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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-16
Wax and Its Uses.

"The most valuable product of the
work of bees is honey, but the most USE
full is wax" said a dealer in beeswax.
cit is used for all sorts of purposes in
medicine, in CLUES, in cements, and a
thousand other things. Makers of fancy
paper use it in coloing the paper; cut
lcrs use il to polish the handles of knives ;
jewelers. use it in waxing molds in
which they cast articles of jcwelry; tail
ors and shoemakers use it in waxing
threads; painters use it in cements; drug.
gists use it in hair oil, pomadc, salve,
up holes in their patterns with il. Much
of it is made into wax flowers, and flow
ers are dipped into melted wax to pre-
serve them.
at would probably be impossible to
ascertain the exact amount of wax
gathered in this country in year. OF
course an enormous amount is lost in
honey sold in the comb. The greatest
quantity comes from the West and South,
and it generally comes in small quanti-
ties from different villages. The farmer
strains his honey and bois his wax in
water, and when it is soft he pours it
off into any sort of pan. This makes it
come to us in all sorts of shapes. He
sells it to the village store, or a number
of the farmers club together and send
their supply of wax to dealer They
get about twenty-four cents a pound for
it.
"Clover honey makes yellow wax and
buckwheat honey dark wax. Sometimes
we find bees in the wax, but that does
not happen very often. The dealers sell
it for thirty-tiye cents pound.
'When wax is to be used for flowers
and several other purposes, it has to be
bleached in order to remove the color.
This is done by melting it and
allowing it to flow over horizontal
wooden cylinders revolving into and out
of cold water. The wax as it falls is
chilled into thin ribbons, which are laid
out on canvas and beached in the SUM-
This is repeated until it has become
quite white. 1t is then melted. strained
thu ough silk sleeves, and cast in molds
1t can, however, be bleucheG more quick
ly by the use of acids. 1t is sometimes
adulterated with starch, mutton suet
or stcarine, but this deceit can be readi-
ly detected. Wax is now being used in
the manufacture of artificial honey.
combs, in which the bees deposit the
honey, and thus escape the labor of
manufacturing the wax. A bee must
consume honey in order to make wax,
and when the wax is made ready for
him, he stores away the honey which he
should otherwise have eaten. Wax is
very often used in making wax models
and wax heads, but will probably be
supplanted in that direction by paper-
mache, as this is more durable. -Neo
Yerk Sun.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-16
SELECT SIFTINGS.

Well diggers in Dakota hunt for ant
hills. The wise insects always locate
over a vein of water.
Two tons of gold, worth 81, 400, 900,
are lost every year from the wear and
tear of commerce and personal use.
Nearly q half in number and two
thirds in circulation of the newspapers
of the world are printed in English
The largest ocean steamers burn on an
average about 4j0 tons of coal day.
From twelve to fifteen men are employed
as stokers.
On recently cleared land in Kansas red
clover was grown this season that was
seven feet high. and white clover five
feet six inches high.
On the island of Marago, at the mouth
of the Amazon, there is four footed
bird. In its growth one pair of legs
charge into wings by process similar
to that of the tadpole into the frog.
A $500 maidstone brought from Ireland
to New York has been in the possession
of the Piles family, of Sullivan county,
for 200 years. 1t is gray in color. is full
of pores, and seems to be as light as so
much paper. One thousand persons
have used it, and its present value is
$400.
The embalming of Lincoln's and Gar
fields remains failed. Some of the most
successful embalmers maintain that it is
impossible to preserve a body for any
length of time unless the method adopt
ed by the Egyptians is followed, which
requires primarily the removal of the en-
tire internal organism.
The ancient Egyptians, when they put
away their dead, wrapped them in cloths
saturated with asphaltum, and could
never have realized the fact that ages
after they had been laid in the tomb and
pyramids along the Nile, their dust
would have been used in painting pic
lures in country then undiscovered, and
by artists whose language was unknown
to them.
The Bible contains 1866, $50 letters,
$40, COZ words, 81, 173 verses, 1,1S4
chapters and &C books. The word "and'
occurs AS, 227 times, Lord" 1, 955 times,
"reverend" only once, and that in the
18th Psalm. The 27th chapter of Ezra
contains the alphabet. The 18th chap
ter of the I'd book of Kings and the 9th
chapter of Isaiah are alike. The first
man recorded as being buried in coffin
was Joseph-50th chapter of Genesis,
Goth verse.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-16

