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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-02-22
Funeral Customs of the
Modern Parsees.

When Parsee is about to die he is
taken to the ground floor of the house,
washed in consecrated water, anointed
with holy oil and placed on an oblong
stone. Small earthen lamps lighted
from the sacred fire are placed around
his stony bed, and the fire-priests stand
near and chant doleful dirge. The
most extraordinary part of it all is that
the moment life becomes extinct the
house-dog is brought in and taken up
to him. If the dog lick his masters
face and hands it is considered a most
fortunate omen of the departed spirits
ready admittance into paradise. The
uneducated and ignorant Parsees be-
lieved that every dog has an angel
spirit residing in some star whence it
issues to conduct the souls of the right
eous dead into heaven. Next morning
number of priests, robed in pure white,
carry the body on an open bier to the
dohkma, or tower of silence. This
curious national tomb is huge round
tower situated in some remote or lonely
spot and surrounded by great branching
trees; it is open to the sky and reaches
far down into the depths of the earth,
and is furnished with a number of IRON
grated floors. When they reach the
tower of silence the relatives and
friends stand praying while the fire.
priests place the body on long slide, or
kind of sea-saw plank held down
by ropes. This done, the ropes are
loosened, the plank rebounds and the
lifeless form slips on to one of the IRON
grated floors of this strange tomb, and
is left for the birds of the air. For
their offices toward the dead the Parsees
look upon all birds as peculiarly sacred,
But this strange mode of seputure eX-
poses the Parsee to no end of insults
from both the Hindoos and Moham-
medans, who take every opportunity to
jeer at them, calling out: /" Kaw Kaw
Kakhana! dinner for crows!-MrS.
! LeonoWenS, an Wide Arake.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-02-22

THE inmates of the Soldiers Home
praise their " Coffey" and are pleased
with their d" Valentine"
CONGRESS is unusually slow in its
work. 1t will be some time yet before
it gets ready any pension bill for the
president to veto.
THE second volume of the History
of Vermont in the Rebellion, by Hon.
G.. G.. Benedict, is in press. 1t is said
to have been rewritten and improved
since the appearance of the first volume.
THERE has been one death in the
Soldiers Home, which reminds the
trustees that battle-ground will have
to be provided soon. The general
government will furnish head-stones
for all soldiers graves.
THE Fourteenth Vermont Regiment,
at its last reunion, voted to meet every
year hereafter so long as enough sur
vivers remain to have meeting. Per-
sonal "reminiscences of the comrades,
stories of the camp, anecdotes of the
members, personal recollections of
Gettysburg, ETC., are solicited for the
next reunion. 1t is also requested that
information be furnished as to what
became of the innumerable host of pet
dogs that followed the regiment up to
Gettysburg, and whether Colonel
Nichols pet hen, that rode upon his
saddle and supplied his table with a
fresh egg every day, survived the bat,
tie; also what became of the bottle OF
whiskey that was distracted from Gen.
eral Stoughton's saddle-bags at Fairfax
Station. Was it preserved?
A MEETING of the finance committee
of the trustees of the Soldiers Home
with reference to the enlargement OF
the same, was held at Montpelier last
week. Plans were submitted which
will be presented to the full board OF
trustees at their next meeting. The
plans contemplate wing, to extend tC
the east, a continuation of the old ell
part, which will be raised and made
two stories high. The addition will be
sixty by thirty-two feet, making the
wing one hundred ninety feet long
This will provide accommodations fol
forty inmates, making the total capacity
of the home about seventy. The pro
posed enlargement has been rendered
necessary by the present crowded con
dition of the Home. The plans have
been submitted to Mr.. 2. II. Rim, thu
architect of the Bennington battle
monument, and he pronounces then
feasible and says that the erection o
the addition is the best thing that coul'
be done under the circumstances. Tn,
expense of the addition will be abou
$4,000, exclusive of the heating ant
furnishing, which will probably cos
$4,000 more. The full board of trus
tees will hold meeting at Bennington
tomorrow Thursday to take action il
the matter.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-02-22
Brain Photographic Revelations.

