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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-12-06
Sir Edwin ArnOld,s .IeMels

Sir Edwin is man of medium height
and swarthy complexion, full, black
beard and hair neatly trimmed, face
strongly marked and eye alert and gent
al. His manner is cordiality itself. He
is rapid talker. and in his accent, espe-
cially in what an American may call the
wheedling infection, he is emphatically
English. The daughter shows her moth
er's training, and, like a high bred Amer
lean girl, is self poised and self reliant
without audacity and modest without
constraint and difiidence. Like her father,
she is good taller and a good listener.
| ventured to ask the distinguished Wis
itor if he would show me the ieweled
decorations bestowed upon him by his
queen and by the Oriental sovereigns.
He graciously consented and asked Miss
Arnold to set them out. Il have to cart
them about" he added, "for they will
help me onward. They will be required
during the journey" The table sparkled
royalty when the orders were all spread
out gold and jewels wought in artistic
forms hung from gorgeous ribbons. Chief
among them was the great star of India
as big as the palm of ones hand, of solit
silver and gold set in diamonds and bear
ing the motto. Heavens Light Oul
Guide" This was given by the queer
in recognition Of his poem, The Light
of Asia. w Washington Cor. Philadel
phia Press.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-12-06
Scotch Names the Oueerest.

In England there is a great variety OF
personal nomenclature, and, though we
have plenty of Smiths, Browns and Rob.
insons, we have nothing approaching to
the poverty, in this respect, which char
acterizes many localities in North Brit
ain. In certain parts of Scotland, not
only have the surnames been few, but
there has been strong disposition to
ring the changes on very few Christian
names, with the result that the Uommu-
nifty, in its desire to distinguish between
persons of precisely the same name, has
been obliged to provide each with a spe-
cial label, or "to-name,' by which he
can be known. A contributor to The
Scotsman says that in the official list of
voters in a Scotch fishing town occur
such "to-names" as Deadly" "Pum,"
"Den," Cock" POST" "Bo," "San-
dyke" "Helen's James," and so on.
Such appellations as these are not nee
essarily nicllnames, as we understand
them. Sometimes they are patropymics,
sometimes they are local in allusion,
sometimes they refer to individual occu-
pations, sometimes they are personally
descriptive, sometimes they are mere
identifications, "signifying nothing"
Occasionally they are simple varia-
lions upon a single Christian name.
Thus it may be, one John Bruce, popu-
larly called Jock" has son named
William, who becomes clocks Wull."
His son. again, who is called William,
becomes Jocks Wull's Williamie,"
while the last named's son, if also called
William, becomes Jocks Willis Will
liamie's Wullsie." A further form is
"Wullsikie," but that, probably, is
rarely used. The system still obtains in
Scotland, and if it were introduced into
this country it might prevent some of
the confusion which exists among our
John Smiths, Thomas Browns and Will
liam Robinsons.- London Globe.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-12-06

To the expert witness III cases of insan-
ity and crime these questions should, it
seems to me. be put: Was the prisoner
insane at the time when he committed
the act of which he is accused: Was his
insanity of such nature and degree as
to deprive him of control over his con-
duct? What are the grounds upon which
you have formed these opinions? 1t
would then remain for the jury, aided
by the judge, and with the assistance of
other experts if necessary, to decide on
the validity of the grounds stated and on
the weight to be attached to the opinions
expressed.
Expert testimony, to be of the highest
value, ought, of course, to be founded on
an examination, or better still, ON re
made as soon as possible after the perpe.
tration of the crime. But insanity is o
chronic disease; and even when the ex.
pert has not seen the alleged lunatic until
some time after his crime, he may still
be able to say whether in the course of q
disease still existing, or of the recent ex.
istence of which there are traces, such o
criminal, act was likely to crop up az
part and parcel of the disease; and
whether it is consistent with his expert
ence and with the history of the act that
the accused could not help it.-Sir James
c.. Browne. NJ. D., in Popular Science
Monthly.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-12-06

