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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-05-30
The SlIall's NAV.

When the shah of Persia begins to
suspect that one Of his mobiles is grow
ing too rich. he contrives to "clip his
wings" Either he sends him every
day, for couple of weeks or months,
some delicacy from his own table, for
which said noble has to pay each time
the sum of 1000 pieces Of gold; or he
delegates to him the duty Of enter ain
ing foreign embassy, or some diplo-
matte body. Again, he either plays
every week half-a-dozen games of chess
with him at l,000sequins game, or he
arranges bets up to 1900 sequins, and,
of course, the happy mortal on whom
the shah chooses to confer this honor
must not have the audacity to win for
fear Of losing his head, But if the shah
desires to ruin his man at one fell
stroke, he invites himself as a guest to
his house. This mark of distinction is
SO expensive that the wealthiest sub
ject is thereby plunged into the deep
est poverty.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-05-30
To Carry in the Hat.

A Harlem gunsmth and model
maker who has had considerable eX-
perience in constructing intricate ma
chinery, including devices for handling
powerful explosives, said to New
York sun reporter that he had in the
past few months made two so-called
internal machines that were concealed
in innocent-looking silk hats. The
machinery is operated by clockwork.
He added:
"To conceal the machinery there is
placed over it concave mirror. Any
curious person looking into the hat
would not notice its shallow depth be-
cause Of the appearance his face would
assume. The can is intended for
o-glycerina, and will hold consid-
erably more than a quart. 1t is in
tended that the man who wishes to use
the machine shall wear it into the
building he wishes to injure Remov-
ing his hat and placing it against a
wall he W II take a handkerchief out
of it and at the same time remove the
pin that allows the clockwork TO start.
Then he will put on soft hat, which
he will take from his pocket, and walk
away"
"Isn't such hat top-heavy and
liable to drop OFF," the reporter asked.
"Not so heavy as you would think;
only two rounds and about tive ounces.
Any one can accustom himself to carry
brick like that in his hat"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-05-30
The Bad BOy Reforms.

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orocarv man "tho moro rood ahont
Haina 1ooJ and aoina 70 ueavon ~ y
more / tbinL a Filler can,t ba Zoo oora1
FIJI and from, tI,io ont yo,, ,,ou,t al
a hettar how Than 7 am Iybon onnoa
in bere oft.r tbia and tal,o a fau, JuinI
naacbes or cranLors and ohoosa w.,
CHARGE il right nm to na and Then 7
won,f boyo Z on nv ,nipd oaJ ho'n 60
answer For IL nj fbn areat indarn H NJ
day on, ao;no 70 s6ai,a 49,, 49,,
cayse ha o6ows to,aooo it'll H.
1v;cI,od tboTah T don,. 600 hnm :,
oan ho u'bon tho r,in;stor sr, ,,p" V h"t
7 u.ont 70 ha on tha safa s;Jo 7 NV
ao;nr, =, la c,ond or hnSt = s,,.,I "n'
and bore,fta1 vor can noint , rno on n, 49,
a how ,vho he SOON tHn en-, ''S 90
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thin,, as firtoa,,Nraar o1d Lo,, ,'Lo 49, 4"
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tho ba;ruin taIi ,;or w. ,rhon r. ",,
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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-05-30
Tie Znlu Origin Of BabOOMs.

The Zulus supply us with theory
of the or gin OF balloons. TO Il Zulu a
baboon is much less an animal than
man. whose transformation he is quite
able to explain. 1t is one Of Tusi's
men, he says, when lie kills one, AMI
Tusi was man of the Amafene tribe,
II people so habtually idle that they
would always eat at other peoples
houses rather than dig for themselves.
Tusi, their chief, one day led them into
the wilderness, where the handles of
their digging implements gradually
turned into tails, their forehcads be-
came overhanging, and their bodies
covered with hair; and from that time
they went to the preciplces and have
had their dwelling among the rocks.
So thought the Germans once of the
storks they were born as men in other
parts of the world, and came to Ger
many in the form Of birds.--CornhiI
Mana zine.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-05-30
The Friend that Clings.

