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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-16
FAST TIME.

The master car builders held their an
nual convention at Niagara Falls recent
ly, closing June IL. The Western MEM
beers were taken by a special train of four
cars over the Great Western division of
the Grand Trunk, and a remarkably fast
run was made; leaving Niagara Falls at
. :i5 a. III. and arriving at Windsor, dis
lance of 229 - miles, at 80 p. ND
hours and 10 minutes, including stops, of
which there were Ii, and three of them
II, 10 and minutes respectively. En-
GLIDING stops, the run was made in
hours and 81 minutes-or 229 l-2 miles in
231 minutes. With the exception of IL
miles on the Copetown grade, Il uniform
speed of 60 miles an hour was maintained
throughout, and the roadbed is in such
excellent condition that the cars ran SO
steadily that it was observed water in a
glass nearly full on the table did no!
spill.-IoroRtO (Ont.) RaH,ray Life.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-16
PRlESTUY TRAMPS ITALY.

Core SpOuucncc New York World
In Europe, where the demarkations
separating the different CLASSES of society
are so strongly defined. the easiest man
ner by which man of low degree can
better his social condition is to enter the
church. Every peasants son whose in
telligence scars above blowing fields and
herding pigs obtains with ease per-
mission to enter the ecclesia,t teal semi
nary or theological college. Naturally
there are not enough parishes for the
enormous number of candidates. and
thus Il class of men is formed. who de-
barred by their calling from any remu-
nerative trade or profession, are either
dependent on charity or else obtain a
precarious livelihood by proving on in
stead of praying for their fellow-creat-
ures. In Italy alone there are about
10000 of these unfortunate men, hated
and despised by the people, exposed to
istence, to all the temptations of evil and
vice, and bringing lasting and indeiblt
disgrace on the priesthood. The only
money they can honestly earn is by oc
casionally officiating on behalf of some
reverend gentleman DESTROYS of holiday
or in the case of the Catholic clergy by
saying mass at the funerals of poor peo
pie. Hence they hunt out death like vul
lures, disputing among themselves, oft
Ell at the very altar, as to who is to re
cite the burial service over the corpse
This, of course, is absolutely inadequate
as Il means of livelihood except in times
of cholera or other similar epidemic
when golden harvest may be reaped
The newspapers are full of crimes com
united by these Outcasts of society, an(
of course the whole of the anti-clerica
press takes advantage thereof to attacl
everything appertaining to the church
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-16
A DAKOTA PARISH.

Mr.. j. Kay Phillips, young Philadel-
phian just graduated from the theological
school of Yale, is out in the northern
wilds of Dakota for the summer irving
to establish mission. He writes back
as follows: "Out on an ocean of plain
are few houses the the size of hencoops
these form Hoskins, my present abode.
Not drop of paint SulleS the VIRGIN
color OF the boards. One room below. a
loft above, in which "a dozen of Us sleep.
And Hoskins is the county seat, and the
county is larger than the State of Rhode
Island. | preached in a store. The
boys sat on the counter: the women ON
chairs brought from the various shanties
Moreover, the boys carried over an or
gan, filled a small vase with flowers and
then we held service. But make no mis-
take. Half of these boys are college
graduates. We have numerous LAWYERS
VINO have come here to take several hun
dred acres of land of generous govern
ment. go botanizing with delicious
chap from Ann Arbor. Not drop of
liquor is sold; the fellows are all wild to
have church here; they are willing to
bring boards 30 miles distant; for near
nelghbor is ne who lives dozen miles
away. a Methodist clergyman thinks
nothing of trudging "a miles and preach
ing sermon. Then. the sun-it beats
Hereby down, but the half gale that is
continuously blowing mitigates the in
tensity OF its heat. Finally, we have a
paper and we love it, too. 1t gives us a
column about Bill Jones's pump or the
size of Neighbor Browns new heifer.
Still we want the news of the world :;
even II it is month old we devour if
greedily. How should enjoy a peep at
today's Press. Yet the inhabitants of
Hoskins are confident of glorious FIJI
lure y blade of grass towering above
Its brother is magnified in their estima-
ton to "A huge plant, and they vow that
III few years Dakota will be a bouud-
less forest instead of waste prairie
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-16

