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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-06
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A Washington correspondent says that
President Cleveland carries a photograph
of Mrs. Cleveland in the case of his
watch.
A young German girl went through
the streets of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the
other day, delivering small quantities of
saurkraut at each house, with the infor-
nation that the husband of the lady of
the house had ordered it and told her to
collect 25 cents. This scheme worked
well until she came to a house inhabited
by a widow. The girl is now in jail for
getting money under false p~retences.
There is something noble about a goat
that all boarders might initiate. He is
not particular what he feeds on.-TShoe
and Leather Reporter.
The English sparrow seems to have
come unscathed from the rigors of the
blizzard belt and is ready for spring bust
ness. Canada thistles, the rag weed, and
the English sparrow are pests that have
com to stay.-[Chicago Inter-Ocean.
A big bone, which local physicians of
Carson, New, say is a portion of a leg of
a man below the knee, was recently
found near Genoa, New. 1t was two feet
long, and at the point where it joined the
knee was eight inches across, or five
times the usual size. If the man who
owned the bone was built in proportion
he must have been about % feet high.
An active search is being made for the
rest of the skeleton.
The Icelanders living in Winnipeg have
organized a society to encourage further
emigration from their too northern is
land, to put the arriving immigrants in
the way of earning a livelihood as soon
as possible, to provide a library. reading
rooms, etc., for them, and ultimately to
found a college in which their language
and literature shall form part of the cur
riculum.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-06
No Fireplaces in Mexico.

Hubert Bancroft, in his shrewd and
analytic discussion of Mexican life and
history, shows the remarkable Jlace
which a house fire and hearth have o,cu-
pied in human evolution. The old Eng
lish life was wholly centered about the
festal board in the great hall. or 81 'al."
where the boar's head and rosemary and
fagons were all that tempered socia. in
%tercourse. Our own life moves out from.
and back toward, the fireside. But
''home, as we understand it, does not
exist in Mexico" says Bancroft. The
absence of fireplaces constitutes one geat
obstacle to those family reunions Which
have 30 important an influence on our
society. Dinner parties are rarely given,
and home entertainments are restricted
mainly to the so called tertulias-a ned
ley of singing and dancing, forfeit games
and gambling" The part that fire has
played in human progress can hardly be
overestimated. To kindle a fire was the
first great achievement of primitive ra,es.
Globe Democrat.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-06

/ was a very ticklish youngster, anil
comrades sometimes used that weak
ness for their own amusement. ON
boy used to show me how little effet
tickling had upon him; but one hot sum
mer day, as he was lying reading,
tickled him on the ribs, and he almos
went into commissions. l found that h
was far more sensitive thar any boy in tn
company, and he revealed his secret tC
me under condition of my never telling
any one else. By holding his breath he
became pachydermatous, and would lei
anybody tickle him as much as they
pleased; but of course they always ga'e
it up at n c when they saw his stold
look. l tried the plan, and it WORKED
admirably; and it is my only protection,
unto this day, for my cuticle is IS
sensitive as ever. R. Mcmillan n
Science.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-06
A SIGHT WORTH SEEING.

