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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-05-08
Meals in Brazil.

A traveller in Brazil writes: "Outside
of a few houses and hotels in Rio, Brazil
ians eat the same kind of food at every
meal. There are usually placed on the
table, either at breakfast or dinner, a
dish of boiled pork, chiefly fat; a dish
of scraps of meat, stewed in pork fat
sometimes another dish of stcwed scraps
with a sort of jam and cabbage; some
times q chicken, at first boiled in water
and afterward stewed in pork fat; a
dish OF black beans stewed in pork fat;
a dish of maize, dried and powdered; q
times a dish Of powdered mandioca root.
There is no bread; there are no vege-
tables of any kind except the cabbag",
black beans and yam root; there is no
salad; there are no condiment or herbs
in the cooking, not even black pepper,
unless especially requested; there is no
cruet stand there are no spices, no
sauces; there is no mutton, no veal;
there are no joints Of beef, no beefsteaks,
no outlets, no chops, no pieces from any
recognizable portion of bullock or sheep;
nothing but mangled pieces of lean,
stringy and flabby meat stewed in pork
fat. There is no fresh fish, there is no
dried fish, such as mackcrel, ha|ibut, cod
or salmon; there are no onelets, pan
cakes, corn-cakes, pies, puddings, or, in
deed, anything else but what are men
toned above. 1t is an unweaI ying round
of pork fat, black beans and rice or
mealio. These viands are eaten by mix
ing a portion of each in the plate, stirring
up the mess until it has every appearance
of food, loading up the knife with it
well down to the handle, and thrusting
the blade into the throat until it can go
no further.
There are no spoons or forks for the
dishes. Each man or woman sticks his
W knife into the dish, Knives arc
never cleaned on a board, only with a
dish cloth. The kitchen rarely has g
flooring; never n range, stove or oven,
and never a chimney. The floor is of
earth; the cooking apparatus consists OF
two rows of mud bricks straddlcd by a
tile and furnished with a few earthen
pipkins; and the chimney is the whole
room. There is no frying pan, no grid
iron, no soup pot, no kitchcncrs. 1t is
impossible to roast, to bake. to fry or To
broil. Food can only be boiled or stewed,
The fuel is sticks Of timber ten to fifteen
feet long, gradually showed into the fire as
the ends burn off. 1t is impossible 20
heat a fiat iron. Clothes are ironcd with
a hollow iron filled with hot wood ashes.
There is no running water; there are no
pipes conducting water into the house.
Water is brought in jars on the heads of
degraded looking women. Europe in
the middle ages was a paradise compared
to Brazil of to-day. if personal comfort,
clothing, food. cooking. means of com
munication and the habits Of the people
resulting from these circumstance be
taken as the gauges of comparison"
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What "COnsOls" Are.

In speaking of c%onsols, most people
think they include the entire national
debt of England. This is a mistake, for
there is only a little more than half a
debt, strictly speaking, included under
that head. The name conso,s is, as
nearly every one is aware, merely a cor
traction or term that has got into use in
the brief way Of speaking used on the
stock exchange. The full official title Of
the portion of the public debt called
consols is "The consolidated three per
cent. reduced annuities," and they have
grown to their present enormou proper
tons, some $3.50, 600, 900 sterling, as in
deed the whole debt has, from compare
lively small beginnings, by fits and
starts, and through gradual processes of
mourning floating debts to meet emer-
gencies and the subsequent funding of
the same in permanent shape at low rates
Of interest.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-05-08

the mantel, nor sit with folded arms and
knitted brows. They just sit carelessly
and easily at a table like other folks,
toying with penholders, tearing scraps
of paper, or drumming on their port
folios.
There is no set form in which the coun-
ellis begin or continue. The subjects
discussed suggest themselves. Opinions
are passed ali around the boards, and
nearly every member has something to
add to the common fund of information.
The President has always two or three
vexatious questions on hand to submit to
his councillors.
The political history of the past half
century is full of quarrels and discussions
in the cabinets of various Presidents, but
these outbreaks, as a rule, have not oc-
Cured at stated meetings of the cabi-
net. There have been instances where
members became so hostile to n an
other that one or the other would stay
away from cabinet meetings, and many
cases where personal relations were so
strained that only icy formalities were
passed by way of greeting; but as a
whole the sessions of the Presidents with
their advisers have been pleasant and
without remarkable incident.-NeW YORK.
Sun.
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A PRESIDENTS ADVISERS.
A LOOK AT A CABINET AS 1T AP-
PEARS WHEN IN SESSION.
The Cabinet Room i'm the Whit
HOuSe-What IL Done ut n Cabinet
Meeting.

