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A Curious Proclamation.

The following curious proclamation is
said to have been sent out as general
order of the day sometime before a bat
tie was expected between the Chinese
and French. 1t was the work of cele-
brated Chinese mandarin:
I, mandarin and the chief captain of
the braves, order and it is hereby ordain-
ed to all that follow me. Tremble and
obey!
Thirteen days before going into battle
the braves shall eat steaks of the wild
tiger in order that they may have the
agility and ferocity of this animal.
Twelve days before the battle the
braves shall eat the kidney of the lion,
that they may acquire the intre-
pidity natural to that king of the
forests.
Eleven days before the battle the braves
shall eat of the brains of the serpent in
order to have the subtieness of this ami
NAL.
Ten days before the battle the braves
shall eat the cream of the chameleon in
order to Illustrate the enemy by con-
stantly changing their colors.
Nine days before the battle the braves
shall take broth made from the flesh OF
the crocodile in order to be able to fol-
low the enemy into the water and
be able to beat them both on land
and water, the same as the crocodile
does.
Eight days before the battle the braves
shall eat the flesh of the panther in order
to attack their enemies with furious ra-
pidity.
Seven days before the battle the braves
shall eat two eagle heads in order to &C
quire the strength of vision of that noble
bird, and distinguish in the distance
THAR adversaries.
Six days before the battle the braves
shall eat the intestines of the wild zebra
in order to acquire the terrible voice of
that untamable beast.
Five days before the battle the braves
shall eat steaks cut from the hippopota-
mus in order to communicate to their
skin the toughness that renders those an
finals invulnerable to balls
-Four days before the battle the braves
shall eat scorpions, so that all wounds
made on their enemy shall be deadly
poisonous as the stings of those animals
are
Three days before the battle the braves
shall eat steaks of the monkey, that they
may become as agile as the monkey.
On the eve of the battle the braves
shall eat panther's flesh and drink the
blood, in order to be cruel and ferocious
toward their adversaries.
On the day of the battle the braves
shall eat the flesh and drink the blood of
the leopard, in order to crush the limbs
and break the bones of the enemy as
these animals do.
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South and West.

ARKANSAS, the first of the States at which
fall election has been held has elected the
entire Democratic State ticket
A SHOCKING tragedy is reported from the
Missouri village of Flagsprings. Two little
girls, seven and nine wears old respectively.
the daughters of John Mclaughlin. a we'll.
TODD farmer, were found murdered in the
woods. They had been outrageously assaulted
and then killed.
A ST. PAUL (Minn.) dispatch SAYS that Sit
ting Bull. the renowned Indian chief, is
coming East for the purpose of exhibiting
himself, permission having been secured from
the secretary of the interior.
THE Wisconsin Republicans at their State
convention in Madison nominated the present
State officers by reclamation.
AT the Texas Republican State convention
IN Hous ton resolutions were adopted fusing
with the Greenbackers and Independents and
ENDORSING George Washington Jones' the In
dependent candidate for governor.
BISHOP GEORGE F, PIERCE, senior bishop
OF the Methodist Episcopal Church South
died few days ago at Sparta, Ga.
THREE of the Greedy expedition survivors,
Sergeants Brainard and Long, and Priva,s
Connell-at Cleveland, Ohio, under an en-
EaSement i'll museum, deny that there were
dissensions in the camp, and that the survi-
Vois were divided into two hostile parties.
THE Woman's National Equal Rights party
at Its convention held in San Francisco nom.
mated Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood a Washing
lawyer, for President of the United States.
Mrs. Lockwood has forwarded to the presi
dent OF the convention her letter of accept
ance.
AT Grand Army reunion in Fremont,
Neb., the grand stand, filled with over >. 900
people, suddenly collapsed. Forty or fifty
persons'were injured.
The Georgia cotton crop has been severely
injured, suffering at least twenty per cent
In damage by recent heavy rains.
MANY Eastern parties have been, involved
more or less heavily by the failure of the
Mezeppa Mill company of Redwing, Mimi,
with liabilities of $4,000.
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LATER NEWS

