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Connecticut western news., 1890-01-08
THE WOMAN OF TO-DAY.

With Hebrew, Greek and Latin
 She's acquainted more or less; And she's obviously pat in
 All the modern languages. She has read her Herbert Spencer, Her Kant, and Schopenhauer, And in logic she's fencer
 Of unquestionable power. She is full of keen suggestion,
 Be the subject what it may; And on every social question,
 She has something apt to say. You may see her quick eye kindle With . bright and vivid flame At the mention of a Tyndan
 Or Huxley's potent name. Scraps of learning she will dish up With skill that makes them live. She will argue with Bishop,
 Say on Church Prerogative; With her own sex she will chatter, In the proper time and place, On some trivial household matter, With quaint and lively grace. She instructs the untrained servant, To perform bis task with ease; And if called on will wax fervent Over infantile disease. She can cook and wash and mangle, (Though perhaps she'd rather not), Play tennis. ride and angle,
 And is quite 8 champion shot. From the public platform you will Find her talking fact or myth, With the vigor of Whewell,
 Or the wit of Sydney Smith. 'Mongst mere minnows she's Triton Who will always have her way; She's an Admirable Crichton,
 Is the Woman of To-day.
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-08
CANAAN, CONN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1s9O
An Algerian Wedding Feast.

A marriage celebration in Algeria is an interesting relic of ancient customs. The bridegroom goes to bring the bride, and the guests assembled outside the house will wait for his coming. Soon the sound of pipes is heard com- ing from the summit of some neigh boring hill, and the marriage proces- sion approaches the bridegroom's house. The pipers always come first in the procession, then the bride muf1ed up in a veil, riding mule led by her lover. Then comes bevy of gorgeous ly dressed damsels, sparkling with silver ornaments, after which the friends of the bride follow. The pro- cession stops in front of the bride- groom's house, and the girls friends line both sides of the pathway. The pipers march off on one side, while the bridegroom lifts the girl from the mule, and holds her in his arms. The girls friends thereupon throw earth at the bridegroom, when he hurries for ward and carries her over the threshold of his house. Those about the door beat him with olive branches, amid much laughter.
 In the evenings, on such occasions, the pipers and drummers are called in, and the women dance, two at time, facing each other; nor does a couple desist until, panting and exhausted, they step aside to make room for an- other. The dance has great energy of movement, though the steps are small and changes of position slight, the dancers only circling round occasion ally. But they swing their bodies about with an astonishing energy and suppleness. As leaves 1utter before the gale, so do they vibrate to the mu- sic; they shake; they shiver and tremble; they extend quivering arms, wave veils, and their mlnds seem lost in the abandon and frenzy of the dance, while the other women, look ing on, encourage by their high, piercing, trilling cries, which add to the noise of the plpes and drums Ladies' Home Journal.
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-08
Different From Ours.

We notice that Chicago grocer is advertising "new maple sugar-first in market" In our climate we make maple sugar in the spring, but Illinois is different from ours, and her trees are on tap in December. You pays your money and takes your sugar.
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-08

Jess bent her head over this table and studied it intently.
 "Are you estimating what it will cost us to keep house?" she asked.
 "Yes," was the dreary reply.
 "I think can improve on that list, :" she said. "Now, cut off from my esti- nation of clothing $s5O and add $15O to your estimate of your clothing. De- duct $100 from the cost of recreation and so forth and another $1OO off the rent. Reduce the servants wages $50. I am sure our furniture won't cost more than $7O0, but you can let the yearly installments stand. I think you had better add $25 to the cost of food. Now, how much difference does it maker"
 "Eight hundred and eighty-fve dol lars."
 "And the $10 deficit you make by your figuring reduces this to $875. I can live on this if you can."
 And he said he'd try it if she would.
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-08
SOMETHING NEW IN WATCHES.

