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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-09
German Views Regarding Tobacco.

The most famous writers, physicians and
artists of Germany have expressed their
opinion recently on the use of tobacco. The
aggregate verdict is that smoking and
snuff taking are injurious but seductively
pleasant practices. The statement of Pro
fessor Paul Meyerheim, noted as an ami
nal painter, is both interesting and anus
ing in this connection. He writes
What | have to tell about my own smoking
habit is far from interesting. / smoke indiffer-
ent, light cigars. and know little about the
stronger and better grades. 1t may mt crest you
to know, however, what my models in the
z, illogical garden think of tobacco. The com
mon brown bears are passionate enthusiasts fop
it. When l blow smoke through the bars they
push forward and rub their backs and heads
against the iron over which the smoke passed
This is invarable. Not long ago blew through
a hollow stick pinch of snuff into the nose of q
sleeping lion The brute sat up straight. sneezed
violently, and then lay down TO sleep content
eddy All goats, deer, llamas and SO on eat
cigars and snuff with great eagerness | once
made "A very ugly llama my friend by feeding it
daily with snuff remember that one day the
brute spat vicously on several soldiers who were
teasing him, and that one of them exclaimed,
Holy Moses! how his breath smells of snuff"
The big balloons also breathe with satisfaction
the smoke from cigars. You see, do not smoke
for my own pleasure alone
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-09

from Joseph Hoffman to Tommy Russell.
Chicago now presents to the public two of
this class, youthful pianist and "A youth
full violinist
Master Leon Marx is a graceful and
handsome boy of ID, who began with the
violin at the age of Z. and soon displayed
so much talent that he was put under the
tuition of Mr.. Henry Schraedieck, of Gin
cinnati, and won the Springer gold
medal" He was born in Cincinnati in
1876.
Gussie Cottlow is two years younger
born in Shelbyville, Ills, in 1873 Her father
is merchant and her mother was teacher
before marriage. TIE mother is possessed
of marked musical ability, and her daugh-
ter showed it in an increased degree as
soon as she could speak plainly. Her
mother taught her the piano, and at the age
of she played with marked success AT
ter some years devoted to the common
school she entered on a three years course
on the piano, and now ranks among the
youthful wonders. 1t is pleasure TO add
that she is noticeably rosy and robust, as
full of fun and life AS any 12-year-old need
be and fairly we'll educated in the common
branches.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-09

This first plunge leaves no agreeable
memories. They dress you as if had TO en-
dure the cold of Siberia, a precaution which
have found useless in the Mediterranean
With knit wooden hose, cap and shirt, |
have never felt the cold. Then comes the
ample coat, which we get into through the
neck hole, and the casque which resounds rs
if one had his head in a kettle Then they
put on you belt with dagger, shoes with
loaded soles, and lead at your breast and
back. Now you are so loaded that you
could hardly stand straight if the boat
should tip. Then you go down into the wa
ter where all the weight is no longer felt.
Now different feeling begins At the
command pump" some one rapidly
screws down the glass in front of your
casque, and you hear noise to which you
have accustomed yourself-pah! pah pail
accompanied by Kissing of the air. Lit.
tie whitfs of air come to you, scented with
machine oil and caoutchouc. The begin
ner fails to manage the escape, and his
coat and sleeves become inflated, SO that
when he wants to go down, he floats like
those frogs we used to blow up when we
were boys and then throw upon the
water to amuse ourselves with their vain
struggles to get under it.-Professor Her
mann Fol in Popular Science.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-09

