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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-12-17
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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-12-17

Of America, says that while passenger from
New York on board ship going around Cape
Horn, in the early days of emigration 10 Cal
ifornia, he learned that one of the officers Of
the vessel had cured himself, during the voy-
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-12-17

Incorporated in 1868 for % years by the
Legislature for Educational and Charitable
purposcs-with capital of $1,000 ,OOO-to
which 4 reserve fund of over S5jO,OOO has
since been added.
BY an overwhelming popular vote its fran
chSc was made part of the present state
Constitution adopted Dec. I'd, A. d., 1879.
The OILY Lottery ever voted on and en-
dorscd by the people OF any state.
Hneuer scales or postp0nes.
Its Grand single Number Drawings
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-12-17

"When / was head cutter for the
late Mr.. Linthicum, said a Fourteenth
street tailor, yesterday, Colonel Fisk
was among Mr.. Linthicum's Gus ON
ers. The store was under the Metro
poltan Hotel. The first time | saw
the Colonel was when he came in and
ordered three of the finest suits OF
clothes that could he made The Colo.
mel, on account of his falneSs, was a
hard man to fit, but laid myself out
to please him. The suits We're tried
on, and a few days afterward he
dropped in and said, Go to IS
mentioning one Of the finest of Broad
way jewelry stores, and see what he's
got for yoa. thought he was jok-
ing, bat, as soon rs | knocked off that
afternoon, went to the store and
asked if Colonel Fisk had left any or.
ders for me.
"'I should say he had replied the
proprietor. lie said that you were to
choose a souvenir from these three
rings and he put three splendid dia-
mond rings on velvet mat on the
counter. Take your choice, please;
I've other customers to attend to
Colonel Fisk told me to send the bill
for the ring that you chose to him.
Well, chose this ling, and wouldn't
part with it for any amount Of money,
unless my wife and | were starving.
1t has twenty-three diamonds, you see
and the jeweller told me that the dia-
monds, without the workmanship on
the ring, were wott about $500.
Colonel Fisk had his faults, they say,
Dut I'll never believe that Il man who
oould show such kindnes to a poor
workman had any very grave faults. l"
-Neto York Sun
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-12-17

One OF the novelties of commerce Is
the tannekaya bark which comes from
New Zealand, and is u new agent in tam
hing. This discovery is very recent. In
1873 the whole export from New Zea-
and was fifteen tons, but last year twas
51j tons,of which twenty four tons came
20 New York. 1t seems very strange to
bring tan bark a distance of !, 900 miles,
out such is one of the novelties of mod
.rn commerce. The greater part of the
export is taken to Grcnoblc, France,
where it is used in dressing leather for
gloves. The price of this bark in its ma
i've country is $40 per ton, and tho
reight is near as much more. Hence it
las been proposed to make the tree one
of our own products, since the bark has
At times been worth $3.50 ton. 1t con-
aims 3S.G6 per cent of tanin, whereas
oak bark contains only S.Sj and hemlock
,. The tannekaya tree is very beautiful,
and as its timber is very useful, it has
svery point of value. Being of tho fir
species it is well adapted to the light
soil of the South, and might do much to
enrich that part of the Union. We have
imported so many trees and plants that
his scheme has the encouragement of ex-
perience, but it would certainly bca nov
city to recruit our forests from New
Zealand.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-12-17
Such events in Central Africa as peopl,

Such events in Central Africa as people
are to know about will probably be
chronicled in the newspapers the morn
Ing after they occur before a very great
while. When the proposed telegraph line
from the west coast to Stanley Pool is
built, all the gossip of the Congo region
can be spread in a twinkling by means
of the submarine cable with which an
English company is connecting London
and the Cape of Good Hope. A steam
ship is now laying section of the cable
from the Canary Islands, twelve hun
dred miles south. The purpose is to
connect with number of important
stations along the coast such as Dakar,
in Senegal, the British port of Bathurst,
Freetown, in Sierra Leone. points on the
Gold Coast and in the Congo regions not
yet designated, and the chief Portuguese
towns in Angola, Stanley, Burton and
some other explorers were of the opinion
long ago that it would be practicable
to maintain an overland telegraph line
by substituting the African chiefs,
at the rate of ten to fifteen shillings
per mile per annum, to protect
The line in their districts. The scheme
was first proposed at the international
Conference on African exploration at
Brussels in 1876, and at that time the
Egyptian government announced its
readiness to erect and maintain the pro
posed line from Cairo toward Cape Town
IS far as Victoria Nyanza.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-12-17
PEARLS OF THOUGHT
Doing nothing is doing i'll.

