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Little Falls transcript., 1885-11-06

~ ~ Dr. 9 = Asuuss4 81 sv.aE P.opl.
lave you noticed the growing use
lot quinine1 druggist ii the vicinity
Iof the Fifth Avenue Hotel asked re-
Gently At the same moment he bowed
and smiled to q tai, red -whiskered man
who strolled in. ..=< = 55s.s5
JuH watch this customer, !" he said.
The iaan was very thin and cadav-
erous looking. Without sayingaWord
be walked up to the soda fountain, and
Che boy drew out q pill box, poured
three pills into the palm Of the GUS
TONER'S hand, set glass Of mineral
water. in front Of him, and turned to
the next customer. The tall man
swallowed the pills, drank the water,
turned on his heel, and stalked away
with another pleasant nod to the pro-
prietor. :S - =s . rs. sf.,t# 3 e
'That costs him ST. 40 q week" said
the proprietor, Hand before long it
will kill him. He started to take one
i've grain pill every night about six
months ago; henow takes fifteen grains
q night before he goes home, 80 that it
will brace him up for his dinner. With
in 9 month he will be taking twenty
grains a night. OF course be takes it
at home besides what he gets here.
I've gone out Of my way three or four
times to o1explain to him that he had a.
great deal better drink rum, even if he
is q deacon in a church, but his answer
IS q simple one; he says quinine makes
him feel cheerful and strong, and it
has no illefects. He tried to stop it
once and caved in; hence he wants to
know why he should stop. You
can't combat such reasoning az that" :"
Have you many such regular Gus
tomers?", AZ
well, to be accurate, we have only
three men who come in every day and
pay at the end of the week, but there
are many others VIII take their quinine
as regularly as most, drinking folks take
whisky. It is certainly great temp
tation to weakly organized and frail
people. All they have to do is to swal-
low a pill or two, and they feel robust,
wide awake, and cheerful. The practice
grows on them continually, and it
seems to be spreading for our sales OF
quinine are constantly growing. A
good proportion Of the custom comes
from women who grow fatigued or
weary while shopping, and who, instead
OF buying nutritious luncheon or drink
ing q wholesome bottle OF porter or
ale, resort to the insidious quinine
pill"
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Elk Governor Hale, OF New Hamp-
e..

I Elk Governor Hale, OF New Hamp-
shire, who failed recently, was, accord
ing to correspondent, the apot theosia
OF the y Yankee peddler. He has made
his money trading. shrewd and sharp,
he has turned property constantly,
and almost always to his advantage;
ssubtituting in his later years stocks
In numerous glittering enter prises:
which he had developed to the point
Of capitalization before sharing their
advantages with his friends, for the
cheap watches and goods from huck:
ster's cart, with which he began active
life at Dublin forty years ago. III the
years at Dublin Mr.. Hale not only
peddIed, but made clothespins, and
made them well and profitably. When
he outgreW Dublin he went to Keene
"a i $50, being 36 years Old, and be.
gan the manufacture of chairs Until
within asyear az two he has been very
successful ii his schemes.
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Two Boston Dog Stories.

