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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-01-04
SELECT SIFTINGS.

,
There are three cents worth of gold in
every ton of sea water
The weight of the female cranium is
about one-seventh less than that of the
male.
Mahogany was first brought to Eng
land in 1895, but did not come into gen
cral use until 1920.
The famous lake jewellers, of Swtzer-
land were discovered in 1855 by DR..
Keller, who spent ten years in studying
them.
The smallest pony in the world is the
pet of the Baroness Burdett- Coutts- Bart
lett. He is five years of age and stands
thirteen inches high.
Scipio Africanus the younger is said to
have been the first Roman who shaved
daily. Siciian BARRIERS first appeared in
Rome about 800 b. G..
With a stick held in his teeth Manly
Shotwell, of Ann Arbor, sends tclegraphic
messages at the rate of seventeen words
minute. He has lost the use of his arms.
Two of the children of Swedish
couple who live near Sioux Falls, Dakota,
are pefect Albinos, while the others
are ordinary fair haired children. One
of the Albinos is boy, the other girl.
In Normandy, if any one of the family
be absent when the cake is cut on
Twelfth might, his share is carefully put
by. Ii he remains well, it is believed
that the cake continues fresh; if i'll, it
begins to be moist; if he dies, the cake
spoils.
A tumulus at Tapow, Eng, was re-
Gently opened aid found to contain a
body apparently buried during the Saxon
period, a shield, two drinking horns,
several articles Of jewelry, and guam
tity of gold fringe which had apparently
served as frilling for the corpse.
When an Egyptian has a ''sty" on the
eye-lid he does not resort to iodine as
might dog of an unbeliever but he be-
takes himself to seven different women
named Fatima, begs a morscl of bread
from each, and is cured. Fortunately
ladies named Fatima are common in the
land of the Pharaohs.
A DR.. Granville writes to the London
Times l.: 'Many persons who are not by
habit dreamerS are dreaming a great
deal just now and wondering why they
do so. The answer is very simple When
cold weather sets in suddenly and is
much felt at night the head, which is
uncovered, has the blood supplied to it
driven from the surface to the deep parts,
notably the brain--the organ of the mind.
The results are light sleep and dreams.
The obvious remedy is to wear a night
cap or wrap the head warmly, at least
while the cold weather lasts. | believe
we of this generation suffer more from
brain troubles than our predecessors be
cause we leave the head exposed at night
and the blood vessels of our cerebral or
gans are seldom unloaded."
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-01-04
Women as Oyster Shuckers.

The female shuckers who pick out the
larger part of oyster meat at the Fair
Haven shops have had plenty to do the
past season. There has been a good de-
mand for stock and in some of the
shops the people have worked over time.
The stock has been in good order. so
that the shuckers have not had much
trouble in their work. Shuckers make
from six to thirteen dollars per week
At the opening of the season some deal
ers paid three and onc-half cents per
quart for opening, but the general rate
at present is three cents, the same as last
year. The shuckers begin work at Z
o'clock in the morning and leave off at
noon, excepting on Thursday and Fri
day, when they work until o'clock
in the afternoon, the largest ship
ments of the week being made on those
two days. The shuckers furnish knives.
hammers, and cracking irons. Most of
the women are married, some having
worked twenty years for one firm. Some
can shuck one hundred quarts in ten
hours. The shuckers measure the meats
by beer measure, and dealers sell stock
by wine measure. The Providence
shuckers are all men Virginia plants
and native stock open much easier than
Virginia oysters, the latter having very
thick shells, which are hard to crack.
Providence shuckers open by the stab
bling process, driving the knife between
the shells upon one side. Women are
not strong enough to shuck oysters in
this manner. At Fair Haven the thin
end of the oyster is placed on a cracking
iron attached to a block of wood, and
the little iron hammer with two or three
blows knocks off the end of the shell, so
that the thick. strong oyster knife is
easily inserted between the shells, and
by dexterous twist the oyster is opened
-Neio Hdren PalLadiam.
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Preferred His Whistling,

