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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-02
A Peep at the First Century.

The art of Pompeii dts marbles and wall
panting) IL almost wholly removed to the
museum at Naples. What remains are its
deserted street temples ami dwellings,
these all lying open to the sky, not roof
or door, save one or two temporary mod
ern ones, are to be found here OF course,
nothing really new can be said about
Pompeil, yet 1t is an ever fresh wonder
and unlike any other ruins, in that it
brings you so close to the buildings, to
those Who lived and moved and had their
being in these streets and houses | 500
years ago The bakers oven is so perfect
it might be used to-day, in fact the bread
of his last bake also remain, a little stale,
but perfect in shape, with the bakers
stamp upon it. The bath, the fountain as
if they might have been used yesterday.
In one corner of a room, bedded in the
ashes, lies a skeleton, the volcanic ash
that was his pillow for near 1000 years,
undisturbed that he still may rest upon it.
The cast of another who had turned to
dust is shown, still clutchiug the money
belt fastened round his waist. Another,
delicate woman's form lying with face
buried in her folded arms as if trying to
shut out the sitting smoke; another,
woman and child lying close together;
another, an old gentleman lying peacefully
with his head resting on one arm, as If in
sleep. 1t is difficult TO analyze the feelings
that crowd upon you while looking at
these evidences of a catastrophe so terri
BILE. 1t is with an effort that you compel
yourself to believe that it occurred at the
beginning of the Christian era-that the
bread you are looking at is older that the
earliest books of the New Testament; that
the old gentleman 50 quietly resting on
h y. al
and St Peter, too, if Catholic tradition is
correct.-Naples Cor. Detroit Free Press.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-02
NANTUCKET OUT OF SEASON.
a Trip to the Cod Fishery-Clams for
Bait-Amid the Breakers.

a Trip to the Cod Fishery-Clams for
Bait-Amid the Breakers.
In May the cod fishermen are in pos
session, and it was to have a view OF the
fishery that we drove out. On the wide
beach under the bluff, perhaps a score
of narrow, sharp pointed dories were
drawn up. Four more we saw rising
and falling on the sweIs outside the line
of breakers. They are coming" said
our friend as he FASTENED down to view
the operation. A horse attached to a
fish cart stood on the sand where a dozen
bronzed and sturdy fishermen were
watching the incoming boats.
Goldfish strike in here between the
middle and last OF April, the pollock a
little later. They are caught with hook
and line, though ON the south shore
some travis are set The bait used is
the long clam. which has to be brought
from Tuckermuck and Muskegat islands,
which lie TO the westward of Nantucket.
Gathering them forms the business of
quite number of the toilers who build
little shanties on the islands and live
there for days, digging clans between
tides. By the time we have learned this
the foremost boat has reached the break
ers, and we watch anxiously to see how
the boatinan would get through without
being swamped. Both skill and strength
are required to effect this
The orasman balanced his boat on the
swells just outside the line of breakers
and waited till the biggest of the three
brothers" came towering on when he
rode triumphantly in on its crest, being
carried far up the strand where his wait
ing fellows seized the boat and ran it up
beyond the reach of succeeding waves
The second and third did equally WELL
but the fourth miscalculated and the
Prov of his boat dashed into the sand
and was held in the midst of the surf
In a moment the succeeding wave
pounded upon it, filed it and swept man,
boat, fish and oars far up the beach.
The man, however, gathered up the
scattered cargo, emptied the dory by
turning her over, and soon had her out
of the waves reach. Sometimes. in
coming through the surf, the boats are
thrown end over end.
The dories contain from twenty to
thirty large cod and pollock, with an oc-
casional ugly skate or big-mouthed soul
pin. The cart is backed down to the
boats, the cod and pollock are thrown in
and carted to the cleaning and picking
room where, after being dressed and
sailed, they are dried on flakes in the
sun, and marketed. Very little fresh
fish is exported from the island, but the
cured fish has the highest reputation of
any in the market.-Cor Detroit Free
Press.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-02

Curiosities are now the rage, and many
collectors are proud of their specimens;
but if one will visit my place on Grand
avenue | will show them IA curio that
would make an antiquary's mouth water.
There is only one of the kind in existence;
there never was another and there never
will be. Rare Well, | should think it
was. 1t is the left ear of John Brown. 1t
is not wax imitation, nor the ear of some
ordinary individual procured from a dis
secting-room. 1t is the bona fide ear of
John Brown, all except the Ebony" part
1t is well authenticated, and its history is
this: When the post mortem was made.
the physician who conducted the examina-
ton cut off the left ear and sent 1t to Gov
ernor Wise, who retained it till his death,
when it fell to his son, and this son in per
son gave it To me for my collection. There
are few people whose left ear viii be pre-
served and treasured for twenty-seven
years after they are gone.-George Conk-
lin in Globe Democrat.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-02
The Art of Crystallizing Fruit.

