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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-13

One of the Storage passengers died a
few days after we left New York. and we
expected to witness sea funeral. but the
matter was kept as quiet as possible and
no one seemed disposed to talk about it.
The captain said it would have a depress-
ing effect on the passengers to see the man
buried, SO he would not name the time
when the funeral would take place.
About 10 o'clock the next night one of
the passengers was walking aft and saw
some of the sailors placing the body in
plain wooden box, and rushed forward
with the intelligence. Going to the stern,
we saw them mailing on the lid, but they
concluded not to put him overheard until
we were all asleep; SO we had to repress
our curiosity for the time being. At
midnight, however, the steamer stopped
for a few minutes. and those passengers
who were not asleep inquired the cause.
No reason was given. but those who were
on the after deck enjoying the moonlight
on the sea. saw some sturdy sailors attach
hawser to the box and heave it over
board. There was a splash, then bell
was rung, the engine started and the
emigrant S funeral was over.-Cor. Balti-
more Sun.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-13
A DOUDTlNG HEART.

Where are the swallows fledH
Frozen and dead,
Perchance, upon some bleak and stormy shore,
Oh, doubling heart!
Far over purple seas
They wait, in sunny ease,
The balmy southern breeze
To bring them to their northern home once more
Why must the flowers dief
Prisoned they lie
In the cold tomb, needless of tears or rain.
Oh, doubling heartl
They only sleep below
The soft, white erlnine snow
While winter winds shall blow,
To breathe and smile upon you soon again.
The sun has hid its rays
These many days:
Will weary hours never leave the earth!
Oh, doubling heart.
The stormy clouds on high
Veil the same sunny sky
That soon for spring is nigh)
Shall wake the summer into golden mirth.
Fair hope is dead, and light
Is quenched in night:
What sound can break the silence of despairf
Oh, doubling heart!
The sky is overcast,
Yet stars shall rise at last,
Brighter for darkness past,
And angels silver voices stir the air.
Adelaide Anne Proctor
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-13
FACTS CONCERNING CANCER.
A Disease of Advanced AGc-Little Known
of Its Causes.


In the forty-first annual report Of the
registrar general Of England, published
in 1880, it is asserted that the number of
deaths from cancer was 5,21S in 1851,
and 1904 in 1878, but as the population
had largely increased in this period, the
increase in frequency will be more dis
tinctly appreciated by the following quo
tation from this report: 1.-THE avei;ige
annual mortality from cancer) during
the five years 1S50-'54 was 304 in 1,000,-
600 living. In the five years 1S70-'74 it
was 443, while in the year 1878 it was
512."
In New York city the proportion of
deaths from cancer in 1875 was 400 to
1000. 900. In 1885 it was $50 to ,000,-
900. According to the reports on vital
statistics of the census of the United
States of 1880, the proportion of deaths
from cancer to the total number of
deaths reported from known causes was
6.6S to 1000.
Cancer is a disease of advanced age. 1t
is found in all ages, but in very unequal
proportions. In SOB cases the proper
ton of deaths under years of age was
1896 per 1000. while from to 10 it is
only 2.S2 per 1000, and from 10 to 10
LEO per 1000. From the age of Is the
proportion gradually rises in each quin-
quenium. until between the ages of so
and So it reaches 1870. 10 per 1000. After
this period the proportion gradually di-
minishes. as the number of those living
after this period of life diminishes.
Jonathan Hutchinson, of London. whose
opinion on all questions of pathology is
considered authority in all parts of the
learned world, in the most able discussion
which has ever been held on this subject,
that before the Pathological and Clinical
society of Glasgow in 1885. said: 'Of
the causes which underlie the proclivity
to cancer, and which render some races
and some families more prone than others,
we as yet know but little. What little
we do know would lead us to believe that
it has nothing to do with the diet or with
climate. The herbivorous animals are
liable to it as well as the carnivorous, and
SO far as | know it prevails in all parts of
the world where the conditions are favor
able to longevity. Wherever, from what
ever cause, they are not so, there cancer
becomes relatively infrequent. 1t is al
most unknown in those of our domestic
animals which are used for food, for the
simple reason that we never let them
grow old, while in dogs, cats, horses and
asses it is common.
DIR. Billings says: 1.-THE increase of
mortality from cancer with advancing
age may be explained either on the
theory that the cause of cancer becomes
more potential in advanced age at the
period of physiological decay or on the
theory that the predisposition to cancer
belongs to the strongest and longest
lived" The fact is settled beyond ques-
ton that in those populations where but
few reach old age cancer is proportions
ately rare. New York Tribune.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-13
Spinsters' Insurance Company.

