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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-07
A Back Number.

The truth of the old proverb, "Better
late than never" appears to have been
illustrated by striking modern instance,
according to an English exchange, which
relates that ninety-seven years ago some
person, now unknown by name, posted
in Paris a number of The Gazette Univer-
selle, directing it to monsieur x, In
Morges, Switzerland" but the newspa-
per did not arrive at its destination until
last month. 1t seems that The Gazette,
which had been waiting for delivery eve
since January, 1901, had got mixed up
with a bundle of other newspapers, and
was found, with its cover and address
still intact, amidst a heap Of rubbish in
a garnet. The finder conscientiously sent
it to the Morges postmaster, by whom il
was as conscientiously forwarded to tho
present representative of the Y FAM
lily, still living at Morges. $50 unique q
specimen of postal integrity deserves TO
be exhibited in a postal museum, or
would not be out of place among the Gu
r~iosities in the newspaper museum at
Aachen. Chicago Herald.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-07

London shopkeepers expect their GUS
fomers to know what they want and take
if they find it; French shopkeepers dis
play more wares on their counters than
they have got on their shelves in the hope
bf tempting weak human nature-the
weak feminine nature-to buy what is
shown, whether needed or not. In a
London shop a customer will always be
created with great civility; in a French
6hop a customer will not be treated at all
Eshe will simply be endured. Some
Thing of this passive disrespect of the GUS
homer is to be encountered in those great
private shopping institutions of England,
the cooperative stores. A set off for its
nnpleasantness in this case, however, is
The undoubted cheapness of the articles,
which are actually sold at wholesale
rates. Olive Logan in Boston Transcript.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-07
The Policeman of Mexico.

While returning in the evening to my
hotel l stopped at the beautiful park
called the Plaza de Zaragoza, which is
spread out in almost tropical beauty be-
fore the new cathedral. 1t is filled with
orange trees and pecan trees, and is sweet
with the odor of pomegranates and aca-
cha blooms. There l found hosts of chill
dren playing along the graveled walks.
Their chief amusement seemed to consist
in throwing twigs and pebbles slyly at
the policeman, who, however, did not
deign to notice them. The Mexican po-
liceman is usually dressed all in white,
with a blue cap, and instead of an ugly
club he carries a bright saber. He does
not walk about at night from block to
block, seeing that all Is secure, as our
policemen are supposed to do, but after a
certain hour of the night he seats HIM
self flat upon the pavement at a street
corner, and with his saber drawn and his
lantern between his knees patiently waits
the Mexican cry of "Watch!" which
notifies him when he is needed. The
Mexican policeman is therefore a harm
less, good natured man, and consequently
a favorite with the children.-'.R. NJ. Y"
in st. Louis Republic.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-07
Optimistic View of Life.

Putting aside the question of revealed
Religion, poets and philosophers have be-
kun to see a dignity in human nature, a
wisdom and beauty in life as we know
It, and to abandon those dark and dan
kerous speculations which most COM
monty lead thought into gloom and de-
|pondency. Things exist according to
Fixed laws. some of which we have dis
lowered and know to be just. Wereason,
therefore, hat those laws which we
have no yet penetrated, and may never
penetrate, whose manifestations seem
fruel and unjust, would, if properly I'M
Rerstood, be found equally beneficent.
Let us, therefore, obey those laws which
I've comprehend, bear with patience that
which we control, hold fast to the happi-
bess which comes in DUR way, and not
trouble ourselves too much about the
mysteries of our existence.
Especially let us recognize ourselves as
J part of humanity. Let us be charita-
pie and sympathetic, SO hat others will
grant us similar favors and the sum Of
happiness be increased. Let us not curse
nen for faults for which from the ma
ure of humanity they are not response
pie. Let us rather study the causes of
hose faults and try if there be remedies
for them. Let us consider that nations
hre only aggregations of single men,
bach of whom is bound by the same
limitations as ourselves .-Charles Lotin
aildreth in American Magazine.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-07
Origin of cold Hickory.n

