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The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-01-19
Belonged to the Perfssh.

The old French banker Ponte was by no
means lacking in presence Of mind, as is indi-
Gated by the following anecdote: Once in a
crowded church he felt some one brush
against him, and then missed his watch.
Knowing that the thief could not be gone
very far, he contented himself by remarking
aloud: well, If that isn't the first time I
ever knew one Of our fellows to rob another
one OF the gang" His confidence was not
misplaced, for as he was going out a we'll
dressed gentleman slipped the timepiece into
his hands with the words, Excuse me, sir.
didn't know you belonged 10 the perfesh. %
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Charming MademoiseIIe Rhea.

From the Times-Democrat.
WASHINGTON, January I2.-Mademoiselle
Rhea, the pretty actress, was at the capitol to-
day, and several gallant senators showed her
considerable attention. One Of them took her
to lunch. A senator who was particularly
attracted by the charming Rhea, asked some
Of the correspondents to say nothing about his
attentions to the handsome actress, because he
had a good many Quaker constituents who
have prejudice against the theatrical pro-
fession.
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BEER VERSUS ALCOHOL.

The greatest OF men have erred and there
fore the city physician should not be too
severely censured for advising the use of beer
in preference to other Intoxicating liquors, yet
II is certainly strange that man with DR..
Menger's knowledge does not know that the
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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-05
What the Mattress Contained.

A Paris paper tells a story of an &C.
centric man who put clause in his
will that the funeral should take place
at o'clock in the morning, and that
his property, an old mattress, should
be left to those who followed the
hearse to the graveyard. AS there
was nothing in the will 30 attract
many mourners, the funeral procession
was limited to the driver of the hearse
and young neighbor of the deceased.
He got the mattress and found in it
$4,000.
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Recipes.

PUDDING SAUCE.-Take two cups
of white sugar, a lump of butter the
size of an egg, one well-beaten egg.
Stir these together, then add Il teacup-
full Of boiling water; put it in a sauce
pan until it thickens; do not let it boil;
flavor with lemon or vanilla.
A NICE WAY TO BAKE EGGs.-
Butter pudding dish and break the
eggs carefully, put in as many as will
cover the bottom nicely, lay a bit of
butter on the top of each egg, sprinkle
over them salt and pepper lightly and
bake in quick oven; cut them apart
with a knife before lifting.
MASHED POTATOEs.-Boi some po-
tatoes and pass them through a coarse
hair sieve. Put them into saucepan
with good lump of butter, and salt
to taste ; add a little milk, and work
them well with spoon on slow fire
for some minutes. adding small quanti-
ties of milk as they get dry.
SwEET-PoTATo CAKE.-Sweet-po-
tato cake is not only an appetizing dish
but this is an excellent way to use up
leftover potatoes: Mash half pound
of them, after removing the skin, when
entirely free from Jumps, mix with
them about three ounces of flour, salt
and pepper to taste, good lump of
butter, and warm milk enough to make
nice dough, about like biscuit dough.
Roll this out on the kneading board,
and cut out a cake the size of your
baking tin; butter the tin well, and
scatter little flour over it; then lay
the cake in; when you think it is
nearly done, turn it over. If the bot
tom of the oven is very hot, put CRATE
under 1.-THE baking tin to prevent the
cake getting too much Drowned. The
danger of burning is lessened if, instead
of one cake, you cut the dough in bis
cuit-shaped cakes about two inches
thick. If covered while baking the
cakes will be more moist. These cakes
can be made of other potatoes as well
as of the sweet ones.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-05
A Royal Haircut.

In 1859 Queen Victoria sent her old
est boy, the Prince of Wales and heir
apparent to the English throne, on Il
trip to the United States. He was
only nineteen years old, and some of
the most distinguished men of Great
Britain were commissioned to ac-
company their young and royal master.
During his stay in this country the
prince hOnOred Cincinnati with his
gracious presence, and fingered here for
an entire week. He had a suite of
rooms at the Burnet house, where the
would-be great men and lovely ladies
flocked in large numbers to grasp the
royal hand and gain a smile from his
supreme Johnny Bullship. He was
feted and petted in amost absurd man
ner. and even his aristOcratic stomach
at times rebelled against the absurd
Difference paid to his name and rank.
While here. Mr.. Wales concluded to
have his royal tresses cut, and extern
sive preparations were made for the
event. The Burnet house parlor were
set apart for the ordeal, and a number
of fashionable ladies begged the priv
ilege of seeing the dear heir get his
hair trimmed, and about twenty pretty
girls were graciOusly permitted to wit
ness the remarkable act. Mr.. Louis
Kaps, the barber at Mcmillan and Gill
bert avenue, Walnut Hills, was pres
ent on that occasion. He was an APP
prentice to Mr.. Hasse, the tOnsorial
artist engaged, and carried the tools
with which to operate on the princes
head. Every thing, scissors,
cup and soap, were new.
The operation began and the precious
locks fell under the sharp scissors.
An enterprising young man from New
port was there with glass blowers. He
would gather up the hair as it dropped
to the floor, and after putting it in the
glass would sell it to the dear, romantic
girls. The prince enjoyed the occasion
hugely. Hetalked glibly in German to
the barber, and occasionally made glad
the palpitating hearts of the fair dam
sells by speaking few words in his own
native English with them.' Mr.. Kaps
says that his majesty made sport of the
American women in the Teutonic
tongue, and said that he was treated
with more alteration and reverence
here than in his own country. AT last
the hair-cutting was finished and Mr.
Hasse received so for his job. How
many ladies are there in Cincinnati
who have locks of the Prince of
Wales hair ?-Cincinndh Enquirer.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-05
Bridal PROFESSIONS in the East.