1t was on a Pennsylvania railroad
All the passengers but two in the sleeper
had dozed off. The exceptions were
young man and a baby. The former
was willing to follow the example of the
majority, but the latter objected in a
loud voice. Its cries awoke the other
passengers, and some pretty strong Ian
guage was heard. The young man got
out of his berth and carried the baby up
and down the car, trying to soothe it,
But the baby was ailing and fretful, and
it's voice would not be stilled. Finally a
gray headed man, who was evidently an
old traveller, stuck his head out from be-
hind the curtains and called to the young
man in a rather sharp voice:
See here. sir, why don't you take that
child to its mother. She will be able to
manage it much better than you. 1t
evidently wants its mother"
eyes, that's it," echoed half dozen
other irritated passengers.
The young man continued to pace up
and down for a moment, then said, in a
quiet, strained voice:
"Its mother is in the baggage car"
There was an instantaneous hush for a
moment Presently the gray headed
man stuck his head out into the aisle
again.
LET me take it for a WHILE he said.
softly; perhaps | can quiet it."-New
York Sun.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-12-06
Seen In n Dream.

In 1868. Lizzie NJ Trask. of Vienna,
Me-, was dressmaking in Lewiston. She
came into possession of gold twenty five
cent piece with a hole in it. This she
showed as n curiosity to her friends. At
that time she had a little niece years
old, daughter of Jonathan p. Trask, now
the wife of Leman Butler, trader in Mt
Vernon. The little coin Lizzie once
showed to her niece Addie when she was
a very small girl, telling her that she
would give it to her when she was old
enough to take care of it. Lizzie died
twelve years ago. In her possession was
a lady's wallet with several compart-
ments. This wallet her mother used until
her death, seven years ago.
Then James, brother of Lizzie, had
it, and it has been in constant use almost
daily ever since, either by him or his
wife, The little gold coin was never seen
after Lizzie's death or before for several
years by her friends, and its whereabouts
was not known, and, in fact, its existence
had passed from their memory. A few
lays ago Mrs. Butler made her parents a
visit, stopping with them several nights.
While there she dreamed that she saw
Ter Aunt Lizzie's wallet, and that it was
faced with green, and in a certain COM
partment she found the little gold coin
which she saw so many years ago. On
telling her mother her dream she was in
formed that Lizzie did have a wallet
which answered her description, and
that her Uncle James had it. The wallet
Addie had never seen. She then visited
her uncle and told her dream to her
aunt, who laughed at the idea of any
thing being in it other than what she
and her husband had placed there. But
at Adde'S earnest solicitation she pro-
duced it, and as soon as Addie saw it she
exclaimed: That is the same wallet
that saw in my dream!' and pointed
out the compartment that held the treas
ure. She then took needle, and, run
ming it to the bottom, she drew forth a
newspaper, and in it was, indeed, a gold
quarter with a hole in it, wrapped, no
doubt, by the hand of her aunt at least
twelve years before, where it had lain
all this time, without the knowledge of
any one, until Adde'S dream caused it
to be brought forth. Augusta (Me.) Age.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-12-06

Some queer things happen in a news
paper office occasionally. The other
evening a special came flashing over enc
of The Republics leased wires from New
York, giving an account of an event that
had occurred at Concord
ASK New York if that is Concord,
Mass, or Concord. N. H., said the night
editor to the operator.
a few seconds later the telegraph ma
nipulator reappeared with the announce
ment:
New York says there is no such place
as Concord, Mass"
WHAT" gasped the editor. as his eyes
rolled in fine frenzy what? Just
ask that operator again"
The operator complied. The answer
came ticking back: There's no such
place as Concord, Mass"
The night editor arose in solemn dig
nifty. "Just ask him." he repeated IF
he heard of the town that fired the shot
that was heard around the world Ask
him." he went on wildly, eff he ever
heard of Paul Revere" Again the OPP
orator complied and brought back word
that no one in the office had ever heard
of the place. The night editor controlled
himself enough to send his condolences,
and remarked that it would be well to
keep from the ears of the office cat the
knowledge that no one in that particular
newspaper office knew of Concord, the
home of Emerson and Thoreau and AL
colt.
Just then the operator shouted: "They
have found it. You mean the place where
they hold the School of Philosophy.
Well, stuff for that place has been going
to Boston for fifteen years. and this is
the first time | ever heard of Concord"
To the Western Union operators, there
fore, there is no such place as Concord,
Mass.-St. Louis Republic.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-12-06

