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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-10

Every NICE in a while we discover that
some mountain peak must give up the
undeserved distinction conferred upon it
of holding its head higher than all other
submits. For a long time Mount CHM
borazo was supposed to be the highest
mountain in the world until in the prog
ress of the Himalayan surveys Mount
Everest was found to overtop it. Four
years ago w. w. Graham. who has been
higher above the sea than any other
mountain climber, asserted that Everest
must yield the palm of supremacy to an
unnamed peak about seventy miles from
it. We long supposed that Mount st.
Elias was the loftiest mountain Of North
America, but we now know that that
honor belongs to Mount Wrangel, which
is about 500 feet higher han st. Elias.
1t was also supposed that Mount Kilima-
Marc, IS, 700 feet high, was the greatest
elevation in Africa, but now comes Count
Teleki, the Hungarian traveller, with the
assertion that this mountain must play
second fiddle to Mount Kenia, about 200
miles north. He is the only man who
has yet assembled Kenia. York
Sun.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-10
The CITY of Quito,

If it were not for the climate, Quito
would be in the midst of a perpetual
p%estilence; but Notwithstanding the pre-
vailing flthiness, there is very little sick
ness, and pulmonary diseases are un-
known. Mountain fever, produced by
cold and a torpid liver, is the commonest
type of disease. The population of the
city, however, is gradually decreasing,
and is said to be now about 60, 900.
There were 500, 900 people at Quito
when the Spaniards came, and a hundred
years ago the population was reckoned
at double what it is now. Half the
houses in the town are empty, and to see
a new family moving in would be a sem
sation. Most of the finest residences are
locked and barred, and have remained
so for years. The owners are usually
political exiles who are living elsewhere,
and can neither sell nor rent their prop
erty. Political revolutions are so COM
mon, and their results are always so dis
astrous to the unsuccessful, that there is
a constant stream Of fugitives leaving
the state.-Curtis in American Magazine.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-10
The Methods of the "Chigger.'

When I was down on the Mosquito
coast in Central America l found the
country there an earthly paradise but for
one thing. There were no snakes that I
saw, no ta%rantulas, no wasps, no poison
Gus enemy of man but one, and hat one
was the chigger. l think I know more
about the chigger than any other man in
America. One day l felt a slight pain in
the second toe of my right foot. Thought
it was an ingrowing nail. The pain was
at the right corner of the nail and | paid
little attention to it. In a day or two
the toe had swelled to double its size
and l became alarmed. took all sorts
of medical advice, and finally l became
convinced that l had accumulated a
chigger.
The chigger is an insect about as big as
the point of a pin, which works its way
under the skin, usually neal a toe nail.
AS o as it finds a Judgment it lays a
countless number of eggs, each of which
turns out a new chigger, which bores
farther in and lays more eggs, all in a
a few hours. Each of these new CHG
gers repeats the family programme and
lays thousands of eggs SO that if the
sufferer is not very careful he can easily
lose a toe, a foot, or even a leg, The
multiplication of the chigger is something
almost incredible, and when it once has
found a secur location the pain is like
nothing except a continual spasm Of
toothache. 1t was three months before I
could get the chigger out of my foot, and
four months before l could wear a shoe.
Talk about wasps, Oh spiders, or snakes!
l would readily back the chigger to do
more real execution in a given time than
any other enemy which man has yet been
able to find in the whole line of animated
nature.-Col. Pat DOMAIN.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-10
Value of the Eucalyptus Tree.

