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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-05
A Senatorial Wag,

Vance, of North Carolina. is a large,
heavily built man, with a heavy gray
mustache. a twinkle in his eye, and a
lover of joke that knows no limitation.
He is an incxhaustible story teller and
he is rarely caught without some retort
or repartee at hand. A newspaper man
was telling him one day that he was
about starting for rather out of the way
portion of the Senator's own State and
was asking something about the accom-
modations he was likely to find They'll
give you some of their fried hog and
eggs" he replied. "That's better than
nothing" said the newspaper man. 81
don't know don't know" the Senator
answered in a dubious tone; "I've tried
both"
Vance was in the Southern army, and
is a little lame as the result. He was in
one of the battles before Richmond, where
the fighting was particularly hot A
startled rabbit appeared for a moment or
a fallen tree, and then, at murderou,
discharge of musketrv. darted like al
arrow for the underbrush. General Vance
had noticed him. and as he flew for cover
the General called out, in manner thai
left no doubt as to his absolute sincerity
SEQ it, cotton tail If hadn't IA repu
tation to maintain, would run too. -
Houston, (IeraS) Post.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-05

A gentleman named Howeittoun has
the largest fish breeding establishment
in Great Britain, if not in the world.
1t was commenced ten years ago with a
stock of about fifty breeding fish. 1t
contains more than 10000 breeding,
800, 600 small fry, and 5000, 900 eggs
in process of Matching. The breeding
establishment covers eleven acres. The
ponds are situated in an Enclosure that
is very beautifully terraced, the turf be-
tween the ponds being kept in the con-
dition of a lawn. Stock fish are kept
outside this place in artificial ponds and
streams that are carefully guarded. From
an elevated summer house, located in
the centre of the establishment, every
portion of it may be seen. 1t is planned
with an eye to beauty as well as to util-
ity and profit. Each pond is supplied with
spring water and is so arranged that all
the water may be drawn from it at any
time it is desirable to do so. The large
fish are fed during portion of the year
on species of coarse fish that is Of no
value as food for man. The food of
the little ish consists principally Of
horse flesh, which is cut into small pieces
anu pOuuNtcu' VIC pOunu per udN Is Ic
quired for three hundred fish. All the
fish are very tame. The appearance of a
person on the bank causes them to come
around the spot by thousands. A wave
denotes their advance. The fish will dart
at meat held in the hand, and will often
bite the fingers. The establishment pro-
vides a market for all the old horses
within many miles. The cost of the es-
tabishmcnt was over 500, 600, but it pays
ten per cent. on the investment The
proprietor thinks he could now construct
an establishment equally good for halt
the money this one cost. In that event
it would pay a dividend of twenty per
cent. The fish bred are different varitie,
of salmon and trout. None are raised
for the table. They are solely for the
purpose of stocking ponds. Some have
been sent to Australia and New Zealand
The demand is SO good for the fish that
the proprietor of this establishment pro
poses to start another on a still more eX-
tensive scale. Since the fisheries eXhi
bition in London, last season, there has
been great interest in fish breeding. not
only in Great Britain. but in most of the
countries on the continent of Europe
(Hjru1O Times
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-05
A Great Problem.

Take all the Kidney and Liver
Medicines,
Take all the Blood purifiers,
Take all the Rheumatic remedies,
Take all the Dyspepsia and indigestion
cures
Take all the Ague, Fever, an bilious
specifics,
Take all the Brain and Nerve force
reuiUers,
Take all the Great health restorers
In short, take all the best qualities Of
all these, and the best
Qualities of all the best medicines in the
world. and you will find that Hop
-Bitters lave the best curative qualities
and powers of all concentrated
In them, and that they will cure when any
or all of these singly or combined
Fail A thorough trial will give positive
proof of this
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-05
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SCROFULA

Usually develops in early life,
and is peculiar morbid condi.
ton of tho system, usually affect
ing the glands, often resulting in
swelIings, enlarged joints, alb
scesses, thickening of the lips,
enlarged neck, sore eyes. A
scrofulouS condition is often her.
editary. but bad diet, too free use
of fat meats, bad air, want OF
sunshine and nourishing food
will induce it. Some people are
troubled with scrofuIous swelling
ofthe glands, and with ulcers and
kernels. which may cause very
little pain; others may have in
ward scrofula, scrofuIa of tho
lungs, ScrofuIa of the spleen,
scrofuIa OF the kidneys and scrof-
ula of the bones. BURDOCK
BLOOD BlTTERS will drive away
any case of scrofuIa. and not to
appear in another place, for their
action on the blood and bowels
will carry the disease entirely
from the body.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-05
Hardened Liver.