In the account of German establish
ment devoted to the manufacture of car
bonic acid on a large scale for industrial
purposes, recently contributed to The
Wochenschrift DIES osterr Ingenieur-und
Architekten-Ne reines, reference is made
to an experiment carried out short
time ago at the government dock yards
at Kiel, with carbonic acid gas as o
means of raising sunken vessels. In
the trial a number of balloons made
of canvas We're attached by divers to the
submerged object to be lifted, the bal
looms being readily taken below in a col
lapsed state. Each balloon contained
one or more TASKS of liquid carbonic
acid, which, at the proper tine, was per-
mitted to escape by the divers, and, in
flating the balloons. gave them sufficient
buoyancy to raise the object. Compared
with the method of pumping atmospheric
air into the balloons, the carbonic acid
process would seem to offer the advan-
tages of cheapness and simplicity, the
pumping outfit being dispensed with.
Besides this, the lifting is accomplished
in a relatively short space of time-an
important consideration where so unre-
liable a factor as the state of weather
enters into the execution of piece OF
Notwithstanding and Building Rec
ord.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-12-06

Within two years the jasper industry
has been developed, and there are now
four quarries, employing nearly 1000
men, in operation about Sioux Falls.
The market extends from Chicago to
Kansas City. Sioux Falls streets are
paved with jasper, and her four story
buildings are constructed of it. The
stone is susceptible of high degree of
polish. and when finished looks much like
the red granite of Missouri The pioneer
in the jasper industry discovered not long
ago that the dust of the jasper, which
is half as hard as diamonds, would
polish the famous petrified wood of Ari-
IONA, and make of it table tops and or
naments more beautiful than agate or
onyx. The petrified wood is now brought
from Arizona to Sioux Falls by the car
load, and polished in a variety of forms.
To the jasper industry, the city has added
the manufacture of chalcedony. There
is scientific mystery about this so called
jasper. Practically it is all right. Its
utility has been established, but geologi-
cally there is no little uncertainty abou,
it. Those who know the most are the
least positive in discussing its character.
Some of the scientific men who have
looked at it call it red quartzite. Pro
fessor Winchell says it is the hardest
stone in the United States that has been
used for building purposes. The grain
is very close. The only element to which
it succumbs is fire. 1t will stand a good
degree, but crumbles like sandstone OF
limestone under too intense heat.-New
York Telegram.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-12-06
CONSUMPTION SURELY CURED.

To the Edhor--Please inform your
readers that have a positive remedy for
the above named disease. By its timely
use thousands of hopeless cases have
been permanently cured. | shall be glad
to send two bottles of my remedy free
to any of your readers who have con-
sumption If they will send me their ex-
press and post-ofice address. Respect
fully, Il. A. SLOCUM, NJ. D., ISL Pearl
ST., New York. 1y1
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-12-06
All lie Could Promise.

Dunn-When can you settle this ac-
count, Mr.. Short?
Short-Oh, come around next week.
"Will you pay me then?
81 can't promise that exactly; but /
can tell you then when to come again.
Epoch.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-12-06
40 Acres of Good Land,
STATE OF VERMONT, !

DINI z OF 'ENNVNI, NUUKI Of
DISTRICT OF ADDISON } INSOLVENCY.
In the matter of Albro A. Ranney, insolvent
debtor.
TAKE NOTICE that Albro A. Ranney of Sails
bury, in the District OF Addison, did, ON the
2Gth day OF November, lsS9 file in this Court
his petition tor adjudication of insolvency;
and that meeting of creditors of said inso-
vent debtor Will be held ut II court OF inso
vency, AT the Probate ONCE in Middlehury, in
said District, on the 18th day of December,
1853, mt ten O'Clock in the forenoon, to prove
their debts and choose one or more assignees
OF his estate; and that the payment OF any
debts and the delivery of any property be.
longing to said debtor, to him or for his use,
and the transfer OF any property by him, are
forbidden by law.
Dated ut Middlebury, VT, this Goth day OF
November, 1889.
As JAMES NJ. SLADE, Judge.
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-26

