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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-05-30
New Cent and a Quarter Pieces.

Scene-Park Row.
Dramatis Persona "A bootblack and
newsboy.
Bootblack with great junction. Say,
chummy, did you see any of the new
cent and quarter piccesl
Newsboy with vehement surprisc)-
See what2
Bootblack with great delibcration)-
See any of the new cent and quarter
pieces.
Newsboy with evident sympathy
Been out all night2
Bootblack with fcrvid anger)-No l
amt been out all night. I'll bet you
banana l can show you one of the cent
and quarter pieces.
Newsboy with lofty scorn)-I don't
want no banana, but I'll buy a whole
bunch for you if you show me the cent
and quarter.
There was wicked look on the boot
blacks face as he went down in his
pocket. Then he retreated a step or two
and took out a cent and quarter of a
dollar "There's the cent and a quarter
pieces" he said as he sloped away, land
I'll take the banana some other time. -
Nelo York american Queen.
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How to Eat An Orange in Society.

GLOW shall eat an orange in societyW
asked subscriber. Now, what in the
world do you want to eat an orange in
society for2 They are not there to eat,
but to look at, or to hold in a cold,
clammy way in your hand, or roll off
your plate while you are using both hands
to steady it. But if you will persist in
being old and eccentric, and eating your
orange before the world, there are several
ways of sacrificing it and yourself. Then
skin it gently and throw the pulp away.
Or you can quarter it and choke to death
on the sections. Or you can dissect it,
toy with it, and ruin your clothes and
your hosts furniture with the Juice. 1t
is usually adventure enough for one even
ing to cut the thing up. Either it is a
ripe orange, and holds cistern full of
juice, which squirts all over creation, or
it is dry, with hide like rhinoceros,
and nothing inside. You can impalo
yourselves on either horn of the dilemma.
The only safe way to eat your orange is
to leave it.-NeD York Mail and Express.
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The Lighthouse Heroine.

A letter from Newport, r. l.. SAYS -
"The Lime Rock lighthouse, rendered
famous as the home o. Ida Lewis, the
Grace Darling of America, continues to
send forth its friendly light on the waters
of Newport harbor and Nalragansett bay
The only occupants OF the bit of land
where the light is located are Ida, now a
mature woman of about forty years and
much broken in health, and her aged
mother. Ida's only brother is mate of a
coasting vessel and absent from home
most of the time. Her only sister,
a lovely girl, died last November
The light is under the cx-
elusive charge of Ida. The place is a
model of neatness and comfort. Pictures
of the dead sister and other members of
the family hang upon the walls, while
articles of bric-a-brac are neatly and sys-
tematically arranged in various places
about the room. But few call at the
lighthouse these days, and Ida and her
mother lead lonely lives there. Two
large Newfoundland dogs keep watch
and ward on the outside and keep off in
truders during the night The grounds
comprising the surface of the rock have
been fully improved. The rough places
have been platformed over and the only
spot of earth on the place has been made
into flower garden. Ida, who draws a
larger salary by 5000 than any other shore
light keeper on the coast, is also ex-
empted from the new regulation requir-
ing light-keepers to wear uniforms. She
has no objection to the regulation if
Uncle sam would furnish the uniforms,
as he does for those who enlist in the
army. Ida is probably among the last of
the feminine lighthouse keepers as the
department has resolved henceforth to
confine the appointments wholly to the
male gender. She finds no fault with
the treatment she has received from the
government, and fervently hopes that
she may end her days at Lime Rock.
where she has made an enviable reputa-
ton for bravery. She has a name and
place in history and will be remembered
long after she has been gathered to her
fathers"
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-05-30
WISE WORDS

Our acts make or mar us; we are the
children of our own deeds.
To count but few things necessary is
the foundation of many virtues.
Women enjoy more the pleasure they
give than the pleasure they feel.
To succeed one must sometimes be very
bold, and sometimes very prudent.
AS to trouble, who expects to find
cherries without stones, or roses without
thornsl
Whatever the world may say, there are
some mortal sorrows; and our lives ebb
away less through our blood than through
our tears.
The knowledge which we have ac
quired ought not to resemble a great
shop without order, and without any in
ventory; we ought to know what we
possess, and be able to make it serve us
in need.
Love is indeed a transcendent excel
lence, an essential and sovereign good =;
it maketh the heavy burden light, and
the rugged path smooth; it beareth all
things without feeling their weight, and
from every adversely taketh away the
sting.
An Oriental portentate once babe his
prime minister to compose for him a
motto that would answer both for sea-
sons of prosperity and adversely. Here
is the sentence which he had engraved
upon his signet-ring: This too shall
soon pass away"
If you want to look for heroes in our
day, you must go down to the kitchen,
you must go to the sewing attics, you
must go where persons endure everything
almost without murmur, where they
divide their penny with their parents,
and work on through days and months
and years, and die in wretchedness and
NEGLECT
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SELECT SIFTINGS.