A poet in one of our exchanges
says: "Giye me the friend that clings
to me-" Yes, that is the kind of friend
we like, but they are scarce. We had
Il young friend once who was accus-
toned to cling to us until it seemed
that he couldn't cling any Ginger. lie
clung to us until we, in one of our
wealthy and unguarded moments, lent
him ten dollars. Since that date he
hasn't chung to us to any great extent.
On the contrary. all the clinging has
been done by us. When we meet him
on the street we show strong desire
to cling while he would flee away
from us and be free as bird. He is
not one of the cling variety any more.
The poet is right, but he should have
said: "Give me the friend who clings
to me when he owes me ten dollars. -
AiddletoUn Transcript.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-05-30
Waste Paper In China,

1t is generally mentioned in popular
books on China that the respect for
paper on which any words are written
is so great that scavengers are specially
employed to collect it in the sire is
and preserve it. Whatever doubt
existed on this score must now be set
at rest, for in recent issue of the
Picking Gazette we find Il memorial to
the throne from the police censor of
the central division of the capital, re-
porting that there are in that city over
eighty establishments for the remanu-
facture of waste paper. Paper with
characters on it, the memorialst COM
plains, used to be mixed with the
waste paper and defled by being
applied to such base uses. The
memorialist and his colleagues pub
lished proclamations embodying the
sacred edict of the great Emperor
Kang-hi that in heaven and earth
there is nothing more precious than
written characters. Shopkeepers were
forbidden to traffic in printed or
written paper, and the manufacturers
were ordered to pick out all such paper
from among the waste paper pur-
chased by them and send it to the
offices, where certain amount per
pound would be paid for it. Two
temples were selected where this paper
could be properly burned periodically.
The police magistrates on inquiry find
that now the manufacturers have
some idea of the reverence due to
written characters but some perma-
nent means of supporting the expenses
of the purchase and sacred process of
destruction should lie established, as
at present the memorialist has to pay
them out of his own pocket. He
further suggests that the sale of the
house and furniture of a certain es-
capped criminal, though they will not
fetch much, will he sufficient, if put
out at interest, tomeet these expenses;
and he further requests that the sale
of written paper to manufacturers be
forbidden. The imperial rescrlpt on
this memorial has not come to our
notice but in all probability the es-
capped criminals house and furniture
are now employed in preventing the
delilement of the written paper of
Peking Nature.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-05-30
WAS 1T CHANCE9

The wind swept over a silver string;
The cord responded, but why did it sing?
Was it chance
The golden sun, rising, illumined the sky i,
The lotus awakened, but why did it sigh
Was it chance?
The nightingale lowered all night DER the
rose;
Why blossomed the rosebud at dawn? Who
knows ?
Was it chance?
The moon flew away with tbs dark gazelle ;
Which courted the other? Who can tell
Was it chance
The lover found many strange ways to his
fair,
But, arrived at the spot, she was ever there
Was it chance?
From The Persian,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-05-30
THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES.

II we can send a message round the earth,
And conquer time, as measured by the
sun,
Without obstruction from its rolling girth
Shall we deny to Heaven what man ha
done?
Shall we deny that star may sing with star
In chant sublime, unheard of morta
ears?
And with our petty thoughts of near or far
Presume to talk of distance in the
spheres?
Doubt it no more. ye earth imprisoned
souls!
All heaven is filled with sympathies
divine,
And orb with orb rejoices or condoles.
md flash electric music as they shine.
Charles Mackdv.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-05-30
THE GOOD TIME COMING

