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Modern Feats of Engineering.

The civil engineer of the present age
is a wizard who annihilates spaces and
matter. The highest mountains, the
deepest valleys are his playthings; he
bridges one and tunnels through the
other. The railroad from Callao through
the heart Of Peru is the highest and
most wonderfully constructed line in the
world. The grades are often of 300 feet
to the mile, and when the Andes we're
reached 80 difficult was the work that
laborers were lowered from cliffs above
by ropes in order that they might carve
a foothold to begin the cutting for the
roadway.
Tunnels are more numerous than open
cuts and as far as the road has gone
sixty-one tunnels have been constructed,
a~ggregating 20, 900 feet in length. The
road attains a height of Is, 900 feet above
the level of the sea and at the highest
point is about equal to the topmost peak
of Mount Blanc. It pierces the range
above by a tunnel of 3s47 feet long.
The tunnels of the Andes, however, do
not compare with those OF the Union
Pacific, nor do the latter approach the
tunnels of the Alps.
The improvements in locomotives
rendered them capable of climbing
grades, which in early days of railroad
engineering were deemed out of the
question. The first railroads were laid
almost level, but was soon discovered
that a glade of a few feet to the mile was
no impediment to progress, and gradually
the grade was s~teepened. To the energy
and perseverance of inventors the success
of mountain railroading is due. The
road up Mount Washington, finished in
1868, was the first, and the road up
Pixies Peak is the latest of the steep
lines. Of the European roads, the one
up the sides of Mount Rigi in the Alps lie
the most famous. 1t is 19, 900 feet long
and in that distance rises 1000 feet at
an averaging grade of one foot to every
four. At places the grade is about one
foot in two and a half, which is believed
to be the steepest in the world Chicago
Herald.
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You can get some idea CT how large

You can get some idea CT how large
the lamp is when I tell you that the
argand burner is as big as a large coffee
Urn. 1t burns five weeks, the smallest
wick being one inch in diameter and the
largest five inches. Every week in the
year it consumes six feet of wick and
seventy gallons of oil. The chimney
used on the burner is seventeen inches
long and six inches in diameter; or wide
and long enough to allow the keeper to
put his arm into it. The reservoir in
which the oil is held is two feet sixteen
inches in diameter. 1t is 80 important
that the wick shall be trimmed exactly
straight, that, in doing this work, we
place what is called a centre-pin at the
middle of the wick, and run a line
across from one end to the other, just as
carpenters do when they want to u a
fence along a straight line; for, unless
the wick is trimmed perfectly straight
the light will be very poor. The lamp
is enclosed by revolving lenses of French
magnifying glass to double the power
and brilliancy of the light.
Probably the most curious thing in
connection with the Lighthouse is the
fact that these lenses are cracked in GER
tain places. The glass is one-eighth of
an inch thick, and these cracks are
caused by ducks and geese in their regu-
lar migrations striking heavily against
the glass with their bills. There is a
large metal ball on top of the lighthouse,
and this has been nearly twisted off by
flocks of brant, a certain kind of wild
duck, coming in contact with it. These
attacks often result in the death of the
animals, and we have picked MP on the
ground as many as sixty dead ducks, and,
on some occasions, as many as a hundred
birds of different varieties have been
found. The Agricultural Department of
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Old Watches of Little Value.

Some old watches have considerable
value and some have very little. In the
first category are watches with hogs
bristles for regulating the vibrations,
egg watches, all watches with one hand,
with or without ornamentations watches
without balance springs and without
regulating arrangements, those with per.
forated cases, those with finely chased
cases, if the chasing be distinct; enam-
eled gold watches Of fine workmanship,
watches of wood or ivory or with iron
or porcelain cases, and nearly all watches
with peculiar movements. Old watches
of little value are those that have chased
cases the figures of which are worn off,
or, if well preserved, are OF inferior
workmanship; painted pinchbeck cases,
cases of f~our-colored gold layers with
ordinary designs, and painted dials that
display poor workmanship. Watches with
figures striking on bells are of little
value.-ChieGgo Herald.
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the Government devotes much attention
to furnishing interesting information on
the fight of birds in different parts of
the country. Many facts in regard to
this subject are communicated by the
keepers of lighthouses who, in their
lonely hours are only too glad to take
note of such curious phenomena.
Fire Island Light house, though a
solitary place in the winter time, is not
as dreary as Stratford Shoals in Long
Island Sound, where I wa formerly To-
Gated. That lighthouse is built out in
the water, and has nothing but a reef
around it. When I was there n of our
men was lost while rowing from the shore
to the lighthouse. The weather was so
rough in the winter time that we could
not get ashore.
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Why Dentists Use Gold.