The French originated the industrial
exhibition; the first was held in Paris in
1893.
A leather cannon was proved at Edn-
burg in 1878, fired three times and pro-
nounced good.
The game of curling was introduced
into Scotland from Holland in the six.
teenth century.
A camel can carry ton, and twenty
pounds of hair, worth $3.50 a pound,
may be SHARED from his body every
year.
In Japan age is counted from the first
day of January succeeding birth. At that
date child is year old, whether born
on the previous January or at midsum
mer, or on the 31st day of December.
Four ponies were accidentally i'm
prisoned twenty-five days without food
in coal mine near Airdrie, Scotland,
recently, but they all came out alive and
little the worse for it, except for the loss
of flesh.
Professor L. r. Smith, of Missouri,
caught rattlcsnake while visiting in
Texas. He found it up an apple tree
and switched it off the limb with his
riding whip. On the back of the snake
is well-defned outline of q woman's
face.
The oldest American firm manufacture
ing gunpowder has been in existence for
nearly ninety years, during which time
its name has not changed. Its founders
were Frenchmen. 1t is not a partner
ship nor a corporation, but simply fam
lily. 1t is worth probably $50, 600, 900.
At Westminster school regular Shrove
Tuesday exercise is tossing a pancake
over the rafter which separates the upper
from the lower school in the old school.
room. If this be done properly the boys
have holiday, and the cook and the boy
who catches the pancake have foul
guineas apiece.
The English postofiice had its rise in
proclamation of Charles l., who com
manded his postmaster of England fol-
foreign parts ito settle n running post
or two to run night and day between
Edinburgh and London, to 90 thither
and back again in six days, and take
with them all such letters as shall be
directed to any post-town in or near
that road" A post to foreign countries
for the benefit of English merchants, -
had been organized in the previous reign
but in Charles's proclamation lies the
first evidence of the establishment OF
a government postotiicc for inland let
ters
There is no end of reasons why the
telegraph and telephone people should
run their wires underground. The new
est comes from Armenia. 1t seems that
the Armenian women are renowned as
the cleanest in Turkey, the Dutch of the
East. They are at the wash-tub all the
time, and when they have washed batch
of clothes they hang them on the tcle,
graph wires to dry. Snow-white and
damp clothes, even when well rung out,
are as heavy as snow itself, and the re-
suit can be easily conjectured. The con.
slant necessity for repairs, arising from
this inconvenient habit, has compelled
the telegraph director of Erzroom to take
journey along his line for the purpose
of begging the women to hang their wash
somewhere else
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B|LI0USnESS

Bilious oyrnptoms invariably arise
from indigestion, such as furred
tongue, vomiting of bile, giddi-
ness, sick headache, irregular
bowels. The liver Secretes the
bile and acts like a filter or sieve,
to cleans e impurities ofthe blood.
BY irregularity in it's action or sus-
pensions of it's functions, the bile
is tablet overflow into the blood,
causing jaundice, salloW COM
pIexion, yellow eyes, bilious diar.
rhoea, a Ianguid, weary feeling
and many other distressing Symp-
toms. BiIiousness may be prop
erIy termed an affection of the
liver, and can be thoroughly cured
by the grand regulator of the liver
and hillary organs. BURDOCK
BLOOD BITTERS. Act upon the
stomach, bowels and liver, max
ing healthy bile and pure blood.
andopens the culverts and sluice-
ways for the outlet of disease.
Sold everywhere and guaranteed
to cure.
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Crushing n DOOrkeeper.