TIE audden death of Charles S. Hill, cash
Ter Of the National Bank of New Jersey, at
New Brunswick, one of the city's most prom
inent citizens was found after investigation
to be undoubtedly case of suicide
brought about by the threatened ex-
posure of large peculations on his part
from the institutions funds. Examination
Immediately after his death disclosed a de
ficiency of $235, y3031, of which amount Hill
was responsible for 1896, 5000: Specula,
ton in Wall street led to Hills downfall
THE funeral of Senator Anthony at Prov
idence, r. l., was attended by President Ar
thur Attorney General Brewster, fifteen
United States Senators, ex-senator David
Davis, distinguished representatives of the
United States government, every officer of
the city and State, and hundreds Of friends
and representatives of every branch of trade
in the United States.
A DISASTROUS drought is prevailing in the
eastern part of Ohio and western part of
West Virginia Crops are perishing and
stock is being sold at almost any sacrifice for
lack of feed.
A GREAT fire has destroyed an immense
amount of property in section of Cleveland,
Ohio, known as the Cuyahoga flats. These
flats separate the east and west por.
tions of the city, and are covered
with hundreds of lumber yards, factories
and foundries. The flames swept over the
dry, seasoned lumber and ignited a dozen
large lumber pile, in as many minutes. Tel
egrams were sent to Toledo Columbus, Paines-
vile, Delaware, Youngstown and Akron ask
ing for engines. The fire was witnessed by
100000 people, and the military were called
out to aid the police in preserving order.
About ten acres of frame buildings and lum-
her yards were aflame at one time. The ori-
gin of the fire is generally as'ribed to incen-
diaries. The burned district embraces about
eighty acres, and the lumber interest of the
city is almost paralyzed The loss by stop.
page of business and the destruction of prop
erty was put at between two and three millions.
FIERCE riots have occurred at Brussels and
Antwerp, Belgium, brought about by politi-
cal differences. A large procession in Brus.
sells was attacked by the dense crowds Of
spectators and many persons, including sever
al policemen. Were injured. three fatally
Troops were called out and one hundred and
eighty-flve arrests We're made
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SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

A new process in shot making will do
away with the tall towers. A strong
current of air is forced on the lead as it
falls into the water.
A factory in indianapolis makes 40,
600, 600 butter dishes and 10000 step
ladders year, beside other things too
numerous to mention.
1t is not generally known, but appears
to be true, that the sweet spirits of nj
tire when kept for long while is con-
verified from harmless remedy into a
deadly poison. Druggists should print
on their labels "use only when newly
made"
The organ of hearing is generally
double, but not always located in the
head. In the clam it is found at the base
of the foot; some grasshoppers have it
in the forelegs, and in many insects it is
on the wing. HOLSTERS and crabs have
the auditory sacs at the base of the anton
nR.
A writer in the Popular Science
Monthly attributes sea-sickness to an ir-
ritation to the semi circular canals of the
ear or the abdominal viscera, or both,
which become full of blood and cause
vomiting, and illustrates the theory by a
detail of interesting facts and expert
ments.
Bricks made of cork now constitute
one of the new German industries. The
usual size is ten by four and three
fourths and two and a half inches.
They are prepared from small corks, re-
fuse and cement, and have not only been
used for certain building purposes, on
account of their lightness and isolating
properties, but are also employed as a
covering tor boiler in preventing the ra-
diation of heat.
Setting apart differences of muscular
capacity and adaptation, man, says Mr..
Richard A. Proctor, in order to fly
would need wings bearing the same pro-
portion to his body as we observe in the
sparrow or the pigeon. In fact the wings
commonly assigned to angels by sculp-
tors and painters would not be so dis
proportional to the requirements of
flight as has been commonly supposed, if
only the muscular power of the human
frame were well adapted to act upon
wings 50 placed and shaped and there
were no actual inferiority in the power
of human muscles (cross section for cross
section) as compared with those of birds.
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Washington.

