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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-03-28
A Novel Card SWIndle.

Yet another ingenious method of
swindling at baccarat has been invented.
At certain fashionable French water
ing-place, where baccarat was much in
vogue, it was noticed that an individual
who wore a formidable pair of blue spec
tacles invariably won heavily when
ever he took the bank. His luck
was phenomenal, and excited suspicion
but nothing was discovered. One day,
however, he happened to drop a card
and bystander, on STOPPING to pick it
up, was astonished to notice certain lu.
minous spots on its back, which shone
in the darkness under the table. On ex-
aiming the card. he found that the
spots were particles of phosphorus, and
corresponded in number with its face
value 1t then became apparent that the
astute banker, thanks to his darkened
spectaclcs, was enabled to know the
exact value of every card he dealt
London Truth.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-03-28

grinds them to pulp. This machine has
a series of knives running through one
another. 1t looks like two NAM
moth washbowls. ten feet in diameter,
turned face to face, and it grinds millions
in a day. A million dollars ground up
makes mush of dirty gray color, in
| great demand at the papermills. After
grinding, it Is dried into boards and sent
off to these places. Some of it is made
into little images and paper weights,
which are sold at the capital as memen-
tos. l understand there are now in the
market images made of other paper sold
in Washington-paper which never saw
the government money vaults, and which
is made of old rags.
In this counting of greenbacks the
counters sometimes contract diseases from
infected money. Only few months ago
a lot of money came in which had been
taken from corpse after it had been
buried some weeks. The result was, that
every one who handled the money became
sick. The arsenic used in printing the
notes has sometimes the same effect, but
this has been exaggerated.
The bureau of redemption returns full
value for all mutilated notes three ffths
of which remain, half value for notes
of which three-tifths and one half can be
shown, and rejects all of less than one
half. If all of a note be destroyed eX-
cept corner or small piece of it, and the
sender afiixes his affidavit and swears to
the fact that this is all that remains, the
full amount of the note is paid him.
Such cases come in daily and are allowed.
The benefit of all the doubt is always
given to the people. All kinds of notes
are redeemed. Some charred and burnt
as in the Chicago fire; some which have
gone through the wash in a careless mans
pocket and others which have been
chewed to a pulp by some dog or calf.
The fractional currency comes in verv
slowly, and there are still $15, 900, 900
of it outstanding.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-03-28
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Steel tubes are found to retain twice rs
much magnetism as steel rods, and are
therefore better for permanent magnets
The sawdust and refuse of the sawmill
Is now made to yield fourteen gallons of
turpentine, three o. four gallons of resin
and quantity of tar per cord.
French silk manufacturers are reported
to be very hopeful as to the capabilities of
a big spider lately discovered in Africa,
which weaves a yellow web of great
strength and elasticity
Paper wash-basins, buckets, and SINH
lar articles for domestic purposes are
generally made of straw pulp, and after
they are rough made into the desired
shape they are subjected to hydraulic
pressure in strong molds where they ac-
quire the finished form.
The annual rainfall in this country, ac-
cording to the Weather Signal, is lowest
in New Mexico (thirteen inches) and CAL
ifornia eighteen inche5), and highest in
Oregon forty-nine) and Alabama Oifty-
six. The annual rainfall in the British
Islands among the mountains is forty-one
Inches; on the plains twenty-five inches !;
forty-five inches of rain falls on the west
side of England, twenty-seven on the east
side.
a solution has been attempted by NJ
P. de Gasparin of the remarkable sunsets
which have excited the wonder Of the
world. For many reasons he discards
the hypothesis that they were due to the
action of falling stars, and considers that
the luminous effects were produced by
the light of the sun falling on an atmos-
phere charged with particles of matter,
in state of minute subdivision, at a
great height above the earth, the exact
nature and origin OF which dust had not
yet, however, been determined.
DR.. Murray Gibbcs reports, in the
London Medical journal, thirty-seven
cases of diphtheria claimed to have been
cured by saturating the atmosphere of the
room in which the patient was placed
with the vapor of eucalyptus globules.
The atmosphere must be constantly
loaded with steam and the vapor of the
eucalyptus is obtained by pouring water
on the dried leaves To assist nature in
throwing off the membrane DR.. Gibbes
used a solution of steel and glycerine
with which he brushed the throat when
the membrane is loose enough to come
away easily
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-03-28
Peculiarities of Some Congressmen