A doorkeeper of one of the ladies' gal
lcres in the House has succeeded in get
ting himself quite thoroughly disliked by
his colleagues and by the ladies who are
not hungering for the devoted attention
of strangers. This particular doorkeeper
appears to live only to be beautiful, and
in that view of the case his life is largely
failure. Many remarks have been made
about his constant habit of coming inside
the gallery and staring intently upon any
wcll-dressed young lady who happens to
be near him. The other day this crush.
ing doorkeeper persuaded one of his col
leagues to take his place for half an hour.
The crusher went down on the floor of
the house, took the seat of Congress
man who happened to be absent, stretched
his thin legs over the desk, and tried to
look interesting and very much at home.
When he returned to the gallery he asked
the doorkeeper who had taken his place,
did any of the ladies see me down
there2"
sob, yes"
odd they make any remarks about
me?"
''Yes, several of them inquired who
that long, lean, cadaverous looking i'm
beetle was down there"
What They didn't say that, did
they1 Who did you tell them l wasl"
II said you were hired to stay down
there and keep the lighted stubs of the
members cigars off from the new car
pet"
The "masher" doorkeeper did not go
on the floor of the house again for a
week. Washington Republican,
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He Hadn't.

"IIave you got fifty centsl" said a
beggar to surly passer-by.
"No, haven't got fifty cents"
"Well, hayeyou got twenty five centsp'
ono, haven't
"IIave you got ten cents3n
"No."
"EIave you got any sense at all7"
what's thatl Get out, or
I'll knock your face off"
The beggar got out, chuckling .-Mer-
chant Traceler.
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Plain English.

An old minister in Ohio seemed rather
opposed to an educated ministry. "Why,
my brethering every young man who
is going to preach thinks he must be off
to some college to study lot of Greek
and Latin. All nonsense! All wrong.
What did Peter and Paul know about
Greek2 Why, not one word, my
'brethering,' No, Peter and Paul
preached in the plain, old English, and
SOIL |. CLeUeiaRd Piamdtdler.
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gate in the parlor again. There are men,
my son, who always overdo the thing;
they want to be meeker than Moses,
stronger than Sampson and ten times
more particular than Job, the printer;
that is, he isn't, but he used to Uz.-
JEJ,nLeue
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MOMENTS FOR MERRIMENT.
STORIES THAT WILL DRIVE DULL
CARE AWAY.

NoGreat LoSs-Over the Fcnce-IFiro I
Hclp-TOo TOugh-New Cent and n
Quarter Pieces
A gentleman bought newspaper and
rendered in payment piece of forty
sous.
The newspaper woman haven't
the change; you can pay me as you pass
along to. morrow"
The gentleman" But suppose l
should be killed to dayN
The newspaper woman - ooh, it
wouldn't be very great lossW-Paris
VT.
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A new poetess from the West remarks.
'lf love you give, no more I'll ask" When
this poetess has little more experience
she will learn that there are times when
a single cold potato possesses more in
trinsic worth than whole moonlight
evening full C. ove.-Philadelphia Call.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-05-30
ATHL0 PH0R0SenES!I.t Eeu

If you cannot get ATILorHCRos Of your drug
g;st, we viii serd it Iress paid, on receil OF
regular rrice-one dollar Terl hottie. We prefer
that you buy It from your druggist, but If r.
hasn't IT, do rot be persuaded to try something
ctsc, but order at once from US as directed.
kTHLOPHOROS co., lI2 WALL ST., NEW YORK.
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THE SHILOH CAMPAIGN.
[(pntinned frnn I.t nnl

could have gone through with us, hut both
Colonel Shaw and Colonel Wood say they never
received orders to fail back.
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The Household.
CARING FOR DISEASED PLANTs-soME PRAc
TICAL REMEDIES.

