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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-06
A Oneer Hospital In Austria.

Consul Hotf told about hospital he
saw in his travels, which is run on such
a queer plan that / can not help repeat
ing it. 1t is situated in Trieste, Austria,
is built with a plain back, without an
outlet, to a little narrow street, which,
by some contrivance, people can enter
and leave unseen. On the end of a slide
is cushioned basket. Above it is a
large clock. Any one who does not want
their child can take it there unseen and
unknown, and place it in the basket,
which Immediately slides into the build
ing, when the constant watcher looks at
the same clock, which has an inside face,
and registers the new guest by the time,
such as April 10, 8 o'clock, "A minutes
and seconds, 1886. A similar card is
written and placed on the babe, which
is wrapped in swaddling clothes If the
mother ever wishes to regain her child
she goes there and says she wants to
look at the children. They are laid be-
fore her, and she examines the cards
until she gets one corresponding with the
hour she left her babe. Thus she knows
it is hers, and takes it free of charge,
The motto above the door was: "Our
parents have deserted us; Jesus is our
Father -Pittsburg Dispatch.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-06
The Fig Trees Of Sh asta City.

AS l rode in the other day thunder
storm fell. and got down and led my
hose under the nearest porch by the
roadside. The porch was half hidden
with grape vines. Down the steep bank
stood the largest and finest fig trees |
ever saw These fig trees, the owner
told me as l stood there waiting for the
rain to cease, bear three crops each sea-
son.
They lie so thick on the ground, these
figs, he said, in their black, waxen
honey, that they kill the grass, and you
can not walk about under the trees or
near them without your feet being sealed
to the ground. Sell them. So l insisted.
But the old man told me that he could
only sell few. He is two miles from
the railroad here. And then, as you
must know, the taste for figs is like the
taste for opera, acquired and rare. Yes,
he dries some of them, but people prefer
to buy the little boxes from Syria. He
told me, however, that he could make a
little money out of dried figs by selling
them to the Cinnamon. l asked after
the process practiced in curing them,
and he told me he merely put them in a
tlour-sack, tied it tight and let them lie
around till dried.
There is a fortune for Shasta City in
this one single item, figs, to say nothing
of the grapes, oranges, and other fruits.
In New Orleans two young Jews from
Bohemia started factory for preserving
figs in cans three years ago. They are
now rich. And so rare and delicious are
those fig preserves that | believe they
have never yet been permitted to reach
Chicago or New York At least, have
often asked for them in New York in
vain. first found them in Louisville,
Ky. They are eaten with cream, and
are the consistency of wax. And the
taste: Well.
Every washed-out and worn-out old
gold mine in and about these red foothills
of the Sierras can be made "a garden of
Eden. In fact, am told that it is hard
to keep the fig trees from taking posses
sion of the place. And such figs! full
three inches in length, some of them
Joaquin Miller's Letter in Chicago Times
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-06
Emigrants Sent to south Africa.

Eighty emigrants, all abstainers, are
being sent out to Kaffraria Each of the
number is to have 1870 acres of land and
other help, and the little band has been
selected with the greatest care. If one
of the most beautiful and richly gifted
portions of south Africa be any aid to
the success of this enterprise, the pros
poets of the expedition are virtually as
sured Kaffraria is beyond question the
most favored spot in South Africa. II
abounds in wood, grass and water, and
is eminently adapted to the raising Of
stock, as well as for agriculture.-Chi-
capo Herald,
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-06
THE LOVES OF LINCOLN.
His First Sweetheart a Golden-Haired
Blonde-The Lady He Married.

