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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-09
PAN AND SYRlNX.

There was secret vale in Already,
Wherein grew many Il flower sweet to
smell,
And many "A pleasant shadow of tree
DarSened the slant sides of the cup like
deli;
And day and night did birds make
melody,
And "a clear streamlet slipt through fern
and brake,
Singing until it ceased within a lake.
And often when the drowsy summer heat
Had wrought a longing for some little
rest,
Here from the chase did Artemis retreat,
With bow unloosened and bare snowy
breast;
And maidens following with buskined
feet
Trooped through the fern that bathed
them to the knee,
While the red staghounds leapt beside in
glee.
-Longmans Magazine.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-09
THE STRAW INDUSTRY oFFLoRENcs
The Plaiters workiuR in Their Own
characterization and Earnings.

characterization and Earnings.
This industry is so generally extended
throughout the district that there is
scarcely a family in which some of the
members are not engaged in the work.
Children begin to plat at and years
of age; while mothers of families, in adj
dition to their domestic occupations, and
females of all ages and almost of all con-
ditions, who do not follow the business
as means of livelihood, employ their
leisure time in it. Formely, when the
production was carried on by persons
connected with agricultural labor only,
the work was not constant: but now ex-
cepting. perhaps, with afew "contadine,"
it goes on all the year round.
The plaiters work in their own homes,
and their busy fingers are rarely at rest.
The large number work up the straw on
their own account, and sell the plaits, or
hats, on the public markets held at Flor
ence and other towns. Others receive
the straw from and are paid by the fat
torini" class of middlemen who con-
sign the plaits and hats in the rough to
the principal manufacturers who finish
them for export. Others, again, are in
direct communication with the manu-
facturers themselves. The earnings of
the plaiters are subject to considerable
fluctuations, partly depending upon the
market prices that may from time to
time rule for the manufactured article,
and partly according to the higher and
lower rates of the straw. On an average,
the daily earnings of children and young
girls may be taken at from 80 to As CEN
centimes Much depends upon the
ability of the workers and consider
able number of expert hands can earn
regularly, under ordinary circumstances,
from Ira to 1 Ira 10 centimes, and
sometimes as much as Ira 80 confines,
per deim At sewing hats "a maglia,"
about 10 centimes per diem may be
earned.
Payment is made by the piece. AS re-
CARDS cost of production, three-tifths is
credited to labor and two-fifths to first
material, but this estimate is approxi-
native only, as the relative proportion
of value must be subject to considerable
fluctuations depending upon the price of
the straw. The articles chiefly exported
are the Florentne hats and plain and
fancy plaits. The principal countries of
export are France, the United States,
Great Britain, Germany and Austria
The future prospects of the Tuscan straw
industry are at present by no means en-
couraging, as so many new articles
spring up which are more favored by
fashion. The competition of English
plaits, as far as prices are concerned
Fashion apart. does not much affect the
sale of Italian straw products; but that
of the Chinese plaits, in the ooarser
qualities, is almost crushing, and to a
very considerable extent now supplies
the various markets of Europe and
America, to the nearly total exclusion of
the same qualities of Italian plaits as re-
CARDS foreign consumption. These
Chinese plaits are of excellent quality,
well made, strong and serviceable, and
supplied at prices with which it is i'm
possible to compete in 1taly.-English
Consuls Official Report.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-09

1t is known that amateur photography
|has been cultivated with enthusiasm of
pate, especially in this country, where it
|has been carried in several instances to
the point of perfection. There is doubt,
Indeed whether some of our amateur
photographers are not more expert than
the tradesmen. In England the taste for
this amusement is growing steadily, and
pit has the approval of the prince of
Wales, himself a skilled photographers
Frank Leslie's.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-09