Five years ago | broke down with kidney
and liver complain and rheumatism.
Since then have been unable to be about
at all Ny liver became hard like wood; my
limbs We're pulled up and filed with water.
All the best physicians agreed that nothing
could cur me. l resolved to try Hop Bitters;
] have used seven bottles; the hardness has
all gone from my liver, the swelling from my
limbs, and it has Corhed q miracle in my
case: otherwise ] would have been now in my
grave. j. w. MoREY, Buffalo, October /,
1881
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-05
N Y n Us;
A THRILLING STORY.

As Told by n Merchant in Troy, N. VA
Surgical Operation Avoided-How Faith
er. Wife and Daughter Escaped an Awful
Doom.
or the hundreds OF accounts OF remarkable cures
wrought by DIR. KENNEDYS FAvORITR
REMEDY, mono have appeared so purely astonish-
ing as the following: Tho persons mentioned arc
among the most hghy respected in the city OF Troy
and the story as told by the father will prove inter.
estng to all our readers.--ED.
Or. Kennedy, Rondom, NJ.
growth Of Fungus f. remove il We had resorted to
nent surgeons aud hy,icilns. Dr. =. OF Troy, said
that surgical operation would be necessary, but
clans claimed that it was caused by one thing and
GS Ty abn not ne fungus was ana
TAyORiTE KEtIEDY We Working 90 thoroughly On
cine could do what doctors had failed to do and sur
geons had hardly dared to undertake | can say in
Kennedys FXv0RiTE ilEMEDY alone Objected
rletely failed Ny daughter to-day enjoys, vigorous
health , and to Forte Remedy alone il the credit
some liver diicEitN with which she had suffered
aei6. trial Of Dr. ksnncdy' Fa7orite Remedy has
Gsnlted in ths complete restoration Of her health
IN flesh and trneth and thus secured perfect health.
~ ri FAy RE EES 70 q Or d4
being engaged III the grocery and commission bust
ness, winch makes II necessary for me to test thu
quality of different articles like butter ETC. sense
taste and my stomach were seriously injured. Ev-
orythng seemed to nauseate me, ard fearful of dys-
nlsia in it's most form, tried Dr.. X EN-.
.SEDE'S FAVORlTE REMEDY. The hrst bot
Tie afforded immediate relief. and from that day to
this can say that Favorita Remedy has restored
to perfect health. These iacts which | claim
prove that DR.. Kennedy Fayorie Remedy isthe best
medicine in the world tor those afflicted with the
above difficulties. II any one in the city of Troy
doubts the truth of thes" statements let him to
me and will prove them. l have recommended Ia.
vorito Remedy to hundreds and with the same goot
results.
Yours, etc. WILLIAM WINDSOR.
Corner Canal and Mount Streets, Troy, n. Y.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-05

p T. Barnum began his show life as
an advertising agent for Turner's circus
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-08-15
Home Decoration.

Fan scrap bags and scrap bags of col
ored silk OF fine woolens covered with
lace have a place among household dec
oratiye fancies.
An exchange gives the following hints
in the way of loor decoration: If the
diningroom floor IS of pine. paint it a
light gray. When dry, paint a border
of green. Having sketched a group of
leaves upon q sheet of tin, have the tin
man cut it out like a stencil letter. BY
placing this upon the green and paint
ing over with q darker hue quite a pref
ty border will result. The possession
OF artistic talent will obviate the neces-
sity Of asking help from the tinman.
The mosaic piecing hat has SO long
reigned supreme has a formidable rival
in the genealogical patchwork. A
quilt recently exhibited gave a list of
the children, grandchildren and great
grandchildren. The squares were in
the form OF trees, and q flower at the
extremity of each limb bore a child's
name. Here is o field for delightful
labor for those that can trace their lin
cage to William the Conqueror. The
coat of arms will occupy a conspicuous
place upon the ancestral quilt. It is
rare that so excellent an opportunity is
afforded to owe ourselves with the
glory Of our ancestors.
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Americans Abroad.
'rrespondence Boston Herald.