The outlook is rather blue for cheap -four during the year to come. English capitalists are trying to get hold of the big Minneapolis fiouring mills in order to establish a flour trust. The wheat crop of the world is also short Russia. Austria and India, which usually export largely, report a poor wheat harvest. Dakota, the great wheat field of the Northwest, has been consumed by drought and the wheat crop will be 30, 100000 bushels short. There and in Montana oats and all Winter fodder crops. are dried up, which suggests actual suffering, next Winter, in newly settled districts. With the sugar crop short and both sugar and flour high, it will pinch many housekeepers of small means. There is comfort in the report that Kansas has doubled her wheat crop of last year and that Winter wheat has done well throughout the country at large.
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-26

Editor Dana, whose cholera mixture shines for all, offers this drunkenness mixture: "Let the person have within his reach small vial of the best kind of tincture of Peruvian bark and, when the craving for liquor comes to him, let him take teaspoonful of the tincture every two hours. In few days the taste for liquor is destroyed and de- stroyed while using it, for tincture of Peruvian bark is spirits into which has been drawn all the substance of Peru vian bark. It is to be found in every drug store, but it should be of the very best.''
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-26
The First Problem.
THE soLlLoQur OF A RArIosALIsrIc cu1cKrs

TIE soLlLoQuf OF RATIONALIsTIC CHICKEN.
 BY s. J. STONE, NJ. A. lThe chicken stands with half an egg shell on it's back looking down into another half, from which it had just emerged. It saith:l
 Most strange, Most queer, although most excellent change Shades of the prison house, ye disappear, My fettered thoughts have won a wider range
 And, like my iegs,ar tree; No longer huddled up so pitiably: Free now 10 pry and probe. and peepand peer,
 And make these mysteries out. Shall a free-thinking chicken live in doubt? For in doubt undoubtedly ann This problems very heavy on my mind, And Pm not one to either shirk or sham: l won't be blinded, and won't be blind
 Now, let me see: First, would know how did get in there,
 Then, where was of yore?
 Besides, why did not get out before?
 Dear me. There are three puzzles (out ot plenty more) Enough to give me pip on the brain,
 But let me think again. How 9o know ever was inside! Now reflect, it is, l do maintain, . Less than my reason, and beneath my pride
 To think that could dwell
 In such a paitry, miserable cell
 As that old shell. Of course couldn't! How could have lain Body and beak and feathers, legs and wings, And my deep hearts sublime imaginings,
 In therel meet the notion With profound distlain; It's quite incredible; since l declare a- (And Pm chicken that you can't deceive) What can't understand, won't believe. Where did l come from, then? An, where indeed? This is a riddle monstrous hard to read. 1 have it! Why, of course. Allthings are moulded by some plastic force Out of some atoms somewhere up in space, fortuitously concurrent, anyhow: There, now! That's as plain as is the beak upon my face Whats that hear? My mother cackling at me! Just her way. So prejudiced and ignorant, I say; So far behind the wisdom of the day. Whats old can't reverei Hark at her. ''You're q silly chick, my dear That's quite lis plain, alackl As is the piece of shell upon your back" How bigoted! Upon my back, indeed, don't believe it's there, For don't see it; and do declare, For all her fond deceivin', What can't see, never will believe ini
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-26

Best New Process Flour, 9Oc. per bag. New Turkish Prunes, four pounds, 25c. Best 150 test Bush & Denslow Kerosene Oil, five gallons 70c. Choice New Crop New Orleans Molasses, only COG. per gallon. Fine Porto Rico Molasses, 50c per gallon. Twenty-two bars Ozone Soap, S1. Twenty-Five bars Albion soap, GA oz.) $l. Splendid Japanese, Oolong or mixed Tea, four pounds S1, at ". E. WILLS, 5S State street, Bridge port. Conn.
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-26

Twenty per cent. of Connecticut's roll ing mills have gone out of business since 1879 and the New England foundries. which produced 170,S77 tons of rolled iron and steel in 1880. turned out bu- l02, I'll tons in 1887. A non-partisan pc tition is in circulation among the iron mongers of New England asking Con- gress to help their business by placing iron ore, coke and coal on the free list and reducing the duty on pig iron, scrap iron and scrap steel to what it was be- fore the WAT.
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-26

