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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-07-14

FUN GhfsSlDINI,
JAMES O.. BLAINE ,
OF MAINE.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
JOHN A. LOGAN,
OF ILLINOIS.
FOR GOVERNOR,
SAMUEL Il. PINGREE,
OF HARTFORD.
LIEUTENANT-GOvE
EBENEZER j. ORlISBEE,
OF BRANDON.
For Secretary of State,
CHARLES w. PORTER,
OF MONTPELIER.
For Treasurer,
WILLIAM I'll. Dubois,
OF WEST RANDOLPH.
For Auditor of Accounts,
f., HENRY POWELL,
. -. OF RICHFORD. t..
For Presidential Electors at Large,
10 D. HATCH, Burlington,
HIRAM HARLOW Windsor.
Orleans County.
For Senators
LAFORREST II. THOMPSON of Irasburgh.
SIDNEY II. FLETCHER, Of Holland.
..-ro,f- For States Attorney, ,l~
CHARLES A. PROUTY, of Newport.
For Assistant Judges,
AMASA p. BUTTON, of Craftsbury.
j. c. OLIVER, of Charleston.
For Judge of Probate,
.i..i ORLO II. AUSTIN, of Barton.
...|n. r.aI For Sheriff,
LORENZO D. MILES, of Albany.
For High Bailiff,
. JOHN E. Chamberlain, Albany.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-07-14

I have six or seven thousand GOOD BRICK
which wish to sell CPEAP. j. I'll. WALLACE.
Barton, June IT,
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-16
Bs coNTENFED.

1t is both the curse and blessing of our
American life that we are never quite con-
tent We all expect to go somewhere be.
fore we die, and have better time when
we get there then we have at home. The
bane of our life is discomfort. We say we
will work so long, and then we will enjoy
ourselves. Bat we find it just as Thackeray
has expressed it. "When / was boy"
he said, 81 wanted some taffy-it was
shillins-I hadn't one. When | was a man
| had a chilling but 1 didn't want any
tsfy." But | say not one word against
that splendid discomfort that all the time
makes a man strike for something better.
l liks this idea that every boy born in
America dreams of being President No
man has any right to be content not to do
his best, and not to do better TO morrow
than he is doing to. day. But all that will
come by keeping close to manly and duti.
full life. While we are going steadily along
to whatever future awaits us, the grandest
thing we can do is to feel sure that what
we are doing for days work, with all that
we do besides, is just the most blessed
thing, so far as we can 90, and that we are
very likely having the best time that can
ever come to our life that this work and
wife and home and children, all they are
and all they mean, beats the world. The
sadest thing in our life is our discomfort
when we ought to be most contented. It
ia our birthright to get the good of life as
we go along, in these simple and pure
thiDgs that to all true man and woman
hood are like rain and sunshine to an apple
tree. But when we will not believe this,
aad dream that the best of our life is to
come when we have made our fortune,
then we sell our birthright for a mess of
pottage; but worse than Essu, our pottage
gives us the dyspepsia, and then we lose
the good of birthright and pottsge to.
gether.- Robert Collyer.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-16
STAGE MAENERISM.

We know just about what they are 90
ing to do before they have walked through
their parts The actors will stalk about
with painfully long strides, sit down la
negro minstrel style, and when a lady
wishes to leave the room they will bow
deeply and open the door and kiss her
hand as she sails majestically through and
they will make love in high flown, tragic
manner that no gill in ordinary life would
tolerate and they will rave about their
hearts and their lives and their honor, and
roll their eyes and clutch their hair in u
way that ceases to be impressive when one
has seen it several hundred times. And
the actresses burst upon our dazzled vision
from the back part of the stage with an
air Of msidenly timidity or hoydenish vi.
vscisy, as the character may require, bend
one knee and give one, two, three dane
ing school courtsy in acknowledgment of
the applause, and commence in deep
voice which occasionally grows thin as the
play progresses. The blsckened eyes, the
Redeemed cheeks, the whitened chin, the
blonde wig-always the same, night after
night, play after play. The girl with the
homely arms is sure to have them bare to
the shoulder, and the one with the big feet
wears the shortest dresses. The gestures.
the poses, the love making, the comedy,
all nodded after the same pattern. and the
scene generally eliminates in faint.
Now when a woman fsints in real life peo-
pie generally rush up, grab her by various
parts of her anatomy, get her out into the
opsn air and dash bncketful of water into
her face but in the drama the female
faints gracefully away and ell the rest
strike attitudes around her, somebody
makes thrilling remark and the curtain
falis.-[Ida A. Harper.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-16
HUXLEY DEFINES Aasosr1crsm.

