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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-01-25
The Brains Weight.

The recent discussion about the weight
of Tourguenieif's brain has led to the
publication of an article on the subject
of the weight of brains by Russian sci
enlist, NJ. Nikiforoff, in the N0rost. Ac-
cording to him, the weight of the brain
has no influence whatever on the mental
faculties The average weight of mans
brain is according to Luschka, 1,424
grammes; of Il woman's, 1872 grammcs ;
krause gives the averages as 1870 and
l, $50 respectively. The maximum weight
is said to be 1000 grammes, and the
minimum 500 grammcs. The brain of
the celebrated mineralogist Haussmann
weighed |, 20G grammes.
1t ought to be remembered that the
significance of the weight of the brain
should depend upon the proportion it
bears to the dimensions of the whole
body, and to the age of the individual
Byron died mt the age of thirty-siX, the
great geometrician, Gauss, at seventy
eight years Of age; the brains of the
two should, therefore, not be compared.
1t is equally important to know what was
the cause of death for long disease and
old age exhaust the brain. To define
the real degree of development of the
brain, it is therefore necessary to have a
knowledge Of the condition of the whole
body, and as this is usually lacking, the
mere record of weights possesses little
significance. -PW Null Gazette.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-01-25
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD


Chickens crowded together become
hot. They catch cold. They have roup.
Sick fowls communicate disease to others.
A very sick fowl should at once be sacri-
feed, or it will sacrifice the rest Kill it.
A sick fowl is not fit to eat. Crack
bones for fowls; they will strive to get
the marrow, and will thus have some ex-
ercise. Give them boiled scraps of all
kinds, with oats or meal in the mess
Give them mixed feed. They will turn
from oats to corn and from corn to oats
Sand is not as good as dust or ashes for
hen baths. Give them old plaster
cracked oyster shells which have been
burned-anything with lime in it, and
apart from the dust bath. Do not let
them go thirsty. Put little iron rust
in their water. We have used the tine
turc of iron in small quantities. White
wash their houses, and when they are
out summing themselves some fine day
fumigate the house with tobacco and
sulphur burned on an old tin pan while
the doors and windows are shut. Venti-
late afterward and before the fowls go
back. Scrape the perches with an old
knife or scythc, and wash them with
kerosene to kill insects. Better still,
have seasoned poles, backed and ready
to fit into the rests for perches. Make
a hole in each end for nail to
go into so as to clasp them
and keep them from rolling. After bark
ing rasp the perches, so as to give the
fowls grip. Rub these pcrches with
kerosene oil. Change these perchcs oc-
casionally during the winter. In using
carbolic acid for disinfcctants or insect
killers do not mix it with whitewash
The fowls may peck the whitewash for
the lime to use in their systems for
shells, and thus poison themselves with
the carbolic acid inwardly. Give them
lime in some shape, or they will eat their
feathers. We have used lime in water.
The lime settles and the water contains
all it can hold. This lime water is the
same that is used for scalds and burns.
1t is sometimes taken by people for bad
stomachs. For your own stOmach's use
get it of druggist. For your hens
stomachs and eggshells, make it your
self. At the same time old plaster is the
best ggshell maker for hens eating that
we have used. 1t is easier than burnt
and cracked oyster shells. Bone meal is
very good. With lime, give hens meat.
1t pays. We give meat every other day.
We buy it at the butchers. 1t is better
to buy meat for hens than for dogs. We
feed bone meal in milk. What salt we
give them is nut sparingly into thei,
cooked feed. Never feed 1t raw. What
ever people may say, superabundancC
of salt kills; but some is needed. We
have given it in thick milk Birds that
eat their own feathers require lime and 4
little salt in their food.-Ne,o York Her.
ald.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-01-25
The Rich and the Rich.

Miss Rothchild-expecting to be a
bride in few days-to Papa Roth
child:
ooh, how sad how sad"
"What is so sad, my pet ?"
son, Miss Nanderoilt's situation"
"Why, what's the matter with her,
my darling 2"
" You know she was married last
week ~
"Yes; what of it r.
"Why, her papa gave only s., 900, 900
as dover"
"Poor thing-that is rather small"
sob, she'll starvc, starve, poor thing !
You'll give more than that, won't you,
papa, you dear old darling?'
Certainly my precious; but you should
not feel too lofty, nor should you eXult
because you are better off than your neigh
bors, for the day may come when you
may be as poor rs the Nanderbits are, so
that when you give Il party it will only be
IA mere common, be@garly, shorter like
one Miss Nanderbilt's papa gave the other
evening. There are many strange ana
unexpected mutations in life, my dear,
and the man who is worth his hundreds
of millions to-day may be a poor, beg
carly, half-millionaire tomorrow.-ThC
H1tchet,
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-01-25
House..

