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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-02-10
MEATS AND FISH.

Spring lamb, hind quarters, is IS cents
II pound, forequarters, IL to 10 cts. a pound,
Lamb chopsare 20Cents a pound. Chickens
are IS to 20 cts. a pound. Mutton Is quoted
at Is cents for hind quarters and 10
cents for forequarters. Beef, best cuts,
Western, for porter house is quot
ed at IS to 20 cents; sirloin, IS to
20 cents; round, 1215 to 10 cents,
Vermont beef quoted at l215 to is cents,
Hams, sugar cured are IA TO 16 cents
per pound, breakfast bacon Is to IS
cents, boneless ham, - to 20 cents
pound, California hams, 10 to 12H
cts. IA pound, smoked shoulders 10 to l216
cts. tripe 10 to l23 cents, picked pigs
feet 1919 cts. Picked lambs tongues are IL
cts. per pound. Corn beef is 6 to l219 cents.
Pork, roast is l21s to 10 cents pound
steak 10 to Is cts. Salt pork is 10 to II cts. g
pound. In poultry, fowls, dressed, are
quoted IS to 20 cents pound, and
turkeys are 20 cents. Salmon trout
IS cents a pound. White fish, Is cents
pound. Cod, 10 to - cents &
pound haddock, to 10 cents pound
Salt salmon 10 to l219 cts. a pound. salt
mackerel l21E to Is cts. Goldfish to 10 cts
Herrings cents a pound. Smelt - to q
cts a doz. Ham sausage % cts. a pound
blood sausage 10 cts. a pound, Boston sau
sage Is cts, German bologna sausage l2t5 &c
Is cts Albany sausage Is cents, heaC
cheese Is HOLSTERS Is cents pound
Oysters, standards 81 cts, mediums 40 cts
selects 80 cents
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-02-10
FARM AND GARDEN.
A DEVICE FOR BREAKING A HORSE
PULLING AT THE HALTER.

Comparative Value of Corn, Cornmeal
and Oatmeal for Pigs-Causes of and
Remedies for Feather Eating Hens,
Benches for Husling Corn.
For husking corn under shelter or in
the open field, n husking bench is a great
convenience. In the accompanying cuts
are shown two styles of husliing benches
that were recommended and illustrated a
short time ago by Country Gentleman.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-08-09
With Leading Strings Cut Loose.

Does gOiEg west work a radical differ
ence in man 8 character Hardly. We
are ali cut out of the same piece Of cloth.
The western man is the eastern or the
southern man let loose, with his leading
string cut. But the change of situation
creates immense diversity III interests
and in spirit. One has but to take up
any Of the great newspapers, say IN st.
Paul and Minneapolis. to be aware that
Inc is in another world of ideas, of news.
of interests. The topics that most inter
est the east lie does not find there, nor
much of its news. Persons of whom he
reads daily in the east drop out of sight
and other persons, magnates IN pohucs,
packing, railways. boom up
1t takes columns to tell the daily his
tory of places which have heretofore only
caught the attention OF the eastern reader
for freaks of the thermometer, and he
has an opportunity to rad daily pages
about Dakota, concerning which a weekly
paragraph has formerly satisfied his curl
osity. Before he can be absorbed in these
lively and intelligent newspapers he must
change the whole current Of his thoughts
and take up other subjects, persons and
places than those that rave occupied his
mind. lie is in nes. world. Charles
Dudley Warner in Harper's.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-08-09
Science of tho Brain.

Paul Broca's discovery that the brain
is congeries of organs, each havlng Its
special function, is being confirmed 10y
later researches. Professor Matthias Duyal
has had the opportunity of determining
by the post norton examination OF
eleven persons who, during life, had been
accidentally deprived of the faculty of
speech or the memory of words OF certain
letters of the alphabetical the faculties
of speech and memory Of words reside in
the second and third c0nyolutions OF the
brain. In each case examined there had
been injury or disease OF these conyoiu-
tons. destroying their functions. Com
pairing Gambetta's brain with that Of the
late DR.. Bertillon, an eminent statistician,
Duval and Chudzinsky found that IN the
brain Of the former the third or Broca s
convolution" the speech center Is now
called-is extremely developed, while in
Bertiilon's it is reduced its most simple
expression. Gambetta was active and
loquacious; Bertillon reticent and retir-
ing-the oratorical qualities of the two
men were dramatically opposite, and
this result is now seen to be due to the
physical conformation Of their respective
brains. Chicago News.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-08-09

