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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21
The Seyenteen.year Lccgsts Due III
1884.

The seventeen-year locust is not rs
many suppose, several years late. lie
is due in 1884, Everybody knows the
insect which buzzes and huns from
the limbs of our trees. The veins in
its wings mark a w on its back, and
its note is heard at intervals Of about
three minutes. This is the common
cicatia autumnaliS. 1t is with us ev-
cry year. Its brother, the seventeen
year visitor, has the w in red veins on
its back and is a little smaller. 1t
comes in great swarms, but does no
great amount of damage. Popular
prejudice is against the seventeen-year
year locust 1t is firmly believed by
some that great mortality prevails dur
ing its stay, and that its bite is fatal.
These ideas are erroneous as most pop
ular chronological theories. The ctc0-
ao Septem-decem is queer insect. The
sexes only live long enough to mate.
The male dies in day or two, and
the female, with spur, which is car
ried beneath the abdomen, punctures a
small branch of tree with little holes.
An eggs then deposited in each hole.
The mother dies in eight or ten days,
and the eggs hatch by themselves. The
larvae fall to the ground and COM
mence to dig. Eventually these en-
bryo insects find their way to the ut
termost roots of the tree There they
exist for sixteen years and few
months, undergoing development into
the perfect locust. Their food is the
sap of the tree In seventeen years
these return to the earth and produce
the young, which go through the same
process. The locust eats nothing
when above ground, being provided
with no mouth. Aspeces OF giant
wasp, which carries poisonous sting,
is its enemy, among other birds and
beasts. 1t stings the locust and car
ries it underground to its nest. The
belief that the lOcusJ's sting is fatal,
arises from the fact that persons some
times brush away a locust that has
fallen from branch above, and are
stung by the wasp which is clinging
to its victim unobserved. The sting of
this wasp is sometimes fatal. The
cicdd0 trc-decem, or thirteen-year 10
Gusts, are smaller specimens of the red
veined cicada, which comes before the
main army; some of them are with us
now. The farmer might well rejoice
securely in his growing crops if every
insect were as harmless as the so-called
locust, whose unique voice through the
summer woods is only part in the
conglomeration ofla2y summer sounds.
Sun.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21
Mexican housewives.

"a Mexican housewife has other
ideas than ours in the disposition of
her furniture says a letter from
Mexico. There are always straight
rows of sofas and Chairs set stiilly
against the walls all around the room.
Though there are few occasions when
SO great a number of seats could posi-
NY be required, yet the family feels
itself poor indeed, which does not pos
sess enough to reach in an unbrokcn
line around the entire circuit of the
sala. Into each corner Of the room a
triangular table is fitted, and in the
center is large one--round or oval
which has always its tall lamp in the
middle and row of empty vases and
Chinese figures ranged at regular dis
tanceS straight around the outer edge.
This central table is generally covered
with an enormous crotcheted or knitted
spread, which sweeps the floor, and
represents years of patient labor, great
expenditure of precious eyesight, and
hundreds of spools of fine linen thread.
The mistress of the house began it
when she was child and succeeded in
finishing it only in time for her we'd
ding. There is noticeable dearth of
those little ornaments in which the
ladies of other lands dGlight-bric-a-
brac, easels, brackets, etc, for they are
not within the reach of all in this
country. Chromos and engravings
sparingly adorn the walls, and but the
corner tables are loaded with glass
lamps and vases, which are valued for
ornament rather than use. A chrome
dreadful enough to set ones teeth ON
edge, which may be bought for 81,
frame and all, in Pittsburgh, is in
Mexico, owing to outrageous duties, as
expensive as a decent oil painting.
At the extreme end of the sala de
relibo is always seen exactly the same
arrangement of the furniture in every
case--a rug or square of carpet, with
four or six chairs placed in two
straight lines, vis-a-vis upon it, bound
ed upon the farther side by the sofa
against the wall TO this little island
in the sea of the big, bare room, guests
are shown with great ceremony on
entering; for here the hostess concen-
trates her forces, as we understand the
art of doing in revival meetings and
spiritual seances."
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21