Jessie Bushong: can tell you how 10 treat your
plants safely and efecfualy ] once visited my
sister IN Sioux City, aud found her il despair
her bay window full OF plants, which were looking
sick enough, assure you. Leaves were dropping
and turning yellow, and some of her finest plants
were nearly dead. She could not imagine the cause
Close examination revea Il scales upon the roses
that minute bnrr'eS.it and pest the red spider, on
everything. and the pots containing both red and
Lille worms. This is the course OF medicine
gave them had q common wooden pail filled
with wood ashes. then poured boiling water.
When cool i turned the plants bottom side up
holding them therein with one hand and washed
them ia the ye for ten seconds then rnsing them
thoroughly in another pail OF clean water Then I
filed the pots ful above the soil or about an inch
with the I've, letting II drain through until / had
finished then. which took half an hour. / then
filed them with pure water, and let il drain
through four times. until all the lye became
drained off AftEr the bay window had been thor
oughly washed ia as strong suds as the point would
bear, put them back. Some of the lovely vines
could not wash and replace destroyed; it
hard, but Necessary To have seen those
plants in two weeks would have been TO convince
you of my skill az plant docfoFing. Plants should
Be treated to just such bath al least once year
&c keep them healthy. A peppeT-box filed with
sulphur j. convenient also. 10 give them slight
ogsting. both earth and plant, once in awhile.
vii some one give me her personal experience
/ in sIlE-worm cultnref GETRCDE =. SAMPSON.
FL DORADO SPRINGS, Ao.
Jessie Bushong swectwater, Tenn: viii give
my remedy Tor destroying white Worn1s at the
roots cf flowers. Make a strong solution Of ammo
ua wafer, m the proportion of one t6sspOonfu 81
ammonia 10 quart Of water almost al the boiling
point Pour this around the plants while hot. close
10 the jar not 10 scald the plant Repeat this
two three times a week for two weeks or so
Then q case-knife around the jar to loosen the
dirt. holding the top Of the plant with one hand
while with the other you empty IL from the jar
Remove every paEfical OF dirt from the roots and
replace Il with nice fresh earth for the earth that
/ has had the worms Ia is not good or healthy fol
! the plants. Continue to the ammonia water
about once week, and / can promise you nc
rel OF Dez his and lat ma
know the results-Maitie NJ, Golden, Cox
VIII L. ~ S., Pennington, H., send her ad
1 dress in full to The TRIBUNE and her sor,
throat remedy to Mary +. Cudeback, Vernon
Mich, and Mrs. L. Dixon, Lewis Center, Della
ware county, Ohio?
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The Rebel SpJ Haaged si Kno1Iills.

Te the Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
I noticed in your issue Of the oath oonsrs-
vsrsy in regard 10 the hanging Of tbs rebei SPY
at Knoxville, Tenn. Comr@de Patty "a the
nearest correct as to the name and incidents
connected with the hanging, though both are
wrong as TO the date. looked up my old army
diary of that date and find, under date CT jan
usry g. 1864, the following: Attended ths
execution Of Geo. &. Dodge, Sth Texas cavalry.
The rope broke, and he was assisted to reIaOGnt
the stage by two Of the guards The rope was
then doubled, and he was swung OF the second
time. lie died without struggle or motion Of
the body, except one or two spas-nodic motions
of his limbs The incident is IS fresh in my
memory ss though it was but yesterday, and
the hanging was condemned by the masses az
the soldiers ss il was understood ss the tins
that there was 10 positive proof Of bis being
SPY. JNo. w. ROGERs,
Co f, I07th III Yo1a
F1wnONIA EAw
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zionist OF great popularity WITH the Gfaud
Army in Ohio and Michigan, has been filling
engagements at HilIsdale, Cotton, Coldgater
and Kalamazoo, Mich. Mrs. McCann, who is
niece of General James B. Steedman, is a sol
dier's widow, and has Just been made the
president of the new Relief Corps at Monelora,
Ohio This Corps has begun work with an
entertainment which realized 500.
An Ohio paper says: "a Womsn's Relief
Corps (No. IL, auxiliary to Kishler Post, has
been organized at st. Mary's, Ohio, with four
teen charter members. On this occasion Mrs.
L. S. MeCann reeited one of Mrs Kate Sher-
woods beautiful patriotic poems in q manner
which delighted her hearers. The following
officers were elected President Mrs. Mary
Kishler widow of the comrade in whose honor
the Post was named); senior vice president,
Mrs. Elizabeth Cowles; Junior vice-president,
Mrs. Mary Carr; secretary, Mrs. Deborah Me-
Broom: treasurer, Mrs. Mary Hipp; chaplain,
Mrs. Sarah Breekon: conductor, Mrs. Eta
Armstrong; guard, Mira. Lille Sheets"
The author of the touching Memorial Day
poem, THE Silent Grand Army" is soldiers
wife, and belongs TO fighting family, having
had near relatives In the Revolution, war of
1872, Mexican war, and the late rebellion. and
is likewise direct descendant of one Of the
signers of the Declaration Independence.
Kate Hickman, president, writes as that
Phil Kearney Relief Corps, No. "a, auxiliary
to Phil Kearney Post, No. 80, at Nelsonvills,
in the coal region OF Ohio, was instituted May
8, with twenty-five members, by Mrs. Frances
T. RUSSELL of GAINESVILLE, with public install
lation of officers in the evening, an adds: /" We
deemed ourselves very fortunate III securing
the necessary instructions from lady so thor
oughly competent, so patient, and OF such
pleasing address. She gave us the work in
very clear, concise style, and made friends of
all the Corps" The following are the officers !:
President, Mrs. Kate Hickman; senior vice.
president, Mrs. Rebeces Sidman; junior vice.
president, Mrs Alpha Nelson; secretary, Mrs
Maria C. Sheppard; treasurer, Allie NJ Lamp
man chaplain, MAria C. Lanaiey; conductor,
Rachel p. MarshAll guard. Sarah A. Cable.
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Fnnr RaantifnI caras