Doing nothing is doing i'll.
Vanity is a sign of moral weakness.
A little leak will sink great ship.
Ask thy purse what thou shouldst
buy.
A jest driven too far brings home
hate.
lie who greases his wheels helps his
oxen.
lie that sips Of many arts drinks
none.
No man prospers 50 suddenly as by
others errors.
For small gains we often suffer
great losses.
Perseverance wins. All possible
things were once impossible.
The one answer to all criticism, the
best test of all work, is result.
When the State is most corrupt,
then the laws are most multiplied.
A great soul only finds its true
existence in making Others great.
As you cannot avoid your own
company, make it as good as possible.
lie that will thrive, must Use at
five; he that has thriven, may lie till
even.
Rest satisfied with doing we'll, an
leave others to talk Of you as they
please.
Patience, without energy, is nothing
more than a respectable kind OF
lazinesS.
Kindness to children is one of the
tests by which true worth may be
estimated.
Humility is a virtue all preach, none
practice, and yet everybody is content
to hear.
Example is the best teacher. Its
silent responsiveness reaches the heart
by the most direct route.
Youth is presumptuous, old age is
timid the former aspires to live, the
latter has lived.
10 live above our station shows a
proud heart, and to live under it dis
covers narrow soul.
Genius is only entitled to respect
when it promotes the peace and inn
proves the happiness of mankind.
The busyboly labors without thanks,
talks without credit, lives without love,
and dies without tears.
Our grand business is, not to see
what lies dimly at a distance, but to
do what lies clearly at hand.
A sympathy with the pains and
pleasures of others is the foundation
of our social virtues.
Men declare their love before they
feel it, women confess theirs only after
they have proved it.
Prosperity makes man virtuous in
the estimation of the world, it is a
fortress which mankind dare not assail.
We are accustomed to see men de-
ride what they do not understand, and
snarl at the good and beautiful because
it lies beyond their sympathies.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-12-17

1t is curious fact that the thorough.
bred Arab, from which, with some inter.
mixture of what is supposed to be a
poorer strain, the English thoroughbred
sprang, should be much inferior in spirit
and stamina to the English horse, which
Mt its best has an existence of about two
centuries, Carrying much heavier bur-
den, the English horse can, without any
sort OF effort, out gallop the more direct
descendant Of his Eastern ancestor. On
Indian race courses the Arab has an
allowance of no less than three stone
against English-bred horses. The Arab
very rarely wins race, even with this
advantage. The courage, docility and
endurance of the Arab must be recog.
nized with every praise. Omar Pasha, a
bay horse belonging to the Turkish gen
eral of that name, is said to have gal
loped ninety miles, from Silistria to
Narna, without halt, carrying mes,
senger who brought news of the Russian
rspulse.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-12-17
SiCiiian Customs.

When the formal kiss of betrothal is
given between the young people in Sic
lily, the guests break out into "Evvi-
yas." and the wine and feasting begin.
Formerly Il "promessa sposa' shaved
off one or both her eyebrows. But
this custom was inconyenient. If
anything happened to prevent the
marriage it spoiled all chances for the
future Gifts from the man to the
woman are de riJueH-a sur
viyal of the old mode of bar
ter or purchase These gifts are
generally of jewelry, but sometime
the pair exchange useful presents
Of body linen, Sc. At Easter
tho man gives the woman
either y luscious sweet called
'cassata" or a "pnccorella de pasta
reale," that is, lamb couchant made
of almond paste, crowned with II tin
sci crown, carrying flag and colorei
after nature At the feast of st.
PctCr-the Goth of July; not the same
as Saints Peter and Paul he gives
keys made of flour and honey, or of
almonds, or of caramel. On the End
OF November--the day of All Souls
lc takes her sweet brown cakes with
a whto mortuary figure raised in high
relief, as a child, or a man, or deaths
head and cross bones, or a well-deined
set of ribs, to symbolic skeleton, &C
cOrding to the nearest relative she
may have lost. But in Mazzara no
ono who loved his bride would give
her aught 10 the likeness of a cat, as
this would presage her speedy death.
Biscuits for St. Martins Day; ginger
bread in true lovers knots, tough and
tasteless, and sugar bambini for
Christmas; huge hearts, of rather
coarse imitation of mincemeat, and
sugared over, for the feast of the an
nuncatioD; on the dy of Saints
Cosmo and Damian, medlars, ounces
and the saints themselves done in
honey and sugar-and so on. These
are the little courtesies of the be-
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-12-17
Women in Naval Engagements.