The editor Of London publication called
the AgnoStic annual recently addressed a
letter to several prominent men, PROFOUND
ing three questions First, whether, in
their opinion, agnosticism is in accord wish
modern science secondly, what is the
special relation of agnosticism to popular
theology; ard thirdly, whether, in the be.
lief of the person Intercepted, agAosticism
is destined 70 supplant religious super
naturaGsm. Professor Huxley, President
of the Royal Society OF London, the most
distinguished body of scientific men in
Great Britain, sends the following answer !:
Some twenty years ago, or there.
abouts, invented the word agnostic to de.
note the people who, like myself, confess
themselves to be hopelessly ignorant con-
corning variety of matters, about which
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and theologians, both
orthodox and heterodox, dOgmstize with
the utmost confidence and 1t has been
source of some amusement to me TO watch
tbs gradual acceptance of the term, and its
correlate, agnosticism Il think the Spectator
first adopted and populsrized BOTH, until
now sgnostics are assuming the position OF
a recognized sect, and agnosticism is hon.
ored by especial ob'oquy on the part of the
orthodox. Thus it will be seen that have
a sort of patent right in agnostic-it is my
de-mark-and l am entitled to cay that
can state automatically what was origin
ally meant By agnosticism. What other
people may understand by it by this time l
do not know. If general council of the
church agnostic were held, very likely |
should be condemned as q hereto. But
speak only for myself in endeavoring to an.
swer these questions.
81. Agnosticism is OF the essence of sci
ence, whether ancient or modern. It sim
ply means that man shall not say he
knows or believes that which he has nc
scientific grounds for protesting to know OF
believe.
go Consequently sgnosticisr puts aside
not only the greater part of popular theolo-
gy. but also the greater part OF popular
anti.theology. On the whole, the bosh of
heterodoxy is more offensive to me than
of orthodoxy, because heterodoxy pro.
fesses to be guided by reason and science
and orthodoxy does not.
as | have no doubt that scientific criti-
cism will prove destructive to the forms OF
experimentation which enter the constitu.
ton of existing religions. Ga trial of any
so-called miracle the verdict of science is,
MOI proven. Bat true agnosticism will not
forget that existence, motion, and law
abiding operation in nature are more stu
pendous miracles than any recounted by
the mythologies, and that there may be
things, not only in the heavens aud earth,
but beyond the Ineligible universe, which
are not dreamt of in our philosophy.
The theological gnosis would have US be-
lieve that the world is conjuror's house
the anti. theological gnosis talks as if it
were dirt pie, made by the two blind
children, Law and Force. Agnosticism
simply says that we know nothing of Whist
may be beyond phenomena"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-16

The LOST RIVERS OF IDAHO. One of the
most singular features in the scenery of
the Territory of Idaho is the occurrence of
dark, rocky chasms, into which large
streams and creeks suddenly disappear and
are never more seen. The assures are old
lava channels produced by the outside of
the molten mass cooling and forming a
tube, which, on the fiery stream becoming
exhausted, has been left empty, while the
roof of the lava duct, having at some point
fallen in, presents there the opening into
which the river plunges and is lost At
one place along the banks of the Snake
one of these rivers reappears, gushing from
a cleft high up in the basaltic walls, where
it leaps cataract into the torrent below.
Where this stream has its origin, or at
what point it ia swallowed up, is utterly
unknown, though it is believed that its
sources are a long way up in the north
country. Besides becoming the channels
Of living streams, these lava eonduits are
frequently found impacted with ice masses
which never entirely melt
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-16
HUhMISG BIRDS.