SVMEVd1NU NEW IN VA4CnG0s dramatically Sealed and Running For
 Three Years.
 He entered New York shop and asked for watch.
 Iwant something that will keep time," he said.
 The dealer brought small velvet rug and placed two watches on it, one a superb gold instrument and the other nickel plated.
 "Do you recommend these?"
 "We do."
 "This," touching the gold one, "is by Badolet; I cannot say who made the other"
 "Both Swiss?"
 "Both."
 "And the prices?"
 "For the Badolet, $345; for the ether es.5o."
 'sSix dollars and half against $345 Both keep time; one keeps as good time as the other. Do you really recommend this nickel affair.""
 "We do. We have sold numbers of them and have heard no complaint. No such watch can be made in this country for anything like the price. It seems cheap enough at $6.5O, but you know there is duty of 25 per cent. on it, besides which we make a small profit. dare say the same watch can be bought in Paris for 20 francs"
 "Those foreigners have recently made remarkable improvements in watches and clocks, which sooner or later will bring about complete revo- lution in horology. A journeymsn clockmaker in the neighborhood of Lyons has invented a method of making lady's watch go without be- ing wound up during whole year, a mans watch during three years, pendulum of middling size twenty years, and public clock for space of 280 years.
 "He manufactures watches of so small size that they are worn in finger-rings, taking the place of a seal, and require winding but once in fifteen days. Of course you have heard of the watch worn by the Empress Marie Louise on the forefnger of her left hand. That was a rare jewel, and was said to have cost 25O, ,O0O francs. Fifty francs will buy one like it now.
 "There is one great drawback to these watches: They can be wound up only by the inventor himself, or those acquainted with his secret. The works are inclosed in cases hermeti- cally sealed. But coming back to the business in hand, this $6.50 is stem- winder and wants winding every day like every other good and honest watch. And the beauty of such 8 watch is that you can carry it in the same pocket with your knife and keys, and when bootjack isn't handy it's . good thing to shy at cats in their matutinal concerts. Every man, every gentleman should provide himself with two watches. I'll make you special offer: Take the two at $S50. We re- commend both."
 cit isn't half bad idea. Let's see -Tu tell you what I'll do. Give me the nickel watch for $5, and if it proves entirely satisfactory in months wear I'll take the other. What do you say2"
 The dealer was somewhat doubtful about saying, and still more doubtful about his customer, and the result was no trade.
 l
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-08
Why Mobile iS Hanny.

Mobile is jubilant over the opening of her harbor to large sea-going vessels. The government has opened the channel by dredging to the depth of nineteen f0At -a AaAAs s-s.s
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-08

It is predicted that long gloves in black Suede will be the prevailing fashion later ill the winter, and the demand is said to be so sudden that it is not yet possible to fill advance orders.
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-08

hc cnanSeu HIS plan ana put an lSlanQ in the centre of the lake.
 Serpentine walks were laid through the beautiful grounds that were cun- ningly arranged to lead those who fol- lowed them to some delightful bit of landscape. Statues that had cost thou sands of dollars were mounted on pedestals that rose from mounds of earth purposely contrived for their re- ception. An enormous amount of money was expended on the grounds about the house, but the house itself was the wonder of the community. It was so large and pretentious and costly that its fame penetrated the whole State, and it was known as Bowers mansion.
 Few people can imagine low the beauty of the place was exaggerate1 when it was seen by eyes wearied of the endless sage green undulating sea of brush in State where grew scarce ly tree or blade of grass. It cost | hundreds of thousands of dollars, and to the eye of the tired traveller, his throat parched with alkali dust, ii looked as if it might have cost millions. Men went there from hundred miles distant to lie on the grass by the pond under the spreading branches of a tree and listen to the murmur of pleasant fountains.
 Sandy made his house as open and free to the traveller as his grounds He hung the walls with tapestries and costly pictures and fine carpets and ricf ruep covered tho floors and hallwsys
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-02-14
borse Department.
THE MORGAN REGISTER,

