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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-31

NJ. Arago, Dr. Cholet and NJ Victor
Mcunier are responsible for the following
extraordinary account of an electric girl
The girl, a peasant of thirteen, called
Angclique Coffin was, NJ. Meuner tells
us in his weekly scientific article, work
ing in factory, when a small table next
to her was violently upset without os-
tensible cause. subsequently, in the
presence of NJ. Meunicr, she sat on
chair held by several people, when the
chair was hurled from their hands. This
was tried more than once with like re.
suits, the chair being in one case broken
when its holders were strong enough not
to let it go. When isolation from the
ground was produced by glass, none of
these effects occurred. The only dis
comfort which the girl ever feels is a
pain in the hollow of the elbow. Before
commission of engineers none of these
experiments succeeded, but it is alleged
in explanation that the electric proper
ties of her system have through repeated
discharges lost their force and finally be-
come exhausted. Pail Mall Gazette.
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Household Hints and Rcripru.

Oatmacl waters are rclished by babies
and older children, too. Take pint of
oatmeal and Il pint of water, with almost
a teaspoonful Of salt Mix, and spread
on buttered pans. Make it Just as thin as
it is possible, and yet have the bottom of
the pan covered. Bake slowly.
Plates should always be sent to the
table warm for dinner The best method
is to dip them i'll boiling hot water and
let them remain for few moments. Dry
quickly, pile and set on the table. Tea
cups should always be dipped in hot
hot water before pouring in the tea.
Rice cake is made of one pound of
ground rice, one pound of sugar, half a
pound of butter and eight eggs; salt and
tlavoring to suit taste. Beat the eggs,
rub the butter and sugar together till like
cream, then add the eggs, and, last OF
all, stir the rice flour in little at a time.
Bake in sponge cake tins.
To polish wood floors of black walnut
and ASH Moistcn a soft flannel cloth
with kerosene oil, rub the wood with it
and then with very soft, clean and dry
flannel. If this work is trusted wholly
to a maid it will very likely not be a sue
cess, for too much oil will be used and
that is far worse than to use no oil at all.
A good recipe for tomato soup is as
follows: To one pint of canned toma-
toes, or four large ones cut up fine, add
one quart of boiling water and let them
boil till done; then add nearly teaspoon,
full of soda; when it foams up add one
pint of sweet milk, pepper and butter OF
one cup of sweet cream instead of butter
a few crackers rolled fine, and serve
/ Never throw away cold potatoes
There are many nice ways of preparing
them. Here is one which bears the
somewhat high sounding title of pota-
toes au maitre d'hotel. Cut cold boiled
potatoes into quarter inch slices, and put
into a saucepan with four or five table
spoonfuls of milk, two of butter, some
pepper and salt and chopped parsley
Heat quickly, stirring all the time unit
ready to boil, when you may stir in The
Juice of half a lemon. Serve very hot
1t is the lemon that gives it its name
without that it would be sin ply "steweC
potato" 1t is not to be treated with dis
dain under its less pretentious title.
To whiten flannel, made yellow by age
dissolve one and a half pounds of whit,
soap in fifty pounds of soft water, anC
also two thirds of an ounce of spirits o
ammonia. Immerse the flannel, stir wei
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-31

around for short time, and wash in pure
water. When black or navy blue linens
are washed, soap should not be used.
Take instead two potatoes grated into
tepid soft wator(after having them washed
and peeed), into which teaspoonful of
ammonia has been put. Wash the linen
with this, and rinse them in cold blue
water. They will need no starch, and
should be dried and ironed on the wrong
side. An infusion of hay will keep the
natural color in buff linens, and an in
fusion of bran will do the same for brown
linens and prints.
To free canaries and other cage birds
from the insects that infest them the
following method is recommended by
one who has successfully practiced it for
years; every night just at dusk the cage
or aviary is covered over with white
cloth. During the night the parasites
will crawl off from the birds on to the
cloth, where they may be seen running
about when the cloth is removed at day
break. The insects may be killed by
putting the cloth into boiling wafer. A
repetition of the process will soon clear
away the pests without injuring the
birds. Insect powders will no doubt
kill parasites, but the birds as we'll
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-31

This powder never varies. marvel OF
purity, strength and wholesomeness. More
economical than the ordinary kinds, and
cannot be sold in competition with the null
titude of low test, short weight, alum or
phosl h tie powders. Sold only in cans.
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., JOG Wall
street. New York.
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The Stunid Camel.

