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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-11-05

where they have offices, and also in the
post-ofiice, tariff of the rates between
places with which it does business. This
law is not complied with, and the charges,
particularly on packages from outside
the State, seem to be based on the good
or bad humor of the man who fixes them
rather than on any substantial basis of
tionrcs.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-11-05

WHILE they are engaged in the regula-
on of things in general the legislature
hight well turn its attention to the ex-
ress companies. A law passed some
ears ago, and still standing on the stat
te book, requires such companies to post
p the town clerks Office of every town
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-11-05

THE House has passed Judge knapp's
bill raising the limit of trustee process to
SO. The law which this bill repeals
ought never to have been passed.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-11-05
Advertising Rates on application.

RB- After this date papers will not be dis
continued at the expiration ofthe time paid
for unless notice is given ut the time of sub
scripton or before the subscription expires.
Unless such notice is given the paper will be
continued to responsible persons till they re-
quest its discontinuance and pay up all ar
rearages This seems the best plan, and will
be adhered to in the conduct of this paper
hereafter.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-11-05
FRIDAY. NOVEMBER, 5 1856.

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has issued a
proclamation designating Thursday, the
25th inst, as a day of thanksgiving and
prayer.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-11-05

JOB PRINTING of every variety at the lowest
prices consistent with good work and quality
of stock.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-11-05

This remedy is pur civ vegetahle. being
made from carefully selected plants, the re-
suit OF long and car sfai study while attending
me IN SICK anu noun its effect upon the system.
II mas proved, MS hundreds win testify, to be a
most safua1le. compound for Rheumatism,
Lung Lung AHScU ons, Kidney Complaints and all
iorlls m oI ~ srVousness. Also tor loss of Appe-
pepsia.
II Is a mild cathartic and does not have to
i ~ flowed by gripping pills or phystc OF any
nj I'd to drive IL from the system.
PRICE 81 90 bottle; bottles for 5000
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-11-05
PRICE Sl.OO bottle; bottles for $500,

Giue ii a trial and il ioW do you good.
No. Sold by all Druggists in Middle
bury, VT, Ia
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-11-05
DIR. q. :. GREENS
Purifier
AND NERVE TONIC.
The Greatest of all Cures for
Nervousness.

ITS RECORD STANDS TODAY
UneXcelled as Medicine!
Unequalled as Blood Purifier.
Unparalleled as a Nerve Tonic!
Unrivalled as a Remedy for all Nations
Try it for Kidney Complaip.t, Liver
Trouble, Neuralgia, Dyspepsia,
Jaundice, Constipati on, Ner-
vousness, Scr,Jfula,
RheumatisrA, &c.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-02-27
STRANGE SURGERY.
How New York Physicians Effected Cure
of Lockjaw.

How New York Physicians Effected Cure
| of Lockjaw.
Nathan Silverstone, carpenter,
nineteen years of age, living at No.
80 East Broadway, was discharged cured
from Gouverneur Hospital recently.
The doctors state that his recovery is
something remarkable, inasmuch as
that on his admission on the 18th of
last November he was found to be suf-
fering from tetanus, or lockjaw, sus-
tanned by falling on his head while at
work. For several days he could not
speak and had violent and very fire.
quent tetanic commissions. Between
these commissions he partook only SPAR
ingly of milk, which was administered
to him by means of an ordinary nurs-
ing bottle. Under these conditions he
lived for couple of weeks, and in the
meantime medication having had no
effect, the doctors resolved to test the
dernier resort of cutting off the nervous
supply to the seat of injury, an opera
ton only very recently brought in
vogue. Only slight scalp wound de-
noted the location of the injury.
A hypodermic injection of hydro
chlorate of cocaine -four per cent. so
lution) was first introduced beneath
the scalp to an@sthetize the parts, and
then free V-shaped incision was made
half way around, the scalp wound COM
pletely covering the posterior auricu-
lar and occiputalis minor nerves,
which Immediately insulated the nerv-
Gus supply from the seat of injury.
The incision was dressed and bandaged
antiseptically and the patient put to
bed. His commissions became less fire.
quent and in few days they ceased al
together. His jaws gradually relaxed,
and at length he was able to articulate
and take solid food Three weeks after
the operation he was up and about,
and on his departure no man could be
more grateful than Nathan Silverstone,
and few can lay claim to have as good
a reason to appreciate the progress OF
modern surgery. 1t is said on good
authority that previous TO the introduce
ton of this latest operation for lockjaw
sevcnty-fve per cent. of those afflicted
had died.--N J.. Herald.
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TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