The old theory that it needs brute of
a man to handle and train brutal men is
passing away. The men in charge of
our prisons are coming up nobly to their
work The main trouble now is-and
from the nature OF the problem always
must be-to keep up the tone of the sub
ordinate officers and employees. Every
employe about a priSn, from the head
superintendent to scullion, should carry
about with him the contagious atmos-
phere of sturdy moral integrity in the
pursuit of an ideal better than his act
New Highlander.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-09

Many people fall i'll of disease simply
through fear of it. The imagination has
powerful influence on the human body
One can very easily imagine himself to
be catching cold at the sight of an open
window, when if he had not known the
window was open, or was not afraid of
its effects, he would escape the cold.
Doctors understand this secret, but they
do not impart it to their patients. Most
invalids, real or supposed, would be
angry if physician would say to them,
Nothing ails you, you only think So"
They prefer to think themselves sick,
and in time they really become so, for
nature, though she struggles hard, can
not stand everything. Too many drugs
will finally destroy her healing power.
These people who love to have a box of
white pills in bottles, and a little book,
all kept in some handy place, so that
when friend who has eaten too much
dinner says, "Oh, | am fearfully nerv-
GUS" they may run for the little book,
look for nervousness, and administer
SO many pills of b.yonia. When they
have a headache, instead of dieting OF
eating more moderately, they take
several drops of some nice poison. They
trust nothing TO nature, but call III "A
doctor for every little ailment, when
fresh air. exercise, and strict temperance
in eating and drinking is all they need.
Cleveland Leader.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-09
Musouito of the Mediterranean,

1t is curious fact that the American
musquito seems to be almost the only
one known TO entomologists. What loads
of abuse have been piled on the backs of
those that sing and sting along the Mis-
sissippi, Ohio, and Sacramento rivers.
Yet these pests are found about the
Mediterranean and Adriatic in numbers
that would shame the slender hordes in
American cities.-San Francisco Chron-
icle
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-09

Concerning the so-CalIed Century Plant.
"Not Bit" replied the garrulous old
gentleman, who no longer posed as a
century plant expert now that he was in
the presence of genuine pulque drinker;
but how about this century business?"
You Americans have invented the
century plant name. We do not call it a
century plant in Mexico. 1t is not a CEN
fury plant at all, though l observe that
ninety-nine out of every hundred people
who come up here to see these
mezcals seem to think that the plants
bloom when they are just 100 years
old, and | heard one old man telling a
young woman that in Mexico they al
ways put a stone beside the plants. with
the date of their birth carved thereon,
so that succeeding generations may
know when to expect the flowers"
Here the old gentlemen WINGED, for it
was he who had just been telling that
story to a bevy of young girls in white
dresses and Folsom hats.
THE fact is" continued the swarthy
man, that the so-called century plant
some times blooms in ten years, and usu-
ally in about fifty years. Much depends
on the region in which it grows. In hot
climates and under favorable conditions
it grows quickly and attains its perfect
state. In climate like this where it is
cultivated as an exotic, perhaps Il hun
dred years may be required to bring out
the flowers. 1t Is another popular error
that after the plant has once doomed it
will not bloom again for a hundred
years. AS soon as the flowers fall the
plant withers and dies - Chicago Herald,
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-09
River Channels Cut Through Lakes

Surveys made during the past two
years have shown that the river Rhone
has cut for itself channel in the bottom
of Lake Geneva, through which it flows,
between parallel banks, like an ordin-
airy stream on the earth's surface. The
Rhine makes a similar passage through
Lake Constance. -Arkansaw Traveller.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-09
He Spoke Before He Thought

Rogers Ito Miss Racquet and Mr. Pey-
ster)-Now, want you two people to
get real well acquainted.
Peyster-But, my dear fellow, I'm TAX
ing your seat, am | not?
Rogers-Don't mention it. my boy
There, sit down and have nice chat
with Miss Racquet. You'll enjoy your
self much better than l would. Won't
he, Miss Racquet It'd Bits
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-09
The Hours of sleep REQUIRED.

