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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-01-16
A THRILLING STORY,
AZ Told by n Aerchant In Troy, N. Y.--
A Surgical OeraIiOn AVOided-.-HOw
"a Father, WE and Daughter Rsca-
ped an AWfu Doom.

AZ Told by n Merchant In Troy, n. H..-
A Surgical OeratiOn AvOided---HOw
"a Father, WE and Daughter EscS-
ped an AWfa Doom.
OF the hundreds accounts Of remarkable cures
wrought by DIR. KENEDY'S FAYoRITE REMEDY,
none have appeareso purely astonishing as the fol-
lowing: The persOH mentioned are among the most
highly respected IN he city Of Troy aud the story
told by the father i'll prove interesting to all our
readere.-tED. TRoY, N. Y.
Dr. d. Kennedy, Rndout, " T.:
DEAR SIR: My aughter was afflicted with q severe
growth Of Fungus To remove 1t we had resorted to
almost every remey and consulted the most promi-
nent surgeons anphysieians Dr.. -, of Troy,
said that surgics operation would be necessary but
fearing fatal resuls hesitated. Some Of the physi
clans claimed thatit was caused by oEe thing and
some by another. lhe fungus was prominent aud dis
figured her looks Having heard Of DIR. Kennedys
FAVORlTE REMEDY working so thoroughly on the
blood determind to try 1t, to see II this medicine
could do what dotors bad failed to do and surgeons
had hardly laredo undertake. / can say In truth
that the result othis trial the complete Of
my daughter Of tis dreadful maady. DR.. Kennedy's
FAYORITE REMEDY alone effected II. We used moth
ing else for othr things had completely failed. Ny
daughter to-day Joys vigorous health and to Favor
te Remedy alon is the credit due. Ny wife also was
very poor in heath due TO some liver difficulty with
which she had fered a long time until she became
very much redued In flesh. trial of DR.. Kennedy's
Fayorie Remed has resulted in the complete resto-
ration of her helth which che had not enjoyed for
years. She hasgained ia flesh and strength and thus
secured perfect ieAlth, and this is DUE ENTIRELY
TO DIR. KENNlDY'S FAYORITE REMEDY. As for
myself, being gagged In the grocery and commission
business, whiebma 1t necessary for to test the
quality Of diheHnt articles like butter &c, my
Of taste and ny stomach seriously injured.
Everything seemed TO nauseate me, aud fearful Of
dyspepsia in II most severe form. tried DIR. KEN
NEDY'S FAVOiITE REMEDY. The FIRST bottle af-
forded immedite relief aud from that day 10 this
say that FSorte Remedy has restored me to per-
feet health. Tese facts which claim prove that
DR.. Kenuedy'sFavorite Remedy is the best medicine
in the world fG those afflicted with the above dim
cutes. II anyne In the city Of Troy doubts the truth
OF these statements let him come to me and will
prove them. have recommended FAvorite Remedy
to hundreds AID with the same good results.
Yours, ETC., WIN. WINDSOR.
Corner Cans and Mount streets, Troy, NY.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-01-16
N. |. HAWLEY.
FLOUR, GRAIN, FEED,
BALED HAY, AND SALT.

We have an extra bargain in
sacked FINE MIDDLINGS to offer
for few days. We consider this
the cheapest feed we have at the
price we are selling for.
A large lot Of sacked WINTER
WHEAT BRAN due the last of
this month /; and as there is more
than we can store, we will contract
to deliver on arrival at extremely
low prices.
No. / TIMOTHY BALED HAY
delivered to any part Of the village.
Remember that we keep all
grades of FLOUR, and you save
25c a barrel by getting your flour
here for cash.
VALLEY MILL CO.,
Near Depot N. H. CrOsSiHg.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-01-16
THE VINEGAR BIBLE.

1.-THE Parable of the Vinegar" instead of
"The Parable of the Vineyard" appears in
the chapter to Luke II. in an Ok
ford edition OF the authorized version which
was published in I'LL. The book WAS pub.
lished by J. Basket, in imperial folio, and is
said to be the most sumptuous Of ell the Ok
ford bibles. The printing is verT beautiful,
and some of the copies were printed on vel
lum, but unfortunately the proofs were care
lessly read, and the book printed by Basket
was called "a bssketful of printers errors"
The book is now priced on account of its typ
oRraphioAl faults.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-01-16
THE WICKED BIBLE.