A small quantity of sassafras bark
placed among any kind of dried fruit or
dried beans will keep it free from worms
or bugs for years.
A piece Of soft newspaper and little
alcohol will clean windows and mirrors
quickly, and give nice polish. Paper
is better for the purpose, as the lint
from a cloth is not easily removed.
A Graham pudding is made by taking
one and one-half cup of Graham flour,
one half cup of sweet milk, one egg, one
teaspoonful of soda, one cup of raisns,
seeded. Add spice and salt to the taste,
and steam three hours. Serve with lemon
sauce.
To fry corn, cut the corn from the cob :;
put it in the spider with butter, half the
size of an egg; cover and cook fifteen
minutes, stirring occasionally, but add
ing no water. The steam will cook it,
if kept covered, Add salt, pepper and
a cup of cream when done.
Economy counts in the course of a
year, and the care of the kitchen utcn-
sis, the washtubs, ETC., is by no means
lost or useless. 1t is wise also, to look
after the fruit cans, when the fruit is
taken they should be washed in warm
suds, and should then have little soda
or ammonia put into them and be filed
with water, and allowed to stand for an
hour or two, then they should be rinsed
in clear water, and the rubbers and tops
all be taken equally good care of, so
that when they are needed next autumn
no loss may occur.
MANY persons who are in the habit of
freshening mackerel, or other salt fish,
never dream that there is right way
and wrong way to do it. Any person
who has seen the process of evaporating
going on at salt works, knows that the
salt falls to the bottom. Just so 1t is in
a pan where your mlckerel lies soaking
and as it lies with the skin side down,
the salt will fall TO the skin and there
remain; when if placed with the flesh
down the salt falls to the bottom of the
pan, and the fish comes out freshened as
it should be. In the other case it is
nearly as salt as when put in.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-16
Fruit All the Year Round.

Florida is the land OF fruit as we'll as
of flowers. A paper of that State says :;
"Commencing with January, we have
strawberries then until late in June.
Japan plums from February. Mulberries
are ripe in April and last until August.
Pineapples ripen in June and last nearly
all the year. We have guavas from
July until late the next spring. OF the
various berries -dewberries, black berries
and buckle berries almost any quantity.
Peaches from May until July. Melons
from June until late in the fall. Oranges
the best of the kind-from October
until the next June, with lemons and
lines, persimmons, pomegranates, grape
fruit and grapes.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-16
TRICKS ON THE TRACKS!
Dangers from which Enqiuears Save the
Public and Themselves.

The Rdittrdy ReUietD
One who is accustomed to railway travel
ing can scarcely realize how much he is de-
pendent for safety upon the engineer Added
to the responsibility of their station, engineers
are also in constant danger of accidents
caused by the tricks Of jealous rivals.
This rivalry, it is said sometimes prompts
to the doing Of utterly mean tricks. A Nickle
Plate engineer after his very first trip was
laid off because he had ''cut OUT all the bear
ings of his engine He was re-nstated, how
ever, after he proved that some rival had
filled his oiling can tcith enlerU Another new
engineer was suspended for burning out the
flues of his boiler. Through grief at the loss
of his position he died, and then q conscience
stricken rival confessed that he had PIT oil
IN the tank so that it foamed and showed
water at he top guage, when in reality there
was scarcely quart in the boiler!
These intense jeaousics, together with the
terrible anxiety incident TO their work. has
terribly straning effect on the nerve, and
statistics tell us that, though Locomotive En-
gineers may look strong and vigorous they
are not all a hearty class. Ex-Chief Engineer
A. S. Hampton, Indianapolis Ind, DIV. 143)
was one of those apparently hearty men. but
he says: THE anxiety, strain and jolting
came near finishing me-" His sufferings To-
Called in catarrh of the bladder, but he used
Warmers safe cure faithfully for twenty
weeks and now eXclailns, II am well
man." I. s. lngraham, OF Cleveland, Ohio,
assistant Chief engineer, and other prominent
members are also emphatic in its praise.
The Locomotive Engineers Brotherhood
has 1000 members and go divisions It's
headquarters is in Cleveland Ohio, where
Chief Engineer Arthur for twenty years has
exercised almost dictatorial sway. 1t was
organized in August, 1863 by the employees
OF the Michigan Central 1t has given nearly
two million dollars to the widows and orphans
nf Cnfl tlnr
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-16

of diseases follows an unhealthy condition of
the liver. one of the most important organs
of the body. Impure blood bronchitis, asth
ma, malarial diseases consumption, sick head
diseases of the skin, kidneys and heart-all
may be traced to faulty action or torpidity of
the liver. No other known preparation so
rapidly and thoroughly restores diSordered
liver as Dr. Pierc IS Golden Medical Discov-
cry" 1t is pleasant to the taste, mild but
sure in its action, and a gilt to suffering hui
manity from one of the most successful ply
SicianS of tho nrn.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-16