A Register intended to include all stations
OF merit that trace in direct line to Justin
Morgan and having at least one sixty-fourth
of his blood. All such stations toaled in or
before 1880 are admitted free. A fee of one
dollar is charged tor registering each stallion
foaled since 1880, and tor each mare Whenever
foaled. All mares are eligible that have the
descent and Inheritance above prescribed Tor
stations. The first volume, the final sheets
of which are now being revised tor the press,
will contain about four thousand pedigrees,
carefully compiled from original sources, a
sketch of the origin and history of the great
Morgan family, and much other new and orig
inal matter. The book will be illustrated with
portraits of Morgan horses, and handsomely
and substantially bound. The price is not yet
fixed, but will be as low as can be Afforded so
that the work may be widely distributed.
plan of first exhausting all practicable means
OF getting ana verifying information, discrim-
mating rigidly between what is known and
what is unknown, and setting down nothing
as ascertained which is in doubt. Sources OF
Information win be given in each pedigree so
that every reader can verify the work for
himself. Full descriptions of the animals reg
istered will be given, and tables showing the
merits of the Morgans, as compared with 9th
err families, tor both speed and endurance on
the track, will be appended. Entries will be
received tor IA short time further, and blanks
furnished on application. Address
JOSEPH BATTELL,
Mddlebury, VT.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-02-14
SHAOElAND.

We call our readers attention to the adv.
of Messrs. Powell Brothers, whose stock
has become so well known throughout
America that no argument is needed to
convince one desiring choice animals of
any breed of the wisdom of visiting their
establishment before making a selection.
They feel justified in saying that their
experience as breeders and importers,
their facilities, low rates of transporta-
ton, large numbers constantly on hand
(now being over 1000 head of pure bred
live stock and the extent of their bust
ness enables them to offer inducements
to any desiring to purchase fine live
stock not surpassed by any one firm in
this country.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-02-14

got by Lexington Star, son Of Columbus
Navigator; I'd dam Lady Lexington, said
to be by Old Lexington.
Registered by A. b. Wakeman & Son,
Bedford, Iowa:
JUSTIN MORGAN, JR., dark brown
most black, l6 hands, 1900 lbs; foaled
1882; bred by r. c. Emmerson, Queen
City, Mo-; got by Young Honest John,
son of Honest John: dam dark bay, bred
by I. c. Emmerson, Quincy, H., got by
Senator Singleton's Silver-heels, son of
Black Hawk.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-02-14

T lchi Ban, record , 20.
Redwood, record , PSI.
Sire of Trink-
et,2 n; TWEEN
ty-two in , 80
Princeps list; / in , 30
list; six sires
and six dams
OF , 80 horses
Pluto, sire of 3 in . 80
: list.
Abdalbrino, sire of Al
tar, , % :.
Maxim, sire of , in 2 80
list.
Parmenus, sire OF Daisy
D., 2;30.
Rosebush, dam of Chi
chester, , 2ji4, he
the sire OF Chetwood
. ;2S41.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-02-14
ANIMALS REGISTERED
IN THE MORGAN REGISTER

IN THE MICHIGAN REGTS TER.
Registered by Hon. Walter |. Hayes,
Clinton, Iowa:
STAR ROYAL, chestnut, strip in face
and hind legs white foaled 1889; bred by
Mailman Bros, Clinton, Iowa; got by
Star of the West, son of Flying Cloud
dam, Lady Hughes, chestnut, bred by w.
A. Kentner, Dixon, H.; got by Royal
Chief, son of Niagara Chief; I'd dam bay,
bred by w. A. Kentner, got by Herring
ton Horse, son of Eastman Morgan.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-02-14
CONSUMPTION SURELY CURED.

To the Edtor-Plcasc inform your
readers that have 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-oflice address. Respect
fully, T. A. SLOCUM, NJ. D., ISL Pearl
ST., New York. 1v1
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-02-14
VIEWS OF SUCCESSFUL BREED
Frs,

