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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-09
NReIl of Justice ,,

In one of the old cities of Italy, a
bell was hung in a tower, which any
one was at liberty to ring who had
been wronged and by it summon the
magistrate to see that justice was done
him. 1t was called the "Bell of JUS
tice," and the following beautiful story
is connected with it
When, in course of time, the Hover
end of the bell-rope rotted away, a
wild vine was tied to it to lengthen it;
and one day an old and starving horse,
that had been abandoned by its owner
and turned out to die, wandered into
the tower, and trying to eat the vine,
rang the bell.
The magistrate Of the city, coming
to see who had ralg the bell, found the
old and starving horse.
He caused the owner 'of the horse in
whose service he had toiled and been
worn out to be summoned before him,
and decreed that as this poor horse had
rung the "Bell of Justice" he should
have justice, and that during the re-
mainder of the horses life his owner
should provide for him proper food and
drink and stable.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-09
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.

Moderation in temper is always a
virtue, but moderation in principle is
a species of vice.
We should not injure others in char
acter, because it enriches us not, but
makes them poor indeed.
Reason like time, will make its OWL
way, and prejudice will fail in the
combat with intellect.
There is no rule more invariable than
that we are paid for our suspicious by
finding what we suspect.
Nature has given us two ears and
but one tongue, in order that we may
repeat but one-half Of what we hear.
What makes manly persons discon-
tented with their own condition is the
absurd idea they form of the happiness
If others.
There is apower in the direct glance
of sincere and loving soul, which will
do more to dissipate prejudice and
kindle charity than the most elaborate
arguments.
Our greatest glory is not in never
falling, but in rising every time we
fall. A gem is not polished without
rubbing, nor is man perfected without
trials.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-09
Icelandic FarmhOuses.

The farmhouses (Bae) differ materi-
ally from those of the town, being
built of lava blocks, with turf cover
ing for the roof, secured by fiat stones
to prevent displacement during the
violent winter storms. A bae is about
twelve feet in width by twenty in
length, but the larger ones comprise
several of these buildings joined to-
gether, then including out-houses for
the storage of cattle, fodder, fuel and
produce. The low entrance at the
gable extends through the length of
the building, terminating at the kit
chen, where raised hearth, about
three feet high, supplies all the arti-
6cial heat. The chimney, simply a
hole in the roof, allows part of the
smoke to escape and admits a few rays
Of light to that end of the building
Alongside the fireplace the unfortunate
chickens roost and the store of peat and
oiO ACW Sullidiy uuCHoilo OCCupy OilO
remainder of the limited space. On
either side Of the passage-way there
are generally two rooms, one side being
used for storage purposes, the other
for sleeping apartment. These rooms
have a bed or bunk on each side,
raised about two feet above the hard
ground floor, each bunk accommodating
several persons. A hole cut through
the wall, opposite the only window and
stopped by a plug, is intended for ven
tilation, but they told us that it is sell
dom used, the great desideratum being
heat at the smallest expenditure of
fuel. What these huts must be when
the drifting snow compels the occu-
pants to close all the openings, and the
sitting smoke, such smoke as only
peat can make, combines with the odors
of live stock and dried fish, may better
be imagined than experienced. Turf,
the only fuel, is dug in all parts of the
surrounding lowlands, sometimes from
the surface, but often from depth of
ten or twelve feet, evidenced by the
deep pits along the roadside.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-09
CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS.

