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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-08-08
Blood Drinking.
Half a pint of blood, please.

"Half pint of blood, please"
''Come this way"
The butcher led the way into the back
of the store into a temporary shambles
where a COW had just been knocked down
and was having her throat scientifically
cut
In few moments the small white
pitcher was returned to the girl full Of
smoking red liquid.
GLOW is NJ this morning2"
che is better, and he says it's the blood
is helping him."
The girl went out with her pitcher of
blood and the butcher picked up an
ordinary glass, stepped back in the shsm-
bles and returned with it half filled with
the liquid which was of the consistence
of thick cream.
"There are dozens of men and women
in Detroit who drink blood. We used
TO serve great many customers with 1t.
Now we have only one"
"What do you charge for it2"
Nothing. We never sold spoonful.
Any one is welcome to come here and
drink it. We let the girl come here with
a pitcher because the old man for whom
she gets it is dying and he won't take
any other nourishment; taste it,"
mo, thanks"
at is like rich warm milk; there is
no taste or smell to it."
Thus encouraged the representative of
the Free Press took up the tumbler and
swallowed mouthful of the fluid it con-
tanned. 1t had a sweet, milkish, sickish
taste, half OF Which was imagination, and
the other half b-l-o-o-di
"The doctors advise it in some cases."
said the Jefferson Avenue butcher, "but
with most folks who come here it is
tradition. They take it because some
other member Of the family took it."
"Do healthy people ever take blood in
this way2'
YES, occasionally; just as they would
take a stimulant of any kind Drinking
blood won't make fighter of a man. 1t
isn't men that drink it as much as deli
cate, consumptive women. We drink it
round the shop when we feel like it. A
pint of blood is equal to a good lunch
any time - )Sty1it Eree Press
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-08-08
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WISE WORDS.

Youthful rashness skips like hare
over the meshes of good counsel.
Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than
labor wears, while the key often used is
always bright.
Women jump at conclusions, and gen
ally hit; men reason things out logically,
and generally miss.
He is poverty stricken who is so alb
sorbed in the one little Enclosure of which
he holds the title deeds that he loses his
grasp on the bending universe.
Calumny crosses oceans, scales noun
tains and traverses deserts with greater
case than the Scythian Abaris, and, like
him, rides upon poisoned arrow.
Courage that grows from constitution
often forsakcs the man when he has &C.
casion for it; courage which arises from
a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.
He that gives good advice builds with
one hand; he that gives good counsel and
example, builds with both; but he that
gives good admonition and bad example,
builds with one hand pulls down with
the other.
Intercession is the very safety valve of
love. When we feel that we can really
do nothing at all in return for some re-
markable kindness and affection, how ex-
ceedingly glad we are that we may and
can pray.
The detractor may, and often does, pull
down others, but he never, as he seems
to suppose, elevates himself to their posi-
ton. The most he can do is maliciously
to tear from them the blessings which he
cannot enjoy himself.
All trust is dangerous, if it is not en-
tire; we ought on most occasions to speak
all or conceal all. We have already too
much disclosed our secrets to a man from
whom we think any one single circum-
stance is to be concealed.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-08-08
Victims of Choral.

