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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-12

The great beverage in Persia is sher-
bet, which is plentifully supplied, and of
which there are many varieties-from
the bowl Of water with a squeeze of
lemon to the clear, concentrated juice of
any sort of fruit to which water is added
to dilute it. The preparation of sherbet,
which is done with the greatest care, is
a very important point in so thirsty q
country as Persia, and one to which
much time is devoted. 1t may be either
expressed from the juice of fruit freshly
gathered or from the preserved extract
of pomegranates, cherries or lemons
mixed with sugar and submitted to q
certain degree of heat to preserve it for
winter consumption
Another sherbet much drank is called
guzang ebben. 1t is made from the
honey of the tamarisk tree. This honey
is not the work of the bee, but is made
by a small insect living under the leaves
of the shrub. During the months of
August and September the insect is col
lected and the honey is preserved.
When used for sherbet it is mixed with
vinegar. and, although not No delicious
as that made from fruit, it makes an ex.
cellent beverage.
Only among the rich and fashionable
are glasses used. In all other cases sher-
bet is served in china bowls and drank
from deep wooden spoons carved in pear
wood--Youth's Companion.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-12

When the sewing machine first came
INTO general use it was feared that 1t
would do away with the e Of sup
port of the sewing girls, making it a sim
pie matter for every household to COM
pass all its own sewing in comparatively
no time at all But, contrary to con-
lecture, precisely the opposite has been
the result; for the sewing machine made
plain work SO easy that tucks, ruffles, in
settings, and all the finer fancies of the
needle, done by its aid, came to be as
much a matter of course as the plain
seam used to be, so that work accumu
lated beyond all expectation, and the
class of sewing girls found more to do
than they had yer dreamed of having;
and those who had worn the simplest
sort of clothes suffered from a prevalent
feeling which made plain clothes seem
to manifest a want of taste and elegance
and care for appearances.
With all this superabundance, then, of
fanciful cutting out and putting together
again, of stitching and trimming with
bands and edgings, that came in for the
white underwear with the sewing ma
chine, the outside wear presently could
not fail to correspond in intricacy; and
thus embroideries, furbelows, pleatings,
draperies, and all the rest of the insignia
Of fashion belonging to the gown, have
come in their turn. The consequence of
this raising Of the straight seam to its
highest power is that she who nee
dressed herself with simplicity would now
be out of the world in her old style and
manner, and finds it best to sacrifice her
tastes and deck herself out like a doll, as
it seems to her, and she who used to be
the French doll incarnate has to worry
her brains and her modistes to invent
something hat shall exceed all previous
bambinos, and be an impossibility to her
imitators till it is time for something else.
And thus the innocent looking little
sewing machine has brought about a
complete revolution in fine attire; has
raised dressmakers' prices from S. to
$40, with the intermediate grades, and
those far exceeding the larger figure;
has made it necessary for the woman
who used to buy her best black silk for
a dollar and ninepence q yard, and when
cut and basted for 'two and three
pence" make it up herself in three or four
afternoons, now to hire a mantuamaker
with skill at the old and a knack for the
last new wrinkle, and to pay for one
gown what would have supplied her whole
wardrobe twenty-five years ago.-Har-
per's Bazaar.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-12
Inemciency of Faucet Filters

An agent has just left my rooms after
wasting a half hour Of time in vain at
tempts to persuade me into purchasing
a faucet flter-made in some new fam
gled way. There is really no such thing
as a filter for water that a be used at
tached to house faucets. At best, they
have never been anything else but strain
ers, and recent experiments prove them
to be worse even thar that, for they are
shown to be nests for propagation of just
such impurities as they are calculated to
remove. Far better take chances on
Croton or Cochituate direct than to have
the already laden water made a breeding
place for bacteria by 50 called filters.
They are not to be trusted.
This water question continues to be Of
the utmost public importance, and it
seems extraordinary that typhoid fever
and other filth diseases should not rage
to far greater extent than reports show,
if our drink is as foul as it is said to be.
l suspect that the truth is this bacteria
scare has been very much overworked.
There are leaders in the medical profess
sion who say directly that modern prac-
tice of medicine has actually nothing to
show in the way Of better results than
ancient, and that no greater percentage
Of patients recover in palatial hospitals
than in the rough shanties where sick
were kept a hundred years ago; and GER
tainly the past heated term, with its ac-
companying immense consumption of
water, has not shown any increased death
rate-slightly the reverse. If ones water
supply be distinctly and sensibly impure,
try some other source; otherwise, it Is q
question if it be not unwise to disturb
ones mind about microscopal baciIli,
that have been swimming about ever
since Adam.-William F. Hutchinson,
NJ. D., in American Magazine.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-12
A Horses Sense of Smell

