davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-01-14

The Louisville C0urier-Jouradl
says: The dollmskers cay that a
colored person never buys a color
ed doll. If the blacks themselves
do not give their color a chance,
what.do they expect from white peo,
pie?
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-01-14

Phil Quisenberry, of Santa Fe
sends us another sample of that
lead ore. He says upon investiga-
ton the ore is found to be three
fourths lead and that it has been
fund in large quantities.
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Collectors Notice.

The non-residents, persons, owners, occu-
pants and prOprietors of lands in the town
of Corinth in the county of Orange and
state of Vermont are hereby notified that
the taxes assessed by said town and state
and school district within the year Of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-nine, one thousand eight hundred
and ninety, ono thousand eight hundred
and ninety-one, are either in whole or in
part unpaid on the following described land
IN said Corinth, to wit: Being forty acres
of land more or less in the town Of Corinth
known as Cops. Hill owned by Hale Davis
estate and is the same land described,in
deed from Eliza Jane Davis to Hale Davis,
and deed dated March I'd, 1854, recorded in
Book u, page 246 of Corinth land records
and so much of said land described viii be
sold at public auction at the town clerks
Office in said Corinth ON the 9th day of
February A. d., 1892, at l o'clock in the af-
ternoon, as shall be requisite to discharge
said taxes with costs, unless previously
lated at Corinth in said Orange county
this 18th day of January, A. D., 1892. iss
Is s. 1. DIvoLL, Collector of Taxes.
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GooPAkAgSGs
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DEVELOPMENT or MUSCLE.

The Striking Manner In Which Cycling
Developed Muscle in an Octogenarian.
The Lancet describes military bicycling
trip, in which the party made 100 miles in
ten hours, and says "The veteran cyclist,
Major Knox Holmes, at the near close of
his eighty-third year, mounted on a tandem
with Mr.. Males, a young rider under eight
cen years of age, accompanied the corps,
and arrived at the termination of the ex-
petition five minutes in advance of the rest.
He was little distressed on dismounting,
from too hard riding the last few miles,
but he soon threw off hisfatigue and joined
his companions at dinner with thorough
zest. His condition is physiolcgically PEE
culiar In twelve weeks new training he
has, in the most striking manner, de
veloped muscle in the external and the
internal vasti, the rectus and the muscles
which form the calf of the leg 1t has be.
come so entirely part of physiological
doctrine that after threescore years and ten
there is no new development of muscle,
that if we had not seen with our own eyes,
as we have, this actual development in one
whose age exceeds by thirteen years the
traditional span of human life, we should
have doubted the possibility of its occur
renee"
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Almost Perpetual Motion.

1t is not generally known that novel
motor is running at the patent office in
Washington, and has been for many years,
which to some minds seems to fulfill the
conditions of perpetual motion. The in
ventor made this claim, but it is hardly
correct, according to The Industrial World,
which says; Perpetual motion is said to
exist in a machine that when once started
will continue to run until worn out
This machine operates by the power given
out in different expansion of metals under
varying conditions and is so small and
carefully constructed that if there was alb
solutely no change in temperature of the
room it would run when once started
thirty eight days before stopping. If it
were possible to put it in some place for
this length of time, rs the center Of the
earth, where the temperature would be
constant it would stop, so does not fulfill
the condition of perpetual motion; but that
cannot be done where the machine now il,
90 it has run for a great many years with
out stopping, and probably will continue
to run until it wears out"
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The French and German Armies.

Sir Charles Dixie has contributed to The
Contemporary Review an article on French
and German soldiers Some of his state
ments are extremely interesting. OF the
recent mgneuvers he says: 1.-THE discipline
of the men ia France is excellent. 1t is
not Prusslan discipline; but French disci-
pline never was and never will be. 1t is per-
haps as good. The discipline of the general
officers is less certain, but the Germans
are wrong in counting on jealousies being
allowed TO paralyze the French command.
The worship o. the scientific side of the
German system among military men has
long been so profound that we get the i'm
preston that Prussians nevererr, and that,
If in some points the French are different
or are defective, they must inevitably be
beaten in that dreaded next war of which
men speak. The Prussians made mistakes
in 1870 1t can hardly be credited, but 1t
is the case that, not to speak Of military er-
rors, which Won Moltke himself has suffi-
GENTLY explained, even German organiza-
ton could not prevent lunatic from APP
pointing himself governor and director OF
the movements of troops In an important
occupied French town ON the main road Of
the southern army"
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Collectors Notice.

