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The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1888-08-23

Lit every ireemsn Of Vermont make bis
arrangements nov TO be Al home on cleo
,ion day --ihe arst Tuesday ia September.
Rsmem brr also iha, nov you can only
vote ID ,he town Of your home. and you
must see aud know that your name is on
the check lisi.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1888-08-23

The London Trades Council, IN report,
ing upon the strike Of the match girls, ut
tered three grand truths, all o. whieh are
Republican doctrines 10 this country:
tll That there is a line Of cheapness be
low which nothing but degradation TO the
workers is the result, without adv ntage
TO the consumer.
GU The Unsuitable demand for ia low
est prices, irrespective OF methods Or con.
sequences, is the curse Of modern indus
trial life.
(3l Much might be done by healthy
public determination TO encourage native
p reductions in preference to so called
heap importations.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1888-08-23

The report Of State Treasurer William
II Dubois, recently issued, shows the
receipts for the year ending July 3lst TO
have been 1871. 52S 81 and the expendi
lures sGi3, 526 81. The Liabilities Of the
state are Due towns, United States sur
Plus fund. si2,9l6 81; due soldiers, I'M
paid balances, ss,35997; due agricultural
college inod. 1885,, 500; due on sppropria
ton for Gettysburg monument and
grounds, Sc $780, total, sl63 656S4 The
resources: Cash on hand aud 10 banks,
SIS, 062 80; estimated amount Of tax from
corporations for 1883, $3.50 600; estimated
proceeds from balance Of Huntington fund
securities, $4,000; total, 1918. 062 80.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1888-08-23

Al hTsl tagaxht IA seens li,tls strange
thss shs pofk packing afm o. Joba Tsylor
A ca, q Irsaian, \ J.. should be com
~ lsa 10 60 oas II basiness % aocosnt u
shs irse sool clause Is ihs Mills sasia bill
Bat sssA, nsresshsiess. il The fact The
fra hsailea ises4 ia.0oa 10 II. oo0 Sheep
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1888-08-23
II. D9TABRooK
Dealer in Marble and Granite
Monumental Work.


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sold huiclsss stoeksn Address
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The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1888-08-23

In pprss, Ausps, lelh, sOn 70 NJ. ard n..
John Macon.
In pew.,. sasa,, 18Th. ssnsh,a 10 Mr. aud
Mrs. Nsiss frnsi.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1888-08-23
Marriages.

In porset, Ausnst 18th, by sherman Niekais,
Req. Alssonaa ksAr. u nAaby 10 hosa J. Red
81 Dorset.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1888-08-23
Chr ManfbfsifrJ Journal

THURSDAY. AueUsTaa 1884
DIX. SlMOsDs. Eds;ef and Proprietor
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A Penny Wise, Pound Foolish King.

King Ludwig l., of Bavaria, whose
name is being recalled at the present
time in various ways, was as much noted {
for his lavish expenditure of money in
beautifying his capital as for his economy
in minor matters. 1t is said he wore
the same old coat to be shaved in fors
forty years, and whenever it rained sent
lackey for his old umbrella, saying it.
was too bad to use the new one, for it
had cost seven gulden. The following
anecdote is quite characteristic of theli
King: Among the many privileges en-
joyed by all persons in the slightest way
connected with the court, during the
reign of his easy-going predecessor, King
Max, from the chief marshal down to the
oven. heater, was that of having their
soiled linen washed in the royal laundry
Shortly after King Ludwig's accession, 4
as he was standing one morning looking
out of the palace window, his wonder
and curiosity were aroused by seeing
numerous wagons drive up, one after !.
the other, in front of the royal residence, 1
all laden with mysterious looking bum &
dies, which disappeared within the
palace walls. Sending for his castellan,
the King inquired the meaning of this z.
strange procession. "May it please your :.
Majesty" replied the astonished castel' Z
LAM "it was ever the custom of our late
King of blessed memory to allow few
needy and deserving persons to send :
their washing to the royal Laundry" A
few persons!" exclaimed Ludwig;
"nearly an hour have I been standing
at this window, and still there is no end J
to the procession. This Is an lmposl,, :
tion, and it shall 60 on no longer And s
he gave strict orders to have the bundles
remain unopened, to keep them till Easter
Tuesday, when they were to be returned
unwashed, with strict in Junction never ,
to be sent again. The result was, adds :
our chronicler that half of Munich
had no clean shirt for Easter.-New York
D of
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An Obituary Poetess.