New designs never before published VIII
please any person Sent free on receipt Of p
stamp to every reader Of rHx NATIONAL TAIs.
USE. Address E. G. Valentine, 81 MRrEay 5ss
New YORK City.
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ATIoNAL TRIBUNE wAsHNGToN c. THURsDAY e.

their comforts that, although we could not be
there in person. we would work for theln,at home
and send prayers apd best wishes for their safety.
When the papers Came would look over the long
list of dead and dying, and finding none of my
family's name thete, w6uld yet think. oh, how
many poor wifets anti7 mothers heart will bleed
when they see thisI Lsonid not help but weep
for their loss. Although they were strangers to
me, 1t seemed as though we were one common
family and what was grief TO one WAS sorrow for
us all.-Mrs Caroline Derrick, Dodge, MINI.
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Eoman's Exchange.

soRE INTERESTING QUESTIONS ASKED AND
CHEERFUL AEswERs GIVEN.
Can some one send me the words Of shiloh
Hill, the chorus Of which is.
Sing carry me away,
q, carry me aray2"
w ii. CullumbeF, Lilly Chapel, Ohio.
wan, to tell you that have had forty-one
orders for my stRr-abBm quilt pattern proceeds
towards building our new hall. viii continue TO
send upon receipt Of ten cents. | am glad my
father soldier, or ] fear ] should never have
had the dear TIE IEIBUER.-Alicc May Hill, Wells
Depot, lie.
send you sentiment for an autograph album
] am little girl Of eleven. daughter Of Horace H.
Dudley, company II. Both Wisconsin. He was
wounded in the leg. 1 have two brothers and a
sister. Here is the stAnza:
When the distant sun IS setting
And yOur mind from care is free;
When OF distant friends you're thinking,
VIII you sometimes think of me ?''
Sarah L. Dudley, Polar, Wis.
VII some one please send through THE TRIBUNE
the song beginning:
"A thousand years, my own Columbia,
A thousand years long foretoId;
lis the glad morn whose early twilight
Washington saw ia times of od7
"A Soldiers Daughter.
TIE TETBUEK Is read with great pleasure by us
every week, although none OF were ever ia the
army. When was girl of twelve years pieced
q quit for - our dear boys in blue" but never
heard from 1t or OF IT, In the center of each block
written on white was u text or a verse of poetry
One was, Vote for Uncle Abe" another was my
name and address, Emma Place, Copenhagen
\. Y" Now, If any readers Of THE HATToSAL
TEIBUgE ever my quilt would like to hear
from them. hope it did some of our true boys"
good.-AIrs. Dr. Frooman, Wyoming Jones ooun-
| ty, iowa.
WIN Comraee Shellenberger company c. s5th
Pennsylvania, be kind 10 inform me II he knew
my grandpa. His name was james Gunner chief
bnecr 5tb Michigan. he prisoner al Ander-
sonville; wGs exchanged December I2 1894 and
died four days after. Grandma would be glad TO
hear from any old soldier who knew him. Ny
nEne il Agnes and am thirteen.
VIII come one send me the origin Of the Easter
/ egg2-A Subscriber.
See Our Correspondents column, page z,
! NATIONAL TRIBUNE, May s. It may be added
tbst the egg. with its embryo. or germ of life,
was taken as typical of dormant nature, ready
/ in the spring-time 20 burst It's shell and soar
away on bright and happy wings.
Our Weekly Experience Meeting.
| FREsH FLOWERS FOR MEMORIAL DAY, GATH.
Erred By TRUE AND LOVING HEARTS.
| They died for country; be IL ours To live,
/ And FOR our country spotless service giyei
So shall the flag they saved through blood and tears
Cur ensign stand "A thousand happy yearsi
Mrs. 4. d. r.. ShorfsviIle n. Y.
We meet to remember our heroes to-day.
Who resi- ON mountain and feid;