Several companies within the past few
years have attempted to crystalline fruit,
but they have all made failures of it.
The business is conducted exclusively in
France. where every person engaged i'll
it make a speciality of single fruit, the
art of crvstallizing which was handed
down to nm by MS ancestors. one man
crystalllzes cherries, another pears, and
so on, and he does not understand how
to prepare any other fruit than the one
he makes a specially Of. These experts
have been brought from France to Cali
fornia, but they remained III the business
only a sufficient length of time to catch
the speculative fever that prevails on the
Pacific coast, when they would abandon
their calling and engage in more lucra-
tive pursuits Not single firm in the
country has made a success Of the bust
ness.-Cor. Globe Democrat.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-02
Mica and Its Various Uses.

Mica has variety of uses. 1t splits very
readily into thin, elastic plates, which are
generally transparent and sometimes not
more than one-3O0, OO0th part OF an inch in
thickness. These are used in setting Oh
jects for the microscope. Large plates of
it, often yard in diameter, are found in
Norway, Sweden, Siberia, Peru and Mex
leo. There II is sometimes used rs a sub
stitute for glass and is not liable to be
broken by the discharge of cannon. Ii is
also employed in powdered state to give
brilliant appearance to walls, and as a
fine sand sprinkled on writing. When it
is in state of very fine powder it is known
as cats gold or cats silver, according to
its color, 1t is usually colorless but is
often white, grey, green, red, brown, black
or yellow.-Atlanta Constitution.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-02
The Seed Would Not Sprout.

Some time ago Sunset Cox forwarded
to Senator Brown from Egypt a package
of cotton seed that had been found en-
tombed with mummy. The mummy
belonged to the race of the Pharlohs,
and had been pronounced dead 1000
years b-fore Mr.. Cox discovered the re-
mains. Three of the seed We're sent by
Senator Brown to DIR, Connally, If this
city, and We're duly submitted to the test
of sun and soil. They We're planted in
tubs, filed with highly fortified dirt,
and We're carefully watched and watered
for period of thirty days. In spite of
this the seed failed to sprout, and they
were finally dug up and examined. They
were filled with dust, and it is supposed
that the germ of life that once had ex-
listed in their frail shells had passed away
utterly.-Atlanta Constitution.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-02

There is much in the region and approach
to Isalco to remind one of Vesuvius. 1t
is the most active volcano on the CONT
nent, and its whole appearance, it's ire
mendous power in throw wing stones, scoria,
and lava to heights estimated at 200 and
even 800 feet render it the most interest
ing mountain of Central America, if not
the western world
The railroad mounts up steep grades at
a distance from the volcano of only five
miles, and bends about it until it reaches
the village of Armenia. This town is
place of Spanish days, and is in a broken
region where coffee comes To great per
fiction A few miles further Will carry
the road to the capital of San Salvador,
and another projected branch bends around
the Volcano to Santana d city in the coffee
region
All Central American railroads are mar
row gauge, and generally nave Americans
back of them, though some English CAPT
tai h, been invested in them They are
generally well built excellent masonry
and iron bridges being t rule Many of
the ties are made of .-tuum vitae and an
other kind of wood equally hard, and to
fasten the rails to them noles are bored
for the pixies.
1t is easy to see that when completed
from the Pacific ocean TO the Caribbean
sea as the projected lines contemplate,
they will prove very remunerativr aS well
as opening to commerce new and undeVel-
oped iieiI-, moreover there will come an
awakening OF the native population out Of
a lethargy inherited from the cruel op-
preston Of the Spanish rule. -Gautemala
Cor. Kansas City Journal
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-02