AT the conclusion of the recent auc-
ton sale of the fixtures of his saloon in
New York, Paul Boynton, the famous
swimmer, said: "Gentlemen, | thank
you for.helping me to leave business
] have felt to be curse upon me ever
since ! entered it, | would rather cul-
tivate bricks than touch the gin trade
again"
Mr.. JUSTICE GRAY remarked, during
the proceedings at the assizes held re-
Gently in Victoria. b. c., that some re
form would certainly have to be made
as to the saloons of the city. Out of
some twenty-four cases of robbery in
cluded in the present assizes, no less
than thirteen or fourteen of them had
taken place in saloons; the proportion
showing plainly the connection of
crime with liquor.
The Legislature of Iowa is consid-
ering bill which makes drunkenness
a crime. That is right. No man has
a right to make himself over into
fiend capable of all manner of crime,
and escape from the consequences I'M
der the plea Il was drunk" The
condition itself should be ranked as a
crime and punished. We too often
hear the plea of 1.-The poor drunkard. "
1t should be changed to the wicked
drunkard. - Chicago Inter ocean.
IT is said that in England there are
more than fourteen hundred parishes
where the liquor traffic is not per-
mitted to exist. 1t has been for many
,.y,,,11,I i 80,
in London, two large sections of Liver
pool, and one large district each in
Birmingham and Manchester. 1t was
entirely driven ont from the great
manufacturing town of Saltaire IN
Yorkshire, more than thirty years ago;
also from another large manufacturing
town. Bessbrook in Ireland, and from
a district in County Tyrone containing
siXty-two square miles, more than
thirty years ago.
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A FIERCE BATTLE.
no" virginia DanI Boone Owed Under
Deer and Stabbed 1t.

How Virginia DanI Boone Owed Under
Deer and Stabbed 1t.
Deer have not been so numerous for
years in the Capon Mountains as they
are this season. By the help OF legis-
lation they have increased greatly.
Sportsmen from the Shenandoah valley,
the nearest civilized country, rarely
get further than the North Mountains,
the first distinctive range of hills west
of the Blue Ridge. SO the mountain.
GERS have the fun and the profit of the
hunt to themselves. During the win
ter they do little else than hunt Be-
tween the little mountain ranges are
swlft-running streams, the principal
ones being the South Fork, North Fork,
Capon and Lost river Muskrats, otter
and mink are found along the rivers,
and coons, 'possums, wildcats, wild
turkeys and deer are thick in the
wooded hills.
The most noted hunter in the State
west of Moorfield is Gabriel Cooper,
whose deeds have caused him to be
known by his neighbors as Dan'l
Boone. Danl keeps two dogs and a
brown mare and he knows every hog
path and deer trail in West Virginia
1t is said that the wild animals know
DAM so well that when they see him
and his brown mare they flee the coun-
| try. What Dan'l Boone cannot tell in
the shape of hunting adventure is not
worth hearing. Every streamin Hamp-
shirs' County has his traps set along its
banks. With his trusty Winchester
rifle he has brought down twenty-eight
deer this season. One day Dan'f was
visiting his traps on Lost river. A mile
above where this river disappears in
the earth is a bend where the stream ID
broad AMI deep. Dan'l keeps a little
featherweight skiff in the bend for his
private use. While sloshing up and
down the hank of the river he started
a big buck with six prongs. The ami
NAL sprang from cover into the water
and headed for the opposite side.
Dan'l leaped into his skiff and few
powerful strokes brought him nearly
| alongside of the buck. His purpose
was TO secure him alive, but when with
in ten feet of him the buck turned
about and swan straight at the boat,
The hunter, recognizing his peril,
drew his sheatheknife and caught the
creature by the horn as he made a
vicious lunge at the boat Dan'l held
on to the horn, and the buck lunged
and butted furiously. The hunter tried
to get at its throat, and in the effort
the skiff upset and Dan'l and deer
were left to fight their battle out in the
water twelve feet deep. To escape
from the maddened buck was impossi-
BILE, and instead of swimming from il
the experienced woodsman dived under
the water, and, coming up by the buck
side, stabbed it in the belly again anC
again until he was force to come to the
surface himself for air. The wilC
plunges made by the wounded beas
were terrific The river was dyed rec
with blood for twenty feet arounc
where the combat ragged. As the hunte
! poked his nose above the surface to ge
air the animal cut with its horn Ion;
furrow in his side. 1t was the buck
last expiring effort. With gasp am
shivering moan it sank out of sigh
and the battle was ended Wheeli1a
| (W. "a ReqiSter.
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has too much pride for violence and his or
ders are harder than blows. The huge
muscles of his back are to him what the
big sinews and heavy make ara to a
bulldog. He has habit of getting &is arm
crookedly bent to his knee in self-restrained
wrath, and it reminds us of the bulldogs
crooked legs. Oddly enough, in the pict-
ures OF "David Copperfield," that the ex-
act and observant author approved, the
tyrant schOol-master, Creakle, invariably
got into the position, with the crooked arm
weighing heavily on the knee, and the other
hand clenched. Great is the rejoicing at
the sight OF this severe back for the luck
less folks who have been obliged to look
upon the other side of him! They are in
deed, many backs that are more gladly
seen than the corresponding faces. The
back of the bore is a goodly sight; while,
on the other hand, when goodbye is griev-
Gus, how much precious regard is wasted
on the dear, characteristic, well-known
back, that never knows what loving looks
went after it!-CasseHs Magazine.
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Afraid of Being Partial,