His First Sweetheart a Golden-Haired
Blonde-The Lady He Married.
President Lincoln's first love was a
golden haired blonde who had cherry
lips, clear blue eye, neat figure and
more than ordinary intellectual ability.
Her name was Anne Rutledge. She was
the daughter of a tavernkeeper in Salem,
Ills. Mr. Lincoln met her when he was
about %, and, after a romantic court
ship, became engaged to her. She died
before they could be married; and Lin
coin was so much affected by her death
that his biographer, Ward Lamon, says
his friends pronounced him crazy for a
time He was watched carefully, and
became especially violent during storms,
fogs, and damp and gloomy weather. AT
such times he would rave, declaring,
among other wild expressions, Il can
never be reconciled to have the snow,
rain and storms to beat upon her grave.
AT this time he began to quote, It's said,
the poem which is 50 well identified with
him, beginning
o, why should the spirit of mortal be
prouds
ing of his first love during the times he
so often repeated it. Years afterwards,
when he had become famous, he was
asked by an old friend as to the story of
his love for Anne Rutledge, and he said,
II loved her dearly. She was a hand
some girl. and would have made a good
and loving wife,
Lincoln's next love was a tall. fine
looking woman. named Mary Owens,
with whom he became acquainted about
a year after Anne Rutlege died. Upon
her re lection of him, he wrote "A letter to
his friend Mrs. O. H. Browning, saying
that he had been inveigled into paying
his addresses to Miss Owens. but on be-
ing refused he found he cared more for
her than he had thought, and proposed
again. In this letter he says;
81 most emphatically in this instance
have made fool of myself l have
come to the conclusion never more to
think of marrying and for this reason
that / can never be satisfied with any
one who would be fool enough to have
me-"
Still, it was not long after this that he
was engaged to Miss Mary Todd we'll
educated, rosy brunette of Lexington,
KY, who was visiting at Springfield,
where Lincoln was member of the Hi
nois Legislature Both Lincoln and
Stephen A. Douglas proposed TO her.
She refused Douglas and accepted Lin.
coin. Lincoln became suddenly ILL., and
ii was more than year before the mar
riage was consummated. 1t took place
finally in Springfield, and the couple be
gan their married life by boarding at
the Globe hotel at 81 week. Lincoln
was 80 years old at this time, and Mary
Todd was 21.-Frank q. Carpenter i'll
Lippincott's Magazine.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-06
On a New Jersey Turtles Back.

Mr.. William H. Beard, the artist. re-
members that forty odd years ago, in
Ohio, the boys used to amuse themselves
by cutting ON the backs of stray turtles
the inscription, "G. w. 1875" and then
letting the reptiles go; and one of his
humorous drawings depicts solemn an
tiquarian in the act of examining tur-
tie so marked. Mr.. Beard was interested
the other day to learn that a distin-
guished brother artist had recently found
in New Jersey swamp a turtle whose
back bore the same "G. w, l776,"
especially as the discoverer inclined to
the belief that the animal, if not relic
of the boyhood of the Father of his
Country, was at least true specimen Of
longevity.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-06

In books of travels written thirty or
forty years ago one reads much Of the
Naples lazzaroni, who subsisted en-
tirely on maccaroni which they de-
voured in strings several yards in length
and fairly encountered the pavements
with their presence. They are said to
have disappeared, and this fact is given
as an evidence of the industrial progress
of the city. 1t is possible that they have
disappeared, but the number of those
who can sleep as TRANQUILITY the night
through on a stone pavement as on a
spring mattress still astonishes the per-
son who knows the luxury of comfort
able bed. Naples Letter.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-06

Numerous Mineral Springs in Russia.
1t is not generally known that there
exists in the region of the Transbaikal a
multitude of mineral springs. the waters
of which are said to possess many medic
inal qualities salutary in the treatment
of various diseases. 1t is to be desired
that these waters were properly analysed
and made known to the world, if the
scientific report upon them at all agree
with the popular local belief in their
efficacy.
The only points where any prepare
tions are made for visitors are at Daras-
ourisk and Tourkinsk. But even here
the accommodation falls far short of the
luxurious, and is supplied by person
who rents the two nearest springs from
the government. At most of the other
springs visitors are obliged to lodge in
the huts of the natives. Visitors are
sufficiently numerous in the summer,
and have been so for many years, but
/ they do not come from great distances,
for the reputation of the waters, though
well established among the people has
not yet spread to the great world. There
are no doctors and few comforts The
natives use the waters, not only for
/ themselves, but for their cattle. Thou
sands Of sheep, oxen, and horses, suffer
ing from cutaneous maladies, are
brought to certain of these wells every
spring the custom is an lmmemorial
One.-ChicagO Times.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-06
Eorests in the PInnnf Mrs.