The horse will leave musty hay I'M
touched in his bin, however hungry. He
will not drink of water Objectionable to
his questioning shifts, or from a bucket
which some Odor makes offensive, how
ever thirsty. His intelligent nostril will
widen, culver and query over the dainti-
est bit. offered by the fairest of hands,
with coaxings that would make a mortal
shut his eyes and swallow a nauseous
mouthful at a gulp. A mare is never
satisfied by either sight or Whitney
that her colt is really her own until she
has a certified nasal certificate to the fact.
A blind horse, now living. will not al
low the approach of any stranger with
out showing signs of anger not safely to
be disregarded. The distinction is evil
IDENTIFY made by his sense of smell, and at
a considerable distance. Blind horses, as
a rule, will gallop wildly about a pasture
without striking the surrounding fence.
The sense of smell informs them of its
proximity. Others will, when loosened
from the stable, go directly to the gate or
bars opened to their accustomed feeding
grounds, and when desiring to return,
after hours of careless wandering, will
blSlliJE uloI III III putlGt dIlQ DdllClllll
await its opening. The odor of that par
ticular part of the fence is their pilot to it.
The horse in browsing or while gather
ing heritage with hls lips is guided in its
choice of proper food entirely by its nos
trils. Blind horses do not make mistakes
in their diet. In the temple of Olympus
a bronze horse was exhibited, at the sight
of which six real horses experienced the
most violent emotions. Elian judiciously
observed that the most perfect art could
not initiate nature sufficiently well to
produce so strong an illusion. Like Pliny
and P~ausanius, he consequently affirms
that I'm casting the statue a magician
had thrown Hippomanes upon it," which
by the odor of the plant deceived the
horses. and therein we have the secret Of
the miracle. The scent alone of a buffalo
robe will u many horses to evince
lively terror, and the floating scent of a
railroad train win brighten some long
after the locomotive is out of sight and
hearing.-Prairie Farmer.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-12
VINES MAKE A HOUSE DRY.

Asking a friend. who had a beautiful
bral residence, why she did not plant
ines, or creepers as the English would
by, over the walls, she replied by refer
Big to a mutual acquaintance, who had
one so with the result of making the
alls so damp that the vines had to be
pit away. 1t so happened that we knew
about the affair. The vines were al
bwed to cover the caves, over the cutters
bid push their way under the shingles of
he roof. Thus INSTRUCTED, the water
babe its way down into the wall, from
he top under the roof, and of course the
be wall was wet. Vines should always
|e kept cut down below the roof. 1t is a
tile trouble to do this once a year, but
re cannot get even our shoes blackened
Fithout some trouble. Those who know
ow beautiful and how coy looks a vine
overed cottage will moi object to the
ew hours labor it requires to keep vines
rom stopping up the gutter. Vines
eally make a wall dry. The millions of
potlets by which they adhere to the wall
bsorb water; and an examination will
rove a ~vine-covered wall to be as ''dry
$ an old bone" One great advantage of
vine-covered cottage, not often thought
4, is that it is cooler in summer and
Earmer in winter than when there is but
mere naked wall.-(Gardners' MONTHLY,
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-12
THE BEST COW FOR DAlRYlNG.

There is another thing the dairymen
might discuss with a great deal of profit
ut farmers institutes, "What form
Pnd size of COW will bring the most profit
/ the dairy farmer?' The discussion, if
based on facts, will not get far before it
will be found that the dairyman has no
|ise for a general purpose cow" The
beef cow eats her head off beside the
nedium-sized dairy COW. The beefy COW
must needs be kept too many years before
her extra four hundred pounds of beef
ian be made available, and then it must
Eell for the cheap sort of beef. In France
IN experiment has just been concluded
between two cows of three hundred
bounds difference in weight. The pro-
uce of the smaller COW for ten years
qualled that of the larger COW, and the
Inference in the cost of maintenance was
20 francs-S145,-while the extra three
hundred pounds of beef sold at last for
orty-five francs 50. In this country
Ee will find that We are keeping millions
# pounds of cow that is not only of no
rofit, but actually consuming the profits
f the real dairy cows.[-World.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-12
No Chances Against Gamblers.