"Ten grains in mine, please!" The
speaker was a lady, well dressed and
attractive, who had just ordered glass
of soda water in a Broadway drug store.
The clerk took q salt spoonful of white
crystals from wide -mouthed bottle and
placed it in the glass. 1t dissolved i'm
mediately. The customer drank the So
luton, paid fifteen cents, and departed.
chats chloral flend," said the clerk,
''and one of our regulars. She takes
that dose three times day. and has been
doing it for three or four years. She has
can ever break it,"
care there many like herr"
'There must be large number in the
great cities. We have ten chloral fiends
who openly acknowledge the habit, and
about twenty more who claim they take
it incidentally, and not for the pleasure
1t gives. Multiply this by the number of
drug stores, and allowing for the differ
ence in business done, and you can't have
less than $500 in this city. When chlor-
al was first introduced, l think it was
about 1868, it became quite popular. 1t
was put up in patent medicine shape,
favored and sweetened, and sold very
well. There was chloral nepenthe and
chloral soother, and a dozen other nos
trums. But they have all been driven
out of the market"
"What was the reason of it2"
"Well, first it was too expensive, and,
second and chiefly, choral in solution is
rapidly affected by light, and decomposes
Into chloroform and other compounds.
In several instances this decomposed
choral acted as poison. Now it is used
only in its plain form. Some take it in
soda, Others by the dose, and others
again buy it by the ounce and measure
out their own quantities 1t must be
very largely used, and it is now imported
and manufactured, not by the pound
but by the hundred weight, and even by
the ton. The habit is very bad. The
doctors have begun to recognize it, and
call it 'chloralism.' A person takes a
small dose, and feels pleasant sensation
of ease and quiet, something like the
effect of opium and hasheesh. At night
it induces deep and heavy sleep. After
a time the dose fails to produce the de-
sired effect, and has to be increased.
Finally limit is reached. The con-
sumner gets the relief wanted, but terri
BILE penalty. In the morning the tongue
and mouth are coated, the pupils of the
eyes are dilated and painfully sensitive
to light, and all the nerves shattered like
those of an absinthe drinker. The appe-
tite is impaired, and all the secretions of
the body greatly affected. In the night
he has horrible dreams, and, believe,
sometimes pains through the whole body.
When a chloral user becomes what we
call fiend his existence alternates be-
tween half-pleasant lethargy and in
tense misery. The oddest thing about it
is that a large majority of the 'fiends'
are women.
"What's the dose2 They start at five
grains and run up. The highest ever
knew was a hundred grains day.
Nm York SIM
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-08-08
The Metal Nickel.

The metal nickel has been made ia
miliar to nearly every one by its extensive
use in plating metallic surfaces in which
1t has largely replaced the more ex-
pensive and less durable silver. In its
pure metallic form it is not very well
known, probably not so we'll as it will
be, and there are even those who claim
that it is the coming metal for uses to
which it is much better adapted than
the more expensive silver and the more
easily oxidizable iron and steel. 1t is
safe to say that its importance in the arts
is now very generally recognized, and
that its uses are destined to be vastly
multiplied. 1t is not many years since
nickel was first separated from its i'm
purities in commercial quantities and
utilized in its pure state without alloy or
contamination by sulphur, arsenic or
other elements with which it is univer.
sally combined in its natural state. As
to its geographical distribution, it may
be said that it is found in many local.
ties, and in various parts of the world;
but only in a few places has it been
found in sufficient quantities and of
sufficient richness to be worked with
commercial success. The recent discov-
cries in New Caledonia IAN island living
east OF and near Australia,) have given
such Importance and commercial cheap
ness to the metal as to bring it into eco
nomical uses heretofore unknown. This
locality Is at present the main source of
supply to the world. The only place in
the United States where it has been extern
sively mined is at Lancaster Gap, Pa.
g 10 l. 6
Wharton of Philadelphia. He Is now
the only producer of metallic nickel
IN the United States. The ore from this
mine contains in bulk from one and a
half to two per cent. of nickel. 1t is worked
into a commercial state at Mr.. Wharton's
extensive works at Camden, n. j. The
important deposits of nickel recently
found in Nevada are now attracting at
tention. These deposits are said to be
rich in oxides of nickel and cobalt. The
grade of this ore is claimed to be as high
as sixteen per cent, nickel. or nickel and
cobalt. Nickel is now worked so as to
be dnctie and malleable. This is to be
viewed as new material, a new Gift to
the industrial arts, with an unknown
number of applications before it. Its
most extensive use at present in the arts
of plating, and in the production OF Ger
man silver. For coinage there has been
large demand, which is no doubt des-
tined to be greatly increased as its advan-
tages and economy are better understood
In the last twenty years it has varied in
price from 81 to ST per pound. The
price in England in 1888 was quoted lin
a memorial to Congress) at seventy cents
per pound. In the form of anodes for pla-
ting, etc, it commands a much higher
price. From 1876 to 1882 the price was
on the average upward of 81. 4Oper pound
for large contracts. The production
from the Gap mine to 1888 is estimated
at about 1000, 600 pounds. If the mines
IN Nevada turn out as expected the i'm
portation of nickel to this country will
not be necessary.-BoSton Herald
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-08-08
A Badger Batting.