One of the very queerest ways of earn
ing living among the endless eccen-
trlcities of ingenious neces sites in this
city, says the New York World, is that
of a woman who lives in little fiat on
Nineteenth street, and who writes obitu-
ary poetry, thereby avoiding the necessi-
ty of an obituary for her own tombstone.
She is genial person on ordinary occa-
sions and pos esses notable facility for
rhymes. When she is interviewing Gus
toners this geniality subsidies into del
icate and dramatic sympathy..which is
very soothing to the bereaved. She says
of herself: "lou see I am not poet. The
newspapers and magazines won't buy my
poetry, aud l don't wonder at it; but at
the same time I have genius for rhymes.
l have found rhymes for window and
silver even-the two unrhymable words
and quick as flash I can find word
in assonance W th any name, Christian or
surname. I am lightning rhymer, in
short. I can make verses, too, of Ger.
tain sort with the same facility, and hap
PLY the people who come to see me don't
demand poetry up to the level of In
Memoriam,' and 'Lycidas.' There's my
Hoods Rhymster,' Roget's 'Thesaurus
and Crabbe's synonyms They are
my tools, and by their aid l
make living. The most curious
people come TO me all the way
from an afflicted washerwomau Ia
menting the late bibulous Patrick, to
old gentlemen who have lost their grand
children. Bereavement, like love. seems
to loosen the intellectual fibre, and when
people are in the first throes of grief they
find comfort in the strangest things.
They like my verses more than you
would believe possible, and make me
read them over again and again, the
feeble lyrics and hating lines evidently
soothing them more than volumes of the
most eloquent prose. My prices2 Oh!
they are in sliding scale. For cele-
brating the martial virtues of the late
Mr.. O'Donovan in six four-line stanzas
I charge s., but as I rise in the social
scale, and the measure used is more COM
plex, why ask all the way from s. to $25.
On one occasion l asked aud was paid
$50 for q memorial ode to the dead bride
of sorrowing widower. 1t was some
thing like two hundred lines, and if do
say it myself, it was very nice poetry
and fully worth the money. The widower
is married again, but he didn't seem to
think any epithalamium was required,
or at least 1 wasn't asked to write 1t.
Poetry about dead children is the sort
oftenest asked for, and yet I don't like
to write it because really throw more
feeling into it than any other. Over
some of my best ones I've wept myself.
But mothers will take anything. They
don't seem to know whether it's good
or bad.
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GOSSIP With an 0ptician.

"You wish to know whether all my
customers are really near-sighted2" said
an optician to a New York IeIegram re-
porter "Of course they are With the
exception of dudes, who consider an eye
glass as essential to their general appear.
ance as clothes, few wear glasses who
are not absolutely in need of them"
"Yet more men and women wear
glasses now than in former years."
"Quite true, for Americans have
learned to use their eyes with discretion.
Taking into consideration our increase
of population, the proportion OF near
sighted persons is not greater than
twenty or thirty years ago. Formerly,
when children complained that it hurt
their eyes to read and study, well-mean-
ing but inexperienced mothels either
believed that they were trying to avoid
going to school, or supposed that they
had caught cold, and Immediately ad-
ministered a poultice or gave them
mrdicine. They forgot, no doubt, that
myopY is hereditary.
"Ncal sighted eyes are elongated; as
they grow older the eyes fatten and the
sight becomes stronger, if proper care
has been taken in the use of suitable
glasses. It's singular that the ma ority
of near-sighted persons have light blue
or grayish blue eyes. Possibly the lighter
coors indicate greater visual weakness.
The Germans are blue-eyed race. You
would be surprised to see the number of
German students in the universities who
wear spectacles. Pondering over their
books at night The constant strain of
their eyes must have prematurely weak
ened them sooner than the dark ones.
Sewing also strains the eyes as much as
reading. In fact, it is the case with any
fine work. Look at my clerks, for
instance. Most of them, who have been
in my employ number of years, ere
compelled to wear glasses"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-09-26
Historical Toasts.

