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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-03-05
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Boston Wholesale Produce Market.
CORRECTED EXPRESSLY FOR
ORLEANS COUNTY MONITOR,
by


Jobbng and Commission Dealer In Butter, Cheese,
Flour Lard, Eggs, Beans, Dried Apple,
etc., 81 John Street, Boston.
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DIED.

RS-Annotices ofdeaths inserted free. Obituary
notices and poetry 6vs cent? psv tfas
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CALEDONIA COUNTY.
ST. .JOhn<bur


George NJ Williams has sold his mar
ket in the Brown block on Main street to
II. A. Folsom of Barton. Mr.. Folsom is
Il practical butcher and purposes TO main
tain the reputation this market has al
ways enjoyed. Mr.. Williams will go
South as soon as his business affairs are
squared up.
The scheme to get the railroad shops
moved from Lyndonvil;e to this place
slumps through. There is really no rea-
son why the people here should expect
the company to throw up the shops there
unless they could be paid the full loss
sustained by SO doing, and it is no small
affair 10 larger places than this to raise
$l50,000 by subscription.
east Burke.
Dr. Ide and wife start for California
to-day.
Fred Corliss soon moves his family to
Holyoke, Mass.
Rev. H p. Cushing went to w. Burke
Thursday to off1ciate at the funeral of
Mrs. Wooster.
Mrs. Laura (Stafford) Shindlar, start
ed for her home in Bristol, Pennsylvania,
Wednesday morning.
West Burke.
E. E. Alexander has returned.
Lucius Martin died at Burke Hollow
Feb oath.
The donation for Rev. John Meade
netted about $40.
DIR. Sleeper and J. F. Rnggles leave
California for home March 26.
Miss Lucy Locke of Massachusetts is
visiting at her uncle's, s. Bartlett's.
Philip Smith is in a critical state of
health. Ed McFarlan is home from
Grandy sick.
H. M. Moulton, postal clerk, has been
transferred from the Boston and ST.
Adams route to the Richford and Spring
field route, day run.
Jonathan Davis is hard sick with pneu-
monia.-Mr and Mrs. d. E. Kendall are
both very sick.-S. Baker is very low
and must get help soon if he RECEIVERS.
Lieut.. Joseph S. Hall of Michigan Wis
tied d. Rattery Post, G. A. R., Saturday
evening. Feb %, and stayed in the place
till Monday morning, the guest of D. S.
Townsend.
Mrs d. S. Townsend's scholars from
East Burke made her a visit Wednesday
evening, the 22d, and presented her with
beautiful hanging lamp and some other
tokens of esteem, as a birthday gift.
The D. Rattery w. r. G.. are to give
masquerade and sugar party Monday,
March 10Th. Admission Is cents. All
members of the w. R. c. are to pay Is
cents whether present or absent. The
public are cordially invited to attend.
Mrs. A. P. Taft was called to CRANKY
recently to by the death of her little
granddaughter, Edith Wells, oldest child
of Joseph and Eva (Parker) Wells. She
was a beautiful child, and her sudden
death is heavy blow to her parents and
friends.
We have received news of the death of
Mrs. Fanny (Dexter) Laid of Pana, ILL.,,
which occurred the oath of last month.
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The Yankee Blade is a most charming
weekly family story paper published at
Boston, Mass, at SO per year. 1t is "a
mammoth paper, containing in every
issue eight large pages, forty-eight col
umns, of the choicest reading matter for
the whole family circle, embracing serial
and short stories, sketches, poems, his
tory, biography, wit and humor, fashions,
household recipes, fancy work depart
ment, children's corner, &C., &C. Every
member of the family will be delighted
with it. To every regular subscriber of
the MONITOR we will send The Yankee
Blade one year for rs cents, less thin half
the regular subscription price, which is
50 per year. The Yankee Blade at 50
year is the cheapest family story paper in
America but at the special price we offer
it to the subscribers of the MONITOR it is
practically less than cost, and we expect
to receive the subscriptions of large
number of our readers during the contin-
uance of this offer. Send for a sample
copy to Potter & Potter, publishers, The
Yankee Blade, Boston, Mass, but send
your subscription to MONITOR Office.
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bismarck as a SwOrdsman.