An amusing incident in the unwritten
history of Abraham Lincoln is told by
the Hon. Ward II. Lamon of this city,
says the Denver Tribune.
While the gentlemen were law partners
in Illinois, and before Lincoln was thought
of for President of the United States, they
happened to visit an agricultural fair in
an inland town of Tennessee. Lincoln
was in high spirits and seemed bent on
fun. While casting about for such
amusement as the exhibition afforded
Lincoln discovered an attraction in the
shape of turned down flour barrel con-
tanning badger.
"Fifty dollars for dog that will haul
the badger out Of the barrel" shouted
the red-faced man who owned the outfit.
"Fifty dollars say, to the dog that
can haul out the badger"
There were few takers of the badger
mans offer, but the luckless dog
who invested twenty-five cents in the ex-
pertinent invariably lost in the specula-
ton, for the badgers teeth were sharp,
and every dog that entered its strong
hold came out in iiffy, while the Zero
cious animal inside held the fort and
grinned all over.
Mr.. Lincoln hit upon happy thought.
Taking Ward to one side they found a
lank countryman with a still tanker mas
tiff.
"Want to make $50 with that dog2"
asked Lincoln.
"Course l do" replied the country
man.
The dog was bartered for, and as Lin
coin approached the badger man, elbow
ing his way through the crowd, he said:
on invest quarter in your game,
sir"
"The badger operator looked at Lin
coins hungry dog and smiled as he took
the silver quarter. Lincoln caught the
dog and led it up to the barrel. Hastily
grabbing the mastiff, he threw it into
the opening h;ndqusrters first. There
was pause only of second, and then
followed lively scrape inside the barrel.
"Hold on, there, cried the manager.
'Fair play" =
But he was to late with the remon-
STRANGE. Out sprang the badly fright
ened dog with the badger sticking to
his headquarters. The crowd parted,
and away went the dog and badger into
the inner field of the race track. The
badger stuck like brother, teams ran
away, women tainted, and the crowd
roared. Lincoln fairly went into spasms
of mirth, the fun was so enjoyable. The
countryman owning the dog was para.
lyzed, as was the badger owner, who set
up a great howl and was mad enough to
fight.
produce your fifty dollars" said
Lincoln to the badger-keeper.
Foul play, foul play" cried the cha
grined gamester, "and I'll never pay
it,"
Here is where Lamon came in service
able. Catching the badgers friend by
the neck, he cried:
"Give up the fifty dollars or I'll wal
lup you"
Lannon's herculean proportions were
too argumentary to be tritled with, and
the money was handed to Mr. Lincoln,
who in turn gave it to the country
man.
The dog was we'll paid for, and the
badger business closed up for the want
of badger.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-08-08
Advertising Cheatsiii

ut has become so common to begin an arti-
de in an elegant, interesting style
Then run it into some advertisement that
we avoid all such,
"And simply call attention TO the merits OF
Hop Bhters in as plain, honest terms as pos
sble,
ITO induce people
ITO give them one trial, which so proves
their value that they will never use anything
elsen
'THE REMEDY 50 favorably noticed in all
the papers,
Religious and secular, is
Having large sale, and is supplanting all
other incidence
There is no denying the virtues of the Hop
plant, and the proprietors of Hop Bitters have
shown great shrewdness and ability . . +
"In compromising medicine whose virtues
are SO palpable to every ones observation"
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-08-08
The Old Red School House yaledictory.

The old time vaIedictOry poem in use
at the old red "skule houses" at the
cross roads was not as pretty as the lat
ter day efforts of the graduates of city
colleges and seminaries, but perhaps it
expressed the sentiments of the vale
dictorians quite as closely. 1t used to
run something after this style.
Good-by scholars,
Good-by school,
Good-by teacher-
Blamed old fool
-BU6dlO Express.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-08-08
Dissemination of News Forty Years
Ago.