There is a popular idea that dentists
use gold for their filings because they
can charge more for it, and this idea is
all the more prevalent because silver will
resist the acids of the mouth quite as
we'll as gold. The true explanation,
however, lies in the fact that gold is the
only metal that will weld while cold.
This neither silver nor any other metal
will do. The cohesive properties Of
perfectly smooth and clear gold are re-
markable. If a sheet of gold foil be al
lowed to fall upon another both will be
SO firmly joined thht it will be impossible
to separate them Courier. journal.
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country than all other diseases put together,
and until the last few years was supposed To
be incurable. For q great many years doctors
pronounced 1t a local disease, and prescribed
cure with local treatment, pronounced It N.
durable. Science has proven catarrh to be q
constitutional disease, and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure,
manufactured by F. j.. Cheney & Co., Toledo,
Ohio, Is the only constitutional cure on the
market. 1t Is taken internally in doses from
10drops to a teaspoonful. 1t acts directly upon
the blood and mucous surfaces Of the system.
They ofe.. !t100 for any case 1t fails to cure.
Send for circulars and testimonials. Address
z. j.. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O.
~ Sold nv nruooists Tic u H5
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In A LIGHTHOUSE.
DUTIES OF THE INMATES OF
FIRE ISLAND LIGHT.
First Light Sighted BY Ocean Steam
ers After Leaving EArope-A
Big Burner-WhJ the
Lenses are CraG ked

p my read.
ers have read some
thing about light
houses-which, in
very ancient times,
80 history informs
us, were very sim.
pie affairs, writes
Ezra s. Mott, head.
keeper of the Fire
Island light. The
first light houses
were called ttlipht-
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The export value of corn for October,
1891, was s%ixty-three cents per bushel
in October, 1890, it was 500 cents
says one authority.
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ger, older, DalueI-ueau-
ed boys. Life is an Interrogation
point. "What is it for?" we con-
tinually cry from the cradle to the
grave. So with this little introduc-
tory sermon we turn and ask: What
is AUGUST FLOWER FOR " AS easily
answered as asked 1t is for Dys-
pepsia. 1t is a special remedy for
the Stomach and Liver. Nothing
more than this; but this brimful.
We believe August Flower cures
Dyspepsia. We know it will. We
have reasons for knowing it. Twenty
years ago it startedina small country
town. To-day it has an honored
place in every city and country store,
possesses one of the largest manu-
featuring plants in the country and
sells everywhere. Why is this? The
reason is as simple as a child's
thought. 1t is honest, does one
thing, and does it right along-it:
cures Dyspepsia. q
G. G. GREEN. Sole Man'fr. WoodburY.N.I
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Great Britain poured nearly $50, 600
emigrants into the United States during
the first seven months of the present
wear,
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e~op,nueAr ,ss
All Me uear round

AH tho year f0u10
is the time when Dr.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery works the best.
It purifes the blood.
It's not like the sarsapariilaa,
which claim to do good in March,
April, and May ; you can depend
upon it alaoays. That's why it ID
guaranteed IF it doesn't benefit Or
cure, in every case for which It's
recommended, you have your money
back.
No other medicine of its kind
says as much-but no other does
as much. It cleanses, renews and
i~nvigorates the entire system. For
all skin, scalp and ~scrofrlouf affec-
tions, as Eczema, letter, Salt-rheum
White swellings, Hipjoint Disease,
and kindred ailments, it's q positiv6
cure.
The proprietors of Dr.. Ssge's
Catarrh Remedy offer $500 for an
incurable case of Catarrh. It isn't
mere talk-it's business.
They mean to pay You, u they
can't cure yeu. But you'll ind
that they can. q
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An Evergreen Tree.