DURING August the national debt was re
duced $500, S5226. On the LIST there was
cash in the treasury, S4l4,54l, 1852. %, and the
TOTAL debt less this sum was 81, 49, 5l4 ,O94 II.
FEARING infection by Asiatic cholera, an
order has been issued by the treasury
department forbidding the landing OF
any rags in this country from abroad for three
months, beginning September |. no matter
where they came from or in what manner
they were shipped. Paper dealers say this
viii result IN an increase in the price of pa
per.
FIFTEEN THOUSAND colored people TENDED
the funeral of Rev. j. HI. Brooks, who had
been for FEARS q preacher i'll Washington.
Probably no colored man was ever before
followed to tie grave by so vast a throng.
UPON reception of the news of Secretary
Folger's death the treasury department was
closed and the immense building heavily
draped in black. An order was also issued to
close all custom houses and sub treasures
throughout the country during the hours of
the funeral ceremonies.
Upon order of the President the following
letter was addressed by Acting Secretary Of
State Davis TO the members OF the cabinet:
with deep regret | announce to you that the
Hon. Charles j. Folger, secretary of the treas
ury OF the United States, died yesterday at
his home in Geneva, n. " Thus has closed
the life of distinguished and respected
citizen, who by his services as an execu-
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-12

tive officer OF the United States, and
Is Legislator and judge of his own State won
the esteem and regard of his fellow country
men. The President directs that all depart
nents of the executive branch of the govern
ment, and the offices sui ordinate to them,
,hall manifest due honor for the memory of
Ills eminent citizen in manner consonant
with the dignity of the office thus male va
ant, and with the upright character of him
who held it. To this end, the President di-
.ects that the treasury department and its
dependencies in this capital shall he draped in
mourning for a period of thirty days; the
everal executive departments shall be closed
IN the day of the funeral of the deceased,
md that on all public buildings of the gov
.rnment throughout the United States the
national flag shall be draped in mourning and
displayed AT half maStn
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-12
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

WILL CARLETON is rambling through Eu-
rope seeking fresh poetical inspirat ons.
Ex-PRESIDENT GONZALES, of Mexico, has
been elected governor of Guanajuato, Mexico.
PRESIDENT JULES GREvY, of the French
republic, was seventy seven years old on the
18th inst
KING ALFONSO, of Spain, has consumption
and is not expected To live long Ex-Queen
Isabella is suspected to be plotting to succeed
him.
BISHOP BRoNDEL, of Montana, has excom-
municated John Magensie, a theatrical man
ager. from the Roman Catholic Church Tor
bringing Robert q. lngersoll into Montana
to lecture.
A son of Henry Ward Beecher captain of
a steamboat plying along the Pacific coast,
resides in Olympia, Oregon, and is described
as a weather-beaten man, with Il un-browned
straw hat, looking like a mechanic
THOMAS A. Edison, the inventor. who is
slightly deaf, says he would not be cured of
his deafness for $4,000, because it prevents
his hearing many things which he does not
wish 10 hear, such as cars, carts, licensed
vendors in the morning, bores, telephone
calls. political speeches and cats.
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HENRY B. AN HONY.
Sketch o. the Career Of the Late =. n
atOr from HhOie island.

Henry Is. Anthony, senior Senator of the
United States and Of Rhode Island. died at
his residence. in Providence, on the ID, at the
age of siXty-nne years. He had long suffered
from Bright's disease,
Senator Anthony was born in Coventry, R.
l.. in lNl5, of Quaker ancestry. He graduated
at Brown university in 1888. In 1888 he be
came editor of the Providence Jour
nal, where he soon made his influence
felt in the politics of the
State. In 1919 he was elected governor of
Rhode Island. was reelected in so and would
have been in the following year had he not
peremptorily declined a denomination He
was elected TO the United States Sen
ate in 1859 and has been continu-
Gus member from that time to the present
He has served on many committees
and been several times elected president pro
tenn. of the Senate and has always been an
active though not especially conspicuous
member He has been in i'll health for sew.
eral years and his death was not Unexpected
He was the senior member of the Senate and
was known as the father of the body. Sena-
tor EdmundS, of Vermont, is now the senior
Senator
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Foreign.

