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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-12-08

Mr.. Van Allen comes out of the Italian
mission episode with greater credit than
any one else who had any connection with
it, His letter to Secretary Gresham, de-
clining the appointments as elsewhere stated,
was written Nov 20. He admitted making
a large contribution to the Democratic
campaign fund, but denied that his APP
pontment was based on that fact Real
izing, however, that the people regarded
his appointment as a scandal he preferred
to relieve Mr.. Cleveland of further en-
barrassment 1t is characteristic of Mr..
Cleveland that, instead of quietly accepting
this courteous and manly declination, he
still urged Mr. Van Allen to take the mis-
sion, telling him that "all the malignant
criticism has no justification and that
1--WE should not yield to the noise and clamor
which have arisen" 1t is always amusing
when a man is so serene in his conceit
with himself that he regards any opposi-
tion or criticism as 'nOise and clamorn
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-12-08
1894.
Harper'S Magazine
ILL STR ATED.

Harper's Magazine for 1894 will maintain the
character that has made it the favurte illustrated
periodical for the home Among the results of
enterprises undertaken by the publishers, there
will appear during the year superbly illustrated
papers on India by Edwin Lord Weeks, on the
japanese seasons by Alfred Parsons, on Germany
by Puultney BigelOw. on Paris by Richard Hard
ing Davis and on Mexico by Frederic Remington.
Among the other notable features of the year
will be move Is by George Du Maurier and CT aries
Dudley Warner, the personal "reminiscences Of
W D. Howells and eight short stories of West
ern frontier life by owen Wlster. Short stories
will also be contributed by Brander Matthews,
Richard Harding Davis, Mary f. wilkins, Ruth
McEnery Stuart, Miss Laurence Alma Tadena,
George A. Hbbard, Quesnay De Beaurepaire,
Thomas Nelson Page and others Articles on
topics of current interest Will be contributed by
distinguished specialists.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-12-08
HARPER's PERIODICALS.
PER YEAR,

HARPER'S MAGAZINE, $500
HARPER'S WEEKLY, 400
HARPER'S BAZAAR, 400
HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, 200
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States Canada and MericO.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-12-08
BRATTLEBORO NEWS co., Elliot st.
At ThOrn'S Drug Store,

You will always find supply of
fresh Cut flowers. Also orders taken
for Floral Designs, Plants, etc.
Holly for Christmas will soon he
here. Order early and get what you
want.
A good supply of Carnations, Roses,
Hyacinths, Narcissus, etc. Call and
see the flowers if you do not want to buy,
at the Bradley Greenhouses.
D. McCFLLIVRAY,
FLORIST.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-12-08
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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-12-08

Another blow to the discredited Brook
lyn ring and another victory for the cit-
zens was scored Saturday, when the SUI
preme court confirmed the finding of the
commissioner appointed to appraise the
plant of the Long Island Water Supply
company. The city of Brooklyn proposed
to acquire the plant of the Long Island
company, and a commission was appointed
to determine its value. 1t was appraised
at $4,000. Mayor Chaplin, City Con-
troller jackson and City Auditor Rutan
disregarded this appraisement and con
tracted to purchase the plant at 81, $50, 900,
with interest and other charges to be add
ed, which, it is estimated, would have
brought the total expense to about 81, ,6OO,-
600, or 100000 in excess of the award.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-12-08
Useful
And
Attractive
Holiday
Goods.
HANDKERCHIEFS.
HANDKERCHiEFS.

This seasons line contains more gen.
uine bargains and choice patterns than
usual.
Ladies' Swiss Embroidered Handker-
chiefs at 10 and ~ 1.2 cents. Special
bargains.
Ladies' Irish Linen and Swiss En-
brOidered all Linen Handkerchiefs, %,
81 and 80 cents. Exceptional value.
Ladies' japanese silk Embroidered
Handkerchiefs at 10, 10 and 25 cents to
$1.00.
400 Dozen Initial HandkerChiefS.
Ladies' and Children's Initial at )
cents.
Ladies' and Mems Hand Embroidered
Initial at 15 cents.
Ladies' Unlaundered Initial, all Lin
en-, at ID cents.
Ladies' and Mems Irish Linen Initial
at % cents.
Ladies' japanese Silk Initial at IL
and % cents.
Mems japanese Washable Silk Initials
at 80 and 40 cents.
Real Duchess Lace Handkerchiefs at
50 cents, $1.25 to So.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-08-03
STUDIO ETCHINGS.

