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Passaic City record., 1893-01-28
POPULAR SCIENCE.

Cork is about the most buoyant sub
stance.
The microsccpists say that mosquito
has twenty-five teeth.
Yawnlng is caused by a deficiency IL
the air supply to the lungs
The carhons of electric arc lamps are
now being made of powdered graphite
instead of coke.
Scales are now made that will weigf
the flame OF a candle or the smalles
strand of hair plucked from the eyebrow
In England farmers always soak their
seed in bluestone of v1triol to prevent
smut and rust. A pound of vitriol to
four bushels of wheat Is the proportion
used.
Variations in the size of raindrops are
attributed to atmospheric disturbances
and to the height from which they fall,
those from high altitude being much
the smaller.
The new screw propeller of English
origin has two fiat blades in the usual
form, but the remaining two, which are
opposite each other, are looped, SO that
they form practically revolving figure 8.
The platinum beds in the Ural Noun
tains in Russia are the only ones in the
world in which that metal is found in
grains. In several places it is to be found
imbedded in the hard serpentine rock,
but only in the Ural in grains.
A recent invention is new type Of
refrigerator car that can be run for twenty
days without re-icing. 1t is charged
with ice and certain chemicals, the COM
bination maintaining freezing temper
ature during this long period.
1t is said that really indelible ink
and kind of vinegar can be produced
from the juices contained in the banana
peel. The fiber of the peel, it is said,
can also be utilized in making cloth of
great strength and remarkable beauty.
An Ottawa (Canada) electrician claims
to have discovered process for utilizing
electricity for light, power or heat, so as
to abstract the heat from cast iron blocks
until they are reduced to the temperature
of ice. He claims that this can be done
at price to compete favorably with the
latter.
London scientists have recently de-
monstrated that the purest air in the
cities is found about twenty-five feet
above the street surface. Heretofore it
has been thought that the highest floors
=. xoro~nn+ I,ouroc Lod tbo hast o;r Tho
Investigations above referred to show
that the healthiest apartments are those
on the third floor.
Passaic City record., 1893-01-28

sented in short wasted gowns, all short
WASTED gowns forever more are Empire;
5 But If you do not want to go into just her
kind of short wasted gowns you viii find
lots of other kinds in the periods covered by
the term Empire, the short-waisted dresses,
for instance, that are short-skirted, too,
trimmed with wreaths of flowers or ribbons
spirally wound about the skirt. wreath OF
flowers or ribbon about the head. You may
wear bodices short WASTED, but not under
the arms, and very full skirts and sweet 1T
tie short wasted coats in Thermidor style.
You may do your hair high or low ana
quite loose, so long as it picturesque.
The women shown in the picture was the
hostess at recent reception, and she is
caught just as she went forward to greet her
first guest See the pretty way that the hos
tess head tips back as she says, s'Why, my
dearl' The hostess was a blonde and her
gown was French rainbow silk of change
able rose and apple green to start with, and
these shades, striped with hair lines of rose
and with other stripes Of solid rose sprink-
led with rose and leaves and shining with
golden lustre The corselet bodice and the
sleeves were apple green. The upper part
Passaic City record., 1893-01-28
Whaleback Passenger Steamers,

The whaleback type of vessel promises
to occupy permanent place in steam
ship structure. It is now four years since
the first vessel of this description was
constructed, and already twenty-eight
are tn use. All of these are exclusively
for the transportation of freight. Re-
Gently there was launched at West Supe-
rior, Wisconsin, the Christopher Colum-
bus, the first whaleback passenger steam
er, which is likely to be followed by
others Of similar construction.
This vessel is almost as radical de-
parture from any existing type as the
whaleback was from the old style Of
vessels. This vessel is constructed en-
tirely of steel, and is 362 feet long over
all, forty-two feet beam and twenty four
feet deep. Heretofore whaleback steam
ers have had but two turrets, but the
Christopher Columbus will have seven in
all, elliptical in shape, rising seven and
one-half feet above the main deck. The
vessel is built to carry passengers from
Chicago to the Worlds Fair grounds, a
distance of between six and seven miles.
She will have accommodations for nearly
five thousand passengers and will be
propelled at speed of twenty miles an
hour by single scrsw fourteen feet in
diameter. The saloon proper is 225 feet
long by thirty feet wide. The decora-
tions of the saloon are in excellent taste,
one feature being a marble and glass
fountain, with glass tank filed with
water containing the various kinds Of
fishes found in the Great Lakes. Amid
ships are dining and refreshment tables
and booths, and forward are situated the
kitchen, messro I'm, engineers quarters
and crew space. Over the saloon is the
promenade deck, 257 feet long, in the
centre of which is a skylight fifteen feet
in width, and extending distance of
13S feet, with large glass dome over
the after stairway.
The Christopher Columbus, being the
first whaleback passenger vessel ever put
afioat, will no doubt attract much atten-
ton from visitors to the Columbian Ex-
position. Frank Leslie's Weekly.
Passaic City record., 1893-01-28
THE "RrsToRArIoN'' PERIOD.