The eucalyptus belongs to the myrtle
tribe. 1t is said that there are as many
as 100 varieties of the tree. They are
native to Australia. but have already
been introduced into most of the tropical
and temperate countries of the world.
Two kinds have been chiefly cultivated,
the red gum (resinifera), and the blue
gum (globulus), which is the better
known. 1t is famous for its rapid
growth, as it often makes an increase in
height of from six to nine feet a year.
The tree continues growing at this rate
until it has reached al o size.
The products of this tree are numerous
and varied. The wood is said to be val
liable for the carpenters and builders
uses. The gum, OF rosin, is employed in
the manufacture of soaps, perfumes,
lozenges, court plaster, liniments, syrups,
pomades, toilet v%inegars. as well as many
preparations used for artistic purposes,
such as vanishing oils, veneer and trac-
ing paper" There has been for some
years established in Paris a store for the
sale of eucalyptus perfumery.
But by far the most valuable and inn
portant property of this tree is its power
OF correcting malaria. This quality is,
perhaps, due to the aromatic oil which
the tree contains, or more probably to
the drainage effected by its roots. 1t has
been proved in many countries in which
the tree has been planted. In Algeria
the cultivation of ths tree has rendered
many low lying or marshy districts in
~habitable, where, in the early years of
French occupation. foreigners could not
live on account of deadly fevers.-
Youths Companion.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-10
How Big Bells Are Rung.

The twelve bells of st. Paul's cathedral
in London are said to be the grandest
ringing peal in the world. 1t is a matter
of pride with the English that they al
ways swing their bells instead of merely
swinging the clappers after the fashion
prevailing in Russia and other parts of
continental Europe. The Briton swings
even his largest bells in the good, old
fashioned way, and it is quite an under
taking to swing the sixteen ton "Great
Paul." which, with its fiye-ton brother,
supplements the noble peal on the grand
est Protestant cathedral in the world.
On the day Gen. Garfield's body was car
ried to the grave, the writer stood in the
Square in front Of st. Paul's, and heard
these chimes peal in honor of the dead
president. Dense crowds filled the neigh
boring streets, and the adjacent windows
and housetops were black with humanity.
All London was there to listen to the
mournful requiem of the bells. 1t was a
solemn spectacle when, as a stranger in
a strange land, n saw those tens of
thousands of Englishmen thus doing
honor to the noble dead. 1t was an evil
dence of international sympathy, affec-
ton and brotherhood which one who
saw it can forget Boston Herald.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-10
Artist Versus Cattle Dealer.

Artists can, in the course of a summer
mornings walk in the country, find ma
terial for their best landscapes, and their
training has been such that the knowl-
edge 80 found can be applied to the
best advantage. With eyes that see
everything in nature, judgment that re-
jects the commonplace and takes cog
nizance of all that which is valuable, and
with a memory hat is as faithful to re-
tain every effect as is the sensitized plate
in the camera, such artists represent the
highest type of Natures pupils. A few
pencil memoranda of subjects, taken
hastily during the walk, is all that is
needed to fix the scenes and locality, and
serve in the reproduction of these in the
studio. The opposite type is found in a
worthy Pittsburger, a cattle dealer, who
recently sat for his portrait. He had
just returned from a trip that extended
through the grandest and most impress
sive scenery of the great west, and the
artist-a devout lover of nature-hoped
to extract from his patron some fresh
ideas of the grandeur of the Rockies and
the canyons of Colorado. 1t was a hope
less longing. The cattle dealers mind
was an absolute blank as to natures
handiwork.
He was ~overflowing with knowledge of
quite a different order. He filed the
artist with details of the cost of raising
cattle in every state and territory of the
west, Of the best places and the poorest;
of the cost that each marketable steer
represented, and of the cost of shipment
of cattle from every western point to the
raoroct p,orLaf Tho artist xroo u,aor;aJ
with a surfeit of cattle knowledge and
was constrained to ask about the noun
tains and the lakes and the scenic won
ders Of the land of cattle and canyons. 1t
was useless. His patron, outside of his
own narrow but practical field of obser-
walton, had seen nothing and could only
reply, Mountains Really 1 did not
notice them except to think that they
seemed a good deal In the way Of the rail-
roads. "-Pittsburg Bulletin.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-10
New York and Foreign Cities.