In 1912, Her Majesty's ship Swallow
fought two French vessels off Frejus.
1t was on June 10th, and after most
obstinate action, she succeeded in
driving them both in under the bate
ries of the town. The following anec-
dote, as narrated by one of the officers
of the Swallow, is told at some length
in the Naval Chronicle, xviii, 1856:
"In the gallant and sanguinary action,
there was a seaman named Phelan,
who had his wife on board. She wa
stationed-as is usual when women
are on board in time of battle-to
assist the surgeon in the care of the
wounded. From the close manner in
which the Swallow engaged the enc
my, yardarm and yardarm, the wound
ed, as may be expected, were brought
below very fast; among the rest a
messm"te of her husband Consequent
" her oWn), who had received mus
ket-ball through the side. Her eXer-
lions were used to console the poor
fellow, who was in great agonies and
nearly breathing his last, when by
some chance she heard her hus-
band was wounded on deck. Her
anxiety and already overpowered
feelings could not one moment
be restrained; she rushed in
stantly on deck and received the
wounded tar in her arms. He family
raised his head to kiss her: she burst
into food Of tears, and told him to
take courage. All would yet be WELL
but scarcely pronounced the last syl-
liable when an ill-directed shot took her
head off. The poor tar, who was
closely wrapped in her arms, opened
his eyes once more, then shut them
forever. Phelan and his wife were
sewed up in one hammock, and, it is
needless to say, buried in one grave"
The narrator adds to the pathos of the
above story, telling how. only three
weeks before, fine boy had been born
70 them, and how poor Tommy Jared
until they put into Port Mahon. The
sailors agreed that she should have
hundred fathers, but what could be
the substitute of nurse and moth.
err" Happily there was Maltese
goat on board, which proved as tracta
bic and faithful to its charge as the
immortal dumb foster-mother of Ro.
man history. In Rodney's battle with
De Guichen, off the Pearl Rock, Mar.
tinque, April II, 1880, there was
woman on board the Sandwich, Rod
ney's flagship. who fought a a
FOUNDER gun, and afterwarl attended
the whole night upon the wounded
men" Notes and Queries
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-12-17
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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-12-17
The Deaf ana Dumb in Antiquity.

The ancicnts had the greatest horror of
all that was feeble and infrm; with
them poverty was despicable and suffer
ing a scandal. 1t is no wonder, then,
that among the beauty and pleasure.
loving Greeks the deaf mute was looked
upon as a disgrace to humanity, and
under the barbarous laws of Lycurgus
they were exposed to die Nor was the
highly-cultured Athens less cruel than
Sparta toward these unfortunate crea.
lures. Dcafmute children were pitt
lessly sacrificed without a voice being
raised on their behalf. The first who
seems to have seriously occupied himself
with this phenomenon of deaf mutism
was the philosopher Aristotle, and he de-
Clared cOngenial deaf mutes to be inca
pable of instruction, and this was the
universal opinion of classical antiquity.
The Romans treated these unfortunates
with the same cruelty as the Greeks. AS
soon as a child was found to be deaf
and dumb it was sacrificed to the Tiber.
Only those escaped whom the waves
washed back to the shore, or whom the
natural love OF their parents kept
hidden from the eyes Of the world Yet
in the centuries Immediately preceding
The Christian era there was SEN
sible dlminution in the number of vic
inns of these barbarous laws, although
about fifty years b. c., the poet Lucre,
thus pronounced himself in favor of
Aristotle's opinions regarding deaf
nutes. But in the course of time GER
.ain rights were granted to those deaf
nutes who gave proof of ability-such
Is had been brought up secretly by their
parents showing some signs of intellect;
his gradually dissipated the horrible
prejudice with which their brethren in
misfortune had hitherto been regarded
Pliny mentions congenital deaf mite,
called Quintus Pedins, who distinguished
himself as an artist He was grandson
Of the counsel of the same name, who
fourished in the reign of Augustus. 1t
IS also probable that deaf mutes were
employed as pantomimists when panto-
nino was one of the favorite amusements
If the Romans. NJ. r. Muller gives to
The Egyptians the credit of first instruct
Ing deaf mutes. They as well as the
Persians always respected persons thus
afflicted, and their hieroglyphic mode of
writing was especially suited for their
education 1t is doubtless something
more than mere coincidence that their
letter treatment by the Romans dates
from the time of the Incorporation of
Egypt as Roman province. -Njne!eentd
Cc1ltarH.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-12-17

a great many interesting and anus
ing stories are told about Hans Ma
kart, the great Vienna painter, since
his death. De was an eccentric ge-
MUS, and so very popular with fash
ionahle ladies, that every one was sur
prised when he married an ordinary
woman. 1t seems that somebody was
once inquisitive enough to ask him
why he did so, whereupon he replied:
ITO have good-tempered, sensible
woman to trust in, when all the but
terllies, who after all are only cater
pillars dressed, forsake me-"
To men OF genius a good.tempered,
sensible woman often proves more at
tractive and far preferable for wife
than the most beautiful butterflies OF
fashion.
And in choosing wives men who do
not possess genius might often prolita-
bly, follow their example.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-12-17