Sun-birds are only found in Africa and
India, including the Malay an region true
humming. birds, as everybody knows, are
entirely confined to the American cont.
nent. In other words, the same place in
nature which has been occupied in the
tropics of the old world by group Of
sparrow-like birds, has been occupied in
the tropics of the new world by group OF
highly developed swifts. Hence the hum
ming birds, though descended from to-
tally different ancestral stock, have in the
end acquired almost every one of the pecu.
liar features which the sun birds display in
our own eastern continental area. The
same conditions have in the end produced
in 18th cases pretty much the same results.
At the came period q group of tropical
American swifts began to hunt for insects
among the tubes and flowers exactly as the
ancestral sun-birds began to do in the east
ern hemisphere. Gradually, as the hab t
of hower-huntlng became more and more
pronounced, the organization of the birds
began to depart, under the influence of
natural selection, more and more widely
from the primitive swift-like type. The
birds best adapted to the new circum-
stances survived and intermarried, while
the worst adapted died constantly out.
The short, broad bill was thus slowly
heightened into the extremely long, slsn.
der and graceful beak of the modern hum
ming birds, and the wings were adapted to
the rapid, darting fight from flower to
flower, and the habit of posing stationary
in front of the chosen bunch of blossoms.
Yet to the end, the humming- birds in their
anatomical peculiarities still remain essen
italy swifts, and are easily distinguished
by naturalist from the externally similar
but fundamentally differ, n perching sun
birds. Indeed, Mr.. Wallace has shown
that humming. birds even now live, like the
swifts, mainly on insects, and when he
tried to feed some young humming birds
Ia captivity ON sugar and water alone, he
found they refused that unwonted fare in
favor of flies and spiders. In short, young
humming- birds are still essentially in the
swift stage of their development. Il English
Illustrated Magazine for February.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-16

RULE FOR RIDING In mounting, face
the near side of the horse. The near side
is the side nearest yourself. If you stand
on the right side of the horse, which is the
wrong side, when you mount you will face
the crupper. Then everybody will know
that Your name is Johann Gottlieb Ernsige-
folger. If you cannot mount from the
ground, lead the horse to some high fence,
climb upon the fence, say "whoa two or
three times, and jump over the horses
ears. You will light somewhere on his
neck and you will have plenty of time to
adjust yourself while the horse is running
away. ARCHER method of mounting,
largely practiced by young gentlemen from
the city, is to balance yourself on one foot
on the fence, and point the other leg at
the horse, in the general direction OF the
saddle, saying whoa all the time. TIE
horse, after the gesture has been repested
few times, backs away, pulls the alleged
rider off the fence, and walks up and down
the lane at a rapid gallop. This gives the
rider, in about ten minutes, all the exercise
he wants for week. Ii by some miracle
you manage to get into the saddle, hold on
with both hands and say whoa. The
faster the horse goes the tighter you must
hold On, and the longer you must "holler. -
II you are from New York or Philadel phia,
you will shorten your stirrups until your
knees are on level with your chin. Then
as you ride you will rise to your feet and
stand in the attitude of man peering over
fence to look for his dog, and then sud-
denly fall in the saddle like a man who has
stepped on a banana peel. This is the
English school. 1t is hard on the horse,
but it is considered very graceful. A man
cannot wear false teeth, however, and ride
in this manner.-[B Burlington Hawkeye.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-16

THE POSSIBILITIES OF CYCLING To the
animated Sir Charles Dilk's prophecy that
cycling will be " the future diversion for
all inhabitants of large towns is not, per-
haps, very cheering indeed, it may seem
only one shade better than Mr., Ruskin's
picture of English life in the next century,
when the prevailing form of exercise will
be to go from one big town to another I'M
foreground. But, whatever may be its fu-
ture, cycling certainly has already obtained
a recognized place among English institu-
tione. Its economic value is widely recog-
nized, and, while the French Government
is proposing to mount rural postmen on
tricycles, Mr. Whitley has already adopted
that method for distributing his goods.
Then the Queen, it appears, " has for some
time been tricyclist, and her children
and grandchildren are cyclists )" and the
last protsge of the British Crown-the
Khedive Tewfk-is, we may add, a tri-
cyclist also And, what is more, cycling
touches political interests at home, for it
has done a great deal in the way of explor-
ing the condition of rural roads, and it re-
CURED some control on Sir c. bikes part
last night not to run on from the condition
of rural roads to the condition of rural rep.
resentation.-[Pall Mall Gazette.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-16