When BoufTe favored us with his com
panv in the foyer of the Narietes-a rare
occurrence-he generally RECALLED us with
some good story picked up in the course
of his long theatrical life; and one of
these, the last | ever heard from his lips
/ distinctly remember. He was starring
at Rouen, and on one of his off nights
stroled into the threatre when HarOld's
Tampa was played. Among the actors
was new recruit, to whom, for some
reason or other, the spectators had taken
a strong dislike, and Missed him most
numerically, until at last the poor fell
low came forward and addressed the au-
dience as follows Ladies and gentle
men, have wife and three children,
and, if had been fortunate to please
you, should have earned a yearly salary
of 1,S00f., which would have sufficed
for us ALL l do not dispute your right to
reject me, but although my singing has
not satisfied you, perhaps my whistling
may" Thereupon he began to whistle
a popular air with such perfection that
the whole house was in raptures, and he
was unanimously accepted on the express
condition that, whatever vocal parts
might in future be assigned to him, he
should whistle instead of sing them. -
LOHgmaR'S Nagazine.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-01-04
What Traius are Worth.

But few persons, as they see one of the
fast express trains fit by, are aware of the
value of such train, says a Philadelphia
y paper. What is known as the royal linn
tied express over the PENNSYLVANIA road,
as the train is ordinarily made up. repre-
sents over 1920, 900, as follows; Engine,
$12, 900; baggage-car. 81 200; smoking
car, $1,000; dining room-car. S12, 900;
five elegant Pullman cars, $1S, 600 each.
500, 900. While this may seem to be an
exception, the ordinary express trains rep
resent $S3, 900 to $50, 900 The engine
and tender, which are considered together,
valued at so, 800; the baggage car, 81,
600; the postal-car, 81, 000 the smoll-
ing car, $4,000; two ordinary pas
scnger cars, $4,000 each, and three
palace cars, $4,000 each-tota,
$50, 600 This is low rather than an
excessive estimate of one of the fast ex-
presses. The palace cars, put down at
$1O,0 are in many cases worth $1S,-
600, and some Pullman cars are now
run which cost in the neghborhood of
$50, 900. 1t is stated that the average
value of a freight train is still greater
than Il passenger train, when the rolling
stock and value of property carried are
included. Sometimes the freight on one
of these through trains aggregates in
value $3.50, 600 to $500, 900. and what is
little singular is the fact that the trains
moving westward are more valuable
than those moving eastward-a large
per cent. of the west-bound business
is merchandise or valuable ma
chinery, while nearly tiftY-fve
per cent. of the east bound business is
grain, which is carried in car costing
$3.50, and the property carried will av-
erage S400 per car, so that the entire
train of twenty-five cars, engine included
are not worth over $34, 600 to $35, 900,
while frequently one carload of mer-
chandise coming West will represent that
value, and these palaces on wheels carry
ing thousands of passengers and the
thousands of freight cars carrying mil
lions of valuable property are dependent
for safety upon one mantle engineer.
There are other mcn-the conductor.
baggage master, fireman, and three or
four brakemen-but the hand upon the
lever and the brain directing it have an
immense responsibility.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-01-04
SCIENTIFIC md INDUSTRIAL.