How the word toast should be used at
the same time to name plate of food
and the drinking to the health or well
fare of person, is not without curious
interest We need 60 back only about
two hundred years to find the use of tea
and coffee almost unknown in England
and the colonies. Our ancestors of
good substantial estate were accustomed
to drink toasts at their meals as regular
beverage. Slices of bread or the crusts
of the family loaf were toasted at the
fire until they were quite brown, and
were then put into boiling water. This
made a drink that was relished even
without sugar. Rye used to be roasted
in the kernel for this purpose, and it
was sold as domestic coffee" at New
England groceries not more than seventy
five years ago. There are good many
traditions of wit and humor connected
with the old practice of drinking toasts,
just as tea-drinking has its connection
with social life. Some of these stories
are historical, and occasionally one is
met with good enough to deserve to be
perpetuated. About two hundred years
ago the Earl of Stair was ambassador
from England to the Dutch court at the
Hague. He kept up the reputation of
his country for hospitality. The am,
bassadors from other governments did
the same. On one occasion, he was dining
at the table of the French ambassador,
when the host gave as the toast: "The
rising sun, my MASTER" alluding to the
device and motto of Louis. The Aus
trian ambassador then gave: "The
moon," IN compliment to his empress.
The turn then came to the Earl of Stair,
who proved himself equal to the occasion:
His toast was to Joshua, the son of
Nun, who made the sun and moon stand
still" There was no iced of formal ref
erence to his master, King William.
The political situation was exactly
shown
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-09-26
Fashion Notes.

Ribbon four to eight inches wide ap-
pears on the newest hats.
Garibaldi waists of lace arranged in
stripes are quite the thing.
Full lace fronts, decorated with knots
of ribbon, are worn on dresses of figured
chalis.
For travelling there are dust cloaks of
gray glace silk that are the acme of ele-
CANT quietness.
Cherries and similar small fruits, in
wax, figure in fashionable millinery
trimmings for the season.
A chaplet of flowers is worn by brides
maids as wei as by brides, this season,
and are of artificial blossoms, too.
A Partisan costume is made of soft
amethyst lampas, the front draped, and
the sides open to show a petticoat of
silver embroidery.
Gauzy cream blond combined with
MORE or brocade and lightly trimmed
with gold or silver is much worn by
youthful matrons.
Honey suckle, lilac in white, and corn
flowers are appropriate for a bridesmaid
aud are somewhat newer than daisies,
forget-me and roses.
The huge, eccentric -brimmed rustic
hat of yellow straw, trimmed with
flowers is in fashion at garden parties
and also for wear in the country.
Quite the feature of directoire gowns
are the big buttons of gold and silver
filigree, or else of china, painted
with flowers, bugs or landscapes.
In London garlands of massed foliage:
in which even parsley finds place, divides
favor with those showing hazelnuts, rasp-
berry sprays or punches of currants.
As the months 60 by full dress Co.'S
tunes increase in splendor. Silver and
gold brocades of every kind are used and
the embroideries are lavish and expen-
sive.
Scarlet and yellow poppies are the
favoritc flowers on black lace hats and
large bonnets, but the small black lace
bonnet demands the use of small
flowers
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-09-26
A DresSy Queen.

An occasional Rome correspondent in
forms me that Queen Margherita of
Italy has recently appeared IN public in
some really remarkable pretty dresses.
At q court ceremony which took place
a short time back she wore black velvet,
with beautiful old lace, while round her
neck were her famous "ropes of pearls. !"
At ball given at the Spanish Embassy
her ma. a.esty wore dress made by
Worth, which was universally admired.
It was combination of lilac aud blush
silk, and was profusely embroidered with
silver, as we'll as with many punches of
lilac. In her hair she wore blush pink
feather, fastened by diamond butterfly.
A magnificent diamond spray also
decorated her hair. At some races the
Queen appeared in yellow, covered with
Oriental embroidery, gorgeous dolman
also made of Eastern work, aud plain
straw bonnet of light bronze COLOR
81. Stephens ReuieW.
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Change OF Color in Fish.