These professions are often of great
splendOr. In Canton we met two in
one day. The first was headed by
poles and banners carried by men, over
whose common dress scarlet cloaks
had been flung; some gilt chairs fol-
lowed, sedan chairs with open sides
and in some of them the presents of
the bride, and other men with scarlet
cloaks brought up the rear. The
second was on scale of great magnifi-
cence, quite blocking the street through
which it passed and OBTAINING us for
nearly twenty minutes. Here there
were bands of musicians playing on
curious Eastern instruments; the men
in scarlet cloaks as before, probably
two hundred of Them then there were
about fifty bearers of tablets, and ban
nermen, and vast number of huge
gilded chairs filled with sweetmeats
and other presents; the bride in q
wonderfully elaborate and gilded chair
that was closed in with wood all round
so that she was invisible ending the
procession, in which l noticed that the
men carried lanterns already lighted
for, although it was only afternoon,
the party made large detour to show
themselves in the principal streets,
always timing their arrival to be at
night.
Another day 1 saw the chairs and
the scarlet-mantled men gathered in
such abundance round the brides
house that they flowed into all the
neighboring streets, and the crowd was
so great it needed two detachments of
police to keep order. In this instance
the bride was setting out though it
was not IL o'clock; and the journey
made it so long, and the rigor with
which the yelled bride, in dress stiff
with gold and jewels, is kept shut in
the wooden box is 50 great that it has
happened when the so-called chair was
opened at the bridegrooms door the
bride was dead. In India the pro-
cessiOn is also timed to arrive at night,
and there are musicians, dancing girls
and fireworks; and families, no matter
how parsimOnious, will spend upon the
show with a lavish hand, even up to
ten and twenty thousand pounds
IHcit Ilc pIOccSSlOH SldTIS from une
brides house in the evening, but the
bridegrOOm's share in it arrives at the
house during the day. We sometimes
saw three or four professions together;
the bridegroom locking little more than
a child. and riding; the bride in a
palanquin; the presents borne on trays,
and sometimes large and curious paste
board figures were carried as at
carnival.-Good Words.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-05

mop the carpet as you would an oil
cloth with slightly damp cloth and it
will look as bright and nice as new.
1t is well to do this every weekly
sweeping day.
TO clean finely-polished furniture
take bowl half full of tepid water, u
little fine toilet soap and a tablespoon
full of sweet oil. Apply with a piece
of old flannel, rubbing vigorously;
then take piece of old soft fine cot
ton and rub thoroughly with it and
repeat the process until all the liquid
application has been removed.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-05
Household Hints.

Dried bark of sassafras root put
around dried fruit will protect it from
worms.
Slightly dingy furniture may be
made to look like new by applying Il
coat of pure oil.
TO remove oils and varnish from silk
fabrics use benzine, ether and soap
very cautiously.
Raw starch. applied with a little
water, as a paste, will generally re-
move all stains from bedticking.
Silver in constant use is kept nice
and bright by washing it every day in
warm soapsuds and drying it with old
linen.
To clean carpet nicely, wet papers
and wiring them out well and scatter
about the floor; sweep thoroughly. GO
ing over the carpet several times; then
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-05
Pollution OF the Air.

