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People who knew Washington a few
years ago would hardly recognize, per
haps, In the splendid buildings, magnif-
cent avenues and endless rows of elegant
mansions that have been erected In the
northwestern part of the city, the capital
of this magnificent country. In those
days they would nave wondered at fash.
Ions fancy to install itself there for any
length of time unless called by the male
members Of a family who had political
ambitions Today. however. it is all
changed, and Washington has undoubt.
edly girded on her armor for a prosperous
career. in which she will each year be-
come more victorious. 1t Is said that the
political faction is fast losing its hold as
leader of the social world There are
some people so old fashioned as to shrink
from notoriety in either a social or politi-
cal sense, who form a large proportion.
too. Of the native Washingtonians. and
they resent this ~usurpation of the social
world by newcomers who are there today
and gone tomorrow"
1t Is this faction that Is composed Of
these new Corners. who are American
representatives of enormous wealth, who
have got 1t into their heads That 1t Is the
proper thing to shine for q season or so in
Washington, and who will have nothing
to do with either the natives or the poll
ticians. This is the set that seems to be
fast assuming a controlling social power.
Their dinners. their balls. their l~uncheons,
musicales. and. in fact. even their mild
entertainments. are OF so sumptuous an
order and on a scale OF such magni6cence
that it is impossible for any outside their
own set to compete with them. and little
attempt is mnde SO to do. The natives,
who maintain a tremendous amount Of
respect for their own Importance, don't
care for the constant succession of gayety,
and the people In the political ring. as a
rule, can't afford to indulge in unbounded
luxury.-Max Eliot in Boston Herald.
, 1888-05-15

DR.. Sawyer has his W views concern
Ing the true business of a physician. They
belong to a higher level of civilization
thar has yet been reached, and may be
prophetic: 1.-The doctor should come and
go like tho clergyman and priest, instead
of being a necessary evil, whose visits are
avoided as long as possible. and which are
q source of uneasiness when necessarily
multiplied He should be a minister and
guardian of health. an officer of the
family. upon whose special wisdom free,
early and constant reliance Is placed. The
eradication Of inherited tendencies to
disease, the direct Improvement Of the
physical and mental measure of stocks,
the development Of q hardy constitution
in weak children, the recognition and
arrest of many fatal organic diseases In
their incipiency, before they are too old t.
DO controlled, the arrest of cut infam
nation at a time when his Is possible
the insuring of longevity and q sound ole
age-these are some of tho things which
the physician of today is able, but which
he is not often permitted to do."-Cincin.
natl Commercial Gazette.
, 1888-05-15

This is truly a tropical land, the climate
and temperature being somewhat marvel
GUS, 1t Is entirely different from Califor
mia. or from anything have yet seen,
There is no winter there, yet 1t is never
too hot and never cold The temperature
is between 70 dogs. to 80 dogs. all the year
round, with a few extra showers of rain
to emphasize the winter months. The
fragrance is intense after a shower, for
b japanese lily. cocoanut. bananas and
palm trees seem to distn perfume. Such
fruits as cocoanuts, date palms, bananas,
mangoes, oranges. bread fruit. lemons,
lines and sweet potatoes grow here in
abundance. The principal productions.
however, are sugar, rice and bananas.
The natives are a strong race. have tho
bronze skin Of the Chinaman and the
black curly hair of the negro. They are
an affable and affectionate people. but are
extremely lazy. n much prefer the tinkle
of their gay guitars to work They dress
very gaudily. the women especially
Edinburgh Ladies' Journal
, 1888-05-15
Good Health on the Congo.