A French philosopher. VI Maurice Les
piault, who ranks high among astrono-
mers. has lately broqche ! tho leorv that
the people of the plan. Mars, having
been put to discomfort by the want of
regular rains, have undertaken the sf-
foresting of their globe on an extensive
scale Every one is familiar with the
broad bands which seam the surface of
Mars, and which it has been the fashion
to consider canals. In Proctor's map
the name of seas has been given to these
canals. One is marked Phillips sea, an
other Beer sea, another Tycho sea, an
other Schroter sea. and so on.
But NJ. Lespiault, who has studied
Mars through telescopes more powerful
than his predecessors used concludes,
first. that the mathematical regularity Of
the outlines of these so-called seas forbids
the idea that they are natural phenom-
ena; and he rejects as absurd the notion
that the people of that planet can have
constructed canals over 1000 miles long
and over fifty miles wide. He thinks it
more likely that the Martians, who in
habit much colder world than this, cut
down all their standing wood for fuel,
that droughts ensued, and that to obvi-
ate universal starvation the emperor or
grand tycoon OF president of the Marian
realm compelled the people to plant lines
of forest trees extending quite round
their globe, and spreading from thirty to
sixty miles in width. 1t is these forests
in his notion, which we have denom-
mated canals.-San Francisco Chronicle.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-06
King Ludwig's Favorite Beverage.

The late king of Bavaria's favorite
beverage was a mixture of white wine
and champagne, prepared in bowl
with a thick layer of fresh. strong
scented violets floating on the top. The
violets gave a delicious perfumed flavor
to the mixture, much to the kings taste,
as Ludwig was so fond of scents that
the air around him was generally redo
lent of perfume, This fancy cost him
quite 10 pounds sterling. Chicago Trib-
une.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-06
Pictures of the Paris Salon.

Some curious statistics of the contents
of the present salon were given by one
of the morning Partisan newspapers
Stating the quantity of space occupied
by pictures at 14,209 yards, military sub
jects are supposed to take up 3,279
yards 800 antique subjects, 3,279 yards:
500 landscapes, 2, 1856 yards; 300 domestic
subjects 2, 1856 yards; 100 portraits, 1903
yards; POO interiors, l,096 yards; and
divers odds and ends. 1908 yards.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-06
pedestrian PARTIES" Recent Inven
ton.

Pedestrian parties" are another recent
invention of young women looking for
something novel and lively. Six or
eight young people duly chaperoned will
sally forth as early as o'clock in the
morning and walk five or six miles before
breakfast. Where the fun comes in does
not appear to a finite mind; nor does
there appear to be any great amount of
ecstasy connected with that form of social
diversion known as going round the
road" This pastime consists of forming
a party of a dozen congenial spirits,
storming an unoccupied grip and
riding a round trip. To "go round the
road" with the greatest amount of en-
joyment. am informed that there must
be moonlight and that each escort must
be provided with a box of bon bons.
Stunning" has not found any great
amount of favor in Chicago; but it may
be adopted The fact that it is lust for
the fun of the thing" and only on a
lark" seems to be excuse enough for any
sort of folly. -Chicago Tribune.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-06
A Hungry Robins Daily Food.

Professor Treadwell, of Massachusetts,
has proved that half-grown robin will
daily devour more than once and half
its own weight in caterpillars and beetles.
A young brood can not live ON less than
seventy or eighty worms day. A single
pair of sparrows will carry every week
to the nest 4,300 caterpillars or beetles
Exchange.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-06
What Lincoln Said to Mrs. Stowe.