This expectation, which does not exceed
four or five hundred bushels annually,
takes place from New York and from the
small ports of Connecticut to the South
ern States, to the West India islands and
even to Liverpool, where the fruit is
known by the name of hickory nuts. In
the market of New York they are sold
at 81 a bushel They are gathered in the
forests and from insulated trees which in
some places have been spared in clearing
the lands-a precaution which | have
particularly noticed to have been used
near Goshen in New jersey and on sever
al estates about 30 miles beyond Albany.
The Indians who inhabt the shores of
lakes Erie and Michigan lay up "A store of
these nuts for the winter, a part of which
they pound in wooden mortars. and
boiling the paste in water collect the
oily matter that swims upon the water
to season their food.
Before speaking of the properties of
the wood | cannot forbear mentioning a
fine variety of shellbark nuts produced
upon farm at Seacocus, near Snake
Hill, in New Jersey. They are nearly
twice as large as any that | have seen
elsewhere and have a white shell with
rounded prominences instead of angles
\ century of cultivation perhaps would
not advance the species generally to an
equal degree of perfection, and probably
this variety might still be improved by
grating.
The wood of the shellbark hickory
possesses all the characteristic proper.
ties of the hickories, being strong, elastic
and tenacious. 1t has also their common
defects of soon decaying and of being
eaten by worms. As this tree stretche:
up to great height with nearly uniform
diameter, it is sometimes employed a
New York and Philadelphia for the keel.
of vessels; but it is now seldom used fo
this purpose, most of the large trees neal
the seaports being already consumed. 1t
wood is found to split most easily and t
be the most elastic; for this reason it i
used for making baskets and also TO
whip handles, which are esteemed TO
their suppleness and of which severa
cases are annually exported to England
For the same excellence and for tn
superior tineness of its grain it i
: selected in the neighborhood of New
York and Philadelphia for the back bow
of Windsor chairs which are wholly o
wood. have frequently observed tina
among the hickory wood brought to Ney
York for fuel this species predominated.
! Such are the uses to which the shell
bark hickory appears peculiarly adapted
. 1t has before been seen to be a tree o
= lofty stature and majestic appearance;
{ should therefore recommend its introdut
ton into the European forests. where
: should be consigned to cool and humi
= place, cOngenial with those in which
\ tlouriSheS in America. In the north q
: Europe it could not fail of succeeding
q As it securely braves the most intenS
cold
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-16

Reporter, Are you going to work to-
day, Pat;" Pat, Sure, | dunno. Me
old woman says she'll break me head if
don't, and the union men will break me
head if do. Sure, those are hard times
for dacint men. think I'll just take me
chances with the old woman. " y.
Times.
The advertisement of new edition of
Uncle Toms Cabin" in the Sunday
School Mdgozine of Nashville led to such
criticism that the publisher printed card
saying that the advertisement got in
while he was away attending confer
ences," was not approved by him at all
and had been promptly discontinued.
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HAS TO GET EVEN.
[ From the Chicago Tribune.

III seems to me, Mr.. President" hum
Oily remarked the private secretary. AS he
gathered up an armful of slaughtered
oils" it seems to me. if | may make
bold to say so, that you run to vetoes a
good deal more than you used to-
daniel" responded the President
grutfiy, ''it's not your business to think
anything about it. I've learned what
vetoes mean since-well- lately-and
We got to get even with somebody's
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-16
FOR SALE.

Fifty thousand feet fence boards IL feet
long, 3 and inches wide and IA inches
thick 100000 feet good spruce shingle; also
5000 feet good spruce boards, planned. In
quire of HENRY SMITH,
81 1T Bread Loaf Inn.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-16
Farm for Sale

THE Farm in the southeast part
of the town of Shoreham, of late
the home place of William G. Will
son, deceased, is offered for sale
This farm is supposed to contain
l47 acres, consisting of meadow,
pasturage and woodland, in desira-
bic proportion. The dwelling
house has lately been thoroughly
repaired and modernized; and is
neat, convenient, comfortable and
commodious. The out buildings,
though not new, are in fair condi-
ton, and entirely ample for the
wants of the farm. The farm is
we'll fenced, and has upon it a
young, thrifty and bearing orchard.
This is a fine opportunity for any
one desiring a good home and a
farm with more desirable and fewer
Objectionable features, than the av-
erage of farms. If desired, easy
terms of payment will be granted.
For price and other particulars, in
quire on the premises, of
Mrs. ELIZA WILSON.
Or of E. J. ORMSBEE, Brandon.
ShOreham, Vt, Jan. %, lSs6. SIT
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-16