sonal, and stirred up all the old factions.
The priests took an active part against
Parnell; every man of them was at the
polls distributing ballots and exhorting
his Pensioners.
The Unionists or Conservatives, num-
bering less than a fourth of the voters,
voluntarily refrained from taking any
part, as they desired to see fair test be-
tween the two factions of Home Rulers
The result is an overwhelming victory for
the nti-Parnellites their candidate re-
ceiving nearly two-thirds of the votes cast.
Mr.. Vincent Scully, the defeated Parnell-
tie, is a wealthy land owner who has not
only granted all reasonable demands of
his tenants, but has for years given one
third of his income to the Land League
fund.
Sir John Pope Hennessy, the victorious
candidate, is much less popular, but far
more talented at least, the events of his
life would so indicate. He was born in
Cork in 1884, and was noted from the first
as the only Irish Catholic Conservative.
He began political life in the humble posi-
ton of a clerk in the government office at
Somerset house, London. He talked the
Disraeli men into believing that the Irish
Catholics were naturally conservative and
was sent over to convert" them. He sue
ceeded so far as to get into parliament for
one of the divisions of Cork, and there his
mission ended.
He was long the subject for satire as the
lone Catholic Conservative, and Anthony
Trollope took him for the original of his
novel, "Phineas Finn: The Irish Member"
He was then noted rs a gay bachelor, the
Irish hunting squire and West end soci-
ETY. man in one. Nevertheless he did much
good work, passed an examination in the
law and was admitted to practice; was
created knight, and in 1867 entered the
colonial service to remain in it over TWEEN
ty years He was successfully governor
of Labuan, the west African settlements,
Hong Kong, acquiring distinction and
wealth.
Retiring from that service he purchased
the famous Rostellan castle, in county
Cork, and at once took high rank among
the highest gentry. Much amusement WIS
created at the time by popular and news
paper speculntionS about Lady Ienncssy,
whom he had married in the Mauritius.
1t was known that she was a native of
that island aud very wealthy, but opinion
was divided as to whether she was black,
brown or yellow. Nothing less than "A good
look at her convinced the Cork onans that
she was of pure European blood. Sir John
set his stakes for "a parliamentary career
as soon as he located in Ireland took
moderate position in favor of home rule,
and when the split came went with the
anti-Parnellites
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-09
varying from that of a nut to mans head.

varying from that of a nut to a mans head.
A piece weighing one pound might be
worth $50, but piece weighing twelve or
thirteen pounds would be thought cheap
at 5000. In the time OF the Romans Nero
used an amber drinking cup, and an amber
dish represented the countenance and his
tory of Alexander. The historian Gibbon
tells us that among the Greeks the mate
rial was so greatly appreciated that the
amphitheatres were adorned with either
silver, gold or amber.
In modern times amber is chiefly OBJ
tanned on sea coasts after storms, when it
is either picked up on the beach or sought
after by men who walk up to their necks
in the waves, with long poles to which
nets are attached; or it is gathered from
precipitous cliffs by men in boats, who go
armed with poles and iron hooks, and
loosen fragments of rocks in exploring
them. The latter methods are not with
out danger to the amber seekers. Amber
occurs in beds In Greenland, Prussia,
France and Switzerland, but the greater
portion of it comes from the southern
coasts of the Baltic sea, where it is thrown
up between Koenigsberg and Memel. 1t is
also obtained by mining at distance of
POO feet or more from the sea, and has been
met with in gravel beds near London. Not
many wears opo snecimens were found IN
Cane Sable in MARYLAND
In 1874 the amber gathering on the sbores
of the Baltic was more abundant than ever
before known at the same snot Tn rho vii.
lace of Koblberp alone. where the nrodrct
was EARNED" it is estimated that twenty
thousand thalers worth of amber was picked
up in the course of a few weeks. 1t is sup
pOsed that this increased nuantitv rasultad
from the violent .torns that nrevaiiod Nv,
the coasts of the Rattle dnring the nreced.
ing winter. bv which the treasure was
thrown mn from tho botton, of tho soo
One of the LARGEST nieces of amber ot nros
ont known is in tho ROYAL c,hinet ot por
lin its weight being about eighteen nounds
II is n mistake to sunnosa that ,nhor is
only used tn tin mines or Give additionaI
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-09

able. For all we know to the contrary, it
was contemporaneous with Adam and
Eve. The prophet Ezekiel speaks of "a
great cloud with a fire Unfolding it and a
brightness about it as of the color of
amber" The classic writers of old COM
pared it with the yellow tresses of the celes-
tial divinites.
Sophocles sang of amber as "the con-
gealed tear drops Of the birds that mourned
the death of Meleager." As tradition hath
it, "the sisters of Meleager wept unceas-
ingly after his death, until Diana changed
them into guinea hens, which were trans
ferred to the island of Leros" A still
older fable, coeval with Hesiod himself
(who lived about 135 b. c., and wrote an
account of the birth of the world and the
origin of the gods, relates how Phae-
thon paid the penalty of his drive across
the heavens in the chariot of the sun,
Zeus having killed him with flash of
lightning and hurled him down into the
river Eridanus. His sisters the Heliada
daughters of Helos (the sum, who had
yoked the horses to the chariot bewailed
the death of their brother so bitterly that
the gods, in compassion, changed them
into poplar trees that shed 'tears of am
ber" In later times the Eridanus was
supposed to be the same as the river Po
because amber was found on it's banks
Hence the Electrodes insula or Gambler
islands," are placed at it's mouth
The philosophers showed themselves
scarcely less imaginative than the poets.
With them amber was liquid produced
by the rays of the setting sun, or an excre-
ton of the ocean thrown up by its waves
in the spring, or the gum of certain trees
growing on some of the inaccessible islands
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-09
Seal of the Confederacy.