Tho old saying that ''beefsteak Is bet
ter medicine than ~quinine" is receiving
able support from many white men on the
Congo. Stanley regarded Bona as a par
ticularly unhealthful place, butt t has lost
a part of its bad reputation since cattle
were introduced and European vegetables
began to thrive In the gardens. The
thirty white men at this settlement have
not beer called upon to attend the funeral
OF a European for a year Their herd has
multiplied until they are able to have
fresh meat on their table every day,
which they think is a great Improvements
on the timed meats and canned vege-
tables upon which Stanley and his follow
ers relied for strength to lay the founda.
lions of the Congo enterprise New York
Sun
, 1888-05-15
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We offer no apology for deyoting so much time
ulseases,D eieNlng that no condition of humans
lily Is too ,wretchedt to merit the ympathy and
long, as many are innocent sufferers. and that
t tn Physicdan who devotes himself
them from worse than death, is no less =
phllanthrophist and n benefactor to his race
plication excels IN any other branch of his pro-
fession. And, fortunately for humanity the day
Is dawning, when the false philanthrophy that
condemned hey victims of folly or crime,
the lepers under the Jewish law, to die uncnred
FOR, has passed away.
YOUNG MIN
Who may be suffering from the effects OF Youth
iul folles or indiscretions, will do well to avail
themselves OF this the greatest boon ever laid
AZ me after OF suffering humanity. DIR. WAC
MEX VIII guarantee to forfeit five hundred dol
LOT every case of seminal weakness or pri-
vate disease of any kind or character which he
undertakes and fails to cure.
MILD GED MEN.
There are many men of the age of 30 to 90 who
are troubled with too frequent excavations of
smarttng or burning sensation and a weaken
ing of the system in a manner the patient cam
not account for. On examining the urinary de-
posits a ropy sediment Will often be found. and
sometimes small particles of albume will APP
pear, or the color will be of akin CT milkish
hue, again changing to n dark and turbld APP
pearance. There are many men who die of
this difficulty ignorant of the cause, which is
the second stage of seminal DIR.
Wagner will guarantee a cure in all such
cases and n healthy restoration of the genito-
urinary organ. Consultation free. Thorough
examination and advice. $500.
See the Doctors additional advertisement in
the Daily Denver News and Tribune-Republi-
can.
All communications should be addressed
DR.. WAGNER & co.
lIl4 Larimere street. Address, Box 27s3, Den
yer, Colorado.
Cut this out and take along
, 1888-05-15

What pure air is to an unhealthy local
ity, what spring cleaning is to the neat
housekeeper, so is Hoods Sarsaparilla to
everybody, at this season. The body
needs to be thoroughly renovated, the
blood purified and yitalized, the germs OF
disease destroyed. S~crofula, Salt Rheum
and all other blood disorders are cured by
FLOODS Sarsaparilla. THE most popular and
essful spring medicine.
, 1888-05-15
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SOwo the Children. They are es-
oNOO peeially liable to sudden
Colds, Coughs. Group. Whooping Cough,
etc. We guarantee Acker's English
Remedy a positive cure. It saves
hours of anxious watching. Sold by
DIR. W. N. Hunt.
, 1888-05-15
Cut this out and take along

MATCHMAKER and JEWELER,
F1rst-class Watch Repairing.
WhTnuFQ sent e. q. ID. to any ex.
WhlU1BO press office.
, 1888-05-15

The largest stock of fine brandies, old
WHISTLES, choice hqueurs and superine
cigars at George Masten's well known
house, corner Sixteenth and Ferguson
htreats
, 1888-05-15
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THE "SH0oT AND BOO" MAN,
Has receiced his immense
Spring stock of Boots,
Shoes ana Slippers, and de-
streS TO state his claims in
faUOr of his.Hnany custO-
naerS and others sChy they
sU'H fndHto THEIR INTEREST
TO TRADE WITH HIM.
II claim 10 sell the Gerry
best goods and at prices
HneqHaUed in Cheyenne.
With mig nesO Spring
Stock, eUery department Is
nOaU complete pith nesc and
elegant styles.
n carry the sUeU knOaUn
brands of RHf.t y .near's,
Bart s. Packard's, and
Strong y CARROTS CENTS
fine Boots and Shoes Ed
.
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Ladies' and Misses fine
Shoes and SINNERS. aCh,ch
are the besf fines ,,nde in,
a..,..n m.5 .ayI,.m
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az s0t0er pftces man go"
pay for inferior goods else
aUhere.
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ca,,,e 90 Sho. .. ,o,rn
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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-27
CREATIONS LOWER ORDERS.