When Mrs. Stowe called to see Lin
coin toward the close of the war, she
says she spoke of the great relief he
must feel at the prospect of the early
close of the war and the establishment
of peace. And he said, in a sad way;
mo, Mrs. Stowe, i shall never live to
see peace: this war is killing me."-
Henry Ward Beecher.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-06

The Chinese keep as mnch as possible
TO their national food, and spend no
more than they can help with the out
side barbarians. Vast quantities of dried
and smoked poultry and fish are annu-
ally imported, and even eggs are brought
in covered with coating of earth, which
keeps them moist and fresh. Eggs so
protected will, it is said, be eatable when
four years old. The fish is of many
kinds but the most popular is very small,
something like whitehall. A kind of
squid, about eight inches long and hav-
ing many arms and feelers, is also in
great demand. Almost the only meat is
pork, and this as rule, consists but of
such portions of the entrails as Christians
throw away Poultry is nearly always
bought alive, as the blood is used in
cooking. AT some shops, where half Of
a duck or chicken is sold, small cupful
of blood is given with each portion.
Even the fish, after being cleaned, are
smeared with their own blood. Proba-
bly, this custom is older among the Chi
nese than the Mosaic law which forbade
a similar use of blood by the Hebrews
Cornhill Magazine.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-06
Elderly Ladies' in Germanv.

In England elderly ladies are often
laughed at behind their backs for dress
ing in too youthful a manner. The Ger
mans go the other extreme; no sooner
do they marry OF reach the age of 25
than they think it necessary to wear UNI
becoming bonnets, dark silk dresses, old
fashioned mantles, and to assume all the
other signs of lady advancing in years.
English paper
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-06
Quick Trip Around the World.

Mr.. 8. S. Houghton has arrived at his
home in Boston, thus completing his
trip around the world, which he accom-
plshed in five months and four days
and saw everything" This is a note
worthy voyage for speed.-Inter Ocean.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-06
To Prevent shoe. from squeakins.

The squeaking noise of shoes can be
stopped Nv sprinkling powdered pumice
stone between the soles during the pro
cess of manufacture, or by driving a
dozen shoe pegs into the soles when the
shoes are first to be used.-Boot and Shoe
Recorder.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-06

AS an experiment company of Jap
anese soldiers was fed on bread and
soup, with an addition of beef for sup
per, for one month. At the end of that
time each man had lost in weight from
three to seven pounds Chicago Herald.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-06
Effects of Mercury on the system.

A French Psychologist, who has been
studying the effects of mercury on the
human system, finds that it diminishes
the number of red corpuscles in the
blood, but at the same time increases the
bodily weight of the patient.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-06

1t has recently been demonstrated that
in perfectly moist air no formation of
a fog is possible, however much the
temperature is lowered, SO long as the
air is absolutely free from dust, and that
the more air, sufficiently moist, is
charged with such foreign particles, the
more intense is the formation of fog. If
filtered and completely moist air in a
glass ball have its pressure diminished
only few particles of fog will reveal
themselves to the most careful inspec-
ton. But if few cubic millimeters Of
ordinary house air be now admitted into
this filtered air very fine, silvery trans
parent fog at once forms itself, of such
slight density that even in the case of a
considerable area of it the transparency of
the atmosphere would be but very
slightly affected. At the first moment
of its formation if reflected image of
the sun, or the reflected light of an cleo
trio lamp, be viewed through it the i'm
age will be seen surrounded by an in
tensely luminous blue or greenish light.
Chicago Herald.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-06
Origin of the Blood Orange.

The blood orange is produced by graft
ing an orange scion into a pomegranate,
and at the end of two years again graft
ing a scion from this growth back into
an orange tree.-Chicago Herald.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-06

The temperatures of Norfolk, Charles
ton, Savannah Mobile, New Orleans, and
Galveston bear a striking similarity this
summer.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-06

Color blindness is said to have been
first reported in 1777.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-06

There are over sixty-four trestles in
the twenty-one miles of railroad between
Berenda, Cal, and the Yosemite valley.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-06

White-headed robins are reported il
Massachusetts.
Evening star., 1886-10-16
TWO CENTS.