The non-residents, persons, owners, occu-
pants and proprietOrs of lands in the town
of Corinth, in the county OF Orange and
state of Vermont, are hereby notified that
the taxes assessed by said town and state
and school district within the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-nine, one thousand eight hundred
and ninety, one thousand eight hundred
and ninety-One, are either in whole or in
part unpaid on the following described land
in Corinth, to wit: Being one hundred and
thirty acres of land. more or less. owned by
c. p. Hartman in the town of COrinth. and
known as the Putnam Hartman farm, and
is . II and the same lands described in deed
from Q. p. Hartman TO J. b Marston by
conditional de d dated Dec. 29th A. ID. 1875
and recorded in book Is page 295 of Cor
NTH Land Records, also reference may be
had to said MarSton's quit claim deed to
said q. y. Hartman by deed dated Feb
ruary 9th A. ID. 1878 and recorded in Book
Is page 44 of Corinth Land Records, and
so much of said land described will be sold
at public auction at the town clerks office
in said Corinth on the 9th day of February
A. ID. 1899 at o'clock in the afternoon, as
shall be requisite TO discharge said taxes
with costs unless previously paid. s5tr
Dated at Corinth, In said Orange county,
this 18th day OF January, A. D., 1882. Il
Is 5. l. DrvoLL, Collector OF Taxes.
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To Check a Cough or sneeze.

DR.. Brown-Sequard is credited with the
following suggestions for preventing cough
ing, sneezing, etc. He reminds people that
in bronchitis and pneumonia hacking or
coughing greatly increases the trouble Mt
times: Coughing can be stopped by press
ing on the nerves on the lips in the neigh
borhood of the nose. Sneezing may be
stopped by the same mechanism. Pressing
in the neighborhood of the ear, right In
front Of the ear, may stop coughing 1t is
so, Also of hiccoughing, but much less so
than for sneezing or coughing. Pressing
very hard on the top of the mouth is also
means of stopping coughing, and many
say the will has immense power. There
are many other affections associated with
breathing which can be stopped by the
same mechanism that stops the hearts ac-
ton. In spasm of the CLOTHS, which is
terrible thing in children, and also in
whooping cough, it is possible to afford re-
lief by throwing cold water on the feet or
by tickling the soles of the feet, which pro-
duces laughter, and at the same time goes
to the matter that is producing the spasm
and arrests it almost at once" .al e.iI .
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A Third Use for Gas.

Within very few years gas companies
have had substantial increases to their an
nual revenue from the sale of gas for heat
ing and cooking-a department which, II
superintended with wisdom and intelli-
gence, ought to return revenue equal to
that obtained from the sale Of gas as an IL
luminant. Then, as is we'll known, the
use of gas engines is becoming almost uni
versal
A third field in which gas is likely to
play an important part within a COM
paratively limited period is to heat boilers
and raise steam. The system has been
at work in large establishment in Lon
don, and the results obtained are simply
astounding Burning about 800 cubic feet
Of gas per hour under a thirty feet boiler,
steam is said to have been raised to fifty
pounds pressure in forty minutes. Gas and
air are supplied under pressure to pipes
that run parallel with and under the boiler,
and furnaces and chimneys are dispensed
with.-Gas World.
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Guardian Notice.

STATE OF VERMONT, District Of Bradford, IS
- In Probate court held at Bradford in and Or
said district the 18th day Of Jan, A d. 1899. 81
Sarah M. Ladd, guardian Of Ernest H. Lsdd.
following described real estate OF her said wad Wis
all his interest in all real estate in Corinth, representing
that the sale thereof for the purpose Of putting the pro
ceeds OF such sale interest nve ting the In
stocks real estate would be beneficial to said ward
Whereupon it is ordered by said court that said appi
be referred session thereof be held Brad ed
said district on the 9th day Of Feb. A. D., 1891, DOR
hearing and decision thereon md ii is further ordered
that all persons interested be notified hereof by pubica
lion OF notice of said application and order thereon three
weeks successfully in the United Opinion, newsps,
published Bradford and which calculates in the neigh
borhood Of those interested before said time of hearing
that they may appear at said time and place, and d
they see cause object thereto.
By the court-Attest,
6 M CT Irdrc
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James DIckey's Will.