Rosa BoNKUR, the great animal
painter, has just passed her seventy
first birthday. She still yields the
brush
JOHN ROGERS, the sculptor of the
Rogers groups, which have had an
enormous sale, is still occupied with
his work in New York.
john HowELLs, the novelist's son,
was the only American who passed the
examination for admission to the Paris
school of fine arts this year,
SIR HENRY THOMPSON, tile distin-
guished English surgeon, is painter
of no mean order. as his pictures have
figured in the Royal academy and the
salon. He has also written several
novels.
ARTIST j. G. Brown, who makes news
boy and bootblaek studies for pictures,
is of medium height, white bearded
and ruddy. He is upward of sixty
years old and is the father Of nineteen
children
ACCORDING to experts who have re-
Gently been examining it, the Lion Of
st. Mark 5 at Venice dates back to the
twelfth century. NJ. Casati, the we'll
known arch9ologist, however, places
the date much earlier, and still adj
heres to the popular notion that the
lion is of Etruscan origin.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-08-03

] promised 10 do so. and vent my
way. In the course of a fortnight
again met my friend. who exclaimed:
My lily is almost open; it viii surely
be out in the morning II is the most
sxquisitely tinted flower ] ever saw.
Accordingly. the next morning | step
ped into my nei shbor's yard, and hast
sned to the spot where the lily stood.
n anticipation of the rare sight / was
TO behold. To my establishment and
1ismay, ! found my friend bending
sadly over a broken lily-stem, on the
end Of which was a crushed and man
gled blossom badly soiled by its CON
tact with the earth during a slight
shower in the night
why. how did it happen?" / asked.
"Oh, g she replied, there was a weak
place in the blossom stem, just here,
and the breeze, last night. broke it off,
and the lily Is spoiled by the rain"
After talking with her for a moment
about her lily, ! went back TO my davis
work. thinking: How many human
birds Of promise" there are who, as
the essayist Emerson terms it, lowe
us a new world" so magmfcently do
they promise; but who, when the
hopes of their friends are almost real
lied, fall. shattered wretches, because
they lacked symmetry of character
because there was "one weak place in
the blossom stem"
There are even men who have risen
to places of high rank in life-men
whose words are deemed worthy to be
repeated from mouth to mouth to be
taught TO the college youth in the
class, TO be sounded from the pulpit
20 whose personal habits of life facts
are known which are seldom men
toned
Perhaps the fond mother of such
son may say: yes, il is too bad, but
really it is our boys only fault All!
but it was at the one weak point that
the stem of the lily was broken.
Oh, young man, young woman, now
rearing that blossom stem of character
on the summit of which you hope to
unfold flower of rarest fragrance and
tint, lest you should share the fate of
my friends poor crushed lily, warn
you, look well to that ioeak point Ruby
E. Spellman, in Young Mems Era.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-08-03
FASHION AND FANCY.

THE French method of administering
castor oil to children is to pour il into
a pan over a moderate fire, break an
egg in it. and stir. When cooked,
flavor with salt or sugar or currant
jelly
SOME years ago it was considered a
mark of good breeding for a lady,
while using knife, fork or spoon. to
extend the little finger Time has
caused change, for it is considered
an evidence of extreme affectation to
do il nowadays.
THE old-fashioned lace berthes now
in vogue are kind to the lacemakers,
for they require the best of lace. and
they are kind. too, to plump shoulders
and pretty necks. which look never so
plump and so pretty as when rising
from one of them.
FEIIx, the celebrated Partisan dress
maker, has. il is ass erted, always con-
demned crinoline in any shape When
the so-ealled dress improvers were ex-
tensively worn, both Felix and Worth
absolutely forbade the use of the steel
springs in the skirts which they sent
out
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-08-03
ALL OVER EUROPE.