whatever the statistics might say, it was
not true that the productive capacity of
industry could always be increased by
shortening the period of exertion. If
things would uniformly so occur, he adj
mittcd. that they could be dealt with at
stated and arbitrary intervals, then it
might be possible to give successful eff
feet to such a theory; but things could
not be counted upon to happen in that
gracious and convenient manner, partic-
ularly in the domestic line, and so the
question could not be deci led by strict
appeal to logic. Something must neces-
sarily be pardoned he insisted, to cir
cumstances. A man could not always
come to dinner at fixed instant, like a
piece of machinery, or a climax in a
dramatic productions; bread could not
always rise for baking at foreordained
moment, regardless of intervening con-
ditions; babies could not always have
collie precisely when their mothers and
nurses could most readily give them at
tention; and SO on, and SO on.
To his great surprise and qualification,
when he had finished, a sunny smile
overspread his wife's countenance; and
then she laughed. He seized her hands,
and pressed them warmly. She looked
into his eyes, not as woman of views,
but as a co-parent of twins, and 4 crea-
ture of Joy and love- He could not resist
the inclination to embrace her. She had
at last realized the absurd aspect of her
project, and that meant, he quickly
surmised, that she was ready to aban-
don it,
Richard dear" she said, as soon as
she could check her ripping laughter,
you are not logical and | suppose you
never will be. But you are very kind
and patient, and it really doesn't seem
quite right to shorten the days by dimin-
ishing your comfort and happiness in
any respect"
There is to be change, them" he
eagerly inquired
For your sake, Richard dear, this
ceases to-day to be an eight-hour house,
she answered.
And you are no longer an eight-hour
woman" he added.
There can not be too many hours in
the day" she said softly and sweetly,
"for a woman who has such a husband
as mine to love and please. st. Louis
/ Globe Democrat
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-02

Mr.. Ruskin is the very preuX chevalier
needed for English girlhood, grizzled
though lis beard may now be. Has he
not said somewhere Il would make my
body a bridge for the passage of a girl
that was pretty and good" His attitude
toward his young deciples at Whitelands
may be typified in story Mrs. Severn
drew from her memory. when | was
very young, said Mrs. Severn Il was
once walking through a garden 49,
Rusllin, when | observed him to st6Sp
low down anu glance sideways at the
sky. Wondering at this movement of
his heard him say: Do put your head
down here and you will see what | see.
And ~ | bent down also and saw what
he had diScovered-the wondrous lowell
ness OF trees buds against the sky. 1t
is this seeing for sweetness and light that
has given Mr.. Ruskin the secrets of power
over human nature more than any of his
critical theories. Standard.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-02
PEACE.

Two travel-worn and weary feet ut rest,
From paths Of pain now shrouded in the
past;
Two cold hands folded on a colder breast,
From which the soul has taken flight at
last;
Two eyes from whose dark vacant cells
the glow
Of sunlight seems forever to have fled
Two mute lips meeting like an unstrung
bow
From which the final arrow, speech, has
fled.
This is the subtlest of all mysteries;
Some call it Death, and others name it
Peace.
Daniel +. O'Sullivan in Southern
Bivouac.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-02
Bird Catching in the Farce Islands.

A party of twelve men working in
combination and rotation will net be-
tween 5000 and 1000 birds day, valued
at a penny apiece; and little later in
the season you may see these birds hang
ing by hundreds at a time in Farce out
houses, there to dry after fashion for
consumption.
The manner in which Farce fowler
goes to work is rather interesting. He
has primarily to consider the wind, mas
much as this is the chief assistant force
which ne presses into his service. If the
wind be favorable he takes his long net,
mounted on stout wooden handle and
frame, and goes to the particular cleft
or crevice in the sea rocks which he
knows to offer chance of sport. Down
here he carefully chambers, until he finds
good standing and working room where
the birds are bustling past him before
the wind. 1t is then matter of muscles
and routine. By barring the passage
with his net he inevitably catches all the
birds that continue their flight through
the rift. and his attributes then must be
mainly those of strength and endurance.
OF course, not everywhere can fowler
attain to his perch by the exclusive use
of his legs. Infinite pluck and nerve are
both necessary. -Cornhill Magazine.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-02
Position of English Society Women.

You must 20 to late dinners and later
balls. You must breathe the hot atmos-
phere of parliament, and the still more
sitting air at court: you must be clad in
the stiff garments that etiquette pre-
scribes for every hour; you must devote
Yourself to round of visits and enter
tainments which would be most agree
able in dreary winter, but now distract
you from delights that are rare in Eng
land because of the climate. At this
moment. when the climate and the
country are alike Saturnlan, you forsake
the country and come up to town. For
so fashion DEGREES. Or rather so the
sportSmen determine; lie mon will not
abandon their guns and their game in
the autumn ana winter, and this leaves
only the spring and summer for town.
And in England society, like everything
else, is ruled by the men; the women
only exist to give them pleasure and do
them service; to marry them. to rear
their children, to preside over their
homes. to decorate their entertainments.
What the men want is always done, and
the women submit. as matter of course.
Adam Badeau'~ Letter.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-02
The Poison of the Scorpion.