A writer in the New York Tribune
tells the story of the appearance of a
mans brain under a strong microscope
that is both interesting and suggestive.
In the brain matter, he says, were
noticed curious markings, some geo.
metrical, some sinuous and many others
that proved to be characters in the
Ethiopic, Syriac and Phoenician Ian
guages, which the possessor of the
brain, when alive, had made special
study. Now for the suggestive part.
Perhaps some day when man dies we
can take out his brain, spread it on a
microscope slide, and in peep behold
him as he really was, not as he pre-
tended to be. Everything his mind
ever took cognizance of and formed an
opinion about will be open before us,
like the page of book. No doubt the
traceries will take peculiar shapes
sometimes. This scientific investigation
must not be pushed further. a key
that opens a mans secrets after he is
dead might not be such hilarious dis
covery, after all.-PittSburg Commercial
Gazette.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-02-22
A Neat RetOrt.

During the summer of 1868, while
the hospitals at Canton, Miss, were
crowded with sick and wounded soldiers,
the ladies visited them daily, carrying
with them delicacies of every kind and
doing all they could to cheer and COM
fort the suffering. On one occasion a
pretty miss of sixteen was distributing
flowers and speaking gentle words OF
encouragement to those around her
when she overheard soldier exclaim
sob, my Lordn' Stepping to his bed.
side to rebuke him for his profanity
she remarked: Didn't l hear you
call on the name of the Lord? l am
one of his daughters. Is there anything
l can ask him for your" Looking up
into her bright, sweet face, he replied
81 don't know but what there is"
" WELL" said she, what is it?" Rails
ing his eyes to hers and extending his
hand, he said: Please ask him to make
me his son-in-law.' -Detroit Free Press
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-02-22
Unfortunate Extremes.

1t has been the observation of those
who have given the most attention to
the subject that the two classes of
women who stand the most in their
own light are the very poor and the
very rich. With the former there is a
hopeless apathy that resists all argu-
ments to the effect that through their
own will anything can be done to
ameliorate their unfortunate lot. They
have been so long in a state of subjec-
ton that the only quality that seems
to be strengthened is the power of en-
durance-the notion of protesting
seems chimerical and futile. Poverty
and hard work have well-nigh extin-
guished hope and self-respect, the only
sparks from which better state of
things can be kindled. The very rich
are equally invincible; they wrap
themselves about in mantle of eX-
clusiveness and waste their energies
and deterorate their thought on mat
tiers unworthy of their better selves.
That poor women are toiling from sun
to sun for the incredible pittance of
S1.25 per dozen for making gentle
mems shirts seems matter so i'm
measurably removed from any concern
of theirs that they are as helpless to
right the wrong as the suffering vic
Tins themselves. Like the Pharisee of
old, they give tithes of all they possess
to organized charities, but withhold
that which is better than alms-per-
sonal interest and sympathy. TO these
women belong the grand opportunity
of turning the tidal wave of fashion
into channels of untold riches-riches
that the moth and rust of self-indulgence
can not corrupt, nor thieves, born of
idleness and discrimination, break in
and steal. A few brave spirits could
easily overturn the frail structure upon
which fashionable society rests and
lay for it foundation that would be
sure and lasting, based upon integrity
and lofty aspirations. If they would
but leave the entire burden of the
wardrobe and the cuisine to the
Worths and Delmonicos and spend at
least one hour each day in making
themselves acquainted with subjects of
vital importance to the community, so
they could converse understandingly
upon the same, others would seek to
emulate them, and commendable
rivalry would soon spring up that
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-02-22
ParadOXes.