Halls Vegetable Sicilian Hair Remover
never tails in restoring gray hair 10 its youth
full color lustre, and vitality, DR.. 4. A Hayes,
state Assayer of Massachusetts, indorses il,
and all who try ii testify to its many virtues.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-16
COMSUMPTIO

lungs, is promptly and certainly arrested
and cured by this God-given remedy, If taken
before the last stages of the disease reached.
From its wonderful power over this terribly
fatal disease, when first Offering this now cef-
ebrated remedy, to the public, DR.. PIERCE
thought seriously Of calling IL his icon.
sumption Cure but abandoned that name
as too limited for a medicine which, from its
wonderful combination of tonic, or strengthen
Ing, alteratiye, or blood-ceansing, anti-bilious,
pectoral, and nutritive properties, s uneQualed,
not only MS remedy for consumption of the
lungs, but for all
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-04-28
The Tea of Paraguay.

In discussion over the virtues of the
hot water cure, Mr.. P. Barry has the fol-
lowing to say in an English paper:
When in the republics of Uruguay and
the Argentine in 1868, where met Cap
tain Burton, found that the tea of Par
aguay (mate) as a hot infusion used by
Englishmen Gin the camp" did, with
mutton, all that is claimed by your cor
responder The fellows in the distant
camp were often six and eight weeks
without anything but mate and their
sheep, and to my horror found that each
at meal could eat a merely soddcn
shoulder of mutton, which for an hour
had been toasted from wooden stake
over a fire. The mutton so prepared
was often perforce eaten without bread,
salt, or pepper, and then it was always
rclished for it's own sake, but
washed down with mate. Why it was
living like fighting cock! Still am
bound to confess that when the fellows
from the distant camp visited Buenos
Ayres or Montevideo, they made straight
for confectioner's shop, and 'hobbling'
their horses in the street they gorged
themselves with cake like so many
schoolboys. Yet the Republics of South
America confirm the statements of your
correspondent, with this qualification,
that the hot weather may be infused mate
and that if fat and sinew are liked they
may be eaten freely. The dwellers in
the camp are the leanest, the most en-
during, and the healthiest men living,
sixteen miles on horseback before break
fast being as little thought of as the walk
of Londoner from the bank to the stock
exchange. It should be added that chill
dren in the camp inherit these qualities,
with intelligence beyond their years from
an English point of view. The boy or girl
of eight or ten years may be Trusted to
climb up the fore leg of horse that he or
she may chase sheep running before
stolm, to be headed homeward to cor
raj. One word more, o simple finger cut
on the pampas practically involves lock-
Jaw; and it may therefore be asked
whether this follows from diet of hot wa
ter and meat without vegetable or miner
al accompaniment.
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WORDS OF WISDOM.

When you are we'll off, keep as you
are.
No condemnation ought to 60 further
than the offense is known.
If any one says i'll of you, let your life
be so that none will believe him.
If we must answer for our idle words,
how much more for our idle silence:
The innocence of the intention abates
nothing of the mischief of the example.
A celebrated writer says: "Wc never
see tear in the eye but we are reminded
Of warm heart"
Without trial you cannot guess at.your
own strength. Men do not learn to swim
on table. They must 60 into the deep
and buffet the surges.
Put your feet down where you mean
to stand, and let no man move you from
the right. Learn to say no." and it
will be moreuse to you than to be able to
read Latin.
Whenever you commend, add your
reasons for doing so; it is this which dis
tinguishes the appreciation of man Of
sense from the fattery of sycophants, and
the admiration of fools.
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THE NATIONAL GAME.

