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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-23
Misunderstanding.

Misunderstanding is British. The
lolnger in society, in his glass of fash
ion, enumerates its various styles as
indicative of character. These are
aggressive. supercilious, lympathic,
imperative, suspicious. sympathetic,
emotional, but none of these are re-
quired by etiquette. Still, to shake,
or, rather, to take or give hand in
mere conventional greeting is cult
waited art of society. A gentleman
can not take lady's hand unless she
offers it, and an American authority
on etiquette reminds him that he
must not pinch or retain it." y
young lady must not offer hers first, OF
shake that given her, unless she is the
gentleman's friend. A lady should
always rise to give her hand, and in
her own house she should always offer
it in greeting strangers and friends
alike. In the ballroom, however,
Misunderstanding is not the thing. 1t is
also the privilege of the superior to be
the first to proffer the hand. An
American is chary of his hand in
these progressive times a nod is sufli-
cient, except in conservative Virginia
and the South generally, where family
traditions of old courtly and kind OBJ
servances still obtain.-AH the Yed'
Round.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-23
Chinese Temples and PagOdas.

There are more than hundred tenn
Piles of heather worship in Canton.
Among them we will mention four: l.
The Temple of the Five Hundred
Gods" founded in A. d., $40, and re-
built in 1855. In this temple are 500
life-sized images, seated in long rows,
and representing that number of noted
disciples of Buddha, now deified. Each
image is finely carved and richly gilded
with gold. Some of these gods are in
rich garments and some in rags. Some
are wearing shoes, others are shOeless.
Some are laughing and some are weep
ing. 2. Temple of the Five Genii."
According to Chinese tradition, away
back 800 years before Christ, one day
five genii came riding through the air
on five rams. They stopped on the
spot where Canton now stands, and
said to some people who stood there:
"May famine never visit your markets"
After delivering this benediction, the
five genii departed, but the five rams
were turned to stone. This temple
contains the images of the five genii,
and preserves the five stone rams. The
old name for Canton is Getty of Rams"
3. "Temple of Horrors so named from
the fact that there are ten rooms in
which the tOrments of the Buddhist
hell are represented by life-sized, clum-
sy, horrid-looking figures In one room
men and women are being transformed
into animals, according to the Buddhist
doctrine of transmigration. In another
room the devils are grinding man in
mill, while the blood is flowing out
between the stones. And so on, from
room to room, some are being be-
headed, others thrown into caldrons
of boiling oil, with devils to stir them
round in the burning bath. Here Z
man is being beaten terribly with
bamboos, and there man is being
sawn assunder lengthwise. In ont
room a man is pounded in mortar
in another one is sitting under a grea
red-hot bell. 4. "Temple of Honam,
grandest and most famous of all, will
its magnificent gateways, its CRANE
shaded avenues, it's colossal Buddhas
its vast monastery with fifty monks, it
beautiful gardens with dwarf trees ant
rare flowers, and finally its cremation
furnace, where the dead monks ar
reduced to ashes. 1t is a doctrine o
the Buddhist faith that every on
should do what he can to prevent tn
taking of any life, human or ANNA
Hence the monks have places on thes
grounds where they have for years pre-
served sacred pigs, hens, ducks, fist
and goats, until they die natur;
death.
There are several pagodas in Cantor
of which two are quite noted. I'll
"Five-story Pagoda" on the city wa
gives fine view of the city and cou
try. AS its name indicates it is fiy
stories high. These pagodas are alwa!
an odd number of stories in heigh
rarely less than five and seldom mo-
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-23
The Turtle Industry.