Professor Uffelmann, OF Rostock, pub
fishes his conclusions, drawn from ex.
perimental researches by himself and
others, on the effects Of food and drink
at different temperatures. In briei.
these are: I. A temperature OF food and
drink which approaches that OF tllc
blood is most healthful For nurslngs
such temperature is essential. =. For
auenching the thirst the best tempera-
ture is from so TO Gs dogs. Farenheit. ,.
Very hot or very cold food or drink III
health has damaging effect, which Is
increased just in proportion to the rapid
ity with which the hot or cold substance
il taken. 4. The use OF very hot and
cold substances, following or alternating
is injurious to the teeth. But the taking
of cold water lessons the injurious action
of extremely hot substances upon the
stomach. D. Cold food and drink lessen
the bodily temperature, whether 1t be
normal or febrie. g. Cold fluids lessen
the irritabiity and raise the tone of tie
stomach. :. Hot food and drinks stiv
uate the stomach more than cold. But
after repeated use they lessen the tone OF
the digestive tract and cause congestion
and dyspepsia. This condition has been
observed after the so called ''bot water
cure" Hot drinks tend to lessen bron-
chial irritation. and this is one cause,
possibly. Of the success III some cases Of
the hot water treatment of consumption.
Chicago News.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-08-09
When Doctors Differ.

The archbishop of York has issued d
PRAYER asking God Ito remove this great
trial which Thou has sent us'--i. e.. the
smallpox epidemic. On this DR.. Dallinger,
of Sheffield who is an eminent man of
science as well as divine, says:
IL will yield to no man in reverence
for true prayer; but | will tell you with
out ilinching that | cannot and will not
pray for the removal Of the smallpox
scourge. 1t would be a mockery food.
Let rs do our hest, and then in bailled
agony cry toGod for help. But here wt
have not helped ourselves, and how dare
We ask the Almighty 20 help u.s. Let u!
do our duty, act up to our knowledge
and as surely as the smallpox curse came
among us by physical laws broken, SO i
will depart from Us if we see to it tina
physical laws are obeyed. "-Londor
Truth.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-08-09

A surgeon or physician, speaking Of a
wound. often says il will do no harm or
is not harmful People do not under
stand this. They think the expression
means that the wounded person will have
fully recovered within few days That
is a great mistake The definition Of the
expression, as the physician intends 1t. ID
that the wound will not leave any bad
effects. and that It will close aud heal up
as sound as ever. The same in the case
Of the fracture Of limb. Many "
them are harmful, because they leave d
weakened limb If they do not, then
they are not harmful. In tins express
sion the pain that must be endured and
the length of time the wounded must be
confined to the house or bed never enters
into the calculation. Tie patient may
think this little peculiar, and that the
wound must be harmful because it makes
him suffer. but not So The suffering Is
a matter Of course, the length OF dura-
ton Of the confinement is something be-
yond our or his control but if we finally
make him as sound or perfect Us he was
before the wound has not been harmful
Surgeon in Globe-Democrat.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-08-09
ExDcricnce of & Vegetarian.