"SPRING STATION, KY, Dec. %, 1889.
"Editor Nec York Sportsman:
"In answer to your letter regarding
thoroughbred blood in the trotter, had
thought | would not Join in the discus
sion, but as you especially wish it, you
will pardon me for writing more freely
on the subject than categorical answer
to your queries would require | have
been misGuoted on both sides of the
discussion, and the experience of Wood
burn has been quoted to prove the adj
yantages and disadvantages of thor
oughbred blood, until there is a doubt
where we stand on the question.
ain order that the student of this
very fascinating science of breeding
may understand what our experience
has been with the use of thoroughbred
blood, will give Il few statistics taken
from an old catalogue of 1866; they may
give some new illustrations, and not be
without use in determining the value of
thoroughbred blood if there is any long
er "A question of its being beneficial.
"lSG3 and 1851 were the only two
seasons Alexander's Abdallah made at
WOODBURY., and the last two that Pilot,
Jr., made, both stations having died
early in 1860. More thoroughbred
mares were bred to trotting stations in
these years than any other in the his
tory of the farm, so that from the quail
ty of the stations used and in the mum
Der of foals, these years give fair test
of the comparative merits of the strictly
trotting-bred and the animals with thor.
oughbred ancestry.
"In the 1866 catalogue | find that the
! flles foaled in 1864 and 1865 by Pilot
Jr and Alexander's Abdallah were just
thirty. Sixteen of them were out OF
the best trotting brood mares of theil
days, such as Black Rose. Madam bud
ley, Madam Temple, Grey Goose, Mother
/ Hubbard, etc, most of them III the grea
/ brood-mare list now. Fourteen were
out of strictly thoroughbred mares witt
no trotting or pacing crosses. As the
stations were dead these lillies wer,
bred or sold young, and little efior
made to develop their speed, but in wha
work they had, Miss Russell, out of
thoroughbred, was the fastest of thu
lot, she trotting in , n as Il three-year
old, very fast for that date.
"Of the sixteen trotting-bred file
the following were producers of speed
Tulip, Primrose and Virginia, two o
them in the great brood mare list. Tn
following table gives the speed the,
produced: Tulip, dam of Ulva, recor,
2:27.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-02-14
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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-02-14
Miss Russell, dam of
Heiress, dam of

"Six dams of thirteen in 2 80 list /;
six sires of forty-two in 80, out of
fourteen mares whose dams are thor
oughbred, as against the showing of the
sixteen mares whose dams were trotting
bred.
81 have not attempted to ascertain
how many of these thirty FLIES lived to
breed, or specialized on their opportun-
ties, supposing that the chances were
about equal for all, | must confess that
these statistics rather startled me, and
threw some light on the breeding prob
lem, especially as we cannot believe
that Pilot Jr. and AleXander's Abdallah
will compare in prepotency with some
of the highly bred trotting stations of
the present day. We must expect that
with the stations now in use more
speed will result from direct and sub
sequent crosses of thoroughbred than
did from the experiments of twenty
five years ago, when little was known
of what well-bred trotter meant.
"The part the thoroughbred is play
ing in the fast trotter of today is mar
vellOus, when it is considered how few
thoroughbred mares have ever been
bred to trotting stations, in comparison
with those that have no thoroughbred
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-02-14
Primrose, dam of

"Virginia, dam of fremont, record
, :2S5, sire of Junemont, record 2:lSi,
and one other in , 80 list: three dams of
four in , 80 list; six sires of thirty-one
, 80 horses, and one dam of = 80 horse.
These were all the producers of speed |
can find resulting from the sixteen trot-
ting-bred fillies of 1864 and 1865.
oughbred dams, the following were the
speed producers: Miss Russell, Mid
night, Fadette, Vanity Fair, Madge and
Heiress, five of them in great brood
mare list.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-02-14
Bright's Disease.
A Ten-Year-Oid Child Saved After the
Failure of -Four Physicians.

My little girl ten years Of age. taken sick in
March, 1888. with scarlet fever. When recovering
she took severe cold, which developed Bright's
Disease Of the Kidneys. Her ankles, feet and eyes
were terribly swollen she hal a burning fever, and
all the symptoms Of an aggravated case Of lght's
Disease. Fourof our best physicians attended her.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-02-14

Maud $, record .Osa4.
Nutwood, record = lS4
Cora Belmont record
2:24is.
Russia, record ;2s.
Nutwood, sire OF 33 in
80 list. in ; 20 list !;
sircs and dam OF
az 80 performer.
Miss Russell, dam OF MambrinO Russell, sire
OF five in 30 list,
and one sire OF II
80 animal.
Lord Russell, sire OF
Redwood, PSI.
Nutbourne sire of in
80 list.
Nutula, dam of Maud.
lin, , :2jit.
Ntidnich+ dan, of JAY Eye-See, record 10
'e"'' w " NoOntide, record , ;20it
(Favonia, record 2 10.
Fadette, dam OF Glenview, sire of Eu-
clid, ? PSI
Madge dam of Magenta, record :241.
Conway, pacing record
2IS94.
Vanity Fair, dam OF , ~ a.,
BelwOOd, sire of w Van,
record :25h.
(FoXie, record 2 :lSA.
Heiress, dam OF. Nightingale, record,
2 ISL
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-02-14
Her Life was Despaired of.