The German chancellor, Premier Bis
mark, while student at Goettingen, by
his skill and strength gained the reputa-
tion of being crack swordsman. 1t is
said that he challenged two students
the very first day he came to Goettingen,
and afterward defeated both, although
they had had much experience. A very
cunning trick, in escaping an attempt
made by ''pedell," a university officer,
to break up fight, is credited to Bis
marck. When he was at Jena on q
visit, arrangements were made for him to
fight duel at Woellinitz, a small vii
lage. The "pedelr'-Kahle by name
was very much disliked by the stu
dents, as he had often interrupted their
fights. He had gotten knowledge
thereof. and on the morning fixed for
the fight had gone to Woelinitz and hid
himself in a large barrel used in a
brewery. He had placed the barrel in
such position that he could overlook
the duelling place through the bung,
hole, intending to see all the fight and
get the names of all principals. Kahle's
presence was noticed, however, by some
peasants, and by Bismarck's suggestion
the barrel was suddenly turned around
so that the hole stood against the wall.
Several students then seated themselves
upon the barrel and remained there until
ali the fights had been finished, when
the unlucky ''pedell" was released from
his prison and was heartily laughed at.
It is a fact that Bismarck shortly alter
ward was ordered to leave the city by
the university authorities. s.-BaIIsTaor:
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Woes Of the POnderOus.

It is popularly supposed that creatures
of great bulk are not sensitive to pain
that is why the woes of fat folk are al
ways so derided; but the fact is they
feel as keenly as other people, and over
a larger area. The rhiuoceros is lndifler-
ent, indeed, about having his toe trod-
den upon, but this is by no means the
case with the elephant; if you had ele.
phantiasis in the foot yourself you would
understand this, but most persons do not,
including, as it would appear, the pro-
prietors Of circuses. Two of this class
have been recently summoned for cruelty
to elephants, in making them walk with
tender feet. These animals are very
thin skinned. Though they can carry
an enormous weight. it is very difficult
to arrange it on their backs so as not to
call them. The number of elephants in
India which are made useless for work on
this account, and also by lameness, is
very great. When they put their foot
down it has almost as serious an effect
on them as on other people. If they
tread on a stone their immense weight
makes it leave an impression on their
soles; it is almost like ergraving.-n-
deptndent.
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HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
Red Currant jelly.

It is such an improvement to currant
Jelly to have little red raspberry juice
with it, says a writer in the Prairie
Farmer, that 1 want to speak of it, so
that those who are intending to make it
will give it trial. There need not be
many raspberries used-a pint will flavor
three or four times as many currants.
Many advise US to make jelly before the
currants are perfectly ripe, but l have
always succeeded best when every berry
was ripe. My method is to take pound
of sugar to each pint of juice, and as
soon as it is weighed, place the sugar in
q flat pan in the oven and let it heat
while the juice is boiling. The principal
boiling should be done before adding the
sugar; this will insure lighter-colored
Jelly than when the sugar boils long in
it. l have had it jell as soon as the
sugar was added, but generally have to
cook it little while after putting it in.
1t is always well to test jelly by taking
up little first, and never depend upon
it's thickening much after it is put into
the glasses. Exposure to the sun for a
day or two before sealing up is often
resorted to, but in my experience this is
rarely necessary. Papers covering jellies
that have stood some time often become
hard and difficult to remove. Pour
boiling water on them. and Immediately
drain it off, and you will find the paper
ia loosened at once.
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other countries to determine the import

other countries to determine the import
ance of feeding salt to domesticated ami
mails, and all the results have been un-
questionably in its favor. Many years
ago one of the greatest of European
chemists (M. BaussingaultD, for the pur-
pose of determining the dietic value of
common salt, selected six cattle, as equal
as possible in weight and appearance,
and fed them in exactly the same man.
mer, except that three received one-half
ounce of salt daily, while the other
three got none. In about six months the
skin and hair of those without salt be-
came rough, dry, and staring, present
ing a striking contrast to the smooth,
oily, coats of the others, which, although
not much superior to their neighbors in
weight, were more lively and in better
health and far superior in appearance.
1t is too late in the day to question the
value of all kinds of common salt for
grazing animals, and the farmer who
neglects to give salt once or twice a
week will lose far more than he gains by
Withholding it.-New York Sun.
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Amphibious japanese.