This extraordinary name has been given to
an edition Of the authorized bible, printed in
London by Robert Barker and Martin Lucas
in 1881. The negative was left out of the
seventh Commandment, and William Kill
burne, writing in 1863, says that owing to the
zeal Of DIR. Usher the printer was fined e20O0
or $4,000. In Laud's published works there
is a copy Of the kings letter directing that
the printers be fined $4,000, but DR.. Sorivener,
however, asserts, know not on what author
ity, that the real fine was one of 1900, infiot-
ed by Archbishop Laud, ''to be expended on
a fount of fair Greek type" Only four cop
les of this scarce bible are now known, as the
edition was destroyed, and all copies called in
as soon as the mistake was discovered. Dr..
Scrivener declared that q copy existed at
Violent lttel. This lead to a search being
made. No such English bible was discovered; !;
but a German bible with the very same mis-
take was found in its stead.
THE PROSECUTING PRINTERS BIBLE.
''Printers have perSecuted me without eause."-
Ps. oxIx. lol.
The word printers instead of princes has
given occasion for the above name. All We
know Of this edition is stated by MIR. Henry
Stevens in the catalogue of the Oaxton exhi-
bition of bibles, where he says that these words
were put into the mouth of Cotton MAther by
blundering typographer in a bible printed
before 1902.
THE EARS TO EAR BIBLE.
"Who hath ears to ear, let him heAr"-Matt. I'M a.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-01-16

The grave robbers captured in PhiadephiA, are not
bad those mothers who life robbers by neg
leclng the cough OF child when they know full well
that one bottle Of DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup would cure
Il and make II happy
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-01-16
GREAT
ClGa1iiDg-OQt Sale
OF CL0AKS!

To close the season l now
offer my entire stock Of be-
tween five and six thousand
dollars worth of Ladies' and
Children'S CLOAKS at prices
to tempt every buyer who has
been waiting TO get the ad-
vantage of the cIOSing-Out
mark-dOwn. Everything In
the stock will be offered at a
material reduction, except the
few job lots in IMPORTED
GARMENTS, which we have
been selling for the past few
days so much under price.
Now is the time to get an ex-
traOrdinary bargain.
n I uAWIEV
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-01-16
THE YE LORD rEsrAArENr.

"what then is Apollos and what is Paulf MInis-
ters through whom ys Lord believed and each the
gave to im."-l Cor. iii. 8.
This error, with which close this article,
is found in the Revised New Testament bre-
vier 16mo. 1t consists simply in the misplac-
ing Of the word Lord Ave words too soon in
the verse but even this small mistake will
give the book peculiar interest with collect
ors.-K w WriQAt, D. D. IN Leisure Hour.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-01-16

This adaptation to Cockney usage is found
in an Svo bible published by the Oxford Press
in 1910. The same book contains a more se.
rious blunder in Hebrews X. 14i "How
much more shall the blood of Christ, who
through the Eternal Spirit offered himself
without spot to God, purge your conscience
from good works 10 serve the living God"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-01-16
CURIOUS BIBLES.

some ACCOUNT OF THE M1sPRNTs AND TYPO
GRAPHICAL ERRORS WHICH HAVE MADE GER
TAIN FnTTroNa or uoIY WRIT FAMOUS.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-01-16

THE EAH3 TO EAH bI1LI'
Who hath eAEs to ear let him hear Matt. XIII. a.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-01-16

mas Dben 30 OIIen pFInIeu OF 30 UHIoIUIIJ PIIH-
ted as the bible.
With all the pains, however taken by trans.
lators, revisers and proof readers, some pecu-
lisrities Of expression and typographical blem-
ishes have passed into certain versions and
editions of the Scriptures, and these have
stamped their names on the editions in which
they are found propose In this article TO
draw attention TO the most remarkable OF
these peculiarities.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-01-16
THE BREEoHEs BIBLE.