There is a Spinsters' Insurance COM
pany in Schleswig which gives shelter,
board and pin money to the single lady
members of well to do families. At the
birth of girl the father enters the girls
name in the books of the company and
pays certain sum every year. If, when
his daughter reaches her twenty fourth
year sheis still unmarried, she is entitled
to certain income and couple of fur
nished rooms in house belonging to the
company. The house is handsome one,
with fine garden attached to it. If the
father dies before his daughter attains
her twenty-fourth year the girl enjoys
the same privileges. In case she dies or
marries all her rights are forfeited, and
the money paid in reverts to the COM
pany These chances enable the COM
pany to make the provision named, while
parents have the satisfaction of knowing
the future of their daughters to be Sc
cured i'll case of the death of their natural
providers. New York Tribune.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-13
Pretty Stories Not All Proved.

These are facts, my masters, not at all
carrying out the pretty pictures of the
story writers, whose girly girls in family
disaster and loss of property have only to
pick up their pens and write magazine
article, or go into fruit raising or bee
keeping, and buy farm and new fur
nish the house the first season on the
profits. Might these redoubtable young
women but condescend TO give the rest
of the world some inkling of their secret
success! Every year the competition Of
real life grows more intense, till no
favorite with gifts and genius feels secure
in her place. or keeps it but at cost Of
sleepless vigilance and effort.
The thousand successes are offset by
tens of thousands of women to whom life
is constant strain Of body and thought,
with only tightening enough Of the toll to
be endurable. 1t is enough to know,
from medical reports, that the majority
of cultivated women are aged at 80, with
the wrinkles and gray hair fit for 10,
and soon after die of overstrain. or break
down in mind. Imbecility and hysteria
increase, to say nothing Of insanity
while the standard of effective labor, in
tellecrual and physical, rapidly lowers,
because the stamina of the race is worn
ut.-Cosmopolitan.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-13
Coughing of the Audience.

Who has not been annoyed at lecture
by that intolerable nuisance, a coughing
neighbor? One man or woman can de-
stroy the pleasure Of houseful of people
by a constant hacking, which is largely
habit, after all. John l.. Stoddard was
so much annoyed one evening at the
Academy by chorus of coughs all over
the auditorium that he stopped in the
middle Of his lecture and suggested that
SO much of it was certainly unnecessary,
but if people must cough they would
oblige him and the audience by coughing
in their handkerchiefs. The result
proved that the habit could be controlled,
for there was hardly cough heard dur
ing the rest of the evening.-Philadel-
iDhia Times.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-13
Abraham LincOln,s Stories.

l asked Col. Nicolay about the char
acter of Mr.. Lincoln's stories.
There is an erroneous notion abroad, I"
he said, THAT Mr.. Lincoln's stories were
largely of sort that could not be re-
peated in the presence of ladies. The
simple fact is that he was remarkable for
two characteristics in this connections:
For the aptness of his stories and for his
dramatic power in telling them. He did
not tell story for its own sake, but be-
cause it illustrated some immediate point
in the situation. He never dragged in a
story, but used it as an effective insru-
ment of expression. Washington Cor.
Chicago Herald.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-13

One of the most curious customs of the
country is dancing in the house of mourn
ing. AS soon as life departs the dead is
clad in white and laid upon his bed.
Relatives are invited to come, musicians
are ordered. and dancing, singing and
amusements are kept up necessarily until
the interment has taken place. This is
done with view to distract the family
of the deceased and to drive their grief
away. Even by passers, unknown to the
family, are allowed to enter and to take
part in these strange amusements of the
living in the presence of the dead.-E.
De Hesse Wartegg in New York Sun.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-13