The great Inter-Oshun Sylcopian Sir
Gus Was in town and they had Min
agery and the tiger got loos and the
people all over town got scarf and
there was dead coolies of fun and
climbing out of the way. Old man
mcEvans he herd of it but he wasn't
scarf becaws he lives in the other end
of town and he didn't think no tiger
wood go out there He was sleeping
on his galry and Mira was reeding a
book up stairs when Jim iIinkle & Sam
Richie saw them and they put up a
Job on the old man. They coaxt his
big yeller dog round to the back of the
hous with peece of pie--and they
had black paint in buket and they
painted stripes on the dog and Sam
wanted to call it a Zebra but Jim said
they'd pretend it was tiger. When
they'd got it all ready they throo the
peece of pie on the old mans nee wh~1
he was sleeping on the galry and the
pie woke him up and he saw the yeller
dog that he thot was tiger coming for
him and he yelled poleece and he thot
his end was come and Mira she
skreemed fire and jim went to run
away and he was shouting Mad Tiger
and he fell down and Sam tripd over
him and spild the paint on his head
and the naybors come out with shot
guns and blaZed away at the tiger and
shot a street car the first blaze and
kid the tiger, not the sure enough IT,
ger you no, but the yeller dog with a
fence rale on his he'd and when they
found that it was no tiger but McEv-
anses dog you should have seen poor
old man McEvans prance around and
he just made the air bloc. 1t beet the
sircus but it was shame for the dog
is dead and. Mira seq. her .harts broke
and the old man split his close and hes.
now laying for them boys and he says
when he catches them he'll put enuif
stripes on them to make tiger ashamed
Of hisself,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21
The Wide, Wide World.

LIMA, REPUBLIC OF PERU.--Senor A. de
Lac. Delgado, LID and Counsellor, Tribu-
nal ofJustice, Lima, Republic ofPeru, says
One single application fist JacobsOil cured
me completely ofrhcumatic pains in my left
arm. recommended it to two of my friends,
the Mrs. DOnaJuana Garcia, widow, and Mr.
ID. Herman Decker, German gentleman.
Madam Garcia was relieved entirely by the
pain-cure from terrible neuralgia pains of ten
months standing. Mr.. Decker was cured of
incxplicable pains by a single application of
the cure. My brothcrused the great remedy
for species of paralysis of the arm. He
was entirely relieved from his ailment by
one or two applications, after having tried
numberless other remedies without effect.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21

Pointed waists are fashionable.
Walking-dresses are made short.
Embroidered handkerchiefs are
fashionable.
Cloth bonnets are much worn with
cloth costumes.
Shirred yokes and full waists are
again in vogue.
Aesthetic handkerchiefs are no
longer fashionable.
Pointed velvet girdles appear on
many dressy suits
Chinese slippers, made of bronze,
are stylish for house wear.
Black velvet is the most fashona-
able material for carriage toilets.
Velvet suits in warm, rich shades
promise to be favorite street dress.
Nhio DldCtltlS are never worn.
They have gone entirely ont of style
Velvets of all cOlors and velvet rib
bons in all widths are in active de-
mand.
Bombazines are in the market for
the use of elderly ladies and for
mourning.
A novelty in embossed goods con-
sists in clusters of flowers in plush
and velvets, appliqued on.
Black gloves are revived for wear
with all sorts of dresses and on all
occasions, except weddings.
Jerseys are as popular as ever.
The white ones for evening wear,
gold-braided, are very pretty.
The most fashionable buttons are
bullet-shaped, small, and when made
of steel, jet or metal, are facetted.
A beautiful lace combines the duch-
esse with medallions of point Venise,
rose point and pc mt gaze filling in the
interstices.
Breakfast caps made of fine Swiss
and trimmed with pom-pons of satin
ribbon are lecoming very fashionable
for married women. ... lei:
Flat gold braid, put on in embroid-
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21

I was troubled with Chronic Cata,rh aud
gathering in my hoad, was very deaf at times,
had discharges from my ears, and was unable
to breathe through my nose. Before tho second
bottle of Ely's Cream Balm was exhausted |
was cured, and -day enjoy sound health, &C.
j. CoRBIN, 923 Chestnut ST., Field Manager,
Philadelphia Pub, House, PIT (Sec advt)
Mrs. NJ Pkington, I'll 10Th ST., Brooklyn
says: 81 was a rheumatic cripple two years
helpless for months when my doctor after
trying in vain everything else, told me 10 get
DR.. Elmorc's RE- IhM CurGI me!
The Frazer Axle Grease
Is the best in the market. 1t is the most eco
nomical and cheapest, one box lasting as long
as two OF any other. One greasing will last
two weeks. 1t received first premium at the
Centennial and Paris Expositions, also medals
at various state inirs. Buy no other.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21