THE use Of torture in legal proceed
ings was permissible in Austria until
well within the present century.
MONACO is reported as planning to
hold universal exposition next year
Monaco has territory of eight square
miles and standing army of one hun
dred and twenty-siX men
Ur 10 the end Of last wear the trus-
tees Of the Peabody donation fund
have provided for the laboring poor Of
kondon ll.27S rooms. with wash
houses and laundries, occupied hy co.
ia persons
The tyranny Of landlords in America
has not yet reached the stage devel-
oped at Portheawl q Welsh Watering
place where a house owner only rents
ON condition that his tenants shall
draw mo water from the pumps on
sunday
SNAIL : pace was recently careful
" observed III Florence. Italy sever
al OF the nollusks wen, placed between
two points ten feet apart. ana started.
II was aScertained that the fastest
snail in therace travelled at the rate Of
a mile II fatrtccu 1ar,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-08-03
PERSONAL PARTICULARS.


MGR SAToLLI has salary of six
thousand dollars a year, and, in tho
matter of income, is far behind many
parish priests.
THOMAS A. EDISON recently said that
he never owned a watch in his life
Il never want to know what time it is, .
so he says
THREE years ago WI Hun Penk was
cook in a mining camp. To-day he
owns two important mines in Arizona
and is reported to be worth about
three million dollars.
MISS FLORENCE BAscoM, a Massachu-
sets girl, will receive the title of
Phi. ID. next term from Johns Hopkins
university, the first of her sex to get
such an honor from that institution
BRIGHAM You've, JR., advises his peo-
pie toregard politics as of as much i'm
portance as religion, and predicts the
Mormons viii become powerful poll
ticians and saints"
PROF. ELISHA GRAY was once a black
smiths apprentice, and has rusty
wrought iron fire shovel kept in a cor
ner of his library to prove it. He
pounded the shovel into shape on an
Ohio anvil early in the fifties.
Mr.. PRYOR, the Oldest clerk in the
pension office, has returned to work
after an absence of over year. He is
ninety years old, and has been in the
department forty years. lie is an au-
thority on the history of soldiers in the
reyOluti Onar.v war
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-08-03
UNDER FALSE CoLoRs.
The story of Olive Chadwick's Year al Col
lege

lege.
Kate Lawson and Olive Chadwick
were cousins living in adjoining towns
Their fathers wore ordinary farmers
who just about made both ends
meet, with not much left over. Con-
sequently when well-to-do distant
relative offered TO pay Hates and
Olives tuition and board through a
well-llnown wonen's college, there
was great rejoicing in both families
Olive made great inroad in her
fathers limited resources to fit her
self out in the fashionable attire She
deemed Indispensable for such place.
Then, it seemed so natural to speak in
familiar suggestive manner of John
Wetherbee. her rich cousin. Without
saying SO outright, or really meaning
to do SO, She conveyed by countless lit
tie ways, the impression that her par
ents were well-to-do.
Whom She discovered that her cousin
Kate had made no such elaborate prep
arations. and that She was trying to
earn her incidental expenses by doing
mending and caring for the rooms. etc.
of her schoolmateS. She expressed her
diSpeasure and shame Kate then
ceased to be intimate with her and
never told Of their relationship
one vacation May Ellis, wealthy
bankers daughter, invited olive to
spend week at her beautiful home
Olive Thought She must have elegant
dresses for such an occasion. and more
of her fathers hard-earned money was
spent. Olive never invited May to visit
her After her elegant home, our
house would seem like shanty," she
thought, bitterly.
Olive soon learned, with much sur
prise. that Kate, also. was visiting
May. But her surprise knew no bounds
when she learned. shortly afterwards.
that Kate had actually invited May 10
her plain country home.
II had such delightful time" said
May afterward. mir. and Mrs. Law
son and Kate were not the least bit
formal, but took me right in their fam
lily, and let me help them when wished
Then romped in the fields and went
herrying with the children. l never
! enjoyed myself more"
| " men graduation drew near Kate Ne
gan TO look about for situation "a
! teach. Her teachers knew of her wish
and helped her. Olive would have liked
TO do the same, but felt too much
ashamed, after having allowed her
mates and teachers TO think she did not
need 10 earn her living.
The school days closed al last, and
the two girls were going home together.
20 Kate, cried Olive, Il am 80 unhap-
| Ply! Father is in debt through my ex-
travagance. have no situation as you
have. Carl must wait another year be.
fore entering the agricultural college
and il the others knew how have pre-
tended To be what am not they would
despise me. No wonder You are sc
happy, with no bitter, regrctful mem
cries Of your school American
| Agriculturist
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-08-03
RnttIr-Rn,e..