Boston Record.
There is a Newfoundland dog, Lion
by name, who gives daily proof Of his
comprehension of what is said to him.
A lady called on his mistress the other
day. During her cali Lion came in
rather slyly, lay down on the parlor
carpet, and went to sleep. The con-
versation ran on, and the visitor said
finally:
"What q handsome Newfoundland
you have!'
Lion opened one eye. eyes," said
his mistress, che is a very good dog,
and takes excellent care OF the chill
dren."
Lion opened she eothereye and waved
his tail complacently to and fro along
the carpet.
"When the baby goes out he always
goes with her, and / feel perfectly sure
then that no harm can come to her."
his mistress went on.
Lions tail thumped up and down vi
olently ON the carpet.
"And he is so gentle to them all, and
such playmate and companion to
them, that we would not take thou
sand dollars for him"
Lions tail now went up and down,
to and fro, and round and round,
with great undisguised glee
But" said his mistress, "Lion has
one serious fault"
Total subsistence of Lions tail, to-
gether with the appearance of an ex-
preston OF great concern on his face.
"He will come in here with his dirty
feet and lie down on the carpet, when
have told him time and time again
that he mustn't do it."
Here Lion arose with an air of the
utmost detection and humiliation and
skunk out of the room, with his lately
exuberant tail totally crestfallen.
A dog went every day, with a dime
given him by his master, to buy meat
for his dinner at butchers shop.
The dog always presented his dime,
which went into the till, and then his
meat was given him and he trotted
home with it. One day the butcher
thought he would play trick on his
customer, just to see what he would
do. So he put the dime in his drawer
and went about other business. The
dog waited patiently along time to be
waited on, showing some signs Of inn
patience. The butcher made no sign
of serving him. Finally the dog began
to bark violently, walking meanwhile
from the till to the chopping block.
Y: What do you mean, you rascal?"
shouted the: butcher. s'Get out of
here; get outp' And he kicked thedog
out of the shop. s+f@
The dog fingered an instant, and
then trotted away in a determined
manner, down the street. In q few
minutes he came back-with a police
mani j.. -t.:4s IT, 49,. .- 60: F-,-.., =.
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In MIR. G0llld's Garden.

From New York Town Topics.
r. For twenty years the seventy-fve
acres that form the park at Lindhurst
the country-seat of Jay Gould, at r.
vington-on-the Hudson, have been
under cultivation, the result being q
beautiful maturity in the hardy
growth. The grounds have o !, 400
feet frontage along the river, where
the view, up and down and across, is
magnificent. On an eminence of ground
stands the mansion, built of granite
from quarries at Hastings. The hill
ground falls in one full slope Of terraces
and then sweeps on downward to the
river, the declension being about 26O
feet, The broad expanse Of lawn is q
beautiful cushion Of grass;it has been
planted at intervals with groups Of
trees, the varieties Of lindens and bass
wood being admirable. Two very
large specimens of American lindens
stand like still sentinels, sixty feet
apart, in front OF the house, their
great, dark, .heart-shaped leaves
spreading out close to the ground, and
their well-rounded, finely tufted SUM
mits being symmetrical finish to such
suberb pyramids offoliage. There are
fifteen varieties of this tree on this
place, which is named from the par
ticularly beautiful linden growth. The
entire collection of hardy trees that
will exist in this climate are growing
in Mr.. Gould's park. These are either
in belts two or three deep, to Sbrea'..
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-11-27

THE people of Galveston, Texas, have APP
pealed for help for the destitute victims of
the late fire. The total losses have been esti-
mated at g., 5000
AT Omaha, Neb., Judge Miller, of the
United States supreme court, has sustained
an injunction restraining a company from
fencing i'll 5000 acres of government land
The company had fenced in all this land, and
the decision is regarded as an important
precedent in other suits of a similar character
A FIRE has destroyed the business part of
Hazlehurst, Miss, causing an aggregate loss
Of 100000.
Two miners were killed and two others
seriously injured by an accident at the Pea
cock coal bank, near Pomeroy, Ohio.
Four miners among them being father
and son. were instantly killed, and another
was seriously injured by falling ore i'll "a mine
at Bessemer, Wis.
Ex-senator j. II. MITCHELL Republican,
has been elected United States Senator by
the Oregon legislature.
EDWARD PRESLEY, a farmer more than
eighty years old, and his two sons, Charles
and Edward, aged twenty five and thirty-five
respectively, were killed 10y neighbor, r. T..
Jones, near EGgened, $. c. There had been
a dispute between Old Mr. Presley and Jones
over some rents due the former.
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What is Money!