The use of perfumed substances for an
ointing the body is older than civiliza-
ton. The Jews employed myrrh. aloes
and spikenard to embalm or anoint the
dead and to perfume the living. The
Bible often alludes TO aromatics, such as
balsams and sandal wood. Herodotus
says that the Scythian women used to
preserve their compilations and render
their hands soft with paste made of in
cense, cedar and cypress wood brayed
together between two stones and mixed
with oil, which they applied before going
to bed. Cosmetics were freely used in
ancient Athens; Oenona, the perfumer
of Olympus. having brought the knowl-
edge of perfumes from the mountains of
Thessalv. Venus is often represented
before her mirror. Being the goddess of
love, it was her business to make herself
attractive. Minerva, though having a
more masculine aim, was not averse to
the use of odorous ointments.
Scion, In his laws, forbade the use of
perfumes to excess, and Socrates said
shrewdly that it was impossible to dis
tinguish a slave from free man if both
were perfumed with the same odor.
<ASI'etoia, llie accomplished ullStTeoS OI
Pericles, wrote two volumes on the use
of perfumes, some portions of which are
extant, and Hippocrates, the celebrated
Greek physician, discussed them in his
works, treating them from hygienic
standpoint 1t appears from the laid
that they were well known in the time
of Homer, while Aristotle, the great
Greek philosopher, did not think an essay
on them unworthy place in his works.
San Francisco Chronicle.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-13
Jenny Iind's Dignity,

Her standard was severely high. OF
her pupils at the Royal College of Music,
it is said that she kept them as close TO
their scales as Mr.. Ruskin kept his draw
ing class to the curves of a snail shell.
Her resentment Of what she deemed i'm
pertinent curiosity must have been pain
full to the American visitors, of whose re-
ception we read: "What is it you want?'
she asked. standing very erect. "Oh,
Nine. Goldschmidt, we hoped to have
the pleasure of seeing you and making
your acquaintance. " "Well, here is my
front" Then, with a whisk round,
"there is my back. Now" with deep
courtesy, ''you can go home and say that
you have seen me-" 1t is a relief to read
that afterward ''she was very penitent
for having been at all rude. Chicago
Times.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-13
Balls of Old Times.

The "society balls" of old times were
conducted with great propriety AMI re-
serve. The claim of every person to lie
admitted having been determined by the
responsible committee, there was u sort
of temporary equality ON the floor and
every gentleman had the privilege to in
vite lady, without the formality OF an
introduction, to figure in the dance as his
partner. After it was over, he escorted
her back respectfully to her seat, without
presuming, if unknown, to remain stand
ing before her or to sit by her side.
During the intervals of dancing the gen.
tlemen walked up and down between the
rows of ladies that densely lined the nall.
No woman, married or single, joinel in
this promenading with male compan-
ion, and the eye of lynx could not have
detected the slightest Irritation. The
word itself was not known.-American
Magazine.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-13
Signs for the Blind.

First Director Tlind Asylum-My
friend Blinks is out of a job an I'd like
to do something for him.
Second Director-What's his biz?
"He's a sign painter. He's got left on
200 grocery store notices an wants to
sell 'em."
"All right, Wen make an appropria-
ton to buy 'em for the blind asylum.
What does the notices say?"
IF you don't see what you want ask
for it. Omaha World.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-13
Mr.. Vanderbilt's Scotch Piper.

A depressing intimation comes to us
from over the ocean that Scotch pipers
will soon be the rage with fashionable
New York society. If such is the case,
the rage will extend generally through
out the community, and very few pipers
will escape it alive. Mr.. w. X. Wander
bllt has employed a family piper, and it
is predicted that the example thus set
will be followed by many. Fuel will be
added to the fire for pipers when the
wealthy Anglomaniacs discover, what
most people have known for long time,
that the Prince of Wales has at least one
piper, and perhaps more. AS a curiosity,
Scotch piper may be for a short time
tolerated in the haunts of civilization.
But he belongs to the mountain and the
moor and the rast, and leaves them, if
he comes to this country, at his peril
New York World.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-13
Jupiter's Red Spot.

Since the first appearance of the great
red spot on the planet Jupiter, some nine
years ago, Mr.. W. F. Denning, the well
known English astronomer, has made
about 800 observations of the phenone-
non. He believes the red spot to be
feature of Jupiter's atmosphere, and not
of the surface of the planet
Traveller
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-13
just Like a Woman.