The great seal of the Confederate states
is now in the Office of the South Carolina
secretary of state. The seal and its press
are silver, having been made of that metal
because it is not affected by climate and
moisture. The handle is ivory and the seal
itself bears likeness of Washington mod
eled after the equestrian statue in Rich
mond, wreath composed of leaves and
flowers of the staple crops of the south an
inscription, The Confederate States of
America, - February, 1862" and the mot
to, "Deo Nendice."
The seal and press were made in England
at cost of about 5000, and reached Rich
mond just about the time of the evacua-
tion in 1865, so that no official use was ever
made of it.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-09
A Book That Impressed Washington.

George Washington's famous Rules of
Civility," which, in his boyish handwrit-
ing, he had copied from some unknown
original into the old blank book that is
now in the archives at Washington, but so
badly gnawed by rats as to be in parts illeg-
ible, has been traced by that indefatigable
literary explorer Mr. Moncure d. Conway
to French source One version of the
RULES" he finds in manual sent by the
Jesuit monks of the college of La Fleche
to their fellow monks at Pont-a-Mousson
in 1895. Another version appears, nearly
fifty years later, in a little treatise pub
lished in London by a youthful prig of I.
years, Francis Hawkins by name. and from
these two relics Mr.. Conway has supplied
the missing articles of the dirnilied young
Virginian's code of manners. - Harper
Bazaar.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-09

escape from the viscid mass. Bees, wasps,
gnats, spiders and beetles have been OBJ
served in specimens, and because they
were imbedded ages ago in the soft tree
gum they are in demand by collectors and
by college museums, where the Enclosures
are subjects of careful study by naturalists.
The discovery of such piece of amber is a
bit of good fortune, for unusual value is
attached to the unlucky prisoner.
Very beautiful specimens containing
insects ages old may be seen in the estab-
lishment of an amber expert and mer-
chant in New York city. If he takes the
fancy he will lead you into "A queer looking
little workshop. The walls look as if they
were afflicted with an eruption of carving
tools Odd looking lathes and polishing
machines, racks and cabinets full of the
raw and half completed material, are all
around you. Pulling out nest of draw
ers he will show you "A great quantity of
dull looking irregularly shaped humps,
and explain that no pTudhct is more Varia-
bic III price. one lot may he purchased
tor !; Il pound. while another, that appears
to the Impractical eye cot whit more
valuable, may be Wort. $50
The amber is found in different sizes,
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-09

sixty-five years a
resident of that
city, has reawak-
ened p bile in
terest in his liter
airy work. He was
born July %, 1926,
and while a youth
became noted for
his crayon sketch
es and excellence
as "a water color
list. Prose litera
ture and poetry,
bnNUayar latar an
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-09
One of Florida's Queer Fish.

In the Halifax and Hillsboro rivers of
Florida thrives the "wine fish" 1t is about
inches in diameter and from to 10
inches long. On being disturbed it can
tinge the water for some distance by ex-
uding red liquid, of which it seeing to
have a large supply.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-09

An Indiana avenue street car conductor
says: have been in all the divisions of the
city. began on the west side. and don't
remember much that saw in those DAYS
that was peculiar to the people over there
except one thing. There used to be what
was called a cross town car 1t ran from
Ashland avenue east on Madison street.
turning south on Clark, then east on Van
Buren, street over to Wabash avenue 1t
carried the mail-that is, mail bag from
the west side station hung on the rear of
the car and was thrown off at IA south side
corner, where one of the postofce men
took charge of it.
We'll, SIR | used to see women coming
down Madison street after me, signalling
me to stop. We used to stop anywhere in
those days. So when ] saw one of the
ladies coming | rung stop, and the
driver would check up in the middle of the
block as like as not. Then we would wait
for the lady, and when she caught up she
would say, Here's letter I'd thank YOU
to mail" and then turn around and walk
back. got tired of that sort of thing and
got job on the north side.
liked that side pretty WE'LL but could
never get used to the way they had of
punching me in the back when they want
ed me to get off. Sometimes that's all
right. But used to be standing on the
back platform all alone, few people in the
car, when one of them would get up walk
to me and go cleal around, punch me in
the back, and say, Next corner" don't
know as they do it now. But it caused me
to leave. I've been over here for two years
have witnessed one funny thing on this
side. A person on the corner who wants
the car TO stop will put up one finger and
keep ii up until he gets inside the car
don't know what makes them, but they all
do it.-Chicago Tribune
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-09
His Place Defined.