Mr. McCrone has always been very hard
worker, and in the field would outwork any
of bis numerous laborers, who were animal
food eaters and troubled with frequent de
sire for drink, TO crafty which not only re-
tarded them in their work, but was source
Of relaxation as well He never feels the
need of water or other liquids as beverage,
but uses a generous supply Of milk i'll his
diet His general diet consists of oatmeal
and milk, Graham bread crackers, vegetable
soups, potatoes, corn and other common
vegetables, and also considerable fruit OF
various kinds. His use of drinking water,
he thinks, will not average over quart a
year, fruit supplying a great deal Of the
moisture necessary for the body.
As regards the relish Of food it is well
known fact that more discriminating taste
is acquired by entire abstinence from meat,
and il this be doubted, trial Of a few weeks,
even two weeks, will convince the most
skeptical that it is not owing to keener
appetite consequent upon the stoppage of the
habitual hearty diet, but that meat really
does blunt the taGte-and such trial will
injurc no one Mr.. McCrone thinks three
weeks fair trial, and believes that any one
at the end of that time will admit that be
feels better and derives more enjoyment from
the food he eats, and if continued, will be
better in every way for it. He cites the
healthier condition of the lower classes in
foreign countries, who are unable from their
small wages TO obtain meat; while those OF
better means, in the cities principally, live
upon animal food and are as rule Of more
feeble constitution and in no way so well
equipped for LIES battle. Consequently the
recruiting supply of the armies Of those
countries is drawn largely from the poorer
classes, who have more endurance and are
better fighters than their city cousins. They
transmit stronger constitutions to their off
spring and are longer lived, and practically
free from the pains and ills which humanity
is commonly afflicted with. The history oil
various ancient nations furnishes strong ar
cuments in favor of his doctrine IN their rise,
strength, progress and misunderstanding
field Republican.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-08-09
How tn Demagnetiyc n Watch.

Magnetism Is assuming the same rule
with the watch repairer that malaria
plays in medical practice-i. e.. as u
cover for ignorance When you take
your watch back TO Che man You have
just paid for cleaning it with the state
ment that il gains or loses five minutes
day and generally doesn't mind its
helm. he looks wise, says it has been
magnetized, and charges You another and
bigger fee for removing the "hoodOo. -
Almost any one can demagnetize his
own watch. Lay it down on table,
with open dial face upward, and make a
diagram of the polarity whether north
or SOUTH at each hour number on the
dial, and whether weak or strong this
by means Of small pocket compass OF
needle, remembering that the north pole
of the compass is repealed 10y the north
pole in tie watch and attracted 10y the
south pole, and vice versa. Take the
point of the strongest magnetism FIRST
and wave several times at a short dis
lance in front OF each pole the like pole
of a small bar magnet. This will tend
to neutralize the first polarity by Undue
ton of an opposite one, and thus by
little practice first one point OF magnet
ism in the watch after another may be
using the compass each time
as test Chicago News.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-08-09

1t appears that Mr.. Levi P. Motion
has resigned his temporary Dictatorship
In the Canadian Pacific Railway Com
pany. This was an unnecessary thing to
do. There was nothing incompatible
with good citizenship in the fact of his
connection with that company. What
Mr.. Morton might do as private citizen
without reproach he need not abandon
or disavow as u candidate for Tho vice
presidency. No harm is likely to come
to the people Of the United States from
the Canadian Pacific Railway. On the
contrary, it Is in some measure a guar
antee for cheaper transportation between
the oceans than We could otherwise ex-
pect. and Mr.. Morton might do his conn
trymen more service inside than outside
Of the Canadian Pacific management. At
any rate If 1t was wrong for him to be
connected with 1t now, 1t was equally
wrong before he became a candidate for
the vice-presilency.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-08-09

The Lynchburg Viryinian Is authorized
by close intimate friend OF General
James A. Walker TO deny that that gen.
tleman has gone over 10 the Republicans.
The General, says bis friend, will proba.
bly, take no part 10 politics. aud may not
vote at all, but he certainly will not vote
the Republican ticket.
The repor; that General Walker would
affiliate with the Republicans originated
from the fact that General Walker took
the position that to put iron ore and coal
on the free list. would be ruinous to the
industrial Interests of Southwest Vir.
ginia, and that he would not vote for the
Democratic candidates If they stood for
q policy that involved that result. Iron
and coal, however, are not placed on the
free list BY the Mills bill and, 90 far as
that goes, General Walker has no ground
of dissatisfa ction with the Democratic
candidates and platform.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-08-09
The Captive Prairie Dogs.