CTATE OF VT, Bradford District, IS,
- At probate court held at 1hetford within and for
said district on the 18th day Of JAM, A. D., 1894
An instrument purporlipg to be the last will szd
testament OF James h. Dickey late of Newby in said
district decor ID being tresei by Hola w. Bailey
ESQ., the executor named therein for Probate: it is
dered by said court that all persons concerned therein
te notified appear session thereof be held at
Bradford in said district, the 9th day of Feb, A.
~. 1891, at 10 o'clock a. m, and show cause il any
they may have against the probate of said will tor
which purpose it is further ordered that this order be
published tmee week successfully in the United Opn
ion, vspaper nted at Bradford in this state pre-
vious 10 said time OF hearing. iit
By the Court, Attest, F.-l.. r.I... Lr.
IA ..... . S. M GLEASON Judge.
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CRYSTALS OF SNOW.


crystal assumes varied and beautiful
forms, so ice crystalizes into six rayed
stars 1t is to Professor Tyndall that the
world is chiefly indebted for the descrip-
tions of snow crystals and ice flowers. He
describes a snow shower rs a shower of
frozen flowers. "When snow is produced
In calm air." he says, 1.-THE icy particles
build themselves into stellar shapes, each
star possessing six rays" We reproduce
some drawings of snow crystals from the
professors book, Heat as a Mode of Mo-
tion." Hear him once again, "Let US inn
agine the eye gifted with microscopic
power sufficient to enable us to see the
molecules which compose those starry
crystals; to observe the solid nucleus
formed and floating in the air; to see it
drawing toward it it's allied atoms, and
these arranging themselves us if they
moved to music and ended by rendering
that music concrete" This six rayed star
is typical of lake ice also.
Snow sometimes reaches us in partly
melted condition. Under these circum-
stances it is called sleet, and snow being
much lighter than rain (ice is lighter than
water) it descends less directly and repre-
sents about one-tenth the depth of the
rainfall. The use of snow in warming the
earCn IL universally acknowledged, ana as
it is such Il bad conductor man'in a snow
hut will soon become unpleasant!y warm.
Ice is only water in another form, and
snow is ice, and it is the air in the snow
that gives it warming properties. These
are all simple facts, which any one by OBJ
servation and careful reading and study
may soon ascertain for himself. We have
another frozen fall of water from the
clouds, viz, hail, which may possibly be
the development of sleet. Hail is formed
by the falling rain being frozen in it's de-
scent, or when different currents meet in
the atmosphere. A hailstorm is accom-
panied with rushing sound, as if the hail
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Women's Waists.

While 10 or 20-inch waist is a deformity
in an adult woman, the New York Ledger
thinks it may justly be doubted whether
the 26-inch waist of the Venus de Medici is
not somewhat too large to be in proportion
with the figure of the average American
woman 1t is characteristic of women of
the highest types of the Indo- European
races to have wide hips and narrow waists.
In other races the hips are narrower and
the waists larger. The American woman
appears, in consequence of her large hip
measurement, to have smaller waist
han she actually has. To the unskilled
masculine eye girl with waist 90 or 221a
Inches may seem to have wasplike figure,
when in reality her measurement is very
nearly what it should be to satisfy the
critical Judgment of an artist or her family
physician.
The Venus de Medici is feet inches in
height, 26 inches about the waist "a
about the bust and A about the hips. The
women employed rs ''cloak models" by
most of the great dry goods establishments
in New York city are about the same
height. The measurements required OF II
model" feet 5 inches in height in one es-
Establishment are the following: Waist, 23h
to "a inches; bust, "a to 35; hips, As to AZ;
base of skull to waist, l6; biceps, ~ to IL. ,"
A prominent physician recently gave the
following as the correct measurements for
we'll formed, well developed and healthy
woman of 5 feet 5 inches: Waist, "a inches;
bust, 3315 to 3415; biceps, l2 to Is; wrist,
81 to SO; hips, A to As; calf, ID to IA, and
ankle, Z to X" The doctors model
woman has smaller hips and smaller
bust and about the same waist as the
'cloak model"
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AtGreat Magazine.
THE CENTURY'S PROGRAMME IN 1924
NEW LIFE OF COLUMBUs"-ARTICLEs
FOR FARMERS, ETC.