Mrs Emma P. Ewing talked entertain ingly and instructfsely on s'Household Economy" at Chautauqua. The United
 States wastes every year, that lady says, S5,000,000 in bluing and throws away from s25, 100000 to s100,0O0, 900 in soap grease, while s2O0, ,OOe, 900 more is sacri- feed annually because bread is baked in the shops instead of the family kitchens.
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-26

Speaking of Connecticut mining ven lures and doubtless including Sandy Hooks silver mine, the New Haven Pal ladium remarks: Connecticut people will do we'll to keep in their pockets the mon ey they are invited to spend on gold and silver hunts. A few years ago. there were in Maine over 100 incorporated min ing companies and all classes of people daSbled in the stock. Now the certifi- cates are being used for memorandum pads. The best way to invest in Connee- ticut gold mines is to devote little time to the watching of the enthusiastic dig gers and take your dividends out in fun and sympathy.
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-26

Edward Stanwood now edits the popu- lar Youths Companion. He is statis- tician of such note that he has been ap- pointed special census agent to collect statistics of cotton manufacture through out the United States.
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-26
NUMBER 30.

There are now four tennis courts in town: That of the Newtown Tennis club: at 4. w. Peek's. Mrs Addie Nichols's and Capt Hess's. Mount Pleasant. Prae- ticing goes on nearly every pleasant day and the players are developing not lit- tie skill.
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-26

President Harrison is said to play a
 fairly good game of billiards. 'sThere is nothing brilliant about it and almost any, body in regular practice could give him odds, but he has sufficient command of the balls to make very respectable score.''
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-26

John l.. Sullivan is as thorough-paced a loafer as I ever had anything to do with. All these stories about his great love for his parents and his generosity are the veriest bosh. A more unappreci- ative fellow I never saw and, now that it appears useless to induce him to behave himself, the sooner the truth is told about him the better. Shortly after the fight, the telegram from Sullivan's father ar | rived and Johnston and I cleared the room of everybody and then read the dis
 patch to the big fellow. He didn't pay the slightest attention to it. His indif- ference so enraged Johnston that he told him he ought to be ashamed of himself. ''four poor old mother is lying sick, he said, ssand you don't seem to care a cent. | Why can't you be a man?" The matter with Sullivan is that he hasn't got any brain.-[B Billy Muldoon, Sullivan's train
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-26

Misses Mamie J.and Maggie C.Kane of New York are guests of their uncle. James Farrell of South Center.
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-26

The typographical survey commission. consisting of Prof W. H. Brewer of New Haven, Dr J. H. Chapin of Meriden and J. w. Bacon of Danbury have concluded arrangements for the complete survey of Connecticut. The beginning will be made, this week, at the New York State line near Danbury. Dr Chapin will be with the party.-[ Bridgeport Standard.
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-26

Mrs c. W. Garfield has visited her brother, l.. B. Booth. She is now spend ing few days in Bridgeport.
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-26

The high price of sugar has led to the importation of 10000 tons of beet root sugar from France.
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-26

Three large iron mills in Pennsylvania voluntarily raise prices 25c. per ton in the pudding department.
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-26

The man whom every local reporter avoids is he who always wants the mis- doings of some other human being ''writ- ten up.''
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-26

Mrs D. C. Peck and daughters, Misses Ada and Cora, expect to go this week to Mrs Peck's old home h the beautiful Champlain valley in Vermont, S be gone for some weeks.
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-26

$. Swan of Swan < Bushnell, Bridge port, halted at Newtown for Sunday on a l0-days' drive up the valley of the Housatonic and down the Hudson with his family
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-26

Thomas Farrell, ,Jr, is again on duty at
 E. J. Halls shop after two-weeks' vaca- tion.
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-26

The wife of Rev Prof Francis T. Rus sell of St. Margarct's, Waterbury, was buried on Monday She was daughter of Mrs l.. H. Sigourney, the poetess.
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-26

We congratulate New Milford that its button company, though burned out, has decided to stick to New Milford and put up large brick factory.
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-26

Jerusalem has over 30,OO0 Hebrew population. which outnumbers the Mos lens and Christians combined.
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-26

Eighteen thousand dollars pledged toward the erection of an Episcopal church at East Norwalk.
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-26

Ten couples from Bridgeport and else where gave Miss Mamie Lyons pleas ant surprise, recently.
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-26

- Miss Mamie E. Farrell is home on Va
 cation.