"Then the ets Of them both were opened, and they
knew that they Naked and they sewed hgge tree
leaues together and made themselves Breeches"-
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-26
Sickness from Cooking vessels.

reader of the Baltimore Sun" writes
that recently she and her daughter pre-
pared soup for dinner, with beet, tomatoes
and herbs and thickening of -four, all fresh
and good, she is convinced 1t was boiled
In new tin saucepan three or four hours
Some of the family did not eat of the soup,
but she and her daughter did, and both
We're made very sick. The attack was like
cholera morbus, and the pain was still &C.
casionally severe while she wrote She is
is convinced the tin was the cause. She ex-
amined it and found the saucepan dark and
porous, more like pewter, but more porous.
The best tin plate and timed utensils are
made of iron coated with pure, or nearly
pure tin, and it is hardly possible that any
ordinary article of food should be made
poisonous by contact with ware thus made,
TIN being practically insoluble in the LIQUIDS
that cooks ordinarily have occasion to deal
with. Instead of pure tin cheap alloy,
containing from one-third to two-thirds
lead, is sometimes used to coat the mate
rails of which utensils are made and from
the facts set forth by our correspondent it
may be inferred that she was poisoned with
lead dissolved out of the lining of the
saucepan by the acid of the tomatoes used
in the preparation of the soup. A long
boiling of three or four hours would be
pretty effective in saturating any vegetable
acid in the pan with lead The porous APP
pearance OF the pan after use, as described
by our correspondent, adds probability to
the view that the vessel in question was
coated with lead alloy. 1t might have
been used with comparative safety in cook
ing articles containing no acid, especially
if the time of use had been only few min
ntpS
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-26

Outward signs are absolutely necessary
to judge of their disease, and when birds
are i'll they exhibit strong symptoms. The
first to mention is swelling of the stomach,
which attacks them at a month or six
weeks old, in consequence of over feeding
on soft food, such as salad and chickweed.
The extremity of the body becomes swollen
and of dark red color, very hard, and full
of small red veins. For this ailment put q
small piece of alum in the water and renew
it every day for at least four days. This
will be found very frequently to prove a
complete cure. Still another remedy is to
put rusty nail into the water, which latter
should be changed twice week, leaving the
nail in it. Boiled bread and milk with ca
nary seed boiled in it, is frequently cure.
Put this in the cage for at least five morn
ings, and at II o'clock you may give the
usual food. Another remedy is to put the
bird in lukewarm milk for six or eight
minutes, in order that portion of it may
be absorbed by the pores, then put it in
warm spring water, after which wipe it
with soft piece of muslin before the fire
until dry; then place the bird in the cage
and set the latter before the fire short dis
lance away, or, If you choose, in the hot sun
in the room. Afterwards hang the cage in
Its place, giving the bird lettuce seed and
letting him rest for the next day. but re-
peating this the third, and if necessary,
three or four times, with the interval OF q
day each time. This treatment will afford
relief if faithfully followed out.-[Neweil
Loyejoy, in Good Housekeeping
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-26
moss; Fl VIM. NJ. Thayer, in The Ameri,
The Art of Herr RonkI.n.


| Hsrr Bocklin is. IN one way. the most
uncertain of painters; according as his
SUBJECT inspires him or not, he NAV pro-
duee work original in conceptions, and
| supreme IN beauty and suggestiveness OF
| coioring, or he may perhaps bring forth
| an eccentric and guestionably drawn per-
formance. insufficiently redeemed by its
| motive, and exhibiting the artists scheme
OF color III its unduly daring and exagger-
ateu phase. These two moods of the
painter can and do co-exist; and what is
more, he seems, like many creative artists,
/. not always able to distinguish the wheat
from the chaff. At recent exhibition
held IN Berlin, where he brought forward
one OF ms most complete and most genu-
lhely inspired works, the Prometheus -
landscape presently TO be described. he
placed side by side with it a figure-piece so
incomplete i'll technique that the highest
recompense, which would inevitably have
been accorded to him for his master
piece, could not in decency be
granted. Like Turner Herr B9cklin
in his early time affected a more
minute touch, and more sombre and
nodest, though always suggestive and
poetlcal. scheme OF color, than is exhibited
III his latter productions. Il is no doubt
these early studies which have enabled the
master III his later manner to display in
landscape such brilliant ease and a.acstria
allied to that rare power of suggesting
through the medium of external nature
human mood and sentiment, which even
his most searching critics have not denied
to him. It is, indeed, in contact with
nature that his highest and noblest quail
ties are manifest and his art appears most
moving and pathetic. The other side of
his genius, if, indeed, it be possible thus to
dissect 1.-THE boundless love for the fan
tastic, for the world of myth and magma
TOMS characterized by a poetry and
charm all his own; but it vet of necessity
fails to attain the moving power which has
been the gift of those whose art has more
closely identified itself with humanity and
its problems.
One of Herr Bocklin's earliest patrons
was the weil-known author and dilettante,
Count Setback, of Munich whose fine gal
lery there, SO literally displayed to all who
desire to make acquaintance with It's treas
ures, contains most of the best works of
his earlier and more moderate time, besides
some more striking performances exhibit
ing his original talent in its maturity
magazine of Art for October.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-26
Scenes ON a Chiness Race course,

