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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-06-18
CUkIosITIEs OF PLANT LIFE.


II we select plant which possesses
no green color we may be prepared for
some startling reveal ions respecting
the mode OF life of such plant. Ex-
amples Of total want Of chlorophyll
are seen in the fungi, that large group
OF plants which harbors our mushrooms,
toad-stools and like organisms as its
familiar representatives If we inquire
how the non-green fungus lives we shall
discover, firstly, of the gas on which it
feeds. The green plant we saw to feed
on carbonic acid gas; but the fungus,
like the animal, inhales oxygen. Fur
thermore, still more remarkable fact
must be detailed respecting the differ
ence between the habit of the green
plants and their non-green neighbors.
When an ordinary green plant takes in
the carbonic acid gas which it has OBJ
tanned from the atmosphere-whither
it has come from the lungs of animals
and elsewhere-it performs remarkable
chemical operation. The green color
enables it, in the presence of light, to
decompose the carbonic acid gas (Which
consists of carbon and oxygen) into its
elements. The carbon is retained by
the plant, and goes to form the starch
and other compounds manufactured by
the organism. But the oxygen, which
is not required, at least in any quantity,
In the living operations of the green
plant, is allowed to escape back to the
atmosphere, when it becomes useful for
animal respiration. Thus, what the
animal exhales (carbonic acitD the
green plant inhales; and what the green
plant exhales (oxygen), the animal in
hales We have here a remarkable
cycle Of natural operations which sug.
gests how beautifully the equilibrium
of nature is maintained. 1t may be
added that the want of light converts
even the green plant to somewhat animal
habits. In the dark, the decomposition
of carbonic acid is suspended, chloro-
phyll alone being insufficient for the
analysis. Then, the green plant seems
to inhale oxygen and emit carbonic
acid, like the animal and its non-green
relative; to return, however, to its nor
NAL habit with the returning light. At
the same time, the plain difference of
habit in respect of the want of green
color in the fungi and other plants is in
itself remarkable fact of plant-life.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-06-18
SWISS TREATMENT FCONsUMPTION

An interesting report is given of the
experiments made by DR.. Albrccnt on
consumptive patients IN hospital at
Berne, Switzerland. These expert
ments were made with a view to ascer-
tanning the effect of oxygen inhalation
on the development of phthisis, and
whether, by increasing the rate of
organic combustion by this means, the
bactcrium of phthisls, had been dis.
charged with certainty on several occa-
sions. The patients were first sub
mltted to an appropriate highly.nutriti-
GUS diet, consisting of milk and peptOne,
and twice week they were weighed
with great care. 1t was observed that,
as soon as the oxygen inhalations began,
the daily loss of weight was checked,
and i'll some cases the weight increased,
dySpl9a disappeared, and the micro
scope showed fewer bacteria.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-06-18
FRYING FOOD.

Grease Of every descrintion is capable
Of being heated to a very much higher
temperature than water-in fact, it can
be made almost three times as hot as
boiling water. When fat is at its boil
ing point, it is so hot that any article of
food brought in contact with it is actu-
ally burned 4; and this is precisely the
reason why, for purposes of frying, fat
should always be boiling hot. For any
article of food-a doughnut, for ex-
ample-dipped into boiling fat is imme-
diately covered all over by thin crust
Of burned dough, which prevents the
fat from penetrating farther in and
enables the rest of the doughnut to be
exposed to greater degree of heat than
can be applied to it by any other pro-
cess, without coming into contact with
the fat, and the natural chemical pro-
cesses go on inside with a greater degree
of perfection than can be obtained by
any other method. Perfect frying is the
perfection of cooking; but, so soon as
the fat is not sufficiently hot to create
the burned crusts around the article
fried, the fat penetrates it and abso-
lutely prevents cooking from taking
place at all. If the fat is not boiling
hot, the process that takes place is not
cooking, but simply drenching the food
with a tepid fat, and rendering it
totally indigestible. -
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-06-18
tRuNrIERMEN'S HABITS.