Like a terrapin which the rain kills,
although they live in water half OF the
time, the Japanese afford contradictions
on the water question. They never
drink water, and the men who have
been working in the lotus ponds at
Shibi, grubbing out the old stalks and
leaves from the muck in which the
sacred plant grows, standing meanW lille
in water up to their waists and shoulders,
will not work in the pond on rainy
days.
In Yokohama harbor on the incest
days, the Coolies who load and unload
cargo lighters and are in and out of the
water continually, often refuse to work
if rain egins to fall. The little boys
and girls and the unoccuped women,
with babies tied on their hacks, who are
always gadding about the streets with the
aimlcss unconcern of hens, take no ac-
count of the weather and enjoy the open
air regardless of the barometer. JIM
rickisha Coolies pay no heed to the rain,
and, although they draw the hoods and
tie their passengers in snug and dry
with oil paper or rubber aprons, they
trot along themselves in their two scanty
cotton garments that a"e more abbre-
waited than ever. Their substitute for
an umbrella is huge fiat straw plate of
hat, and instead of putting on goloshes
they take off even their straw sandals
and run barefooted. They show some
consideration for the big toe by tying
that honorable member up with bit of
rag or wisp of straw, but this amounts
to nothing more than decoration.
Those pedestrians who wish to be
stately and dry shod thrust their bare
feet into half slipper arrangement Of
wood and oil paper that is perched on
two wooden rests three inches high,
This adds so much to their statue that
one often thinks that he has been ia.
vored by passing an unusual number Of
stately and dignifed-looking men, and
concludes that the japanese are not such
q race of pigmies after all. Globe-Demo
ront
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Rhubarb Cultivation.

This is one of the most useful plants.
The stalks, especially if grown early,
when apples are scarce aud dear, are
much esteemed for cooking purposes. 1t
is also excellent for preserving, either by
itself or mixing with small fruits.
There are few plants which will give
more profitable results, but in most
cases the roots are relegated to the most
obscure position in the garden. almost
any out of the way spot being good
enough for the rhubarb. Then disap-
pointment is the result, for with that
kind of treatment nothing but puny
growth can be expected.
Like all other plants, rhubarb will
respond generously to good culture and
high feeding, yielding immense crops OF
large stalks. The flavor is also OF q
superior quality when the roots are
treated literally.
Rhubarb will thrive upon any good
soil, which should be dry and be worked
deeply with liberal supply of we'll rot
ted manure. For plants to set out it is
better to spit up old roots, with two
crowns to each set, than to SOW seed, as
Dy the latter process IL Will be tour OF
five years before crop Can be gathered,
whereas with planting sets the roots will
bear heavy crop the second year after
being planted.
Alter sufficient stalks have been gath.
cred the remainder should be allowed tc
die down, to rest the roots and renew
their strength for the following season,
During the summer the hoe ought to b.
used to keep down the weeds. The
soap suds on washing days can be ap
piled with benefit while the hot days ar,
on. In autumn, when all the stalk
have died down, the earth around th'
roots must be we'll forked over and the
bed covered with about six inches O
good stable manure. Rhubarb cultur,
deserves more attention than it receive
at present. - Rur0l Canadian.
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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND G ARDEN
A Woman's Outdoor Work.

A woman's sphere of usefulness on
farm, says correspondent of the New
York IriJune, can be very much en-
larged, to the benefit of her health and
the general exchcquer. am reminded
of this by the transactions Of young
farmer and his wife. She had learned
to be good driver of horses, and now in
the busy season she does most of the
team work on the road and the general
running around, rakes the hay, drives
the reaper and other light work, while
her husband is where he ought to be, at
work with his hired man. She meets
with kindness from all, and is denomi-
mated "the plucky little woman" ex-
cept occasionally she is half.sneeringly
called "a farmerine." Having to keep
hired girl anyway, her housework
does not suffer in her absence from it;
indeed, her husband says it would pay
if he had to keep girl purposely. True,
her hands are little harder and the tan
on her face thicker, but the healthful
roses on her cheeks and the satisfaction
of knowing she is a helpmcet as we'll as
help eat are abundant rewards.
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The Worlds Oldest University.

