The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1885-07-17
GOSSIP AND INFORMATION.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox has written Q,

Ella Wheeler Wilcox has written 1900
poems.
There are 100000 colored Roman Catholics
| In the United States.
The value OF the herring and other fisheries
| of Scotland last year was $l6,755,OOo.
The Sunday collections IN Spurgeon's great
congregation In London average S34o.
Mrs Frank Leslie is now said to be engaged
| to Mr. Albert Pulitzer, brother Of the Now York
Worlds editord
1t is said that $4,000 has been refused for
Bar Island, at Mt Desert. 1t contains about
1850 acres. and few years ago could have been
purchased for $1,000.
JC Whitaker, the coored cadet who figured
In that West Psint hazing mystery, some years
ago, Is fast becoming respectable ana success
full lawyer Of the South Carolina bar.
Some idea of the rapidty with which this
country Is filling up may be got from the tact
that during the month of June 1874 inmi-
grants passed through Chicago for the North
west.
There are in the human voice about nine per-
feet tones. Thus fourteen direct muscles, alone
or together produce 1888, thirty indirect
muscles produce 3,74l 1923, and all In cooper
alton produce the large total Of 1882, 1850
5l5 different but clearly defined sounds.
As Miss Sarah B Macdonald of Boston
Highlands was quietly eating her dinner one
day recently she was greatly ast0nished at
finding canary bird in the center OF an other
wise round boiled potato, which she had cut
open for the purpose of mastication. The
foathered sonsster was about an inch IN length,
fully developed, with beak, body, tail and
wings. DR. J Eliot Woodward, the principal
scientist here IN natural history, pronounces 1t
the greatest curiosity he has seen for years.
No theory has been advanced as to now the
bird was so far developed in the solid interior
of the potato, and it was placed In the natural
history institution on BOylstOn street for IN
vestigation.-(B Boston Traveller.
DR. John ] Moran ATTENDED Edgar Allen Poe
in his dying moments. He now writes that the
habit Of intemperance did to some extent, cloud
the poets early life, but not his later years.
Poe's constitution was such that he could not
become dram drinker, and for four years pre-.
vious to his death he was perfectly temperate.
His death was caused by i'll treatment and ex-
posure suffered from party OF Baltimore
roughs, who caught him, cooped him up, drug
ged him and voted him during an excited cleo
ton. In attending him during his last illness
DIR Moran saw that his patient gave no signs OF
debauch. He refused glass OF spirits the
day before he died.
Alta meeting of the state commissioners OF
labor statistics at Boston Prof Atwater of Wes-
leyan university, Middletown, Conn, in speak
ing on the ECONOMY OF Food" argued at some
length that owing to the ignorance there is, es-
pecially on the part Of The poor, heavy cxpen.
dture for what is Of little worth and great
waste of material. He claimed that because OF
this condition OF facts the statistician has an
important work to perform in celebrating the
food question. Prof Atwater affirmed that a
mixed diet is one that is best in every way, and
that chemistry shows that the New England
dshes-pork and beans and Goldfish and pota-
toes-approach more nearly than any Others
the standard Of the ideal ration.
"Say, why is everything
Either at skies or at sevens ?"
| Probably, my dear nervous sister, because
you are suffering from some OF the diseases Pc
cniar to your sex. You have a dragging
down" feeling, the baek-ache, you are deblIi-
tated, you have pains OF various kinds: Take
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cured. Price reduced to one dollar. BY drug
| gists.