Smoke issuing from localitya few
niles from St Marks, Florida, has led
,ome to the belief that there was an
active volcano somewhere in the vi.
Unity. The smoke is now explained
)y a hunter, who says that there are
;hree rivers emrtying into small lake,
;wo of which are warm and the other
very cold, and the mingling of these
waters produces the vapor.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21

1t is estimated that during the last
forty years 2,250,0OO houses have been
erected in Great Britain, and they are
worth double the amount of the ma
tional debt. The rate of building now
is about $4,000 per year. Forty years
ago the rate was 10000 per year.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21

II is entirely different from all others. 1t is
as cca" is water, and as its name indicates i,
apcrlcct Vegetable Hair Restorer 1t will i'm.
med n,ely free the head from al dandruif re.
store gay hair TO It's natural color, and produce
Il new growth where it has fallen off. 1t does
not in any manner ar ct the hcal'h which
sulphur sugar Of lead and nitrate oil silver
preparation, have done 1t will change ligh,
or faded hair in few days TO n beautiful glossy
brown. Ask your druggist for it. Elch bottle
is warranted &. &. GooDwIS & Co., Whole
sale Agcn's, Boston, Mass, and G. n. CRIT.
TESroN, New York
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21

FoR DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION depression of spir.
its aud general debility in their various forms
also as preventive against fever and ague and
othcrntcrmittont fcvcrs the "FerrO-Phosphor.
atcd Elixir of Calisaya," made by Caswcll
Hazard E Co., New York, and sold by all Drug.
GSts, is the best tonic and for patients recover.
inc from rrvcr OF nther siclnoss il las 10 ennal
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21

Speaking of some conspicuous
figures in the late war, the Boston
advertisers Washington correspondent
says: SHERMAN is 81, and looks
older but the family is hardy, and he
is likely to see 1900. Sheridan is only
81; he was MajOr-General at 30
Mcclellan, now a rotund man with
bending shoulders, has not changed
much of late. He is rich, and enter
tains well in his New York city home
Rosecrans and his wife live, almost
unnoticed, on Capitol Hill while he is
here as member of Congress from
California. His complexion is like a
youths and his hair rs white us snow
lIawley and Logan are the other two
most distinguished Generals in Con-
gress. Both are 81 years old, but
neither has gay hair. Rosecrans has
been reinforced this winter by an old
companion in the Western armies,
Gen. Slocum of Brooklyn. Gen.
Sickles is practising law in New York,
and Stoneman is Governor of Calilor-
mia. Fremont is no longer rich. He
and his wife, Jessie Benton Fremont,
are forgotten in crowded New York.
Don Carlos Buell. runs an iron furnace
in Kentucky; Banks is a United States
Marshal. Terry, the youngest of the
Brigadiers who won fame in the war,
will succeed Sheridan in the command
of the army"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21

"Godon Medical Discovery" is not only a
sovereign remedy for consumption, but also
for conSumptive ghsweats, bronchitis
coughs, influenza, splitting Of blood, weak
lungs, shorIncss of breath. and kindred arec.
tions OF the throat and chest by druggists
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21

DR. Picrce's "Pellcts"-lttle liver pills
(sngor.coatcd purify the blood, speedily COR
rect NIL disorders Of the liver, stomach, and
bowels, BY druggists.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21
EeHutirul Women

The nearest OF Washington's descendants are
said to be two cousins, who keep up the old
family place in eastern Nirg MIA
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21

What is the best Hair Dresser? What is
TIE hest Dandrutf Eradicator? Which is the
G iIlir Restorer? Which is the best OF
all Preparaii ms for the Hair? CARBoLNE.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21

The Duchess of Edinburgh, daughter of the
late car, is the brightest and most amusing
talkcr ofthc British royal family.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21
Walnut Leaf Hair Restorer.