The camel appears to be so completely
unintelligent and withal so pervcrse in
its dullness, that in the East the word
'camelishness' is a synonym for thick
headed obstinacy. To contend success
fully against this prodigious, persistent
and invariable stupidity constitutes,
therefore, the whole art of camel riding
That it calls for no special ability
on the part of the rider is obvious,
but nevertheless the beast often succeeds,
simply by the cumulative influence of its
eXasperating want of sense, in breaking
down both temper and patience. The
British soldier in Afghanistan was COM
plctely beaten by it. lie had never en-
countcrcd such stupidity before and
failed to grasp it. Whatever he did to
it, the camel roarcd at him. Whatever
he tried to make it do it refused. If he
stopped pulling at its nose string for an
instant the animal stopped ut once. If
he left it for minute the brute wan
dercd slowly away in the very direction
in which it could get into most mischief.
The aimlcssness OF his conduct utterly
baffled Thomas Atkins. He succumbed,
collapsed, went down before such incon-
ccivable obtuseness and perversity. 1t
was one of the commonest sights of the
march to come across soldier standing
with countenance of utter despair by
the side of loaded dromedary, gazing
up at the supcrcilious brute with an eX-
preston of the most comical help
lessncss. He had exhausted every
device he could invent to make the beast
understand what it ought to do, but all
ho IL.
staggered and dumbfounded by such "a
miracle of stupidity. lie was too far
gone in hopeless bcwilderment even to
use strong language. His vocabulary
had been used up over and over again
There was nothing within miles to beat
it with. He could not reach up to its
body with his foot to kick it. Pummcling
it with his fist had no apprecable effect
upon the beast; he might as well have
thumped the ground. His helmet was
battered out of shape with repeated
hurlings of it at the passive monster. SO
he was at his wits ends, and his dis
comtiture was as obvious as it was
ludicrous. He looked as if he were 90
ing out of his senses or would like to sit
down, as women say, land have a good
cry" As for the camel, it paid no more
attention to the puzzled soldier than if he
had been one Of the thirty nine articles. 1t
stood there, exactly where it had stopped,
gazing into space with look of
silly loftiness, as if it saw the north pole
in the distance, and with complaccncy
that would not have been inappropriate
if it were beholdmg a vision of angels.
That it was falling short of its duties had
obviously no interest for the idiotic
quadruped. Itnevcr so much as winked,
hut simply stood in its tracks with its
head high up in the air as if awaiting a
revelation. There was, therefore, moth
ing to be done except to wait till other
camels came along, and then to tie its
nose to the tail of the last "ship" in the
line. The sight Of the hind legs of the
animal in front of it moving, and the
tension of the string in its own nostrils,
were the only hints it could understand
-L0Hd0h Standard.
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Rye straw for tying grapevines is
cheaper and better than cord or wire {;
also for tying trees to stakes. 1t is best
cut before quite ripe.
The light Brahma fowls have stood the
tests of experiment longer than any of
our pure breeds, combining more good
qualities than any other.
The New York Tribune SAYS that a
grower who raises cabbages efrectually
prevented the depredations of the cab
bagc-wom by killing all the white but
tertlies that appeared in the field.
In packing bees for winter see that
there is an abundance of ventilation, not
only through the combs, so that the bees
can at any time during the winter have
access to their supplies. but at the bot
tom of the hives so that they can have
plenty of fresh air.
AT this season Of the year, as the ma
nurc heaps are accommodating, there will
be frequent cases of fire fanging.n This
may be obviatcd by frequently turning
the heap, by judicious use of absorbents,
or by drawing the manure and spread
ing it on the FIELD.
No grain gives better returns for the
number of pounds than oats as feed for
young pigs. Oats will also fatten pork,
but not so rapidly as corn, nor will they
make so large a proportion of lard and
fat meat. Their chief advantage is in
furnishing more bulk in the feed.
Where stubble is left long, and has not
been beaten down by pasturing, it affords
a very considerable protection to young
clover 1t prevents the snow from being
blown of by winter winds, and is thus
probably worth more to the farmer than
an equal amount of straw in his stacks OF
barnyard.
Don't make perches for fowls too high
nor on an inclined plane. If low down,
they will be Just as well satisfied and be
less liable to injury from flying or fall
ing down. No matter how high the
perch is, fowls will not be safe from
thieves unless the hen house is locked
every night.
If beans are quite dry when pulled Of
gathered, the best way is to thresh i'm
mediately, leaving them in the chaiI, and
that spread thlnly on the barn floor til
well cured. If they are put in mows o
stacks, some moisture will gather, anC
more of the beans will be discolored anC
unstable.
The fall is much the best time for toI
dressing orchards, especially of the pear
If applied in the fall it secures a healthy
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-31
After Nineteen Years.

