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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-03-27
WISE WORDS.

Nothing hinders the constant agree
ment of people who live together but
vanity and seltishness. Let the spirit of
humility and benevolence prevail and
discord and disagreement would be ban
ished from the household.
The philosopher and lover of man
have much harm to say of trade; but the
historian will see that trade was the prin-
ciple of liberty; that trade planted Amer
lea and destroyed %feudaIism; that it
makes peace and keeps peace.
We often think we are of great i'm.
portancc to certain people; that they
must be thinking of us and our affairs;
that they watch our actions and shape
their course accordingly. In genera it
IS not so; we are quite mistaken.
When we are in company of sensible
men, we ought to be doubly cautious of
talking too much, lest we lose two good
things-their good opinion and our own
Improvement; for what we have to say
we know, but what they have to say we
know not.
We must never imagine that it is only
the poor and unfortunate who need our
services. We have some power for good
over all with whom we mingle, and our
benevolent desires will multiply and
strengthen in proportion us they culmi-
nate in wise action.
Real forgiveness is that which we ac-
cord to a child no has been naughty
and now is penitent. Forgiveness is the
right thing from us all to each other.
Full of faults and shortcomings as we
know ourselves to be, cannot we forgive
the like frailties in others2
Moral beauty cannot ~co-exist with
radical effects Of principle. The char
acter that is unable to resist temptation
or unwilling to cling faithful to duty is
no more truly beautiful, whatever be its
generous impulses or amiable traits, than
II figure which cannot support its own
weight. Parts of it may be admirable;
but, as a whole, as a unity, it cannot be
rightly called n beautiful character, for
it lacks the foundation.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-03-27
IOO Doses One Dollar
DueIs Among the BedOuins.

The Bedouins have a strong feeling of
personal dignity, and are quick to resent
insults. Duels of a peculiar kind are not
uncommon, always supervised hy the
elders of the tribe, who never permit
them to come to a fatal termination.
Sometimes the two adversaries, separated
by two parallel ropes about a yard apart,
are armed with courbashes "a fearful
whip, made Of hippopotamus hide, which
brings the blood with every cut, and
they are encouraged to slash each other
until their wrath is cooled. In more
serious cases the combatants are seated
fiat on the ground, face to face, and as
close as they can get. One single knife
is given to the one who wins the first
cut, after which he passes it to his adj
versary, who strikes the second blow,
and so on alternately, They are forbid
den to strike at a vital part, and while
they are slashing each others arms, legs,
thighs, and shoulders, NOT without a
sort of chivalrous courtesy, the judges
of the combat watch each stroke that is
given, and when in their opinion enough
blood has been shed, they rise and sepa-
rate the adversaries, who proclaim them
selves satisfied, and return quietly to heir
tents to have their wounds dressed.-
CeHturU,
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-03-27
WhalebOne.

The market price of baleen is exceed
ingly variable, depending on the fashion
of the day. 1t is not so valuable now as
used to be the case some years ago, steel
having superseded it for many purposes.
The price may range from $500 to $3.50
per ton, and a good whale ought to pro-
duce about two IONS. In 1914 a single
vessel sold her cargo of baleen and oil
for 50, sos. but such times are not likely
to return. Mineral oils have now sup
planted train oils for many purposes, and
perpetual hunting has diminished the
numbers as well as the size of the
whales, no animal having II chance of
attaining its full dimensions before it is
harpooned. " Often nowadays a whal-
ing ship returns ''clean," i. e.,
without having captured a single
whale, so that, what with the
lessened prices and diminished num-
bers and dimensions of the animals,
whaling has become almost q lottery in.
stead of a solid investment of capital,
and few shipowners care to run such a
risk. Furnished with its wonderful
horny sieve, the Greenland whale has no
difficulty in procuring its food. With
mouth more or less open it swims back
ward and forward through the shoals of
the Clio, which mostly are found near
the surface. The water escapes freely
between the horny plates and lining
fringe, while the animals are detained
within the cage. When it wishes to
swallow the prey which it has caught i,
employs its tongue, which is not less
remarkable than the rest of the whales
structure. The tongue is not free except
at the base, as with mammals generally,
80 hat it is impossible for the animal to
protrude its tongue from its mouth. The
tongue is fixed by nearly the whole
of its edge. so that it can only
be protruded upward. | once had
an opportunity of examining the tongue
of a small baleen whale which had been
cast ashore. 1t was of great size, smooth
on the surface, and l could not help
thinking that it was very like a soft,
well-stuffed pin cushion. Ipressed upon
its center with my tiagers, and found
that a pit was formed which rapidly
filled with oil. Then | took a hammer
and pressed the head of it on the tongue.
The pit formed by the pressure became
deeper and larger, and filed SO fast with
oil that not only was the whole Of the
hammer submerged in the oil, but my
hand and wrist also. The ignorance
which prevailed in former days on this
subject is amusingly exemplified in the
document which constituted the whale a
royal fish, "Thc king himself shall
have the head and body to make owl and
other things, and the queen the tayl to
make whalebones for her royal vestment."
- L~ongman's Magazine.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-03-27
ImnOsed InOn.