The story of how Gen. Andrew jack
son got the name of Old Hickory is again
going the rounds, and will be new to
some young readers. During the Creek
war he had a bad cold, and his soldiers
made for him a shelter Of hickory bark.
The next morning a tipsy soldier, not
knowing who was under the bark, kicked
it over. AS the general, ~speechless with
rage, struggled out of the ruins, the SOL
dier yelled, Hello, Old Hickory! Come
IL of your bark and take a drink"
When the soldiers saw Jackson shaking
the bark from his uniform they gave
three cheers for ''Old Hickory" and the
nan stuck.-New York Sun.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-07
The Alaskan Damsel's Doll.

The dusky damsel of Alaska has an
ivory doll. 1t is carved from walrus
tusk any length from one to six inches,
with nose carved, and eyes, eyebrows
and mouth Of black enamel. Even the
inch-long baby has features carefully
made. She has also a doll of wood, six
or eight inches long, with its face carved
and a curious ornament just below the
corners Of the mouth. This is a blue
bead, and is in imitation of the fashion
of her tribe, of making in the lower lip
an opening like a button hole, through
which any desired ornament may be
thrust. None of the Alaska dolls have
joints, but this unnatural stiffness has
apparently not been altogether satisfac-
tory to the small damsels, for some are
carved in a sitting posture.
The most humble doll is simply a stick
with a head carved on the end. But the
most elaborate of all Indian dolls 1 have
seen belongs also to Alaska. 1t is carved
from dark colored wood, with mouth
open, showing three white teeth, and it
has real hair, in locks six inches long,
stuck into holes in the wooden head, with
the drollest ''patchy" effect. - Olive
Thorne Miller in St. Nicholas.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-07
Wild Kittens of Paris,

The inhabitants of the quarter in which
the institute is situated have for some
time past hit upon a curious expedient
for getting rid of their superfluous kit
tens. When night throws her canopy
over the scene-the language marches
somewhat ~loftily-they emerge from
their abodes with baskets, in which the
little creatures have been deposited, wend
their way to the Palais Mazarin, and,
when no one is looking, turn them loose
in the courtyard. The consequence Of
this maneuver is that at the present mo-
ment the attics and cellars of the Temple
of Literature, Science and Art are over
run with a whole colony of cats in a wild
state, and such alarming dimensions has
the nuisance attained that the acade-
micians and the employees who are located
in the adjoining buildings have been
compelled to post persons to act as sem
tries and keep watch and ward over the
culinary establishments, it having been
ascertained from painful experience that
these feline creatures have a keen taste
for the good things of this life. Meat,
fish and a variety of other toothsome ed
ibles have been p~urloined repeatedly, and
for once in a way there has been the full
est evidence that the blame may fairly
be laid on 1.-The cat. Paris Letter.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-07
Visions of the Future.

Has any great invention ever been
made that did not have a forecast in the
visions of some humorist? When, fifty
years ago, we read the fun Of Sir John
Vaudeville and of his trumpet, that held
his frozen words until he reached Italy,
where they thawed and blew away
in his exact tones, to his amazement,
who conceived that we were close to the
discovery of a little instrument that
would bottle up language and song, and
free it after the lapse Of days, years or
ages? Our steam travel was foreguessed,
also, in the same way by Newton, and
air navigation has been a jocose dream
since the ARABIAN Nights." Our i'm
agination al probably never reach
farther than our capacity to realize; the
wonder is that it can reach as far
Globe Democrat.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-07
Military Microphone in France.

