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Comparative Ears.

1t has at least been decided that the
hearing of woman is more acute than that
of man, and the scientific persons who
have arrived at this conclusion will next
endeavor to ascertain for what object ma
ture endowed woman with ears SUI
perior to mans. The ease with which
women hear burglars at night first at
tracted the attention of science to fe-
male ears. 1t is a matter of universal
notoriety that husbands are constantly
awakened by wives who are confident
that they have heard burglars in the
house and want their husbands to get
up and drive the wretches out. On the
other hand, it is equally notorious that
in the great majority of cases the hus-
bands assert that they have heard moth
ing, and therefore refuse to get up.
This seems to prove that women hear
more acutely than men, but the scien-
tilic persons already referred to de-
clined to admit the fact without further
investigation. Two hundred married
men, who on leaving home in the morn
ing were generally called back by their
wives to receive instructions as to shop
ping, but who testified that they never
heard the calls in question, were exam
ined by the scientific persons and found
to have as good hearing as the majority
of men. These two hundred men, in
accordance with the instructions of the
investigators, undertook to call their
wives back when they started out on
shopping expeditions by saying, " Come
back, my dear. Here is five dollars
more" In every case the wives
promptly heard the call and returned
to receive the money. This expert
ment, the cost of which was betrayed
by the scientific persons themselves,
who furnished five-dollar bills, proved
conclusively that women hear more
acutely than men. Many more expert
ments were, nevertheless, tried, and the
invariable result of these was to con-
firm the fact of the superiority of
women's ears. Doubtless nature has
thus richly endowed woman in order
that she can converse with her sex.
Six men can meet in room and con-
verse for an hour, during which time
every man will hear what is said by
every other man, for the reason that no
two men talk at the same time. When,
however, six women meet together and
every one talks ceaselessly at the top
of her lungs, no one not gifted with ex-
ceptional powers of hearing would be
able to understand anything that might
be said. 1t was probably in order to
provide for just such occasions as this
that woman received better ears than
man. Had she not been thus gifted she
could never have enjoyed the society
of her sex, and would have been con-
demned to masculine reticence. -NeU
York Times.
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A War Song.

Shortly after the battle of Cedar
Creek, an article in prose appeared in
the atlantic Monthly highly laudatory
of the part taken by the Nineteenth
Army Corps in that action. This
was followed by poem of the same
tenor, which was afterward printed and
hawked among the camps of General
Sheridan's army. 1t is needless to say
that these articles were quite obnoxious
to the members of the Sixth, that corps
being the only one that made other
than desultory fight in the morning
of that day. Accordingly, when the
poem written for the Nineteenth Army
Corps appeared in the camp of the
Sixth Corps, an assistant surgeon of
the Second Connecticut Heavy Artil-
lery, inspired by some of his own
" Spiritus Frnmenti and happy in
dignation, wrote the following song
with pencil on the back of the poem
he had just been reading. 1t tells the
other side of the story, and will be es-
pecially interesting to those Vermont
soldiers who served in the Sixth Army
Corps:
On Cedar Creeks red battlefield
The Eighth Corps away,
The Nineteenth broke and left the Sixth
To bear the brunt that day
Chorus.-In the Shenandoah lowlands low
In the Shenandoah lowlands, low
They held them there, giving shot for shot;
For yell they answered Yell
There standing firm they fatered not,
Though swiftly flew the shell.
Above the smoke and through the fog,
Their banner cleaned aloft.
They knew not how to run-those men,
Brave fellows of the Cross.
Chorus.-In the Shenandoah lowlands, low.
At last they yield by slow degrees,
Outfanked outnumbered far,
Backward they go, borne by the tide
OF stern, relentless war.
The battle seems to be lost;
Up rides single man,
One, but host within himself,
Our gallant Sheridan.
Chorus.-In the Shenandoah lowlands, low
Come up with me, you Nineteenth, Eighth!
Come up with me, say!
Why do you lag so far behind?
We have not lost the day.
Come up-upon the crest of hill,
You'll see a glorious sightl
You won't get hurt You need not FIRE;
But see that Sixth Corps fght!"
Chorus.-In the Shenandoah lowlands, low.
Then Early's crew astonished grew,
They heard a mighty shout
What interfered so suddenly,
They could not quite make out.
Led on by Phil, Nineteenth and Eighth
Join Sixth Corps noble band,
The rout becomes a victory,
Our chieftain has command
Chorus.-In the Shenandoah lowlands, low.
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Learning.

