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Daily Republican., 1883-01-16
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War Department, Cttice of the Chief
gi9nal Officer, Washington, January
IG II A. NJ.
TIE WEATHER REPORT FOR TODAY.
Eor the Middle Atlantic States ::
Increasing cloudiness, with local rains
or s1cw, variable winds, shifting to
warner easterly, lower pressure.
Daily Republican., 1883-01-16
Coulter statement.

Michael j. Hamilton denies tho
staten ent made before Mayer Wales
that he was an habitual drunkard aEd
1t is needless to say tbst it was not pro-
ven. He occasionally takes drlnK,
but is very rarely intoxicated.
Daily Republican., 1883-01-16

DR.. Darmon will arrive in our city
to- morrow at noon. He has taken
rooms at the south west corner of Third
and Shipley streets, and will DO
pleased to receive calls during the
afternoon. Hundreds have been
benefited by his treatment, and other
' 'huudrsds may yet bs.
Daily Republican., 1883-01-16
aulAll.ROX,
~ ~ RKrupLIcAs.


u IoW facts and suggestions in rela
ton y this loathsome and dreaded
diseaso may not be amiss at the presen1
dime, and in giving publicity to them
4 10 not wish to be considered egotistical
There are no less than five distinct
\ typoo OF smallpox, which are snumer-
a1ed under the following heads Vario-
lid, Discreet, Variola, Suppressed and
4 HomOrrhagie. For the two last men
tiened types there ia no hope; certain
Y Aooxh awaits the patient From variola
he patient very frequently recovers,
Rtilot frOn discreet and varioloid the
n6tlent Is almost certain to recover.
Ehysicians, as a general thing, have
~ ceen h sufficient number OF cases of
y MI disease 10 distinguish, or rather
draw limo Of demarcation, bstween
the diheren, types In fact, they find
~ very Gif cali, &t times, to tell whether
\ A1ko patient thOy are called in to ree Is
1tctod with smallpox, chicken pox F.,
&6e measl... tOne OF our best Dlysi'
snlsnp have been deceived, even after
& ~ eeup ion las made its appearance
Y M opsemorI'ory symtoms in smallpox,
S1Gtcken pox, measles and typhoid fever
/ - pfpcisely the same, and very fire.
&n6ntly an eruption accompanies ty-
\ 1ntd fever,
S7 1mal- -pox is blood poison, and
6Gittvely assert, without the fear OF
6Saoessful contradiction, that dirt and
/. H1h have nothing TO do with 1t |;
&1Gnnliness, Of course, il far preferable
4 9l6 more conducive to health but the
v ~ That persons keep themselves in
11ty condition, Is no proof that they
\, YttI become infected with the small
~. Persons who are most susceptl-
~ "a tho disease arc those whose blood
iain An ipleurr atatc. The only pre-.
NJ utati va | kuUw Of 10 ward Oft tho
oontseion 10 to keep The bloed a. pare
! - rsf,ssi Nyr, ard see that tho bowels do
not beCom1 CogSllpltNf.
kSWhen Il ucryon becomes intec led Win
~ 0nall~pO&, unlike any other disease,
I - med ioirr Fili chaCk it-it mnst ana
WfI1 run lis course. The only thing
K 4e1at can be done is to call halt In the
/. fivsr, which racks the patient and
kfoWs him or her into delirium. This
living been accomplished, and the pa
stlsut being afflicted with that type
which Ia durable, the next thing IS to
~ him or her into q profound sleep.
Hhan the patient awakes, he will feel
xolreshed aud hungry but great care
arknst be taken what kind Of diet is
! xlysn. For the first few days soft
\ IN. such AZ milk, bread and milk,
}1nllk with eggs beaten up and mixed In
II should bs given. Whisky, too,
Sk0ald he used in such quantities as
Daily Republican., 1883-01-16

Kennard & Go. will offer Wednesday
morning their line of chiIdren's solid
colored English and German ribbed
hosiery, from 8 to 81 inches, at 70
cents for all sizes. This price IL made
to red duce the stock, 1t being too large.
Ladies' will find this . good chance to
renew.
Daily Republican., 1883-01-16
Died at ths HOspltaI.