Nineteen years ago female infant was
left with an old Irishwoman in Boston
by its young parents, who boarded with
her, supposedly under an assumed name.
The only clew to them was handker-
chief bearing initials, which was with
the child's effects. The little one grew
up in ignorance of its father or mother,
cared for by the old woman and her fam
lily. After a lapse OF years, a peculiar
growth appeared on the lid of one of the
child's eyes.
She was taken to an occulist, who re-
marked upon the singularity of the case,
and said he had operated only upon one
other similar case in the course of his
practice, and that was upon the eye of a
wealthy lady in a city near Boston, Here
was the long.hidden clcw to the child's
identity. The person who took the lit
tie girl to the occulist reported what the
doctor had said. An attorney was called
in, and it was, in the process of a
long investigation, developed that the
name upon the handkerchief was the
name of the manufacturer wife aud the
girls mother.
The girl was, several months ago, CON
fronted with her father and mother. A
settlement by the payment of several
thousand dollars for back board and an
annuity of 81, 800 for the daughter, now
young lady, was effected it is said.
When the child was abandoned the hus-
band of the lady was Il poor bookkeeper
1t was feared it is said. that the birth of
the baby would anger relative of the
mother who was possessed of means, and
so the child was given up. To-day the
bookkceper is wealthy manufacturer.
He has family who have grown up in
entire ignorance of their eldest sister.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-31
SELECT SETTINGS.

At Pernambuco a snake of the boa va
riety is used to drive rats from houses.
Envelopes are now made and sold for
thirty cents per thousand. They once
cost five cents apiece.
The streets of Rome in the time of Do
mitian were so blocked up with cob
blers' stalls that he caused them to be re-
moved
The expression, "a little bird told
me-" comes from Ecclesiastes X, 20:
''For bird of the air shall carry the
voice, and that which hath wings shall
tell the matter"
In Germany boy under twelve can
not for any offence go before a magis-
trate; the schoolmaster must inhict the
necessary chastisemcnt; between twelve
and eighteen he may be sent to reform
atory and detained till twenty.
Large numbers of dried and smoked
lizards are imported by the Chinese ply
sicians. They are used in cases of con
sumption and anGmia with considerable
success. Their virtue seems to lie in the
large amount OF heterogeneous compounds
and phosphatcs they contain.
America was established by Abel Buell..
at Killingworth, Conn, in which he
made good long primer type. That
year he had asked assistance of the Con-
necticut Legislature in establishing a
I type foundry.
The year before the introduction of
cheap postage into England, the average
number of letters written by each person
in year was three. The next year it
was seven, it is now thirty-six In 1899
there were 81, 600, 600 letters posted of
which about one in every thirteen was
franked. In 1910 the circulation rose
to 100, 900, 600, although ranking was
abolished. At the present time it has
reached the astonishing total of 1, $50,
600, 600.
VI. Nulpian, the Paris doctor, had a
patient some time ago who was afflicted
with that form of aphasia in which
speaking is impossible. though the indi-
vidual is able to sing without difficulty.
The doctor utilized the singing power by
teaching this patient and those who fol
lowed him to sing whatever they wished
to say, without coniining themselves to
the words of the air As consequence,
the hospital has become musical with the
notes of the opera bouife and the Mar
scillaise, in which the patients ask for
everything they desire.
Cutie bone is not bone, but a kind OF
chalk once inclosed in the fossil remains
of extinct specimens of cutie fish. Cleo
patra's needle was not erected by the
Egyptian queen nor in her honor. Pom
| nevis pil1ar had no historical connection
with Pompey in any way. Sealing way
is composed of Venice turpentinc, shell
lac and cinnabar The tubcrosc is nc
rose, but species of polyanth. The
strawberry is no berry, but only sue
culent receptacle. Turkish baths did
not originate in Turkey. and arc not
baths, but heated chambers. Whale
bone is not bone, and is said not to pos
sess a single property Of bone.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-31