There is a difference between learn
ing and wisdom. Learning is intellect
ual wealth; wisdom is intellectual power.
Learned men are not always wise; wise
men are not always learned. Learning
tends to give wisdom, but wisdom is by
no means always the accompaniment
of learning. James 1. of England is
said to have been learned man, but
he certainly was not wise man. f.
w. Robertson states admirably this dis
tinction: Let us distinguish wisdom
from two things; from information
first. 1t is one thing to be well in
formed; it is another thing to be wise.
Many books read, innumerable books
hived up in capacious memory-this
does not constitute wisdom. Books
give it not; sometimes the bitterest ex-
perience gives it not. Many a heart
break may have come as the result of
life errors and life mistakes; and yet
men may be no wiser than before. Be-
fore the same temptations they fall
again in the same way they fell before.
Where they erred in youth they err in
age. A mournful truth! Ever learn
ing, says St. Paul, and never able to
come to knowledge of the truth
Distinguish wisdom, again, from talent.
Brilliancy of powers is not the wisdom
for which Solomon prayed. Wisdom is
of the heart rather than of the intellect;
of the harvest of moral thoughtfulness,
reaped in through years, two things are
equired-earnestnes and love. First,
that rare thing, earnestness which
looks on life practically. Some of the
wisest of the race have been men who
have scarcely stirred beyond home,
read little and thought much. Give
me, said Solomon, a wise, understand
ing heart "a heart which ponders
upon life, not in order to talk about it
like an orator, nor in order to theorize
about it like philosopher, but in order
to know how to live end how to die"
Learning comes by studying; wisdom,
by thinking. Learning comes from
without; wisdom from within. Learn
ing is an acquisition; wisdom is de-
velopment. Learning may be forgot
ten, and so lot; wisdom is part of the
character, and so will abide forever
These two possessions are the greatest
which any man can possess. These two
gifts are the greatest which any bestow
upon their children. And in our times
and country they are, in some measure,
within the reach of every child. The
poorest parent can give to his children,
the poorest child can make for himself
the choice of Solomon.-Lyman Abbott.
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should begin where the bodice ends
Many seams in bodice diminish its
apparent size; and the higher you place
the sleeves, and the lower the breast
plaits, the better. Avoid also short
skirts, and wear trains wherever it is
feasible. Folds and plaits are suitable
on skirts, and the less trimming above
the face in bonnets for broad physiogno-
mics the better. But do not fall into
the fatal error of wearing too little
underclothing. Such folly is the cause
of many diseases and much suffering
Paris Letter, IN Casselps Family Maya
zine for ApriL.
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The Libby Prison Tunnel.

Since publishing Major Edwin Dill
lingham's account of the prisoners tun-
neling their way out of Libby prison,
we have received the accounts of several
other officers and many inquiries in re-
gard to it. One tells the story as fol-
lows: Some of the prisoners succeeded
in getting into a pitch-dark cellar, with
cobble-stone floor, infested with enor-
nous rats. They selected the spot on
which to commence work. Then, with
nothing to work with but knives and
spoons, and spittoon in which to
carry out the detached earth, they
worked in rotation, for the hole they
were making was only twenty-five
inches in diameter. Thus they worked
for months, when suddenly the prison.
ers were removed one story higher.
They supposed that they had been dis
covered and that operations must be
abandoned. After some weeks, how
ever, one suggested that they should
take out the bricks with which the fire.
place in this room was walled up, and
then, by taking up the hearth bricks,
lower themselves into the cellar by
means of a rope. This they accom-
plished and found their former work
undisturbed. They renewed their la
bors. The trend of their excavation
led them beneath yard, and they could
hear the sentry's football above them as
he passed. AT distance of forty feet
they came to the surface, and found
themselves beneath an old tobacco
shed. The process of escape was now
commenced. Only one could pass out at
a time, and slowly at that, for it could
not be done on the hands and knees,
but at full length, snakelike. The
next one to go could only know that his
predecessor was entirely through by
feeling the cold air rush up through the
orifice. Each man, as he emerged,
waited until his successor appeared, so
that there might always be two in the
shed-for sentinel tramped back and
forth in the street just outside of the
shed gateway, which stood open. Two
of the party placed themselves at the
gate-way-one on the inside of each
door-post-an when one could see that
the sentry was far enough off he would
signal the other to steal out. AS many
of the "rebs " wore Yankee uniforms
DISCUSSES were unnecessary AS they
passed out they dispersed separately OF
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M Ia RIA.
As an anti malariai medicine
DIR. DAVID KENNEDY's
FAVORlTE REMEDY