MARBLE NESEEEING.-A writer in the
New York Record 0nS Gl,ide says he has
been shown Z number of highly polished
columns, mantel- pieces and Other articles
furnished with marble Feneering, which
except % the eye and touch of an expert,
appeared to be solid marble The patentees
claim that marble veneer IS fire. proof and
waterproof, that it will not break, crack.
peel or shrink. One piece OF wood was
shown covered with the veneer, which had
been ten days in water, and which was az.
psrently not affected by the immersion.
The veneer is applied to uneven as well as
even surfaces, and is used for columns,
pedestsls, balustsrs, holdings, tilings, ETC.,
which are given the appearance Of real
marble. a similar veneer is said to have
been used at Munich in 1880. and in aroom
OF one of the royal psiaces Of Bavaria, and
is at present TO be seen in well preserved
state. Marble veneer seems to b especi-
ally adapted to wainscoting it is made to
appear like shy kind of wood, and all colors
and almost any material can be initiated.
1t is applied to m e.al, stone, plaster, wood
and cement. The great point made by the
patentees, the Marble Veneer Company, is
its inexpensiyeness.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-16
BEASTS WITH GUNS.

once asked a guest of doubtful sporting
character whether he cared to shoot. ''Oh,
yes" ne replied with avidity. I'm
wretched bad shot, but I'm fond Of shoot.
ing" With heavy heart-for had not
the nerve to tell him what | ought TO have
told him at once-to stay at home-I took
the field with him, and l believe it was
some wears before that beat recovered the
desolation which he dealt around him.
There happened to be good many hares
on it, and he shot at all he saw, irrespec-
! tive of distance l never saw him kill one,
but he hit great many, as he himself with
| conscious pride informed me. | placed
this wretch at the end of covert, where,
| being myself with the heaters, l heard him
| blazing away freely, and when l came up
| to him l looked round the open held in
which he was standing, and seeing no sign
of the slain, turned an inquiring glance to-
ward him. "0h, yes :" he eagerly an
swered, tive killed a lot Of them. But
| it's very odd, they all went en- but they'll
/ find them in the next field. Look here
and here Fancy going on after that p he
cried, as he gathered up a handful of fur
from the grass and held it up in triumph.
l said nothing, but silence is eloquent
| sometimes l was overwhelmed with
horror. For myself, if l wound hare
and do not recover it, l am
wretched all that day. And here he
was, calm and even exulsaut, either
unaware of the hideous cruelty he
had been committing, or else utterly cal,
lous to the sufferings he had inflicted. Ii
was revolving. This monster, sgainst
whose name in the gsme-book l put the
blacklist of marks, was otherwise kindly.
disposed and apparently civilized being,
sane and reasonable in behavior except out
shooting, where he never ought to be al
lowed to go, and where, maintain, no one
should be allowed to 90 until he has passed
an examination-not competitive, but
which should exclude all who fail to reacf
a certain standard, or until he can hit ;
mechanical rabbit or running hare " IL
the head and shoulders, instead of the tai
and hind legs. The "plssterer is ont
who prides himself on quick shooting, anC
in cutting down the birds before they ge
we'll on the wing-s valuable accomplish
ment when walking after wild partridge
in the open, bat most Objectionable when
applied to the pheasant, whether in or out
side the covert. The piasterer, who's
plastering often arises from jealousy, vii
plaster. e., blow the pheasant into
pulp-the moment he rises above the tree;
of low larch plantation when walking in
line with the beater, rather than let thu
forward guns, for whose safety he shows
small regard, have the fine "rocketer
which the same pheasant would have be
come by the time he reached them had hi
life been then spared.-[The Nineteenth
Century.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-16

CAMPHoR MAKTNG.-Campor is made in
Japan in this way After tree is felled to
the earth it is cut up into chips, which are
laid in tub on large iron pot partially
filed with water and placed over slow
fire. Through holes in the bottom of the
tub steam slowly rises, and, heating the
chips, generates oil and camphor. OF
course, the tub with the chips has close
fitting cover. From this cover a bamboo
pipe leads to succession of other tubs
with bamboo connections, and the last OF
these tuos is divided into two oompart-
ments, one above the other, the dividing
floor being perforated with small holes to
allow the water AMI oil to pass to the
lower compartment. The upper compart-
ment is supplied with straw layer which
catches and holds the camphor in crystal
deposit as it passes to the cooling process.
The camphor is then separated from the
straw, packed in wooden tubs and is ready
for the market The oil is used by the
natives for Illuminating and other pur-
poses,
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-16