A farmer at New Garden, Pa has a sheep
whose wool made nineteen yards of cloth a
yard wide.
There are said to be only four horses in
Alaska-three at Juneau and one at Sitka.
How do they run their horse cars in Alaskal
A farmer near Reedsville, Pa. recently
killed two deer at one shot His weapon was
single barreled rifle, with which he put
ball through the neck of each deer at dis
lance of seventy-five yards.
A flock of blackbirds that must have been
nearly two miles in length was seen by the
passengers on Pennsylvania railroad train
recently. The birds were SO numerous that
they darkened the sky for a few minutes,
and presented most novel spectacle
A young man of Ashland, Me-, while on his
way home from a dance saw the form of a
large animal in front of him and fired several
shots at it from a small revolver The ami
NAL fell, and he saw that it was an enormous
bull moose. He then cut its throat with q
pocket knife and in few moments the great
animal breathed its last.
A monkey exhibited at museum estab-
lished at Tacubaya, Mexico was condemned
to be shot under judicial sentence, for having
bitten a man and caused his death. The
family of the deceased brought complaint
before the judge, who instituted criminal
proceedings against the monkey The man
ager of the museum succeeded in obtaining a
change OF the sentence to Imprisonment for
life The monkey is now behind the bars Of
an iron cage at the museum serving his i'm
prisonment
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-27
ACROSS THE WATER.

There is a noticeable emigration of Russian
Jews to England.
Twenty-eight million francs are to be used
IN fitting up the Italian navy.
The London firemen are to be equipped in
asbestos cloth, which has already been tried
in Paris. 1t does not burn.
Egypt is rapidly adopting the usages of
civilized nations. The newest move in that
direction is the engagement Of a ballet for tho
theatre at Cairo.
Thirty thousand forged tickets were scat
tered abroad for the jubilee ceremonies at the
Vatican. The genuine tickets had to be
printed over again.
Paris is meditating sensible reform. 1t
is proposed to establish an earlier hour for
dining, in order to enable people to reach the
theatres more promptly.
ST. Paul's cathedral is to be washed. Fire
men are to set to work on it with hose and
brushes TO see how they can brighten the
blackened old walls An expert says that it
is not dirt, but a kind of lichen that makes it
black.
The French government mas again taken
up the building of great armor clad ships.
Eight are now being pressed forward to COM
pletion. Admiral Pallu de la Barriere has
caused a vessel to be built encased with
cocoanut fiber instead of armor plates 1t is
said to have greater power of resistance than
steel
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-27

In all cases involving land grants and the
claims of railroads, Mr.. lie Barnes is said to
have been a vigilant defender of the rights of
settlers and the government; hence it was
thought important to retain him in the Office
until an equally competent successor could
be found.
Hon. John V. Wright, who succeeds Mr..
LIE Barnes as law adviser of the land office, is
prominent lawyer of Tennessee, formerly a
member of the supreme court, and later a
circuit judge and chancellor. He is a son of
an officer of the war of 1912 and grandson of
an officer in the Revolution, and was himself
colonel of the Thirteenth Tennessee infantry
in the Confederate army, as well as a men,
Der of the Confederate congress. In 1855,
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-27
GENERAL SPORTING NOTES.

Sullivan says Ryan gave him the best fight
he ever had. Ryan stood up to him while
the others ran away.
A team of Irish cricketers are coming to
the United States States this summer under
command of Mr.. ]. W. Hynes, of Trinity
college.
Lucky Baldwin has made thirty-five en-
tries to the Waldo Park, Kansas City, stakes.
Emperor OF Norfolk and Los Angeles are
among the number.
Joe McAulitfe, who whipped Paddy Ryan,
is temperate n an, was born in California
and is by trade currier. He has challenged
Professor William Miller to twenty round
fight with gloves.
A new two mile course is to be laid out at
Boston ON the Charles river, between the new
Charles River bridge and the Brookline
bridge. 1t will be the scene Of most of the
aquatic contests at Boston this winter
During last year ,245 head of trotting
horses We're sold at public auction in Ken
lucky for $685., 07s, while the private sales
will foot up at least that much more, ono
breeding establishment alone having realized
over $4,000 on the sales of trotting colts
and fllies in 1887.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-27

Another of those Englishmen, how
they are bizarre! Sir William Draggs
hailed cab at Brighton about a year
ago and told the driver to take him to
the pier off which Sir Draggs had his
yacht. He told the cabman to wait for
him, meaning to cruise about off Brighton
for an hour or two, but changing his
mind he determined to go around the
world. The cabman waited and waited,
and finding that his "fare" did not come
back, he obtained leave from the NUM-
cipality to erect a shelter for himself and
horse.
Here he waited for more than twelve
month, when the other day Sir Draggs
returned with his yacht, and was not at
all surprised to find the cabman waiting
for him. "How much do l owe you2"
he said, and upon the cabman handing
him bill for 5000, he tore check out
of his book, filled it up for the amount
and told the man to drive him to his
hotel. To illustrate the extortionate char
acter of cabmen, the man asked Sir
Draggs for his fare from the pier to the
hotel.-Paris Gaulois.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-27
The Fate of Editors.