The University of Bologna, Italy,
celebrated in June the eight hundreth
anniversary of its existence. Bologna
University is the oldest school of learn
ing in the world, and has its origin in
the law school of the Emperor Theodo-
sius H., 425 A. D. 1t has given to
Bologna very great renown ever since.
Thousands, sometimes 10000 foreign
students, were there every year to per-
feet themselves in certain branches. and
such foreign guests had their own de-
partments, which were called by their
nationally: German, Spanish, French,
etc.
One of its strange points was the
female learned members Of the uni
versity, who attained very often q high
standing among tine sarants. AS late as
in the commencement of the eighteenth
century. we find there the Dotteresse
Bassi lecturing on mathematics and
natural philosophy, and after her
Clotilda Tambroai occupying the chair
of Greek literature. Bologna sent forth
the light of enlightenment in the dark
est times of barbarism, and the most
celebrated part of it was always the law
school, with which VIC find Haly's
greatest iurists connected. From Bologna
Comes the foundation of ell past and
present lsw systems, and its influence
over social polite circumstances was
very deciding, and for Germany, for in
stance, very important. Some of Ger
many's greatest doctors of law had their
education at Bologna, and law teachers
of Bologna had served The German en-
perors Of the family OF Hoheustaufen as
counselors in many very important de-
cis;ons. Boston Courier.
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The Use Of Salt by Cattle.

Salt is a very widely distributed min
eral, and exists in variable amounts in
all soils, and in most streams and springs
issuing from mountains, often thousands
of miles from the sea- The use of salt
by cattle and by all herb eating animals
cannot be called an acquired taste, for
saline waters and beds Of salt abound
In all countries where animals exist, and
have existed from their creation. 1t is
also we'll known that so essential is the
use of salt for the maintenance of health
that wild animals travel many miles to
obtain it, either from saline springs, or
from the sea, or from the salt beds to be
found in various parts of the world. Salt
is natural vermifuge, and animals re.
receiving a regular and full supply of
1t are rarely troubled with intestinal
worms. 1t is also stimulant aiding
digestion, often restoring the tone of the
stomach when impaired by an excess of
coarse or watcry food. Hundre6C of
experiments have teen made in tIIs and
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The Princess Regent of Brazil, who is
now making q favorable impression as
administrator Is forty-two years old.
The Result Of Meri'.


When anything sands test OF fifty years
among discriminating peop'e, 1t Is pretty
good evidence that there is meri somewhere.
Few, il any, medicines have met with such
continued success and popu arity as has
marked the progress Of BRANDRETH's PILLS.
which, at er trial of over fifty years, are con.
ceded to be the safest and most effectual blood
purifier, tonic and alternative ever lntrodu' 60
to the publ C..
That this is the result Of inert, and that
BRANpRETH's PILLS perform all that Is clsimed
for them, is conclusively prov. by the fact
that those who regard them with ths greatest
favor are those who have led them the
longest.
BRANpRErH's PILLS are sold in every drug
and medicine store, either plain or sugar
coated.
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Corn Recipes.