Indignant Customer-Look herel What
do you call this?
Proprietor of cheap restaurant (examin.
ing objects Looks like a shoe-string.
ustomer-Well, sir, found that in the
soup.
Proprietor lin alarm)-Not 80 loud,
please.
Customer-You ought to be ashamed
Of
Proprietor lin er)-Pray bequiet.
That old gentleman at the table might
hear you. lie has been coming here regu-
larry for six months and never got single
thing thrown in with the regular dinner.
1t might make him feel sighted. -PhiLa-
dolphia Press.
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u.--ALLEGRo CON FUoCo.
Wants to Know His Professors.

Bill Yardly is one of the most trifling
students at the University of Texas.
He rarely attends the lectures, and when
he does, as general thing he is so much
under the influence of liquor that he can t
distinguish one object from another.
Not long since he strolled into Marks
photograph gallery.
what are you doing here, Bill2" asked
Marks.
81 just want to see the photographs OF
the professors at the university so I'll
know 'em when l meet them on the street.
We ought to know each other" -Texas
Siftings,
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Novel Clock Construction.

Of the various novelties IN clock con-
struction none have excited more gen.
eral interest, perhaps, than those which
consist of plain glass dial suspended
by a fine thread or wire, having the
motive power-an ordinary watch move
ment-concealed in the central boss of
the hands, or in the enlarged counter
balance of one of them. Another con-
trivance in this line of note consists of
two circular plates of glass, mounted in
metal frame or border, and connected
by a slender column, or foot, to Il ped
estal. In these the figures are marked
on the front plate, the hands being at
tached to the back plate, which is ce-
mented to Il brass rim, toothed as Il
crown wheel and driven by pinion,
the stem of which rises from the works
in the pedestal. The necessary hour
wheels, to give differential motion OF
the hands, are hidden between the
center bosses of the hands and the
brass washer on the back plate. Where
three glass plates are used, the short
and long hands are fixed to the second
and third plates, and two pinions drive
the toothed rims of these two Plates
N. Y. Sun.
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Europe; and ten thousand more varieties,
from the welsher on the turf up to the
gentleman who ought TO be a Baronet, and
who has lived for the last thirty years upon
that statement and upon charitably col
Letting for the savages of Borrioboola. He
could straighten his body if he liked, but
his mind is fix ID on curves OF cunning. He
and his principles are as crooked as wrig-
Cling cells; he can press others TO his will,
toe, as he presses his cane to u curve like
himself.
His spare form is not the thin-bent back
OF the student. The back OF bookworm
is another kind OF bend-a curve to be re-
spected. Nor is IL the stoop OF old age.
And this reminds us that the back is an in
dex of age as well as OF character. The
NnAll child stands asquare, upright, sturdy
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A SUBMARINE VOLCANO.
Millions of Lifeless Fish Floating in a Vel
low Scum on the Gulf.