Mr.. st. John says that the change of
color in fish is very remarkable, and
takes place with great rapidity. Some
of his experiments and observations will
be of interest. If you put living black
brook trout into white basin of water,
it will become, within half an hour, OF a
light color. In the case of some fish the
change is perceptible in five minutes.
Keep the fish living in white jar for
some days. and it becomes absolutely
white; but put it into dark-eolored or
black vessel, and, although, on first BE-
ing placed there, the whie-colored fish
shows most conspicuously on the black
ground, in a few minutes. it becomes as:
dark colored as the bottom of the jar,
and consequently difficult to be seen.
No doubt this facility Of adapting its
color to the bottom of the water in which
it lives, is of the greatest service to the
fish in protecting 1t from its numerous
enemies.
All anglers must have observed that IN
every stream the trout are very much OF
the same color as the gravel or sand on
which they live. Whether this change
of color is voluntary Or involuntary ace
ON the part of the fish, leave it for the
scientific to determine. Youths COM
pani0l. {.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-09-26
Silk in the Roman Era,

Heliogabalus is said to have been the
first to wear robe of pure silk. This
Emperor, one of the most unworthy of
rulers, who made his horse a consul, had
a senate of women, over whom his
mother presided, which prescribed all
the modes and fashions. The Emperor
Aurelian is said to have refused his wife
a robe of pure silk, on account of its ex-
cessive cost. Indeed it was not until
more than five centuries after the Christ
ian era that silkworms were brought
from the East, and introduced into Con-
stantinople by some monks, in the time
of Justinian.
Purple was always much admired by
the ancients, the dye coming from the
murey, as is we'll known. The color was
thought finer the darker it was. Under
Augustus violet and bright red became
fashionable colors, as well as scarlet, and
were soon worn by all who could afford
to do so-but Nero and Caesar afterward
reserved amethyst and purple for i'm
perial use exclusively.
Bright cnlors were disused in mourn
lng-when the Romans wore black, or
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-09-26
THE OLD STORY.

You may call it Irritation, or what not,
But don't see that was to blame.
How could know that you loved me,
When you never once mentioned the same:
I've walked in the starlight with many,
And have risked my life on the bay,
Yet among them I've never found any
But had something decided to say.
You thought that your silence had told me:
The silence that's golden we've heard;
But the girl of to-day prefers silver,
Coined into words sweet and absurd;
There are lovers whom there's no mistaking,
Whose language leaves no one in doubt;
There are others who leave ones heart ach-
ing
For a word there's no living without.
But since the sweet year has grown older,
And you've failed as special pleader,
Shall be left out in the cold, sir,
Because was not mind reader?
You blame me, think, without reason;
If you really had something to say,
What matters the time or the season!
Why can't We he happy-to-day.
-Harpe,'s Monthly.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-09-26
W0MAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE READERS.
Women Wood-Workers.

"Talking about employing women in
factories" said a Manistee, Mich, lum
herman to the TimJerman, ''brings about
the fact that the hoop factory at Manis-
tee employs women feeding the planers
and other light work of that nature, and
finds that they do the work well; and at
the dairy salt factories all the sacking
and such work is done by girls, who work
on piece work and earn about 81 to 81. %
a day, and seem to like the employment.
The only size sacks they seem to oh, ,,ect
to is the ten pound size, which they say
are little heavy to handle at arms
length. As they work in pairs, though,
they can change off and rest themselves
in that way.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-09-26
The Largest RattIesnake on Record.