Probably few persons ever saw the
breathing apparatus OF a human being
laid open for inspection. From a hOspi-
tai cadaver we once saw the lungs and
bronchial tubes removed, and blown up
as a boy would a bladder or toy balloon,
until the fine bronchial tubes and air
cells of the lungs were distended to their
fullest extent. In this state the lungs
were hardened by immersion in alcohol,
so that they remained expanded when
the air was let free. With a sharp knife
the wind-pipe and lungs were split open,
so that it was easy to trace the bronchial
tubes gradually diminishing in size from
the wind pipe itself, becoming finer and
more delicately branched, until, smaller
than fine sewing cotton, these tiny bron-
chi lead into the air cells beyond, to con-
vey air to sustain life.
have often recalled during the past win
ter as we read of the great number of
deaths from pneumonia and bronchitis.
Nearly $50 deaths in Boston in the month
of January.
1t seems impossible to most people
that so common and simple a disease as
bronchitis should cause death at all.
But think for a moment, what would
happen if the lining membrance of those
tiny tubes described above should become
much swollen by Inflammation, which is
likely to occur after any severe cold.
The passage of air to the lung cells
would be stopped, and the patient die
from ~suffOcation, as certainly as if a giant
grasped his throat.
People should not overlook the irrita-
ton or ''tickling in the throat" which
causes a ''hacking cough" Sure symp-
toms of bronchitis. The irritation being
caused from inflammation inside of the
wind-pipe, it is useless to take medicines
into the stomach to cure it; one might as
well eat tallow to cure chapped hands. q
The interior mucous membrance of the
wind-pipe must be promptly treated to
prevent the downward spread of the in
Illumination, and effect a cure. On page
twelve of a pamphlet published by l. 5.
johnson Il Co., Boston, Mass, is printed
plain directions for applying Johnson's
Anodyne Liniment to the bronchial tubes
and nasal passages, to cure colds and
bronchitis.
1t is a well-known fact, as many per-
sons can testify, that this old-fashioned
remedy will stop Inflammation and swell
ing quicker than any other medicine.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-06
Hot Water to Relieve Thirst,

1t is a mistake to suppose that old
drinks are necessary to relieve thi.st.
Very cold drinks, as a rule, increase The
feverish condition of the mouth and
stomach, and SO create thirst. Expri-
ence shows it to be a fact that hot drinks
relieve thirst and ''cool off, the bdy
when it is in an abnormally heated en-
dition better than ice cold drinks. 1t is
far better and safer to avoid the free Use
of drinks below 60 degs. in fact a
higher temperature is to be preferpd;
and those who are much troubled With
thirst will do well to try the advantages
to be derived from hot drinks, instead of
cold fluids, to which they have been ,c-
customed. Hot drinks also have the ID
vantage of aiding digestion, instead Of
causing debility of the stomach mi
bowels. Boston Budget.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-06

excepting house in London" writes a COR
respondent, sis accompanied with conditions
very different from American housekeeping.
1t is the tenant, not the landlord, who pays
all taxes except the property tax in Eng
land, and consequently the deluded Ameri-
can who thinks he has got such a dear little
house so cheap is Mortified to find at the end
of the quarter that he is in for vestry rates,
poor rates, inhabited house duty, water tax,
income tax, local charities and lords and
commons know what besides. These bring
the rent up to a figure he never dreamed Of"
Boston Transcript.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-06

The construction of a perfect pendulum
has been accomplished, it is announces,
by suspending a lead shot by a sings
fiber of cocoo silk in a pre-
duced by means of a Sprengel pum)
The shot, o~ne-sixteenth of an inch Il
diameter, weighs one-third of a grain, )
suspended by a two foot fiber, and
placed in a tube three-quarters of an ino
internal diameter. 1t has a vibratia
range of one-fourth inch on each side {
midposition, the being equivs
lent to one-tenth Of a millionth of a
atmosphere Cincinnati Enquirer.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-06
THE IOWA LIQUOR LAW DE-
CISION.
From the Chicago Tribune.