Arecent writer in Nature called at
tention to the pollution of the air by
the burning of coal, and calculated
that in the year 1900.au~ animal life
would cease on the globe, from the
amount of carbonic dioxide thus pro-
duced. But another correspondent
points out that most of this gas is
washed out of the air by rain. There
were, however, some products of COM
bustion, or rather of incomplete COM
bustion, as hydrogen and the hydro
carbons, which are rot removed by the
rain. OF these unburned gases it is
estimated that 100,000,000 tons have
escaped into the air during the last
thirty years. What will be the result
of this accumulation According to
Professor TyndalPs researches, hydro
gen, marsh gas and ethylene have the
property in a very high degree of alb
sorbing and radiating heat, and 50
much so that a very small proportion,
of only say one-thousandth part, had
very great effect. From this we may
conclude that the increasing pollution
of the atmosphere will have u marked
influence on the climate of the world.
The mountainous regions will be
colder, the Arctic regions will be
colder, the tropics will be warmer, and
throughout the world the nights will
be colder and the days warmer. In
the temperate zone winter will be
collier, and generally differences will
be greater, winds, storms, rainfall
greater.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-05
Farm and Garden Notes.

In fat animals seventy-iive to eighty
five per cent. of the total ash constit-
uents are found in the bones.
Now is is the time to feed charcoal
to turkeys. Mixed with their soft
food it assists in the fattening process.
Don't forget for minute that honey
put up in the best shape will bring the
higest price, and find the most ready
sale.
A carp two inches long was put into
a pond two years ago ut Gibson, Ga.
Recently it was caught and found to
weigh thirteen pounds.
Spent hops, if properly dried, are
said to be an excellent and healthy
substitute for feather downs in bed
ding. They have been used for that
purpose many years.
A large fowl will make more meat
than small one, but requires longer
period in which to mature. Early ma
turity in hens is of more Importance
than size or weight of carcass.
Vegetables, like grain, seem to pass
through sweating process when
pidCcu III u heap, WHiOH Buiuco Ciicih
in large quantities to be careful of the
temperature of the cellars and store
houses in which they are kept. They
need not only a temperature suitable,
but also more or less ventilation in the
heap.
If you haven't got your manure all
out yet you can topdresa in the winter
or spring, spreading evenly from a
sleigh or wagon, so that the entire
surface of the land gets the strength,
as the rains and the melting snow
wash it out before the brush, drag or
harrow, at the opening of the season,
can be used.
j. j. II. Gregory. of Marblehead.
Mass, carefully collected the castings
of worms daily for one season over Il
given area, and they measured nearly
a quart to the square foot, or enough
to raise the surface of the land half an
inch. He also, by experiment, shows
that an acre of land may contain six
tons of worms.
A bin for keeping potatoes may be
made of narrow strips, with a space
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-05
Adam Seven Feet High.

DIR. Wild, of Toronto, announces
that Adam was seven feet high. His
reason for this conclusion is that the
first man was perfect and seven is a
perfect number. "Three is the Trim
ity number and stands for the Gre
ator; four stands for the world thus
seven includes the Creator and the
created. Seven means completion.
There are seven virtues that make a
perfect man-virtue, knowledge, tenn
perance, patience. godliness, brotherly
kindness and charity.
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Death from cold may be simulated
for longer time than is usually sup
posed in the case of the higher animals.
Rabbits were shaved by NM. Richet
and ROndeau, and inclosed in flexible
tubes through which there was flow
of salt water, cooled to seven degrees
G. until breathing, and the action of
the heart ceased. After suffering these
mammals to remain in that condition
for half an hour vital functions were
restored.
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between them, and having legs to
raise it above the cellar bottom. 1t
may be made of any desired length
and cross-boards may be put in to
separate varieties, if preferred. An
arrangement of this kind will prevent
injury from dampness and provide
thorough ventilation.
Don't whitewash the bark upon the
bodies of fruit and ornamental trees.
We are at loss to know for what pur-
pose some persons thus coat the bark
of fruit and shade trees about their
premises, unless it is to make them
look nice. 1t certainly does them more
harm than good, as it serves to obstruct
the respiratory organs, and in a mea-
sure prevents thrifty growth.
The female moths of the canker
worm cannot fly, but as they hatch
out in warm days at the beginning of
spring, they crawl up the bodies of
apple trees to deposit their eggs.
Hence it is of no use setting traps for
them to fly into; but band around
tree filled with tar or printers ink
will stop their progress, and with
some watchfulness they may be easily
destroyed.
Kainit, or German potash salts con-
tains about twenty-five per cent. of
sulphate of potash, fourteen per cert.
of sulphate of magnesia, twelve per
cent. of chloride of magnesia, thirty
three per cent. of common salt, fifteen
per cent. of moisture and slight traces
of other minerals. The amount of
pure potash contained in it is about
twelve per cent. From 200 to 400
pounds is fair application for an
acre of land.
The NeU Hampshire Mirror and
Farmer recommends that fine salt be
sifted over cattle from head to tail
about this time, and again later in the
season, as q remedy against lice. About
pint to each animal is sufficient. A
correspondent who tried the remedy
selected few animals for experiment
with the salt, and omitted its use on
others, and the result was that those
that were sailed were free of lice,
while those not so treated were lousy.
ulSlttllc dlu CHlCh Wcctl are, ny COlu-
mon consent, put down as the worst
weeds in the garden. Many a man
fights them his life long, and leaves his
garden more thickly populated with
these enemies than when he gathered
his first crop. They have their eco
nomic uses, especially purslane, whichis
excellent food for pigs and chickens
when confined in pens, and is not to
be despised as a dish of green's with
boiled ham. But the chief value of
these vegetable pests is as sign of bad
Field mice may ruin a whole orchard
in single winter by gnawng the ten
der bark from the trunks of the fruit
and other trees. The greatest de-
struction is done while the earth is
covered with a heavy fall of snow.
At this time the mice burrOw from
tree to tree and forage at their free
will under cover of the snow. So soon
as the storm is over the snow should
be tramped down around each tree to
shut off the mice. Rabbits may be
kept from the trees by smearing the
bark with blood or rubbing the trunks
with refuse meat.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-05