"When ! was little boy my father moved
from Hoosierdom over upon q broad and
blooming prairie in Illinois, said man to a
reporter. Zone time my father trapped four
or five prairie dogs / don't know how he
managed it; I've forgotten that. | think
they must have been young and foolish, like
baby rats, which venturcd where their po
and me- would never 60 My father brought
them home, and we children Rugged our
selves in delight as we fancied them as pretty
pets. like SQUIRRELS or white rabbits. A cage
was quickly fitted up, the captives wero
placed in it and surrounded BY all the dain-
ties which we fancied could tempt them to
forget their captivity. Our parents kept US
away from the cage, as the little strangersre.
garded Us with q terror which they did not
attempt to conceal. But we went to place
more food before them the next morning.
The food previously provided had not been
touched. The little prisoners sat YEARLY on
their launches in the dark extremity Of their
cell. Childish curiosity was repressed till the
second morning, when the cage was again
visited The captives sat in the same posi-
ton, and no moIsel of tho varied bill Of fare
with which We hal designed 10 tempt them
had been touched. The water was undimin,
ished in the bowl.
Another day passed. the third morning
came, and we ran out to see our pets. The
sight that met our eyes l shall never forget.
In their hunger and despair tho poor captivea
had eaten their own feet The bloody stumps
were sad and sicker.-.; reproof to our
cruelty in depriving the children Of the
prairie of their wild, sweet liberty. We felt
it, children as we were, and silently, almost
in tears, we opened the prison door and
slipped away to give the captives opportun'
ity to escape. But it was too late With
their feet gnawed of up almost to their little
bodies, they could scarcely more than drag
themselves out and creep away into the
grass, where they soon after died"-Chicagc
Herald
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-08-09
THE ADVANTAGE OF FREE WOOL.

THE ADVANTAGE OF FREE WOOL.
The Bridgeport Epening Farmer OF
Connecticut gives an interesting speech
of Mr.. Z G. Sanford, a manufacturer of
wooden goods, on the Mills bill
and the good 1t would do the
industry he Is engaged in. Free
wool, he says, will boom the w0olen
manufacturing business. It present his
factory, he says. consumes from 5000 TO
5000 pounds of wool day, the cost OF
which 1T Cape Town is about 5000. The
duty on that wool adds $500 more to It's
cost, making the duty on the wool con-
sumed each week $4,000 He paid that
sum weekly. II was severe burden on
his business. Remove it, and his factory
could build up foreign trade
and run full time 800 days in the
year instead of by fits and starts. That
would be blessing, he held, to his EN-
ployes as well as to himself There would
DE Steauy WcTh iOi 'hc "o'hoi NJ 6"""
wages, and at the same time the buyer of
wooden goods would get his goods
cheaper. Before the war, MIR. Sanford
says, his business prospered under 20
per cent. duty. Since 1873. under high
tariff for his protection his business
has steadily diminished. The tariff on
wool has killed his exports OF hats. Free
wool would raise The price of wool
grown In this country, as the imported
wool would be used only after being
mixed with American wool. The
greater consumption Of the later would
raise Its price.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-08-09
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS:

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS:
At Large,
RICHARD F. BEIRNE OF Hanover.
JOHN T. HARRIS of Rockingham.
First District,
T.R.B. WRIGHT OF Essex.
Second District,
D. GARDNER TIER of Charles City.
Third District,
TAzEwELL ELLETr of Richmond city
Fourth District,
WILLIAM r. McKKNNEy Of Petersburg
Fifth District,
II. G. PETERS of Henry
Sixth District,
W. W. BERRY of Bedford.
Seventh District,
MTcAJAH WooDs of Albemarle.
Eighth District,
e. MEREDITH of Prince william.
MI District.
JOHN A. BUCHANAN of Washington:
Tenth District,
r. B. PooRE of AppOmattox.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-08-09
The Gentleman Who smokes

Was anything ever better said than
this by Jackson Javues, TIA noted art
critic: 1.-THE supreme test Il the knight
in the days Of chivalry was his self de-
Mai and desire to Succor the oppressed
the severest test Of the modern gentle
man is his unwillingness to forego his
pipe or cigar for the comfort and health
Of another. Whatever the benefit or
harm the use Of tobacco may do tho
consumers body, its common tendency
is to render the mi: 4 indifferent 10 the
we'll being Of his neighbOrs. 10 tins
Miss Lander adds thy: in crossing tho
Atlantic in one Of cur popular steam
ships she suffered SO terribly that she ad-
dressed line to thu management pro-
testing: Il might change sides OF tho
deck, all the same, was sure TO en-
counter the ubiquitous smoker She
objects TO being con. ,elled at every turn
to ask some gentleman" not to smoke
In her nostrik. -Glote- Democrat.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-08-09