4 correspondent Of the Hartford Times
writes that Stewart, OF Texas, is the
tallest man in the House of Representa-
tives, measuring six feet seven inches
Tillman, of South Carolina, never wears
an overeoat; "Richelieu' Robinson, OF
New York, has not cut his hair since last
season, and says it is not to be cut again
until Ireland is ''free;" McAdoo, of New
Jersey, wears the tightest-ftting clothes
in the House; John f. Wise, of Virginia
born in Brazil-parts his hair in the
middle; and Cannon, of Illinois, is the
only Representative who always gesticu-
lates with his left hand.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-03-28

Mrs. Mary A. Miller is not the first
woman who has served successfully as
mistress of a ship. Mrs. Captain Patten,
OF Bath, Me-, who while her husband was
lying i'll in his berth, navigated his ship
around Cape Horn and up to San Fran
cisco, although his timid first officer
wanted to stop at Valparaiso for assist
ance; of Mrs. Captain Abbie Clifford, of
the brig Abbie Clifford who, after her
husband had been washed overheard,
brought the vessel into New York har-
Dor from below the equator; of Mrs.
Captain Reed of the Oakland, of Bruins
wick, Me-, who was practical navigator
of celebrity, and Miss Jenet Thoms, who
often used to navigate her fathers ship.
who is now teaching school of naviga-
ton in this city and who was in part the
author of "Thoms's Navigator" book
OF authority among mariners. These
cases are ull of recent date. To them
the Leavenworth (Kansas) Times adds
the case of Mrs, Captain John Oliver
Norton, of Edgartown, Mass. Her hus-
band commanded whaling vessel, and
she frequently went with him into the
Arctic waters. On one of these eXpe.
dtions all the boats were out, leaving
on board the captain and just enough of
the crew to manage the vessel a whale
was noticed off to the starboard and
the captain and men were puzzled how
to get it. 1t was the woman who solved
the problem and settled the fate of the
whaleship Going to the wheel she pre-
vailed upon her husband to leave the
vessel in her charge, with two disabled
men, while he and his men went after
the whale. He did so. The woman
managed the ship all day until nightfall,
when the boats returned, that in com
mand of her husband having captured
the biggest whale ever seen in those
waters. When the ship put home the
New Bedford owners made the "woman
commander" handsome present. -Hqy-
per'S Weekly.
Japan has A, 1873 miles of telegraph and
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-03-28
No Ouarter.

There is sign over butchers shop
on Michigan avenue which reads: Beef
by the quarter" One day lately a man
went in and asked for a ten-pound roast,
giving the name and number it was to
be sent to. When he was walking out
the proprietor stopped him and told him
he had forgotten to pay for it,
Doesn't your sign read, "Beef by the
quarter'' Send round your bill when
the quarters up and collect
Look here ~ shouted the angry butch
err, you pay down now or you'll get no
beef. It's war to the knife and no quar-
ter dye hear}'-Free Press.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-03-28

japan has 4, 1888 miles of telegraph and
twenty-five miles of railway.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-03-28
CONTINUED from lost ,seek.)
How Watch Gases are Kcdo.

In 1875, thirteen men comprised the
entire working force uscl in the Hans-
factGre OF the James Bo.5 Goii Watch CASE.
Now over ire Aapdro{ are employed, and the
u, 1.5cr is constantly increasing. The rca-
soa of this increase IS tbs: In the Jtm
I5e5 Goi Eairh C,'e all the mc:a! in 81 int
an .,ajcyt to " sur i, so!d gjd, while the re-
E.ain!er, which only ien!s siren til t. the
case, is OF stron-rr n.ctul than gcll,
giving goll where gold is needed, and
strong. elastic metal where strength and
ca ;i,ity are neclel, Il combination pro-
Gu,ing a watch case better than solid gold
and at oYE-IIALF the cost. - ,,,..
ever J0,0o0 Of these cases j
have lccn sold, and every iewcler in tho
cu"utry can testify 10 their quality and
merit. 7,-,..,,,. a.. voc,
j. v. MARI Of Tie isp'oc,i', n1u-h. a Jas Is IS
God Watch Ctse l. years ago, aud carried It Iutl
Ehpit time agl when purchased it, and sold II II
cG-tulvr The Clse showed no sans II wear, exec
tiat natGra' - aly caSc, anu Am satisfied can be
safely guaranteed for II least ten years IN re. have
and lie parties who b iu-ht the INST ones carey
us them to-day, wei, satisfied though Ia hal
bought soil gold c-Se costing twice tia money /
r,t,.i. them tn oy cases If this Kind jcWtl,r
Worth II t!c.r money or values E.s reputation.
NM. j, Ct sINAN, Tsrsf>r.
Send eru stamp keystone Watch Gaze Fnrorles Pha-
dripha la for handsome illustrated Pamphlet ,how.u low
James Errs and hcI-tone Match Ca,cs '1aae.
(TO Re C0ptipuedA
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-03
The Lime-Kiln Club.