Bills introduced: By Mr. Ellwood-Au
thorizing the organization of national bank
ing associations, with a circulating currency
secured by United States gold and silver
coin. BY Mr.. Dunham-To authorize the
secretary of the treasury to issue two and a
half per cent. forty year bonds. BY Mr.
Hitt-To place sugar and molasses on the
free list BY Mr.. Wooi-To admit free of
duty wood pulp, lumber and salt. BY Mr..
Clay-To repeal the civil service act.
BY Mr.. Eldredge-Proposing constitutional
amendment for the election of United States
Senators BY the people BY Mr.. Morgan
To abolish postage ON newspa oers By Mr..
Phelps-For the erection of public building
at Paterson, y. J. By Mr.. Cox-To repeal
the law prohibiting eX-COnfederate officers
from serving in the United States army
Mr.. Willis, chairman of the committee on
rivers and harbors, reporte Il bill making an
appropriation of 81 GOO go for continuing the
Improvement of the Mississippi river. and it
was referred to the committee of the whole.
The House went into committee of the whole
for its consideration. A protracted discussion
followed, without action. Messrs Steele and
Cutcheon, of the committee on military af-
fairs, submitted the views of the minority
on the bill for the relief of General Fitz John
Porter.
The House in committee of the whole con
tnued its consideration of the Senate bill
appropriatng Sl,0G.0)D for continuing the
work of Improvement of the Mississippi river
A good deal of opposition t. the measure was
developed, mostly on the ground that the
appropriation was for the purpose of build
inc up the levees. NJ. Holman
offered al amendment, which was de
feated, providing that the money, ex.
cept so much as is necessary t. project the
works in progress in other portions Of the
river from waste and injury, shall be ex
pended in the continuance and completion o!
the works ON some one ranch now in prog
ress of Improvement. The object of the
amendment, as stated, was to test the value
of what it is claimed are simply experiment..
at one place before expanding money on all
The House adopted a resolution, reported
from the committee on expenditures in The
department Of justice, calling on the post
master-general for information concern
ing the prosecutions in the case of tn,
Star route frauds with the names Of
in consequence of such frauds, anC
an itimized statement of exdendi
lures in the investigation and prosecution o
the frauds. -. The Senate bill appropriatin;
Sl,OOO,UOO for immediate use in continuing
the Mississippi river improvements wa
passed, 2l5 TO Ga, after futile attempts t.
commit it for amendment. e. A bill making
all public roads and highways POST route
was passed.
Mr.. Slocum spoke in favor of the bill 70
the relief General Fit2 John Porter Mr.
Steele followed in a speech opposing the bill
and Mr.. Lyman came after in a speech in il
favor. As other members desired to spoa
on the bill it went over to the next day
session without action.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-01-25
NEWSY NOTES.

A LONDON lady has bequeathed $500, 900 to
the pope.
THE South losses sG,OOO,OOO year by gin,
house cotton fires.
PHILADELPHIA's new postoflice will soon be
done. 1t cost S1,0O0,0J0
THERE is a scarcity of desirable mich cows
throughout New England.
MARYLAND boasts the largest peach farms
of any State in the Union.
ENGLAND loses every year by shipwrecks
between 5000 and 1000 lives and about $50,
100000.
ABRAHAM, Isaac and Jacob Kile are trip
lets, seventy-two years old, living in Bucks
county, Penn.
OF tho seventY-sx United States Senators
twenty one are accompanied by their wives
seventeen have each wife and daughter,
one has daughter and one a mother in-law.
OF the $50 representatives and delegates,
ninety five are accompanied by their wives,
fifty three have each wife and daughter,
and nine have only their daughters.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-01-25