A wide detour round the ditch brings us
into the very thick of China race-course
dregs. Yet these dregs differ from their
English congeners in being friends of soap
and water, and destitute of esprit de corps.
There are no shooting stalls, no shows, and
no Aunt Sallies-real cracks over their own
heads, which must be received with pa
thence, are so frequent that they lose the
zest of q joke-but in lieu of them, gam
bling booths of every shade and description
illustrate the Chinese passion for play.
Gambling booths for large sums, gambling
booths for small sums, gambling booths for
nick-nacks, gambling booths for high
priced drinkables, gambling booths for low
priced carrion; each booth with an eager
throng of both sexes and of all ages around
it, which renders circulation difficult.
Private Thomas Atkins thinks it viii be
pleasant and easy to win q dollar or so from
the heather Chinee, but ere long he dis
covers that he has been bested, and that
the heather Chinee is infinitely too clever
for him.
What is that turmoil [ see in the dis
lance, with scuttling about of the crowd,
among whom two white-helmeted red coats
are conspicuously prominent? Enraged at
having been done at the native rouge ct
noir, they put in practice little lynch law,
tear down the fragile canvas booth, arm
themselves with the supporting bamboo
poles, clear a space by whirling them
around like the arms of windmill, i'm
partially rain down cracks on the skulls of
the unresisting surrounders, and then
quietly withdraw to more reputable part
of the course. Each party is perfectly salts
fed; the Chinese sharper gloats over his
tilched gains and the soldiers think they
have taken change in the vengeance they
have executed.
The fracas has scarcely interrupted the
| flow, or rather the torrent, of gambling.
The young imp, of about s years old, is
really q study of innate human nature in
this department of vice. He is gambling
for his dinner at the booth of a Wrinkled,
demoniacal, leathsome old male atrocity,
| and still more loathsome bag. A form OF
blind hockey" is, l fancy, the favorite
| form of vice. Coin after coin, each worth
about one-fifth of q farthing, he loses at his
ventures. The imp's face lowers, and his
| features become contorted with angry ex-
element; faster, faster he plays, regardless
of his fifths of farthings, until at last he
wins. With growl one would never have
| supposed that babyish throat could have
| emitted, he dashes on one side up to the
| tray of raw meat, seizes lump of horrible
garbage with singular dexterity by means
of chop-sticks, plunges it into kettle of
boiling rancid grease, and then rams the
| dreadful morsel into his throat His cheeks
are distended to near bursting, the tears OF
scalding suffocation stand in his eyes, and
| he nearly chokes but still he wears your
| thorough gamblers expression of delight at
having at last won. Childhood's innocence
| is not pretty sight out here. Are those
creatures really akin to English childhood?
| tCornhill Magazine.
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People Who Think Aloud