1.-THE German race, says Mr.. Talmage,
the preacher, telling of his travels from
which he has just returned, "have at
tanned wonderful state of developme mt,
both mental and physical You can talk
with q cab-driver on scientific subject
and get intelligent answers"
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-16

when visit or leave New York CITY, baggage,
eIpessage and So carriage hire, and stop the Grand
Union Hotel opposite Grand Central depot.
600 elegant rooms. fitted up at cost of mill on
dollars and upward per day European plan. Els
vator Restaurant supplied with he best Horse ctrs.
stages and elevated railroads N all dspots Families
can live better for less money at the Grand Union
Hotel than at any other first class hotel in the city
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-16
"Man's works from sun to sun;
~ pt,,n,'c ,x.a,.l- 10 ,,,x-o,. In,,a -

Work is necessity to all; but, upon how
many, women especially, does it fall with the
burden of the "last straw and this, because
their peculiarly delicate constitutions are so
liable to functional arrangement We can
not lessen your toll, ladies, but we can make
it easier for you, by making you stronger and
better able TO do it. DR.. Perce's "Favorite
Prescription will relieve you of nervous and
other Weaknesses and all the many ills pecu-
liar to VOIT sex
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-16

"The German race, says Mr. Talmage,
the preacher, telling of his travels from
which he has just returned, "have at
tanned wonderful state of development,
both mental and physical. You can talk
with cabdriver on a scientific subject
and get intelligent answers
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-16

The fetal number of Towering plants
now known in British North America
may be estimated at about 5000 species
against 10, 900 in the United States.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-16

CENTRAL PARK, New York, is two and a
half miles long and half a mile wide. 1t con-
tains S62 acres
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-16

AT Yallutsk, Siberia, the earth is always
frozen to u depth of over fifty feet.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-16

Delicate diseases as nervous debility and
premature weakness, however induced, radi-
cally cured Send 10 cents in stamps for
treatise. Worlds Dispensary Medical Asso-
citation, GG3 Main Street Buffalo, y. y.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-16

Valuable Horses are often lost through ig-
norance on the part of the owner, Send
% cents in stamps to Horseback Co., l34
Leonard St, n Y. City, and learn how to
detect disease and how to cure it, This may
save the life of your animal
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-16

MEN look sovenly with turnover heels.
Lyons Heel Stiifeners keep boots straight, 25c.
If afflicted with sore eyes use DR.. Isaac
Thompsons Eye Water. Druggists sell it. Poe.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-16
MrNsMAN,s PErroN1zrrAREEr TONIC. the {

BANQCETS given by court officials in China
sometimes reach seventy five courses.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-16

No Opium in Piso's Cure for Consumption
Cures whore other remedies fail 25c.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-16
DR.. RadVaY'S Regulating Pills

For the of all disorders of the Stomach, Liver
Bowels Kidneys, Bladder, Nervous Diseases. Female
Complaints, Loss OF Appetite. Headache COnstipa-
ton. Costiyeness, Indigestion Dyslelsia, Bilious,
ness Fever Iutammatlop of the Bowels Piles and all
arrangements ut the Internal Nscera. Purely veg
etable, containing no mercury or deeteriOuS drugs
Price, % cents per box. Sold by az druggists.
Send a letter stamp to DIR. RADWAN IL
CO., No ~ Warren street, New York, for
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-16

MENsMANs PEPToNHErtBEEF TONIC, the only
PREPARATION Object containingts entire utlrt-
tiouS properties. 1t contains blood making
force generating and DEMONSTRATING properties;
invaluable for Indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous
prostration, and all forms of general debility
also, in all enfeebled conditions, whether the
result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, over
work or acute disease particularly il resulting
from pulmonary complaints. Caswell Hazard &
Co., ProprietorS, New York Sold by druggists.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-16

Now is the time to prevent and cure Skin
Diseases, and to secure a white, soft and beau
tiful complexion use "BEESoN'S AROMATIC
ALUM SULPHUR SOAP" - cents by Drug
gist, or by mail. VIM Dreydoppel, Ihila., Pa
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-16

Learn here and earn good pay.
Situations furnished. Write
BROS, GAINESVILLE, Wis.
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90 Doses one Dollar
X. r. r..