Proud Omaha Mother-You ought to
have seen Willie speak his piece in school.
1t was grand. He'll be great statesman
some day, a leader of the people, a
molder of human destiny, shouldn't
wonder if he'd be president.
Practical Husband-He may grow up
to be very good man, but he'll never be
heard of in American politics.
"Why won't he?''
"You went and got him to sign the
pledge for life. Omaha World.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-13
Italv,s National ,Ionuments

Italy has about 1,450 national monu-
ments to care for; they belong to mod
ern times and the middle ages. The
budget allows a little more than $500, 900
for their preservation, but out of this
must come the cost of excavations at
Rome and Pompeii. Chicago Herald.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-13
Tor IA RAINY Day.

Wife to Extravagant Uusband)-For
heavens sake, George, don't spend so
much money needlessly. Don't you
know you ought to lay by something for
a rainy day?
Husband--I have done that, dear.
Wife-What l should like to l,now2
Husband-A gum coat, love.--Wash-
ington Critic.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-13

A little boy being reproved on Sunday
morning for having dirty face retorted:
"Well, wored dis face to Su'ay cool,
anyhow. '-Charlottesville Na.) Chron-
icle.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-13

There are nine British missionary
societies now laboring in Africa, with an
aggregate annual expenditure of 81, OO,-
600.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-13

IL private watch your Thoughts; in tie
family watch YOUR temper; in COMPANY
watch your tongue. Cool lloase.cr.
ing.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-13

The world owes us a living, but we
have TO enforce payment.
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Missouri. 80" $685. $3.50 IS
Nebraska. 81. 600 ....... 22,5l2 .--. 3
1.400f....-. 1.6l5 ....... 3
N Hampstead 2,2Si -..-.-- 1859 ...... 4
New Jersey. ...--. 6.963l....-.. 4.412 8
New York. 1880 ...... ...-. 1.149 SO
Carolina ...-. i2,OO0N....... 1854 IL
Ohjo 10 42Ol 81 Sl0i %
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People travelling IN the Sahara
should v be hungry, because of
the sandwiches there (sand which 8.
there.)
The last day of February would
hardly be tbongbt-to resemble ms of
Shakespeare's plays. yet il is winters
tail (winter's Tale.)
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Copnccticut w 3ae -. 1.2n 8
Delaware. $3.50. 3.396 .... 4o23 3
Florida- ....-.--. 7.0o04..-... q. 13Sf 4
Georgia ....- G0.OU3 .....1 &c. 9GIi 10
Illinois,. 22-379l-.-. ~ 25.122l..- %
Indiana -. 6,52z IS
Iowa ... 81. s03l.-- \ MTG -- Is
Kansas---.l LOO ff2I4i- 2
Kentucky 49,. f.6SslJs
II nufafann Is 4 UEc. Il - .u4tal...tAios 1DEE
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Massachu'ts 3i.475 ...... 1882 49,. IL
%, 100 1900. 3.3Ds $3.50. l3
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cLlna.l
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Malns:.;;i.. ss,aa9 O'Od9. il a.;
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allowed To suffer and scream With
pain from collie, hatulence, howell dis
orders, ETC., when some reliable and
safe remedy as DIR. Bulls Baby Sy-
rup, would give almost immediate re-
lief and perfect ease to the little suf-
crer.
WHY WILL YOU cough when shiloh's
Cure will give immediate relief Price 10 cite.
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There is a simpIe thing which Is
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above all human imperfectIons, and
80 hnro~. tho noEa.t .,I ,-tolal
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est as well as the wisest of mankind.
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W usHIHgVUu- j
Preindice often rules IN the phys
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IrOln COIIC, uatuIence, nOWeI UlS-
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nrders. etc. Mhpn SOME reliahle and
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WHY WILL YOU cougb when shiloh's
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rup, WOUIU give aIfnUsC IINIHtuIHIer re-
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-12-21
EAGpE4Us