John W. White, the brakeman who
was severely injured at Chester last
Wednesday,, died at the Pennsylvania
Hospital in Philadelphia yesterday at
ternoon. The deceased resided in tn 8
city, and it. is probable that his body
will pe brought here tor interment.
Daily Republican., 1883-01-16

Waste no time; delays have danger.
ous ends If q mem oer OF your family
Is suffering with slight cough or cold,
don t wait until it develops itself into
consumption, but procure at once =
bottle of DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup, amt
cure that cough.
Daily Republican., 1883-01-16

Rumor has il that one OF Winning
ton'a fair daughters will be- joined in
wedlock on Wednesday to ono OF our
substantial retired business men, and
they will pass the winter in Florida,
Daily Republican., 1883-01-16
kIlGMalY Injured.

bridge was struck by train Yesterday
atternocu, near Brandy wine station,
and slghty injured. He was removed
to his hone.
Daily Republican., 1883-01-16
Lost.

On Monday evening, on Fourth street,
between Washington aud Monroe
streets, a black derby hat. The finder
will please leave 1t at 7o4 West Eighth
street.
Daily Republican., 1883-01-16

Mr. Angelo Williams, Assistant
Treasurer OF Iaverly't l4,h Street This.
stre New York City, spi led quantity
of carbolio acid over himself He free Y
used ST. Jacobs Oh, and was cured in
less than one week.
Daily Republican., 1883-01-16

Rev. +. ID. Valiant. President of the Mary
land Conference Of tho NJ. J.. Church, Will
preach IN the First Methodist Protestant
Church, Seventh street near Walnut tonight
at 7.30 o'clock.
Daily Republican., 1883-01-16

Ntale OF the Thermometer
At the REPUBLICAN office in the shade
this morning:
7 o'clock 20 o olocs l2o'c!oos
90 26 34o
Daily Republican., 1883-01-16

Headquarters for potatoes, 303 King
street,
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-12
Habits of the Cannibals.

In Fiji thirty years ago war was
made quite as much with a view to
dining off the captives, who were actu-
ally carefully fattened before slaughter,
as for any other cause. In some cases
meat was cut. cooked. and eaten in the
presence of the victim, who had prevt-
ousiy been compelled to dig the oven
and collect the wood for heating it.
The sick were buried alive, and the
death of great man was celebrated by
a general strangl,ng of widows. Beside
every great chiefs house living beings
were buried. They had to stand clasp
ing the supporting pillars while earth
was rolled over them. When a chief
launched new canoe number of
persons were bound hand andIfoot and
laid on the ground to act as rollers.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-12

Eggs cooked in some unusual way
are good luncheon as well as breakfast
dish. Among the simplest forms are :
Baked Eggs: Butter shallow pud-
ding dish, or a deep pie plate, break
into it, separately, as many eggs as you
will need, unless the number exceed
nine or ten, taking care not to disturb
the yolks. On each yolk put a piece of
butter, a pinch of salt and dash of
pepper. Place in hot oven until the
yolks are set; serve Immediately.
Escalloped Eggs: Butter little patty
pans and sprinkle the bottom and sides
with fine bread or cracker crumbs !;
break an egg carefully into each, using
care that the yolk be whole; cover with
fine crumbs moistened with melted
butter and seasoned with salt and pep
per, set into the oven until the white
of the egg is set and the crumbs
Drowned.
Poached Eggs: A pint of cream, or
if that is impossible, pint of milk, to
which shall be added, when hot, piece
of butter half the size of an egg. Put
in double boiler to heat; salt to taste,
and when it is at the boiling point, stir
in four eggs that have been lightly
beaten until the whites and yolks are
well mixed. Let it stand for few
moments to thicken, stirring occasion
ally, and serve on hot dish.
Stuffed Eggs: Boil the eggs twenty
minutes; remove the shells carefully;
cut the eggs, lengthwise, in half; re-
move the yolk and smooth to a paste,
adding sufficient melted butter to
moisten it well; then add one-half the
quantity Of devilled ham; fill the eggs,
and fit the half together; place the
foremeat that is left in the shallow dish
or platter, set the eggs upon it, cover
with crumbs and simple white sauce,
made of melted butter, flour and milk,
and seasoned with salt and pepper and
drop or TIVE of lemon juice, and set
into the oven to brown.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-12
Dreadful Violation of Fashion Edicts