THE American association used up ,242
base balls during last season.
THE Metropolitans will have the finest
grounds in the world on Staten Island
The Detroit league club have the strong
est collection of batters that was ever known
THE new rule giving credit in the summary
for bases stolen seems to have met with gen.
eral approval
squander the snug sum of $4,000 for the
players railroad fare this season.
BASEBALL is quite as popular in Canada as
here, and has outstripned in general favor
the national and beautiful game of lacrosse.
ST. LOUIS has no less than seventy-six uni.
formed amateur clubs Philadelphia tops
ganizations.
DAMN, the new catcher Of the Yale college
team, is also a fine pitcher, but so speedy in
his delivery that no one could be found in the
college who could hold him
EACH league club saves nearly $500 a year
by the rule requiring llayerS to submit to
reduction from salary IF fifty cents per day
while away abroad during the season.
A New YORK prophet predicts that the
league clubs will finish as follows: New
York, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, st.
Louis, Detroit, Washington and Kansas
City.
YHE National league teams are captained
as follows: Philadelphia by Irwin, New York
by Ward, Detroit by Hanlon, Boston by Nor.
rill, Chicago by Anson, st. Louis by Dunlap,
Kansas City by Roe, Washington by Baker.
THEsix clubs which now compose the Penn
sylvania State league are Wilkesbarre, Lock
Haven, Altoona, Williamsport, Lewistown
has been effected and the rules Of the Ameri-
can association adopted
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Welsh Names.

Welsh names are proverbially of a
crack jaw tendency, but perhaps the
palm may be given to the following,
which casually occurred in a conversa-
ton between a Welsh maiden and an
English visitor at village at the foot of
Snowdon. The visitor inquired: "What
is the name of your little cottage, my
dear'" "Welsh girl-"Lletyllilyllfynwy,
sir" E. V.-"Oh, and are your parents
living2" W.G.-"Yes sir: but my father
works at Chwarel Cacbraichycafn." E.
V.-"Very we'll. Any brothers2" W.
G.-"Yes; three, sir. One at Rhosllan-
erchrugog, one at Llanenddwyncwmlf-
anddwywe. one lives between Penmaer-
mawr and Llanfairfechan. E. Wits
growing worse, I see. How many sis
ters!" W. G.-Only two, sir; one is
with my aunt at Observation-Disclosures" :"
f. V.-''My word, what a name! And
the other?" w. G.-"Oh. she is in ser.
vice, sir, at Llanfairpwllg llgwyngvllgogery.
chwyrndrobwllg gertrobwlly lylandysiliogog.
ogoch. ."-London Figaro.
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

Mr.. BoUc1cAULr's new play, "The Jilt,"
is great success.
VERDI is reported to be engaged in the
composition of a new opera.
CAM1LLo URSo, the distinguished violin
ist. has been concerting in the South.
EMMA NEVADA. the singer, has become the
guest of Mrs. Senator jones' in w ashlngton
Miss ANNA DICKINSON is writing histor1-
cal play to show up mans lnhumanlty TO
women.
THE roof of the theatre at Huromal, Japan,
gave way not long ago. and fell upon the
spectators, 80 of whom were killed or Serl-
ouSly injured
SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN is turning his at
tention from light opera and is again es-
saving more serious works. He is now en-
gagged in composing cantata.
AMUSICAL museum has been organized at
Milan, anc is to have an exhibition Of antique
and rare musical instruments, accompanied
by series of so called historical concerts
ADELINA PATTI is said to know perfectly
forty-seven complete operas, having actually
appeared in public in forty-two, several
of which she has sung in French as well as
italian.
Mr. LAWRENCE BARRETT adds to his
repertorv next SeaSOlI q hve-act tragedy en-
titled 'Harold. the Last of the SaXons,"
adapted from the German of Herr Ernst Won
Wilderbruch.
Mr.. B. B. VALENTINE, who originated
Puck's 'Fitznoodle' papers, in association
with Mr.. John G. Wilson, the author of
"Nordeck," is preparing a comedy in which
Fitznoodle is to be the central figure.
Miss NAY L. Tiff the daughter of Hen
ry r. Tiff of New York, who recently made
her debut in the opera of Lucia" at her
Majesty's in London, is spoken of by Lon
don paper as the most successful debutanteof
the season.
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Life Studies by Lige Brown.

