The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-26
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

An exchange pertinently remarks that
men who advertise in their home pa
pers are men who transact the business
of the town. You can pick up any
newspaper, and in five minutes tell
who does the buying and selling, and
keep alive the interests of the place.
A newspaper invariably reflects the
worth, enterprise and intelligence of
the community in which it is pub
,lished.
We saw this week, at the Bank of
California, says the Mining and Scien-
tifc Press, the largest gold bar ever
cast in the United States. 1t was
shipped to the bank by the North
Bloomfield (hydraulic) Mining Com
pany, of Smartsville, Nevada county,
Cal. The value of the bar is $4,000,
and weight BIZ pounds troy, Its
length is fifteen inches, width six
inches, and depth seven inches. 1t
contains $50 cubic inches of gold, and
is worth about $40 per ounce.
A report by NJ. Girard, director oil
the Paris municipal laboratory, given
some interesting information concern
ing the authorizations by which the
French people are victimized. The
most extensive imposture of this kind
seems to be the adulteration of flour,
which is mixed with various mineral
substances-often of a poisonous nat
ure. 1t has been certainly ascertained
that artificial flours are imported into
France from Rotterdam, containing as
much as thirty per cent. of plaster and
twenty per cent. of sulphate of baryta.
OF thirty-one flours examined at the
laboratory only thirteen proved to be
genuine, all the others being adulte-
rated.
The MordeJn Age declares that the
infatuation Of seekers after perpetual
motive is never-ending. About year
ago ''perpetual'' clock was started in
Brussels. An up-draught is obtained
in tube or shaft by exposing it to
the sun; this draught turns fan,
which winds up the weight OF the
clock until it reaches the top, when it
actuates a brake that stops the fan,
which is free to start again when the
weight has gone down little. 1t was
keeping good time in June, after nine
months Of such perpetual motion. The
perpetual motion of the Niagara and
other river falls is maintained by the
same agent-SOlar heat-which lifts
the water as vapor, then condensation
and gravitation bring it back again.
We have only to initiate such ma
chinery to produce multitude of 81
milar perpetual motions, actuated by
this ineXhaustible source of power.
Our readers have probably heard of
Miss Pinueo, of Greeley, Col, the
graceful and enduring lady eques-
trienne, whom SO many thousands have
applauded as she rode her tifty-mile
races. Some time since she married
one Baxter, a saloon-keeper, at Topello'
Kan, and lately took Il dose of poison
and died. Her life appears to have
been a sad one. She did not like the
business of riding horses in trials of
speed and endurance, and often sought
to escape such severe tasks. The re-
port is, and it is generally credited,
that she rode races to obtain the money
to pay debts or make up losses incur
red by her father and brother in gamb-
ling, and that the trouble which be
same a part of her life from these
courses so weighed her down that she
sought rest in the world where the bad
and mOrbed passions of mankind dc
not embitter the soul and cause weari-
uess and disgust with life.
There seem to be some difficulties
connected with the education of youth
in various parts of the United States
which we regret to say have not beer
settled without violence. AT the Chi
cago university a student objected t.
the reproof of his misconduct by The
president, and began to swear at ant
abuse him. When the president or
dered him to leave the room, he draw
a nistol and putting the muzzle clos