rNIIE CHEAPEST AND BEST MEDICINE FOR
l. FAMILY Use IN THE WORLD.
In from one to- twenty minutes, never fails to
licNe PAIN with one thorough application. No mat
ter how violent eycrucinting the pain. the Rheu.
matte, Bedrdden. Intirm. Crippled, Nervous, Mem
ralgic or Frustrated with disease NAV suffer RAD
WAYS READY RELIEF will afford instant eas3. 1t
INSTANTLY rnli nYns nd
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-11-24
Tbs Test Of Intelligence,

Intelligence ought not to bs meas
ured after che volume OF she brain, NC.
cordins to pr. ElpoE, az other factors
enter int9. tho explsnatien of intel.
lsc,ual variation OF individuals and
races. There is q limit and q weight
below which tho brain ssases to bc IN
telligen!. Below 81 ounces It Ia the
moaE complete idiocy, bu. when the
weight nuetuates between 43 and Ga
Ouncea Ia tho case OF two men almost
squsl In intelligence, one 10 forced 20
cuncludo that the weight OF brain IL
not tho sole factor influencing the de-
velopmert Of mind.
The llo a,es IL tho weight Of brsin
OF some Celebrated men, in ounces:
Schiller, VI; SpuIzhsim, 81; Daniel
WsbstSI, 5l,s; Agassiz, 52I.; DR.. Cnsi
mers, 81; Greto, AMSTERDAM, 49s.;
Ubeweil, d9}. L.ibiS, Az. Thoss vi
Cromwell auu Byron are reported ia
hevo c1cssdad 90; Cuviet's wss 6iIi
onnces. The ordinary mean weight 81
human brain 10 49,s. Tho brain OF
Bennot., the physioian, weighed Il
ounces, ana that ot hbsrcionhie. the
uasurslist, 62,1, YsJ In whss did their
sum vi knowledge, not celebrity, re
q DO?
In what does intellectual superiority
consist2 Tho most lllusltious specisI-
lsts possess only email Intelligence,
hut that Is Eooo ,npaniad by great per.
esveranco OF tensclty. Loads of
leareed lumber In the head do not
sonstltu q intelligence. MsrioTy IL
not TO bo compared 10 tho creative
faonllV 40. q Ia "a nj ~,
state ideas and stizo their relations
that constitutes the formula to meas
ure Intelligence. IL was tho pss~ea.
sion OF this APTITUDE which made
0oetpe recognize the analogy boLween
tho Hover aud the Leaf; 0cken, be-
tween the skull aud tue yer abrm, aud
Davy between potash and the metallic
oxides. When Newton identiiied tina
TALL OF IN apple Win the attraction sx-
efciscd ON tho earth by ceiosilsl
b0diea, tho snmv faculty WAS brought
into play.
A distinguisbed msn can have u
smsn brein, tina latter even may want
Its complete development, and YET its
possossor can rive proof oil intelll-
gence. Cornellle, Byron and Alfred
DO Mussst wrote very remarkable
works though still, young. Agaiu, tho
brain OF some iniauts display ex,rsor-
dlusty precority. Al the ags OF 0
years Mozart climbed 30 tho piano 10
remain eevcral nours .playin hsrmo.
mics; ut o he composed minuets, very
accurate and melouious, whils mark
ing tho birth Of bis future style; Mt ~
ho composed hts hrst opera. Pascal,
when AGED IL years uuaided, worked
solutions up - the thirt, second prop.
ashton OF Euclid; at 10 hs wrote Ia
Latin mia famous treaties on comic acc
tiOns. MirAbsAu WAS an orator at q
ysars. and MonGs was q professor OF
phy sos At 10.
N. Leson sfIlrms the test Of supe.
fior intelligence lies Ia the gre ster vol.
June " the skull. but The skull Of geo.
logic men ate large, and prehistoric
man was net fenlaf kabls for intsill-
ssnce. Country have the heud lafgsr
Than city peepls. II An)lqelly, 9 IN
W. ~ ~ sss;sSsils iSaisIsssis
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Pa., aud p,..sn. r,ls...