The full text of the decision of the
Federal supreme our in the Bowman
case shows that the justices went much
further han was indicated in the tele-
graphic synopsis of the opinion, and
seem to hold that liquors cannot only be
imported into Iowa from other States for
personal use, but that the importer may
offer them for sale and engage in the
open traffic without being amenable to
the State prohibitory law. If such is
the conclusion of the supreme court it
will prove a sore blow to prohibition.
The point as to the sale of liquor once
imported into Iowa was not necessarily
involved in the Bowman case and not di-
rectly passed upon by the court, but the
justices rendering the majority opinion
made IN intimatiOn regarding it which
seems almost conclusive. The Justices
in the minority-Waite, Gray and Har-
lan-treated the majority opinion as hold
ing that liquorstaken into the State could
be sold in unbroken packages by the i'm
poi tNi oib MS. III loSt, piiC VI lIt
chief grounds of their dissent. They
said:
If, therefore, as the court now decides,
the constitution gives the right to trans
port Intoxicating liquor into Iowa from
another State, and if that right carries
with it as one of its essential ingredients
authority in the consignee to sell or eX-
change such articles after they are so
brought in and while in the original
packages, it Is manifest that the regula-
ton forbidding sales of intoxicating IL
quor within the State for other than
medicinal, culinary, mechanical or sacra-
mental purposes, and hen only under a
permit from a board of supervisors, will
be of little practical value.
The dissenting justices refused to unite
in the opinion of the court because they
regarded the majority ruling as a virtual
overthrow or breaking down of the Iowa
prohibitory law. They said that under
it "any one-even a citizen of lowa-de-
string to sell Intoxicating liquors in that
State need only arrange to have them
delivered to him from some point in an
other State in packages of varying sizes,
as may suit his customers" If such is
the meaning of the court it certainly
opens the way for the saloon traffic in
Iowa, for nothing could be easier than to
put up liquors for the Iowa trade in bot
ties containing any number of drinks
desired, and then ship them into that
State for ''sale in the original packages"
The Tribune did not at first think the
ruling of the supreme court had gone to
this extent In authorizing sales of i'm
ported liquors, but the minority justices
so understood the decision, and the full
text of the opinion shows that strong
language to the same effect was used by
the majority. The court, yoicing the
opinion of most of the justices, said:
1t is easier to think that the right of
importation from abroad, and of trans
portation from one State to another, in
cludes, by necessary implication, the
right of the importer to sell in uhbroken
packages at the place where the transit
terminates: for the purpose and motive
of that branch of which con
sists in transportation is that other and
subsequent act of which con-
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-06
ONE SUMMER NIGHT.

There was never q song of startling
Sc sweet, or will ever be,
As the voice of M own, my darling,
Confessing her love to me;
The very stars went swooning
In such a delicious light
That it seemed like a white, sweet incoming
In the heart of enchanted night.
nj a hundred times and a hundred
We whispered the fond words DER,
Till the tremulous passion vine wondered
Was there ever such love before;
And the moon fled into abysses
OF maidenly, fleecy mist
She envied the joy of our kisses,
Forever herself unkissed.
Too o o came the rapturous waning
OF night. and the flush of the day,
But not till the dearest explaining
That ever stole hearts away;
We saw in the far light just cleaning,
The stars melt into the morn,
And felt the starlight of our dreaming
Merge into the love that was born.
Charles Henry Phelps in Home Journal.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-06
Glass Flooring IN Paris.

In Paris the substitution of glass foo
ing for boards continues to increase, tn,
being especially the case in those bushes
structures in which the cellars are usd
as offices. In one of these the whole {
the ground in front is paved with larp
squares of roughened glass imbedded in.
strong iron frame, and in the cellars b.
meath there is sufficient light without gs
for business purposes. Though the firt
cost of glass is much greater its almot
unlimited durability is greatly in is
favor.-New York Sun.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-06
Tea and Coffee Versus Nerves.

Tea and coffee l have practically give
up. l found they made me nervou,
idgety, anxious, low spirited, and too,
some of my energy away. Tea made NJ
tremble, gave me brilliant but false idea
and confused both speech and writin,
Coffee griped me, gave me collie and TOD
my memory away for hours; so | hap
given both up. Since doing so l have los
my writer's cramp from which l suffere
a little.--T. r. Allinson in London Time
and Echo.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-06
Castor Oil in Boilers.

A writer in The American Machinis
recommends the use of castor oil i
boilers were alkaline water is used. III
says that from two ounces to a pint Q
oil will prevent foaming all day. TIL
oil is put in after the engine shall hav
started if foaming shall begin.-Chicag'
Times.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-06
Farm for Sale

THE Farm in the southeast part
of the town of Shoreham, of late
the home place of William G. Will
son, deceased, is offered for sale
This farm is supposed to contain
147 acres, consisting of meadow,
pasturage and woodland, in desira-
BILE proportion. The dwelling
house has lately been thoroughly
repaired and modernized; and is
neat, convenient, comfortable and
commodious. The out-buildings,
though not new, are in fair condi-
ton, and entirely ample for the
wants of the farm. The farm is
we'll fenced, and has upon it a
young, thrifty and bearing orchar |.
This is a fine opportunity for any
one desiring a good home and a
farm with more desirable and fewer
Objectionable features, than the av-
erage of farms. If desired, easy
terms of payment will be granted.
For price and other particulars, in
quire on the premises, of
Mrs. ELIZA WILSON,
Or of E. j. ORMSBEE, Brandon.
Shoreham, VT, Jan. 26, 1856. 5tf
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-06
Things Are Not What They Seem.