Did You ever hear how rattle boxes
are made? OF what material@ And how
prepared The smooth ones. the pref
" Witty and colored ones which please
the babies 50, are usually cut from
what is called artificial ivory This
ivory is made by mixing skinned milk
and borax and then COMPRISING the
two after a peculiar process known to
manufacturers until il is very hard like
real ivory Great cakes Of il are thus
formed and then different articles are
cut out. Not only boxes are
made from 1t, but os,mhs, billiard balls
the backs Of brushes and looking
glasses and the mouth-pieces Of pipes
as well As many, many other ornamen-
tai things s. u Ledger.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-08-03
FOR GIRLS AND BOYS.
so HANDY

lie uses il in work and play,
In every time and place.
A whisk 10 brush the flies away.
4 fan 10 cool his face:
basket all with flowers a-bl0F.
Or Allied with apples red.
And when it's out OF use you know,
It's handy on his head
II makes a trap for butterflies
When summer days begin.
It's Just the very shape and size
To cuddle kitties in;
There's not a finer fishing net
For everything afi0at,
And when a shingles hard 70 get
Il answers for boat.
To-day. when rang the dinner bell,
He left 10 In a tree;
A robin mother scanned il we'll
a coy house. chirped she.
But even while the careful bird
Considered this and that
The owner cheerful shout was heard
Where did leave my hat"
-Eudora ), Bumstead, in Youths Companion
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-08-03
THE CRUSHED LILY.

A Bud OF Promise Destroyed on Account
% One weak Point,
was leaving the house Of a friend
one day when she called my attention
TO rare species of lily growing at the
end of the porch.
See, she said, lit has ting bud
nesting down among those blades
You must not fah 70 come cad see il
when it opens. There IS not another
lily of this kind in the town"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-08-03

As a general Eminent or sprsius and
bruises or for rheumatism. lame back,
deep seated or muscular pains. Cham
berlain's Pam Balm j. unuvsled. FIR
sale BY Stone & Hassell
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-08-03

All the talk in the Ward will not
convince so quickly As one trial Of
Dewiit's Witch Hazel salye Tor scalds.
burns, bruises. skin affections ard
piles J r. 1n4tt.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-08-03

KARL's BLOWER ROOT. The grest
Blood Purifier, gives freshness end
clesrness 10 the complexion and cures
Constipation, 25e., soc.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-08-03

T. cUr3 Derv1usness Your nerves
must be fsd by pure blood Hood
Sarsaparilla makes pure blood IKE
it now.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-08-03

She had been censured by her moth
or for some small mischief which she
had been engaged in She sat thinking
it over for some time. and finally SAID
IN an utterly discouraged tone Every
thu 39 5slaii IL me. ,-E Youths Com
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-08-03

I-hterpf1sins Young Man: True Co iustrnets5
a. I4fted ne worked steadily aud made money fssT
Ian AEeeted % became able TO buy an island bi5
ssAli summer hotel If don't sncceedat thar " FL -
Ih en- az the business in which made nv r,onev
~ rue ~ TO-: shall instruct and start Won aa5g1
ne he abe buy an island and build hotel If u fsb
~ money can re earned at new line Of vorl- 80
anu "a telr oTa localities wherever they live Anv n
IN 20 le WORK Easy 10 learn W furnish everything M
IA aon can devote Your spare moments or All vonr.;-
% the work Ibs entirely lead brings wonderful s1s
se-s 20 every worker Beginners are earning from -
500 per week and upwards and more afsr i.Tssso
I9nee can furnish you the employ teach Won
hEI- ihlsis an age Of marvellous things and hara =
another great -afu wealth giving wonder Great airs
WI reward ever iustrious worker Wherever Won
Aha Whatever you doing you want to know abont tbi
Nonderin work at Delay much money LOST 10
yoh 20 spaee to explain here bot you will rite 10 NJ
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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-08-03

