Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1886-04-21

Paul Pinkham, OF Millbridgc, blind
man, has followed tho lobster business
for ten years. His boat is guided by
his wife, but ic hauls his traps, takes
out his Holsters, puts on tho bait as
well and as quickly rs if he could see,
lilo has caught u ton week for three
weeks. Mr. Pinkham makes his own
traps and builds his own boats. In the
BURBERRY season he picks berries for
the canning factory nearly us fast rs
those who Can mG. --HOHN DcSCW
| (Ne.) HeraM.
There is current story that the
| President has two mortal breads
obesity and badness. These were the
skeletons that pursued Napoleon ].
About ten years ago II bald spot rs big
as dime appeared in tho middle of
Mr.. Clovelund's pate, and, although
| glycerine, gunpowder, salt, cantha-
rides, boraX, ammonia. and the electric
hair brush have been tried in success
ion, the bald spot has steadily grown
bigger, and the phantom OF badness
still pursues the President.
While Miss Emma Thrall, Of Oswe-
90, N. Y, WAS sitting ut her piano one
evening recently, the family being
away, she was seized by Il man who
had entered through the only unlocked
door and informed her that if she made
an cutlery he woald cut her throat. He
then cut of her air, which was very
long and beautiful, and left the prem
ises. She will not have much trouble
in attending to her locks hereafter, but
the door locks will be taken care of
with greater industry than ever.
DR.. Wormlcy, in Il recent work, con-
cIudcs rs the result OF most searching
study of the blOods OF forty different
mammals, that "a microscope may en-
able us to determine with great GER
lainty that the blood is not OF certain
animal, and Is consistent with the
blood OF man: but in no instance does
it in itself enable us to say that the
blood is rcaIy human, or indicate from
what particular species Of animal it
was dcr.vrd.' The statement has y
high mcdi,o-.egal Importance.
The number OF stars visible to the
naked eye is commonly greatly over
estimated. let one begin to count the
stars and the Ease Impression is soon
dispclled. The whole number of the
stars down to those Of the fifth magni-
tudc inclusive, is hardly more than
l,5OO Stars of the sixth magnitude
are the tinitSt sprcks of light, visible
only in favorable state of the atmos-
phcre, and these included will not
bring the count much above 1000, eX-
ccpt for persons who have extraordi-
nary kcenness OF sight,
A curious instance of how considera-
tons OF personal comfort are made
secondary To the desire to save time by
the American public is shown in q GER
tain restaurant, where, in one room,
tables and seats are provided, and in
tho other long lunch counter with
stools attached rs seats. Most Of the
patrons prefer croWding each other on
these stools to eating their meals in
comfort in the adjoining room, because
at the lunch counter, being nearer the
attendants, they can bolt their food q
few seconds quicker
The beauX and bellies of New Guinea
are by no means forDidding. Imagine
man about five feet nine inches in
height, hi, body Il nice brown color
covered, If lie be Il maSher, with red
earth and vanished with oil, his face
painted in different colors and piece
of polished earth through his nose, his