has won golden opinions. No traveller should con.
slider his outfit complete unless IL bottle Of
this medicine. II you are exposed to FREQUENT
changes OF climate food and water Favorite Remedy
should always be within your reach 1t expeis ma.
lariaI poisons and " the best preventative Of chs
fered trustworthy specific for the cure OF Kidney
ana Liver complaints, Constipation ana all disorders
arising from an impure state OF the blood To women
who suffer from any OF the ills peculiar to their sex
Fayore Remedy Is constantly proving itself an ur.
FALLING friend-a real blessing Address the proprie
o, by oil druggsts. ~
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- STATE OF VERMONT Washington District, S.
In Probate Court. held at Montpelier, in said Dis
trict, OH the 18th day of March, A. ID. 1885:
j. n. Perrin, Administrator with the will an
nexed of the estate of Justus Kinney, late of
Painfield. in said District, deceased, presents
his administration account for examination and
allowance, and makes application for decree
of distribution and partition of the estate of said
deceased. whereupon, it is ordered by, said Court;
to a session thereof. to be held at the Probate
ONCE, in said Montpelier, on the 18th day of
April, A. ID. 1885, for hearing and decision thereon
And 1t is further ordered that notice hereof be given
to all persons interested, by publication of the
three weeks successfully In the Vermont WdtchmaR
& State Journal, newspaper published at Montpelier,
previous said time appointed for hearing that they
II any they may have why said account should not
be allowed, and such decree made.
BY the Court.-Attest,
s2-s4 A. G. AyERILL Register.
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Tbe Soldiers 8ueget.
Pensions Granted.

To Mary b, Peck, widow of Gen
eral James S. Peck, Montpelier, $17 a
month; F. Kelley, Newbury, $24 a
month and 80, 800 arrears; Sylvester o.
Alden, Middlesex, an increase of pen
sion from IS to Sl2 a month; f. V.
Randall, Jr., alias " Jimmie " Randall,
of Westford, pension of So month
and $500 arrears.
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S15 that cost fifteen cents, and I,want
you to tell me what percentage that is"
" A transaction of that kind, my dear
Miss b." said Mr.. S., who is a LAWYER,
"gets out of percentage and into lar
ceny."
THE postmaster at Lickskillet, Ark,
writes as follows: "Don't send your
paper any more to Oscar Hallum, fur
he's dead. He wuz a mighty good
reader, he wuz, and would sometimes
read one of your jokes in such funny
way that folks would laugh. IT want
what wuz in the artikle, but it wuz the
way he read it,"
JOHN WESLEY, though never neg
lectful of his ministerial gravity, had a
good sense of humor. His servant,
Michael Fenwick, complained that his
name was never mentioned in the pub
lished journal. Wesley, in the next
number said: Left Epworth with
great satisfaction, and about one
preached at Clayworth. 1 think none
were unmoved but Michael Fenwick,
who fell asleep under an adjoining hay
rick"
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Nl STATE OF VERMONT. Washington District. IS.
In Probate Court, held at Montpelier within and
for said district on the 18th day of March A D. 1885
of Moretown, in said District, an insane person,
makes application to said Court for license to sell
the following described real estate Of said ward, to
wit; The Home Place and about twenty seven acres
of Pasture Land situated in said Moretown, repre-
senting that the sale thereof for the purpose of put
ting the proceeds of such sale at interest or investing
the same In stocks real estate would be beneficial
TO said ward. Whereupon, II is ordered by said
Court, that said application be referred 70 SEES
sion thereof to be held ut the Probate Once, in
said Montpelier on the 18th day of April A. d.,
1885 for hearing and decision thereon and, il is fur
Their ordered that all persons interested be notified
hereof, by publication OF notice OF said application
and order thereon, three weeks successfully in the
Vermont WdichmaR a. State Journal, published at
Montpelier, before said time Of hearing that they
may appear at said time and place, and IL they see
cause, object thereto.
BY the Court.-Attest,
1885 A. Z. AVKRILL, Register.
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A NDREW HAsKELL's ESTATE;