Professor Dudley, of Cincinnati, has
found way to plate with iridium, which
will not tarnish.
The earth is TAG times smaller than
Saturn, and its mean distance from us is
over 81, 900, 900 miles.
A recent official report says that the
mercury in South Australia often rises in
summer to 115 degrees in the shade, and
this mas been exceeded on several occas-
ions.
The bitter taste which housewives often
complain of in bread and biscuit, and
often lay at the fault of the flour, is most
always caused by the yeast being used in
excess, or too large a quantity of baking
powder being used or the latter being of
poor quality.
A French savant says that he believes
the action of rolls for grinding wheat is
better calculated to preserve intact the
cells of the interior of the wheat berry
than is the action of stones, which dis
organize the cells by their tearing action
instead of disintegrating them.
A medical writer has lately penned a
paragraph full of warning to men in
tlauc' llc justly IlulCuleS lHc common
practice of persons engaged in commerce
of pretending to be in great haste and
terribly pressed for time at almost every
moment of the day, runninp, so to speak,
close race perpetually, as it were, with
the old neurological gentleman with the
forelock. The house is overwhelmed
with business, forsooth. BY and by this
pernicious practice becomes a confirmed
habit, the fertile source of many nervous
disorders
A London paper thus describes a ma
chine for feeding horses automatically,
which has recently been invented: "Thc
automatic householder is designed to feed
any number of horses at regular times,
whether an attendant is present or not.
The feeder consists of two parts-a spout
or shute fixed over the manager, into
which the food is placed every night, and
an apparatus of which a specially adapted
clock forms a part. The clock may be
set for any hour, and at the time indica-
ted the whole or one-half of the food in
the shute is liberated and falls into the
manager. One apparatus and clock is suf-
ffcient for any number of horses, provided
the stables are in group"
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-01-04
Millions of Oranges.

In passing along the line of the South
Florida railroad one gets but occasional
glmpses of the many orange groves to be
seen, as the groves are older than the
railroad and the views from the train are
for the most part very poor. But when
you arrive at Maitland, here the whole
face of nature hes undergone change.
Instead of the succession of pine trees
and other varieties of natural growth.
you are at once struck with the sudden
transformation. What has been in former
years rolling hammock with its varied
growth and high pine land, now con-
fronts you with one successior of orange
groves. The rusty and dingy look worn
by the moss-covered oak has been re-
placed by the dark green, luxurious
growth of the citrus family. | passed
through and stopped at Orlando, but |
was longing to return to Lake Maitland,
the gem of South Florida, and to drink
in the beauties of its landscape. We
passed through dozen groves, the
largest of which has in it 3, 700 orange
trees, large part in full bearing.
Here we halted for few moments, to
rest and to take "A birds eye view of the
lake and the orange groves beyond. So
far as the eye could see there was a con-
tinuous succession of grove after grove,
and the fresh, verdant look of the green
orange leaf, so grateful to the eye upon
a bright day, was illuminated by millions
of the golden fruit itself in all its glory
FLORIDA Times Union.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-01-04
His Share.

"Well, old fellow, | hear that your
grandmother is dead. Yes" replied
odd fellow, somewhat sadly, "she died
yesterday" 1T is the way of the world.
We must all die sometime, and the old
lady was well advanced in years. She
left last will and testament, of course?
| have understood that she was very
wealthy" "Oh, yes, she left will and
testament" still more sadly. "You were
always a favorite of hers. Your name
was mentioned, of courselp Yes" he re-
piled, and here the tears began to stream
down his cheeks, "my name was men
toned. am to have the testament"
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{ To be continued.)
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-01-04
THE SNOW-STORM.

The old earth lying bare and cold,
Beneath the winter sky,
Beheld the storm-king marshal forth
His battle force on high.
"Ahl soon," she said, "beneath the snow
Full warmly l shall lie."
The wind unfurled his banners
And rushed into the fray,
The round moon hid her jolly face
Within cloud Of gray,
And not one single star peeped out
To drive the gloom away.
The snow, encamped behind cloud,
Sent flying, here and there,
Its whitc-winged heralds to proclaim
Its presence in the air;
Until, at last, the fairy host
Burst from its cloudy lair.
The snow flakes, rushing downward,
Each in whirlng dance,
Before the winds are driven
Likes armies by the lance;
But still, upon the waiting Earth,
Inc SHINING hosts advance.
The wild wind, shrieking as he goes,
Flies fiercely to and fro,
And strives, with all his mighty force,
To sweep away the snow;
But bravely still the soft flakes fall
Upon the Earth below.
All white and swift it settles down,
Though Boreas howl and storm,
Till soft as summers green the robe
1t folds about her form;
No dl a cry of leaf and flower
Could make the Earth 50 warm.
1t charges with no battle-cry,
But pure, and soft. and still,
1t falls upon the waiting Earth,
It's promise to fulfill;
And foils the angry, shrieking wind
By force of gentle will.
The foe has furled his banners,
And hastened from the fray;
The round moon peeps with jolly face
From out the cloud of gray;
And all the stars come twinkling out
To see who gained the day.
There all the earth lay shining,
In garments pure and white;
The snow fulfilled its mission,
And, conGuer,ng in the fight
Had warmed the old Earth to the heart
Beneath its mantle white.
-Roydi and Barr Hill, in 81. Nicholt
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FI.QRu1K
Finu-Faln1inE