Sleepless people, says Health and
Home, should court the sun. The very
worst soporilic is laudanum, and the
very best is sunshine. Therefore it is
tlain that the poor sleeperS should
pass as many hours of the day in the
sunshine and as few in the shade as
oossible. The injurious effect of the
shade isvery noticeable in plans grow
Eng in secluded places and Ladies' who
4ro accustomed to carry sunshades.
The invigorating power of sunlight is
infinite, and he whose skin is tawny
seldom requires pill.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-12-17

trothal which no man who respected
himself, or desired the love of her
who was to be his wife, would dream
of neglecting. During the time of
betrothal, how long soever it may last,
the young people are never suffered to
be one moment alone, nor to say any
thing to each other which all the
world does not hear. The man may
go once week to the girls house,
where he seats himself at the corner
OF the room opposite to that where
she is sitting; but he may not touch
her hand nor speak to her below his
breath. In the country, where they
cannot marry for yet while, they en-
gage themselves from year to year.
But they are always kept apart and
vigorously watched.-7'emple Bar
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-12-17

A dealer in furs says the common house
cat is one of the most valuable of fur.
bearing animals, and that many thou
sands of them find their way to the fur
riers. He says that in the year 1882 over
million catskins were used in making
garments of fur, the black, white, nal.
tcse and tortoise shell being most in de-
mand. They are largely used for max
ing Innings, and over half million pole,
cats were used in this country in the
same year, most of which were obtained
in Ohio and New York.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-12-17
Fa shiOn Notes.

Fashion Notes.
Bonnets grow more and more har-
rowing in ugliness.
Opossum comes up among other
American furs this winter.
Trains are worn at receptions and
church weddings this winter.
Jewclled pins are the favorte orna-
ment for the hair with evening dress.
Bonnets are worn with trained
dresses at full-dress receptions and
church weddings.
Small ostrich tips are more fashion,
able than flowers for evening wear in
the coiffure.
The newests skirts are perfectly plain,
falling in straight lines from the waist
to the hem.
All velvet dresses for evening wear
are made of two kinds of the same
color, a brocaded and a plain velvet
Hats are horribly defiant and unbe-
coming with all the trimmings top
ping over the forehead, which is still
adorned with Skye terrier fringes.
The handsomest dresses for brides
are of white silk and white satin
duchesse, with parements of white
plush and trimmings of laces, real
Valenciennes, point de Brussels, or
Malmes.
Very pretty mantles for young girls
are made of velvet or plush, with the
centre Of the back OF brocade, and also
the cuffs of the short sleeves added to
the fronts.
Glaze kid gloves have resumed their
precedence over undrcsscd kids, and
close buttoned gloves, so say the ora
Giles of fashion, are soon entirely to
supersedo mousquetaires.
Seal hats have brims that recede I'M
til they become very narrow behind,
and there are also English walking
hats of this fur. Birds in clusters or
breasts mounted in long shapes are the
trimmings.
The lace fans of this season have
longer sticks and narrower mouths
than those which have been fashion,
able lately.
A Chinese fur with a long white
fleece is the novelty among furs this
winter It's pretty and becoming.
Silk gauze in white. creamy tints
and pale colors is much used in En-
gland for bridesmaids frOcks, and
lately there has been a revival of
barege, both in plain white and printed
with small bouquets Of flowers and
single blossoms. The wells worn by
the ladies who attend the bride are
sometimes spangled, sometimes dotted
with crystal beads, and sometimes
sprnkled with the petals Of the rose,
or of the daisy.
Lace bonnets, made up over colored
satin, will be worn all winter. They
are especially liked by the economical,
because the change from dark to
light feather transforms them at once
into evening bonnets.
Wings are used on some of the new
small bonnets in novel way. They
are set at the side, just above the place
where the strings are fastened, and
between their tips is a large bow of
velvet.
English dressmakers tuck nuns
yelling skirts to the waist and place
rows of insertion between the tucks
for evening wear for young ladies.
Round gathered waists are worn with
these skirts, as, indeed, they are with
all the evening costumes of young
ladies, except those intended for balls
The "cushion" crown, which looks
like the section of a wheel, is a favor
tie with London millinerS.