The tenderfoot is sure to have brought
a nice new shop. made RATA from town,
and has probably selected an eighty-foot
rope, whereas very few men can throw
out more than fifty feet, and q forty-foot
string is quite long enough. People
have a vague idea that rider ropes
COW from great distance but as mat
ter of fact he rides up by her side, or at
any rate just behind her, and after
swinging the rope around his head a
few times, drops the loop over her
horns. There is indeed much less
roping done than outsiders think, and
when an obstinate COW has to be roped
TO drag her into corral or back to a
bunch she has run out of, there are al
ways so many men eager to learn lesson
that the newcomer can get on very we'll
as soon as he is able to catch his horses
out of the remOdd. Some men never
learn to throw rope we'll just as others
never become good horsemen. The ten
derfoot has all the odds against him
his rope is stiff and kinked he feels
awkward and ill at ease. But he soon
learns the trick. The calf roundup,
when the young stock is collected and
branded, is the time when skilled roping
is most essential, and only the two or
three best ropers in an outfit attempt
the work, as the calves have to be
"snared by the heels. which is much
more difficult than head roping. At
this work, as at horse breaking, the
average skill is greatest among the Mex
lean riders, of whom there is scatter
ing in every section of cattle country,
but the very finest riders are usually
Americans. These latter, the most con-
spicuous planets in the sky of equita-
ton, are very rarely good for anything
else but fancy riding. The second
grade of clusters" can ride almost any
horse just as securely, but lack their
ease and finished technique.
One of these heroes in Wyoming
makes a standing offer to bet 300 that
he can ride any horse brought to him,
with half dollar between the sole of
each boot and its stirrup and not lose
the half dollar. This means that no
matter how hard the horse pitches the
riders foot must be steady in the stirrup
as if he was posing for picture. "Buf-
falo Bill Cody took one of the best
riders in Wyoming to work spoiled
horses in his "Wlld West show. But
there is no chance for skilled work if
you are riding string of horses, no
matter if they are picked out as Cody's
were, for their wickedness. You soon
learn each horse, method of attack so
thoroughly that it is no trick at all to
defend yourself. For attack and de-
fepse it is fight between a vicious
horse and determined rider. -
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-06-18
NOT so VERY OLD.
The Prussian chief Forester, Goricke

The Prussian chief Forester, Goricke,
declaresit to be- fable that there are trees
In the German forests winch have lived
for thousand years. Even the So
called Historical trees" he says to
which an age of seven hundred to eight
hundred years is imputed, are nothing
but "hollows surrounded with bark,
vegegating only as ruins No tree can
reach 50 great an age in Central Europe
and remain healthy. He has been at
the pains to make inquiries at all the
German, Austrian and Russian forest
academies; and comparin their reports
with his own long researches, he has
compiled q table to the comparative
ages of different sorts of trees in Cen
trail Europe. The highest age is at
tanned by the pine; but after it has
reached the limit of sound life it de-
clines more rapidly than any of the leaf
trees. which continue negotiating long
after they have begun to decay. The
oldest pine tree, Judging by its annual
rings reaches an age of $40 years. The
next in age, the white fir of the Boh-
merwald, is 400 years old The larch,
in Bavaria, was at its oldest in pa years,
The oldest sound oak, which is at AS
chaffenburg, is 40 years of age. The
oldest red beech. also at Aschaifeu burg,
is 245 The highest point of healthy
age with other leaf trees is as follows
The mountain maple, in Bavaria, % 1
years; the birch, 100 to 200 years, in
Finland; the ash 10 years, in Silesia
the elm. 1870 years, in Seesia; the aspen
tree 2l9 years. The most frequent
among the "so-called historical trees u
in Germany are lime trees Qlnden).
The renowned Linden of Neustadt,
on the Rocker in Wurtenberg, is
known by the local chronicle to have
had its branches supported ny 81 strong
slaves in the year lii9, so that it must
even then have been a venerable tree.
1t has now seven horizontal branches
which are supported-at from five t
seven feet from the ground-by stone
columns. 1t is reputel to be over 70l
years old, but it can hardly be said tt
be alive, it is hollow, and is supported
by internal as well ISexternal masonry
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-06-18
OLD TOPERS.