An Evergreen Tree.
Bible con-
tains 8, 566. $50
letters, S10,697
words, 81. 40 verses
1889 chapters, and &c
books. The longest chap
ter is the 10th Psalm; the
shortest and middle chapter
the 1l7th Psalm. The middle
verse is the 9Th of the 11Sth Psalm.
The longest name is in the 9Th chap
ter Of Isaiah. The word ''and" occurs
46, 1927 times; the word Lord" 1855
times. The 37th chapter of Isaiah and
10Th chapter Of the 81 book Of Kings are
alike. The longest verse is the 9th
Of the 6th chaper Of Esther; the
shortest verse is the 35ih Of
the 18th chapter Of
John. In
the 21st
verse
Of the 1th
chapter Of Ezra
is all the alphabet but
81" The name Of our God
is not mentioned once in the
book Of ESTHER. IT CONTAINS
KNOWLEDGE, WISDOM, HOLINESS AND LOVE
-NeW York Ledger.
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CbiIdren Tease Por Ne,

Dr.. Hoxsie's Certain Group Cure Is a boon to
children who are attacked with Group or acute
congesttve colds. Sold by druggists or mailed
PpfPoIo N " . % r.r' ... &C. - =
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FITS stopped tree by DR.. KLrNE's GREAT
NERVE REsToRER. No fits after first days use.
Marvellous cures. Treatise and 81 trial bottle
free. DR.. Kline, a31 Arch St., Phtla., Pa
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hrOn
Rheumatism

And serious disorder Of the liver and stomach, have
troubled me for more than ten years, during which
time I have used almost every medicine recommend
ed, without finding any relief whatever, until I tried
Hoods sarsaparilla- This has done me more good
than anything else that have ever taken, and take
pleasure in recommending til the highest terms. II
has been worth its weightin gold TO me-" FREDERICK
MILLER, Limerick Centre, Pa
Hoods S~arsaparnla
Sold by all druggists. 81; six for IS. Prepared only
by c. ]. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass
100 Doses one Dollar
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A CURE for nearly all of the common Ills
Pills. For sale by all dru .gi.t.: 26 cent?.
ltafaicted with sore eyes use DR.. Isaac Thomp-
son'sEye-water. Druggists sell at 25c.per bottle.
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How About Your Mother.

Scrofula or Kings Evil is the most stubborn OF all Skin ar
fections. Whether inherited or otherwise, It's abtood disease
and cannot be permanently cured by anything but - =.
A GRATEFUL DAUGHTER.
Ny Mother was s9ay afflicted with scrofua for three years mo 2 nan;
during that time the glands on her neck burst open in Ave places Three tine
openings we're small and healed right up. but the other TWO would fn 2 ana mo
break open anew, about everyItwo weeks always causing severe pain ana otIen
prostradon. She was 70 reduced In strength, that tonics and coca wines Q
be generously used to keep her alive She commenced taking q - ~, -
improved from the start, the hrt bottle gave her an appetite and by te 1ms
she finished the fourth bottle her neck healed mp, she is now entirely well
NE MIS- E j. RowELL, Medford. Mass @5
H". R,s, ~, Rod. and s,n d..mam a THE sNIPTs SPECIFIC co. 1IAAH. g.
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What Is
It For2
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Flower"

This is the query per-
petually on your little
boys lips. And he is
no worse than the big
ger. older, ba1der-head-
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-05-27