Fashion soon tires of everything ex-
cept plug hat.
The only school board that it spoils to
whitewash is the blackboard.
Aspiring mattress, like spring chicken,
is in season all the year round.
The barber dies thousand times while
another dies but once, and yet he is far
from the grave.
The man who never wore tight boots
is courtlng the woman who never saw q
looking glass.
The man who is waiting for something
to turn up generally finds it when he
steps on barrel hoop.
An English paper states that "women
are too much inclined to touzle the hair"
q sentiment that most married men will
indorse.
A doctor says whenever person
sncezes he should take drink of water
and he will not take cold. Some men
would rather chance the co!d
Love is deaf as we'll as blind. If it
wasn't how could the tendrils of woman's g
affection wind themselves about the man
who talks through his nose2
A lecturer who asserted that islanders
did not hurt him, because they could not
hit him." discovered later that the same
remark did not apply to eggs.
Pomp, splendor, parade, and tinsel
lure the idle and enthus: the rabble, but
music and banners soon lose their charm
to him who walks behind pigeon-tocd
man in procession.
It is said that Chinaman never swears
when he gets mad because there are no
cuss words in his dictionary. He simply
upsets bis wash tub,. butts the bottom
out, kicks dog, and feels better.
Progress is still skipping along, knock
ing old theories topsy-turvy and building
up new ones, but she can't quite make
out what the sex of the chick will be
till after the egg is hatched.
Did you ever tug at your whiskers and
mediate upon the tenacity with which
cause and effect have chased each other
through centuries2 Green apples made
trouble with our first parents in the gar
den, and they spare not the small boy OF
to-day.-Chieago Ledger.
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PERILS OF THE SEA.
A Schooner Drifting Seventeen Days
Lives Lost Off New Zealand.

A Schooner Drifting Seventeen Days
Lives Lost Oft New Zealand.
The American schooner Ida Francis, which
sailed recently from Pensacola, Fla, for
New York, was dismasted when seventy
miles southeast of Delaware Break
water. Her cabin was filled with water and
the provisions were mostly destroyed. The
schooner drifted, water-logged and in help
less condition, for seventeen days. The captain
and his wife and child took refuge abaft the
cabin, and they, as we'll as the crew, suffered
terribly from cold and hunger. When res
cued at the end of the seventeen days all on
board were in greatly exhausted condition.
They, have been landed in London The
second mate, whose leg is broken, has bcen
flaced in hospital.
The New Zealand coasting steamer Taiaroa
has been wrecked between Wellington and
Christchurck, New Zealand. A heavy gale
prevailed at the time and the sea was very
rough. Three bouts were launched, but each
was speedily capszed. Twenty-nine persons
were drowned. Only two passengers were
saved
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The Nutritious Banana.

A pound of bananas contain more nu-
triment than three pounds of meat or
many pounds of potatoes, while as q food
it is in every sense of the word far su-
perior to the best wheaton bread. AL
though it grows spontaneously through
out the tropics, when cultivated its
yield is prodigious, for an acre of ground
planted with bananas will return, &C
cording to Humboldt. as much food ma
terial as thirty-three acres of wheat or
over one hundred acres of potatoes. The
banana, then, is the bread of millions
who could not well subsist without it.
In Brazil it is the principal food of the
laboring classes, while it is no less priced
in the island of Cuba. Indeed, in
the latter country the sugar planters
grow orchards Of it expressly for the con-
sumption of their slaves. Every day
each hand receives his ration of salt
fish or dried beef, as the case may
be, and four bananas and two plan
tains. The banana-it should be called
plantain, for until lately there was no
such a word as bananas divided into
several varieties, all of which are used
for food. The platino manzanita is
small, delicate fruit, neither longer nor
stouter than lady's forefnger. 1t is the
most delicious and priced of all the va
rieties of the plantain. Ell platino guineo,
called by US the banana. is probably more
in demand than any kind. It is sub
divided into different varieties, the prin-
cipal of which are the yellow and purple
bananas we see for sale in our market;
but the latter is so little esteemed by the
natives of the tropics that it is seldom
eaten by them. El platiuo grande-
known to us simply as the banana
also subdivided into varieties which are
known by their SAVIOR and size. The kind
that reaches our market is almost ten
inches long, yet on the Isthmus of Darien
there are plantains that grow from eigh-
teen to twenty-five inches. They are
never eaten raw, but are either boiled or
roasted, or are prepared as preserves
AS00na1t.
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Her Most Engaging Feature.

Her lips are red, her eyes are bright.
Her cheeks are like the rose;
Her graceful neck is ivory white,
She has a turn-up nose
A turn-up nose, this pretty miss,
But she's charming creature,
And esteem that proboscis
Her most engaging feature.
Indeed I do. You ask me why!
The reasons simply this:
IT'S never in the way when l
Attempt to snatch kiss.
Boston Courier.
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