Five hours for a man, seven for a
woman, and nine for a pig" says one
proverb; and a second, quoted by Mr.
Hazlitt in his English Proverbs" de-
clares that Mature requires five; custom
gives (allows) seven; laziness takes nine,
and wickedness eleven" These conclu-
sions were, however, drawn from obser-
vations of country life.-Exchange.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-09

1t has been estimated that coca is used
by 10000. 600 of the human race, betel
nut by 100000, chiccory by 100000
600, coffee by 100,000,0O0; 100000 900
eat or smoke hashish 400, 100000 use
opium, 800, 600, 600 use tea, and all the
known people of the earth are addicted
TO the use of tobaccO.-New York Post.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-09
The Costume for Mountain Climbing

The tish-wife costume, for boating.
tennis and mountain climbing, is high in
favor once again. In deep marine blue,
with cream white trimmings, or in the
Princess of Wales combination of ad-
miral blue and Neapolitan red, the suit
is very picturesque and becoming. The
skirt is killed to deep hip yoke, and
very often the kits are SO arranged as
to display a plating of the contrasting
color beneath. Soutache embroidery or
straight rows of silk braid are applied to
the laveuse tunic, the broad marine col
lar and the deep tuin-back cuifs.-Chi-
cago Herald.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-09
The HAD in a Nut she'll.

Neither photography nor the micros-
crope was known in the days of Cicero,
yet he mentions that the whole of
Homers lliad had been written on a
piece of parchment SO small as to be in
closed in a nut shell.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-09

Leaves of larch, which had been rolled
into balls-the largest more than foot
in diameter-by the whirling motion of
water, have just been exhibited before
the Berne Naturalists' society. Such
balls, free from cementing mud, are
formed in certain Swiss lakes and in
other places are produced from various
plants.-Chicago Herald.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-09
Hard and Soft Steel Rails.

As to the relative merits of hard and
soft steel rails, the Investigations in Ger
many seem to leave the matter of wear
indeterminate, with the conclusion that
the wear of rails depends more upon the
impurity of the steel than upon its hard
ness and softness.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-09
Clay as IA Candy Adulterant.

The adulteration of candy is chiefly by
the use of terra alba, or white clay. This
harmful stuff can be detected by dissolv-
fng the suspected candy it water, when
|the clay falls to the bottom undissolved.
AN ounce roll of cheap lozenges will
sometimes contain three-quarters of an
ounce of this injurious stuff.-Harper' 8
Magazine.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-09
Europe's Armies Standing in Line.

If the 8, 1000, 900 soldiers of the Euro
pean powers were drawn up in line, the
distance from right to left would be
5000 miles, and the reviewing officer
would require an express train for sew
eral days to go from one end of the line
TO the other.-The Argonaut.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-09

During the later periods of Roman
history the men and women reclined at
their repast; but the Greeks considered
such posture indecorous for females;
their women, therefore, either sat at
separate table or upon one end of the
couch on which the men only reclined.
Philadelphia Call.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-09
Rats of the French Capital.

Paris is cleared of rats by her munich
|pal council offering premium for their
skins. Two years ago the premium was
about twelve francs per thousand, in
order to get the city cleared of these.
pests. Twenty thousand skins are said
10 have been made into genuine kid"
gloves last year. The Argonaut.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-09
Powers of the Cuban PONY.

The powers of the Cuban pony are said
TO be remarkable. He will make from
Sixty to eighty miles day in continu-
|ous jog or half-rack so easy to the rider
that glass of water could be carried in
Ehe hand all that distance and not drop
Spilled. Chicago Times.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-09
Foreign Immigration Falling OF.

According to recent statistics, foreign
immigration is steadily falling off. There
is a notable decrease in German immi-
grafton. philadelphia Call.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-09
As Fifty-Five to Eighty Five.