Representative White, of Kentucky,
while Speaker of the House, in the
Twenty-seventh Congress. was so pressed
with business that when he had to de-
liver his valedictory he got one of those
men who are always on hand to make a
little money to write his address. 1t
was handed him just 3 little while be
fore the time he had to deliver it, and
he put it into his pocket without read
ing. When the time came he arose, and,
slowly unfolding the manuscript, read
the address. 1t was very brilliant, but
it was Aaron Burns famous valedictory
to the Senate. The Speaker never re-
covered from the shock. lie went home,
was taken very i'll, and it is supposed he
killed himself for shame.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-03-27
ScrOfuIa HumOr

Turks In the blood Of nearly every one, and ia liable,
upon slight provocation. to develop in painful and dis
agre .able forms. Consumption is undoubtedly scrofula
of the lungs. No remedy has been more successful
than Hoods Sarsaparilla in thoroughly cleansing the
blood and Graduating every form of scrofula from the
human system.
Having used Hoods Sarsaparilla the past sir or
soven months for scrofula and pimples on my face,
which l have had for IL years or more. I can recon-
mend the medicine to every one similarly troubled. con.
fdent that they will be benefited by ftp. A. d.
cHEsHE, Northampton. Mass.
81 have taken Hoods Sarsaparlla and found il BEN
efcial for pimples on tho face and impure blood -
CHARLES GRAIN, Portsmouth, o.
For seven years, spring and fall, I had scrofulous
sores come out on my legs, and for two years was not
free from them at all. 1 suffered very much. Last
May began taking Hoods Sarsaparilla. and before I
had taken two bottles the sores healed and the humor
left me. e A. ARNOLD, Arnold, Me.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-03-27

Mrs. A. M. Dauphin, a Quaker lady, Of
Philadelphia, has done a great deal to make
known to ladies there the great value of Mrs.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, as a cure
for their troubles and diseases. She writes
as follows: "a young lady of this city while
bathing some years ago was thrown violently
against the life lire and the injuries received
resulted in an ovarian tumor which grew and
enlarged until death seemed certain. Her
physician finally advised her to try Mrs.
Pinkham's Compound. She did so and in a
short time the tumor was dissolved or caused
to slough off, and she is nov in perfect
health. l also know of many cases where
the medicine has been of great value in pre-
venting miscarriage and alleviating the pains
and dangers of childbirth. Philadelphia la
dies appreciate the worth of this medicine
and its great value.n
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-03-27
SELECT SIFTINGS.

