, 100000 existed. The cause
he attributed to disease.
A man in Denver has had an expe-
rience which, in all probability. he will
never again undergo. lie, with the
corpse of dead friend leaning against
him as he sat in the same seat with
him, drove eighteen miles, from Plumb
Creek Bluffs to Denver, the nearest
point where an undertaken could be
found.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-05-16

The farms and stock which furnish tho milk
supply for New York, Brooklyn and Jersey
City, are worth $l5 600 900,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-05-16

Why don't you use st. Patrick's Salvcl Try
it. Use ii, 2jc. at MI druggists.
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A marc should not be put ut hard work for
at least three or four weeks before and after
lolling.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-05-16

Why use a gritty, muddy, disagrccablc arti-
Gle when Hoods Snrsaparilla, so pure, so clear,
so delightful, can be obtained. 100 doses 81 90.
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Taken 0ni nf He'd.

Considerable lots of German potato starch
have been recently imported here. There is n
profit in such importations.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-05-16

England buys of Germany and France an
nunlly about $3j,OO0,OO0 worth Of WOODEN
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Dcnton's Balsam cures Colds. CouGhg, Rheuma.
tism. Kidney Troubles. etc Can DO used externally
as plaster.
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ucnry's CarbOlic Snlyc.

The best salve used in the world for Cuts Bruise,
Piles, Sores. Ulcers. Salt Rheuni. letter, Chapped
Hands, Chbains, Corns and all kinds OF Skin Er,ip.
TONS Frecklcs and Pimples, The salyo is guaran.
tced to give perfect satisfaction in every case. Re
sure you get lIcnrys Carbolc Salvc, as all others
are but limitations and countcrfcits Price % cents
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Durno's Catarrh Snuff cures Catarrh and all alIec.
tions OF the mucous membrane.
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

Snake bites are said to cause the
death of twenty thousand people in
India during some years, so that in
half a century almost a million people
perish from this one cause. Accord
ingly the war against serpents is car
ried on with vigor, under the stimulus
of rewards; and in 1880, according to
recent statistics, 2l2,776 of the reptiles
were DESTROYED.
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