By very careful test it has been found
that the strength of Bushman's fore
arms compares with that of an English
man of the same weight as fifty-five to
eighty-five
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-09

Many man has died and been called
wise, simply because he never gave
tongue to all bis thoughts. -Jud La
Pagan.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-09

Parchment paper, blue ink, quilts and
blotting sand are the correspondence ma
terial used by fashionable young women
who delight in ancient things.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-09

There are about $4,000 900 worth Of
private railway-cars in the country.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-09

Last year the American Bible society
printed I, 437, 40 Bibles and New Testa-
|ments.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-09

A physician recently testified that two
boys were poisoned by wearing suits of
brown cloth, the dust from which was
poisonous.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-09

The seeds of many new Zealand plants
bre said to grow the better for BEN:
frozen.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-09

Leopold Won Ranke worked eight hours
day steady for the last forty years.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-09

Politeness will succeed where money
alone will get worsted.
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UNION BRIDGE ITEMS.


At a meeting of stockholders on Saturday
the following Board of Trustees was elected
for Mountain View Cemetery: P. B. Myers,
David Rinehart, John NJ. Furney, Joseph
Wolfe and John Englar.
Rev. Mr.. Fisher, pastor of the Lutheran
Church, surprised his congregation and the
people of Union Bridge on Sunday evening
one week ago by announcing his resignati on,
TO take effect in a few weeks.
Some measurements were made last week
for estimates of lengths of water mains, &c.
The water works committee expect this week
to have some surveying done, to determine
more definitely the choice of water supply,
location of mains, &c.
The Union Bridge High School will give an
entertainment on the evening of June llth,
in the Town Hall.
Considerable interest was shown in the two
cases tried before Justice Crabbs at the Town
Hall on Tuesday evening. Captain Ruth, OF
the Salvation Army, had preferred charges of
lounging and talking during religious service
against William Angel and Scott Haines.
After Captain Ruth's statement, and the
testimony of several witness for the defence,
the Justice declared the charges not sustained,
and the case was dismissed. The second case
was then called In this instance Chas. E.
Stephens charged Harvey Reck with disturb
ing the religious meeting held by the Saliva
tionists by keeping the door open and talk
ing loudly after having been ordered to desist.
After hearing the evidence the justice decided
in favor of the plaintiff, and fined the defen-
dant FIVE dollars and costs.
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NEW FREEDOM. Pa. ITEMS.

The ceaseless rainy weather is keeping oul
farmers from completing planting corn, as
well as the canning establishment from plant
ing tomatoes, &c.
Our grangers, who have been organized fol-
several years, have almost died out of exis-
tence, but were awakened upon Monday
evening by one of the most laudatory speeches
that we have listened to for several years, by
Mortimer Whitehead, of New Jersey. Grand
Master of the Grange. There were brief ad-
dresses by Girard c. Brown and Col. Maish,
of York. They were also accompanied by
Capt. Hoke, of York, who was elected secre-
tary.
The work of the ME-. Church at Mt. Zion
is rapidly pushing forward, and is expected to
be ready for dedication in a brief period of
time.
The quarterly meeting of the Evangelical
Church met last Saturday afternoon with suit
able services under the direction of the pre-
siding elder, NJ. j. Carrothers, of Milton,
Pa, who also conducted the communion SER
vices on Sabbath morning
The second attempt to dedicate Rock Chapel
will take place on next Sabbath two weeks.
The New Freedom Lyceum met last Mon
day evening. The programme consisted prin-
cipally of business for the picnic on Whit
Monday. The following programme is selected
for next Monday evening-Musie by Society;
reading by J. R. Minor; music, J. l.. Grove,
ACCORDION solo; question SIS the law an honor
able profession ?h Grafton, Miss Cordelia Hy-
son; music by J. H. L. Boyer; comic song by
John Ruhling; music by j. F. Grove.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-05-29
WHEAT CONGRESSMAN SHAW is DOING.