There's good time coming, boys,
A good time coming:
We may not live to see tho day,
But earth shall glisten in the ray
Of the good time coming.
Cannon balls may aid the truth,
But thoughts weapon stronger;
Wen win our battle by its lid
Wait little longer.
There's good time coming, boys,
A good time coming:
The pen shall supersede the sword,
And Right, not Might, shall be the Tor
In the good time coming.
Worth, not Birth shall rule mankind,
And be acknowledged stronger;
The proper impulse has been given
Wait n little longer.
There's good time coming, boys,
A good time coming:
War in all mems eyes shall be
A monster of iniquity
In the good time coming.
Nations shall not quarrel then,
To prove which is the stronger;
Nor slaughter men for glory's sake
Wait little longer.
There's good time coming, boys,
A good time coming:
Hateful rivalries of creed
Shall not make their martyrs bleed
In the good time coming.
Religion shall be shorn of pride,
And flourish all the stronger;
And Charity shall trim her lamp
Wait a little longer.
There's q cool time coming, boys,
A good time coming;
Little children shall not toll,
Under, or above the soil,
In the good time coming;
But shall play in healthful fields
Till limbs and mind grow stronger;
And every one shall read and write
Wait little longer.
There's good time coming, boys,
Agood time coming;
The people shall be temperate,
And shall love instead of hate,
In the good time coming.
They shall use, and not abuse,
And make all virtue stronger;
The reformation has begun
Wait little longer.
There's good time coming, boys,
A good time coming.
Let us aid it all we can,
Every woman, every man,
The good time coming.
Smallest helps, if rightly given,
Make the impulse stronger;
Twill be strong enough one day
Wait little longer.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-05-30

suit Of such neglect, and no one can afford TO
hazard such chances.
am aware That such an unquallneu state,
ment as this, coming from me, known as
am throughout the entire land as n practi-
toner and lecturer, will arise the surprise and
possible luminosity of the medical profession
and astonish all with whom am acquainted,
but make the foregoing statements based
upon facts which am prepared to produce
letter. The welfare of those who may pos
sibly be sufferers such as | was, is an ample
indictment for me TO take the step | have,
and if | can successfully warn others from
the dangerous path in which l once walked,
am willing to endure all professional and
personal consequences.
J. b. HENION, NJ. D.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-05-30
WORK AND WAIT.

A husbandman, who many years
Had plowed his fields and sown in tears,
Grew weary with his doubts and fears.
g / toll in vain These rocks and sands
Will yield no harvest to my hands;
The best seeds rot in barren lands.
My dropping vine is whitening;
Nopromised grapes its blossoms bring;
No birds among its branches sing.
My flock is dying on the plain;
The heavens are brass-they yield no rain
The earth is iron. l toll in vainr ~
While yet he spake breath had stirred
His dropping vine, like wing of bird,
And from its leaves n voice he heard:
The germs and fruits of life must be
Forever hid in mystery;
Yet none can toll in vain for me.
A mightier hand more skilled than thine,
Must hang the cluster on the vine,
And make the fields with harvest shine.
Man can but work; God can create;
But they who work. and watch and wait,
Have their reward, though it come late.
Look up to heaven behold and hear
The clouds and tn underings in thy ear
And answer to thy doubts and fear"
He looked, and 10! cloud-draped car,
With trailing smoke and flames afar,
Was rushing to distant star.
And every thirsty flock and plain
Was raising up to meet the rain
That came to cloti,e the fields with grain.
And on the cloud he saw again
The covenant of God with men,
Rewritten with his rainbow pen.
"Seed- time and harvest shall not fail,
And though all enemies assail,
My truth and promise shall prevail"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-05-30

When Mrs. Grant was at the White
House she ordered for the banquets
a long, Nat mirror for the center of the
table, and this, with the Hiawatha
boat, selected by Mrs. Hayes, is the
handsomest ornament for the dinner
service. The mirror is beautifully and
effectively arranged with blowers. The
flowers are all supposed to have come
from the White House conservatory,
but that does not always supply AS
many Us are needed.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-05-30

A young Nebraska farmer refused
to marry his betrothed because she
used powder. He evidently thought it
unsafe tohave match where there was
so much powder. -BOstOn TRANSCRIPT
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-05-30

John b. Cough, the temperance lee
turer, says he has made $500 speeches
and Travelled 100000 miles since he
began lecturing in 1912.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-05-30

The potato crop in Germany has
been an utter failure.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-03-23

"Mr. Croydon has gone, and 1 sup
pose every one else is off enjoying
themselves" continued Ella.
II thought Mr.. Croydon was fix
ture; had come on purpose to see you
that is"
"Dear me, nor laughed Ella. "IIe
is on his way to my Aunt Hattie's, who
lives at Liverpool. He is to marry my
cousin in August, and only stopped
here toconsult papa about something"
"Miss Terrell-Ella-d dear Ellal I
have been such fool"
OF course no right-minded person
would like to intrude on the converse
ton which followed; suffice it to say
that two weddings came off in August
instead of one, and one happy pair
consisted Of Ella Terrell and Mr.. Perry
DAYTON.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-03-23
The Minister'S Coat.