Costiiest Articles In Observation-Disclosures
Jeweiry. Books ~nd Pictures.
have como scrues curious paper com
piled by some OF tnoSe cranks with passion
for fcm IS and statistics and is meant to show
how tremendous Is the luxury VI this city
He begins by saying that Mr.. H. G. Mar
quand has the costiest piano in the world
Steinway made the works and tho case
painted BY Alma T'adema--was done in Lon.
don, the whole costing $4,000. This stands
in Mr. Marquand's famous music room, one
of tho most luxurious and beautiful cham.
bels in this country. He also has the cost
lest billiard table in this country, having
paid for it in round numbers S26,0 600, and
everything i'm the house is OH scale to har'
monte with these expensive bits Of furniture.
The costIiest dinner service ever made was
done in this city by Tiffany. Mr.. Mackey
brought with him from his mines SIS, 0G
worth of bullion, and this the jewelers. made
up into a service, asking $l20, 900 for the
WORK, making the cost Of it in all si95, 600
and no sovereign in Europe eats from such
gorgeous plate. Yet, strange TO say, Mackey
is as simple as possible in his manner Tn,
costliest string Of pearls in this country be
longs to Mrs. Louis Hamersley, and was the
one she wore OH her neck one night last
winter when thief put his hand In the car
riagc window and tried to snatch them, sue
ceeding only in breaking the string and scat
tering the pearls, which were eli recovered
with the exception OF one He had heard OF
their price, doubt,ess-S5l, 000-and made
sudden grasp at fortune. Mrs. Willie Van
derbiIt wears a solitaire diamond ring which
cost $4,000. while Mrs. Cornelius has just
purchased for Sl25,000 the fittings OF one
room The late Mrs. Mary Morgan pas
$3.50, 800 for a diamond necklace, and Mrs
Hicks-Lord has one equally as valuable.
Tho most expensive picture in this country
is Meissonier's "iS07,h which hangs In the
Metropolitan museum, presented by Henry
Hilton, who paid SO, 800 for it. 1t has beef
estimated that this sum would more thar
cover the entire canvas with SO gold pieces
The most expensive book of its size in New
York is the 1909 edition of Shakespeare
S;olnets," Of which but two copies exist, one
IN the British museum. and the other owned
by tho publishers Dodd q Mead. They paid
5000 for it. which III weight is about s4st
an ounce In the Lenox library is perfect
copy Of the Mazarinc or Gutenberg Bible,
the first book printed with movable types
Il is worth $1,000, aud nothing better has
been done since. Crayton Ives has an Imper
feet copy for which he paid $1,000. j. W.
Bou,on, the book dealer, sold Bible the
other day for $1,000. 1t was originally III
three volumes, but by 'Grayerism''-the Ill
sertion Of wood cuts, manuscript, eherav'
ings and etchings-it has expanded to sixty
imperial folio volumes. brooklyn Eagle.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-08-09

The Philadelphia Record gives the fol.
lowing advice to the negro; vt 10 BY
the sweat OF bis black brow that the
negro OF America earns what he wears,
what he eats and what he warns his
children with when winter whistles.
Tia. u why the Ethiopian should change
HE dsspissd Republican skin In this cam.
paign and don The Democratic garment
Of free wool and cheap duds."
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-08-09

General Harrison's friends are trying
to stop the handshsking which threatens
to dlslocate the candidates. arm. One
thing 10 worth considering and that Is
the fact that he will have no shaking TO
do after the election, and hence the Sc
vsrsst idea of physical economy Feed not
fol- bid that painful pleasus6 now.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-08-09
Making the Round Trip.

Tourist-My physician has advised me
to locate where may get the south wind.
Does it ever blow herey
Native-Well, sir, may say as you're
lucky to have come to this place. The
south wind always blows here.
Tourist-Always? But it seems to be
blowing from the north now.
Native-Oh, 1t may be coming from
that direction now, but it's the south
wind. It's coming back, you know
Once Week.