The eyes of a bee contain 1, 900 mirrors.
The longest legitimate word in the
English language is disproportionable-
ness.
Custom compels an Icelander ,.n his
native island to kiss every woman he
meets.
A violin played near a flock of geese
will start them into a grand march about
a circle.
A man grows in stature up to his
fftieth year, although the growth is very
slow after twenty.
In the time of Herodotus GAO B. O.
chickens were hatche1 artifcially, in
underground ovens, which contained
six thousand eggs. So you can hardly
claim this as a Yankee invention after
all.
Turkey took its name from the Turks
or Turcomans, which signifies wander
ers, and originally belonged to the
Scythians or Tartars. 1t is sometimes
called the Ottoman Empire, from Ohio
man, one of their principal leaders.
1t is said that the largest organ in the
world has been built by Walck, of
Ludwigsburg, and placed in the cathedral
of Riga. 1t measures in width, thirty
two feet from back to front and sixty-five
feet in height. 1t has not less than
1886 pipes, distributed among 1874 sound
ing stops.
Harrison Hahn of Wind Gap, Penn,
has a two-ycar-old daughter whose ears
are bent forward and grown fast to the
face. The girl was dcformed when born.
Both ears are without the orifce, but
deafness is prevented by the girl hearing
every sound, no matter how light, through
her nose and mouth.
A bridge at Lyons, France, has a
stone parapet, pierced at intervals for
light, forming a passage which plays the
part of a gigantic flute. The rush of the
air currents through the openings causes
the bridge to emit such sounds of music
at different parts of its course that zone
might believe it haunted by legions of
invisible naiads pursuing the passengers
with their plaintive melodies"
Professor Fischer, of Munich, is said
to have obtained from distilled coal a
white crystalline powder which, in its
action on the system. cannot be dis
tinguished from quinine. Its efficacy in
reducing fever heat is thought to be re-
markable, though one of our wholesale
druggists says that the amount of the
drug required to produce this effect is so
large as to preclude any rivalry between
it and genuine quinine.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-03-27

We can give hundreds Of testimonials as 60 positive
cures ofscrofula, some Of them cases gwen up as abso-
lutely incurable. Take Hoods Sar saparilla and you
will be secure from scrofulA.
Three years ago scrofula broke out on my face,
head and ears so they were one solid sort. my hair
fell off, my sight and hearing were impaired. l COM
menced taking Hoods Sarsaparilla, and in one year
was entirely cured."-MRs. MARY Il. PARKMAN, DeI-
ter, Me.
Il have been troubled with ~scrofula a great deal,
and was advised to use Hoods Sarsaparilla. I have
now taken three bottles and have nearly eradicated
the scrofula from my w. A. PERRY,
Bourne. Mass.
II had four scrofulous sores come on my feet. which
grew 30 bad that 1 could not wear a shoe. Nothing
which I took did me any good till one day l saw
Hoods Sarsaparilla sd strtised IN a paper and decided
to try 1t. have taken two bottles and the sores are
almost entirely healed. "-MBs. ADDIE PITTS, South
Potsdam, N. Y,
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-03-27

Porous and strengthening, improved, the
best for backache, pains in chest or side, rheu-
matism, neuralgia. 25c. Druggists or mail.
1t is dangerous to tamper with irritating
liquids and exciting snuifs. Use Eiy's Cream
Balm, which is safe and pleasant and is easily
cases of Catarrh, Cold in the Head, and Hay
Fever, giving relief from the first applica-
ton. All druggists have it. Price 20 cents.
BY mail 60 cents. Ely Bros, Owego, y. Y.
Chronic Catarrh. The result of % years
Catarrh-the bridge, or division of my nose,
was about half gone. l obtained a bottle of
Ely's Cream Balm; nave used four bottles,
applying it to the affected parts with a swab,
which has about cured up the nostrils. l had
previously tried all other remedies on the
market without permanent relief. A.
Wood, 96 n. High Street. Columbus, Ohio.
! find Ely's Cream Balm good for Catarrh
of long standing M. n. Lasley, 1884 West
Chestnut Street, Louisville, Ky.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-03-27
An Oriental Stranger.