1S1''A AShbh
If Americans could make London
gay, London would be gay. The Yam
KEGS are everywhere an evidence.
There isno installing the American any
where. On the streets, in the galleries,
at the theaters, he is to be met. For
one, I am always glad to meet him. He
is the heartiest, frankest, all in all, the
truest man found to be walking in shoe
leather. He is different from all other
foreigners in London. He speaks the
same language rs the Englishman. I
can instantly understand all he is say
ing, and SO it is that his voice and into
nation and accent seem somewhat un-
trained, and, perhaps, just the least nm
derbred. OF course, ] mean the voice,
information and accent of some Ameri-
cans. 1t is a national characteristic that
Americans talk in a loud, u~nmodulated
voice. In public places Americans talk
in loud voices. If / now remember,
little notice is taken of this in America.
where most people seem accustomed to
it, but in England it seems rude and ILL
bred to talk socially in o loud voice.
In omnibuses, at dinner tables, at the
theaters, on the streets, one is constant
ly attracted by the loudness, and some.
times the shrillness, of the American
voice. The softness and delicacy of the
English lady's voice makes the Ameri-
can lady's voice, in comparison, all the
moro conspicuous. But did they not
speak at all there would be no mistak-
ing my fellow country people in London.
The dress would tell the story.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-08-15
Ono Of Pinkerton's EARLY Adveu-
lures.

When the Michigan Central railroad
first started there vas a good deal of OPP
position among tho farmers and others.
Trains were wrecked repeatedly and
tile opportunity for plumber attracted
the worst characters of the country.
Allan Pinkerton was called upon and
undertook in person to ferret out the
guilty parties. He finally learned of a
plot to wreck a certain train. Repair
ing to the spot after night he found a
culvert where he concealed himself.
Cropping around in the darkness he
found several crowbars and knew then
that he was in the right place. He had
been waiting for hours, wien three
men approached the c~ulyert. Pinker-
ton had doubled himself up in a corner
to remain undiscovered. The men took
the crowbars and proceeded to tear up
the track. Single handed as he was
he followed the men, and declared them
to be his prisoners. In the dark of the
night the pistols were whipped out and
q fight began, in which Pinkerton
killed two men and wounded the third,
who escaped in the darkness. Hardly
had Pinkerton ascertained that none Of
the rails were yet displaced when the
train Numbered by in safety. That wns
the last organized attempt at train
wreckng,--Chicago Herald.
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About Feather Pillows.

Many a housewife is deferred from
making satisfactory and needed changes
in pillows from the fact that it is al
most impossible to do anything with
feathers without losing and scattering
them. If this plan is pursued she need
have no further trouble: Suppose that
she wishes to increase the size of a pair
of pillows by adding the contents of o
third pillow to them divide the pillow
in two parts by tieing q string tightly
through the center, then rip about a
quarter of o yard at the end, and rip
the same length at the end of the pill
low that you wish to increase, then join
these two cases and sew them together;
by SO doing you can shake the feathers
into the case without scattering them
at all. When they are out Of the small
case, rip the seam and sew the case firm
". In buying ticking it is always we'll
to bay the best; you will saw q great
deal Of time and energyf the ticking is
SO firm and closely woven that feathers
do not find their way out to blow about
the room.-N.%Y. Post.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-08-15
a Long Pneumatic Tube.