A PANIC prevails in some of the cholera
infected districts of Italy. In many instances
physicians in attempting to minister to
cholera patients have been brutally NAL
treated, and in some cases wounded with
knives, the people imagining they were being
poisoned.
DIARIES of members of the Greedy explo
ration party show it was divided into two
factions, which lived in their Arctic home as
separately as two tribes.
CHOLERA has broken out in Spain An in
crease in the number of cases is reported from
Naples, Italy.
LIEUTENANT GREELY was rendered COM
plimentary lunch by the British Association
for the Advancement of Science in Montreal,
and responded to the toast, "Our Distin-
guished Guests"
PLACARDs declaring war against France
have been posted in the streets of Pelin.
AN expedition of 10 soldiers has sailed
from England to Egypt to Gordon's relief
CANADA proposes to lay thorough en-
barge on United States cattle to prevent the
advance of pleuro-pneumonia into her terri
tory.
TWENTY lives were lost by fire in sulphur
mine at Nicosia, Sicily
A CHOLERA panic prevails in Italy, and
people are leaving infected places by thou
ands, trade is depressed and many village,
have established a Gordon of armed guards to
prevent strangers entering.
BRIGANDs have been committing great
ravages in Macedonia, Greece. During
August they killed forty-five persons.
THE False Prophets rebels have been de
feated with heavy loss in an attack on Kas-
sala in the Soudan
EXTRAORDINARY precautions were taken for
the safety of the emperors Of Russia, Germany
and Austria during their contemplated meet
ing in Warsaw, Poland. Military patrols
were stationed all along the railroad line by
which the royal visitors expected to travel.
SIxTY-FoUR persons, including several
women suspected of conspirirg against the
CZar's life. We're arrested in WarsaW
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Gathered from Garbage.

machine has been put in use in New
York to sift from house refuse and street
sweepings all rags, old iron, broken glass.
etc. The machine is described as being
vast rag and bone picker of many Ital-
ian power, working by steam. Its daily
capacity is $50 loads of 1880 pounds
each. The oscillator moves too and fro
$50 times minute, while two or three
Italians stand alongside and pick all rags
and scraps of paper out of the mass.
What is then left, after the dust has
fallen below, is passed into a washer, in
which all straw, leather, vegetable refuse
and other light material rises to the sur
face of the water, and is removed and
burned. The coal, iron, glass and other
heavy objects fall to the bottom of the
water, are washed in another vat of water
and are sold. Out of $50 loads of refuse
but thirty are conveyed away as waste.
The rags bring about $50 per ton, the
old iron forty cents a hundred pounds,
the glass thirty cents a hundred; the
bones are the most valuable, and about
400 pounds of coal and cinder are OBJ
tanned from load of 1900 pounds
Paper World.
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A PANIC IN ITALY.
Cholera Causes st mpede-Armed
COrduns in Villages.

A Rome dispatch saysthat "a cholera panic
prevails throughout Italy Each town is taking
measures of protection regardless of the gov
eminent. Some post guards so as TO prevent
travellers from entering their precincts until
after a quarantine Of fifteen or twenty days.
Many have closed their gates to every one
Villages have established armed cordons. TIL
result is that in many parts of the peninsula
practic a. anarchy prevails and travel and
traffic are greatly interrupted. The
Italian papers lament the spectacle of
disorder, and call upon the government
to end it. The official returns of the number
of cases and deaths are confused and unreli
able. According to the latest reports from
Naples there had been ninety-seven fresh
cases and forty three deaths within the last
twenty-four hours Ten thousand persons
have fled from La Spezia Evidences of the
panic continue to multiply The poPu-
from Naples. A mob here in Rome drove
n priest who had just arrived from Naples
away from the city. At Ovieto travellers are
refused entrance into the city. In some
places popular agitation has begun in favor
of abolshing local quarantine and establish
ing houses of observation for travellers sus-
pected of illness In consequence o. this plan
being forbidden by the government. the
people of Civita Vecchia attempted to
destroy the railway. King Hum
bert has made contribution of s., coo in aid
of the sufferers from cholera at Spezia. The
king will soon visit Naples, where three cab
met ministers are alrt a1y visiting the worst
quarters TO distribute relief. The spread Of
the cholera in Italy has affected Vienna, de
pressing trade ON the bourse there"
Many new cases of cholera are reported
from France and Spain, and the dread dis
ease is also raging in Madras. India.
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC,