In the editorial fraternity the tragic
element has been particularly conspicu-
Gus. During the past twenty years
there have been several violent deaths,
any number of fadings into poverty and
obscurity and number of forced trans
fers into other phases of life. OF the
tragedies this, perhaps, is no place to
speak, but it may not be inopportune to
say that of the managing editors who
were prominent, deservedly so, not by
any pull they might have had upon
the proprietors of the papers upon which
they worked, but by reason of ability
and metropolitan experience, majority,
who have held the rein of power during
the past twenty-five years, either died in
poverty and obscurity, are living in pow
erty aud obscurity to-day, or transferred
their allegiance to some other phase of
labor ere it was too late.
In other words, they forsook the ser
vice of fame and entered that of self
Joe Howard in New York Graphic.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-27
Buying Too Much Food.

Unless the differences from a very
large amount of experimenting are en-
tirely at fault, many people buy a great
deal more food than they need. The ex-
cess is generally of the most expensive
kinds of food, meats and sweetmeats. In
a number of dietaries that have come to
my notice, including those of sensible
people who really desired to economic,
If half the meat, dairy products and
sugar had been left out, and the rest of
the food economically used, it would
have supplied considerably more nutri-
ment than accepted standards call for.
We buy needless quantities of these
things because they taste good, and we
have got in the way of thinking we must
have them. Part of the excess is eaten,
to the great detriment of the health. and
the rest simply thrown away.-Professor
w. o. Atwater in The Century.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-27

He might not make another VISIT to the
place, but it was hoped he would. There
was stout chain attached to the trap,
and this led to a small tree and was made
fast with paddock.
1t was nearly week before anything
unusual occurred, A bell had been fixed
in the housekeeper's room, with cord
running to the head of my bed, and it
was arranged that when / gave a certain
signal she was to run to the kitchen and
send a native after the captain, provid-
ing that he was not at home. That sig
nal would mean game in the trap. If
any one came at night, all the people
would be at home, and could do as di-
rected by the captain. could not leave
my room, and must certainly be good
sentinel if awake. If asleep, any noise
out of the routine would arouse me. The
captain did not come home, after leaving
in the morning, until o'clock. We had
begun to despair of luck in trapping a
thief, when one morning about 10
O'Clock, just after had opened my eyes
from a nap lasting half an hour, 1 saw
the head of a native as he peered from
behind the summer house. 1t was a
thief spying out the land. got hold of
the bell cord. but waited to see what the
fellow would do. In two or three
minutes he stepped out in full sight, and
was quite sure he was the same who
came before. He came boldly up the
path, as if bent on an GRAND, and walked
directly over the trap. 1 was SO aston
ished that | forgot to ring until he had
turned into the stables.
The housekeeper had gone to the
kitchen and was wrangling with the
cook. and SO my signal was unheard.
The fellow was out of my sight seven or
eight minutes, and when he reappeared
he had sack of horse feed on his shout
ders. He had caught the stable men
mapping again. l rang and rang, but no
one came. He went down the path bent
over and seeming to glide, but as he
reached the trap the dirt and leaves flew
in shower, the fellow seemed to spring
into the air, and next instant I saw that
he was fast in the jaws. He pitched
forward, and I could see his right ankle
was held in the wise. He quickly scram-
bled up, however, looked sharply around
him, and then uttered low whistle. In
side of thirty seconds four natives came
from the thicket to assist him. The trap
puzzled them. If they had ever seen
one before, they did not know how to
manage the springs. The prisoner must
have been in terrible agony, for the teeth
went to the bone on each side of his leg;
but he never brought groan. While the
five were consulting I rang again, and
this time the housekeeper came and sent
for the captain. Long enough before he
came the affair was ended. When the
men found they could not liberate the
prisoner they designed to cut his leg off
above the trap. He refused to agree, as
it would doubtless have been the death
of him. They had nothing with which
to break the chain or lock, and, doubt
less fearing that the prisoner would
peach on the gang, the four plunged
their knives into him and ran away. BY
the time the captain got home the man
was dead. -iNew York Sun.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-27
ASTRONOMICAL IT'D BITS.