San Francisco capitalists have organized a
Whaling aud refining company. The Golden
Gate will be the ntcr of tho whale oil trade.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21
Dancer from Catarrh

Dcpends upon the amount and extent If the scrouous
Injection. Unquestiongby ma y deaths from can
mmpti can De traced to neglecte catlrrh. There Is
4 violent Distress prutracted coughing spells, the
,yes weep. the nose dis .harges copiousy. and the
read seems HbDut to snit.
In such cases Ho DIS Sals tp1rilla cnrrocts the ca
arrb by its direct acton in dsCharging the pI r
he blood through natures great gu lets, 50 that
healthy, sound blood reaches the membranes and II
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21

Hereafter the retail sale of intoxi-
eating liquors on credit in Prussia. will
be punished by withdrawal Of the Ii
cenSe
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21

A German savant named Grusel-
bach, Professor of Chemical Science in
the University of Upsala, has been de-
voting q considerable time to perfect
m apparatus to freeze living people,
and keep them in a torpid condition
for a year or two. In any case, he
announces that he will undertake by
his process to freeze up any lady or
gentleman willing to submit to the ex-
pertinent, and benumb them, deprive
them to all appearances of vitality,
pledging his word to bring them round
again at the expiration of "a couple of
years, with no prejudicial effects to
mind or body. AS no adventurous
person has come forward to supply
the savant with the desired opportuni-
ty, he has submitted his invention to
the Swedish government, with a re-
quest that a criminal condemned to
death shall be provided to enable
him to demonstrate the efficacy of his
discovery.
Is ise<, = : -, ,.,is.l - -
Albuquerque. G ibpkeFky)S..e the
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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21

Lyons Patent Metallic Heel Stillencrs keep
new boots and shoes from running over. Sold
by shoe and hardware dealers.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21

Pso's Cure will cure Coughs, Asthma.
Bronchitis and Consumption. % cent.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21

The United States public service
includes a few veteran officials. In
the Post Office Department. for
example, the chief clerk in the Office
of the First Assistant Postmaster
general is the venerable James H..
Mari Congress has provided that so
long rs he holds this Office he shall
receive $500 Il year, $500 more than
the regular compensation. Another
clerk in the same Department has been
in the postal service more than half a
century. In the Interior Department
a clerk recently died who had been
employed in one of the bureaus nearly
sixty years. In the War Department
is a grandniece of Kosciusko, who has
held her place for years. In the
Interior Department is employed a
great granddaughter of Thomas Jefrer-
son, whose salary supports her aged
and invalid mother, who is the last
surviving grandchild of the dis
tinguished Virginia patriot.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21

Among the pleasant souvenirs of
his visit to Washington, which Chief
Justice Coleridge, of Great Britain,
will carry home with him, is sonnet
written by his great-uncle, the poet, in
the album Of an American lady more
than half a century ago, The lady
was Miss Barbour, daughter of
James Barbour, of Virginia, who was
at that time United States Minister to
Great Britain. The sonnet was writ
ten on the eve of her return to Ameri-
ca, and has never been published.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21

One reason that so many men desert
from the army-15 per cent. a year, it
is said-Secretary Lincoln thinks is
due in great measure to the fact that
the enlisted men are employed most of
the time not as soldiers but labOrers,
and, what makes it worse, without
payment for their work. Their life is
made unbearable by an amending
round of hard work without cOmpensa-
ton. This might be Obvated in two
ways-Congress might provide for a
force of laborers, carpenters, etc, or
the soldiers when so employed might
be allowed extra duty pay. AT present
it is rather discouraging for an enlisted
man to be employed for months at a
time as carpenter or blacksmith for
about $40 a month, counting in the
cost of his rations, when he could
make say $50 at the same business in
civil life.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21

Mr.. Marvin II. Bovee, of Wisconsin,
who has considerable noteriety
through his persistent efforts in many
parts of the country toward the abol-
ishment of capital punishment, intends
to visit the Legislatures of all South
ern States during the winter, and dis
cuss this question before those bodies.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21
Catarrh in the Head