There are two thousand seven hun
bred and fifty languages.
Serfdom ended in France in 1879, I'm
Hanover in 1881 and in Prussia in
1910.
One person dies at each pulsation Of
the heart averge of life thirty-one
years.
The Persians were accustomed to
place fire affairs on the tops of their
houses, which had fiat roofs.
Watches made as early as 100 were
so delicately constructed by hand and
so small as to easily fit on the top Of a
lead pencil.
The great pyramid of Dashour was
built by King Arychis of sun-dried
bricks. 1t stands on sand enclosed by
retaining walls.
A mosquito has concealed in its bill
six complete surgical instruments,
each so minute as to be SO indiscerni-
BILE to the naked eye.
Authors of the olden time used to
puff their own works by affixing
"taking titles" to them such as ga
right merrie' and witie interlude, verie
pleasant to reade, &C." ga Detachable,
Pithie and Righte Profitable Works,
&C., &C."
A Southern paper says that gentle
man of its State has been presented
with curiosity that is worth noticing.
1t is an ordinary walnut which either
grew around a nugget of gold or the
nugget grew in it. At any rate the
gold is there, deeply imbedded in the
kernel.
While Marshall Jewell was Minister
to Russia he found out by the use of
his nose the secret of making Russia
leather. Instead of using tallow and
grease in the dressings of skins, the
Russians employed birch-bark tar. BY
c;reful inquiry, and literally following
hi. nose, during a visit to one of their
large tanneries, he found the compound
in mammoth kettle, ready for use.
He reported his discovery, and the
result l. that genuine Russian leather
goods are now made in America.
The numEer of bones in the skeleton
or framework of an animal differs
with the spec es. Thus there are in
the horse 1S9 lones, 1914 in the OK and
sheep, 262 in til pig, and 252 in the
dog. The horse ,as sixteen bones in
each forefoot and fifteen in each hind
foot, while the pig has thirty-six bones
in each, and the dog thirty-six in the
fore foot and thirty-tyo in the hind
foot, which accounts Tor the greater
number in the skeleton of the pig or,
dog. A human skeleton has few
more than 200 bones ant an ape few
more than man. The Teeth are not
included in these numbers.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-09
Does the World Miss ANY Onei

An exchange gives the following
truthful and beautiful answer to the
above question: Not long. The best
and most useful of us will soon be for.
gotten. Those who to-day are filling a
large place in the worlds regard will
pass away from the remembrance of
man in few months, or, at the furth-
est, in few years after the grave is
covered over the remains. We are
shedding tears above hew-made
grave and wildly crying out in our
grief that loss is irreparable; yet in a
short time the tendrils of love have en-
twined around other supports and we
no longer miss the one who is gone. So
pasces the world. But there are those
to whom loss is beyond repair. There
are men from whose memories no
woman's smile can chase recollections
of the sweet face that has given up all
its beauty at deaths icy touch. There
are women whose plighted faith ex-
tends beyond the grave, and drives
away as profane those who would tn
tice them from worship of their
buried love. Such loyalty, however, is
hidden away from hepublic gaze. The
world sweeps on beside and around
them, and cares not to look upon I'M
obtruding grief. 1t curves line and
raers tone over the dead, and hastens
away to offer homage to the living.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-09
"Darling Nellie Gray"

A Cincinnati correspondent says
There are few persons in the South
who have not heard and admired that
charming melody, Darling Nellie
Gray" and at one time it stood in the
same rank with "Old Kentucky Home"
and others of that class. 1t is less
known now, but in certain southern
sections "Nelly Gray" is as household
words, and in every list of plantation
songs it has an honored place. But to
come to my story. 1 was talking the
other day to musically-inclined gen.
tleman, whose practice on the violin in
a room near my own keeps me con-
stantly striving not to do anything of
riotous nature, when we mentioned
the old song incidentally, and he told
me the author was his cousin, and that
it had little history.
The song writer was B. r. Handy, of
Westerville, Ohio, who was also a
painter, a musician, and a poet. When
he was about twenty years of age he
sometimes jotted down melodies which
struck him, and on one occasion the
notes of Nellie Gray went on paper,
and he afterward wrote the words. He
had never published any music, and
this was put aside where he could use
it as the fancy struck him.
One night at little company at his
house, the song, among others, was
sung, and gentleman present, being
struck by the air, made some inquiry
about it. and the facts were given him.
He at once asked the young composer
what it was worth, and Mr.. Handy not
being posted, put the figure at S. and
the trade was made. The new owner
set about having it published and
when it appeared it.struck the popular
taste, and over 100000 copies were
sold. Another case of the history of
composers repeating itself, or rather of
one story, with the names changed,
being narrated of many.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-09
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