"Judge Cadaver will please step dis
way" said Brother Gardner, as he mo.
toned to Samuel Shin to raise the alley
window and let out the odor of burning
bootleg.
The Judge came forward with pres
sure of $50 pounds to the square inch,
and the President continued:
"Judge Cadaver, society at Defiance,
O., known as DE Aggregation of Phil
osophy an Science has requested me
to send 'em down some member OBJ dis
club who kin deliber a lecktur' full of
interest an instruckshun. has selected
you. Heah am eight dollars in cash an
railroad pass, an you will leave hear
tomorrow AFTERNOON"
The Judge looked so meltingly sweet
that everybody began to grin.
ST now desiah to spoke few remarks
to YOU" said the President, as he laid
aside his spectacles. ''You are gwine
among strangers. You will meet with
black-legs and bondholders an all odder
classes of men.
"Doan' talk too much wild your moaf.
"Don't try to make any body believe
dat you am millyunalre.
''Doan' stop to bet on de string game
or three-card monte.
"Doan' purtend you know what you
doap' know an nebber heard of.
''Doan' stop to argy religun wild in
fidels nor pollyticks wild a young man
who can't vote.
"If anybody calls you 'Kernup you
needn't stop to explain his mistake, but
at the same time doan' hire anyone to
call you Professor
eff you lose your money by playin'
policy while you am gone, come home
by de highway an say muffin to nobody.
If you am knocked down an robbed Won
kin telegraph us an count on receivin'
bout TO dollars in cash. OATS all
Judge, an you kin now resume yer
roost. "-DetTOit Free Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-03
Choice Domestic Recipes.

An excellent and common rule for
making drawn butter sauce is to rub
a piece of butter the size of an egg with
cupful of flour, season with pepper and
salt, and a very little nutmeg, mix this
with enough water to make it smooth
like paste. Let this boil for fifteen
minutes, then add little more butter,
stirring the mixture so that the butter
will be thoroughly mixed with it. Add
lemon juice before sending to the table
AS garnish for roast spare rib, or for
pork chops, cut some tart apples in
eighths, drop them, after peeling, into
boiling lard; when crisp on the outside
remove them with a skinner, drain
them well, and send to the table hot.
A delicious filling for layer cake is
made of one cup of stoned raisins and
one lemon peeled. chopped together;
mix with this half a cup of cold water
and one cup of sugar. Beat this well
together; if the cake is well baked, so
that there is crust on the top, put the
filling in while the crack is still warm.
Be sure to remove the seeds from the
lemons.
Chocolate jelly will sometimes be
relished by one who has delicate and
uncertain appetite. Boil three gills of
sweet milk and two bars of chocolate
together until the chocolate is entirely
dissolved, then add sugar and vanilla
until the flavor you like is impaired.
After dissolving half a box of gelatine in
cold water, stir this in with the chocolate
and milk, let it simmer gently for few
minutes, then pour into moulds or bowls
and set In cool room.
A sauce piquante for fish is made by
adding teaspoonful of curry powder to
the ordinary sauce of drawn butter. Or
you may omit the vinegar and chop two
or three small tart cucumbers fine, and
mix them with the sauce.
If You wish to give an extra touch to
your cottage pudding after it is in the
tin ready to bake, put little Jumps of
butter on the top and scatter sugar and
cinnamon over it.
A good ginger cake wherein no eggs
are needed Is a boon to man with eggs
from forty to fifty cents dozen. Take |
good tablespoonful of butter, one cup /
OF sour milk, half cup of sugar. and
two-thirds of a cup of molasses. To
them add half teaspoonful of Gin
namon, half a teaspoonful of soda, dis
solved IN little water, and a scant
tablespoonful of ginger; stir these all
together and sift flour enough in to make |
a moderate stiff batter. Bake in deep
cake tin, and cut in thick slices; half
cup of stoned and chopped raisins is an
excellent addition.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-03
Five Cents a Day.