Few people have any adequate idea
of the quantity of turtles which are
consumed in this country. New York
furnishes the chief market and they
come into that port every year from
10000 to $50, pounds. Philadelphia
comes next after New Y ork, and Balti-
more stands third on the list, these two
cities, taking together probably So
900 pounds, while Boston has never
developed any great fondness for this
article of food, and is satisfied with
about 1000 pounds a year. Turtles are
most plentiful during the summer, and
not seldom are brought to New York
in larger quantities than the market
demands, in which case they are placed
in floating cars in the slip behind
Fulton market and fed until they are
wanted. While thus confined they are
given cabbages, lettuce, celery-tops and
watermelon-rinds, this latter article of
diet being the turtles special weak
ness. They can only be kept in the
river, however, during the summer
months and September, as tempera-
ture below forty degrees kills them.
Turtles vary in size from few pounds
to over quarter of ton, the largest
ever brought to the New York market
having weighed $50 pounds. The sizes
most in demand, however, are from
fifty to seventy-five pounds. and the
customers are almost invariably hOtel
and restaurant Keepers. In Philadel
phia there is more demand for small
turtles, weighing from six to twelve
pounds, for family use. The price
varies from twenty cents in winter t.
as low as ten cents in summer
The turtles sold in New York CONF
for the most part from Key West
Another source of supply is the Ba
hama Islands, the turtles from which
region are rather small but toothsome
seldom weighing above 100 pounds
and averaging about twenty-five. Tn
largest turtles are found in the Spanish
Main, but their flesh is apt to be coarse
and they are, therefore, not usually con
sidered so desirable as those from tn
Bahamas or Key West
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-23

There have been $4,000 divorces de-
creed in Maine during five years, make
ing ratio of one separation in ten
N arriages.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-23

One vessel was lost at sea every
four hours during 1881, according to
the English Nautical Gazette. In
1880 there were 400 steamboat
collisions in the North Atlantic Ocean.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-23

A party of Philadelphians recently
made a practical test of rat flesh as an
article of diet. The rodents had been
caught and Gagged while young, and fed
carefully upon grain and green food.
At the meal in question they had been
carefully prepared, and were served
with an appetizing sauce in company
with other viands. The flesh, after
cooking, was found to be quite light in
color, much more so than either the
rabbit or the squirrel, and possessing a
delicacy of flavor entirely unknown to
either of the last mentioned animals
The experiment proved entirely sue.
cessful, and diet of rats, prepared
under proper conditions, was voted tC
be both practicable and economical.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-23
London SWindlers.

An ingenious lfauu mas ldIely DetH
practiced in London. A tall. wou-
dressed man, apparently city mer-
chant on his way home from business,
is seen talking on the street to man
in workingmans dress, who carries a
basket and some tools. The "mer-
chant" accosts some well-dressed pas
senger, and tells him the "mechanic's'
tale of want and employment and
family distress. He adds that he has
satisfied himself of the truth of the
story, and is about to give tritle; will
the gentlemen join in giving small
sum to relieve deserving necessity?
The apparent responsibility of the
voucher often succeeds where a COM
mon begging petition would fail, and
the person accosted generally gives
something. A gentleman who had
given a small sum saw both swindlers
issue from public-house some time
after OF course on seeing him they
decanped.
a clever dodge has lately come to
light, which shows how thoroughly the
swindler understood those on whom
he was to operate, and forms a curious
co nmentary on the relations between
servants and tradesmen. A man hav-
ing the appearance of a gentleman's
servant called on several tradesmen in
fashionable part of London, asking
them to come to certain house for
orders for different classes of goods, at
the same tine throwing out sugges-
ton that small gratutity for himself
would be acceptable, and might not be
lost by the tradesman in distribution
of further orders. In number of
instances small sums were given but
when the shop-men attended at the
place named they found their services
were not required, and that the fees
had flowed into the pocket of some
other rascal.
In Humboldt county, Cal, the whole
area of the redwood forest has been
mapped and plotted. There are some
thing over 100000 acres of that timber
in that county alone. Disinterested
experts estimate 100000 feet of lumber
per acre as an average, if not small
yield. At $l8 per 1000 feet, the red
wood of Humboldt county alone would
just about pay the present national
debt.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-23

Among the articles which were taken
from the mails during the past year
were cans of dynamite and loaded pis'
tolls, as well as bowie knives and other
sharp instruments.
The bee., 1883-12-15
OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
A business MeetIug Of the
Board. Mr. smiths Res
OluttOn.