Correct returns show that drunkenness
is decreasing in England.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-31

The petrificd forests near Holbrook,
Arizona, have been purchased by a com
pany. They have commenced the ship
ment and manufacture of the petrifactions
into tablets, tiles and various ornamental
articles in building and finishing. In
this connection the Prescott Miner has
the following: "GovernOr Tritle informs
us that while in san Francisco he in
spectcd an establishment recently started
for the cutting and polishing of petrifed
wood taken from the wonderful forest of
petriiactiOns existing along the line Of
the Atlantic and Pacific in this Territory.
The parties engaged in this work state
that the petritied wood is rapidly driving
California onyx from the market as a
material for mantels, etc, as it is suscep-
tible of much finer polish and is also
more permanent and lasting than that of
the onyx. Several companies have al
ready been formed for the purpose of
getting possession of portions of the for
est by pre- emption, thus promising to
further push the manufacture. -Scientifc
American.
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The Chinese Cabinet Maker.

noticed n door and a window in a
courtyard with very original lattice.
/ had succeeded in getting a few SINH.
lar ones, and when time failed me |
rubbed black all over a sheet of paper
and then applied it to the lattice, thus
obtaining faithful lilc-siIe copy. The
Chinese paper being strong, although
fine, was cmincntly suitable TO this sort
of drawing, and also to copying inscrip-
tions on stones or walls. Not having any
such paper about me begged a Chinese
to 90 and fetch some for me, which he
did with alacrity, and when explained
what ! was going to do he ran and got
me II stool that might reach the window
with greater facility. Some of them held
it all the time, and when they inquired
why | was doing this, l told them that
the design was very beautiful, and that
! desired to have window like it in my
own house. This pleased and flattcred
them greatly, and to enhance the merits
of their town they told me the artist was
a native cabinet maker; some of them
even ran to fetch him. | complimented
him on his work, but he was very mod
est about it. | then tore a sheet of paper
out of my notebook, and, to leave him q
remembrance, sketched my own likeness
and offered it for his acceptance. The
onlookers recognized the drawing and ut
tered eXclamations of approval. The
cabinet maker ran off with it greatly de
lighted, accompanied by crowd of adj
mirers. | only mention this fact to prove
how easy it is TO disarm the distrust and
hostility of Chinese crowd. "a Rus
sian IhIOUgh china"
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BAD STUFF For REFORMERs.

Enthusiastic prohibitonists in New York
city are wasting good deal of superfuous
sympathy over John Kelly, the boss, and
Billy McGlory, the notorious. The former is
a temperance, or temperate man, personally.
But all is fish that he finds in his net and none
are too small to keep. While he is personally
temperate, even to abstemiousness intoxica-
ton and drunkenness are not criminal in his
eyes, and it will be a matter of surprise if he
in any manner lends aid to the Temperance
cause" as such, in opposition to the liquor
mildly rejoice that he is a sober man, but
there is no occasion for a conniption Just yet.
AS for McGlory, he is bad, a very bad man,
the keeper of one of the most infamous dens
of vice on Manhattan island. A week ago,
when first arrested for the offense of selling
without license, he scoffed at the
idea of anything being done, and
staggered down to the court
as mere matter of form, and to enjoy the
discontinue of his defeated prosecutors. The
press noted his insolence, described his fashy
attire, mentioned the immense diamond on his
immaculate shirt front and recounted the at
fractions of his ''place," not least among
which were dozen or score of bedizened and
befuddled women of shame. He knew then,
as well as he knows now, that he was DELHI
crate violator of the law But he thought he
was strong enough to defy the law, he had de-
feated it so often. 1t was only when the law,
by some means, happened to get q grip on
him, and that he found himself in the Tombs,
that he bethought to repent, and to plead that
he was the victim of others. In more than
one sense he undoubtedly was There is lit
tie doubt that so-called guardians of the pub
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POLITICAL NOTE AND GOSSIP.