Great Britain and the United States
are reported to consume one-third of
the worlds production of sugar.
Great Britain consumes seventy-four
pounds per capita and the United
States forty-two pounds per capita.
Germany consumes nineteen pounds
per capita and Russia only seven
pounds per capita; ninety per cent. of
the sugar used in the United States is
imported from abroad, and forms one
seventh of all our imports.
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heavy the succeeding years. They re-
main on the receiving ship until drafted
into other vessels. Good men are given
every encouragement to re-enlist. If
they do this within three months after
discharge they are paid regular wages
for the time they may have been on
shore and one dollar extra per month
for every Observation-Disclosures
Times
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ANOTHER PROPHET.
Remarkable Events to Occur In 1883 and
1884.


1884.
The New York Herald says: There
have been from time to time, and in
various localities, numerous individuals
claiming to rival the famous, if not
fabulous, Mother Shipton in her
representations of evil. Zadkiel and
Raphael have "gone to the bourn,"
etc, but there remains another, who
thinks he can discount Venner, Devoe,
"Old Prob" or any other prophet,
named or not named. He is James NJ.
Swormstedt, of Cincinnati, who says
his only motive in the matter is "that
my fellow mortals may be led to escape
these great judgments" His lucubra-
lions are as follows:
FINANCIAL PANIC.
A great financial panic will sweep
like wildfire over the United States
some time in 1883, which will PROSTATE
all industries, paralyze all business and
throw out of employment every man,
woman and child in the country.
COMMUNIsTIC WAR.
The condition of the working classes
will become so desperate that they will
rise up like flood and sweep away
both Church and State and fill the land
with violence.
A GREAT WIIIRLWIND.
Satan, in affecting the world like he
did job, will next bring the great whirl-
wind of jeremiah, XIV, 80, which will
Stay "from one end of the earth even
10 the other end of the EARTH Joel
H., Ill contains some dreadful par
ticulars of this destructive whirlwind.
SEVEN GREAT COMETS.
Satan will soon wheel fleet of
seven great comets into line. One
will plunge into the sun, producing
great outburst of solar light and heat.
The moon will be as light as the sun
and the light of the sun will be in
creased sevenfold. The other six will
affect the rivers, the sea, the earth and
the air.
SNOW, HAIL. FLOODS AND FIRE.
Tremendous snowfalls, hailstones of
enormous size, awful floods and flaming
fire will come to complete the dark pic
ture.
EARTHQUAKES.
There will be great earthquakes in
divers places. The most dreadful and
destructive one of all will be in the
last part of 1854.
THE SILVER LINING TO THE DARK
CLOUD.
AS the Lord restored double to Job
so will he to our land. 1t will arise
from it's ruins and in the
latter part of 1888 will be made like
the Garden of Eden.
THE MILLENNIUM.
The millennium, or reign of Christ,
will begin in the United States forty
years before the rest of the world is
made new by the good King.
BLESSINGS.
Free homes, free supplies and ever
lasting life will be given to all who
will believe in this good King and flee
to this place of refuge from the per-
solutions Of Satan and the future Anti
christ whom he is to set up over the
revived Roman empire.
HOW TO ESCAPE THE TIME OF TROUBLE.
The Lord is to form a vast camp
around the great pyramid of Egypt and
at the sounding of great trumpet the
angels are to gather his elect there
from one end of heaven to the other
[ see Joel, H.. IL; Isaiah, XIX, 10
Psalms, xvii, s. All who will turn
the appearing of Christ will be super
naturally protected there until the
time of trouble is over, that is from
the autumn of 1888 to the spring of
1885. After that a new set of events
open up which are too long to recount
just now.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-05

A rich deposit of copper ore has been
struck in the heart Of the city Of Ro-
anoke, Va.