An interesting meeting of the board OF
trustees was held at the Franklin school
Tuesday afternoon at 4:3O O'Clock. Mr.. Warner
in the chair A petition signed by Messrs'
Fred. Douglass. John +. Cook and others ask
ing that Miss simmons be reappointed In
the colored schools. C. b. Purvis objected 10
the consideration of the petition by the teach
ers committee. stating that he had reasons
for not reappointing the lady. The coloreo
teachers, said he, are entitled 10 all the places
in the colored schools since they have but
small representation.
Mr.. Brooks requested that his supplement-
nj report to the commissioners on the SUBJ
iect be referred, with the building inspectors s
report, which was done. This report asserts
that his first report was correct In every par
ticular and verified by more than twenty per-
sons. including the committee of the board
and Commissioner West: that the repairs ne
had urged in his report be done without oe-
Law had, after examination by order OF tne
commissioners, been found absolutely neces-
sarv and ordered to be made at once. Inc re-
port saws great injustice has been done the
seventh and eighth divisions in expending the
repair fund for current fiscal year, ana tna'
the published statement OF the inspector is
calculated to mislead the commissioners anu
public by his improperly incorporating speciai
The bee., 1883-12-15

acquaintances. Rev. Mr.. Daniels
oficiated, taking for his text
l cor. 18th ch,p. 65th verse ::
80, Death, where is thy sting.
0, grave, whep is thy victory"
After which the choir rendered
the an then, crest spirit rest, in
the most impressive manner. The
solo by Mrs. Lucy Bru ce deserv-
ing of particular notice.
Rev. G. w. Usher has gone
to Atlanta, Ga, to attend the
funeral of his sister Anna.
Miss Anna L. Smallwood who
is teaching in the country will
spend the holidays with her
parents.-Miss Hattie Piper ex-
poets to spend the holidays in
Warrenton, Va.-Mrs. Brooks,
the sister of Miss Carrie and
Matte Pryor, is still dangerously
i'll at her residence on 7th ST. s. E.
The fair at Israel church is
progressing nicely and being
largely attended The barber
chair and organ are the centre of
attraction.
A new play will be presented in
a few weeks under the manage
ment of the BEE.
There was a variety of singing
at the Bethel literary last Tuesday
evening.
The singing of the Asbury
choir under the management of
Prof. Thomas 2. Bell was supurb.
The solo by Miss A. V. McCabe,
leading soprano, was artistically
rendered.
Lawrence Barrett is tragedian
of the most tragic order.
Our lady readers who were SO
numerous some time ago seem to
have reclused.
Every body should attend the
Literary and dramatic entertain
ment to take place at the 18th st.
Presbyterian church on the 18th
The bee., 1883-12-15
AOOnI ParrOts.

| A noticeable fact IN relation TO the pecu
liar food giving flavor to the flesh of
animals, such as muddy weeds to fish.
tish to wild ducks, aCOrns to the flesh of
pork, and many other instances. is most
'emarkable in the case of parrots. We
are assured by those who live in South
Africa, and frequently eat Of parrots,
that the delicacy of the flesh varies from
luxury to positive rejection during GER
tain seasons Of the year. When. the
delicious guaya is ripe they are sapid
and fat; the seed Of the acaiOu imparts
a slight and not disagreeable sOupcon of
garlic; spicy seeds give not only the
flavor but an aroma of cinnamon, cloves.
etc, and all berries givea peculiar quality
to their flesh. They are, moreover, wine
bibbers. We had parrot which had
contracted that habit at the passengers
1inner-tables on board one fthe Penin-
sular and Oriental steamers He would
watch the guests retire, and 90 around
"heel-tap" every dish as dry as any ser
want. The seed of the cotton tree is the
parrots especial weakness, and will in
tOxlcate 1T in the same manner as alcO-
hoI does man. Dealers are said to give
parrots like stimulant previous to oshow-
ing them to q customer, as it has the eff
feet of making them loquaciUus. In
opposition to contrary notion, parrots
will and often have been known to breed
in captivity in different parts of Europe.
They lay three or four white eggs each
time, and incubate several times q wear,
sitting from twenty to twenty-five days,
according to the season. The most sue
cessful results appear to have been ct
tendant upon cases in which birds have
been provided with nesting places suita-
bic to their habits. In one case q small
barrel was procured and pierced toward
a third of its height with a hole about
six inches in diameter. In the bottom
vas placed quantity of saw dust three
inches in thickness. On this tine female
laid her eggs and sat until they Wers
hatched. Recent works question the
fact that parrots breed in dOmestieation
but there exists too many trustworthy
evidences to the contrary to allow the
denial to remain. Indeed, so long ago
rs 1888 writer upon the subject said
'AlI experiments which have been tried
1t Caen and Paris ON this interesting
subject have been attended with the
most favorable results"
The bee., 1883-12-15
The Human Figure.