Itch on human and horses and all ami
mails cured in 80 minutes by Wool
ford's Sanitary Lotion. This never
fails. Sold by Stone & Hsssell Drug
gists, Lanes Wis.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-08-03
Why Suffer ?
When you can be Cured

Thousands are suffering with
Torpid Liver-the symptoms are
Depression of Spirits, Indiges,
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DR.. Sanford's Liver Invigorator
is a reliable remedy for Liver
Disorders. 1t cures thousands
every year; why not try
DR.. Sanford's Liver Invigoratorf
Your Druggist will supply you.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-08-03
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-03-17
THE CRUISER MONTEREY.

Certain Serious Defects Discovered in the
Recent Trial just Made Public.
NEW YORK, March 16.-The Times says
1t has been known for sometime in well
posted navy circles that navy department
officials were using every resource to keep
secret from the public certain serious
defects which developed on the recent
trial trip Of the new and costly
coast defense battle ship Monterey
which defects by closely approach
ing to &C iidents came Fer af-
fecting the life Of the ship. Rigid orders
issued to all officers present on the occa-
sion of the trial forbidding them to dis
close or make public what they saw has
prevented the real facts in the case being
gotten at until tits comparatively late
date.
The result of the official trial of the
Monterey disclosed the fact that the Union
Iron works at San Francisco, builders OF
tie vessel would be compelled to forfeit
to the government $4,000 on the
occasion of the trial of the Monterey and
the evident inability Of the vessel
TO develop the required horse power
caused the contractors to push the firing
on the ward boilers. After the vessel
cleared the officials OF the Union Iron
works made careful examination. That
examination disclosed the fact that two
magnificent Scotch boilers were little bet
ter than ruined.
To replace the two boilers meant an ex-
pense OF more than $50 GOO. The con-
tractors decided to pocket the loss and let
the disabled boilers stand. In this con-
ultlOn the Monterey exists today.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-03-17
Prison Poetry.

Probably the mass OF prison poetry
which has been written on stools and bed
posts and scratched on prison walls far
exceeds that which has found expression
on paper, and many ''mute, inglorious
Miiton'' has begun and finished his po-
etical career with these ''lost 10 sight,
productions.
There is in existence a short poem, said
To have been scratched by maniac on the
wall of his cell. which runs thus:
Gould with ink the ocean fill,
Were all the world of parchment made,
Were every reed on earth quill,
Ard every man a scribe by trade;
To write the love Of God alone
Would drain that ocean dry,
Nor could the scroll contain the whole
Though stretched from sky TO sky.
The authenticity of this being the
work of maniac has often been ques-
toned, because of the beauty of its ex-
preston and its sound reason, but the
story stands. the Year Round.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-03-17
heavy Artillery IN the Past.

In 147S lTohammed II, in forming the
siege OF Scutari in Albania, employed
fourteen heavy bombards, the lightest of
which threw a stone shot OF 370 pounds
weight, two sent shot of 800 pounds, two
Of 700 pounds, two of $50 pounds. one Of
1 200 pounds, five of 81, 500 pounds, and
one Of the enormous weight Of 1,64O
pounds, enormous even in these days, Tor
the only guns whose shot exceed the
heaviest OF these are our Seton gun,
throwing a 1,70O-pound projectile; our
100-ton, throwing one of 1900 pounds,
and the 110-ton, throwing an 1, 0-pound
shot with a high velocity.
The stone shot of Mohammed's guns
varied between twenty and thirty two
inches in diameter, about the same height
as a dining table; 2, 1874 of them were fired
on this occasion, weighing according to a
calculation of General LefroY's, about
1 600 tons, and were cut out of the solid
rock on the spot. Assuming twenty-four
inches as the aver re diameter of the shot
fired at this siege, the total area OF the
surface dressed was nearly 81, 900 square
feet. AT this siege the weight of the pow
der fired IS estimated by General Leroy to
have been 250 tons. At the siege of
Rhodes, in 1880, Mohammed caused six
teen basilisks or double cannon to be cast
on the spot, throwing balls two to three
feet in diameter.-C Chambers journal.