ITO be ContiRuei.)
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-01-25

one cup of sugar; stir constantly till the
sugar is dissolved; then add the gela-
tine. 1t should then boil for five or six
minutes, and the greatest care must be
observed to prevent its scorching. Take
from the fire, flavor with vanilla, pour in
molds to cool, and serve with cream.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-01-25

they are generally restless and discon-
tented at all times, and the worry they
thus take prevents the animals from gain
ing that weight and size which liberal
feeding would otherwise produce. The
discontinue produced even by persons
when obliged to have their meals irreg-
ularly, even though they always have at
such times plenty to eat, will give some
idea what will result from irregularity
in feeding fattening, growing animals.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1884-11-04
ELECVE0E NOTICE.,
H.

| ELECTEoE NoTECE,
| Notice is hereby given that on the
first Tuesday, the fourth day of NOvem-
Der pXt, at the Curry Engine House, in
| Carson City, in the county OF ormsby
| aud in the Old Postoffie building, at En-
| pire City. in the county of Ormsby, an
| election will be held for National, state
County ant Townsh hip Officers, as fol
| lows; to wit:
| Three Presidential Electors.
| one supreme Judge.
one Congressman.
| One state Senator.
| Three Assemblymen.
One Sheriff.
One County Clerk.
one County Assessor.
One County Treasurer.
One County Recorder.
one District Attorney.
One County superintendent Of Schools.
one County Commissioner Gong term).
One County Commissioner (short term)
one JuStiCe OF the IeacS, carson IOWu-
ship.
One Constable Carson Township.
One School Trustee Gong term) Carson
Township.
One school Trustee (short term) Carson
Township.
One Justice of the Peace. Empire
Township.
One Constable Empire Township.
One School Trustee Gong term) Empire
Township.
One school Trustee (short term) Empire
Township.
Which election shall notIbe opened
Later than 8 O'Clock A. M, and shall con-
ttnue until 6 o'clock p. N. OF the same
day.
The ballots to be.used at said election
shall be Of good quality Of white book
paper, 10 inches long BY ~ in width.
The names thereon printed shall be |
in bourgeoiss or BREWER capitals.
The designation Of eaesrs in BREWER
ar nonpareil, and the form Of printing
shall be en- the left margin Of the ballet. |
Dated this 9Th day q October.
ND. LAT01,
CLERK Of the Beard q county Commit
sie1srs.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1884-11-04
Platform and Resolutions.

| The Republicans of Ormsby county
| represented in Convention hereby re
! affirm this fiae lity 10 the principles
| ennnciated in the Republican National
! Platforms. With iltarty enthusiasm
| they declare their fealty to the nOmi-
| nees for the Presidency and Vice Presi.
| dency, James G. Blaine, of Maine, and
iohn A. Logan, of Illinois. With eQua
| earnestness they pledge themselves
Hon. William Woodburn for Congress
man and Hon. Thomas +. Hawley for
Justice Of the supreme Court.
Ia the interest OF economy and re-
firm and he reduction of official ex-
penses we favor the consolidation of
the counties of Ornsby, Douglas and
Storey.
Relative to the consolidation clause
the Central Committee have adopted
the following:
ResoIrcd, That the resolution known
as the consolidation resolution, adopted
by the County Republican Convention
held October 4th, 1854, be, and the same
is hereby rescinded, and the LeSisia-
tive candidates absoived ard released
from any implied pledge hereunder
and that in lieu thereof We reaMrm all
Of fthe principles err bodied in tie State
Repu hlican Platform.
Resolrsd, That in the judgment Of this
Com mittee that, inasnxsh a. tho san-
did ates were all nominated BY tae peo.
pls pon what in usually known - she
Crawford plan, that neither tAe County
Convention nor County Central Cen
nittse should impose any pledge lpsn
tn. candidates nos inpeesd apen tAon
b. the vetsFs at ths priAagiO.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1884-11-04
REGISTRATION s6TECE.
.asaa.lSsSsns1IE2

N0TKCE Is HEREBY GIVEN
tha. the tirae for the registration OF
the mana IS Of the qualified Electors IN
election Precinct No ], OF Township 10
l,(0arsoA TevnshiP), prior 10 t1s GeEi-.
sral election to be held OF thc 7th d. %
Of Novsm Der, A. d. 1884. for the oevAU
sforAsby, will expire - Se'slosk K. "A
en- Ne SotA Day eflOsdoSen. "a
A. A.D.A. v II ocSy'
usulshV As
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1884-11-04