This is a contradictory world. The forger
appreciates the value of a good name.
Boston Gazette.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-06

Our times are the dearest times we
shall ever know, and of these times the
press is the youngest handmaiden.-
George Alfred Townsend.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-06

To know the new, search the DID,
japanese.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-06

1t is said to be the custom in Spain for
the girls to kiss every young man they
meet ON the Goth of February.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-06

The best education is that which the
world gives you.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-06

containing infor-
nation of very
great value. Ev-
erybody g h ould
have this book.
a n d o g g who
send for 1t will
ever after thank
lthai- lncIu aAara
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1888-05-10
Northern MethodIsm n Power.

NEW YORK. May 2.-In the General
Methodist Conference today the address OF
the Bishops, reviewing revival work since
the last Conference. four years ago, stated
that within that time the membership has
increased from / ,769 534 to 2,O95 ,935. The
Church has now II theological seminares,
54 colleges and l54 academies for the edu.
cation OF candidates for the ministry. The
value of this property is little over $25,
OO0OOO, The Freedmen's Aid Society has
done great work in the South, not only
among blacks, but among whites as well.
For the frs: time in the history of the
Conference women have been sent AS dele.
gates. The Bishops do not think that
women are eligible.
The report of the committee appointed
to report on the eligibility Of women dele.
gHtes was brought forward 1t is against
the eigility of women. The report was
signed by eleven members Of the commit
tee; six of the members refused to sign it.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1888-05-10
TtIden'S Doctors Bill.

The physician and friend of the lat,
Samuel D. Tilden, DR.. Charles E Sim
mons, was notified by his lawyers. Messrs
Fetterich, Silkman & Seyhel, yesterday tc
prepare the items Of his bill for professions
services to the great statesman during hi,
long illness. This bill Of particulars was
asked for in court by the lawyers repre-.
sentlng the executors of the will, and will
be filed in about three weeks. The sum
total is $143, 900.
Mr.. Fetterich said the bill will of course
be very long and take quite a while to
make out. He could not give any idea of
the charges, as that would not be fair to
his client, but all the world shall see il as
soon as 1t Is ready. He felt quite sanguine
that the bill would be paid in full, and that
1t would not be found unreasonable by the
best medical practitioners in the city.-N.
Y. Star, May 3.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1888-05-10
A LEAP YEAR sUBTERFUGE.
The Behests of Expediency Thrown To
the Winds and the TabIsau


the Winds and the Tablsau.
'Irene," exclaimed the young man,
pang of jealously through every fiber
OF his heart as he noted q ring he had
never seen before, on one of the fingers
OF het left hand, ''is that an engagement
ringp"
"Iwill not deceive you Mr.. Kiljordan, I"
replied the young lady, blushing deeply;
sit is what might be considered con
dltlonal engagement ring The matter
is not positively settled as yet, but
mama thinks Mr.. Peduncle-"
'Then it may be that 1 am not too
late" said Bardolph Kiljordan, pas
sionately, the violence of his emotions
breaking down every barrier of reserve
that the cold, calculating behests of
expediency had erected between himself
and his hearts idol. "Jrene' I had
not thought to say to say to you for
months, perhaps years the words that
now come thronging for utterance and
will no longer be stihed. | had intended
to wait until time should prove the
depth and sincerity of the feelinings with
which you have inspired me, and until
| could speak with the confidence of one
who is certain of his foothold and has
gained an assured position in life. But
you know something of my prospects,
Irene, and have sometimes dared to
think that L am not altogether displeas-
ing to you. Can you not give mo some
hope that L have not aspired in vain
that your own heart echoes the throb-
bings of mine which almost choke my
utterance? Give me the right, Irene, to
to call you ny own and to feel sure that
no man, henceforth and forever, can
stand between me and ell earthly happi.
ness. Will you?"
81 will, Bardolphw
And the eloquent stiffness that fol.
lowed the softly spoken words of the
tar young girl was punctuated by that
old yet ever new sound, that rapturous,
Wild, fervid, unpronounceable percussion
whose ccstatlc articulation marks the
climax OF two trusting lives. "Irene,
SAID the youth, after pause, "you will
let me remove this conditional engage
mont ring now, will you not?"
"Certalnly, Bardolph, though it is
really OF no Importance. Take it off if
you wish"
And now tell me Of that conditional
engagement, my own"
at WAS an engagement to meet Mr..
Pcduncle at two O'Clock next Saturday
afternoon should the weather be fair
| enough for me to venture out. | put it
on myself so [ would not forget it.
''Io meet Mr.. Peduncle? Where, let
mo ask?"
cat his office, of course. Don't you
know Mr.. Ptduncls?"
"No. Who in tho 2ome of Christie
pher Columbus is hep"
''Iho dentist. Quo of NV teeth
'''Irapped' - said the young man in
deep, tragic tone
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1888-05-10
Burned in aiCurn Field.