There is NJ palpable New York in the
sense in which there is a Paris, a Vienna,
. Milan. You can touch it at no point.
1t is not eve ocular. There is instead a
Fifth avenue, a Broadway, a Central
park, a Chatham square. How they
have dwindled, by the way. Fifth ave-
nue. might be any n of a dozen London
streets in the first impression it makes on
the retina and leaves on the mind. The
opposite side of Madison square is but a
step away. The spacious hall of the
Fifth Avenue hotel has shrunk to sitting
proportions. Thirty-fourth street is a
lane; the city hall a bandbox; the Gen.
trail park a narrow strip of elegant land
scape, whose lateral limitations are con-
stantly forced upon the sense by the
Leuox library ON n side and the mon
ten apartment house N the other
Princeton Review.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-10
On a Mental Drunk.

There is another kind of intemperance
raging in our midst which Injuries and
eventually kills many people, who die of
respectable, though painful, diseases, on
respectable beds. There are men and
ONE who never use alcoholic stimu-
lants, who are on a certain mental ten
sion, a mental drunk, from years end to
wears end. and who are being worn ont
idly as the person who drinks o much
whisky. They go off prematurely.
Their demise is sometimes attributed to
a dispensation of providence. They
have tempers they cannot control, or
nerves which go into a twitter at the
least cause for excitement, or brains al
ways on the run trying to think and do q
dozen things at once.--New York Star.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-10

The MormoN have within the past
three years seen the advantages of cheap
grazing and farming lands in this coun-
try and the opportunity to escape perse-
cution in the United States. The results
are seen in the fl%ourishing colonies of
Juarez and Diaz, the former adjoining
us, the latter about seventy-five miles to
the north.
Each colony comprises from 200 to
800 souls. They are recognized for their
fair dealing, honesty and thriftiness.
The country owes them a debt Of graft
tude for introducing high grade live
stock of all descriptions, farming imple-
ments, seeds, trees, saw and flour mills
and industries hitherto unknown to the
Mexican but in its most primitive form.
Though polygamy is against the law in
this country, the Mormons are tolerated
and encouraged, and up to the present
time have been of immense benefit to the
country in educating the natives to a
more advanced class of work. Some
pr~oselyting has been dbne by their mis-
sionaries in the southern part of the re-
public, mostly in and about the City of
Mexico.
They attempted to induce a number of
the converts to form part of the Juarez
colony, but after bringing about thirty
families they were obliged to return them
to their homes. The Mexican converts
could not amalgamate with the Ameri-
cans. The Mexican, though converted
in belief, could not be converted to the
and customs of the American.
Besides, they are a great people for
forming attachments to the land of their
birth. They rarely leave the home they
were born in. This is decidedly so among
the lower, half Indian class that COM
prised the majority of the converts. To
this fact the Latter Day Saints, as they
prefer to be called, attribute their fail
ure. The colony of Juarez is laid out in
rectangular form, divided into streets
and lots. In the latter their little
wooden houses are erected, the only
wooden houses in this portion of the
country, surrounded by gardens and
trees. In case of plural wives" two
or more houses are seen in the same lot.
Louis Ross in New York World.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-10
Arsenic as . Cosmetic.

The deleterious effect of arsenic upon
the skin was recently discussed in the
Pathological society of London, after a
communication had been read by Mr..
Jonathan Hutchinson. The skin is the
tissue on which arsenic has, perhaps, its
most marked influence. The poison may
spoil the complexion instead Of improv-
ing it, by making it muddy and unsightly.
A similar action is exhibited in all parts
Of the skin, and may lead to the devel-
opment Of soft corns, not warts, on the
palms of the hands and soles of the feet,
where a roughened condition also grows
up under its influence. Mr.. Hutchinson
also expressed the belief that arsenic can
produce epithelial cancer. Popular Sci
ence Monthly.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-10
Ancient Peop,es Of North America.