New York Graphic: A company is
getting ready to build a pneumatic tube
for carrying letters and small packages
from Chicago to New York. The idea
at first seems impracticable, but on ex-
animation it turns out to be feasible.
Two tubes are to be made of brass,
which will run side by side, although it
is said n tube will be tried at first.
A powerful engine with an exhaust
wheel is to be stationed at one end. It
is said that if the tube is properly made
and planted no air will escape. The
right of way it is believed can be Sc
cured for nothing, or at a nominal ex-
pense, and the nam cost will be the
tube and the engines and stations. A
letter, a sample of grain, or package of
any kind which is to he sent, is inclosed
in a leather bail. A ball presents the
least friction as a rolling object, and
the leather is to be stiff and heavy. A
continuous current of air is passing
through the tube constantly. With
one pipe the plan is to reverse the en-
CINE every honr-the first hour forcing
air into it at the Chicago end and send
ing packages to New York, the next
hour exhausting the air at Chicago and
drawing the packages as quickly back.
The men who have it in charge do not
say how long it will take to send a pack
age this way, but claim to be able to do
it in less than q minute. Stations will
be established at the important cities
on the route. It is expected to pay a
large profit, and to do the business of
the telegraph companies, express COM
panies, and the mail. They say the
scheme of sending crude petroleum by
Q pipe for long distances, as is now
done, was laughed at at first and that
this n is more practicable, if possible,
and not nearly so costly, as the pipes are
to be small and can go around curves
and over hill as we'll as on level.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-08-15
Wealth at Newport.

Anew York gossiper writes: Among
other New Workers who will spend the
summer at Newpcrt are the Astor broth
ers John Jacob and Willlam), also the
Goelet brothers (Robert and OGDEN,
and this quartette party represents
$125, 000. 900, principally in real estate.
Pierre Lorillard and Henry G.. Mar
quand may also be considered rich, be-
ing estimated at q couple a millions
apiece, but how small tins seems com
pared with an Astor. William r. Ira
vers is ut Newport, Notwithstanding
hard times in Wall street, but jim
Keene, who last year had q splendid
cottage there, is now compelled to seek
n cheaper summer resort. The newly
elected Bishop Potter has a fine cottage
at Newport, and pays taxes on $4,000
there. Among the Younger New York
clergy in the same resort is Roderick
Terry, son Of John L. Terry, of the
firm Of z. d. Morgan s. Co. He owns
d house in Madison avenue and is a pas
tor of a rich church with o millionaire
father behind him. What u contrast to
some Of the poor clergy who can scarce-
ly get enough to pay rent
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-08-15
The Causes Of Malaria.

In the investigation into the causes of
malaria in Italy it is found that two
thirds Of the malaria districts are on
hillsides and mountain slopes, but that
the absence Of one Of the specified con-
diitions prevents the Development Of the
disease-cause-for instance, o marsh
that is pe~stilential when half drained is
harmless when flooded; if it were pos
sible to cover an ague tract with thick
sod the fever would disappear. An il
~lustration OF the inherent character of
the poisoning germs in certain soils is
given. A woman had malarial intermit-
tent fever which yielded readily to.
treatment, but returned when
she resumed her usual ayoca-
tions. Har physician remarked
that her relapses s~upervened whenever
she left her bed-chamber and resumed
her ordinary life in q we'll warmed sit
ting room. This room was orlaamented
nth growing plants. These were re-
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-08-15
FARM, FIELD AND FIRESIDR.
Boys and Hou.. work.