NOW you nave your Happy New car.
You are ready to say with Iennyson:-
Ring out the Old ring in the new;
Ring happy bells, across the snow;
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true"
The bells have done this for every house,
hold that has discarded Old feather and
hair bedding, and substituted health-giv-
ing PinO-Palmine mattresses. They have
not only rung ont the false" and "Tuug
i'll the true" but they have
"Rung ont old shapes of foul disease"
To the truth If this DR. Hem $. Bahbtt, Ca,i...!
bus, Ohio, to-tlhes when he write: - My wife
great sufferer from neural ia al glad { t-y
Pine Palmine l!attrrss Her rGi IL ret JratiCn t.
better health than ever before scene too dcCi I've
and complete to give te matt-cs3 all the credit 70
- determined TO try lin my own case. had hon
4 Nciln OF rheumat,'i IN and asthma \ ter Ele
months trial | am happy 10 say that f-r u t.
touch our pillows is to receive sound n tr.SiuE
fieep, free from rcuralr or other p.iIS. Eld
sleut on the = cl-icd h"ir mattress ~ yc2r.,
Enl would not cXchInge the PuloPalruiae for any
other"
As this is the time for now resolutions,
we resolve that oar patrons shan't be de-
C"ycd by felSe vegetable fibre which some
persons, rather than miss Il sale, palm oil
as Pino-ralminc. We warn al pcrgorT,
therefore, that no mattress is made of Flor
lila FOX Tail Pine, unless il bears the trade
mark ofthc company PinO-PaIminc. Hike
cYeryOtAcr mcrltprious discovery, rut p"T
the penalty Of popularity but you can't
maSea mistake ifyou follow oUrd..Cctl 1ns.
Ourtradcmark is copyrighted; our Liscoy-
cry patented.
II Moro il no agrnt rear y11. sol c-lr-s. w'th
lem 81 and breadth OF bel. - cent PIoPauine Go.
liz Water street, Boston, HAS.
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"Uncle Remus' tells MS in the New
York critic that the banjo is the musical
instrument of the stage negro, but not of
the Southern negro. lie says he has
never seen plantation negro play one,
or pair of bones in the hands of an old
time slave.
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The Eddystone Light of the Pacific is
to be erected on Seal Rock, St. Georges
Reef, eight miles from the shore, oppo-
site Crescent City, Cal and will cost
$500, 600. The highest point of Seal
Rock is tifty-four feet above mean tide.
The light will be 100 feet higher
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MORRIS ( IRELAND,
BOSTON MASS.
How Watch Cases are Made.