Fannie-Who is that absurd little man?
Jack-That is Mr. Sawdoff, one of the
brightest editors in town.
Fannic-lnen of course, he is that mys-
FERROUS thing 50 often hear Of
blackwell,
Fannie-Ihe editorial wee.-Pittsburg
Bulletin.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-09
THE BATTLE IN KILKENNY.
Career of the Man who Defeated Par
neIps Candidate.

The recent election in the north parlia-
mentary division of Kilkenny was indeed
unique 1t is no exaggeration to say that
it interested the civilized world-not only
because there are Irishmen in every part
of Christendom and all took an interest in
it, but even the least informed among
other people realized that in some way the
result would nightly influence the future
of Ireland. Every possible element was
involved The campaign was social, po-
litical and religious; it was furiously per-
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-09

that will vie in perfection with the most
famous statues, and yet there may not be
half an incn of substance on which to carve
the lines.
Take it all in all. amber in it's history
and results constitutes one of the most in
teresting studies in natural history, and to
see the deft workman evolve from the
crude mass forms of beauty on which the
eye loves TO linger is a luxury that is en-
joyable by every devotee of high art
FELIX G. DE FoNTAINE
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-09
THE TEARS OF THE BIRDS
A VALUABLE SUBSTANCE WHICH Is
GROWING SCARcER EACH YEAR.

Amber in Romance and in Commerce.
What the Ancients Thought of 1t, and
the Uses to Which Moderns Have APP
piled 1t.
Copyright by American Press Association
Amber has so long been identified with
the luxury of perfect enjoyment behind
pipe or cigar that it is not pleasant to be
reminded that the supply is gradually di-
minishing and unless new deposits are
found it will eventually be exhausted
Familiar as most people are with the sub
stance, few realize as they touch to their
lips the pretty bit of color that it is
product of nature dating so far back in the
ages that no record of its origin is attain
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-09
TWO TALENTED CHILDREN.

Great Musical Ability Developed at an
Early Age.
The present decade has been wonder
fully prolific of talented children-prodi-
gies in various lines-and it, is very pleas
ing to observe that nearly all of them are
truly childlike in all respects save their
exceptional ability. They are healthy,
happy, modest and childlike children,
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-09

good remedy for sore mouth is one
Ieaspoonful each of powdered borax and
alum, one-half teaspoonful of soda and one
teacupful of sage tea. Mix well and rinse
the mouth frequently
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-09

The recent death of Charles Jefferson
Lukens, IA scholar of distinguished merit,
"A native of Philadelphia, and for nearly
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-02
CONNECTICUT HUCKLEBERRlES
A SUMNER INDUSTRY NOW At ITS HEIGHT
TARPON CAUGHT NEAR NEw-1oypoy.

A SIMMER INDUSTRY NOW At ITS HEIGHT
TARPON CAUGHT NEAR NEw-LoyDoN
Norwich, Aug. (Specian.-The huckleberry harvest
Is now black In Eastern Connecticut, and squads of
young and old Pc pie 20 forth daily In all the rural
towns to get IT, II is of the most important sum
crops In the state and nowhere else does it grow
futflly. 1t requires little capital to be a buckle
berry picker and not much clothes As soon r. the
has peeped over the horizon parties Of berrygah-
quit this city each day and they 60 to the fields
in squads of from five T. twenty-five persons merry
climbing their pals In the brown pastures they labor
industllousy the hot sun. and return home az sun
SET each harvester bearing from three twelve quarts
of berries They get from six 10 eight cents quart
for the huckleberres Early in the season when the
rpened berries few, they readily sell their wares
al twelve and fifteen cents. The season Is
at Its height and several thousand berry pckers visit
the huckebcrry fields daily Until this season all the
pastures Of Eastern Connecticut have been free the
berry gahcrer but this year the farmers of Chestnut
I'm and Pleasant Valley, In WIndham County, have
posted their pastures and woods with legal notices
that forbid any person persons hunting, fishing.
gathering nuts berries and fruit tTspassng. under
penalty OF the law The farmers say that berry pick
ers like hunters and fishermen throw down bars and
fences. leave gates open. and upset stone walls.
White hucklebcrries like white Lllckblrds. are be-
leved 10 be freak Of nature and science IS at loss TO
account for them. There are known b be three
four places all small ones, in Connecticut. that pro
Once them one Is a small, round knoll In salem, ten
miles west Of this city, that Is not more than sixty
feet in diameter and It annually yields about quart
Of the queer berries They somewhat smaller than
the black huckleberry and their color is opine There
Is another white hucklebeTry patch In Wlndham
Comfy town that is about the size as the Salem
one and third one In the central part Of the state.
It is rare that tarpons come into Northern waters,
but two of the big fish have been caught IN Newton
don Harbor In the last ten days. Both were taken
in pounds near the NewLondon Lighthouse. The first
one which was caugIt last week, weighed eiglty-fve
poupds and New London flsh-deser exhibited it in
his market for the sake Of the curious old salts Of that
whaletown No supposed that another tarpon
would be taken IN this latitude within ten years but
this week Russell Boque got another In his pound west
Of the lighthouse. and Hamilton Powers Co. bought
the fish 1t was four feet long and weighed twenty
two and One-Cuarter pounds.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-02
DANCING ON MOTHERHOOD HEIGHTS.
A SUCCESSFUL PROMENADE CONCERT AND BALL
SOME OF THOSE PRESENT.