Scion Gray is home this week from his business
college course.
Mrs L. p Moody went to Boston Tuesday for
stay of a week or more.
Ithel Lawrence was the guest of eX-Gov. Pin
gree at Hartford last week.
Harry b. Thomas has been granted a pension
through the agency of c. c. johnson of Spring
field.
Henry Campbell, the younger son of DR.. f. r.
Campbell is quite i'll with Inflammation of the
bowels.
Miss Turner tand Miss Capron, teachers in the
public schools, visited the schools at Claremont
last week.
Mrs. Bailey of Claremont, ~ H.. has been
spending few days with her daughter Mrs
Frank Flint.
Walter C. smith, who is travelling for the Yer
mont Farm Machine company, spent last Sunday
at his home.
Dorothy Flint, thel title daughterof F. G.. Flint
has been seriously i'll with a bronchial fever but
is now improving.
Mr. Mack has entered the employ of the Sulli-
van machine company at Claremout, and his fam
lily willlnove to that place during the summer.
Mrs d. b. Sexton Of Rutland returned from a
visit to Boston Wednesday. bringing with her the
father and mother of Mr.. Sexton for short stay
with her.
Freight Conductor Dan Holland has been this
week running the mail and night express between
here and Rutland in place of Conductor Henry
Cheney, who is ILL.,
Franklin p Ball. who has been spending this
month in Omaha as a delegate from Vermont to
the general conference of Methodist churches. is
expected home the last of this week.
Mrs White of Putney, mother of Mrs. VI.
b. Kelley and Mrs. d. NJ. ThayeC has come to
Bellows Falls during the past week to make her
permanent residence with Mrs Kelley.
F. c. Atherton, agent of the American express
company at Rutland, was in town Tuesday ON
business in connection with the company, and
visiting the family Of Alfred Dow, his father-in-
law
Chas. Allen, formerly employed in the dry
goods store of Geo. O. Guild, now with Field,
Letter q Co. Of Chicago, is in town just now Wis.
iting his parents. He arrived Monday and will
have three weeks vacation.
Rev. l.. L. Beeman, presiding elder of this dis
trict, has hired the II. A Titus dwelling next to
the Baptist church and will occupy it about July
l. or as soon the completion of A. A Halla-
days new house will give DR.. Gorham possession
of the School street house which he bought re
Gently.
Edwin a. Start. formerly editor of the Bellows
Falls Times and Keene Observer, has been ap-
pointed instructor in history at Tufts college for
three years. MIR. Start is to be congratulated on
securing an appointment for which he is well
fitted He win reside in his old home in Cam
bridge, Mass. He has contributed to the June
New England Magazine the most able and com.
prehensive account of the work of the Hampton
Institute for Negroes and Indians that has yet ap-
pearpd.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-05-27

most of his time i'm Massachusetts, will
spend the larger part of the summer here
in experimenting the new building and
the business of the firm.
Memorial services of the Grand Army
post will be held both at SaXtons River
and Bellows Falls. The post, Relief corps
and Sons of Veterans, are to attend divine
service at the opera house at p. NJ Sun
day. Monday morning the organizations
will form i'm line at $3.50 at the corner of
Main and Pleasant streets in SaXtons
River, with Prof. Ellery as president of the
day, and Mai. w. r. Howard as marshal.
Rev. n. Newton Glazier is to be orator at
both places. At 2:30 =. NJ. the line will
be formed in this village, in the square,
with Chas. II. Williams as president of the
day and Daniel p. Higgins as marshal.
The procession will include, besides the
Grand Army organizations, the Bellows
Falls band and an escort of Canton Skitch-
enaug !. o. O. F., the fire department, the
village schools, and other civic bodies, and
citizens. The address will be in the opera
house after the exercises at the cemeteries,
and details from the post will decorate the
graves of veterans at Rockingham, West
minister and Walpole.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-05-27
BRATTLBBORO OVERFLOW.
ASCENSION DAY SERVICE.


Last evening the Sir knights Of Beauseant
Commandery No. convened at their asylum and
in fun uniform marched to the Episcopal church,
where a service was held in accordance with
their ritual for Ascension day. They were met at
the outer porch by the vested boy choir with the
Rev Mr.. Collins, rector, and the Rev. Dr. Harris
of Rutland and marched down the central aisle
singing the professional hymn coward Christ
ian Soldiers" and filed into the seats assigned to
them The proper psalms and scriptural lessons
were read by Rev Mr.. Collins, the prayers by DR..
Harris and who also delivered a powerful and in
teresting sermon from the text, what mean ye
by this servicey" He briefly sketched the organ
iZation and purposes of the order of the temple at
the time of the crusades, its religious character,
etc. That the order now, as then, is founded on
the Christian religion and the practice Of the
Christian virtues That every Knight Templar
must profess his firm belief In the Christian re-
lgion as one of the pre- requisites to his admission
therein. That while he is not required to WELD
his sword in bloody contest as were the knights
of olden time vet they were bound to keep up
their warfare against the lying vantles and de
ceits of the world and to manfully defend inno-
cent maidens destitute widows, helpless orphans
and the rel gion of Jesus Christ
That while the order to which they belonged
was a truly religious one, still the great work and
purpose of their organization could be better per
formed were they each and all connected with
the church of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
The music rendered by the boy choir was of an
excellent order. and the entire service was of n
highly interesting character. IL is to be re-
GREETED that the service was not more generally
attended by the people at large.
After the service was over the Sir Knights
marched in a body to the residence of Sir Knight
James A. Pullen on Chaplin street, where he and
his bride were receiving their friends, and after
extending their congratulations returned to their
asylum and were dismissed.
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HINspALR, N. II.