The cumulative power of money is a
fact very generally known, but not gen.
orally appreciated. There are few men
living at the age of rs, hanging on to
existence by some slender employment,
or pensioners, it may be, on the bounty
of kindred or friends, but might. by ex-
ercising the smallest particle of thrift,
rigidly adhered to in the past, have set
aside respectable sum which would ma
terially help them to maintain their in
dependence in their old age. Let us take
the small and insignificant sum of 5
cents, which we daily pay to have our
boots blackened, to ride in car the dis
lance we are able to walk, or to procure
bad cigar we are better without, and
see what its value is in the course of
years. We will suppose boy of Is, by
blackening his own boots, or saving his
car-fare, or going without his cherished
cigarette, puts by cents day; in one
year he saves $18.25, which being
banked bears interest at the rate of 5 per
cent. per annum, compounded BIZ
yearly. On this basis, when our thrifty
youth reaches the age of IS, having set
his cents per day religiously aside dur
ing so years, the result is surprising.
He has accumulated no less a sum than
So, 893.17. A scrutiny of the process of
this result is interesting. At the age of
80 our hero had 1895; at 40, $S77; at so,
81, 667; at so, 81 962. After Is years
saving, his annual interest more than
equals his original principal; in % years
it is more than double; in 35 years it is
four times as much; In 45 years it is
eight times as much. and the last years
interest is $50, or ten and half times as
much as the annual amount he puts by.
The actual cash amount saved in so
years is 1912. so, the difference between
that and the grand total of So, 1893. II
viz, So, 980.67, is accumulated interest.
What a magnificent premium for the
minimum of thrift that can be well rep
resented in figures
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-03
A DAKOTA BLIZZARD,
How'll is Described by one who Has Seer


A snowfall which in some localities
would scarcely make good sleighing,
becomes In this region foe to human
life of almost incOnceivable fury, says a
Dakota correspondent. The flakes are
always very small and dry, ane borne
along by winds of such power as to make
locomotion almost impossible; they cut
the flesh like razors. The blizzard comes
up suddenly, like tornado, wrapping
the earth in semi-darkness, and vet
giving everything the appearance of
Wilderness. Objects a dozen yards away
are shut out from view, and the wayfarer
is blinded and stided by the whizzing
clouds which envelope him. In thirty
minutes from the beginning of one of
these storms it is hard to tell whether
there is one foot or five feet of snow, and
whether, in fact, the greater part is on
the ground or in the air. When a biz
zard once attacks a section it grows
colder very rapidly, and, added to the
terrors of people who may be caught in
it ON the open prairies, is the extreme
probability that they will freeze to
death. As nothing can prevent man
from losing his way in blizzard, so
nothing in the shape of clothing can
prevent his freezing to death if he can
not find shelter from the cold which fol- I
lows. 1t is very difficult to tell just
when it stops showing. The wind keeps
the air filed with icy particles long after
the clouds have passed away, and SO
furiously is the light snow driven by the
gale that even then the vision is almost
as circumscribed as before.
A stranger experiencing this stage of
blizzard would protest that he never
saw 1t snow so FAST but in the momen-
tary lulls of the wind he would see the
cloudless sky and know that the blind |
ing blast was but the afterclap of the |
great storm. There will be drifts ten
feet high and packed so hard that a hu- !
man foot will sink in them but a few |
inches. Then there will be acres of |
wlnd-swept earth as destitute of snow as
In midsummer. To live in these biz /
yards is almost an impossibility. No horse
can be made to face the blast, and only
men who have long been accustomed to
the rlgors OF the North can breathe in
them. There is something suffocating
about the wind. The nostrils and
tongue seem ready to CONCEAL and the
eyes ache far back in their sockets. Ten
feet away may yawn chasm, vet the
driving SHOWS will hide it from view.
There is ringing, roaring noise, such as
IS sometimes family heard under tele-
graph wires on clear, cold night. At
lines the roar of the storm will resemble
lothing so much as escaping steam, like
/ thousand locomotives blowing off at
,nce. When this dies out for an in
tant the ringing noise will rise and fall,
ometimes a shrek and sometimes q
INN
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-03
A Judge on a Treadmill.