The proportions of the human fgure
are six times the length of the feet.
Whether the form is slender or plump,
the rule holds good; any deviation from
It is departure from the highest beauty
In proportion. The Greeks made all
their statues according to this rule. The
face, from the highest point of the fore
head, where the hair 6egins, to the chin,
is one-tenth of the whole stature. The
hand. from the wrist to the middle fin
ger. is the same. From the top of the
Chest to the highest point of the forehead,
is a seventh. IF the face, from the roots
of the hair to the chin, be divided into
three equal parts, the first division de-
tirmines the place where the eyebrows
meet. and the second the nostrils. The
height, from the top of the head, is the
distance from the extremity of the fH-
gers when the arms are exteRdeda
The bee., 1883-12-15

appropriations for definite purposes, which he
could not divert into q statement of amount
expended for general repairs.
Mr.. ]. H. Smith called mp his resolution in
regard to the appointment Of male teachers,
and 1t was decided to take 1t up at the next
meeting He also offered the following reso-
lutions:
Resolved. That in the opinion of this board
the views Of the secretary Of the treasury, as
expressed in his annual report, as to the man.
ner the appropriations for the district schools
should be made are correct, viz: That as long
as sections 2Sl and BOG. revised statutes of the
district remain unrepealed, which provides,
in substance, that the money 10 be divided
between the white and colored schools in the
proportion that the number of white children
between the ages of and IL years of age
bears to the number of colored children be-
tween these ages.
Resolved further That this board urge
upon congress the practicability of making
appropriations in pursuance of the statutes
above cited.
In introducing the above, Mr.. Smith said
that the prevailing idea was that the colored
schools got more than their share of the ap-
preparations, but such was not the case, and
he wanted congress to specify the amount
that should be given to the colored schools.
The resolution was referred.
The printing of 1000 copies OF the annual
report of the board was approved.
BY vote offs to 2 it was agreed to leave the
matter of changing the recess hour to the dis
cretion of the supervising principals of each
divisions. The board then adjourned.
The above resolution it is hoped will receive
the immediate consideration of the board.
Commissioners West claims that we have got
more than we are entitled to. Trustee Smith
is right and will see that the colored schools
have what is necessary.
The bee., 1883-12-15
A Kife1S FrngalitY.

The wife of the man next door has
fertile brain which is kept actively en-
ployed in variety of directions. Among
her household goods are dozen plants in
pots, and variety of these are in a box
mounted on a pedestal. The box she
got at the store the pedestal she and
the boy together made. After it was
done she wanted itpainted.
She might have sent it to the painter
for that purpose, but he would charge
more than it was worth. To save the
extra cost, she determined to do the
work herself. She could get pound of
paint all mixed in pot, with a brush,
for twenty cents-the pot and brush to
be returned after the work was done.
1t was a simple thing to paint, and she
could put it on as easily and nicely as a
trained hand could do it. The man next
door didn't think much about it. 1t was
not in his line, but he got the paint.
1t was great surprise to the wife OF
the man next door to see how little OF
the paint was required to color the box
and pedestal, and how much was left
after the work was done. What should
she do with it? Not return it, of course,
for she would not be allowed anything
for it. Now that she had it she might
as we'll use it. There was undoubtedly
something it could be used on.
She looked around for the object in
question, and was not long in finding it.
There are more or less dingy, battered
articles about house which coat of
paint will improve. Her house was no
exception. Her eyes lighted on a box
holding her securing sand. In few
moments it was delightful green.
Then she looked around for other
fields to conquer, and presently she
found them, and continued to find them
as long as the presence of paint made il
necessary to search for them. She was
nearly the whole afternoon using up
that pot of paint, but it was time well
employed.
And it was amazing, as she admitted
to herself, how far twenty cents worth
| of paint would go judiciously applied.
She knew her husband would be sur
| prised when he came home at night at
all she had done.
And he was.
When he observed the green clock
case, and looked at the green paper-rack,
and found that he had green writing
| desk, and contemplated the green foot.
stool, and saw the green coal scuttle, and
got against the green clothes-horse, he
was too full to say word.
Then he picked up his green boot
Jack, and when he did that he gave a
wild scared look about the room, sank
down in chair and found his voice.
He said Holy fish hooksw
The bee., 1883-12-15
A Word To Bethel Literary
Cranks.