~ STATE Of NEhMONI, washington llStllct, S.
In Probate Court held ut Montpelier, in and for
said District, on the nth day OF March, A. d. lSSS;
Chrstiana X. Haskell and Ira q. Jewell, Admins.
traitors of the estate Of Andrew Haskell late of
Calais in said District deceased make application to
said Court for license to sell ali of the real estate OF
said deceased situated in said Calais and In Woodbury.,
in said District, except the widows right of dover
therein but including the homestead and reversion
OF said dover. representing that the sale thereof,
except the homestead, is necessary for the payment
administration Of his estate and that sale Of the
homestead would be beneficial to the widow and
minor child OF said deceased. whereupon. It
is ordered by said Court that said application
the Probate once in said Montpelier, on the 10th
day of April, A. ID. 1885, for hearing and decision
theron; and 1t is further ordered that all persons
Interested be notified hereof, by publication OF no
tice OF said application and order thereon, three
weeks successfully In the Vermont Watchmds a.
State Journal! newspaper published at Montpelier.
ana which cisHa'ss N ,he neighoorhood oi nose
may appear at said time and place, and II they sea
cause, object thereto.
By the Court.-Attest.
aa% A. @. AvERILL. Register.
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IRA GRAY,S ESTATE:

Il STATE OF VERMONT, washington Distr1ct, IS.
In Probate Court, held at Montpelier, in said Dis
trict, on the 23d day of March, A b. 1885:
Wesley A. Gray Executor of the last will and tes-
lament of Ira Gray, late of Painfed In said District
deceased presents his administration for
animation and allowance, and makes application
for decree OF distribution and partition of the
estate of said deceased. Whereupon, 1t is ordered
by said Court that said account and said application
be referred to session thereof. to be held at the
April A. d. 1885, for hearing and decision thereon
to ali persons Interested Nv publication of the same
three weeks successfully In the Vermont Watchmdn
4 State Journal a newspaper published at Montpe-
lier previous to said time appointed for hearing,
that they may appear at said time and place and
show cause, II any they may have why said account
should not be allowed and such decree made.
BY the Court.-Attest,
1895 A. G. AVERILL Register.
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advertisements.
ECZEMA OR SALT RHEUM.
Clear and Positive Recovery-An
Elderly Lady's Letter.

Among the numerous letters received by DIR. Ken
needy testifying to notable SALT RHRuM cures, the
following will be found Of interest to our readers
who may accept assurance of Its perfect authen
ITCHY and truthfulness;
WORCESTER. Mass, March %, 1884
DR.. ID. Kennedy, Rondout ". Y;
DEAR SIR Until recently have been for three
years a sufferer from Salt Rheum. II followed upon
an attack of Erysipelas, for which was for long
time under medical treatment. I placed myself
again in the hands of tho physicians who did have
no doubt all that could be done One thing Is sure
however, was none the better for all the medicine
they gave me. The painful and unsightly disease
made continual progress, until began to fear
should never get rid of IL.
BY means OF one of those accidents that often re.
suit In SO much blessing had my attention called
would surely do me good. I used 1t, and within a
much shorter time than would have believed posi-
BILE, received permanent cure. I am now ser
fectly free from Salt Rheuin. What a comfort This
Is and how 1t places your wonderful medicine In my
opinion you may guess at, but never know. keeT
II now constantly In the house IA family medicine
Yours truly, MRS. DINAH PHAIR.
Mrs. Phair sometime since, when a visit tC
Kansas, found case OF Salt Iheum could not ge,
FAYORITE REMEDY sent to New York City for It
and cured the case.
For. all diseases of the Blood, Liver, Kidneys
bladder and Digestive Organs, DIR. David Kennedy's
FAVoRITE REMEDY, Rondout, NJ
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in prearranged parties of two or three.
One hundred nine men went through
the tunnel in this way, and nearly all of
them made good their escape.
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SORES ON NECK.

Charles Brady, Somerville, Mass, who refers to DIR
derful cure of rnning sores on the neck which had
been treated by hospital physicians without cure
and which yielded completely to the CUTICURA
REMEDIES
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ADVERTISEMENTS.
CutiCura!
THE ONLY REMEDIES FOR
THE SKIN AND BLOOD
UNIVERSALLY CON-
MENDED.