In 1S40 that famous magician, Robert
Houdin, was requested by the. judge of
instruction of the tribunal of the Seine
to examine and verify the genuineness of
$50 packs of cards which had been seized
in the possession of a man who enjoyed
anything but a savory reputation. A
popularity Of the cards was that they
were perfectly white, and it was impos-
sible to detect the least proof of their
having been tempered with or to find the
slightest mark upon them. Over his
work Houdin spent a fortnight, now in
specting them with the unaided eye,
again by NEAR of superior lens Every
individual card of the $50 packs was in
spected again and again. He was giving
up his work in despair, when, of a sud-
den, close to the corner of one of them,
he perceived a dullish spot. Looking at
it closer the spot disappeared, but holding
it at a distance from him the spot re-
appeared. Following up this clew, he
ascertained that on every card there ex-
listed a spot which, according to its posi-
ton on the card, indicated the suit and
the value of the card.
He pursued the subject further, for
the purpose of ascertaining whether a
person who plays for amusement only
has the slightest chance of winning with
a person who plays only to live. The
conclusion he arrived at was that there
is no such supposed favorable chance,
and that the amount of the non-profes-
sional's losses is limited only by the mag
nanimity of the Observation-Disclosures
Herald.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-12
A Noi.e.ess Clock Invented

A n~oiseless clock has been invented by
a Frenchman- In place of the usual
pendulum, the hands are set in motion
by the unrolling of a chain, the end of
which is fastened to a buoy floating in a
tank Of liquid. This fluid escapes at a
uniform rate, and can be utilized to feed
a lamp wick, thus giving the apparatus
the double character Of a clock and
lamp. When the lamp is lighted the
necessary diminution of liquid takes
place by combustion, at other times by
carefully regulated dropping.-Home
journal.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-12
Tho boundary Limo Posts.

The iron posts that mark the northern
boundary line between the United States
and eastern Canada are at every cross
road that leads into Canada, and desig-
nate, as the Inhabitants there say, Line
A." They stand above the ground about
three feet, and have four sides, on which
appear the following inscriptions: 1.
Boundary, Aug. 0, 1912" 2. albert
Smith, United States Commissioner" 8.
Treaty Of Washington" 4. 'Iieut.
Col. 1. B. b. Estcourt, II. B. NJ. Com
missioner. Frank Leslie's.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-12
A Competent Nurse.

Mistress Ito applicanD-Yes, I have
advertised for a nurse. Are you compe-
tent to take care of young children9
Applicant-Oh, yis, mum.
Mistress-You never give them pare
goric to quiet them2
Applicant-Niver, mum. alters PIE
fers laudanuil.-Once q Wee.-
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-12

The New Zealand government is ad-
vertising for qualified persons acquainted
with the best systems of dairy farming,
and competent to instruct dairy farmers
in New Zealand as to the best methods
Of preparing their produce for the Eng
lish market. Boston Budget.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-12

"A lately deceased Saratoga hotel
Eaiter left a fortune of $50, 200.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-13
Saturday, October 13, 1888.
AN OLD IDEA.

The retaining of the duty on sugar and rice and the taking it off of wool and other northern raw and manufactured products, ss the Mills bill proposes to do, gives ground for the accusation that one of the purposes of that bill is to advance the sectional suprem- acy and domination of the South. The labor and capital engaged in sugar and rice culture are significant as compared with other indus- tries. These articles enter every household in the country. Yet ss southern products they must be protected; they don't rob the farm- CT, the duty thereon does not enhance the price just that much to the farmer-that is the argument If that be logic as respects these articles of universal consumption, why is it not true as respects protected northern productsa
 If the Mills bill does conceal an attempt to hurt the North for the benefit of the South, it is not new idea. General Richard Taylor, the war makes this suggestion to the Bour- bon leaders of the South: We made two great mistakes; had we avoided them we would have succeeded. The first was, that we did not destroy the last protective feature of the tariff in the winter session of 1S57-S
 by an act providing for sliding scale to the nearest possible approach to free trade. As a Democratic measure we could have passed it, and held it tight on the North and West
 until their furnaces, work shops, cotton and
 woolen mills, iron and steel shops were
 closed and their workmen thrown out of em- ployment and scattered over the prairies and territories. When the war was ready the North then would not have been ready for war. It could not have armed, equipped ol kept in the field it's large armies nor built 6 navy. The North then would have been without supplies, machinery or workmen. without money or credit. Oar second mistake was in withdrawing our senators and repre- sentatives from congress; how we blundered in these tive respects cannot understand except upon the hypothesis of an overruling Providence.
 The South is not as much devoted to frse trade as it was, but it is evident that the southern influence which prevailed in the
 making of the Mills bill was not particularly friendly to northern industries
Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-13