Is moro prevalent than many arc aware Of, and hoy
,eady relief may be obtained by the use OF lioois
Sarsaparilln listen to the following:
have been sufferer with catarrh IN tho head for y
,ears Never having found amy benefit from thu well
,nown remedies, resolved to try bottle of Hoods
sarsaparilla for my cata,rh. | would not take any
noncd consideration for the good tda one bottle did
mel W. Llllis Chicago, H., Postal Clerk.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21

Tea drinking was lately denounced
IN violent terms by an English clergy
man at a meeting held to further the
establishment of courses of instruc-
zion in practical cookery in the
elementary schools. He said "lf |
had my own way there would be much
less tea drinking among people of all
classes. Excessive tea drinking
creates generation of nervous, dis
contented people, who are for ever COM
planning of the existing order of the
universe, scolding their neighbors and
signing after the impossible. l sus
pect that over-much tea drinking. by
destroying the camness of the nerves,
is acting as dangerous revolutionary
force among u.s."
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21

Miss Booth and her companions,
who were expelled from Switzerland,
were enthusiastically received in Lon
don on their return to that city.
Fully fifteen thousand people attended
the three great thanksgiving meetings
held in Exeter Hall. In speech on
the occasion Miss Booth said that, at
whatever risk, the Salvationsts were
determined to resume the fight for the
redemption of Switzerland, and not
only of Switzerland, but of France,
Italy, Australia and America
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21
A verdict in the Superior Court at

A verdict in the Superior Court at
Augusta, Ga, giving damages to a
father for injuries sustained by a
daughter fourteen years old, in the
Augusta factory, from which injuries
the child died, is regarded as settling
very important precedent, establish
ing liability Of manufacturing COM
panies to parents in damages for injur-
les to minor children while at work.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21
the most phenomenal cities in the

| WIG hiooo PiNhohiVh"i Sioico III tiV
United States, so far as rapidity Of
growth Is concerned. In April, 1880,
the first train of cars reached the
present town site, which was then a
body of farming land. The town was
laid out the following summer, and the
marvellous building boom began which
has resulted in a substantial town of
fine business blocks and pleasant
residences, many Of which would be a
credit to cities of 100000 inhabitants.
A large proportion of its business
houses are of brick. The old Mexican
Town of Albuquerque is Il mile or
more distant and at the time of the
establishment of the new town con-
tanned $500 inhabitants. 1t is esti-
mated that the two taken together
now number in the neighborhood of
10000 people. No town in the West,
with the exception Of Leadville, has
ever experienced so rapid a growth.
Life in the Arctic regions, as
described by one of Professor Norden-
skjold's companions in his late eXpedi-
ton, presents somewhat different
experiences from the usual picture of
existence in these ATTITUDES. Some of
the expedition stopped at Waigatz
Island, and DR.. Nathorst tells how
they walked about in their shirt sleeves
on the slopes, covered with plants and
shrubs, with butterflies and bees
swarming around. Sometimes the
heat was so great that one would have
been satisfied with less in many a
summer at home, We richly enjoyed
bath in the spring. The mosquitoes
were very annoying, so that we had to
use both netting and gloves. Every
day brought us rich harvest of
petrifactions of tropical plants, such
as figs, plantains, magnolas, etc, and
while at work on the slopes we could
feast our eyes on the innumerable ice
bergs around us Of every variety of
shape
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21

The new and thrifty town of Pull
man, near Chicago, lies on Hat
prairie, and the problem of drainage
which is so difficult to solve in a great
many places, had to be met in Pu l.
man. The following is the one adopt
ed, and it is said to be satisfactory in
its workings and profitable in its re-
suits. Sewers are built to empty into
a sunken tank, from which the sew
age is pumped through twenty-inch
main to a farm three miles away
The system cost $4,000; the farm
yields profit of $500 a year.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21

The New Orleans Exhibition, which
is to be held in December, 1884, is
rapidly taking shape. The preliminary
arrangements have been perfected in
nearly all the Southern States. as well
rs in Mexico and the principal
governments of Central America.
There is no reason why such an eXhi-
bition should not be great success in
New Orleans. 1t is the largest city
in the South, with many features
which make it interesting for winter
visitors. The jetties have given the
city its antiwar position as the great
commercial city of the South, and it is
lifting that this should be celebrated
by an exhibition of Southern products.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21

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A1bddaerques!@. ttAbpkeFkylE..e the
metropolis of New Mexico, Is one of