The military ~microphone is now being
tried in France, not only to give warning
of the passage of troops from afar, but to
indicate the different branches of the
army in movement and to furnish an ap.
proximate idea of the numbers of men
and horses on the advance. 1t consists
of a sounding plate buried in the soil
across and along any route, and con-
nected by a long wire conductor to the
receiving disc of the apparatus in posi-
ton, which has the necessary arrange
ment for making the sounds louder and
more readily distinguishable. st. Louis
Republic.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-07

Among other events showing the pro-
gress of emancipation, the act of the
national council Of Cherokees has been
overlooked. Professor Foster writes to
The Century recalling the fact that this
tribe did, on the 18th day of February,
1868, pass a decree of emancipation. "Be
it enacted by the national council, That
all negro and other slaves within the
lands of the Cherokee nation be, and
they are hereby, emancipated from
slavery; and any person r persons who
may have been held in slavery are hereby
declared to be free forever" This act is
remarkable from the pro-slavery senti-
ment which was known to predominant
in the Indian tribes, although never as
strong among the Cherokees as among
the Creeks.-Globe- Democrat.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-07
Queer Binding for Books.

Extravaganza in binding has frequently
furnished an opening for the display of
fantastic tricks and fads. In a book
sellers catalogue vas once an advertise
ment of a Latin copy of Apuleius'
Golden ASS" bound in the skin of an
ass A book relating to Jeffrey Hudson,
the celebrated dwarf, was bound in q
piece of the silk waistcoat of Charles L.
Fox's historical works were bound in fox
skin, and Bacon's works were dressed
out in hog skin. One offspring of the
French revolution was the grim humor
Of binding books in human skin. France
was not alone in this practice. In vari-
Gus parts of England the skin of muir
derers has been tanned and used to bind
books. The public library of Bury st.
Edmands has a book containing the ac-
count Of the trial of a man for murder
bound in his own skin. Eccentricities
of binding in such as skins of cats, croco-
die, mole, seal, wolf, tiger, bear, etc.,
abound. The use of cloth in binding Is
one of comparatively recent date. In
1888 Archibald Leighton introduced
cloth for covers, the first books so bound
being Byron's complete works. -Provi-
dence Journal.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-07

Careless habits of speech are among the
prominent faults Of our young people,
even those young people who have adj
vantages of schools and intelligent home
surroundings. Recognizing this, the
professor Of English literature at Welles-
ley college has prepared a list of ''words,
phrases, and expressions to be avoided"
from which the young land old readers
will receive many serviceable hints:
Guess, for suppose or think. Fix, for
arrange OF prepare. Ride and drive, in
t~erchangeably. (Americanism.) Real,
as an adverb, In expressions real good for
really or very good, etc. Some or any,
in an adverbial sense; e. g., II have
studied some" for somewhat. II have
not studied any," for at all. Some ten
days, for about ten days. Not as | know,
for not that I know. Storms, for it rains
or moderately. Try an experiment,
for make an experiment. Singular sub
ject with contracted plural verb; e. g.,
''She don't skate well" Plural pronoun
with singular antecedent: Every man
or woman should do their duty" or, "If
you o any one straight in
the face they will finch" Ex-
pect, for suspect. First rate as an adj
verb. Nice, indiscriminately. Real nice,
may be doubly faulty.) Had rather, for
would rather. Had better, for would
better. Right away, for Immediately.
Party, for person. Promise, for assure.
Posted, for informed. Post graduate,
for graduate. Depot, for station. Stop
ping, for staying. Try and do, for try
to do. Try and go, for try to go. Cum
ming, for small, dainty. Cute, for acute.
Funny, for odd or unusual. Above, for
foregoing, more than or beyond. Does
it look good enough, for well enough.
Somebody else's for somebody's else.
Like l do, for as l do. Not as good as,
for not SO good as. Feel badly, for feel
bad. Feel good, for feel well. Between
seven, for among seven. Seldom or ever,
for seldom if ever, or seldom or never.
Taste and smell of, when used transit
lively. Illustration: We taste a dish
which tastes of pepper. More than you
think for, for more than you think.
These kind, for this kind. Nicely, in re-
spouse to an inquiry for health. Healthy,
for wholesome. Just as soon, for Just
as lief. Kind of, to indicate a moderate
degree. The matter of, for the matter
with.-Boston Transcript.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-07
Tho Famous Bahia Meteorite.