THE TICKET.
For State Senator:
EVAN WILLIAMS.
For Assem- blymen:
ALFRED HELM
G. N. FOLSOM
GEORGE A. TYRRELL.
For Sheriff:
w. H. CRISLER.
For County Clerk:
M. D. HATCH.
| Fer County Assessor:
J. D. KERSEY.
For District Attorney:
J. d. TORREYSON.
For County Treasurer:
J. TOBRINER.
FOR County Recorder:
T. D. TURNER.
For uperintendent of Public Schools
S. II. WRIGHT.
For Public Administrator,
C. w. FRIEND
For County Commissioner long term) |
J. II. MARTINI.
For County Commissioner (Short term) |
JAMES MORRIS.
Carson Township Ticket.
For Justice ofthe Peace:
M. NJ. GAIGE.
For Constable:
w. A. HAWTHONE.
For School Trustee dong termj:
GEORGE w. KlTZMEYER.
For School Trustee (Short term):
GEORGE 3. WEBB.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1884-11-04
AND SHOES, Etc,

Goodyear Rubber Go.
r. II. PEASE, Jr.( .r,,ts
sA. RUNYON, AHouS
San Frsucisco
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-31
SOUTHERN OPINION.

New ORLEANS, Dec. 26.-The Plea
yune, in a double loaded leader, speak
ing of American policy and the Mica
raguan treaty says: "Ihe country
is ripe for an entirely new departure
one worthy of our great nation and one
tina twill stamp itself upon the whole
history of North America. We must
adopt policy of acquisition and terri
toria1 ACKNOWLEDGMENT to the south
ward. It need not be accomplished by
armed invasion or inaugurated In blood.
The Nicaragua treaty is the opening
wedge. Let us drive that home and by
investing hundreds of millions In a
ship canal there, secure the country.
American enterprise will soon annex
the whole of Central America from that
lease line" It continues: Sectional
discord has happily ceased. The South
is primarily and deeply interested in
turning the tendency of enterprise and
the march of empire southwark, and
her statesmen, By at once championing
bold and brilliant policy in that
direction, will open up new era for
the entire country and map out safe
and short road to prosperity and con-
tinued national growth, insure tran
guilty at home and add to the glory of
our great republics"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-31

WASHINGTON, Dec. "a. = Senator
Pendleton to-day favorably reported
from the foreign affairs committee the
bill introduced by him to repay China
the remainder of the Chinese indemnity
fund now in possession of the State
Department. In the report on the bill
the committee say the amount paid by
China was largely in excess of all just
demands against that country and every
administration, since this fact was as
certained, has earnestly recommended
the repayment of that excess. The
committee concurs in this view and
says it believes the wisest policy on
the part of this government is to deal
with transparent justice and even hber-
atty in its intercourse with all nations,
especially those of another race and
civilization"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-31
THE POPE INDIGNANT.

LONDON, Dec. 26.-Pope Leo XIII. is
indignant over the proposal to erect in
Rome splendid bronze statue of Glor-
dano Bruno, the Italian philosopher
and the father of Pantheism, who, after
being imprisoned in Rome for two
years, was burned as hereto in 1900.
He is reverad as a martyr by atheists
all over the world, and committee has
just been formed in the University of
Rome to raise the proposed monument
to his memory. A site has already been
secured in the Piazza Campo Difori,
and the subscriptions in Rome amount
to 10000 lire. The proposal to honor
the great Pantheist in the very citadel
of the Roman Catholic Church has hor-
rifed his holiness, and he expressed
himself with unusual .vehemence in a
speech which he made at the Vatican
upon the subject,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-31
Manual Dexterity and the Letters.