The rate of vibrations of the rattle
snakes tail has been determined by
DR.. OFT to be sixty per second. The
method of experiment was to attach
pen to the snakes rattles, the record
being received on evolving drum.
The sand of the Sahara desert is
sometimes heated to temperature of
200 degrees, by the vertical rays of the
sun. This gives rise to scorching
wind-the dreaded simoon-which is
rendered still more terrible by the
burning particles of sand it carries
along.
Large quantities of pottery are
manufactured in Brazil from the hard.
silicious bark of the caraipe tree. In
the process the ashes of the bark are
powdered and mixed with the purest
clay that can be obtained from the beds
of the rivers-this kind being preferred,
as it takes up larger quantity of the
ash, and thus produces stronger kind
of ware.
The tensile strength of glass has
been shown to be between 1000 and
5000 pounds per square inch, and the
crushing strength between 5000 and
10000 pounds per square inch. By
trials short time ago, NJ. Traulionie
found that fiooring-glass one inch
square and one foot between the end
supports breaks under load of 10
pounds.
Barrels have for some time been
made of pulp, but with the heads
separate, and held in place by hoops
BY recent invention, according to
the Ohio Leader, Mark l.. Deering, of
that city, makes the entire barrel in one
piece, and without hoops. The wood
pull is placed inside an iron cylinder
which is caused to revolve in a direc-
ton around the axis of the barrel, and
also in direction at right angles to
the axis. This distributes the material,
when air, at Il pressure of 100 pounds,
forcing the water out through small
aoles provided for the purpose. Drying
completes the barrel.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-09
Not Allowed.

They do not in Germany allow the
names of distinguished families to be
assumed at will by persons not entitled
to their use by birth. An actress in
the Wilhelm theatre, Berlin, called her
self Won Room when she went upon
the stage, and was given out to be a
near relative of the great Won Room
family, of which the head was formerly
minister of war. AS she began to &C
quire reputation and get talked about,
this pretended relationship to the Won
Rooms became unpleasant to the aristo-
cratic house, and the manager of the
theatre received summary official no.
LITIGATION that the aspiring actress
would have to discontinue the use of
their name. This is the explanation
of the fact that shortly thereafter the
announcement was made that "Miss
Won Room had been obliged to with
draw from the company in consequence
of death in her family" Since this
announcement was made, Miss Won
Room has not returned. Her place, how
ever, has been filled by another young
lady very much resembling her in APP
pearance, though known by another
name.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-09
A Gathering Conscience.

One of the neatest stories is that of
an early judge, an archbishop, who, in
denying an accusation, said, strikin,
his breast: "By my conscience. m.
lord, know nothing of it !" The blow
made his shirt of mail rattle, which
brought the caustic rebuke, my Lordl
your conscience is not good; l hear it
CATERING" He had to flee with his
Gathering conscience, and seek safety
disguised as shepherd in tending
sheep on the mountain side.-FraSer's
Magazine.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-09

Mrs. Theodore Tilton was recently
visited by friend, who found her in a
clearinghouse in Brooklyn, and who
writes: "She is fearfully altered by
cares. Her personal beauty, once very
marked, is almost gone-only here and
there trace. The soft, bright, inno-
cent eye remains, but that alone. Her
delicate hands, once soft as velvet, are
hard with toll; the lustrous, dark
brown hair is very gray, and the pink
and white of her old beautiful COM
plexion replaced by dull sallow, but
her life is full of peace and rest that
the world cannot give"
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-09

the steel, and this is filled with quick
silver. The criminal puts his head in
an arrangement much resembling the
pillory. The AK is raised but slight
distance above the neck, and then is
drawn across the neck. The sharp
edge cleaves through skin and bone
very smoothly, and lacks much of the
Objectionable noise of the guillotine.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-09

The daily earnings in the cotton fac
tories of this country are nearly double
what they were in 1910. The total
number of spinning spindles is l0,653,-
435; of looms, Dds, 759. The actual con-
sumption OF cotton last year was l,7G0,-
900 bales.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-09