hhOtdNt-N Ia Is lBOItcs -
Meeting.
President Cleveland changed one of
the cabinet days from Friday to Thurs
day, and now meets his constitutional
advisers on Tuesday and Thursday of
each week. This is the only change
that has been made. The forms that
have been observed for half a century
and more on cabinet days are still undis-
turbed. The hour of meeting is ~
o'clock noon, and the room is the same
that has been used for the meetings
since Lincoln's time. 1t is the room i'm
mediately at the head of the stairs lead
ing to the business part of the White
House. On the right as you enter is the
door leading to the library, where the
President receives his visitors, and on
the left is the private secretary's office, to
reach which you have to climb two or
three steps.
The cabinet room is open to visitors at
all times when the cabinet is not in ses-
sion. 1t is a plain room With no strik-
ing feature about it. Its two large win.
dows, extending from ceiling to floor,
command a lovely view of the sweeping
lawns, the monument and the shining
Potomac beyond. The interior is simplici-
ty itself. The walls are painted in a drab
tint, the ceiling is frescoed with flowers
and cherubs, and a mantel of cinnamon
colorcd marble surrounds a capacious
fireplace, where hickory logs are usually
blazing cheerily. A lowered Brussels
carpet with a black and red background
covers the floor, and gray silk rep cur
tains hang at the windows. Between the
windows hangs an oil portrait of John
Hampden, a label on which informs us
that it is reputed to be a Vandyck. On
the opposite wall is a portrait of Wash
ington, by Cadena, the South American
artist, which was presented to the gov
eminent in Hayes time. A large BIRDS
eye view photograph of the city is over
the door leading to the President'sroom
Maps of the United States and of South
America and Washington hang on the
remaining walls. In one corner stands
a large school globe, and in another is a
revolving bookcase of modern inven-
ton, which is filed with revised stat
utes, dictionaries, and various public
documents. Near the door to the Presi-
dents room stands a small walnut secre-
tary, and near the windows a small wal
nut table to match. The lounge near
the door leading to the hall and the
dozen chairs distributed about the room
are Of walnut upholstered with lowered
raw silk to match the carpet.
The table around which The cabinet is
seated is an %octagonal affair of black and
French walnut in the fashion of twenty
years ago. 1t has a profusely carved
central leg and legs at the corners. 1t
is covered with billiard cloth. The
eight armchairs that surround it are all
alike, of walnut with rep upholstering.
The cabinet looks like this when it is in
session around the table:
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President