W NNOhth ~ H
The wealth and variety of the mate
rails Of American history are but little
appreciated. The people who inhabited
the American continent before its discov-
cry were not all of one race, but of many.
In North America alone there were more
than seventy-five distinct stocks, having
radically distinct languages and mythol-
ogies, having independent and diverse
institutions, and having diverse and
multifarious arts. At the north we have
the igloo jewellers that live by the shores
OF the frozen seas; farther to the south
we have races occupying dwellings made
of forest timber; other races wove their
h%abitations of reeds; others built their
towns of the clay of mother earth; and
others erected their buildings of stones
quarried from the cliffs; while still
others hewed themselves habitations In
the solid rock. Some dwelt in towering
and almost inaccessible cliffs, while
other towns were erected among the
crags and cinders of extinct volcanoes.
Some races were hunters, other races
were fishermen, still other races were
agriculturists. Some races worshiped
the sur and moon and stars, and the
gods of the cardinal points; other races
made the mountains and the rivers the
object of their principal worship; and all
worshiped strange Hydrologic beasts.
All of the tribes were organized into
bodies polite as bodies of kindred, but
the method of organization was multi
farious. Many tongues were spoken;
harsh consonantal and cultural languages
were found in the cold climate of the ex-
IRENE north and south, vocalic and mu-
steal languages were found in the sunny
lands of the middle zones. Everywhere
the tribes had learned to use picture
writing, and to record events with pic
lures of men and beasts and many con-
ventional signs. They made tools and
implements of stone and bone and shell
and horn and wood. They made canoes
and boats of bark and logs, they made
RATS and basket boats of weeds, and
they made kayaks Of skins; and in such
crafts they navigated the rivers, the
lakes and the seas. The relics of all
these mythologies, religions, institutions,
languages, and arts must be recovered,
if we are to preserve the ancient history
Of America; and the work must be done
soon, or they will be lost.-Maj. j. w.
Powell.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-10
Growth of City Children.

Quetelet, in his well known treatise
''On Man." pointed out that the growth
of town children is quicker than that of
country children. The demands upon
the nutritive powers are larger; and,
consequently, we can understand how it
comes about that the educational burden
is felt more by town children than their
country cousins. He showed that the
growth is more rapid in girls than boys,
and probably the effects Of the labor Of
acquiring education are felt more by the
girh. Good Housekeeping.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-10
The CrYstaIa of BIoad.

According to DIR. Pesetty Cevera,
writing in a Spanish journal, if blood be
mixed with a little bile, small crystals
are formed which are of different shapes
in different species of animals. In man
they are right angled prisms, in the
horse cubes. ia pigs rhomboids, in sheep
rhomboidal plates, in dogs right angled
prisms very similar to those seen in
human blood. and in chickens more or
less regular cubes. Brooklyn Eagle.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-10
Sad Fate for the Dog.

"No, ma'am," said the tramp CRATE
fully, as he shouldered his bundle and
prepared to start on again, Il don't keer
fur nuthinl' more to eat, thank you, but
I'll be obleeged if you'll give me two or
three o. them there biscuits. l don't
carry no weepins, and they've got a saw
age dog at that next house. Chicago
Tribune.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-10

One Of the wonders Of Paris is a well
1859 feel in depth. Hot water rushes
out Of this well In q stream ia feet high.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-10

A young woman in Paris committed
suicide BY filling her small bedroom with
flowers.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-12-05
The TreAtmsns Of sleoplessness.

Recipes for sleeplessness continue to
present themselves. A correspondent OF
The Lancet has found the following to be
an edectual remedy in his W case:
After taking a deep inspiration he holds
his breath till discomfort is felt, then re-
peats the process a second and a third
time. As a rule this is enough to pro-
cure sleep A slight degree OF asphyxia
is thus relied on as a soporific agent, but
the theoretical correctness OF this method
is somewhat open TO question. Ger
tainly there is proof to show that the
daily expenditure Of oxygen Is most act
i've during the waking period, and that
nightly sleep appears TO coincide with a
period Of deficient tissue oxygenation.
il is at least as probable, however, that
other influences are associated with the
production and timely recurrence Of sleep
besides that just referred to. This plan.
moreover, however efectual and bene-
fetal in the case Of its author, is not
without its disadvantages. The tendency
of deficient oxygenation is TO increase
blood pressure and slow the hearts ac-
ton. With a normal organ, as an occa-
sional occurrence, this might not be Of
much consequence. If, however, the
impeded heart should also be enfeebled by
disease, the experiment might be re-
peated met too often.
Another combatant in the struggle
with insomnia lays down a series of
rules, for the most part very sensible. to
which he pins his faith. Considering
that the chief causes of sleeplessness are
worry and the want Of a due amount Of
exercise and fresh air, he advises his fell
low sufferers to observe the ordinary
rules of hygiene relating to such matters,
to take food and drink in moderation
and to avoid Of an evening the Use Of
tea, coffee and tobacco. In dealing with
severe nervous irritation from mental or
physical work, he has found a daily rest
an almost essential prelude to sleep at
night. Thus he treats of sleeplessness
rather as a tendency requiring constitu-
tional remedies than a symptom Of mere
brain excitation. There is much to be said
for his theory and "a Of treatment
Therapeutic Gazette.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-12-05
Sailors Not Otter oyerworked.