In the days of early Methodism in
Northern Ohio, preacher had been
appointed to a new circuit, and wore
on his first round a fashionable broad
cloth frock-coat, which his tailor had
inpocently provided for him. This be-
came a source of great grievance to
the home-spun laity, and it was finally
resolved to make it a matter of disci-
pline. So at the first quarterly confer
ence charges were prepared in due
form, and the offending minister mott
fled to be present and make answer.
Entering the room where the presiding
elder and lesser magnates were assem-
bled, the preacher stripped off his coat,
hung it on the back of a chair, and
pointing to it, said: "Since it is the
coat that offends, try it. Could preach
any sounder gospel in robes or cassock
1t seems 10 me that it is not the man
ner of the coat, but the manner of
the man in the coat, that should be
considered" And there the trial
ended.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-03-23
A Forgotten Duel.

The tearing down of an Anticipated
house at st. Augustine, Fla, brought
to light a rusty sword. TO it is
attached story. Eighty years ago, at
grand ball given by the Spanish gen.
tleman who lived in the house, two
officers came to high words over the
attention paid by them to a beautiful
lady present. They repaired to the
street and fought duel with swords.
One man fell dead. The other threw
away his weapon and fled. A little
child who had been witness of the
encounter, picked up the sword and
carried it into the house. 1t was hid
den that at least one evidence of the
bloody deed might be concealed. Long
after the story of the crime had been
forgotten, the finding of the blood
stained blade calls it anew to mind.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-03-23
FAMILY DOCTOR.
Dayton.

People are advised by DR.. Foote's
Health Monthly not to sleep in the same
undergarments worn during the day.
1t may be useful to know that
hoarseness may be relieved by using
the white of an egg thoroughly beaten,
mixed with lemon juice and sugar. A
tea-spoonful taken occasionally is the
Dose
The London Lancet says that the
people who sneeze oftenest are some
/ times the healthiest. A sneeze sets
the blood circulating and throws off
cold which is trying to settle.
An exchange says: Not one in a
hundred, at the most, know how to
make mustard plaster, and yet mus
tard plasters are used in every family,
and physicians prescribe their applica-
ton, never telling anybody how to
make them, for the simple reason that
doctors do not know, as general rule.
The ordinary way is to mix the
mustard with water, tempering it with
little flour; but such a plaster as
that makes is simply abominable.
Before it has half done its work it
begins to blister the patient, and
leaves him finally with a painful, Aayed
spot, after having produced far less
effect in beneficial way than was in
tended. Nova mustard plaster should
never make blister at all. If bis
ter is wanted, there are other plasters
far better than mustard for the pur-
pose. When you have a mustard
plaster, then, use no water whatever,
but mix the mustard with the white
Of an egg, and the result will be a
plaster that will "draw" perfectly,
but will not produce blister even up
on the skin of an infant, no matter
how long it is allowed to remain on
the part. For this we have the word
of an old and eminent physician, as
well as our own experience.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-03-23
Remains of the Seven Wonders.

In addition to the pyramids. after
some research on the part of Mr.. New
ton, who is in the employ of the Eng
fish government, the foundation and
many of the fragments Of the mauso-
leum at IIalicarnassus have been dis
closed, which, with the mounds indicat-.
ting the positions of the walls and gar
dens Of Babylon, are the only remains
of the "Seven Wonders of the World.''
The Colossus of Rhodes, composed Of
brass cast in pieces, was overthrown
by an earthquake, 224 b. c. The frag-
ments remained until the ninth CEN
tury, when the Saracens sold them to a
Jew, who is said to have loaded 900
camels with them, they weighing 720,-
900 pounds. The original Temple Of
Diana was set on fire 1856 b. G. by
Erostratus, an obscure individual who
sought by this means TO make his name
famous. 1t was rebuilt, but again des-
troyed by the Goths, a. d. $50. The
mausoleum gradually crumbled and de-
cayed, though as late as 1440 A. d.
parts of it were used by the Knights of
Rhodes in the construction of a castle
The destruction of the Olympian Jove
at Els, and the Pharos of Alexandria,
was probably accomplished by barba-
rian invaders.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-03-23
A Morse Legend.