As late as 1874 there was but one
line of telegraph in the world that from
Washington City to Baltimore and one
OF the first messages transmitted was the
nominating national convention which
met in the latter city on the 9th of
May, 1914, after selecting James X.
Polk, of Tennessee, as the candidate for
Presidents nominated Silas Wright, Of
New York, for Vice President A tele-
graphic dispatch was sent to Mr..
Wright at Washington City, and in a
short time an answer was received de-
clining, and it was regarded as the
worlds wonder. This made the telegraph
q success. 1t is true that in Baltimore
at the time many doubted after the re-
ception of the telegram whether it was
In truth genuine. They could not be
lieve in the power of electricity to per
form so great a wonder. One old gen
tleman from New York, who had lived
q neighbor to Silas Wright, said he
knew it to be a forgery for he had seen
the signature of Silas Wright a hun
bred times and he had seen him write
it, and 1.-The thing is no more like
Wright's hand write than it is like my
own" But still, with this evidence
against its being genuine, the telegram
was regarded as genuine, and George NJ.
Dallas, of Pennsylvania, was nominated
IN place of Wright, and ''Polk and Dal-
las" were elected Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-08-08
A Sevcn.Year.OId Cologne TippIer.

A Paris physician got into a great
scrape lately by declaring that young
lady of seven, and belonging to family
of responsibility, drank, Another doc
tor was promptly summoned and said
the same thing The parents were in
despair and incredulity. They said that
their daughter actually disliked wine.
" Watch her carefully" said doctor No.
?, and few days later mamma caught
the victim of the mysterious malady at
the eau de cologne bottle. -LOadOn Vani-
Tn Fd{r
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-08-08
A Daughters Misery.

eleven years our daughter suffered on a
bed Of misery,
"From a complication of kidney, liver rheu-
matte trouble and Nervous debility,
Under the care of the best physicians,
"Who gave her disease various names,
"But no relief
"And now she is restored to us in good
health by as simple a remedy as Hop Bitters,
that we had summed for years before using it"
The PARENTS.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-08-08
Father is Getting Well.

"My daughters say:
Chow much better father is since he used
Hop Bitters"
"He is getting well after his long suffering
from disease declared incurabler
"And we are 50 glad that be used your Bit
rs."-A LADY of Utica, n. Y.
- None genuine without bunch of green
Hops ON the white label. Shun all the vile,
poisonous stuff with Hop" or Hops" in
their name
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-08-08

The men employed in cleaning and
sorting vanilla suffer from a singular skin
disease, which has lately been found to
be caused by Il minute white insect which
lives in the bean.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-08-08
Did She Die!
Moi

"She fingered and suffered long, pining
away all the time for years.
THE doctors doing her no good"
"And at last was cured by this Hop Bitters
the papers say so much about"
"fndeedl 1ndeedln
Glow thankful we should be for that medi-
ri
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-08-08
Not What She Expected.

Teacher-What letter CONES next after
III
Little girl don't know.
Teacher-What have got or each side
of my noseI
Little girl with conviction)-Powder
-PrOgreSS.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-08-08

The tributaries of Chesapeake bay
alone contribute 800, 600 worth of meat
to the frog market every year. They
are worth about fifty cents dozen, and
men make good wages hunting them
with shotguns. Sportsmen also seek for
them occasionally, using small rifles.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-08-08
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A CURE FOR GRAVEL.

Common and Painful Compiaint-A State,
mcnt You May Confde In
1t seems to have been reserved for DR.. David
Kennedy, of Rondout, N Y.,to accomplish. throug,
his preparation widely known as KENNEDY's
FAVORITE REMEDY, what others hav,
failed to compass. The subjoned letter will b,
found OF yta Interest to sufferers from gravel and
to the general public:
.~,-'. ALBANY, March 20, 1854
DR.. D. Kennedy, Rondout, ~ Y:
DEAR SIR: Let me tell you frankly that HAYS
never been partial to proprietary medicines, as
believe the majority OF them to be nothing better
than methods OF obtaining money from peop,e
whom suffering makes ready to catch at an hone
Of relief. They mean cheats and deusions
But your FAVORiTE REMEDY know
by happy experience to be totally different thing
had been sufferer from gravel for years and had
tesorted to many eminent physicians for relief bu,
no permanent good came of About three year.
ago yonr FAvORiTE REMEDY WAS recon.
menueu 10 me. can give on the Ii in d sen.
tence; tried it and it cured me mpletely. ar
confident I save my life You can use this lettel
II you think best.
Yours, ETC., NATHAN ACKLEY.
Captain Nathan Ackley was for long time con.
nected wi the Canal Appraisers office in Albany
lie Is well known and writes for no purpose but Il
do good to others.
As a medicine for all diseases Of the blood liver
sidneys and digestive organs, .kENNEDY'S
EAVORlTE REMEDY has fairly won IL
high reputation. Write, IL desirable, to DR. Dayio
kennedy, Rondout, n. i.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-08-08