But mothers love and prayers surmount all diha-
culties and determined to try Dr. David Kennedy's
Favorite Remedy, made at Rondout, n. Y. This was
alast resort. and ho.cd although my little daugh-
ter's very one. that the Favorite
Remedy would do for her what it had done for others
whose condition had not been. seemingly. as hope
less. How happy am that determined upon this
course-for an Improvement at once perceptible.
The fever left her-her appetite improvedshee gained
six pounds in a short time. and one by the well
known and dreaded symptoms of the disease left her.
Words fail to express my gratitude and cannot too
esrnestly recommend the Favorite Remedy Il WA
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-08-21

EpMUNDs is the latest convert to
Blsine's reciprocity scheme. He wants
to vest in the president the power to re-
NIT or impose duties on sugar as the
policy of the sugar producing country on
importations from the e. 8. might make
proper. The senator is anxious to go
farther, even to the extent OF reviving TIE
"non-intercourse" act. He would shut
out wholly the products of those countries
which discriminate against the g. 8. The
learned senator forgets that the policy of
his party is responsible for the discrimi-
nation against this country by the coun-
tries Of Europe. The republican party
conducted the campaign of 1888 on the
policy that trade with foreign countries
was undesirable, and victory was won
on that issue. Foreign countries were
justified IN believing that the q. 8. meant
what it said. No country is willing to
exist solely for the benefit of others and
the e. S. will soon come to the conclu-
sion that reciprocity means mutual e1-
change. No country will be sustained in
the selfish position that it can demand
everything and may yield nothing. When
the senator complains OF the unwilling
ness OF foreign countries to receive our
products he should remember that they
are only adopting our policy with refer
ence to them. What they are doing we
have done. 1t is babyish to whine because
we are getting little OF the medicine we
prepared for others
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-08-21
Activity In London Streets.

The thing that most astonished me
about London. and that l had been
least prepared to see there. was the
amazing activity in the streets. A
New Yorker born and bred, who has
seen the principal American cities,
fancies that there can be nothing in
the world like Fulton street and Broad
way. But after oac hour oasfoot in
London he will regard that heart of
New York's traffic much as a turbulent
old sailor heard of regarded TWEEN
ty-two calibre revolver. What are
you going to do with that pea-shooter?"
he asked. Nobody would he afraid
of that. Stand Off bit and fire at me
= few times till | see what it will do.
Now. if you happened to have knife
about you and felt sassy, I'd feel
afraid Of YOU"
London is full of Fulton streets and
Broadways, and at them and in all the
other streets the cabs and hansoms fly
about in such hot and apparently
reckless way that 1 always felt while |
was there that the only reason / did
not read of hundred thousand run
over" accidents every morning in the
papers was that it would be doing vio-
lence to the organic principles Of the
London press to print the news. l
confess | was more than half afraid to
cross the crowded streets, and with
fear which is engendered in New York
in few places aud on few occasions. /
was assured by tho citizens that they
are all so accustomed to project their
coat tails at right angles to their
bodies, and to invoke divine aid be-
tween the flying hoois Of horses, when
ever they need to cross street, that
they are rs adept at it rs an American
lightniug-rod man is at dolging mis-
siles. Yet | observed that Dickens. in
his Dictionary of London. thinks it
worth while t, suggest that the only
way to go fro NJ curb To cilrb is to make
up Your mini whs. course you will
take and then stick To it. because then
the London cabbies wiz. divine your
intenfions To change vour mind
white ca route is 10 co.If8sc the cab
men, aud cause YOU 10 make Your
return journey to America ia the form
OF freight. Then. again. ! found that
in the western earl uf the Strand
that is. down by Temple Bar and the
Law Coarts-200 more nr less Inan.ied
bodies are sent 10 the Caarinr Cross
Hospital every yeai.-Ja{!da EdiI,a, IN
Hdrpcr's Hcekig.