A notorious Thug chief was Fering-
hea, who was arrested at Sangir in 1880.
This most atrocious scoundrel confessed
to so many murders that his statements
were in II great measure disbelieved,
especially with regard to the strang-
ling of three parties of travellers by him
self and his comrades some years before.
At his request the ground at three differ
ent spots which he carefully pointed out
WAS dug up. 1t was then covered with
grass and bushes of old growth, but on
reaching a certain depth the skeletons
were found just as Feringhea had said.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-03-27

In Persia slaves are we'll fed, well
clothed, and well treated; the people
look on them as equals, not interiors:
color Is no degradation; they are not
put to hard labor; the law is the same
practically for them as for others.
Mothers are not separated from their
children, or husbands from wives. They
soon become absorbed by marriage among
the Persians.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-03-27

Many physicians of small practice, in
London, keep chemist shops, and on GER
tain hours each day see patients, pre-
scribe, give advice and furnish medicine
for the bagatelle of one shilling each
notiapt
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-03-27

The purest, sweetest and best Cod Liver
Oil in the world, manufactured from fresh,
healthy livers, upon the seashore. l. is abso-
lutely pure and sweet. Patients who have
once taken it prefer it to all others. Physi-
clans have decided it superior to any of the
other oils in market. Made by CaswelI, Haz-
ard & Co. New York.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-03-27

CHAPPED HANDS, face, pimples and rough
skin cured by using Juniper Tar Soap, made by
Caswell, Hazard x Co., New York.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-03-27

When one inch of rain falls on an
acre of land the weight of the water is
over 113 tons.
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For a splendid Magazine and chance for EN-
ployment, address W. H Thompson, Phila, Pa
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The French government paid the inventor
Of oleomargarine s., 900 for his work,
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There are 356 charitable institutions
in Boston.
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Ask for CROUCH on Coughs for Coughs,
Colds, Sore Throat, Hoarseness. Troches, l5c.
Liquid, pc.
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The Bible has been translated into the
Zulu language.
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Hoods ~SarsapariNa

Sold by all druggists. 81; sir for S.. Prepared only
by q. l. HOOD & Co, Apothecaries, Lowell. Mass.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-03-27
DR.. Railways Regulating Pills

For the cure of all disorders Of the Stomach, Liver.
Bowels, kidneys. Bladder, Nervous Diseases Loss OF
Appetite, HSsdache, Constipation, Costiveus g, lrdi
sestiop,, Dyspepsia. b iousness, Fever, Inf ,mmati3s
Of the b wells. Piles and all dersr gements of the In.
ternal Viscera. Purely vegetable. containing no mer.
curry. minerals. or deeter Gus drugs.
Price. "a cents pr box. Sold by all druggists.
seSend a letter stamp % RADWAY Il CO., No.
80 Warren ST., New York, for False and 1rue."
% THEPUBLIC.-Be sure ar ask for Rsdway's,
and see that tho nam ''Radway' is ON what you buy.
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When you visit or leave New York city, save baggage.
eIpressake and SO carriage hire, and stop at the Grant
Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central d.pot.
tNUelegin rooms, nit ri up a. a cost OF on milliOl
dollars, 81 ana upward per day. European plan. Ella
vator. Restaurant supp! ed with the bsst. Hors , IRA,
stages and elevated railroad to all depbts Fsnilss
Gan live better for less money at the Grand Union
Hotel than at any other hrst-class hotel IN the city.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-03-27

DRUNKARDs now form ffty.five per cent.
of the insane persons in Paris asylums.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-03-27

Birmingham, England, has the great
est button trade of any city in the world.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-03-27

There are about twenty five ground
glass factories in the United States.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-03-27
100 Doses One Dollar

Sold by all druggists. 81; six for S.. Prepared onl
by g. 1. HOOD a co, Apothecaries. Lowell. Mass.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-03-27

Within the last nine years 500 churches
have been destroyed by fire in America.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-04

GARD TO all who are suffering from eT.
rors end indiscTetiOns OF youth, nervous weak
uess. early decay. loss of manhood. etc / viii
send receipt that will cure you. FREE OF
CHARGE. This great -emedy was discovered by
a missionary in sonth America. send sslf-sd
dressed envelope to Rev. JOSEPH I. INMAN sta
ton d, New, YORK.
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The Housa