Atty General

Very little formality attends the meet
ings. The members generally come
singly, rarely in pairs. Each always car
ries under his arm a portfolio such as
lawyers use for papers, only the cabinet
portfolios are more ~antiquated thar
those affected by lawyers-as old proba-
bly, as Senator Evarts' hat. The cabinet
portfolio is a thing of calfskin, about
24X20 inches. 1t has a single pocket
covered by a flap. 1t has no lock, but
is fastened by two straps and buckles.
Some of these portfolios are probably a
hundred years old, and the greater mum
Der have seen from a quarter to half a
century. The newest is exactly like the
oldest in pattern, and each is lettered
with a stencil to indicate to what de-
partment it belongs.
Each member Of the cabinet shakes
hands with all the others when he ar
rivcs. The President usually comes in
after nearly all his counselors have ar
rived. lie shakes hands with them all
around and chats with them for a mo-
ment. and then takes his seat at the head
of the table, his advisers taking their
places in the order indicated in the dia-
gram. The session begins at II o'clock
exactly, whether the members have all
arrived or not. The President does not
rap the meeting to order, and it is wholly
informal throughout. No vote is taken
on any question. If the President wants
:he individual opinion of his advisers on
any subject, he asks for it, but he de-
cides the question in his own way, with
out regard to whether a majority of his
advisers is for or against his views. No
minutes are kept of cabinet meetings,
and, as no reporters are present, the pro-
ceedings are never given in detail. An
ex-cabinet official says the public loses
little by the observance of secrecy, for
the talk is discursive and f~ragmentary
and would not be read if published.
Nevertheless all necessary precautions
are taken to prevent the proceedings of
cabinet meetings from being overheard.
and a full report of one has not been
published since the days when Webster
was secretary Of state. An enterprising
correspondent of that day in some way
contrived to get into an adjoining room,
where he could oveThear every word.
Mr.. Webster himself discovered the leak
after several meetings had been reported,
and ever since the rooms have been care
fully watched.
Imagine what eight bank directors or
an equal number of asylum trustees ON
pretty good terms with one another
would do if hut up in a back room
away from public gaze, and some notion
probably can be formed OF what a cabi-
net meeting is like. All the pictures
that are made of cabinet groups are alb
surdities. The secretaries do not stand
in tragic attitudes with hands thrust in
the breasts of close-buttoned coats, nor
do they stand with an elbow resting on
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-05-08

The Paris new postofice cost So, 600,
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-05-08
Big Animals.

Take the gigantic moa of New Zea-
land, that ,3oTmous bird who was to
the ostrich as the giraffe is to the ante
lopc; q monStrous emu, as far surprising
the ostriches of to-day as the ostriches
surpass all the other fowls of the air.
Yet the moa, though now extinct, is IN
the strictest sense quite modern, a con-
temporary very likely of Queen Eliza.
beth or Queen Anne, eXterminated by
the Maoris only a very little time be-
fore the first white settlements in the
great southern archipelago. 1t is
even doubtful whether the moa
did not live down to the days Of
the earliest colonists, for remains of
Maori encampments are still discovered,
with the ashes of the fireplace even now
unscattered and the closc-gnawed bones
of the gigantic bird lying in the very
spot where the natives left them after
their destructive feasts. So, too, with
the big sharks. Our modern carcharo-
don, who runs to 40 feet in length, is a
very respectable monster indeed, as
times go; and his huge swapping teeth,
which measure nearly 2 inches long by
II broad, would disdain to make two
bites of the ~able-bodicd British
But the naturalists of the challenger"
expedition dredged up from the ooze
of the Pacific similar teeth. 5 inches long
by 4 wide, SO that the sharks to
which they originally belonged must,
by parity of reasoning, have
measured nearly 100 feet in
length. This, no doubt, beats
our biggest existing shark, the r~hinodon,
by some thirty feet. Still, the ooze of
the Pacific is a quito recent or almost
modern deposit, which is even now be-
ing accumulated on the sea bottom,
and there would be really nothing aston
ishing in the discovery that some repre-
sentatives of the colossal carcharodons
are to this day swimming about at their
lordly leisure among the coral reefs Of
the South Sea islands. That very
cautious naturalist, DIR. Gunther, of the
British museum, contents himself indeed
by merely saying: GAS we have no
record of living individuals of that bulk
having been observed, the gigantic
species to which these teeth belonged
must probably have become extinct with
in a comparatively recent PERIOD Corn
hall.
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A Matter of Situation.

II you will stop to reflect, you will see
that the American, as a rule, forsekes
the sea, while the English city builds
close about its banks. The English city
and the English as a people look out
forever on the sea. We turn our backs
to it. For example, look at our Battery,
in New York-the finest sea view in all
the world, this side of Naples. Yet the
grass is entirely untrodden there, save
by a few old British sea captains. All
natural and proper enough, of course.
The burly islanders were born a race of
seamen. They must live upon the sea,
and so they love it. We have roomy
lands to live upon, and so turn from the
sea.-Joaquih Miller.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-05-08
American Fables.