The famous Bahia or Bendego meteor
lite was landed in Rio de Janeiro on June
IS, and is now in the collection Of the
Brazilian National museum. The trans
portation of this great mass of iron,
whose weight was ~variously estimated
from six to nine tons, and which has
been found to weigh 5,371 Kilograms,
was rendered possible by the recent COM
pletion Of a line Of railroad passing with
in 115 kilometers Of the Bendego creek,
where it has lain since the unsuccessful
attempt to remove it to Bahia in 1856
Chicago Herald.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-07
Writing Through stenographers.

Letter writing through stenographers
is now so common that even the ordi-
nary business man coming to New York
from smaller enters of trade now uses
the hotel typewriters for his correspon-
dence. Some of them let their letters &C
cumulate for several days before they
call in a stenographer. 1t is noticeable
that the successful old merchants of the
old school shun typewriters as a pestilen-
tial innovation. The executive heads Of
leading corporations have all fallen into
the habit of writing letters through STEM
ographers, and generally take them about
in their travels.-New York Tribune.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-07
SELECTED


But life shall on and upward go;
tn eternal step Of Progress beats
To that great anthem, calm and slow,
Which God repeats. Whittier.
Be still, sad heartl and cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate Of all;
Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days be sad and dreary.
-Longfellow.
Good
Will be the final goal Of all,
To pangs of nature, sins Of will,
Defects of doubt and taints Of blood;
That nothing walks with aimless feet,
That no one life shall be destroyed
Or cast as rubbish to the void.
-Tennyson.
i have no fear that thou shouldst die,
I ask no fairer fate than this
While Time and Peace with hands unlocked fly
care | not where In eternity
live and love, well knowing that there Is
backward step for those who feel the bliss
faith. Lowell.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-07

The scout Of the novel and the show is
a very picturesque, kind fellow,
thoroughly reckless, a dead shot, the
proprietor of a varied selection of scalps,
and showing in his moral character that
combination of ''half angel and half
Lucifer" Of which Joaquin Miller de-
lights to sing. Like Samson of old, his
strength is in hair, and his long flowing
locks are the admiration of frontier wo-
men and the envy of frontier men. He
is always clad in buckskin. fringed and
stamped with grotesque designs, while
his flowing locks are surmounted with q
sombrero that it would take three days to
walk round the brim. Such is the eastern
conception; now for southwestern reality.
The United States scout In active
service wears his hair cut short, in soldier
fashion, because he has to sleep on the
ground for weeks at a time, and if he
wore long and flowing locks they would
give him considerable trouble by afford
ing a choice variety of insects q refuge
and a dwelling place. He has no col
lection of scalps. In five years. ex-
every scout of note in New Mexico and
in Arizona, l never found one of them
with a single scalp except his own. Then,
again, outside of some town in which
they wanted with a pardonable vanity to
show off, l I W saw one Of them In a
buckskin suit. 1t is too warm in sum-
mer and not warm enough in winter.
The scout is a good shot, but that is a
virtue he shares in ommon with nearly
every man and boy on the frontier
Con A. Mahony in Inter Ocean.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-07
Mechanical Art in Poetry.

Poetry is a more mechanical art than
most people believe. Fred Latham, who
is a cousin of Lord Tennyson, has told
me than when the laureate is writing a
poem he constructs a rhyming dictionary
of his own, thus: A, b, C, d, e, f, g, h, i,
], k, /, m, n, o, p, q, r, S, t, u, ", w, x,
y, 2.
Then he has written a line, say:
Where Claribel low lieth-
He starts down the alphabet hunting for
a rhyme, getting ''buyeth," 'crieth,"
''dieth," 'lieth," ''sigheth," ''tieth,"
''tryeth," ''vieth," and SO on, out Of
which of course it is the easiest possible
thing to get the line
The oak tree, thick leaved, ambrosial sigheth,
when the proper time m to introduce
that verse into the poem. Usually Lord
Tennyson conceals the art by which he
gets to his rhymes by putting the manu-
featured line first and letting the second
one carry the real burden Of the thought,
as any one who will read 'Locksley
Hall" critically will see.-Henry Dees in
Chicago News.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-07
Tho Results of "Cheapness."