Most persons have an ambition to carry
gold watch case, and yet few people know
how n watch case is made, or the vast diff
ference in Inequality of them. Ina SOLID
GOLD WATCH CASE, aside from the neces.
sary thickness for engraving and polishing,
q large proportion of the metal is needed
only to s.iiien and hold the engraved por-
tons in place, and supply strength. The
surplus is not only needless, but undesira-
bic, because gold is n soft metal and cannot
furnish the stiffness, strength and elasticity
necessary to make the case permanently
strong and cloSc-litting. The pcJtct watch
case must combine gold with some metal
that will supply that in which the gold is
deficient This has been accomplished by
the James Boss Gold Watch Case -, 81 ,.,,
which saves the WASTE of need : )
less gold, and INCREASES the soIIpgrY and
STRENGTH of the case, and at the same time
reduces the cost ONE HALF.
Send errt stamp Keystone Watch Case Taetprle Pha
dspha, Pa for handsome Illustrated Pamphlet showing how
lame. Boss and keystone Watch Case, are made.
ITO be continued1
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nLD STOCK COSSECTI.UC CIGARS, I 1
~ tor 26c. Can be relied on as strictly Con-
nrcticut 1T
HAkTMAN'S YELLOW FRONT CIGAR
STORE.
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PHILADELPHIA, Sept 10 Flour dull ana weak
superfne state. ~ 600s; Extra sinner.
me ~ o state ss o003 so; Pa. family. IL -
e. %; % winter cloar, u 257i IS, do strsishts.
900 y: MINI. extra, clear, o. 2Slf6 o0
ssrssns, ~ ~ " olds ni Wisconsin, clear, o. 7s
a. % spring do, o 766e Is; fresh ground n III
Rye flour firm at 1913
meat dull and weak No. Western Re1
AgstHci NO 3 do, s0c; No 1 Pa. do
ss99Oc No. Delaware do, $50. "N'
Corn -marhet and prices easier under
SOW ,o ;enh demana ss,samer, CSC sail yellow GO |;
=, oats dall aud heavy; No. White, SO 60sshc I;
rejected. new, 29a32c No . mixed. Soc. ''"'
Rye nominal at G0065c.
Seeds Cloverseed quiet at sa9II; Timothy
dull at el 55Gl 60; Flaxseed firm at sl i0f3i ~
winter Bran quiet at sl50l5 D for No. /.
Mess Pork, sl7 500is !; Beef Hams. s2ispas d !:
II co. ' ''' '''"%
Bacon. IKE; Smoked Shoulders, se,
salt ntrt,o ao, 40 ,Mc; Smoked Hams, Hx0lsc
,n;srar.a Lard quiet; n city refined. sssa.A; loose
Butter scarce, good demand upward teu,lencv
Greamery extras, Csc; Western do, 2292}c:
Is. 9. n. Y. extras, 20 a25; Western cairy do.
lO92c western good to choice IA ltl6e
kolls at sal2c packing butter, Sc,
Eggs quiet and easier extras, ISL0l9l.c /.
Western, l9epi9Sc.
Cheese, market firm, dull New York tnli
sHcc; Western fair " prime, 6dsc Pennin
part skins, 2dikc do tull h@sEc.
petroleum quiet Refined, 75.c,
wn'shy duil Western at u IS
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Live StOrK mnrHaf

CHICAGO. Iogs-Receipts, 900 head shin
menus, 2,SO0 head market dun and 10
iower on az average grassy to medium PACK
ing so.0R5 60; packing and shipping, IS 75a8 81
light, IS 35dG 10; skfps, s3Sa5 25.
Cattie-Receipts, $500 hea. shipments 2lO0
mead pest grades steady others weak
export grades, % 1907; good to cno,co ship
ping, s8Ds 20; inferior to medium, a OiSp
cattle easier Texans, s3 65sli go
sheep Heceipts, 500 head shipments,
none market steady inferiJr to fatr, s2a3 |;
ego; Lambs, " head, slQ3.
EAST Market dull Mt kc
on yesterdays prices; receipts, 6lO neal ;
shipments, G67 mead.
Hogs market firm: receipts, 800 head ;
shipments, $500 head Philadeipnias, RB 4OGD
o.; baltimore, ~ 2OG6 80 Workers., S. $50
10; grassers s53@j 40.
sheep in tair demand at unchanged prices
receipts, 1870 head shipments. 5, ,a0 mead.
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Ii you safer with sick head che. Constipa.
tion, sour stomach. or Bilious aitacks Em-
ory's Little Cathartic Pills will relieve you.
IL cents. sSlwdM wNfsw