A London letter says: The fact has
been soiemnly telegraphed to London
that one of the Judges has been on the
treadmill (experimentally, of counsel.
and the incident has been made the sub
ject of several editorial comments and
not few ponderous jokes. Mr.. Jus
tice Day was the experimentalist, but
the reporters do not say how his lord
ship liked the task of going upstairs
and never getting to the top. 1t is to
be hoped his experience was not so bad
as that of one of the English Judges u
few years ago, of whom the following
ludicrous story is told: His lordship,
while visiting a model show prison in
the provinces, noticed a treadmill. and
his curiosity being excited, he deter
mined to try the labor to which in his
time he haG sentenced so many prison
ers. He was not to be persuaded out of
the notion, and stepping on to the ma
chine, told a warder to set it going.
The man did SO, and after about one
and half minutes experience his lord
ships curiosity was quite satisfied, and
he ordered the mill to be stopped. BUTT
turned out that, although the mill was
set to do the shortest possible spell, it
could not be stopped until that time was
finished, so the Judge had to go on
grinding until twenty minutes had ex-
pired. His lordship afterward remarked
that there was only one man in the
world he would like to sentence again
to hard labor on the treadmill. Need 1
say that that one individual was the
stupid warder who had neglected to ex-
plain the "spell" principle before his
lordship took his "turn"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-03
CAPT. SKIDDY,S STORY.
What Caused Him to Go Ont of the Practi.
cal Joke Business.


'sNo, gentlemen" said Capt. Skiddy,
decisively; "you don't catch me taking
part in any practical jokes. I went out
of that business for good over ten years
ago."
"How was that?" asked one of the
boys.
swell, it was in the winter of To,
maybe '73, was living in Davenport,
Iowa, and man came round there Civ
ing balloon ascensions. One day it was
advertised that the mayor of the town
was going up with him. Now, the
mayor was big fat man, who always
wore light suit of clothes and white
hat. This put me in the notion of work
ing off joke on the people. 1 got ac-
acquainted with the aeronaut, and he
agreed to assist me in the scheme. We
then got an old suit of light clothes and
fixed up dummy, which we filled with
sand, so that it weighed about two hum
bred, and would therefore drop straight
and heavy like man. The day of the
ascension there were over thirty thou
sand people on the ground, and the ex-
element was very great, as there was a
slight wind blowing at the time. After
the balloon got up about mile, and
maybe that far south of the town, they
dropped the dummy over"
"Big sensation, then, Ell? ?"
"Well, should say so. Of course
the crowd made break out of town to
scrape up the remains, and I rushed
home to get my fishing tackle, for it
struck me that the most healthy thing I
could do was to go fishing for day or
two. Before left the house, however,
was arrested for murder"
''For murder ?"
EXACTLY. A lot of the boys, accom-
panied by the sheriff, rushed in and col
Jared me. They claimed that the
dummy had fallen on farmer and
driven his skull clear into the heels of
his boots. They said that the balloon
attic had turned States evidence, and
that the chances were that I'd be hung
by a mob before night"
THAT was rough"
swell, so | thought. I was Just
scared plum to death, and I begged the
boys to stand by and protect me. l
ponied up $50 for legal expenses, and
they hid me in the garnet of neighbours
house. They kept me there ten blessed
days, and there wasn't day but they
struck me for twenty or two for contin-
gencles. One night the whole gang came
around full of beer-on my money, mind
you-and said that they had concluded,
as additional precaution, to hide me in
the hollow of an oak tree about three
miles out in the woods. saw through
the whole business then, and drove 'em
out with club. 1t was a good square
case of the bitter bit, know, but they
never let up calling me Dummy Skiddy'
after that, until they actually run me
out of the town, and I had to emigrate
to this iumping-off place of creation"
and the captain shook his head with a
Disguised air, as he paid for his hot
Scotch and walked out.