speak such evidence, here in this hut was that manner of unconscious tribute. He was sitting against the chimney angle, and had been telling me their story in a modest way, hesitant at times, repressing nlanfully the bitter undercurrent of his thoughts; of their endless efforts, true sobriety, struggles against high rent, short crops and increasing burdens of ever new mouths to feed; of their poor gropings after education, and how in it's stead the father of evenings sat in the cabin and told to his flock over and over all he knew; and finally with lowered voice, as though the hyene of an agent might over hear and rack-rent them out of that, how, by twelve years savings, a half-penny at a time, enough had been got together to send, next spring, the two oldest boys to America, where, if in the years they could keep out of the great cities and get bit of land of their own (Ah, their own; and what crushing re- futatlon are these two words from this Irish cabin of the atrocious sophistries of the Georges and the McGlynnsD and God would spare the rest of them to just once to see that great joy it would be enough; when the little child at his knee, over-wary of the stranger, fell backwards across his foot into the harmless pile of smolderipg peat at the chimney base beside him. With a bound the man had the unhurt, though scared and crying child in his arms, and in tones of sweetest meditation was soothingly asking over and over:
 
 It was the first time I had heard in the north Ireland's most inexpressibly tender term of endearment, cushla ma chree (heart pulse or threb). and it thrilled me. I could no better than say as 8 sort of solaee to the general excitement.
 ''It is easy to know the fathers cushla ma chree"
 He turned swiftly to me with a stern face, putting the child almost rudely away. ''Noi Mol" he repeated with 8 gesture of his clenched fist that had wild and savage grandeur in it. "'Tis not the child. Before God the freedom of ould Ireland's my cushla ma ehree!'
 It may have been the wild soughing of the winds among the mountains. It may have been the nearer plaint of the winds in the grewsome chimney. May be there was an actual sob in the cabin that I heard But from somewhere in the silence that followed after came this:
 By sweet loughs; the mountains, Where murmurouS fountains
 Flow over the crags to the blue, circling sea; On boreen; by falr river;
 Meath thatcheS where quiver
 Pinched faces from want that has been and will
 be;
 There's hsart-sob I'm hearin', o desolate Erinl
 That rises above the hoarse songs of the sea. And that sobbing will never
 Joy calm till, forever,
 Thy people triumphant OCT tyranny be; And thy cusha chree-
 'tWe are reel-We are free!n
 EDGAR l.. WAKEMAN.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-13
QUESTIONARLE.

The ''Woman Question. "-"What did she have on?'-Mendviile (Pa.) Tribune.
 Sometimes in a trade man kicks when there is nothing to boot.-Boston Post.
 MT. Dana is said to have been the author of the popular song referring to ''the letter which never came. Newark Journal.
 This is funny ol2 world, anyhow, but it is very hard to realize it when you are read ing the comic papers.--Somerville Journal.
 Chinaman Lung of Chicago is worth $20O,- O0S. Lung-$20O, pulmoneyary affec- tion-isn't there joke somewhere here!'- Washington Critic.
 Apropos of recent Senatorial episode, newspaper says: Chandler sits on Coke" Chandler must have been hauled over the coals, if this be true.-Puck.
 The fatal number: "Amarintha, in ac. cepting me, you have made me immeasurably happy" ''I'm glad to know it, Arthur. youp 'No, darling. Why do you ask" sfBecause you are the thirteenth man to pro- pose to me this summer. D. Life. Hardhead-"Brigh fellow, that Fenley." Grimsby-stYes, indeed. Too bad he has such failinga" Hardhead-HWhat do you mean, GrimsbyI' Grimsby-"Why, he can't do anything without taking his glass first" Hardhead-"Is that so?" Grfmsby-"Yes; he's very near sighted, you know. ."-Boston Post.
 A fine compliment: Husbsnd-"Professor Whitehead paid you 8 very fine Compliment after dinner last night, my dear" Wife sOh. did he? What did he sayi' Husband -''He said that you weren't handsome, but you were one of the most intelligent women be ever met" Wife-'Professor Whats his-na has received his last invitation from me."-[Time.
 Marriage failurs9" soliloquized Rev. MT. Joynum in the solitude of his study as he opened the modest little envelope the bride groom had handed him few hours before and found one hundred dollar bill enclosed. Marriage failurea" he repeated with em- phasis and independent fervor as he placed the bill in his pocket, ''no! never. The idea is barbarous, infamous Get me look at that bill again; yes, it's genuine), and strikes at the foundation of society itselfI"-Chicage Tribune.
 She-Who is that pale, interesting-look- ing man over there!
 He-The tall one with the turn-down col- Iari
 She-Yes. He looks az If the memory of some awful past was gnawing at his vitals; as if the never-to-be-fo forgotten sting of some weird sorrow had set it's uneanny blight up- on his young life. Perhaps, who knows, it is 8 love that is hopeless, or the ever~longing, never attainable search for the ideal. His is such a sad face; face with history, the pages of which have scared his brain and left their scars where the world may zee and pity. Do you know him?
 He-OhI yes Heis doing the funny work for comic cweekly.-Philadelph Call.