CHARLOTTE, May 3.-Lizzie Inglc, q
young white woman, was burning corn
stalks In the field of j. f. Kerns in Long
Creek township, yesterday, when her
clothes caught fire, and, before assistance
could reach her, was SO badly burned thut
she died in a few hours A colorcd man
man arrived first, tore off the burning cloth
ing, and went for help. Mr.. Kcrns, arriv.
ing twenty minutes later found Miss Inglc
standing erect, alone, burned almost to a
crisp. The accident occurred at 3 p. NJ.
and she died at 10 p. NJ. The deceased
was II years old, and had recently moved
to the neighborhood She bore her suffer.
lngs without murmur. The scene and
circumstances are represented as pitiablc
in the extreme. The young woman bore a
splendid character, and her fate is greatly
depored
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1888-05-10
THE OPERATION A SUCCESS.
Mrs. schick Has Now Fighting Chance or Re-
covering Her sight.

The wonderful operation that was per
formed by DR.. l.. Webster Fox, of this city,
on Sunday last, by transplanting the cornea
of rabbits eye to that of Mrs. Annie
Scbick, the young patient at the German
town Hospital, was last night found to be
a grand success.
Mrs. SChick, who has been kept in dark
room with her eyes securely bandaged ever
since the operation, has been resting quietly
and everything has seemed TO be in her
favor. Last evening Dr. Cox, together
| with DR.. Cameron, the resident physician
| of the Germantown Hospital, visited the
patient and removed the bandages. Upon
| examination it was found that the eyelids
| had not developed the slightest swelling,
| every nerve was in a perfectly normal con-
| dition, the graft had remained exactly in
| place, the edges are all united aud the graft,
which has perfect appearance, is as trans
parent as crystal and has attached itself to
the basement membrane.
SO good q result was not even dreamed
Of by DR.. Fox, who said, enthusiastically
| "Von Nipple expect that at the end Of three
days the graft will be hazy, but this is not
so-it is at once transparent. | believe now
scurcd the sight will become transparent
At any rate, Mrs. SChiCk has now fight
Ing chance of recovering her sight"
| When the news of the success got aboard
among the medical men of Germantown
last night the telephone at the hospital was
kept in constant use by physicians who los
no time in congratulating DR.. FoX-Phl
adclphia Times, Mays.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1888-05-10
a Fatal Shock.

New YORK, May 2.-As young man
named Wittc, boOkkcepcr for L. Schle-
singer, tailor at 200 Bowcry, was leaving
the store about 10 o'clock last night he
passed under the electric light in front, and
causually y reached up, according to a habit
he is said to have had of touching the lamp
when he passed near it, His hand must
have rested upon the lightly insulated wire
connected with the upper carbon, or the
carbon itself, which projects slightly above
the top rim OF the globe in front of the
show window south of the entrance to the
store Hc will never tell exactly what he
did touch. He fell with gasp into the
arms Of Samuel Davis of 207 Broomc street
who happened to be walking past the store.
When taken to hotel across the street the
unfortunate man was found to be dead
lie was nephew of the proprietor of the
store and about % years of age.