Certain kinds of wood, of great dura-
oility when used alone, have, when
Joined together, very destructive in
tiuence upon each other. If cypress is
Joined to walnut, or if cedar is joined
to cypress, decay is induced in both
woods, which ceases, however, as soon
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-09

The rapid development of the lamb
and mutton expo t trade bids fair to
make sheep-raising one of the most
profitable occupations for the farmers
of New Brunswick. At present the
shipments generally SO to Boston
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-09
A woman at Kingston, New Mexico

gets praise for erecting log cabin
without help. She cut the logs, hauled
them, made the shingles for the roof
and put the structure together. She
has IA husband, who takes care of the
children,
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-09
TOPICS OF THE DAY.


A Nevada man, who has been very
deaf for years, was recently Sc
severely burned about the face and
neck, and afterward found that he
could hear perfectly well. He attrib-
utes~ bis cure to the shock, but it is too
violent a remedy to be generally ac-
cepted.
Governor Blackburn, of Kentucky,
leads off in the pardon business. Dur
ing his administration of four years
he has pardoned more than 1900 crimi-
mails, RENTED fines of more than 50, 000,-
600, and granted respites to other fines
to the amount of some 100000.
1t is proposed to hold at Paris, next
year, an exhibition of recently devised
appliances for lessening the frequency
and dangers of railroad accidents. To
judge from experience, says the Anae-
ricdn MdchiniSt, there is need enough
of bringing such appliances into use;
and, if the proposed exhibition results
in the adoption of the unknown good
ones, its value will be apparent. The
opportunity to exhibit may be improved
by inventors, who claim that, after
working out something useful in this
direction, they are unable to bring it
to the attention of railroad officials
much less to secure trial of its merits.
Mr.. Goodwin Smith disagrees with
Herbert Spencer on the subject of
Americans over-working themselves
1t is not over-work so much as over
worry. But the special need of this
country is, in his opinion, the preaching
of the gospel of contentment, indiffe-
renee to inordinate wealth, and the
peace of mind bred by the possession
of moral treasures, not affected by the
price of stocks" 10 which the De
troit Free Press cynically adds: $50
long as the continuous prosperity of
the country allows the sudden accu-
mutations of enormous fortunes and
tempts to their requirement such a
gospel will fall on deadened ears. 1t
is only during hard times that the
gospel of contentment in this world,
of hope in the next, gets hearing"
The Territory of Arizona has always
borne rather unsavory reputation,
and year ago it seemed to be going
from bad to worse. Its proximity to
the widest section of Mexico invited
the presence of outlaws from that
country; the native cowboy" vies
with the foreign Sgreaser," and law
lessness of every sort was encouraged
by the disgraceful weakness of the
local government. The good news
comes, however, that the past year has
seen great change for the better.
Soon after Governor Tritle's appoint
ment, he saw that the task of restoring
order was too great for his unaided
powers, and he invoked the assistance
of the Federal government, which
promptly responded by placing General
Crook in charge of the department.
The civil and the military authorities
have since then worked in harmony,
and the active campaign which they
have waged against evil-doers has al
ready produced its effect in transform
ing what was but recently the outlaws
paradise into territory where crime
meets its due punishment in the courts
The Arizona of old discredited the
whole country, and the whole country
may therefore rejoice that it is being
converted into a law-abiding com.
munity.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-09

The men who learn endurance are
they who call the whole world brother.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-09

A Nevada man, who has been very
deaf for years, was recently Sc
severely burned about the face and
neck, and afterward found that he
could hear perfectly well. He attrib-
utes1 bis cure to the shock, but it is too
violent a remedy to be generally ac-
cented.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-09