Congressman Shaw is one of the busiest o.
the members Of the House of Representa-
tives He has not made any speeches on the
floor, but made an able speech on the Mary
land Claim for advances made to the govern.
ment before the Committee on Claims, and
has done active committee work, besides at
tending closely the sessions of the House:
On Monday he introduced bill to place
the name of William High, late of company
B, First Maryland Volunteers, on the pension
roll. On the same day, on behalfof the COM
mittee on claims, submitted favorable re-
port on the bill introduced by his colleague,
Mr.. Cole, authorizing the Secretary of the
Treasury to pay the North German Lloyd
Steamship Company, or their agents at Balti-
more, 81, 422 for import duties improperly
imposed on steel crank-shait, part of the
machinery of the steamship Strassburg.
In postal matters he has been prompt and
active. On Monday he filed an application
for a new postofice at Bateman, Hartford
county, with Frank Bateman, postmaster, and
also made application to the Postoffice De
partment for change in the schedule OF
mails between Liberty and Union Bridge, this
county.
On Tuesday Representative Shaw submitted
favorable reports to the House on Maryland
claims-one to pay Thomas P. Morgan, Jr.,
81, 1913 for work done on the Norfolk harbor,
and the other to pay P. Cough Edelin, $40 for
money advanced for a pensioner.
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. TYRONE ITEMS
Big Yield of Buttsr-Decoration Services al
Baust-Call Accepted-Barn Raising.


Baust-Call Accepted-Barn Raising
Most of our farmers have at last finished
planting corn. Some of the early planting is
reported as not coming up very regular.
We have noticed several communications
in the county papers from elite localities in
this county concerning butter making. This
section is generally known as dumb Quar-
ter but we will give a report of the success
of one farmer in that line. Jos. Formwait,
from April LIST, 1885, to March 3lst, 1886,
sold to Mr.. Myers, his marketman, 1890
pounds of first class butter. Home consump-
ton was POS pounds-total 259S. This was
made from cows, OF which were heiiers
with their first calves, = with second calves
and middle aged cows; and in addition a
considerable amount of milk was used in the
family.
There will be Decoration services held at
Baust church on Sunday evening, the 9Th of
June. A speaker has been engaged for the
occasion The church choir will sing several
national airs. =. Every effort will be made to
make this grand success as this will be the
first regular decoration services at this place.
We hope the good people will respond with
their assistance and plenty of flowers, and
especially the Sabbath school children.
Rev. Mr.. Souder has accepted a call to
preach in this new charge-Baust, Union
Bridge and Hawk's-and he will preach at
Baust church on Sunday, the 9th of June, at
2 o. clock, p. m.
Mr.. Jesse Unger raised his new barn, IS
feet in length and As feet wide, on Wednes-
day last. There were present 40 men to as
sist. Rev. Mr.. Delp and DIR. Rinehart were
present all day and worked like good boys.
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SIMPLIFY ITEMS.

William Frizzell is still very i'll, and his re-
covery is patiently looked for by his family
and many warm friends, who have admins
tered their friendly aid during his long illness.
Rev. E. A. Warield, of Deer Park circuit,
purposes holding a children's meeting at Zion
and Deer Park Chapels, on Sunday, June 6.
Suitable programmes for the occasion will be
arranged, and will consist of readings, sing
ing, &c. The object of the meeting is mis-
sionary work, and will be held at Zion at 10g
a. m, and at Deer Park at q p. IN.
Barnes & Co. have moved their saw mill to
Z. G. Shipley's, preparatory to saving the
lumber for his new barn, which he intends
building during the summer.
Ephraim Williams has the foundation of
his house up, and will build during the sum-
mer Ditman & Bro. contractors.
The continued cold and wet weather has
stayed the anxious corn planters. Every OPP
portunity they had during the wet period they
would plant, and at this writing the bulk OF
planting is done. The real early planted corn
has come up well and stands regular, but most
of that planted during the rainy season has in
a great measure rotted, and will have to be
furrowed out and planted over, especially the
factory corn and all planted with fertilizer.
The cereal and grass crops still look prom
Using.
The potato bugs are going TO be very nu-
merous this season, Judging from present APP
Dearances.