John Laseaka, a young Russian Pole
who worked for l.. A. Parks, became in
sane last week and was taken to the coun-
ty farm at Westmoreland.
John Holt is in town.
The graduating class have received their
class rings.
Harry Lewis is clerking at NJ. V. Col
toms.
Miss Grace Roberts of Boston spent
Sunday with her grandmother, Mrs. d. w.
Ferrin.
The game that was postponed last Sat
urday is to be played at Ashuelot to-mor-
row.
Memorial services will be held in the
Baptist church next Sunday at ? p. NJ.
Miss Belle Collins of Peterboro visited
her sister, Mrs. ID. S. Knights, last week.
S. A. Esten has sold his artesian well to
the Halle q Frost company, who are to
run the water to the boarding house and
mill.
George Robertson and Edward Bailey
attended the intercollegiate sports at Spring
field last Wednesday.
The drum corps are having uniforms
made at Jones & O'Brien's.
A petition is in circulation for the sup
port of a ball team here this season.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-05-27
WESTMINSTER.

We learn that Mr.. Hannum has hired
Mrs Fred Amadon's house on the corner
of School and Main streets, and will soon
occupy it. Mrs. Amadon was here packing
up her goods last week
\ flock of handsome red birds with
black wings and tails made their appear
ance in our street last Saturday. They
were evidently chilled by the snow and came
near the buildings in search of warmth
and food. Study of the bird book showed
that the strangers were the Scarlet Tana-
ger, native of the Bahama Islands.
They excited much curiosity, appearing as
they did in such large numbers, and many
tried to capture them.
Mrs. Nellie Nutting and daughter are
visiting in Burlington.
Mrs. A. A. Ward and children arrived
here from Fort Payne last week. Mr..
Ward is coming the last of June.
Miss Ella Whitney has been at home
since last week.
The main building of the corn-canning
factory, POO feet long, is up and Mr..
Bonds men are now stating it. A wing is
to be built on the east side, and after that
the husking sheds will be erected.
Last Monday while Willis McIntye and
a boy from Putney were at work on Arthur
Arnold's new barn they fell distance OF
Is feet, disabling Mr.. Mcintyre. The boy
escaped with only slight bruises.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-05-27
CHURCH AND SOCIETY.
Total list, 1891,
No polls, ' 1917

st. Mchael's church May Goth, Sunday after
ascension: 5 A. NJ, holy communion; $3.50 4. NJ.
Sunday school 1920 A. NJ, morning prayer, lit
any and sermon: $50 p. NJ evening prayer
Rev. F. w. Sprague's sermon at the Universal
list church next Sunday morning will be appro-
pirate to the Memorial day season.
Evangelist jackson. now at the Y. VI. c. A,
will occupy the pulpit Of the Baptist church ON
Sunday next, preaching in the morning and Civ
ing one Of his Bible readings in the evening
meeting Of the Brattleboro Woman's In
dian association will be held at Mrs. Charles
Rice's, High street, next Monday afternoon at
O'Clock Report from Montana school, and other
business.
regular meeting Of the United order Of Golden
Cross will be held Thursday evening at 1:45. All
members requested TO be present as officers will
he elected
There will be a business meeting Of the Univcr-
salist ladies' circle in the vestry next Tuesday AT
ternoon at 3 o'clock.
What the world owes us and what we owe the
world" will he the topic Of Rev. Frank l.. Phalrn' 5
sermon at the Unitarian church on Sunday.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-05-27

"Only Garments made from Saw
yer WOOlens bear this Hanger.
F. A. Sawyer"
Customers wanting suits made
of these goods should be sure the
coat has the above printed on each
hanger never are genuine without
it.
There are many limitations of
these goods on the market and are
sold to the customer as genuine
Sawyers that cost from two-thirds
to three-fourths less than Saw
yer suit,
Our price is $l2 for the light
weight suits, $40 for a good i'm
itation, and all new fresh goods
made this season.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-05-27
NEWFANE.

A young man from Londonderry, is to be the
new station agent.
Arthur Warren represented the Sons of Temp
erance at the W. c. T. L. convention at Whining
ton.
The county Jail is free from prisoners and has
been so since It was closed at the March term of
court.
An adjourned meeting of the stockholders Of
the Windham County Creamery association to
elect directors will be held at Union hall Newfane,
Saturday at 1:30 p. NJ.