A Pair of Lions, who were travelling
across the country in search of Food,
came upon a Man who had fallen Asleep
in the Grateful Shade OF a Tree. One Of
the Lions observed that the Hunter was
probably an Artist.
81 beg to Differ with you" replied the
other. ''He is doubtless a Poet"
81 say Artist"
81 say Poet!'
''You must be Blind"
"And ! know you are Idiotic"
"Gou Lie"
$50 do you."
And they Rushed upon each other and
Administered many Grievous Bites. The
sounds of combat Awoke the Man and
Warned him to Skip.
Moral: II never Question the Color of
a Hen" said a Fox who Witnessed the
Quarrel, ''being more than Thankful to
get the Meat"
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-05-08

Secretary
of State
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The Crows, having Discovered a Field
Descended upon it in Such Numbers
that every hill was at length opened and
every Grain Devoured. When Autumn
came there was a great Dearth of food,
and a Delegation of Crows went to a Ra-
ven to Secure his Opinion and Advice.
My Opinion, Gentlemen" said the
Raven, sis that if you hadn't Devoured
the Spring Seed YOU would have plenty
to eat of the Autumn Crop, and my Adj
vice is for you to get your Stomachs in
trim for ~Shrinkage."
Moral: lie who takes no heed of the
morrow must Expect Disaster. Detroit
ETee PreSS.
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nobleman who had spoken disrespecful.
ly of the moon or of some other object in
which the learned Tyche was interested.
Hence a duel with loss of nose. His
golden nose made him look like a wiz.
ard, they say"
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Secretary
of the
Treasury.

Secretary
of the Navy.
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BURDOCK BLOOD BITTERS
WHAT IS IT


Astrictly vegetable prepara-
ton, composed of a choice and
skillful combination of Ma
lures best remedies. The dis
coverer does not claim it a cure
for all the ills, but boldly war
rants it cures every form of
disease arising from a torpid
liver, impure blood, disordered
kidneys, and where there is a
broken down condition of the
Syste m, requiring a prompt
and permanent tonic, it never
fails to restore the sufferer.
Such is BURDOCK BLOOD
BITTERS. Sold by all drug
gists, who are authorized by
the manufacturers to refund
the price to any purchaser who
is not benefited by their use.
FOSTER, MlLBURN G CO.,
Props, Buffalo, N. Y.
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The British Court Journal tells of a
plan to rig a parasol over the heads of
soldiers in the Soudan to keep of the hot
rays of the sun.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-08-18
Notice No. 1871

UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, August 6, 1886.
NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
~ heirs OF Isaac s. Waterman, deceased, BY
Simon Bamberger, administrator, have made
application for United States patent for the
Sovereign mining claim, situate i'll Ophir Min
ing District, TOoele county, Utah Territory,
consisting of 1000 linear feet of the lode, and
surface ground 40 feet wide, being Lot No. 155.
and described in the field notes and plat OF the
official survey on file in this office, with mag
netic variation at 10 degrees 10 minutes east, a.
follows: Commencing at the discovery point
on said claim, and running thence south de-
the southerly end line of the claim; thence
north SO degrees west 20 feet 10 Post No. 1, the
point of beginning of exterior bounds; thence
south IS degrees east 40 feet 10 Post No .:
thence north degree 40 minutes east l 200 feet
TO Post No. 9; thence north SO degrees west l40
feet TO Post No. 4; thence south degree 40 min
utes west 200 feet to Post No. l. the place OF
beginning of exterior bounds, containing l.61
acres, after excluding the area in conflict with
the Shoe Fly, Lot 1l9, l7-l00 acres; Selah, Lot
l48, 36-l00 acres; Eureka, Lot lbs, 21-l00 acres;
Weston, Lot 100, 5l-100 acres. From Post No
of this claim U. s. NJ. ~ No. bears north 76
degrees 50 minutes west 1882 feet distant.
The said mining claim being of record in the
office OF the recorder OF the Rush Valley Min
ing District, at Stockton, in ToOele county.
Utah, having been recorded In said district
prior to the date when said mining claim was
inc uded within the limits OF the Ophlr Mining
District The nearest known locations being
the Shoe Fly Selah, Eureka and Weston.
direct that this notice be published In the
SALT LAKE EVENING DEMOCRAT, the newspaper
published nearest the said mining claim, Tor
WIG p''''' II. McMAsTER, Register.
K. L. HOWARD, Attorney for Applicant.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-08-18
Application for Patent.
Notice No. 1871

UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, July p. 1885.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT DEN
~ mis- C. Murphy and the heirs OF Samuel
Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, have made ap-
plication for q United States patent for the
Murphy No. mining claim situate In Little
Cottonwood Mining District Salt Lake county,
Utah Territory, consisting of 464 linear feet OF
the lode, and surface ground 100 feet wide, be-
ing Lot No. IT. and described in the field notes
and plat OF the official survey on file IN this
Office with magnetic variation at Is degrees 10
minutes east, as follows: Commencing at the
discovery point OF the Murphy No. 9 mining
claim, and running 50 degrees 10 minutes W
S74 feet TO the center OF the westerly end line OF
said claim, and thence y degrees so minutes
so feet to Post No. l; thence degrees 60
degrees 10 minutes l.464 feet to Post No. 3;
thence s degrees 30 minutes f 100 feet to
Post No 4; thence 50 degrees 10 minutes W
I,464 feet to Post No. OF the exterior boundary
lines of the surface ground OF the said mining
claim, containing an area of 233S acres, after
excluding therefrom the areas in conflict with
the following named mining claims, 10 wit:
Lot 81, Honey Comb, 0.43 acres; Lot 81, Cincin-
natl, 0002 acres: Lot 1SS, Alta, O % acres; Lot
143, Ravine, % acres and Lot 1853 Real Estate
0,15 acres From Post No l U. s. N. NJ No bears
u degrees Is minutes W l ,S51.2 feet distant
The said mining claim being OF record in the
Office OF the Recorder OF said mining district al
Alta, in Salt Lake county, Utah. The nearest
known locations being the Cincinnati. Alta
Ravine, Calcutta, Honey Comb and Real Estate
mining claims.
/ direct that this notice be published IN tho
SALT LAKE EVENING DEMOCRAT. the newspaper
published nearest the said mining claim, for
the period OF sixty days.
II. McNIAsTER, Register.
BIRD 4 LOWE, Attorneys for Applicants.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-08-18
PATENT NOTICES.
Application for Patent.
Notice No. 1851


UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE.
SALT LAKE CITY, Titan, July %, 1885
NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT DEN
Kahn, deceased, whose poStOfiee address is
Salt Lake City, Utah Territory have made ap-
plicatiOn for United States patent for the
River Lee mining claim, situate In Little Cot
tonwood Mining District, Salt Lake county,
Utah Territory, consisting of 30j linear feet Of
the lode, and surface ground 100 feet wide be
ing Lot No. III, and described in the field notes
and plat OF the official survey on file in this
office, with magnetic Tariation at IS degrees 10
minutes east as follows: Commencing at the
discovery point OF the said mining claim, and
running 81 degrees 10 minutes w US feet To
the center OF the westerly end line Of the claim
Post No. 1; thence degrees 80 minutes w 100
feet to Post No. .; thence n 80 degrees 10 min
utes 1906 feet to Post No. g; thence de-
greeS 90 minutes 100 feet to Post No. 4; thence
50 degrees 10 minutes W ,S05 feet to Post No
OF the exterior boundary lines of the surface
ground OF this claim, embracing an area of 2 7Ol
acres, after excluding therefrom the area in
conflict with Lot 20, the Live Yankee mining
claim, 0O61 acres, and Lot 13S, the Alta mining
claim, 0.234 acres. From Post No. Z. s. NJ NJ
No. 3 bears &c degrees q minutes " 1850 feet
distant. The said mining claim being OF record
in the office of the Recorder of said mining dis
nearest known locations being the Murphy.
Live Yankee and Alta mining claims.
direct that this notice be published In the
SALT LAKE EVENING DEMOCRAT, the newspaper
published nearest the said mining claim for
the period o; sixty days.
II. McMASTER. Register.
BIRD & LOWE, Attorneys for Applicants.