heard a milliner girl who worked in
one of our great bazars where things are
80 cheap" say once: "There's no en-
enlargement in this establishment for a
girl to do good, conscientious work. The
girl that is best paid and most praised by
the forewoman is the one who rushes the
most thread through the most ribbon
trimming and cloth and makes the hat or
bonnet just hang together. Prentice
Milford in New York Star.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-07
Playing Through a Canula.

In Paris a man picks up a living by
going about the streets playing on a clar-
ionet through a canula placed in a hole
in his throat after the operation Of
tracheotomy. When he has finished a
little June he takes the canula out and
exhibits it to the audience to show that
there is no deception.-New York Sun.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-07
To Stop a Dog Fight.

A certain means of stopping a dog
Fight is showering something over the
dogs that will produce sneezing. Be his
will yer SO good, the motion of sneezing
fnvoluntarily opens a dogs jaws. Pep
per answers very well, but snuff is proba-
bly, the best, as it can be used ad libitum,
hnd will certainly produce the effect if
Enough is used. In a large kennel q
bupply Of snuff should always be kept
pn hand.-Forest and Stream.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-07

Three Yankee girls are here teaching
school, and I'll bet that some of our
widowers will marry them before the
year closes. Away back before the war,
when Yankee girls used to come south
and teach school, our widowers married
them as fast as they came. They were
smart, self reliant and economical, and
that is the kind Of a wife a widower
wants.-Bil Arp in Atlanta Constitu-
ton.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-07
Wonderful Jumping Feat.

A remarkable jumping feat was ac-
complished at Kidderminster on July
go. Darby, in jumping a succession of
twenty jumps, covered the extraordinary
distance of So yards @ inches, being 8
feet 6 inches beyond anything previously
accomplished New York Sun.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-07
They SOON GROW OLD.

They soon grow old who grope for gold
In marts where all is bought and sold:
Who live for self, and on some shelf
In darkened vaults hoard up their pelf,
Cankered and crusted DER with mold;
For them their youth itself is old.
g. p. Cranch
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-07
An Old PHILOSOPHER.

Aristarchus Of Samos maintained, $50
B. c., that the earth turned on its own
axis and revolved about the sun, which
doctrine was held by his contemporaries
as so absurd that the philosopher nearly
lost his life Boston Transcript.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-07
The "Lady's Horse"

Expert riders say there is really no
Gladys horse" as any good horse is as
much suited to a skillful female rider as
to a man. Certain kinds of horses are
best suited 70 certain kinds of riders,
men or women, that is al.-New Or
leans Times Democrat.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-07

Don't keep time to the tune of another's
ambition. Throw your shoulders back,
step out from the hips and strike a gait
of your own.-Philadelphia Call.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-07
Where Claribel low lieth-
The Nightingale's Song

The nightingale, it is said, has sixteen
different beginnings and closes, with
many intermediate notes, while other
birds have but four or five changes
Once q Week.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-07
For the Seasick.

Oxalate of cerium, a recognized pallia-
tive for nausea, is said to be helpful in
cases of seasickness, when taken in doses
of ten or twenty grains every two or
three hours. Chicago Herald.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-07

Many a man can show resignation in q
great bereavement whose daily life Is In
large part devoted to grumbling over the
little ills of life. -Christian Inquirer.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-07
For a Chew.

The English pur-a-nickel-in-the-slot
machines have got so far that they now
give a chew of tobacco to any one who
drops in a penny.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-07

Mlemphis is the greatest inland cotton
market in the world, receiving from 200,
900 TO 1000, 900 bales yearly.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-07

The sublimity Of the mountain is not
in the mountain, but in us. Ivan Panin.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1888-02-09

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