Editor BEE: If the South pos
sesses so many more advantages
over the North as an abiding
place for the colored man, why
denounce Hayes for having with
drawn northern white soldiers
from that section, or the Supreme
Court for declaring void the Civil
Rights Bill, or why favor an ex-
odus from that section, or why
don't colordd men who claim so
much love for the section of their
birth remain there and fight it
out. These effiuslons of love and
admiration by southern colored
men for the South and southern
white men are sufficient proof of
their unworthiness for manhood
rights, and justifies the white men
of the South in the estimation
which they place upon them, es-
pecially when southern coIored
men know, ifthey know anything,
that every right and privilege
they now enjoy was bestowed up
on them by northern men.
The colored 1nen of the North
need no troops at the polls, have
little or no need for a Civil Rights
bill, and will defend themselves
when attacked and don't run at
the first fire of their enemies.
CRITIC.
The bee., 1883-12-15
ALPHA PHI LITERARY SOCIETY

A large and intelligent audience as
sembled at Howard University last eve
ming to witness the reorganization of the
popular Alpha Phi Literary Association
of that institution. Mr.. E. L. Thornton
presided, while Mr.. johnson, acted as
secretary. One of the principle features
of the evening was the eloquent and log
ical address of Mr.. c. C. Stewart, which
was responded to in very complimentary
terms by Messrs. E. A. Forrest, of South
Carolina, C. C. johnson, j. Lawson and
several others.
The bee., 1883-12-15
frying to Find a Man m the Wess.

Jesse Lovely, while out west, was IN
search of man whom he wished TO see
on a matter Of business. After riding
for half day, and losing the way IN
that sparsely-settled country, ke Crew
up his steed in front of lO0 cabin. A
female came TO the door. "Will you be
kind enough to tell me, miss, where Mr.
William Humphrey liyesP said Jesse
Il don't know" very blandly replied the
Young lady, "but Squire Roberts, who
lives about half mile from here, can
tell you. He is q very smart man."
Jesse rode on in the direction the fair
enchantress indicated. Coming to the
house he CT led out, "HellOw Phe squire
with his shirt collar open, his spectacles
on top OI his head, and his pantaloons III
his boots, made his appearance at the
door. "is this Squire Roberts" ln-
quired Jesse. 'I am he, said the squire,
with an air of importance that would
have been more becoming q KING.
Squire Roberts," said Jesse, "can you
tell me where William Humphrey hyesF'
aI kin" sale. the squire in a self-cOngrat-
uiatory Mariner that indicated that he
was able to answer the question, and
proceeded: "If he are Whar / anticipate
he are, ne are forty miles distant on Pc
ter Creek. Although his residence are
exclusively adjacent to mine, know
nothing of his wharfOres or which
abouts." Jesse waved his hand in polite
salutatiCn to the squire, and rode on 70
find his man as best he could with the
information he had received from the
SQUIRE, 10 whom the blushing maid haa
directed him as the saVant of the sect "a
Curious STATISTICS OF MARRIAeE.-it IS
found that young men from 10 to 20
years Of age marry young women aver
aginr two or three years older than
themselves; but, if they delay marriage
until they are 90 or % years old, their
spouse averages n year younger than
themselves; and henceforward this DIFF
ference steadily increases, till in extreme
old age. on the bridegrOOm's part, it Is
ant to be enormous. The inclination Of
octooenarians to wed misses in their
teens is an everyday occurrence, but it IS
amusing 70 find, in the loye-matches OF
BOYS, that the statistics bear out tie
satires Of Thackeray and Balzac.
The bee., 1883-12-15

How to keep pickles without brine.
Pick and wash your cucumbers, put them
into glass cans, put in one or two small
pepper pods, fill the can with good cider
vinegar, seal tight and put in cool
place, and they will always be ready for
the table.