COru tbecIpeS.
Corn should be fresh in order to be
good, says Mrs. Parker, in the Courier
Journal, and should be cooked as quickly
as possible after being gathered, as 1t
heats and loses much of its favor. When
ready to cook the husks should be re-
moved, as we'll as every thread of silk.
Then the ears should be pu. in a kettle
of boiling water and boiled as rapidly as
possible.
Grated Corn Sauted-Mix grated corn
with salt and pepper. saute in little
hot butter.
Corn Custard-Cu corn from the cob,
mix it with milk to thin, two eggs, pep.
per and salt. Bake half al hour.
Stewed Corn-Scald inst enough to
harden. slice off the ear, add sweet milk,
butter and salt. Let simmer ten min
utes. Pour in half q teacup of cream, in
which beat an egg and tablespoonful
of sugar.
Corn Drops-Pour a pint of boiling
water on pint of corn meal, let cool,
beat in an egg and a Tablespoonful of
butter, thin with sweet milk. Cut corn
from three ears of corn, mix in, and fry
in hot lard.
Corn Pudding-Grate the corn from q
dozen ears, season with salt, pepper and
little sugar, and the yolks Of four
eggs, two ounces of butter, and quart
Of new milk. Bake in moderate oven.
When done beat the whites of the eggs,
pour over the top, and brown.
Succotash-Ha the corn from half q
dozen ears, fresh from the cob; shell a
pint of young beans, cover with boiling
water and boil twenty minutes; add the
corn with half pint of milk, table
spoonful of butter, salt and pepper. Stew
five minutes over the fire and serve.
Corn Oystcrs-Mix into pint of
grated corn three tablespoonsful of milk,
one teacupful of flour, tablespoonful of
butter, one egg, with little salt and
pepper. Drop it by the spoonful into a
little hot butter and fryi on 9th sides.
Serve very hot, on we'll heated dish.
Corn Boiled in the Husks- Remove
the green outside husks, leaving the
cob well covered with the inner light
husks. Throw into kettle of boiling
water and boil rapidly ten minutes.
When done, take up, drain, pull the
silks from the end Of the cob and serve
in the husks.
Corn Fritters-Score dozen ears of
corn down the center of each row Of
grains, then with the back of the knife
press out the pulp, leaving the hull on
the cob. TO this pulp add half pint
of milk, the yolks of two eggs, little
salt, pepper, and teacup of flour. Beat
the whites of the eggs stiff, and stir
them with a teaspoonful OF baking
powder into the fritter. Fry in hot
lard, dropping in spoonful at time.
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The Salt Was Still Sayory.

During recent trip of the City of San
Antonio, Of the Mallory line, from New
York to Fernaudina, Fla, an Old lady
passenger, who was hard to please and
who grumbled at everything and every
body about the ship, said to the captain,
at the breakfast table, just Leforc reach
ing port: "Aftcr all, captain, there's
one thing that is really good on this ship,
and when l say things really good, |
mean it. Never saw better anywhere. ="
"Glad to hear you say so, madam" re-
piled the gallant captain; "we always
try to make things pleasant and comlor-
table for our guests. But what is there
on this ship you admire so much2" 'The
SALT" replied the old lady.-Argonant.
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Spreatiinp Fresh Manure.

The practice which is becoming more
common, of spreading fresh manure on
land and allowing it to remain through
winter till the rains and melting snow
carry the soluble portions down into the
thawing soil early in spring, is still op-
posed by some on the ground that the
enriching portions arc thus washed
away from the land and wasted. This
opinion appears to be founded on theory,
and not from careful test. In one case
heaps of FRESH manure were placed on
steep hill-sides covered with grass. The
rain washed the heaps, and carried the
liquid manure about five feet at the
furthest down the hill, and by that dis
tance it was all absorbed by the earth.
A part of the liquid was washed away
from the heaps before the ground was
thawed and while it was yet in the con-
dition of lie. But as soon as there was
enough water to dissolve the soluble
manure, there was at the same time quite
enough soil thaw ed to absorb and hold
it. There was no difficulty whatever in
the process, for the rain did not come
down like running brook over the
whole broad surface, but the rain drops
sprayed itgently, and the thawing earth
could easily absorb all the, fertilizing
parts, which constituted but a small por-
tion of the liquids. If the heaps had
been thrown into the bottom of brook,
the result would have been different, but
farmers would not make such mistakes
Unless they did SO on purpose. - Country
Gentleman.
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A Stroke of Luck.

Iandlady (of fashionable boarding
house, to applicant)-"Have you chill
dren, MADAME"
Applicant-"No; had little boy,
but he died last summer"
Landlady-"You are very fortunate,
for we never take children. '-LHe.
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At the time when Columbus started IN
Woman V "a and child in Europe insisted that there
was no New Word to discover. When he
came back. crowned with success. large pro
portion of these good people adhered 10 their
them them Would doubtless insist that AMERICA had
never been discovered at all. A man will give
up anything in this world more readily than ham
nails who still maintain that consumption is
incurable. DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis.
covery has cured thousands upon thousands
of cases and will cure thousands more, but
these people can't give up their point Never.
theless the discovery" will cure any case Of
consumption, If taken in time.