London has 10000 acres of forest
parks, New York, 1854. Nine new
parks are to be laid out in Gotham.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-08-08

Bananas are forty four times more pro-
ductive than potatoes, and one hundred
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-08-08

About 40, 900, 900 pennies were coined
in the United States last year.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-08-08

Every Farmer and Horseman
should own a book descriptive
of the Horse, and the Diseases
to which the noble animal is
liable, that sickness may be rec
ognized in its incipiency and
relief promptly afforded, Our
book should be in the hands of
every Horse owner, as the knowl-
edge it contains may be worth
hundreds of dollars at any mo.
ment. If you want to know all
about your Horse, how to Tell
his Age, how to shoe him, etc,
send pc, in stamps and receive
the book, postpaid, from
NEW Y0aK A3AIE E2lK GG&2a!'
1874 Leonarl 81. K. Y. CITY
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-04-29
TIE TRANSFER or CUBA.
4 Report that Negotiations Are Pending for
the Sale of the Island.

By telegraph 10 the Dspatch.I
WASHINGTON, April 2S.-A report pub
lished in New York this morning that ne
gotations are pending between the Gov
ernments Of SPAN and Mexico looking to
the transfer by the former to the latter OF
tbe island OF Cuba. contingent upon the
agreement OF the Cubans expressed by a
pebiscite to transfer, and upon obtaining
from the United States guarantee
OF payment by Mexico Of the purchase
money, is discredited at the Spanish
and Mexican legations in this city. senior
Valera, the Spanish Minister, said tonight
To an AssocIated-Press reporter that the
story was unreasonable and absurd.
Snain. he said, would never consent TO part
with Cuba unless that island was wreSted
from her by force. National pride would
not hermit her to give it up Otherwise,
even should there be a revolution in Spain,
which would result in the overthrow OF
the present Government and the substltu-
ton OF the most radical system OF govern
ment in ITS stead. Even should Spain be-
come a republic, it would not, he thought,
consent to give up Cuba. He said he had re-
ceived advices from Madrid to-day in refer
ence to various matters among Others, to
Cuban affairs, but nothing indicating any
such intention on the part Of the Spanish
Government as that with which this report
credited IL.
Senior Romero, the Mexican Minister,
thought the report highly impr bable.
He said he did not think national pride
would permit Spain to sell Cuba, and he
had had no intimation from his Govern
ment that they wanted to buy it. He said
he had never heard ANYTHING about selling
Cuba except that at one time some years
ago It was said that negotiations were
pending for its sale TO the United States.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-04-29
Chicago Markets.
ipv telegranh In the Di.notch,

by ltltSIdph W DlspdbNi'J
CHICAGO, April 2S.-TTading on Change
to-day was marked by extreme nervous
ness. and prices fiuctuated wildly. Interest
centered in wheat and corn, the former
displaying great strength at the opening
and during the middle Of the session, but
closing t@Ic. lower as compared with the
high prices at the close on Saturday. One
result of the days trading was to wipe out
the difference between the prices for June
and July options. The market opened
IGlc. higher, then declined 1@ltc., raj
lied 1iGllc. under active buying. but
owing to heavy offerings again declined
2I(92ic. from outside prices, and closed
&c. lower for June and ic. lower
for July than on Saturday. June
sold IN to Ole. and down to 9iic.,
and closed at 95Ic.; July rose TO 97ic., de-
clined to 95c.. and closed at 95tc. On call,
sales reached $685. bushels. May closed
NJ s3Sc., June at 95Sc., and July at oslo,
or 95tc. under June. Speculative trading
in corn was very active, but the feeling
was greatly unsettled, prices being subject
TO frequent fluctuations. The market
opened shade higher, declined 4@lc.,
rallied 1lc., quickly declined 2@24e. below
extreme outside prices, rallied iGtc., and
closed &c. under Saturday. May ragged