rOh II ahMEho, 4 C'
That great American periodical, The
Century, is going to Guido its own uRrival-
ell record in its programme for 1892, and as
many of its new features begin with the
November number, new readers should
commence with that issue.
In this number are the opening chapters of
''THE NAULAHKA,"
novel by Rudyard Kipling, the famous
author of 'Plain Tales from the Hills"
written in collaboration with an American
writer, Wolcott Balestler. 1t is the story
of a yoppg man and young woman from
"booming" Color do town, who go to
India. he in search of wonderful jeweled
necklace, called ''the Naulahka' (from
which the story takes its name), and she as
a physician to women. The novel describes
their remarkable adventures at the court of
Century will print three other novels dur
ing the year. and great number of short
stories by the best American Story-writerS.
The well known humorist Edgar ". Nye
("Bill Nye') is to write a series of anus
ing sketches which he calls his "autobiog-
raphies," the first one oil which, "The Au-
to Biography OF Justice of the Peace" is in
November. This number also contains
valuable and suggestive article on ''The
FoOd-Supply of the Future;" which every
farmer should read, to be followed by a
number of others
OF GREATPRACTICALv VALUE TO FARMERS
treating especially of the relations of the
Government TO the farmer, what it is doing
and what it should do. This series will in
clude contributions from officers of the De-
partment of Agriculture. and other we'll
known men will discuss "The Farmers
Discomfort" ''Cooperation," ETC., etc.
A celebrated Spanish writer is to furnish
a "Life of Columbus" which will be brill
iantly illustrated, and the publishers of
The Century have arranged with he man
ayers of the Worlds Fair to print articles
on the buildings, etc.
One of the novels to appear in 1892 is
STORY OF NEW YORK LIFE
by the author of 1.-THE Anglomaniacs," and
the magazine will contain great deal
about the metropolis during the year
among other rings series of illustrated
articles on "The Jews in New York" In
November is an illustrated description of
"The Players Club" founded by Edwin
Booth, and one of the features of the Splen-
didly illustrated Christmas (December) ,,
number is an article on "The Bowery"
To get The Century send The yearly sub |
Scripti0n price (S400) to The Century Co., |
Union Square, New York, N. Y.
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VISITING CARDS.
A Wife Leaves One Only OF Her Hus-
bands Cards This Season. .tr..

a WIG LeAVes ouo Ohiy VI
bands Cards This Season. tr..
The latest edict in the etiquette of card
leaving, according to the New York Sun,
relieves us from the necessity of distribut-
ing shower of pasteboards all along the
weary way we traverse in calling expedi-
ton, that is if we would follow English
customs. A few years ago it became a
fixed rule that woman calling on a hus-
band and wife without her consort should
leave two Of his cards and one of her own
with the servant at the door. But the
great calling world has gradually decided
that it is intensely stupid to use up twice
as many of mans cards as of a woman's,
when it is plain that call on the wife Is a
call on the husband. Consequently, unless
you are very punctilious, it is considered
quite sufficient to leave one gentleman's
card. The lady's card should be left only
when the hostess is out, except in the case
of a first call, and should not be left at ''at
homes" teas or receptions If you would be
English and up to date. rom nId3ibs -.
The fashionable card for a lady is shade
smaller than that of last year IL couldn't
be shade larger without resembling
reception or dinner invitation, so the reduc-
ton was "A coercive measure. The mans
card is smaller and narrower than that OF
former years, the proper dimensions being
one and half inches in width and little
mort than three inches in length.
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Hon AIxah Rean,s VIII

CTATE OF VERMONT District Of Bradford, IS.
- In Probate Court held at Thetford within and fer
said district on the day Of JAM A. D.. 1902 g,sy
An instrument purperng to be the last will and tes-
lament Of Hon. Avsh Bean late Of W. Farlee, in said
district, deceased being presented by Samuel Beas,
id court that all persons concerned therein be notified
to appear at session thereof be held at the Pro
bate Office in Thetord in said strict the 9th day
of February, A. D., 1891, at 10 o'clock a. m. and
SHOW cause il any they have against the probate or
said will; for which purpose it is further ordered th.t
this order be published three weeks successfully in the
United Opinion newspaper printed at Bradford previo
to said time Of hearing Hf .B
''Ii By the Court, Attest, OH uH
70 . S. M. GLEASON. Judge.
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CONSUMPTION CURED.