The value of commodity limits its
quantity. Anything which can be OBJ
tanned in limited quantity, with GER
tain ascertainable amount of labor, and
which is Invisible, will serve the pur-
pose of money. Furs have been en-
ployed in some countries as money, cat
tie in others as in the ''lliad." in the
estimation OF the respective value of the
shield of Diomedes and Glaucus, the one
worth nine oxen, the other a hundred
oxen; bricks of tea in Tartary, cowries
in Africa, rock salt in Abyssinia. Other
African tribes, calculated in nacutes, a
money of the mind, which has no sub
stance corresponding to it but the value
contained in which has been, sufficiently
ingrained in their minds to answer the
purpose of measure of value. Bullion
is chosen because it complies with these
two conditions, difficulty of acquisition
and divisibility, better than any known
substance. Is it not strange that we
should turn this servant into our master
and elevate that which is mere medium
for avoiding the inconvenience of barter
into an indispensable necessity of life,
scarcely secondary to food and clothing?
If by some CONFUSION of nature, the
precious metals, gold and silver, were
utterly destroyed. the world would be
impoverished by a loss of commodity
on the discovery and manufacture of
which much labor and time have been
expended, but the only result would be
that we should have recourse to some
other contrivance The main business Of
life would 90 on as before, and the only
difference would probably be that we
should be Obliged to have recourse TO a
paper currency, based on whatever might
be found, after careful consideration, to
be the most convenient or inconvenient
standard value The question would be,
as it is now, a question of remedying the
inconvenience of barter by providing
some means of fixing prices. This would
be all.-Nati0Hal SoldierS' Home Bulletin
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HEALTH HINTS.

DIR. Napier's Investigations have taught
him that macaroni, peas, beans, and len
tils, all work antagonistically to the de-
sire for alcoholic drinks.
An almost unfailing remedy for rest
lessness and sleeplessness in children is
to take them into the open air for little
time before sending them to bed.
An application of distilled water or
rain water, with which has been mixed a
small amount of cream of tartar will
cure inhamed ewes. A solution of re-
fined boraX-not too strong-is also
good.
The juice of the common milk weed
will generally cure warts on the hand or
face. 1t is an inexpensive and painless
application, and much preferable to cut
ting the eXcrescences out, which will not
always eXtrpate them. 1t will probably
serve the same purpose on the teats OF
cows, where warts often come and cause
much inconvenience in milking.
The Druggists Circuldr says: "Acids
prescribed for the purpose Ct correcting
the gastric juice should be taken before
meals, so as to produce a copious secre
ton OF the gastric glands during the
II cal. Alkalies intended to counteract
the acidity of the stomach Should be
taken at meals; but when it is intended
that they should be absorbed by the
blood, they should be given fasting"
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Queer Letters,

The YOUTHS Companion says: If the
hand writing reveals anything of the
writer S character, certainly what letter
contains tells us much more of the per-
son from whom it comes. The queer
conceits of people show as plainly in
their correspondence as in their CONVEX
sation.
Wit is no less pungent in the letter
than in talk If the soul of wit consists
in brevity, then the wittiest of all let
tiers ever written must be those which
passed between two friends. The first
contained only note of interrogation
(O, implying, Is there any news3 The
reply to this was cipher CO.., None.
Even an address may be given in q
form so strange and comical as to pro-
woke laug Charles Lamb once ac-
cepted an invitation sent him by his
friend Hayden, in note, as follows:
"MY DEAR HAYDoN-I will come with
pleasure, to - Lisson Grove, North, at Ros'
sis, halfway up, right-hand side, if can
find it. Yours, &. LAMB.
"Covent Garden, East,
"Half-way up, near the corner,
"Left-hand siden
There is no less wit in the manner in
which writers have sometimes subscribed
themselves. A letter from Franklin &c
friend in England, upon the breaking
out of the Revolutionary war, is often
quoted. 1t closes in this form:
"You and were long friends. You arc
now my enemy, and am Yours,
B. FRANKLIN.
This grim joke may have been Original
with the doctor, or it may have been
suggested to him by the following very
pointed note from one Scottish High
lander to another:
my DEAR GLENGARY-As soon as you
can prove yourself to be my chief, | shall be
ready to acknowledge you. In the meantime
| am Yours, "MCDoNALD.n
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-11-27
PROMINENT PEOPLE