The Danes and Saxons we're notable
topers, and prided themselves on the
quantity of strong liquors they were
able to take. Fighting and drinking
were their greatest pleasures, and We're,
indeed, the chief delights of their
promised Walhalla. A frequent cause
OF quarrels among the druukards of old
was the indignation reused in the breast
OF one thirsty soul by the selfish and
gluttonous action of some fellow-toper
in drinking more heartily, when it came
to his turn to hold the fagon, than a
just comparison Of numbers and quaint
ty entitled him to do. Where several
were drinking from the same vessel this
question OF drinking fur was an i'm
portant one. Dunstan is said to have
caused King Edgar to ordain that all
drinking vessels in taverns should have
pegs fastened inside at regular dis
tances, so that each should drink his
fair share and no more. From this in
PRODUCTION of pegged tankards we have
doubtless the proverb "a peg too low"
The pegs We're afrerward replaced by
hoops tixed at regular intervals round
the pot Shakesneare makes Jack Clde
promise his followers: There shall
be in England seven haif-penny loaves
sold for a peuny; the three hooped pots
shall have ten hoops; and I will make
it felony to drink small beer"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-06-18
STABLE TRADITIONS.


The theory, once LARGELY upheld that
hunters must b. secluded from the gaze
Of man from noon or PM. to P NJ. is
now almost entirely exploded, the fact
being at last recognized that horses arc
extremely sociable animals, and that
the more they see of each other and
people going in and out, in reason, the
better. This rule nevertheless admits
of many exceptions, notably in training
stables, with which, however, we are
not presently concerned. The fallacy
of the bearing-rein traditions has been
80 often and so ably exposed that it
needs but passing comment. Nor are
our grooms wholly responsible for its
perpetuity. Many men, and most
women seem to think that. in London
ct least o horses appearance is i'm
proved by having his head and neck
cruelty braced up to an unnatural an-le.
The feeling of the animal on his re-
turn to the stable we should imagine
to be closely akin to that of n rock
shooter after long days sport among
high trees with good deal of leaf on.
In contradistinction to hearsy, which
is to a great extent shared equally by
master and man, may be mentioned the
saddle-room dogma that the length of
the riders legs varies, and varies un.
equally from day to day. One would
suppose that nothing could be easier
than to slip the tongue of the buckle
into the well.marked hole chosen by the
horseman as most suitable to his par
ticular seat. To the helper nothing is
more impossible, and, true to tradition,
he tacitly invites his master daily to
ride out of the stable yard with one
knee in his mouth and the other foot
nearly on the ground, and TO readjust
tue feathers as best he can on the back
of horse which for some perverse
reason invariably stands in with the
servant and resents the process. That
horse always elbows hisself out so :"
while being saddled we are ready to
believe and to accept as an excuse for
the girths in the first instance not being
drawn within many holes of the pres
sure necessary to keep the saddle in
place; but what plea save tradition can
be urged for not looking to them again
just before the rider gets upf which,
with an attendant hanging on to an op-
posite stirrup, he may easily do without
discov ring his danger, whereof he only
becomes aware when the saddle turns
round if he loses his balance, or when
having occasion to discount, he finds
himself and his furniture on the ground
together.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-06-18
GOOD COFFEE EASILY MADE.

1t is one of the simplest things in the
world to make a good cup of coffee, and
this can easily be accomplished by ap-
plying a little common sense. If you
put boiling water on coffee and do not
let it boil, you have all the good quail
ties preserved. One reason dyspeptics
cannot drink coffee is because it is
boiled. The style of coffee pot is just
matter of fancy. 1 have made as
good coffee in an old tomato can as l
have ever slipped from a cup filled from
the finest French coffee urn. We should
take lessons in this matter from the
Turks and Arahians, who grind their
coffee to q fine powder When the
coffee is ground as fine MS possible put
it in little bag of unbleached muslin,
which should be tied tightly enough to
prevent the escape of the grounds. II
you use cup of unground coffee you
can make over quart of very strong,
black coffee. In making coffee many
people sacrifice flavor for strength.
Bitterness comes from boiling. When
boiling water is placed on a bag of
ground coffee it should stand at least
three minutes before serving Remem-
Der the longer it stands the stronger
it becomes.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-06-18