Christmas will be along next week.
This IS the shortest day OF the year.
For additional local sse second page.
The cold wave a g is flying, but no.
body ls scared.
Christmas trees are q prominent fea.
ture OF the mercantile landscape.
There was frost on the windows this
morning-the first Of the season.
The river channel is still wide open
and no ice is mingled with It's waters.
An eastern man with q knitting factory
project in his mind is looking Yankton
over.
Archer's warehouse is brim full CT fax
seed-most OF il shipp-d in from CON-
tiRuous stations.
We pause TO remark that this is tha
same lovely weather we have been
having all winter.
Finishing touches ere being given to
tie central school building-putting in
seats, blaekboards, etc.
A Mitchell newspaper SPECIAL mem
tlons that Judge Tripp intends to resign
on account OF ill health.
One OF the oldest and soil lest demo-
csats in Dakota sald to-day that Spring
er's omnibus bill was not what South
Dakota wanted.
SPECIAL attention is called to the new
advertisement OF the Boston. See how
they are going to sacrifice are goods for
the next three days.
Public indignation against Z. A, Gale
is strengthening and is assuming o So
rious phase, if the remarks dropped poss'
ess any Significance.
Trustee Qa.aley. in a private letter tc
e YanKton man, says he wouid take adj
vantage OF an opportunity to relate SOM
inside facts to o Yankton audience rela-
tive TO insane asylum management.
AT the Methodist chuch to-morrov
evening and Sunday morning th.
quarterly meeting will be held, undeI
the auspices of Presiding Elder Hart
sough. The elder will preach at thre'
O'Clock tomorrow afternoon and at th,
usual hour 5undayImorning.
F. L. jackson, who succeeds Il. d
Sharp in the insurance business, has beef
in the Office OF the Security investmen
company during the past eighteen
taenths and is q stockholder in that com
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-12-21
AN ASYLUM THaW.
Eerty Feet Of Brick Gornice Yields TO
the Influence of Warm weather,


Eerty Feet of Brick Cornice Yields TO
the Influence of warm Weather.
At the insane asylum, about five
o'clook yesterday afternoon, some forty
feet OF brick cornice fell from the west
wing to the ground outside. A young
son of the : sJaoob Lee, n Of the
victims of the asylum accident Of Oc.o-
Der. narrowly escaped being buried
underneath this falling mass OF brick
and mortar. As il turned out; no one
was hurt. The coYnioe upon these wings
is an upward extension and projection
Of the wells, carried outward about one
third the width OF a brick With each
course. The probability is these brick
we're laid daring freezing weather. Yes
terday was on unusually warm day
sufficiently SO to thaw tie frozen mortar.
The overhanglng cofnice. being thus
released, came to the ground. This in.
cident furnishes food for speculation on
the results of next summers heat. The
walls appear to be solid enough aa long
as they are frozen, but what will be
their condition under the influence OF o
general thaw? BY that time, through
the natural course OF events, the addi-
tions to the asylum Sill have been &C.
copied by the territory and Gale & o.,
will be financially out OF the woods and
their responsibility removed. If the
walls disintegrate under the genial rays
of O summer sun end the roof caves in
and chaos ensues, the territory will have
to replace the structure Of its own ex-
pense. The contract was not originally
for an ice palace, but for buildings that
could be used at all seasons OF the year.
IL will be we'll for the members of the
Legislature TO bear in mind the incident
OF the falling cornioe and institute a
house warming before the territory es-
sumes proprietorship. It's cold day
when something startling does not OCCUR
at the insane aeylum.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-12-21
PEHsOyAH.

PEHSOyAE..
Louis d. Sharp left to-day for Leaven.
worth and Kansas City
j. M. Mcdonald, of Sioux City, was
Gne Of to-day's arrivals.
L. Karr went out on the Northwestern
yesterday afternoon to visit g few towns
whore artesian we'll projects are in view.
J. NJ. B. Floyd and wife and Birney
Woolley will reach Yankton Tomorrow
to spend Christmas at M. T. Woolles's
home.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-12-21

Elegant Presenta for a Gentleman.
A fine meersohaum pipe or cigar holder,
q box OF imported Key West cigars. We
have them all. Gall and look at our
elegant stock OF these goods.
ADLER & OHbMAN.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-12-21

Taxes for 1883 are now due. All
parties knowing themselves indebted are
respectfully invited to call ct the county
treasurer's Office and pay up.
II. EuLERMAN. County T%res1rrer.