A SUCCESSFUL PROMENADE CONCERT AND BALL
SOME OF THOSE PRESENT.
one among the most brilliant social affairs OF the
at the Hotel Netherwood NetlerwoOd Heights,
~ j., was the subscription promenade concert and
ball. given H. Professor Greenop's excellent orchest
on Thursday evening last. large number Of Plain
field people were present. The concert was fine
affair. after which dancing began at 10 O'Clock.
About $50 people were present. Among them were
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. c. Ogden, Mr.. and Mrs W. B. ogden,
Miss Ogden w. Ogden, jr., Mr.. and Mrs F. F. Robins,
Mr.. and Mr.. II. schsefer Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Richard
son, Miss Richardson. Mr. and Mrs J. F. Spencer Mr.
and Mrs H. ". Williams, Mr.. and Mrs. S. c. scott,
Mr.. aud Mrs. :. II. Tobey, Mr.. and Mrs. G.. E. Thorn
ton, Mr.. and Mrs. Van 2andt. Mr.. and Mrs. c. Arm
strong, Mr.. and Mrs II. X. Adams, Mr.. and Mrs. H. D.
Brewster a. E Benary, Mrs. NJ. Benary, Mr.. and Mrs
H. L. Balch, o. b. Bhdgman, Mr.. and Mrs G.. W.
Crossman Mr. and Mrs a. E. Colson T. NJ Donald
Mr. and Mrs. b. F. Dos Nssos, Mr. and
Mrs. H. Fellrnan and Misses Fellman, Mr. and
Mrs. F. L. Fremont, Mr.. and Mrs a.
L. Gondran Mr. and Mrs. (. J. Hancy
J. August Hnchman, Mr.. and Mrs. d. F. IIarbaugh.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. s. Jordan, Frank Jordan and Miss
Daisy Jordan, Mrs. Kuhne, Miss Rulme and Mr..
Kuhne. Mr.. and Mrs. f. c. Kirk, Mr.. aud Mrs. J.
Lewis. c. G Ladlaw. Miss Ladlaw, Mr.. and Mrs.
". E. McCredy, Colonel +. Martin and wife, Mr..
and Mrs. F. Martin, IT,, Mr.. and Mrs. F. II. Macy,
and Miss Macy, Miss Claire Farchild and E. +. Mccoy
guests Of the MOTEL Miss Lizzie Van BOskercA MISS
Maud Van Boskerck, Miss Annie Murphy, Miss Grace
Cooley. Miss Edith Taylor Miss Jessamy Hart, Miss
Nau COrlles Miss Carrie otreul Miss Grace Garrison
and Bessie GARRISON, chaperoned by Mrs. T. Logan
Murphy; Miss Bowers, Miss Van Deventer, Miss
Miller, Miss Holmes and Miss blackwell, chaperoned
by Mrs. Augustus Van Deventer, Messrs. T. Van
Buske. OK, {. Murphy, r. Cokeialr L. VanBuren, A.
struel Il. Foster, Z. Foster, Z. BloOdgood, l. West
r. Cox, J. Erickson, Il. Erickson, L. Raymond, Il.
Huntin Gton G. Cooley F. San ford. J. sanford F. Claw
and y. Holmes, from Plantied; Miss Frances
Marguerite Graves and Miss Daisy shepard OF Fan
wood.
During the evening George W Crossman started
subscription list for the Fresh-Ar Fund and realized
81 $50 probably 5000 will be reached. 4 large num-
Der Of prominent families from New York and other
cities are here. Tie booking for August Is exccp-
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