Perhaps here il would he well to say
a few words about sailors and contra
dict some of the romance and false
sentiment that is connected with them
by people and writers who know abso-
lutely nothing about them. We had
an7extraordinarily fine crew, which |
studied closely all the way, and came
to this conclusion: First. that Jack is
not really vicious at heart. but at the
same time he is a perfect child and
easily influenced by any character Of
strong will that he comes in contact
with, 50 that one man who so desires
can spoil and make disconnected a
whole crew, no matter how well they
may be treated by the officers. Sec
ond, they are so much like children
that they even have to be told when
TO go 10 bed and when TO get up. The
least little thing will upset them, and
] have known Of a whole crew coming
forward crying and complaining be-
aus the cook had spoiled their soup.
Third. that they do not have TO work
as hard, and that as IA rule they are
much better sed than the class OF COM
mon laborers.
II is all nonsense TO imagine that q
sailor is an overworked man, for lac is
not. Jacks day is divided into watches
of four hours each, four on and four
OIL. Nor does this mean that they are
all, especially in pleasant weather,
Obliged to keep awake during the
hours OF night when on watch, only
that they must be dressed and around.
They generally have one or two men,
chosen by lot, who keep awake and
instantly arouse the Others il any order
is given. Then they are so trained by
habit that they wake up instantly
whenever an order is given, and then
go TO sleep the minute il is executed.
OF course, in stormy weather this is
different, but in storms-and ! have
seen some pretty severe ones, includ.
ing n cyclone in the Pacihc-there is
not nearly so much 10 do as n would
imagine. Samuel Il. Farrar in Chi.
cago Journal.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-12-05

smokes ne cannot tell whether his cigar
is lighted or not. This, ! think, shows
that the nerves Of the mouth and palate
soon become deadened or at least par
tally So"
What nationality is the most reluc-
tant in giving q lightf'
THE average Englishman, ! think,
hates to do it. You just ask n for a
light and see. First he looks at you as If
wondering at your presumption. Then
he takes his cigar from his mouth and
looks at il as if hating TO part with 1t
even for a moment. Next he hands it to
you begrudgingly and acts as if he had
achieved a mighty feat in condescension.
Instead of lifting his hat he is more apt
to thrust his hands in his trousers pocket,
and as he receives it back he stalks oil
with an air Of Indignation. Never ask
an Englishman for a light if you can
help il. The German asks for a light
more politely than he gives one. No
matter how urbanely willing he endea.
vors 10 appear, there is an expression OF
reluctance on his face which is amusing.
Sometimes when his cigar is burned
nearly to an end he will throw It away
upon receiving II again. This act,
among the Latin races, is considered ex-
tremely boorish and has led TO duels.
The American is always averse TO al
lowing any one to take a light from his
cigar. He regards il as his own especial
property and does not like to be inter-
fered with in its possession. Nor is this
so strange when you think of the mixed
classes Of people in this country who
think because all are on a legal equality
every one has a right to do as he likes.
1t is rather surprising that the man to
whom you just gave q light thanked you
at all. Usually, n of his class thinks
he has a right to your cigar. Recently ]
have noticed that Americans are apt to
offer u match when a light is asked for.
On the whole, | think this is the better
way, although some ignorant persons
take umbrage at this. They suppose,
sou know, that you object to their han.
ding your cigars. In the majority OF
cases their suggestion is correct. '-"M."
in Brooklyn Eagle.