A late number of a fashion journal
says: "Annie of Austria collarets are
SUITABLE only for matinee jackets.
Turkish fez caps are worn only as
breakfast caps" Apropos of these
edicts of fashion, an incident:
Seated near couple of ladies at the
Grand the other night we overheard a
portion of their conversation.
Said one: "You notice that 1 have
on an Annie of Austria couaret."
"Yes," responded the other. "What
could you have been thinking about,
my dear; you know they are only worn
at matinees."
"Of course 1 do, and feel so morti-
fed. don't see how l came to make
such an awful blunder. What in the
world will people think? But l am
always doing something dreadful. The
other day went down to dinner with
my fez cap on. Just think of it, wear
ing breakfast cap to dinner! Did
you ever hear anything SO ridiculous in
your hfe?"
And the other lady avowed hat she
never had.
A brutal fellow next to us who had
been listening to this conversation
turned to US, and, in voice distinctly
audible to the ladies, said:
"Queer what funny mistakes a man
will make about his toilet. You
wouldn't believe it, now, but it's fact
that I've come here tonight with my
suspenders on wrong side cut"
Great Cesarl is that sor' we ejacu-
lated.
Eyes" said he, "and never felt so
ashamed in my life. But I've done
worse things than that"
"Impossiblep'
eyes, sir; only last Sunday I went to
church with my opera hat on, and the
next night took in a show in my Sun
day boots" and then the horrid thing
went out.-Chica9o Tribune.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-12
A Fiery Breath.

DR.. L. c. Woodman, of Paw Paw,
Mich contributes the following inter
esting though incredible observation
| have a singular phenomenon in the
shape of young man living here, that
have studied with much interest, and
| am satisfied that his peculiar power
demonstrates that electricity is the
nerve force beyond dispute. His name
is VIM. Underwood, aged q years, and
his gift is that of generating fire
through the medium of his breath, as
sisted by manipulations with his hands.
He will take anybody's handkerchief,
and hold it to his mouth, rub it vigor-
ously with his hands while breathing
on it, and Immediately it bursts into
flames and burns until consumed. He
will strip, and rinse out his mouth
thoroughly, wash his hands, and sub
NIT to the most rigid examination to
preclude the possibility of any humbug,
and then by his breath blown upon
| any paper or cloth, envelop it in flame.
He will, when out cunning and with
out matches, DESTROYS of fire, lie down
after collecting dry leaves, and by
breathing on them start the fire and
then coolly take off his wet stockings
and dry them. 1t is impossible to per
shade him to do il more than twice in
day, and the effort is attendant with
the most extreme exhaustion. He will
sink into chair after doing it, and o.
one occasion, after he had newspapCg
on fire rs narrated, placed my hand on
his head and discovered his scalp to be
violently twitching as if under intense
excitement. He will do it any time
no matter where he is, under any cir.
cumstances, and l have repeatedly
known of his sitting back from the
dinner table, taking swallow of water,
and by blowing on his napkin, at once
set it on fire. He is ignorant. and say
that he first discovered his strange
power by inhaling and eXhaling on
perfumed handkerchief that suddenl.
burned while in his hands. 1t is cer
tainly no humbug. but what is iti
Does physiology give like instance
and if SO, where Michigan Medica,
Ne'cS.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-12

and brutal idea flashed through his
bemuddled brain-that now would be IA
good time to keep his VOW in regard to
paying Jacquelinc Bence for that blow.
"Fll send for her, by Georgel' he
cried.
To the servant who responded to the
ring he gravely said:
81 want to see Miss Bence for a mo-
ment on business of importance--im-
portance, mindv'
The young girl at first refused point
blank to appear, but on second and
third pressing message she resolved to
comply.
How beautiful she looked as she
stood glancing from one to the other of
those drunken debauchees!
what is your business with me,
Major L'EstrangeP" she slowly and
deliberately asked.
"Come herev' he exclaimed.
81 am here, sir! What would you of
me?"
"Do you recCllect a blow you gave
me in the woods here on a certain
Summers day?" he asked
"Perfectly well, sir
"Then mean to take twenty kisses
for it." And he sprang to his feet.
At that instant the door was burst
open, and a body of Swift's yeomanry,
led by Joe Wilson, near neighbor, to
whom Bence had sent Tor succor, leaped
into the room, making prisoners of the
drunken jewelers..
An hour later, and the gallant major,
with his comrades-in-arms were on the
march as prisoners of war, past the
very beech-tree where few months
previously he had received the cut
across the face that he so richly
deserved,
X X x 4
Jacqueline married Joe Wilson, and
their descendants still flourish in that
picturesque spot known as Englewood.
AS for the l. EstraEges, they were,to
use slang phrase, "clean wiped out
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-12
Diking Great Rivers.