Captain Robert NJ Lavender, of the
schooner Alice Montgomery, which ar
rived at this port recently, with cargo
of ice from Kennebec, Me-, reported
an interesting incident, He states thai
on the 10Th of October, four days before
arriving at New Orleans, and south.
ward of Rebecca Shoals, in the extreme
eastern portion of the Gulf OF Mexico,
he passed through an extensive tract
of floating fish, dead and dying. As
far as the eye could reach this spectacle
met the gaze, and the vessel sailed
through it for twenty miles. The fish
were of great variety, and another
curious feature of the phenomenon was
that the sea was yellowish and streaked
on the surface with a yellow scum.
The supposition that these fishes were
destroyed by some sudden visitation of
an epidemic disease is scarcely reason
able. Of variety of theories the most
plausible appears to be that which
attributes the destruction Of the fishes
to the breaking out beneath the sea of
volcanic matter and poisonous gases
destructive to the lives of marine ami
mails exposed to them. Submarine
volcanoes are by no means unknown.
The fact OF their existence has often
been attested in disturbances of the
ocean bottom, cases of the sinking of
coasts and islands into the sea or of
their elevation out of it being on record.
The opening of riffs in submarine
rocks through which poisonous sulphu-
GUS or arseniureted vapors are driven
into the waters above, would be entirely
in accord with the rules of volcanic ac-
tion.-N. o. Picdyune.
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purse, and the knowledge of the banking
account, and OF all he might, could, would
and should do in the world. He holds the
impecunious crowd in contempt, like the
dust that he kicks before him. He has
habit Of sticking up for his rights; even his
collar sticks up, and his hair, to correspond
with his inner self, is bristling up, but that
does not matter, for he can afford to wear
crooked hat. He thinks he can buy any
'thing-from a picture of which he knows
nothing, to an elector, who knows nothing
of him. At the front he might take us in
a hearty-loolling, glad-to-see-you sort of
man. But look at his back; he struts like
a barn-door cock-and the cock is the
more estimable biped.
The purse-proud man will never hand
money out of that pocket for charity, I'M
less he is pretty sure that there shall be a
printed list of subscribers Not so the
wealthy man who has a heart above gold.
Look at him-a back view-as he stands
at public meeting, called together atsome
time of calamity or need. He is sure to be
there. Ii the hall is overcrowded YOU can
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that denotes the
d m e S tic ogre.
His bald head
shines;one knows
that in the front
the veins are
burs ting. His
m us tache has
been twisted to
sharpness by an
cry fingers. His
h a n d s a r e
clenched orpush-
i n g mi h til
against his hard
set knee; he could
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see him standing, new
er complaining of the
lack of seats; he is
there for the comfort
of Others; he forgets
his own. He is a large
hearted man; and
every thing about him
is large. The big hands
are only waiting be-
hind him to give free
ly. The broad back
can bear a goodly
share OF others bur
dens. The coat sits
loosely, but not more
loosely than fortune
sits upon him III e
would slip it off for an
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shutting by, knock
ing his knees and
dragging his shoes,
and losing his prop
erty from shAe" ina
bility to remember
that he has got it?
There is an old say
ing,a significant one,
to describe a man OF
weak character -
that he has {" no
backbone in him."
We are afraid there
is not much back
bone in the man who
walks as if not quite
sure where he is GO
ing to, who drops
HIS letterS and never
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BACK. tul 'GeRSOuUy. DuU
the back-ahl there is the whole individual
an easy study-the whole of him, his figure
and walk, his shoulders nodded by the hab-
its of Mis- life, the carriage of the head, the
wearing of the clothing. Face to face we
see the man as he desires to be seen by us,
but behind his back we take him by sur
prise, and catch sight OF his character.
Follow the thoughtful man as he wan
ders through the streets, seeing nothing.
He has polished his hat and frightened his
umbrella to the last degree, not because he
cared for the polish and the tightness, but
because his mind was elsewhere when he
risked brushing the nap off his hat and
splitting the umbrella. While he walks his
head and shoulders bend; one knows that
his eyes seek the ground, just as one sees
his feet linger upon it. In this manner it
must have been that Macaulay walked in
his famous night wanderings, when he
traversed the London streets and saw
nothing-a contrast to those other night
walks of Charles Dickens, who trod the
same streets and saw every thing, with
head characteristically held back and
slightly to one side-an energetic observer
rather than Il deep thinker.
Very different from what we may call the
refined and intellectual back is the back OF
the broad and vulgar figure who struts
past us as ii he owned the street, or at
least the footwalk, where he takes up hall
the space between his striding feet and the
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atom of humanity. The man grows
straight to his full height; then his shadow
broadens; then his shoulders come forward
and his head goes down. He is the dried
and shriveled leaf that bends toward itself
and curls to diminish size before it mingles
with the dust OF vanished summer.
But we must not grow melancholy
though we can never see a smile at the
back. Who is the individual that comes
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8 e | f. asserting
umbrella. His
glory is not in
his mind or
heart, butin his
p o C k e t He
would be always
conscious of his
purse, even if he
h ad not his
h q n d bullying
out OF the peck
ct where it lives
OF course, one
knows by his
back that the
pocket is bulg-
ing with the
proud posses
isions of q fat
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THE FOND PAPA'S LULLABY.