William S. Totten, 672 North Tenth Street. Phila-
delphia reports that of his customers stated
him incidentally that he was feeling well and had
gained twenty seven pounds in the last year, all Of
which he attributed to a systematic course of the
CuTICuRA REsoLvENT, which has proved effectual
when all other remedies failed
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ge9al Clothes.
A RTEMAs NEwHALL,s ESTATE.

IA COMMISSIONERS' NOVICE.
The undersigned. having been appointed by the
Honorable Probate Court for the District of Wash
ington, Commissioners, to receive, examine, and ad
just all claims and demands of all persons against
the estate of ARENAS Newhall late of Waterbury, in
said District deceased, and all claims exhibited in
Offset thereto, hereby give notice that will
for the purposes aforesaid, at the dwelling house
April and I'D day of August next. from one
o'clock until four o'clock =. NJ, each of said days,
and that six months from the Path day of February
A. ID; 1875, is the time limited by said Court for said
creditors to present their claims to us for eXamina
ton and allowance.
Dated at Waterbury, this l4th day of Mar AID. 1885,
1894 FRANK FRANZ n \. sMfTH, Commissioners.
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CURED BY CUTICURA.

My skin disease, which resisted several popular
remedies and other remedies advised by physicians
has been cured by your CUTICURA REMEDIES
They surpassed my most sanguine expectations and
rapidly effected cure. j. G. ARENTRUE.
VINCENNRS, IND,
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KNOW ITS VALUE.

All of your CUTICURA REMEDIES give very good
satisfaction. The CuTICuRA especially recon
mend for the diseases for which it is used. know
from experience its value.
DIR. ii. j. PRATT, MONTICELLO, WIS.
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GONE hundred doses for one dollar "
is true only of Hoods Sarsaparilla, and
it is an unanswerable argument as to
strength and economy.
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NIITICURA SOAP, an exquisite Toilet, Bath
w ] ] and Nursery Sanative.
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CUTICURA ABROAD.

Through home-returned Norwegian, have
learned to know your CUTICURA, which has in a
short time cured me of an Eczema that my physi-
clans medicines could not heal.
CHR. HELTZEN, BERGEN, NORWAY,
enturf0rretntn0.
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THE POET POWERS.

feeling of gratitude impels me to acknowledge
the great merits of your CUTICURA, and cordially
recommend It to the public very valuable rem
edy. ii. H. POWERS, BRIDGEPORT, CONN.
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For sale everywhere Price, CUTICURA, the great
Skin Cure, so cents. CUTICuRA SOAP an exquisite
Skin Beautifer, rs cents CUTICURA RRsoLVENT,
the new Blood Purifier 81
Potter Drug and Chemical Co., Boston.
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BOWKER FERTILIZER, Boston, Mass,
co NSUM PTI0N.
Real Estate Agency.

have sixty farms, agent for sale at great bar
gains. STEPHEN THOMAS, Montpelier VT.
The Dillon tribune., 1885-05-09
Dying Fires.

The lon IN which the hearth-fire long has 1ed
is nigh consumed, and now the flame burns
low,
With one faint blaze of feeble. fickerti!y red
That uhOnly figures on the wall doth throw.
mt now tht wind comes breathing soft along,
II flames a,ain and lights the gloom about
Then lower Sinks, rs quick the wind Is zone,
Then fiick'rt fades and with pun goes
out.
Loves fire. for ling has fed upon the heart;
And nigh consumed 1t through fccolo
1pmc, =.
From out the ashe, now and then doth start.
Casting weird shadows on the troubled
brain.
lint mem rvs wind cvmes breathing softly BY.
It glows again and hr a time is bright,
Then the thought passS and lips sadly sigh.
As it dies out and leaves behind but night.
Edward A. Fuller.
The Dillon tribune., 1885-05-09

Il think. ms dear Mrs. Winsum' thaI
we already have the characters oe.'
suited to u.s. said Mr.. Ioui'en's'
who WAS honestly ashamed OF his snare
in the conspiracy. ,, ,o,
What characters do you mean: >,
..Tho,c OF busybodies and fools;
and there upon the whole story came
out.
The mex, day two trunks marked
..ynnlry,,l,'' were conveyed to the
station, Mr.. and Mrs. Nlnsum became
greater tayorites than ever. and roar.
lnr fare. was the only result OF what
promised to become Almost Il Tragedy