AxoSaniuatlon made by Mr.. Seth
Reed, OF 'hiA city, into tho prIces of au.
ricul1arI products from 1910 TO is2s.
eo'b inclusive, as recorded IN the
pises OF The American Farmer, dis.
closes nunlhcr OF Interesting facts.
Present. piicee fVr thu articles incluu ed
10 the list may be .ts,sd NJ about as
follows; whnu from Is ssnts to 81 u,r
oushcl;coin from 70 to 50 cent, per
hushel, rye from 20 to ~ con,a psr
bushel os's from - ~ 80 cents ,,.s
bushel pntni ,ca siou 70 u, Is csnts Dor
pusheL o. tu,Tth % May, 1879. wussI
sllu Tor VI a0i earn Tor "a cents: rye Tor
w eonis; oats for FROM ~ 10 to esnfs;
potatoes fer 81. Cnrsidera.
pie changes, H. will be sbsrr, sd.
nave ocosrfed In the past - years, On
THESE chsnga- hardly exceed the nuct.
asttons cf pflcs which 1t the begin.
ming Of the century ofiSr took place
within ios months. Faculties n.r
transportation rere defective, and The
as0sa from which euppiioo voSe drawn
comparatively etnslis The result beinx
that ~ Tho epfieR months psIoes al
tanned eeuros that were RpSoilv lers
enod when The sros,e were kasvesla6.
On Apsll q 1Hio. 1cr oaamolo wheat
suld ief q = pr bosAeI ed ~ a r
eonsa chile On Auaool = II - nsrSs
|3s 81: : |: E. !
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TEXAS KILOGRAMS.
WRECK ON THE SANTA FE ROAD.
Matters at Cotsicsna--The wichita
Falls Postmaster Indieted-Tha
TRAMP Hai,snco at Ri Paso.
Notes Frsm westhsrford,
Osher State News.
sbenisor.

DRN1soN, Nov. 3.-Ispeoial.j-
Prairie Ares ara not only common but
destructive now along the river on tho
Texss,as wsli a. the Territory side, A
few days ago Mr.. Munsou's pasture
near this city, ~ss burned over.
At Kyle station, in tho Territory, on
the line OF tho Missouri Pacific rail.
way, on Saturday last, the prairie took
lire from some unknown cause, Pre-
sumably 8 passing looomn'ive, aud
burned over - large area of 6uN qrs.n
iano, ana II sun vending i;e way with
inc stsr OF empi'e westwgrd. Messy,.
Black, Cutters & Lavo mad
lOO TOM of hav la
bslas STORED In shed 4sxl5e feet In
size, with ssingle roof, NJ KYLE, all Of
which, tcs1shsr with an e1uine. Raw
presses sud two DWELLINGS ver'
5000. " '''A'
IL appears wa ara TO have no slsctiau
Tor city secretary after sll, ss sn
aGeSdmesr 10 the law requires tina
mayor a ID city council To sil vsc.n
Gien that msy sscuT Ia she Office. There
Will now ns e. least Ehrse men ia ,hc
city who will feel assured inst ne 40.
pointos could never have got the Office
II no had x no before yhe psople Tor
their suffrSgss.
Rsv. IL. VI. Whsling, pastor OF tho
Presoyterian church, VIII leave to-
morrow for Memphis 70 meet his fam
lily, who have beon Expanding the sum
mer in Fennagsgo Ue will he goue
about three weeks.
L. V. MuESpn, one az our local
nursery seen, Is shipping fruit trees 10
the Pacific H0ast 10 i'll orders from
Oregon aud California.
Twenty-seve0 fhOussnd three hun
drcd OF the $4,000 required 10 secure
tho esttGp mid ~ lhla place are Sc
cured, and the committee has not .een
all OF our liberal, photographed men
yet, either H. now looks as IL the
mill would come.
Msssr5. N5rr's d. Wellage have just
completed an India ink blrds.eye
sketch o. DsniaoD. whioh thsy arc 10
have litbogr4pbed
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Wichita rNIla.

WICHITA FALLS, Nov. 28,-ISpecial.
-A.'D.sAcres, formerly postmaster OF
this city, and who was arrested upon
. charge Of opening lsttsru, and against
when the jury at Graham failed to
lind an Indictment, was rearrosted to-
day upon the same charge. 1Ddict-
meat was found by the jury In session
at Waco, and Acrcs' trial will tOks
place IA Grahsm in Msrch. The arrest
was not surprise 10 any one, for
knowing tho feelirg Of the prosecution
In tho matter, nothing else was antiol-
pAtcd. Acres expresses the desire
that tho msttor may be settled by the
courts and hnally disposed OF.
MIR. /. Jailonics, Of this city, today
began the erection Of two large brick
buildings on seventh street. The work
will be pushed rapidly 10 completion.
Tho cost ~ expected 10 exceed several
thouaspd dollsrs. T, J. Black q Son
and II. W. Johnarn are also erecting
two handsome two-story brick stof.
rooms,