The mysteries of motion bring to
mind the famous paradox of Zeno, by
which he sought to prove that all
motion is impossible. I" A body" thus
argued the ingenious philosopher,
"must move either in the place where
it is, or in the place where it is not.
Now, body in place where it is is
stationary and can not be in motion; nor,
obviously, can it be in motion in the
place where it is not. Therefore, it can
not move at ALL" 1t was of this para
dox it was said Solrit,r dmbuldndo-
" 1t is solved by walking" A more
practical solution could hardly be re-
quired. Another paradox familiar to
the Greeks-that of Achilles and the
tortoise-is well known. Achilles Ghe
swift-footed) allows the tortoise one
hundred yards start, and runs ten yards
while the tortoise runs one. Now when
Achilles has run one hundred yards the
tortoise had run ten yards, and is there
fore still that distance ahead. When
Achilles has run those ten yards the tor
toise has run one yard. When Achilles
has run one yard the tortoise has run
one-tenth of yard. And when Achil-
les has run the one-tenth of yard the
tortoise has run one-hundredth. 1t is
only necessary to continue the same
process of reasoning to prove that
Achilles can never overtake the tortoise.
A much better paradox, though some
what of the same kind, runs as follows:
" A man who owes a shilling proceeds
to pay it at the rate of siX-pence the first
day, three-pence the next day, three
half-pence the next, three farthings the
next, and so on-paying each day half
the amount he paid the day before.
Surprising him to be furnished with
counters of small value, so as to be able
readily to pay fractions of penny,
how long would it take him to pay the
shilling?' The answer is that he
would never pay it. 1t is true that he
will pay eleven-pence farthing in four
days. But the remaining three farth-
ings he can never pay. This paradox
varies from the preceding in one i'm
portant particular, and deserves to be
called a better paradox for this reason,
that we know that Achilles, in spite of
all reasoning, will certainly overtake
the tortoise. But it is mathematically
demonstrable that the debtor, under
such circumstances, can never pay his
shilling, even though he should be en-
dued, like Tithonus, with the gift of
immortality. The following is really
excellent paradox: A train starts
daily from San Francisco to New York,
and one daily from New York to San
Francisco, the journey lasting seven
days. How many trains will a traveller
meet journeying from San Francisco
to New York;" 1t appears obvious at
the first glance that the traveller must
meet seven trains; and this is the
answer which will be given by nine
people out of ten to whom the ques-
ton is new. The fact is overlooked
that every day during the journey a
fresh train is starting from the other
end, while there are seven on the way
to begin with. The travellers will,
therefore, meet not seven trains, but
fourteen.-Temple Bar.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-02-22

BY local applications, as they can not
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way to cure deafness,
and that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an inhamed con-
dition of the mucus lining of the eusta-
chain tube. When the tube gets in
famed you have a rumbling sound of
imperfect hearing, and when it is en-
tirely closed deafness is the result, and
unless the Inflammation can be taken
out and the tube restored to its normal
condition hearing will be destroyed for
ever. Nine cases out of ten are caused
by catarrh, which is nothing but an in
famed condition of the mucus surfaces.
We will give one hundred dollars for
any case of deafness Caused by catarrh)
that we can not cure by taking Halls
Catarrh Cure. Send for free circular.
f. j. CHENEY q Co.,
Toledo, Ohio.
rzS7 Sold by druggists at seventy-fve
cents.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-02-22

This picture shows aundesses work the other not able
cracked has
OF much alkali Leedss report.
Gentlemen The sample of IVORY Soap which you to
has been received and will find analysis herewith
AS result the voRY Soap while strongly cleansing leaves the
skin soft and pleasant the touch instead of harsh uncomfortable
and liable chap results from the Of laundry
which the ratio Of uncombined combined aka large
The percentage of uncombned fat in the Ivory is SMALL
hence the a cean white and abundant with entire absence
of oil grease. There injurious substances.
The above considerations show the "voRY to be
and excellent for laundry
Very Respectfully Yours
LABORATORY CHEMISTRY, R PHI
STEVENS INSTITUTE
HoBOKEN, N. J. ~
A WORD OF WARNING.
There white each represented be % good as the Ivory "
they ARE NOT but like all lack peculiar remarkable qualities
the genuine Ask for Ivory" Soap and insist getting it.
Copyrgh by Proctor &
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-02-22
STRENGTHENING the Line.