I.-ALLEGRETTo sCHERZANDo.
Come, baby dear,
The night is here.
TITS time thou vert in slumber.
To close thine eyes
Sweet lulabies
I'll sing thee without number.
Sleep, baby sleep,
Close watch | keep;
Fear not thy fathers near thee.
Safe in his care,
Whisper thy prayer,
The angels bend to hear thee.
Rest, sweet one, rest
On papa's breast,
No one will dare to harm thee.
Hush while he sings
All sorts of things
Into sweet sleep to charm thee.
u.-ALLEGRo CON FUoCo.
Shut up, / say!
Come, can't stay
Up here all night and botherl
Don't yell like thatl
Confound the bratl
Here, take him to his mother!
-SOmerpiue Journal.
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ward, and you know from the angles TO
which he has set his hat and his whiskers
that, seen front-face, his aspect is Ito use
the mildest word) not wise, and that, as
fashion-book once said "the mouth is worn
slightly OPEN" Still, he is good-natured
fellow, and by some instinct we read on his
back that he has an ambition to be anus
ing. One is perfectly certain that the man
with such back sings comic songs; equal
" certain that he never knows when people
cease to laugh at the song and begin to
laugh at himself One is glad for his own
sake that there is much mirth in the pos
SCISSOR of those whisker-points and that hat
set backward; but it is weak spirit of the
Macawber order, and soon dssolves in
tears. The poor fellowwould not be half bad
but he has "no backbone" and a sprightly,
good-natured mollusk has a poor time of
it up on tie land among the vertebrate
animals.
But there is such thing as having too
much backbone, and that is rather worse
than having too little. When man has
too much backbone his heart is not SO the
people say, ''in the right place." sometimes
there is no room in him for a heart at all.
Now, there are some men in whom force OF
character is carried into the extreme, and
becomes hardness and habitual severity.
They are the ogres OF the real world, and
their homes are dens. A severe back is q
pleasanter sight to see than a severe face.
One does not care to be round at the other
side. 1t is not what we would call the lust
righteously indignant back, which is
straight and noble, fine thing, and a ven
cradle. 1t is the bulldog shouldered back
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"A kindling wood factory at Mount
Tom, Mass, turns out over ten thou
sand bundles q day.
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A MAN in London has been sent Go prison
for throwing onions at every one wearing a
tall hat.
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For that matter, our
character comes out
all over us, willing or
unwilling, and even
in our handwriting.
Lavater, who was SO
wondrous wise in the
looks of humankind,
said that from a single
finger we ought to be
able to guess a whole
individual. Perh a ps
we ought, but we sell
dom do, except in no.
ticing the difference be-
tween the finger OF re-
finement and a nut
meg-grater like tn e
forefinger of the faith
~ ItT A l. ~ "a