RUssIA-The Rev. DR.. John Hall, who
travelled in Russia last summer, has this to
say One of the first lessons that learned
in Russia was humility. confess to be
guilty of boasting of the magnitude of the
nited States, but when we think of the
extent of Russia we have to drop our
bossting and become moderate. From east
to west Russia is 6,000 miles across, and
from north to south 5000 miles, or, in
round numbers, Russia has double the ex-
tent O. territory possessed by the United
States In the matter of lnoccupied land,
too, Russia is our superior. In some parts
the population ia only tive persons to the
square mile. It is easy to see, therefore,
the enorR Gus facilities Rasais hiss for pro-
Apcing cereals, and you can imagine the
aighty power in the public policies of the
Harld possessed by this people.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-16

PEOPLE VINO MAKE BUTToNs Accord
ing to recently published statistics there is
a village situated near Paris where from
5000 to 5000 people are employed in max
ing agate buttons alone, surprising num-
Der when it is considered that in the year
1851 there were only 6. 93S button makers,
all told, in England, of whom 4, $50 worked
in one town. Pearl buttons came princi-
pslly from Vienna, and shirt buttons from
Birmingham, while those made from glass
are produced in Bohemia. America manu-
features goods OF this designation valued
atfrom IS. 900, 900 to SIC, 000. cooper annum
bat not at such cheap rate as Germany,
which runs France very close with novel
ties. In Bohemia, it is said, the men en-
gagged in the glass button industry earn
from Is. 81. to 2s. Id; the women from
l5d. to 20i., and the children sd. a day OF
our money. American wages are very
much higher, and consequently many OF
the kinds imported from Europe could not
be made in the United States. Il London
Telegraph.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-16

CLIMBING THE HINALAYAS. bOldt,
in 1902, succeeded in climbing to a hight
Of 10 500 feet, On Climb wearing
out his companions, and persisting in
climbing through the snow till the rarity
of the air caused even his Bolivian guide
to fall from his mule, and the blood to
start from ears, and nose, and eyes but
no human being has ever reached the sum.
NIT of that grand Andean peak, though
Boussingault, Frenchman, in 1881, sue
ceeded in getting 300 or 400 feet higher
than Humboldt had been. Now comes the
story OF party of English tourists, who,
with Al pine guides, have gone on an expe.
dition to the Himalayas-the Hottest
mountains on the globe and they
claim to have attained an elevation
among the mountains on the north
ern frontiers of British India,
Of $4,000 feet. This exploit-the highest
human beings-is said to have been per-
formed on a peak called Kabru, from
which the explorers could see the vast
sweep OF Mount Everest, the worlds high
est elevation, at distance of sixty miles,
in the independent province of Nepaul-a
country into which no European is permit
ted ID enter. Other mountains in the cen.
trail range were seen from Mount Kabru
that were almost as high as Gorisanker, or
Mount Everest, as it is now called. Three
of the chief peaks are declared to exceed
SO, 600 feet. or nearly six miles above the
sea level. It is world of stupendous
mountains. Forty majestic peaks were in
view that rise to elevations of %, 600 to
80, coo feet. This latter elevation is twice
as great as that OF Mount Blanc.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-16

MaRAt TE4NNG.-In a recent lecture
before the FFoebel Association at Cleve-
land. o., +. ". Parker, speaking upon
d" Moral Training" said Love of the
search for truth is great moral power.
The child should be early led to GnG and
prizs truth. The child's own habit Of in
vestigation is one Of the highest means for
moral trsiGlng Train The will of the
child. Work is the persistence OF will.
The persistence Of wiz in the right direc.
tion is the al of education. There is a
government that deprives the child of any
action of its own will The order that
does not seek the organic growth of the
will from the start is immoral in the high
est degree. The one thing to save the
country ia the education OF the little child,
fer Of such is the kingdom of heaven.