That remarkable bit of parapet build
ing at Kenesaw mountain, which even
the astute General Johnston regarded
as a myth, was not more wonderful than
another bit that was done the next day,
which is described as follows: " When
the morning dawned it was found that
our line of hastily-built works was not
straight, neither did it conform to the
shape of the Johnnie's line. Owing to
our close proximity to the enemy and
the rafting fire he was keeping up it
was impossible to 90 out and fix it. AT
last one of the men said that he had
devised plan by which it could be ac-
complished. He filled an empty cracker
box with loose dirt and lifted it to The
top of the embankment, from which it
slid down the outside. With slender
pole he managed to push the box some
distance from the foot of the embank-
ment. Other boxes were pushed over
in the same way, until half dozen of
them had been safely landed. A brisk
fire was then opened in the revolving
hay-rakes," which soon darkened the
space between the lines with smoke.
Then the firing suddenly ceased, which
led the Johnnies to think that we
were going to make another assault and
they, too, ceased firing. During this
lull two of our men climbed over our
works under cover of the smoke, piled
the cracker-boXes up so as to form a
protection and went to digging for dear
life. AS soon as there was room for
others to work a signal was given and
over went two more spades, quickly
followed by two men. Thus the work
went on, and so rapidly that before the
enemy was aware of it the jog in our
line had been corrected, "-PHtSburg
DiSpdtch.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-02-22

"THEIR name is legion" may be
applied to those who die annually of
consumption, although science has of
late years sensibly diminished their
number. 1t is gratifying to know that
the general use of DIR. WIsTAR's BAL
SAM OF WILD CHERRY is largely in
strumental in attaining this end.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-02-22
Mistellanp.
Thwack-the- House in the Ribs.

In MINDLESS winter nights,
when cloudless are the heights,
And every planet sheen
Drives lances long and keen
When snow.heece hangs in the caves
And dead are fireside lights.
And not a track is seen
Save mincing, four-foot thieves
That lead to granary cribs
Then harkl bark bark
In the deep of the night and the dark,
Comes Thwack-the House. in-the- Ribs
Half wakes the sleeper, then
Is turned to sleep again,
And dreams outside there stands
A troll with doubled hands,
who Jars from time to time
The dwellings of weak men;
A troll from northwest lands,
From gloomy Jotunheim,
Not clustering like his sbs-
Yet bark bark hark
In the deep of the night and the dark,
Comes Thwack-the- Housein-the-Ribs
american NdgdsiH
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-02-22
Soloiers' Budget.
Pensions Granted.

To Lewis j. Blakely, Randolph, go
month and $3.50 arrears; Sylvanus
Keyes, Moretown, an increase from S4
to S12 month and 500 arrears; Ma
thaniel G. Kibby, Montpelier, an in
crease from Sc to so month; Chris
tina Walker, Pittsford, S12 a month
and $3.50 arrears; Sarah G.. Thompson,
Bridgewater, Sl2 month.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-02-22

would develop the truest and best in
their natures, and they would become
leaders indeed, and not weakly para
sites, living and thriving on hattery and
adulation and tomorrow forgotten
Home Knowledge.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-02-22

CHINA has at the present time / 800
temples to the honor of Confucius at
which so, 600 pigs, rabbits, sheep and
deer and 27,000 pieces of silk are Of
fered annually.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-02-22

If the liver and kidneys are sluggish
and inactive Hoods Sarsaparilla will
rouse them to prompt and regular
action. Take it now.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-02-22
Magazines for nearly Halt.

Send to the publisher of the magazine
YOU want for sample copy, enclosing
trihe in stamps, say five cents, enough to
show you are not a deadhead He will
send you his terms of course. Compare
them with ours.
These five magazines are published by
d. Lothrop Company, Boston, Made for
families, they actually open a new world to
them.
Ba@Jhna, full of pictures and songs and stories,
helps the mother a little baby, helps him
grow, and directs his growth
orr Lite lien and Women takes the sx-year.od
when he begins to read.
Ihe PaHsy comes with the Sunday School age.
ChamanqHa Young Folts' Journal is for young
scholars.
Hme 47take - this is what the publishers say of
it - library, study, playhouse, life at home and
abroad companionship of the wise and good - de-
signed for the young bnt for all improving people
Owe have the more satisfaction in club
bling with such magazines because they en-
courage civilized life wherever they go.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-02-22
Assignee's Sale.