For centuries the plan followed in
Italy to prevent the overflow of rivers
and the flooding of the surrounding
country, has been that of building
enormous bikes. The Pc and the
Adige have, Notwithstanding, broken
over these barriers and visited the
country far and near with disaster.
The recent floods have been destructive
beyond precedent. The loss Of life and
property has been almost beyond COM
putation. Bridges centuries old have
been swept away, Verona, Milan, and
other cities cut off from supplies, the
streets flooded with water, and all the
fiat plains of Lombardy have been sub
merged.
1t is now seen that the system OF
bikes and levees has been mistake.
The deposit of earthly matter has raised
the beds of the rivers, compelling the
raising of the bikes to high levels, UNI
til now the beds of the rivers are actu-
ally the above surroundinGcountry, car
ried as if on gigantic aqueducts to their
mouths where they discharge them
selves into the sea.
Of course, when as recently break
in the embankment occurs, the dis
charge of water upon the plains is
something terrific. 1t is as if the walls
of huge reservoir should suddenly
give way, and all the waters contained
in them should rush in tremendous
flood through the outlets thus made.
This fact has been SO impressed upon
the minds of italian engineers by the
recent calamity that they are agreed
that the embankment or Eads plan Of
controlling the waters of these rivers
must be abandoned and system of ar
tificial channels or sluice-ways substi-
tuted for the escape of the superabund-
ant waters. In effect, they propose to
apply to the Pc and the Adige the plan
that Captain Cowdon insists must be
applied to the Father of Waters, the
great Mississippi.
If dykes or embankments or leaves,
call them by what name you will, are
insufficient to control such compare
lively insignificant rivers as to the
Pc and the Adige, what is to be ex-
pected in the case of such mighty
river as the Mississippi, which not
only deposits more sediment than they,
but which, by its imperial force
sweeps away its embankments, natural
and artificial, by miles and acres at
single stroke, changes its channel
daily, and defies the power of man to
confine it within artificial limits?
The money now being squandered
| by the million dollars in so called i'm
provements had better be thrown
away into the sea, as general system
of levees can only aggravate the evil
and increase the chances of catastrophe
for the future. The only reasonable
plan is to provide outlets, making use
Of the surplus waters, as in Egypt, for
irrigation, and thus liberate force too
strong to be confined by the power o.
man.-Cincinnai Commercial
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-12

A painful and mischievous custom
prevailed on May eve, in the south of
Ireland, so late as the year 1925. 1t
was a common practice for school-boys
on that day to consider themselves
privileged to run wildly about with
bunch of nettles, striking at the face
and hands of their companions, or any
other person whom they felt that they
could assault with IMMUNITY.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-12

The recent visit of the emperor and
empress to st. Petersburg was attended
with extra precautions on the part of
the authorities. Along the route, from
the Warsaw railway terminus to the
Annitchkin palace, police officers in
sledges and on foot were met with at
every half a dozen yards, and all the
house porters of the streets crossing
the main route we're collected in
groups at each corner, for the double
purpose of keeping watch for sus-
picious persons and cheering the i'm
perial party. Policemen were posted
at intervals in the centre of the street.
while the bridges over the canals were
closely guarded by the marine police,
in some cases an officer patrolled on
one footway of the bridge and private
on the other. Where there were any
barracks along The way, the soldiers,
with their bands and singing choirs,
were turned out to make a show. The
number of secret police agents and de-
tectiveS on the alert, it was, of course,
impossible to tell. On the whole, there
was a marked contrast with the for
mer free and unceremonious visits of
the imperial family to the capital.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-12
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

New York gets about $50 miles OF
free canals by the new constitutional
amendment, including tho Erie, 1852
Chalnplain, seventy-threc; Black River
with branches, eighty-nine; Oswego
thirty-eight and Cayuga and Seneca,
twenty-one miles. Before useless lat
erals were abandoned the State owned
and operated 900 miles of canal.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-12