ADJUTANT- GENERAL JAMES r. CARNAHAN is a
prominent candidate for the Office of Reporter of
the Supreme Court
IT IS reported from Texas that the delegation
from that State to the Democratic national
convention will urge the Hon. John Hancock for
the second place on the presidential ticket
THE Michigan City Dispatch is for Hancock.
the gallant hero of Gettysburg, for presidential
candidate in 1884 if Mr.. Tilden SHOULD persist
in declining vindicetion at the hands of the
people"
THE New Albany Public Press, Democratic,
says: '1'he Democrats of Indiana should elect
Democratic Legislature this year pledged to
vote for a sound Democrat to take Voorhees,
place in the United States Senate And Will
lam S. Holman is the man to take Voorhees,
place
Mr.. 1. BEN NORRIS has issued circular letter
to the electors Of the Sixth congressional district
announcing his candidacy for the domination to
Congress. He is in favor of nationality, q pro
tectiye tariff, the double standard, against i'm
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bell who is the newest officer connected with
the school. The rule was old and hoary when
Mr.. Tarben came here, and his sin,
if he has any at ALL is in weak ac-
quiescence with a shameful and scandalous
practice, if he knew of its existence. But, as
the Journal said yesterday, the only members
of the school board who have talked to the
public confess either that they know next to
nothing of what is going on in the schools, or
that they have just found out something by
talking with their children. In view of these
facts, we insist that it would be much better
to elect these children to the offices their faith
ers hold so inattentively, or else elect two or
three persons to the board at the first oppor
tunity who will be likely to inquire into the
fringes at least, of the trust committed to their
keeping.
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PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS
THE SENATE.
Introduction of Bills and Discussing of Pend
ing Measures.

Introduction of Bills and Discussing of Pend
ing Measures.
WASHINGTON Feb. 6-Senator Miller. of Cal
itornia, from the committee on foreign relations,
reported the Senate bill prepared as an amend
mendment to the anti Chinese act. Placed on
the calendar. Its provisions have been pub
lished.
The Senate bill appropriating $777580 for the
completion of the Capitol terraces and stairways
connected Herewith, was passed.
In the course of debate on the bill Mr. ingalls,
expressed the hope that the funeral pile at The
entrance to the main approach to the Capitol on
Pennsylvania avenue and intended for ornaments
al statuary, should be removed to some adjacent
cemetery. 1t was wholly out of place in the po-
sition in which it now stood. The people did
not go into public places to weep.
Mr. Voorhees, suggested the Soldiers Home az
the best location for the funeral monument
The following bills were reported favorably,
with amendments, and placed on the calendar:
BY Mr. Miller of New York, from the como
mittee on agriculture bill providing for the
suppression and eXtirpaton of pleuro -pneumonia
and other contagious diseases among domestic
animals.
BY Mr. Miller, of CALIFORNIA, from the COM
mittee on foreign relations: bill to provide
for executing treaty stipulations relating to the
Chinese.
Bills We're introduced and referred as follows:
By Mr. Logan: To increase the efficiency Of
the army.
The Chair laid before the Senate the resou-
ton offered by Mr.. Butler requesting the Presi-
dent to transmit to the Senate a record of the
proceedings in the Proteus inquiry Agreed to-
The Chair Mr.. Sherman laid before the SEN
ate the unfinished business of yesterday, being
the Mexican Immigrant title bill This was de-
bated at great length and several amendments
proposed and rejected. An amendment was
offered by Mr. Cockrel which was agreed to,
excepting from limitation of the act in regard to
three years within which claims have TO be pre-
sented, all minors married women, and persons
non compos ments. Without action, the Senate
went into executive session. and, when the doors
opened, adjourned