Governor Blackburn, Of Kentucky,
leads off in the pardon business. Dur
ing his administration of four years
he has pardoned more than 1900 crimi-
nails, RENTED fines of more than 50, 000,-
600, and granted respites to other fines
to the amount of some 100000.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-08-30

the door. 1t always fell short of the
mark and besmeared the carpet. The
majority Of them seem to think that
good manners permit them to enter q
lady's house and smoke in her pres
ence without apology or asking leave.
They invariably drawl out, ~ should
think yea get lonesome way out
here?"
LIFE ON THE PRAIRIE.
cannot tell how many times l have
made answer to that question. /
always answer that | never get lone
some. Then they look at me with an
insipid stare, as much as to say: why
did | waste that interesting, deeply
thought out question on herr She
does not know enough to get lone
some. She is contented with that cad
of husband, who wears q white hat
with q leather band and leather leg
gins. She cannot see their fine points
nor discover their desirable qualities.
She would not feel at home in any
thing but q Godforgotten country, SO
why should ] take my bat of in her
presence or expectorate outside the
deor2"
So grows the puddle on the carpet.
/ can be excused for ans==::s:;scs s epse
that / am perfectly contented and
happy except when tender feet come
round.
Not more than one "tenderfoot" in |
ten acts as though be has been well
brought up They think they have
found 3 place where manners and
good breeding are unnecessary, and as
they are not natural giftB to them, but
purely assumed, they fall Of easily
when out Of sight of their fac friends.
When they tire of playing the role Of
gentlemen they should 60 among saw |
ages. II this catches the eye of any
"tenderfeet" who are in our cattle
country, or who contemplate coming
here, | hope they will remember that
gentlemen show respect to ladies
wherever they meet them.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-08-30

HslenA. Montana. special.


A party Of sight seers had q thrill.
ing adventure on the newly construct
ed Northern Pacific line, across the
main range of the Rocky mountains,
at Mullen Tannel, fourteen miles
west Of this city. The part of the
road referred TO is known as the
"0verheadLine" Overhead Of Mullen
tunnel) and crosses the summit at an
altitude of about 1000 feet above the
level OF the sea. Being only intended
for temporary use, Overhead line is
very steep and crooked, and the
strongest Of locomotives are required
for pulling the trains over the noun
tains. Yesterday Professor r. H.
Hover. accompanied by his wife and
eve friends, went out TO the tunnel on
the construction train fer the purpose
Of going over the Overhead lines, ana
such trips, despite the danger, are
quite popular.
About half way up the mountain
the caboose occupied by the party was
left standing with licked brakes
on the main track. Sud.
denly a SWede appeared on the
bank above and began shouting
at them in an excited manner in his
native tongue. Prot. Hover rushed
out on the up hill platform and saw
rounding o curve, not more than
100 yards up the mountain, runaway
train coming down from the summit
Il was composed of q locomotive
weighing so, 900 pounds and eight flaI
cars heavily loaded with railroad iron
1t was coming like an avalanche
There was no time to get the ladiet
out Of the caboose, aud to be struck
BY the runaway train could have bui
one result, the hurting Of the caboosc
train, which stood at . sharp curve h
the road, into the gorge below.
Professor Hover sprane 20 loosen
the brake, and the Swede, who md
lSpraDg down the bank, Grasped il the
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-08-30
Non-ReaIdent Notice.

No. Fll-In the Chancery Court of Shelby
County, Tenn.-The state Of Tennessee for
Its own use, etc, VS.. w 4 Prewitt ct al.
Tappearins from bill which is sworn to In
Il this cause, that the defendants, John Knox
and Harriet A LittleiOhn are non-residents
Of the State of Tennessee;
1t Is therefore ordered that they make their
appearance herein, at the courthouse of
Shelby county, in Memphis, Tennessee,
on or beIore the first Monday in October,
1888, and plead, answer Of. demuI to complaint
ant bill and petition Of Taxing District Of
Shelby county. or the same will DO taken for
confessed as to them and set for hearing OK
paTte; and that . copy. Of this order be puD-
In the Public Ledger.
This 18th day Of August, 1888. .rs
A copy-Attest:
R J BLACK, Clerk and N aster,
By M Bradley, D and II. ~
+ II and CIV Heiskell. soils for complain
ant. 1l3 149 1853