GOVERNOR OGLESBY, of Illinois. furnished
the briefest Thanksgiving proclamation of
the season.
CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE has worn out five
satin robes since he first took his place on the
supreme bench
GEoRTE W. CHILDs has the largest collec
ton of canes of any man in America. They
were gathered from all quarters of the globe.
AN American has been appointed by the
King of Corea to he chief farmer, with a
view to introducing our vegetables into that
country.
EDGERToN AND TRENHOLM, the new civil
service commissioners, are said to be the
handsomest men in the service of the gov
eminent.
SECRETARIES ENDICoTT AND WHITNEY dis
courage further attempts to reach the North
pole, saying such explorations arc of no prac-
tcal value.
SENATOR GoRMAN, of Maryland, Congress
man w. l.. Scott, of Pennsylvania, and
Townshend, of Illinois, once served as pages
i'll Congress,
FRANCIS MURPHY, the temperance advo-
cate, is so much liked and wanted in Pitts
burg, that there is talk of raising an endow-
ment fund, the interest of which shall suffice
to pay him a salary of $1,000.
EX-PREsIDENT ARTHUR is a voracious
novel reader. While he was Nice-President
he spent hours in the alcoyes of the Congress.
sional library looking upne novels, and he
liked love stories as well as girl in her
teens.
KING HUMBERT, of Italy, is thirty eight
years old His face habitually wears sad
and sober expression. The rare smile which
lights it is one of marked sweetness and char
acter His manners are courteous. He takes
great interest in the education of his only
son, boy of ten years.
LORD SALISBURY, the British premier
dresses very plainly and neatly; his rough,
dark blue overcoat and dark gray bags"
are quite unobtrusive, and there is absolutely
no popularity about his attire. Unlike Mr..
Gladstone, his collar is not conspicuous nor
are his trousers too short. A beaver conceals
his philosophic brow. His eye is calm his
presence full of conscious power, and he is
in no wise a pretentious man.
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC,

COMPOSER SULLIVAN'S co-laborer, Gil
bert, has gone to Egypt for material for u
new opera libretto.
BOY of ten years Friedrich Kresslcr by
name, has obtained the first violin prize at
the conservatory of Vienna
HARRIS, flutes trumpets, drums and bells.
nearly 5000 years old, have been found
among the ruins of Memphis, Egypt.
MoDJESKA is to receive a certainty of
500 10 for return engagement of one week
in Chicago at the new Chicago opera house
NINE. NILSSON has created n furore among
the critical music flowing public of Berlin
where she has appeared i'll a series of concerts
JOHANNES BRAHMS Germany's greatest
living composer of symphonies at the present
period, has just finished his fourth symphony
MRS. SCOTT SIDDoNS has received some
very tempting offers to revisit this country
next season, and will in all probability, ac-
copt.
"RoMEO AND JULIET has just been played
IN two New York theatres simultaneously
Mary Anderson being the star at one and
Margaret Mather at the other.
GoUNoD is engaged in the preparation of a
pamphlet describing the reforms which he
believes necessary to placing opera on a sound
basis for success in the future,
AMONG the new plays owned by Lawrence
Barrett, which he intends to produce. is
"Glaucus, or the Last days of Pompeii, by
George III. Boxer, who has followed Bulwer's
romance closely in constructing his drama.
VERY remarkable company OF fifty per
sons, consisting of ladies, gentlemen and boys
of Russian nationality and forming the vocal
chapel in Moscow, will undertake this winter
a concert tour through Europe The whole
fifty persons are clad in the fine old Russian
costumes of the sixteenth century, and tho
tour will last one year.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-11-27
Antiquity of Bridges.