Cooks, warriors and authors must be
judged by the effect they produce;
toothsome dishes, glorious victories,
pleasant books-these are our demands.
We have nothing to do with ingredients,
tactics or methods. We have no de-
sire to be admitted into the kitchen,
the council, or the study. The cook
may clean her saucepans how she pleases,
the warrior place his men as he likes,
the author handle his material or weave
his plot as best he can-when the dish
is served we only ask, is it good ? when
the battle has been fought, Who won
when the book comes out, Does it read
Authors ought not to be above being
reminded that it is their first duty to
write agreeably very disagreeable
men have succeeded in doing it, so
there is no need for any one to despair.
Every author, be he grave or gay,
should try to make his book as ingrati-
ating as possible Reading is not
duty and has therefore no business to
be made disagreeable. Nobody is
under any obligation to read any other
mans book. Literature exists to please;
to tighten the burden of mems lives; to
make them for a short while forget their
sorrows and their sins, their silenced
hearths, their disappointed hopes, their
grim futures-and those men of letters
are the best loved who have best per.
formed iteratures truest office.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-06-18
OLDEST ALMANAC IN THE WORLD.

An almanac. three thousand years old,
found i'll Egypt is in the British
Museum. 1t is supposed to be the
oldest in the world. 1t was found on
the body of an Egyptian, who had,
doubtless, regarded it with as much
rev, renee as he did the Egyptian Bible
- The Book of the Dead and,
indeed, it is strongly religious in
character. The days are written in red
ink, and under each is a figure, fol.
lowed by three characters, slgnifying
the probable state of the weather for
that day. Like the other Egyptian
manuscripts it is written on papyrus.
1t is written in columns. 1t is not in
its integrity, but was evidently torn
before its owner died. 1t clearly estab-
fishes the date of the reign of Rameses
the great, but contains nothing else of
value.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-06-18
THE EAGLE AND ITS PREY.

In hunting for their prey, the eagle
and his mate mutual ~ assist each other.
1t may here be mentioned that the
eagles are all mouo. amous, keeDing
themselves to single mate and living
together in the most perfect harmony
through their lives. Should, however,
one of them die or be killed, the sur
vivor is not long left in a state of widow
hood but banishes from the spot for
few days and then returns with new
mate. 1t is rather remarkable fact
that, whereas The vultures feed their
young by disgorging the food which
they have taken into their corps, the
eagles carry their prey to their nests
and there tear it to pieces and feed the
eaglets with the morsels. When in pur.
suit OF its prey it is most audacious
bird, having been seen to carry off q
hare from before the noses of the hounds.
1t is a keen fisherman, catching and
securing salmon and various sea fish
with singular skill. Sometimes it has
met with more than its match, and has
seized upon a fish that was too heavy
for its powers, thus falling victim to
its sporting propensities. Mr. Lloyd
mentions several instances where eagles
have been drowned by pouncing upon
large pike, which carried their assailants
under water and fairly drowned them. In
more than one instance the feet of an
eagle have been seen firmly clinched in
the pixies back, the body of the bird
having decayed and fallen away.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-06-18
BRIGHT GIRLS OF INDIA.

Miss Gardner, retired Indian mis-
sionary for Cawnpore, says: 1T was in
1861 that the first missionary of the
Union Missionary Society visited India.
Permission was given freely to open up
schools to the boys, but do not come
near the girls, was heard from the
fathers, brothers and husbands Six
years ago there was no enlightment in
Cawnpore. Now there are Twenty-Five
schools Every girl was married at the
age of twelve Very poor children were
allowed freedom until after their mar
rage. then they were secluded. If a
man is asked if he is a sinner he ia
quick to answer, no indeed. that he was
washed in the water of the Gauges If
you persist that the outside only il
clensed he drinks of the water, and TINS
is clean outside and in. at is easier to
teach collectively. but no easy task to
collect school The weary missionary
goes into every house, and is asked
How much will you give us to teach
our girlsr They consider them as
stupid as q cat or dog about learning.
but in every instance girls learned as
quickly as boys and were usually very
bright Those women are very similar
to our women in habits, and all except
mere externals."
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-06-18
The influence of acids in retarding or

The influence of acids in retarding or
arrestlng salivarY digestion is further
OF importance in the dIetectic use of
pickles, vinegar salads and acid fruits
In the case of vinegar it Vi found that
one part IN 1000 sensibly retarded this
process. proportion OF one in LOCO
rendered 1t very slow. and one IN 500
arrested 1t completely; so that when
acid salads are taken together with
bread the effect of the acid is to prevent
any salvary digestion of the bread,
matter OF little moment to person
with vigorous digestion. but to a
feeble dyspeptic one of some importance
There Is very widespread belief that
drinking vinegar is an eflicacIous means
OF avoiding getting fat aud this popu.
lar belief would appear from these ex.
perlmental observations to be we'll
founded. If the vinegar be taken at
the same time as farinaceous food it
will greatly interfere with its digestion
and assimilation.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-06-18