(From Science.]
It is well known that in it's develop
ment each new born being passes
through very much the same stages that
his ancestors have been through before
him. Even after birth the growth of
the child's intelligence Stimulates the
progress of the human race from the
savage condition to that of civilization.
It has been shown by Preyer, and 9TH
ers who have studied infant develop
ment, that faculty which has been re-
CURED by the race at late stage, is late
in making it's appearance in the child.
Now, reading and writing are arts of
comparatively recent achievement.
Savage man could reap and SOW, and
weave, and build houses, long before he
could communicate his thoughts to a
person at distance by means of written
speech. There is, then, reason to be-
heve that child's general intelligence
would be best trained by making him
skillful in many kinds of manual labor
before beginning to torture him with
letters; and the moral to be derived is,
that primary instruction should be in
struction in manual dexterity, and that
reading and writing could be learned
with pleasure and with ease by child
who had been fitted for taking them up
by the right kind of preparation.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-31
An Ocean Horror.
lFrom the London News. ]

IRON the LONDON News
Ihe long record of shipwrecks has
presented few more thrilling incidents
than that just told in connection with
the capsizing of the Dutch lugge1
Maartle. This unlucky vessel was over
taken In a tremendous gale, when some
hundred miles from Spurn Head in
Yorkshire. A sea struck her and
turned her right over, imprisoning
eleven men in the cabin, where seven
OF them were soon drowned. The YES
sci partly Fighting herself, the other
four scrambled out, and they all chung
to the stemhead, the only part of the
lugger which kept above water. One
OF them was washed away the next
morning, but the other three held en-
throughout the day, eagerly looking for
rescue. A terrible situation was this,
but unfortunately not altogether un-
common in the history of such disas-
tiers at sea. Toward evening, however,
one OF the three poor fellows broke in
to wild delirium, and when at length,
after another night of peril and expos
ure, the Grimsby smack Gen. Wolseley
bore down upon them and endeavored
to rescue them, he refused to be taken
from the wreck. He had spent the
night in wild laughter and delirious
songs, and now chung with a maniac's
frenzy to the hull of his vessel. The
crew of the Grimsby smack seems to
have behaved with great gallantry in
their efforts to save the men, and the
mate at the imminent peril of his own
life went on the wreck and tied a rope
around the poor fellows waist, and an
attempt was made to drag him into the
boat. With the tenacious clutch of a
mailman, however, he held on, deter
mined as he said, to go and tell his
mates down below that help had come.
The rope was at length let go, in or
der that other means might be tried,
and then, true to his promise, he broke
into frantic laugh and sank. Fiction
has rarely conceived anything more
grim and CHASTITY in it's humor than this
poor Dutchman beaten about in wild
sea on that stemhead for two days and
two nights, and then with wild laugh
ter plunging down to tell his drowned
comrades that rescue had come.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-31
WILL NOT HAMPER CLEVELAND.

WASHINGTON, Dec. %. = Senator
Henderson, of Nebraska, who has de-
hghtful rooms at the Portland, is one of
the active men in the Senate this win
ter. He says that the Senate will not
place itself in antagonism to President
Cleveland. and he does not anticipate
any trouble in that direction. He ex-
poets that government officials, whose
terms of Office shall be expiring after
the 4th of March, will be succeeded by
Democrats almost without exception.
The Republican senators are reconciled
to this expected state of affairs, so that
when the incoming presidentshaH make
nominations for offices, these will be
generally confirmed by the Senate with
out question as to the party affiliations
of the nominees. There can be no sort
of clash unless Mr.. Cleveland attempts
to disturb government officials, within
the Jurisdiction of the Senate. whose
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-31
A Square Man.
IFrom the Indianapolis Jour-

[From the Indianapolis Journal
A day or two since James McCrea,
manager of the Pennsylvania lines, WIS.,
tied the shops at Indianapolis. AS he
passed by half dozen of the employees
on the O., st. l.. and P. Road, one of
the number, clinching his remark with
an oath, said he was the squarest rail-
road man in this country; there was not
a man on the road but respected and ad-
mired his methods of doing business.
eyes," said second man, who was an
humble brakeman, she is strict but just
in his decisions; will hear the griev-
ances of an engine-wiper as readily as
those of an official on the road.
eyes," said third, che is splendid
man. A few months ago we ran a
special from Indianapolis to Chicago,
and took dinner at Logansport.
One of the superintendent instructed
me to telegraph ahead to Logansport
for dinner for nine. The engineer,
fireman and myself, the brakeman, were
not included in this number. The con-
ductor was, of course. When the com
pany sat down at the table Manager
McCrea looked around for the engineer,
fireman and brakeman, not seeing them
he ordered them sent for, and just as
good dinner set before them as the
officers of the road had" Comment is
unnecessary, but this kind act will long
be remembered.