No very complete analysis of the poi
son of the scorpion have yet been made.
The best on record are those by Jousset,
presented to the French academy i'll 1870.
chemical constitution of the venom, but
does state the mode of its action upon
the blood, by which in severe cases it
causes death. 1t affects the red cor
puscles paralyzing them SO that they
cohere one 10 another, thus becoming
agglutinated until they are unable to
pass through the capillaries, and may
cause fatal obstruction. So far as known,
there is no chemical antidote which can
neutralize the poison. Chicago Herald.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-02
Useful Light for Industrial Purposes

What promises to be useful light or
industrial purposes, where work has to
be carried on in the open or in large
covered spaces by night, is described 10y
the English Steam Users Journal. The
light consists of a cylindrical vessel ca
pahle of containing thirty gallons of
heavy hyiro-carbon oil. Air under
moderate pressure is conducted to the
cylinder. watch is titteu wl.h special
burner having two tupes, one within the
other leading up to it. The inner tube
dips into the creosote, and the pressure
of air on the latter forces ii " the tube.
a portion of the air finds its way to the
burner through the annular space be-
tween the inner and outer tubes. and the
air and oil combining at the burner form,
when ignited by match, a flame which
gives light that is useful Tor general
working purposes over a radius of $50 to
200 yards. The proportions used to form
the proper light are four of air to one of oil
by volume. The jet being produced
under pressure is not affected by either
wind or rain. -Chicago News.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-02
Origin of the Canned Meat Business

Chicago now cans more meat than all
the rest of the world put togethe., said
a merchant on Michigan avenue, land
manufactures more tin cans than any
other city in the world. But the meat
canning business did not start in Chi
cage, nor in this county, either, 1t be-
gan in Australia The first canned
meats ever put on the market were from
Australia, and the meat was mutton for
the English army. America caught on
to the scheme, and has beaten the for
eigners at their own game. Chicago
Herald.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-02
Dissertation of the "Riot Cum"

When Chicago dispatch saying that
Inspector Bontield had received sam
pie riot gun" from Connecticut firm
was read by Broadway gun dealer he
said:
1T is a repeating shotgun recently in
vented, and is very good weapon for the
purpose. 4 short steel tube under the
barrel holds six cartridges loaded with
buckshot or any other size of shot. A
small cylinder just right to take hold of
with the hand is slipped over the car
fridge tube, a steel rod running from it
to the mechanism of the guns breech
BY sliding this grip piece along the car
fridge tube and back to its place again
DISCHARGED she'll is thrown ont, fresh
cart"id-e Inserted. and the gun cooked.
Each cartridge holds an ounce and Il
quarter of hucEshot. The SIX cartriG- IS
can be fired six times in three seconds.
They are now i'll use by the express com
panic and postoffice agents III the west
whcr" road agents abound, and not
equulcd 10y any weapon for demoraliz-
in, a gang of evil doors"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-02
Cost of the Big obiec, Glass.

Alvin Clarks bill for the great object
glass of the Lick telescope will be about
$4,000, The glass will weigh 4j0
pounds.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-02

Murat's sword handle, set with precious
stones and gold, was sold in London the
other day for 230 pounds sterling.
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-05-08
Indignant Sewing Women.

An association of East Buffalo sewing
women held a meeting yesterday, at
which the course Of Miss Folsom
President Cleveland's intended bride,
In getting her wedding trousseau In
Paris was disseused. About two
hundred women were present, and con
siderable Indignation was manifested.
The following resolutions were unani.
mously adopted:
WHEREAS, Grover Cleveland is
about to be married TO Miss frankie
Folsom, aud both have been residents
OF this city and should be interested in
Its industries; therefore be 1t 1t
Resolved, That the action OF Miss
Folsom in buying her bridal outfit In
Europe be deprecated, on the ground
that the work could be better done Ia
America, particularly in Buffalo; and
Resolved, That we use our best
efforts to defeat MIR. Cleveland's further
political aspirations il he persists In
having his brides trousseau made II
Paris.
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-05-08
United states Court.

A sest ZION of the United States Court
was held on Friday, when q motion for
a new trial was made by the plaintiff
in the case of Lewis Snyder vs.. Horatio
w. Pharo. This suit was entered In
Court In June, 1882, and is an action to
recover on q promissory note, which,
with the interest, amounts to nearly
81, 800. Judgment was given sometime
ago In favor of the defendant, and on
Friday, after hearing the argument,
Judge Wales denied the motion for q
new tIial. Hoffecker 8 Hoffecker, with
Counsellor Hule, of Philadelphia, ap
peared for the plaintiff, and John
Biggs, Esq, for the defendant.
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-05-08
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