A new method Of dlsposin9 OF the
human body after death has been pro.
posed by kerSoya'z q chemist OF Baest
His system Is al ajl,. C.. C one, stated
to be much simpler and less expensive
than the old p, cess of cLbalmlug, and
is nothing more t'Gn a new calvanoplas.
tic application. The body is coated
with a conducting substance. such as
plumbago, or 1t is coated with solution
of nitrate OF silver, which after decom.
position under the influence OF sunlight.
leaves O finely divided deposit OF
metallic silver. It is then placed in a
bath of sulphate of copper, and con-
nected for e!ectrolvsis with several cells
of gravity or other battery OF constant
current. The result is that the body is
cncased in q skin of copper, which pre-.
vents further change or chemical action
If desired, this may be again plated
with gold or silver, according to the
taste or wealth of the friends of the
dead. NJ. Kergovatz has employed the
process eleven times on human subjects
and on manv Gnim3ls and states that in
all cases it was perfectly satisfactory.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-06-18
Everybody on the Island of Malta

Everybody on the Island of Malta
works and slaves at least sixteen hours
dav, and he is fortunate indeed, who
counts his weekly stipend at dollar
and half. There never has been a
theatre or circus, or a secular holiday
in Malta, and the popular amusement
is confined TO feast days. when the
people conereeate in one place and
make themselves sick on pink candy.
You can live there in splendor for five
dollars week. but at the end of four
yHars ror won't know whether you are
a catamaran or blind fish.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-06-18

There seems reason TO believe that
every orb IN space passes through stages
of orb life which may be divided roughly
INTO three, the sunlike. the earthlke.
and the moonlike; and, therefore, we
must recognize in the past history Of
our earth time when her energies ere
far more active than those she now has
We cannot infer her power of eIecting
matter from her interior when she was
IN the sunllke state. from that which
she possesses now when she is in the
middle of the lIfe.bearing portion of
her career. When she was a sun she
was very small sun. q mere dwarf
compared with the giant Jupiter when
he was sun. and mere speck of hight
compared with the miGhty sun winch
rules our system Yet she probably
possessed then eru9;lve powers COM
pared with winch those sue now pos.
sesses are as Doucht. But Krakatoa
taught US recently as at other times the
earth thtocs of Peru and c Ill, of Sicily.
Naples SpaIa. and IceiGnl have taught
Us. that the earths eruptive energies
are even row in no sense contemplate.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-06-18
A JAPANESE ADVERTISEMENT

A bookseller in Toxic, Japan, desir-
ing to sell his wares, thus advertised
them in the newspapers: The advan-
tages of our establishment-1, Prices
cheap as lottery. 2, Books elegant as
a singing girl. 3, Print clear as crystal.
T. Paper tough as elephants hide. 5.
Customers treated as politely as by the
rival steamship companies. 8, Articles
as plentiful as in a library. Z, Goods
despatched as expeditiously as cannon
ball. s, Parcels done up with as much
care as that bestowed on her husband
by a loving wife. 8, All defects, such
as dissipation and idleness, will be
cured in young people paving us fire.
quent visits, aud they vii become solid
men. 10. The other advantages we
offer are too many for language to
express.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-06-18

PROT Moseley discovers that The
shells OF the chltonide a:e endowed
with eyes, and 10 some OF them IL 00C
eyes have been countel New eyes are
formed at the edge OF the shells Us they
rvtpxu
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-06-18
Scientific.

Grease may be removed from marble
py paste made oi wh:tln, 1Id Uonzine.
and WHITING and ch0r!de oi lime spread
upon marble and Ieit to dry ID the sun,
will remove stains II not too deep
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-06-18

Wear your learning like your watch
in private pocket; and do not pull it
out and strike it. merely to show You
have one. II You are asked what o'clock
it is, tell it. but do not proclaim it loudly
and unasked, like q watchman. -.