Morse king sat in his hall one night,
And the tempest was raging without;
The sea roared and dashed on the rocks near
by,
And the lights of helven were out.
great fire blazed with dazzling light
On the hearth OF solid rock;
The brighter it cleaned for the klackness of
storm
And the sound of the oceans shock.
While he sat and talked, bird flew in,
And over the monarchs head
Then out through the open easement again,
To the wild, dark night it sped.
"Such is life" said the king "from darkness
to light,
From sunshine to storm, without rest;"
Eyes, sire" c courtier replied "yet the bird
Has somewhere in safety, nest"
M. L. Emerson.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-03-23
A Living Salary.
succession

One of the stockholders of a new
western railroad was farmer who
had accumulated his money by hard
toll, and when he had put in an APP
pearance at meeting to elect board
of directors he found it his duty to re-
mark-"Gentlemen, as l understand
this thing, we elect the board and the
board elects the officers" Some one
said he was right, and he continued
81 don't go cent on high salaries, and
l want that understood. l am in
favor of paying our president good
living salary and no more" "How
much do you call good living sala-
ry?" asked one of the crowd. well,
81 a day is the going wages, but"
Here the meeting began to roar, and it
was two or three minutes before the
orator had a chance to conclude-"but
of course we want man who can run
an engine, switch train, handle
freight, keep books and lick anybody
who won't pay fare, and so shall not
object to two and half day."
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-03-23
California Hero.

The recent explosion of gunpow-
der factory at Berkeley, Cal, develop
ed a hero. Frank Roller saw the
shower of sparks set fire to a taupau-
lin On the deck of a schooner lying at
wharf. He knew that fifty tons of
the explosive was aboard the vessel.
The crew were aware of it, too, and
they scampered away as fast as posi-
bic. But Roller leaped through the
window of his house, ran to the peri
lous craft and extinguished the flames
by throwing on water with bucket.
If the fire had reached the cargo the
town and everybody in it would have
been destroyed.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-03-23

Custer county, Montana, contains
$4,000 square miles--more than New
Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts,,
Rhode Island, Connecticut and Dele
ware combined.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-03-23
No record is kept of the quantity of

No record is kept of the quantity of
artificial butter imported into England,
and it appears that close analysis is
necessary to distinguish the real ar
ticle from the false. "This," saws
Secretary Jenkins. Of the royal agri-
cultural society or England, sis unfor-
tunate, as ] feel convinced that if the
amount could be ascertained it would
startle everyone by its magnitude"
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-03-23

Tobacco is grown in sixty-feur out
of the sixty-seyen counties of Penn
sylyania.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-05-03
Opening of IA New Railway.

HoUsToN, May 1.-The Gulf, Colorado
and Santa Fe commenced to day running reg
ular trains over their new road between here
and Galveston, and the first train down left
at s a. m, in charge Of Conductor Townsend.
AT the same time this morning a train left
Galveston in charge of Conductor George
Lowell, who formerly ran on the Galveston,
Houston and Henderson road. The schedule
time is two hours and IS minutes, the same
as the Galveston, Houston and Henderson,
but the track is three miles longer. Mr.. W..
E. Mcdonald is the station agent here, and
J. S. Gallagher is the local ticket agent, and
Mr. Paul Jones is in the freight office. All of
these gentlemen are from Galveston. The
schedule on which passenger trains will be
run is as follows: Trains leave Houston at
a. m. and p. m, arrive at Houston Io:Is
a. m. and 9:I5 pm.
The Light Guards have gone into barracks,
and sleep at Armory hall from now until they
60 to New Orleans, in order to get more time
for drilling.
Mr. Charles Mallory, of the Mallory steam
ship company, is in the city on business. 1t
is rumored that his COMING is in connection
with our ship channel