Mr.. Bland. from the Committee on Coin
age, reported back q resolution calling on
the Secretary of the Treasury for informa-
ton whether the Clearing House Associa.
tion of New York, or any Natiena. Bank
refuses to receive silver dollars or certifcstes
in settlement of their balances, and whether
any fficer of the Government sccedes to
such practice. Also, what amount OF gold
came into the Treasury in exchange dur
ing January, 1885, and what amount
of silver coin was In the Treasury
on the 1st of January, 1879, ard
every year thereafter, not held for redemp
ton of silver certificates. Also what amount
OF the receipts of the Government had been
received in silver coin or certificates since
the 1st of January, 1879 Adopted.
Mr.. Cox, OF New York, from the Com.
mittee on Naval Affairs, reported back
resolution, calling on the Secretary OF the
money bad been expended by the Naval
Advisory Board, and what changes have
been made from originsl plans on the huils,
boilers, etc., for the Chicago, Boston, At
iants, and Dolphin, and the cost of such
changes. Adopted.
The House then went into Committee of
the Whole on the River and Harbor bill, the
general debate being limited TO three hours.
Mr. Breckinrids criticised the DILL in that
IT did not make sufficient appropriations for
the improvement of the more important
hsrbors along the Mississippi River below
Cairo which be regarded as so mauy sepa-
rate links in the long chain OF river naviga-
ton. he then passed on to review the work
OF the improvement OF Galveston Harbos by
the Engineer Corps denounoiRg it as com
piete failure and severely commenting on
the action of the officers in charge in sub
hitting reports to Congress which he de
clared were false and misleading. He had
30 hopes OF the ultimate success of the w0rs
unless the submerged jstty plan
sas abandoned He defended the
action of the committee IN recommend
ing the appointment Of Captain Fad.
as advising the Engineer of the Mississippi
River Commission, on the ground that the
Commission had in many instances. de.
De rted from the original plans, and al ways
With unsatisfactory results.
Mr.. Price said careful reading Of the bill
must lead 70 the conclusion that it was
marled and SCARED with sectional irregular
tiles and acts OF injustice. Leaving out the
appropriations for the Improvement OF the
Mississippi, Missouri and Ohio Rivers, the
Mississippi reservoir and Hennepin Canal
the Southern States mentioned in the bill
eot an average each Of 1888 600, while the
Northern States mentioned had only 80. 900
each. The States represented on the Com
mittee got an average appropriation of 1913.
900. while those not represented received
only $4,000.
MI. Wells stated the Committee on Riv.
ers and Harbors had never been divided on
political grounds and called attention TO the
TACT that OF the fifteen members tEelve were
Northern men.
Mr.. Price went On to say the committee
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Me deal Legislation.
ICommunicated.l

have teen requested to give my views on
the above subject 10 The Committee" but
with your permission will make them pub
lie.
There has been for the last twenty years
successive efforts made 10 force medical leg
islstioD, by doctors, principally, il not a.
tiTely, OF the Old or Allopathlc school, but
heir tyrrany and injustice are so svide ntly
in the interest OF the doctors that the AS
sem lies have refused TO pass them, exceot-
ing one which the Governor vetoed. Ia the
Assembly as il now stands there are twenty.
seven doctors elected, no doubt, with the
intention 10 carry some bill or anoth er
through this session. The House Commit.
tee is composed OF seven doctors,
to incubate and recommend a bill.
DIR. Passage is Chairman OF this committee
Any bill passing into the hands of this com
miItee might properly be said to be on its
passage and ought to go through. There are
now several bills before each branch of the
Legislature in the hands of the respective
committees; Just what they are mo fellow
can ind out" as they are not published !;
but as they are got up by doctors, in the
hands of doctors. for the benefit and in the
exclusive interest of doctors We can only
judge OF them by former Medical bills which
for illiberaltY, audscity and tyranny out
Herod the cid Blue Laws" OF Connecticut.