An old ply sieian, retired from practice, having
had placed in his hands by East India mission
airy the formula OF simple vegetable remedy Tor
the speedy and permanent Of Consumption
Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma, and all throat and
Lung Affections, also a positive and radical cure
for Nervous Debility ard all Nervous Complaints,
after having tested las wonderful curative powers
in thousands OF cases, has felt it his duty to make
1t known to his suffering fellows. Acuated by this
motive and desire to relieve human suffering, !
will send free OF charge, all who desire il, this
recipe, IN German, French or English, with full
directions for preparing and using. Sent by mail
by addressing with stamp, naming this paper-W. A.
NovEs sao Hosp,y,s Block RochSsie,. ~. Y a
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Commissioners, Notice.

TINE undersigned having been appointed by the
i Hon Probate Court for the District of Bradford
and demands OF all persons against the OF George
R. Sly late Of Ntwbury in said district deceased and ali
claims exhibited in offset thereto hereby give notice that
will meet for the purposes aforesaid at the office Of
VIM. G. Foss the 29th day of Feb next, from O'Clock
until o'clock p of said day and that months from
the a8h day of Aug A. D., 1891, is the time limited h9
said Court for said creditors present their claims
for examination and ao vance. ~ ra~r.
Dated at Newbury this nth day Of Jansaiy, AID.
1892.
F. SHERwIN.
n VIM. g. Foss. Comms.
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To the Public.

wish it distinctly understood that all re-
latiOns between Matthew G.. Temples fam
lily and my own, either friendly, neighborly
or of whatever nature, are at an end and
have been for nearly two years.
All persons having business with me will
please come direct TO me for they know
nothing whatever of my affairs. / make
this statement to protect myself from their
SANDER. EDWIN FUTILE.
Newbury, Jan. 10, 1892
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Social Brevities.

Children like to appear we'll; therefore
do not tell even the smallest one Of his
faults before strangers, but II possible
alone and away even from the family.
1t is considered unlucky by some people
to celebrate the twentieth wedding ami
versary. .e ...H
A point of business correspondence
rarely grasped by the amateur is the ETH
quette of stamps. The proportion of peo-
pie writing on their own business and re-
questing answers who send stamps is
about one to four. There is an amiable
confidence in human nature displayed by
strangers that is very curious to the pessi-
mistic observer. q ul aliI aidtuaqs saf ID
The showiest fun at the lowest rate Is to
be hsd BY turning the peculiarities and
feibles Of acquaintance into ridicsle 70
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SNOW, sLEET, ICE AND HAIL.

Simple Facts About These Frozen Falls
of Water from the Clouds.
I'VE all know what snow is" you will
say, perhaps. Well, then, will the ordi-
nary reader tell what he knows about
bnow? ut falls from the sky in white
flakes" says one. Its frozen rain" re-
marks another. IT'S water Frozen" says
a third
This last answer is the nearest of all.
Snow is not snow, paradoXical as that
sounds. Snow is ice! Flakes of snow are
ice crystals-whit because rejecting
light. Just rs alum crystallizes and rock
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Legal.

PROBATE COURTS AND COURTS OF INSOLr
VENCY-BRADFORD DISTRICT 1868.
Probate Courts and Courts Of Insolvency within and
for said district will be holden the ensuing year follows
Bradford-At J. H. Watsons office in Bradford the
second Tuesdays OF every month, commencing January
nth, 1887. E Ia
Corinth--At the Hotel in East Cornth on the third
Wednesdays OF June, August and October III
West Fairlee-At the Probate office in West Fairlee
on the last Saturday Of every month.
SIN. GLEASON, judge.
Thetford Centre, VT. Dec. I. 1886. =.
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stones were striking against each other.
They are very destructive, and actual hail
showers occur in summer more frequently
than in winter, and popularity noticeable
with regard to hail is its infrequent occur
renee during the night.