lr is figured that Sis, 0O0.0 900 is the amount
invested i'll theatres i'll the United States.
The reigning prima donna in Paris at
present is Mile. Marie Van Zandt an Ameri-
can girl.
CLARA MORRIS will be seen oftener this
season than she was last, her health being
much better.
w. j. HowELLs has sold play TO the Mad
son Square New York management. II
viii follow May Blossom
NINE. NILSSON has signed contract with
Colonel Mapleson to sing in England and
America for 81 400 per night.
THERE is not single prima donna or tenor
Oh any marked merit in Italy and the musical
critics OF Rome deplore the fact
The Able List, who was reported to have
become totally blind, has come out in a letter
denying this statement The famous pianist
can work without difficulty.
Miss BANKS, the daughter of General n. p,
banks VINO Is soon 10 appear on the stage, is,
accordng U the Boston Post mot "A blonde
quite good looking, and is over twenty
IT is gratifying to know that Mr. DAILY has
been playing successful engagement in Lon
dCn,aS lie Is the first manager who ever PLAYED
an entire American dramatic company in
England.
A NEW comedy from the pen of Fred Mars
den is named Humbug,n and is written for
hoahu reed, the young actor who has
gained prominent position among leading
comedians in his play, " Cheek"
ANOTHER young American has attained a
place of prominence in the musical world of
France. Master Michael Banner was awarded
the trst prize at a recent examination of
viollnists in the Paris conservatory
MR. II. +. WALTON, an English Australian
actor OF extended reputation, has been en-
gagged by Dion Boucicault as his leading man
during this season. Mr. Walton has never
before played ON an American stage or been
before an American audience.
THE musical composition known as an ora
torio gets its name from st. Philip Neri He,
devout priest, in the full tide of the Renais
sance period, with the aim of attracting
young people and keeping them out of mis-
chief, more especially on Sunday, gave at his
oratory performances of original sacred mu-
sic, to which he gave the name of oratorios
Many OF these early oratorios still exist.
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Game in The Arctic Zone.

From Lieutenant Greelys report of the
monthly killing of game in the Arctic
regions, the following summary of what
was killed during the whole stay at La
dy Franklin's bay is made up:
Seven wolves, seven foxes, eight err
mines, eight jennings, 1O3 musk oxen,
nineteen seals, fifty-seven hares, forty
four king. ducks, fifty-three long tailed
ducks, thirty cider ducks, sixty dove
kins, one diver, six burgomaster gulls,
one sabine gull, twenty-one Arctic terms,
17S sknas, eighty-four brent geese, one
raven, seventy-nine ptarmigans, 100 turn
stones, one sandpiper, one sanding,
twenty-seven knots, two ringed plovers,
eighteen owls, two philaropes and one
walrus.
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CANN[BALISM AT SEA.
A Dying hoy Killed and his Flesh
Eaten by Shipyyrccked Wen.


A case of frightful suffering at sea has been
brought to light by the arrival at Falmouth,
England, of the German bark Montezuma
from Rangoon, having on board the survivors
Of the wreck of the yacht Mignonette. The
yacht, which was of only thirty three tons
burden, sailed from Southampton for
Australia on the 10Th of May. On the 18th
of June, when near the equator, in the In
dian ocean, she encountered a storm which
sent her TO the bottom. Four of her conf
pany escaped i'll a dingey. They were the
commander, Captain Dudley, two seamen
and a boy named Parker All the pro
visions they were able to throw into
sisted of few tins of turnips They were
absolutely without water. They subsisted
for five days on the canned turnips and on
the fifth day they caught a small turtle.
They were terribly tortured by thirst BY
the twelfth day the turtle, including its skin
had been consumed, and there was absolutely
nothing left to eat in the little boat. The
boy, Parker, was the weakest o.
the four sufferers, and it was
evident that he was slowly dying The 9th
ers hungrily watched his symptoms Of disso-
luton.
On the twentieth day, after the entire party
had been without particle of food for eight
days, the captain fastened young Parker's
death by opening vein in his arm. The
three survivors eagerly drank of the
boys blood, and cut his flesh from
his bones and ate it, uncooked, the
Captain keeping possession of the body
and serving out to himself and the two
sailors only such daily rations as were neces-
sary to preserve their lives They prolonged
their existence in this way until July s. when
they were seen and rescued by the Monte
yuma. During the twenty-four days that had
elapsed since the sinking of the yacht, the
dlngey had drfted $50 miles.
The three survivors have been placed un-
der arrest, and the death Of the boy will be
investigated.