The greatest set of rattlcs ever cut
from rattlesnake are now on exhibition
in the Office of the Treasurer of Lycoming
County, at Williamsport, Penn. The
string measures 81 inches and contains
IS rattles. The biggest string of rattles
on record previous to this was taken
from the BIZ snake killed near Westport
last week. That string measured 4inches
in length and contained 81 rattles. The
snake that bore it was the biggest one
ever killed in the state, being 7 feet
long. The most curious fact connected
with the monster Williamsport set oil
rattlcs is that it was taken from snake
less than feet lcng, the rattles forming
almost one-fourth of the reptiles entire
length. If it is true that a rattlesnake
grows a rattle every year after the first
year the snake must have oeen 4G years
old. This freak among snakes was
killed by County Treasurer Eldred in the
Pine Creek region.-Ns~ York Times.
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raj know this, but the difference in their
ages-Dickinson was only 25, while Jack.
son was nearly 40-forbade him giving it
any attention until the former spoke dis
paragingly of Mrs. Jackson. When in.
formed of this the General called upon
him and demanded an apology. He de-
MED having said anything; said he must
have been in his cups, and apologized:
The matter there dropped. Afterward
trouble arose about horse race, in which
one of Jackson's horses ran. and cor.
respondence ensued in which General
Jackson called Dickinson coward and
poltroon. A challenge was sent, and
May 3Oth, 1906, the parties met at Har-
rison's mills, in Logan Comfy, Kentucky,
pistols the weapons, distance twenty
four feet. At the word, given by Gene
raj Overton, Dickinson fired instantly.
A puff of dust flew from the breast OF
Jackson's coat, just where Dickinson
boasted he would hit him. The muscles Of
his face contracted. He placed his left
arm firmly across his breast, steadled
himself, and took deliberate aim. Dick
inson, astounded at his failure, stepped
back from the peg, when Overton called
to him to resume his position, which he
did, presenting his side to his adversary,
and averting his eyes. Jackson pulled
the trigger of his pistol; it stopped at
half-cock. He cody recocked it, care.
fully aimed, and fired. Dickinson reeled
and fell. The ball had struck him just
above the right hip and passed clear
through his body. When assured by
his surgeon that the wound was mortal
he insisted on another fire. "General
Jackson must 60 with me-" he said ex-
citedly. He was carried to neighbor-
ing house, where he died at four o'clock
the next morning in great suffering.
Jackson and his friends remounted their
horses and rode to the tavern. When
Jackson took off his clothes it was dis
covered that he was wounded, having
two ribs broken. Though Jackson lived
to be seventy eight years of age, Dick
inson's bullet gave him considerable
trouble, causing frequent hemorrhages
of the lungs. The press of the country
was especially severe upon General
Jackson, and one editor put his paper IN
mourning. From his sick-bed Jackson
defended his conduct, and the matter
continued to be the source of newspaper
comment for over a year.-Cincinnati
EnGutreT. ~
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"TOuch Of Nature" In Congress.

There was a striking and somewhat
amusing illustration in the House of
Representatives at Washington recently,
of the truth of the old proverb about
zone touch of nature making the whole
world akin" For long time Repre-
sentative Enloe has been trying to secure
the passage by the House OF bill to pay
back to Mr.. p. K. Parker, of Memphis,
S2336, which had been collected by the
Government from him as one of the
securities for Frank Trails, who was at
one time Internal Revenue Collector fol
the Western District of Tennessee, anG
who became a defaulter, the securitie.
having been subsequently released BY
act of Congress from liability of the
bond.
Many times Mr.. Enloe had attempted
to have the bill considered, nut he had
never been able to catch the Speakers
eye Meanwhile the bill had beer
passed on by the Senate. Hlr. Enloe,
however, succeeded in securing recogni,
tion from the Speaker pro tempore (A1r.
McAlillan) and asked immediate consid.
Grafton of the nill. Objection came
from Mr.. Hopkins, of Virginia, who de.
manded the regular order.
Mr.. Enloe at this remarked that he
was much interested in the passage of
the bill, and had almost worn the soles
of his boots in walking from his desk to
a point on the floor from which he might
catch the Speakers eye. 81 have good
and sufficient reason" said he impress
Il
this bill passed. When | was a boy the
man whom this bill will benefit gave me
my first pocket knife" This brought
down the House. Every man then in
stantly thought of the pleasure derived
from his first pocket knife, and amid:
cries of 'The bill ought to pass" and
the general laughter, Mr.. Hopkins with
drew his objection and the bill was
passed. But for MIR. Enloe's remem-
brance of that knife it is doubtful if
Mr.. Parker would have ever got his
money.-Neo York Star.