toward university, will be married next
Wednesday evening to Mr.. Hatch, Of Maine.
Or. and Mrs. L. Rauth, of Brooklyn. are
spending their honeymoon In the city, and MIR.
ana MS. Irwin NJ. Cooke. OF Providence. Mr..
W. d. Dunbar, OF Cambridge, Mass, and Mr.
ana MRS. J. W. Gilbert OF Norwich, Conn.,, are
at the Hamilton.
Mayor Warren S. Reese, OF Alabama, ac-
companted by Senator Pugh and Gen. Allen,
maoe an official call upon the President on
wednesday to Invite him and Mrs. Cleveland
70 atteno the approaching Alabama state fair.
Snouid the President accept he wiI be the guest
OF Mayor Reese at his home in Montgomery.
Miss Kittie Thompson, soprano OF the Church
OF Our Father, has returned from an exten ted
lag with her cousin, Miss Clella Tiff, who
social circles.
very pretty wedding occurred at Falls
Church. Va. on Thursday evening, I'm the old
Presbyterian church. Tue contracting parties
We're were 4r: Albert I. Coumbe, of this city, and
Miss Alice Ives, the only daughter OF Mrs.
Amelia j. Ives, OF Falls Churcn. The brides
maids were Misses Libbie Swift and X ,iIe
Moran, aud the groomsmen Messrs. William r..
EitiS ana r. J. Lavender. Alter reception at
sue resioence OF the brides mother, the happy
their teturn nome Mr.. and Mrs Coumbe wal
reside at No. 1904 9th street
Dr. Walter Whitney, assistant surgeon
Y. = A, is now east on leave o: absence from
ms post az Fort Reno, and will visit b S brother,
MT. y. n. whitney. chief Gle * oG the Bureau o
Statistics. at 1S27 / street, for the next ~ o
weeks.
Mrs. Dr.. Semes has returned from her trip.
The wife OF Lieut. Bbnesteel, 18th Infantry
iatner, Gen y. d. Greene, in sunderland Place,
for two or three weeks.
Evening star., 1886-10-16
THE GOSSIP OF LONDON.
Two Important New Piay.-Latess News
0t the Literary World.

special Cable Dispatch 4 lHH hvE<rN. STAR
LONDON, Oct l6.-Two INTEREST az mays VIII
be shortly produced here. PInero new Comedy
"For Saint James" Is said by the Kendalis to
be the cleyerest thing he has written Jones
the author Of "The Silver king" has r.tteu An
important me % lraiua tor the Princess thealer.
II is play vi English country life AT the sup
posed town OF Mapleburg. and Is said TO con-
tain some extremely strong situations. IL is In
tour acts and thirteen scenes. Tue leading part
was specially written Cor Caarle, Warner. The
heroine will be played by Dorothy Dene, q ris-
ing and beautiful young actress.
The next volume OF the Encyclopedia Brit
tannica. to be out shortly, will contain articles
phy by X. III. redder; ON saiut Beuve. 10y Mat
lIew Arnold: on SCHILLER, Oy James Sims: ou
shelly, ON RoS>eti; on Scott. by Prof Nintor
on Savanarola, by Madame Willard, and on
Rousseau, by SaintsLury.
Tne title of Hodder Stouyhtons newspaper
is The British Weekly, Journal OF social aud
Christian progress.
Under tine title OF The Mermaid Series"
Nizetelly viii shortly issue mouthly volumes
OF select plays rom the old drsmstisIs, under
the general editorship of Hayeiock Kills. The
earlier volumes Include Marlowe and Mas
singer. 10 the FIRST oI the series symonds will
contribute "A comprehensive iutroduc. ION.
Carl ReIueckes new comic opers, "Auf
houem BeIel.l. Was prod uced On the LIST Of
Oclooer al tue Hamburg theater With great
success. A buriesque on the subject will be
produced at Christmas al the Gaiely,
ProI. Mando Aandell Creighton will start I'm.
mediateiy ON visit TO the United StateH
Ernest Renans philosophical drama "Ab-
besse de Jouarre,' has been the literary event
OF ths week In France.
IL Is said That Ferdinand de Lessep In about
To publish, through tie office of the koweue
Recus, "A work Oh nis mission To Rome In lSl8,
giving an account OF his relations with Mas-