|NAL Se0S NOAS
Rural New Yorker: 1t has long been
q theory OF mine that men would make
better husbands than the majority of
them do, if they had been taught the
rudiments, ut least, of house-work.
Some might reply as a bright boy did,
who differed with me on this subject:
DO yon want your daughter to do q
mans work? To go into the stable and
harness up horses and all such work?"
No. replied. II do not want her
to have it to do, but I want her to know
how to do it, in case of m emergency"
l am always provoked to see agreat,
lazy boy, read, play, or sit around idle,
while his mother and sisters make mend
and darn for him. And his mother I
feel out Of patience with. / have seen
girls of q family, who were attending
school along with their brothers, were
obliged by their mothers rule to make
THEFT own and their brothers beds he
fore going to school, and to do their
own mending and darning, and that of
their brothers beside. This would
have been all right if the boys had been
at something equally useful, but no,
they were out-of-doors, playing ball, or
something similar. on Saturdays, and
in the mornings looking owe their les
sons, or "bothering around" until school,
time. It is not just, but there are few
families in which there are boys and
girls, that the girls don't get imposed
upon in some such way.
/ know of q man who, when he was
growing up, was Taught by his mother
not only to darn, but to make bread,
which requires strong hands to make
good; to wash dishes, never forgetting
to rinse them in hot water, and in fact
to keep the house as neal as mother did,
and as careful about keeping out the
flies.
Yes, and two others, who, in case of
sickness, company, OF the wife's alb
sence, proved themselves as shandy
as o grill" about the house, and a great
deal more SO than some hired girls.
They had no experience in such work
previous to their marriage, but they
were men quick to catch an idea, and
like to be useful On all occasions.
l also know a young woman, a far
mer's wife, who has never. during her
married life, been away from home for
more than a day at a time, because her
husband and the boys would starve to
death" She had no daughters, and
her sons scorn to learn girls work"
And when, as it sometimes happens,
the poor oma gets fat on her back,
father and mi are helpless, and must
run for some neighbor. She often
says: sob! if I had only made my
boys learn house-work while they were
small, how much it would have saved
me-"
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-08-15
A New Haven Sunday Eighty
Years Ago.

Thus q sense of duty induced them to
violate the law themselves III order to
compel its observance by others. The
death-like dullness and absolute priva-
ton Of sound which prevailed through
out the day cal hardly be imagined.
The labor of eating dinners, prepared
on the previous Saturday, seemed to be
looked on as . lamentable necessity,
and though such noises as coughing and
sneezing were excused if quite sponta-
neous, it was directly forbidden to in
duce them by taking snuff, or careless.
ly letting your liquor go the wrong
way, I know not whether the chatter
ing Of o mans teeth in an ague fit would
have been considered reprehensible,
but j n case ofyour hands becoming dirty
lam %pursuaded that it would have been
held more correct to let them remain
SO than to resort to the labor of using
soap, water and towel. Under the in
tfuence Of this mournful contrast to the
pleasurable tranquility of the light
hearted, innocent gaiety Of q European
Sunday | conceive myself distracted
from the world, or rather like the per-
sonage IN n Of the Arabian Tales who
wandered into a petriied city, and In
the midst of human habitations beheld
no sign Of life. But while every noise
was totally suppressed indoors, what
does my reader suppose he would hear
or observe were he to take his sent
with me at one of the inn windows and
survey the streets? For the most part
he would hear nothing, for when the
inhabitants were allowed to issue from
their doors they stole abort the high
ways ike SO many spirits o. like the
mysterious heroes in Mrs. Radcliff's
romances, so light were the movements
and their steps so inaudible. The prin-
cipal object in sight would bc those
guardians of the peace already men,
toned. looking like q detachment
Of CromNclPs body-guard as
they marched to and fro with the
utmost precision and solemnity, ar
rayed In the square cut garments which
betoken their Office. Perhaps, at last,
some luckless pig would waddle forth
from an avenue upon amuddy research.
Alas! his first grunt Of triumph, as he
lighted upon some spoil, would serve as
q signal to his enemies, one of whom
would secur him on the instant, drive
him ignominiously home to his sty, and
there execute retributive Justice for
his pagan disregard of sacred ordinan-
ces by forewith dispatching him. Or
should some caitiff dog, or even
thoughtless puppy, in profiigate con
tempt of the law, begin frolicking and
barkingin the road, he would be sum
marily shot upon the spot. Or perhaps
some gentleman cat, amorously dis
posed, would be so unfortunate as to
commence an ill-timed feline serenade
under the gutter of his adorned tabby,
the vigilant street keepers, attracted BY
the sound, would rush to the place, and
at the moment perhaps when a tender
response was awakening in the bosom
and the throat of Grimalkin, and the
passionate duetto of the hapless pair
rising to a climax, both would be as
sailed with a battery of staff and stones.
to the interruption of their loves and
great peril of their lives.-The Manhat-
tan for August.