It is interesting sometimes to hear the
remarks people make who talk to them
selves while walking along the streets -
said a Pinkerton detective of the Cont
mental Hotel recently They are simply
thinking aloud The habit itself seems al
together foolish, but | can tell you the
tenor of some of the expressions is lust the
reverse. always make ii point to listen
to these one-side Conversations Now YOU
may consider that impoite, or even mean,
but in my business | don't think SO, for de-
tectives sometimes gain valuable informa-
ton by oyerhearing persons talk to them
selves. l remember, years ago. when | was
a private detective in this city, how cleared
up case just in that way Several thou
sand dollars had been stolen from promi-
nent merchant. He suspected his son, a
rather fast young man, and employed me
to find whether bis suspicious We're cor
rect. | Swallowed the young man closely
for weeks, but couldn't discover any good
reason for connecting him with the rob
berry. Finally, late one night, when | was
thinking about giving up the case noticed
him going up Chestnut street and heard him
talking to himself. ! got up close behind
him and listened, and in minute | knew
he was the thief. The affair worried him
and for relief he talked about it to himself
and thus gave the whole thing away. A
more important instance occurred to me in
New York about year ago. a little girl
was found murdered one morning in one
of the worst parts of the city. The child
had been smothered to death, and for sew
eral weeks | tried to discover the murderer
But ] found the person at last in q most
unexpected manner. 1t was in the winter,
and one bitter cold day as | was going
through Central Park | saw a woman
ahead of me going very strangely. She was
poorly dressed, and | thought at first that
she was intoxicated. She was throwing
her arms around wildly and talking to her
self You should have heard that woman.
She was raving about child that was muir
dered, and called on heaven to forgive her
for having killed it. Then she moaned out
something about the child having been
cold and freezing and starving, and she
couldn't see it suffer any longer soon
found out that she was the very person
was looking for. Well, arrested her, but
the poor thing died before her trial came
Oft. was glad she did. Philadelphia
Times
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Because. as he argued, the day might not
be far distant when your father would be
set free
With her eyes bent thoughtfully upon
the fire, Nina said "A very kind message
! How good OF him 10 think of melr
Ion
To think l should say. of my brother
Prosper. But
= But" Continued the old man, :. have
not finished yet"
| What more, monsieur ?"
! The old sailor, lowering bis tone, and
| speaking as though he had difficulty in not
betrayiag some agitation, continued Ii
! was the Coloners hope that neither of you
| would be respondent; that you would
rather indulge the fancy that you had
! heard that the ransom demanded by this
| Greek pirate had been paid that your
father had regained his liberty that be
had even started on his voyage home, and
was nearing the port of Marselles-"
Nins ciasped her hands and cried, in a
trembling voice. That is what dream
Of night and day."
Imagine, then, even imagine that the
ship has reached Marseilles-that it has
entered the harhor Nay figure 10 your
seif-though il may make your heart beat
painiully-hgure TO yourself a weather
beaten sailor entering your cafe late one
/ erening-a man with Q gray beard and
si.aky voice
But at this point the old sailor was in
terupted. Looking round, Nina uttered Il
cry of JOY and sprang up with outstretehed
arms and the word Father upon her
Hips.
1t YVES Captain Cornillon who had come
thus as a terribly trying surprise. Yet he
was 50 changed that even Nina had not
recognized him. But the recognition was
complete now. So, taking his daughter in
his embrace, the old sailor kissed her as he
had kissed her at their parting ten long
years ago.
Not many weeks elapsed before Colonel
Latont again made his appearance at Mar
sellles Prosper, who happened to be in
the harbor at the moment of his arrival,
accompanied him in triumph to the Cafe
Cornillou as soon as he landed
Nothing could exceed the gratitude
which was shown by the Captain and his
two children toward this young soldier,
who, on reaching Greece, had taken active
steps to obtain the old sailors release.
Years passed before Nina learned under
what difficulties Colonel Lafont formed
the resolution ofrestoring Captain Cornillon
to his family. For he was not a rich man
he had gained promotion from the ranks
as reward of bravery. and when he had
paid the ransom he had parted with nearly
all the money he possessed in the world.
But he loved Nina Cornillon. From the
moment when upon that stormy winters
night Colonel Lafont entered the cafe and
saw the girl standing by the hearth he had
never ceased to think of the dreamy face,
nor of the low, passionate voice in which
she had told him the sad episode in her
life.
These evants boDDana1 MANY wears aro
and Nina and her husband, Colonel AL
phonse Lafont-who became a General
before he was 40-should be old now, if
they are still living. But one thing is GER
tain-on the quay at Marseilles there still
stands the little cafe in appearance un-
changed, except that it is called Cafe Cor
nilon no longer.