"Let him slip down." from "Timon Of
Athens" would be n good Shakespearean
motto for raw oysters.
Madeira wine waters, SO called, served at
the afternoon teas, leave the Madeira part
largely to imagination.
1t is a reflection on the gastronomic knowl-
edge of Anglomanics that they expect York
shire pudding to be served as dessert.
To provoke a quarrel at Baltimore club
it is only necessary to assert that canvas back
duck is not superior to the red head variety.
There is an impression in Washington that
terrapin, canvas back, oysters and wild turkey
will settle the fishery dispute to everybody's
satisfaction
Scotch marmalade some epicures declare,
is what should go with boiled quail instead
Of currant jelly, but the world is full of
spurious epicures.
A new pudding, made Of prunes, dates,
figs and suet and served with thick liquid
sauce, is dubbed the alexandria" 1t is rich
enough to produce insomnia.
"Patent leather shavings" is what some
body calls the truffle chips served at some
hotels and restaurants where there is no pro-
nounced prejudice against humbug.
Wise housekeepers make their own cracker
crumbs or dust instead Of buying the pre-
pared stuff that comes done up in paper
boxes 'all ready to use" The lid covers a
multitude of uncertain lies.
In the "Epicure's Year Book" Just twenty
years ago, it is written: Superintendent as
oysters are to be had, but not in perfection.
November-The oyster In perfect order.
March-When oysters are at their very best
and latest.
An exchange rises to remark that "for con-
sumptives nothing is better than raw or half
cooked snails, and for those who are not
invalids dozen of them is better than as
many raw oysters" A little salt should go
with this.
There are in Paris thirty-six licensed ven
ders of horse meat. A st. Louis man who
has cultivated taste for this kind of meat
says he likes it better than choice veal which
it resembles. He also thinks that one of the
most appetizing dainties that he can place on
his table is bit of well roasted donkey meat
Professor Hoeber says apropos of corpu-
lence, that the Jewesses of Tunis, when they
were 10 years old, were put into dark rooms
and fed on the food prepared from flour. and
also with the meat of dogs, until they were
systematically fattened. In similar wav,
he continues, the women in other parts Of
Africa are said to reach the same degree Of
fairness by eating honey and fresh dates.
Corpulence in those localities must be fash
ionable."
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-27

spoken opponent of everything that savored
of Reputation. He was chairman of che In
dian commission in the northwest in 1886 and
1887, and as such concluded treaties with the
Indians giving the nation title to nearly So
100000 acres of land in Dakota, Montana,
Idaho and Washington territories.
He has since been chief of the mineral di-
vision of the land office. In both these places
he has acquired minute knowledge of the
public lands. 1t was a very high compliment
to Mr.. lie Barnes to be retained so long after
the date when change would ordinarily
have been made, and an equally high one to
Judge Wright to be chosen as his successor.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-27
FEELING THEIR WAY.

had to be dug out of the ice and snow with
picks. The loss of life, however, was sur
prisingly small. Since then every winter has
shown few cases of freezing, as some are
improvident and some are Unexpectedly
caught; and the visitor to an old Dakota
family will hear many grewsome
tale of sad disaster, many story
of how the family burned every article
of furniture to prolong life, and then died be-
fore help could reach them. In January,
1873, sudden wave of cold swept down
across Dakota and Minnesota, bringing the
mercury il a few hours to 40 dogs. below
zero; the region it traversed in the territory
was then uninhabited, but in Minnesota
seventy persons persisted in day and night.
Such are the awful possibilities of the cold
northwest. Yet the soil is of nexhaustible
fertility, and Dakota has gained population
faster for ten years past than did any other
section of the country; all her towns are
alive with energy, and to one who visits
them at ordinary seasons, these hyper
koreans seem among the happiest and most
contented people in the world.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-27
FATHER AND SON.

Near Huron, d. r., Robert Chambers and
his sou Johnnie were lost in the storm. The
father wrapped his son in the only heavy coat
they had and buried him under the snow,
himself walking up and down and calling for
help till exhausted. He then crept in beside
his boy and lay over him to shelter him.
Next morning a searching party discovered
the two in the snow The father was dead. the
son but slightly frozen. And there were
many other incidents as pathetic-nany too,
TINT will never lie told.
Ever since the prairie region was occupied
Icy civilized men these storms have been re-
ported, growing more destructive, of course
as The population increases; and thirty or