The first bridges were of wood, and
the earliest of which we have any ac-
count was built in Rome 500 b. C. The
next was erected by Julius Caesar for the
passage of his army across the Rhine.
Trajans great bridge over the Danube,
AGO feet long, was made of timber,
with stone piers. The Romans also
built tine t1rst stone bridge, which crossed
the Tiber. Suspension bridges are of
remote origin. A Chinese one mentioned
by Kirchea wac made Of chains support
ing roadway $50 feet in length, was
built A. ID. 60, and is still to be seen.
The first large iron bridge was erected
over the Severn in 1177. The age of
railways has brought a remarkable de
velopment in this branch of engineering,
especially in the construction of bridges
of iron and steel.-ArkdaSaw 1raUelcr.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-11-27
A YEAR OF COMMERCE.
Report of the Chief of the Bureau of
Statistics.

Colonel w. +. Switzler, chief of bureau Of
statistics, has just completed his annual re-
port on foreign commerce, The duty col
lected on merchandise fell from Sl9O,OJO,OOO
in 1854, to Sis, 600, 900 in 1885, but the equiv
alent'ad valorem rate rose from Al per cent
TO AZ Per cent. This increase in the ad val
orem rate is due to the decline in prices of
goods subject to specific duty upon which are
imposed high rates of duty.
The value of our foreign trade conducted
in vessels bearing our national flag shows
steady decline During the fiscal year 1888
the value of merchandise carried in our for
eign trade was 81, SSS, 100000, of which only
1916 per cent. was carried in American bot
toms and only seven per cent. in American
steam vessels, but of the 70. per cent, of this
commerce conducted by foreign vessels, 6LS
per cent. was carried in foreign steam
ers. OF the total tonnage entered at our sea-
ports in the foreign trade last year, amount
ing 10 l2,O00,00O tons, only 2,sOO,OOO was
American tonnage and 100000 foreign ton
mage
There was also large falling off in the
emigration. The number arrived during
the year was 1916, SAG as against 5lS,592 dur
ing the preceding year, and falling off OF
fifty per cent. since 1882, the year of the larg-
est emigration, when tho arrivals were
7SS, 902.
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CARE OF THE NAVY.
Reports of the SurgeOn-General, VIA
rinc CORPS Etc.

Surgeon General Gunnell, of the navy, in
his annual report, submits estimates amount
ing to sl6i, AGO for the support of the bureau
of medicine and surgery during the next fis-
cal year. This is $4,000 in excess of the APP.
preparation for the current year
Colonel c. G. McCawley, commandant Of
the marine corps, in his annual report says
the Panama expedition showed in the strong
est manner what he had for years stated to
the department, that the marine corps had
not enough officers and men. All the
shore stations were nearly stripped and left
without adequate protection, and the guards
we're withdrawn from many ships, which
gave rise to much inconvenience. 1t also
showed that the corps should have complete
outfit of tents and camp equipage for 800
men as well us woven cartridge belts for use
in the field
Chief Engineer Loring's report of the oper
ations of the bureau of steam engineering is
made public to-day The appropriations for
the last fiscal year amounted to S920,O00. and
the expenditures were S:i+1,9lO, leaving an
unexpended balance of S72,0N9 the larger
portion of which is, however, required TO
meet outstanding obligations. He submits
estimates amounting to S+,s2GSlI for the
support of the bureau during the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1887.
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Extent of the British Empire.

The queen of Great Britain and Ire.
land rules over $40, 900, 600 of people
ian increase in fifteen years of s., 600,
O0O), occupying an area of almost 10,
600, 900 square miles. The trade carried
on by these 10000, 600 amounts to
So, 500, 900, 900 year. Their flag float.
over three-fifths of all the shipping on
the seas. London, their capital city, has
with its suburbs) a population OF five
and oEe-quarter mlllionsl No civilized
empire has existed at all comparable tc
the British empire, either in ancient or in
modern times. Troy Tines.