No other country in the world offers
such facilities for tipping as the popu-
lous and polished kingdom of Belgium,
whose 100000 inhabitants annually
consume about 60,OO0,O0O quarts of al
coholic liquors. There is an average
of one public house for every twelve
adult male Belgians, and in some parts
of the country the supply is nearly
twice as great.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-12

A tramp offered to drink as much
liquor as anybody in an Evansville
(Ind. bar-room would pay for, and
proved it by emptying full tumbler
He then said he would drink twelve
glasses of beer as fast as they could be
drawn, and succeeded in that under
taking. A few minutes afterward, in
another saloon, he drank two trimming
tumblers of whisky. Then he died.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-12

The Philadelphia school boys who
embarked in silk culture two years ago
have enlarged their cocoonery in the
city to accommodate $4,000 worms,
with branch at Swedesboro, n. j., for
the cultivation of mulberry trees.
They have invented machine for wind
ing the silk from the cocoons, which
they have been exhibiting at public
fairs.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-12

The city of Morris, ILL.,, has been
putting down an artesian well ON the
highest point of land in the city, and
at the depth of 854 feet struck a fine
flow of magnetic water, which is SO
strongly magnetic that the pipes
through which it runs became so mag
netized as to hold up nails. The Dor
ing, after leaving the coal at seventy
six feet, to the depth of $40 feet, was
alternately through fire-clay and lime
rock. AT $40 feet st. Peter sandstone
was struck, and at $50 feet hard
stone, which appeared to be highly
magnetic, was struck, in which they
drilled 200 feet. The water has been
highly spoken of by those who have
made magnetic treatment speciality,
and the cures of various diseases are
spoken of as very wonderful from the
use of water of similar character to
this well, which has been found in
other parts of the country.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-12

A bride and bridegroom, having been
shown politely over the White House
The other day by one of the private
secretaries or other men in waiting,
the groom, in taking leave of him,
handed HIM a.dollar bill and cried out {:
"Take that, Mr.. Arthur; if I'd have
come and seen you before election,
darned if 1 wouldn't have voted for
you and the secretary kept the dollar
and the compliment without word.
You see he hated to deceive the happy
fellow and deprive him Of his supposed
pleasure in having seen President
Arthur.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-12

In Switzerland, for its seeming ca
pacity probably the most wonderful
dairying country in the world, the cat
tie Of the various cantons are quite dis
tinct. The owners generally arrange
for an animal inspection when the best
cattle for breeding are selected. The
race is large, remarkably persistent in
repeating the same characteristics,
made hardy by mountain climbing, ex-
cellent for milk and for beef. 1t is
believed if more known in this country
they would take high place, as they are
of the most thrifty habits, eating what
is set before them. and picking up a
living in poor pastures.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-12

principal cities of Europe during the
ten years from 1869 to 1879, and they
have assigned to London the question
able honor of heading the list. In
London 8.3 lives were destroyed during
that time for every 100000 persons,
while in Munich, with its spacious
streets and open places, only O.4 per-
ished for the same number of inhabit-
ants. 1t is easy to see why fires in such
towns as Cologne and Hanover, with
their narrow thoroughfares and old
wooden houses, should generally result
in serious loss of life but London,
possessing, as it does, an extensive fire
brigade and fair supply of water,
should at the least be as free from such
accidents as the average city Of the
continent. If these figures are corro-
boratcd by independent inquiry, they
point to some serious defect in the con-
struction of London houses or in their
system of preventing fire.
There is a want of human invention
to prevent people being caught in frogs
and switches, guard rails, etc. Hun
dreds Of people are killed or MANNED
every year by being caught in the
'boot-jack" portion of frogs and held
fast, and run down by cars or locomo-
tives. This trap is peculiar one. A
person slides his foot into the wedge
shaped opening, where it is held in
horizontally, while the rail heads pre-
vent his lifting his foot vertically, and
before he can extricate himself he is a
mangled corpse. Some devices have
been tried to prevent these horrors,
but none is effective. 1t will not do to
fill this space with any rigid substance,
for the wheel flanges must have room.
Some yielding substance, as spring,
may be made to fill the space, 50 as to
keep the feet out Of the trap and yield
to the pressure of wheel flanges. This
is a serious evil, and there is no doubt
that the railway community will re-
ward the inventor who will produce an
effective remedy.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-12

Speak well of your friends-of your
enemies say nothing.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-12

Some of the statisticians of Brussels
have just compiled a statement of the
loss of life by fire in fourteen of the