There will be sold at public auction at the dwell
ing house of Asa q. Andrews, in Berlin, VT, the
sth day of March 1883, at one o'clock p. NJ, the fol-
lowing described real estate and personal property
g. Andrews, known as the George ", Belknap
Berlin and Wamstown, said farm being in the
town of Berlin and consisting Of fifty acres of good
farm land, with fruit and sugar orchards, and good
farm buildings thereon, well supplied with good run.
ming water. Said pasture and woodland Is situated
about one-third of a mile from said farm buildings
In the town of Wilhamstown, containing forty four
acres, Also the following personal property belong
ing to the said Asa q. Andrews Two cows, two year
ngs one hog, three tons of hay two tons of straw,
fifty bushels of oats five bushels of India wheat one
hdndred forty wood sap-tubs, fifty tin sap-tubs,
two sapholders two sappans, one sap-heater, one
buggy wagon, one harrow, two chains. one harness,
five hundred feet of hemlock lumber and some
maple and hemock logs
HIRAM G. HAYWARD, Assignee.
Berlin, VT, February 18th, 1855.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-02-22
OUT OF THE OLD INTO THE NEW. The

AND SCHOOL OF sHogT-HAND AND TyPE-waiTMa
is established In its New Building, COLLEGE
PLACE, SO, IS and 81 North Pearl street, the best
structure devoted to business education In America
Everything Is superb Commercial, Shorthand
Typewriting, Practical English and special Pen.
desired Young men and women prepared for bus
ness. Many assisted to positions. New catalogue
and specimens of penmanship free. Address CAR
NELL CARHART, Albany NY.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-02-22
Stray Shots.

THE inmates of the Soldiers Home
praise their " Coffey" and are pleased
with their " Valentine"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-07-04

hibitionists, and reflects their views. The
assumption that HARRIsoS's candidacy
would be peculiarly acceptable to them
because he stumped the state in 1882 in
favor of the submission of prohibitory
amendment to the constitution is evidently
erroneous. Whatever his personal claims,
if he has any, upon the good will OF the
prohibitionists, the fact that he is running
for president on aplatform which declares
for free whisky in its revenue plank while
it ignores entirely the liquor question,
compels all of them who are honest and
in earnest to oppose him.
As to the absurd postscript to the plat
form adopted in the closing moments OF
the convention as a slight sap to the tenn
perance element, the prohibitonists esti-
mate it at its real value-that is to say,
nothing. ''The republican party cordially
sympathizes with all wise and well-direct-
ed efforts for the promotion of temperance
and morality" So reads the Boutelle
addendum. AS to which the PEdlGnr re-
marks:
Sympathy for Temperance and morality is
a good thing. The national liquor dealers pro-
tective association at its every session adopts
similar resolutions, and at its last meeting
much stronger declaration. IT'S marvellous
what progressive tendencies the republican
party is developing.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-07-04
Ben Harrison's Fool Friends.

Gen. HARRISON is afflicted, beyond most
men, with fool friends. They are doing
all they can to make his presidential can
didacy ridiculous as we'll as contemplate.
1t was prominently fool friend who
had Gen. HARRISON painted into the CYCLIC
rama of the Battle of Atlanta" 1t
was a fool friend who tore down the
Cleveland and Thurman banner on Mar
ket-st. the day after his nomination. They
are fool friends who are soldering over
him in the republican papers of this town,
and disgusting sensible people of all
parties with the fulsome fattery they
are heaping upon him. They are
fool friends who insist that the demo-
Gratis and independents of Indiana
shall throw their principles TO the winds
and help elect champion of monopoly
taxes and free whisky to the presidency
because of state pride" They are fool
friends who are scheming to give the
Fourth of July festivities a partisan char
acter. They are fool friends who are try
ing to prostitute every business, social and
religious force in the community into an
adjunct Of Gen. HARRIsoN's candidacy.
But by long odds the biggest fool friend
who has yet exploited his folly TO the det-
riment of Gen. HARRISON is the Wander
bilt son-in-law, ELLIOTT L. SHEPARD of New
York. SHEPARD is national ass,
and a standing guy" in the political,
journalistic and social circles of New
York. This devout idiot, it seems, went
TO presbyterian prayer meeting in this
town the other evening and profaned the
place and the occasion with a regular
stump speech in favor of HARRISON. Not
content with praising his candidate, he
made vicious attack upon the president
of the United States, which would have
been out OF place at a ward rally" 1t
was a performance SO sacreligious and dis
gushing that it cannot be properly charac-
terized in words.
We wonder il Gen. HARRISON counte-
nances such methods, or if he supposes
for one moment, that his fortunes as a
candidate are likely TO be promoted by
them?