dresses and wigs. tiarrss and diamond cres-
cents. Spangles were invented and much
used on dresses Transparent materials
came III vogue, and raiment became mere
'gauze- veiled nudity" All this was more
characteristic Of the Republic than of the
Empire AS for pretty modesty in short
waists and long skirts and scarfs that is not
Empire at all You may call it, as ! have
said, Bean Brummel if you like.
Another lot Of gowns that are being label
ed Empire" belong rightly to the period
following the Empire, the Restoration
q815). Short-waisted gowns now took on
dignity. valuable jewels, wide, oright-coor-
ed sasnes, delicate fans and embroidered
reticules were much worn. Plaid dresses
came in, and you see now what has suggest
ed our sudden Jump of late into plads,
though as vet we have not adapted them to
the short-waistet gowns. Large chip hats
had the edges cut into squares, green was
much in vogue and SO were cloaks with
double collars Silver was woven into
stuffs, feather trimming and fur trimming
were the rage, sleeves were puffed and trim
med with rows of rucbing. You see the
Restoration is we'll represented in our FASH
ions at present, many of its characteristics
have been classed under Empire" while
many more have not been classed at all,
which ally goes to show that one lovely
woman has epitomized several periods in
herself, and just because josephine is repre-
Passaic City record., 1893-01-28
The Giant of All Timepieces.

The greatest theological wonder in
world to o-day is the gigantic clock in the
tower of the immense 'sPublic Building"
at Philadelphia. When everything is
in running order this marvel of the clock
makers art will be stationed distance
ofs351 feet from the pavement. Its bell
weighs between 10000 and $4,000
pounds, and is the second largest bell of
any kind in America, the great bell at
Montreal being the largest, weighing
1000 pounds. The dial of this Phila-
delphia titan is twenty-five feet in di-
ameter, and the striking hammer is as
large as pile driver weight. The
minute hand is twelve and the hour hand
nine feet in length. The machinery is
arrar rged so that the CLOCK will strike
every fifteen minutes, the quarter, half,
three quarters and hours. The Roman
numerals on the face are two feet eight
inches in length, the. dark part OF the
figures being 81 inches in width. As
is entirely out OF the question to talk o.
winding such monster by hand, three
horse power engine has been placed q
the square Of the tower for that especia
purpose.
Passaic City record., 1893-01-28

A criticism of the time has it thus: "A
fashion far from graceful and woman
needs to be beautiful to look well in such a
costume" Gowns were indecently low for
the street and at all times. Artificial flow
ers were an innovation, and were much used
on gowns and in the hair. Nine. de Stael
wrote "Corihne" about this time, and the
harp became the rage and floating scarfs
more than ever popular. But, after all, these
things were hardly invented in the Empire
period, and to speak of Josephine gown is
more correct when You mean the very short
waists and very plain skirts, for the Empire
saw many fashion besides the short waist
ed one. Indeed, in this period stays came
back Most of the gowns labeled as Empire
are really revivals from directory dresses III
the period of the French Republic 1789-
1804.) Bodies were then short waisted, dis
playing a good deal of the bosom, unless
it were hidden by gauze handkerchief or
O long scarf printed in colors, or braided or
brccaded. In this early time of short waist
ed dresses the woman has dear affectation
of innocence, and not a bit of the Empire
immodesty, for all their low dresses. They
wore straw bonnets and were the most
demure things in the world, if they wanted
to be. These were the Beau Brummel dress
es. (l789 Louis XVI France, George ~
England,
Passaic City record., 1893-01-28
4 MODERN VALENTINE.

H-z< -
I've written IL, love, with a stiff steel pen;
d For the geese, understand.
Are so learned. now, that their quills, ]
trow,
! Must supply their own demand.
I've secured it love, by the aid OF glue
Instead of strand of hair,
which cannot obtain, for see, with pam,
have really none to spare.
Isend it to you by the postman, love;
For Cupid, grieve to hear,
IL afraid of the cold. and has grown so old
That he doesn't go out this year.
But the message is ever the same, my love,
While the stars their course fulfil.
Though to me and to you it may seem quite
new,
sTis the old, old story still.
&C. w. Latimer, in Harper's Magazine. 2
Passaic City record., 1893-01-28
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Do not fear sin; overcome it.
A full stomach giveth courage.

Do not fear sin; overcome it.
A full stomach giveth courage.
Speak kindly of the rich; they need
it.
The rose cannot inhale its own frag-
rance.
The best men never know how good
they are.
Cupid doesn't hesitate to foreclose his
mortgages.
1t is always wise to discount the face
value of woman.
All of us know how other people
should spend their money.
What a heavy burden is name that
has too soon become famous.
He that IS good for making excuses is
seldom good for anything else.
Don't have money transactions with
your friends if you can avoid them.
Idolatry is disease of the imagina-
ton; idealism the aspiration of the
spirit.
Passaic City record., 1893-01-28
An Exciting Time ON a Hand Car.

ssUndoubtedly, said Fl. G. Orcutt,
.'the most exciting experience that ever
had was in Iowa on one of the big trunk
lines that cross the State. 1t was ride
on hand-car. Now, have never been
a section boss, neither have been a
railroad employe in my life, but COM
bination of mishaps secured me night
ride on one OF them. was in the town
of Emporia, and wanted to get to
Strong, little town some fifteen miles
farther west. My object was to see a
leading merchant of that town who was,
I understood, to leave at nine that night,
just half hour before / could reach the
town by the regular train. The clerk
intimated that might ride to Strong on
a hand-car. Some necessary work had
delayed the section gang at Emporia,
and now, at eight o'clock. they were
preparing to return. found the boss,
told him my object and my distress, and
asked him to take me aboard. We
started, and after we had gone some
twelve of the fifteen miles, working
along at good rate, we were startled to
hear the whistle OF an engine In the dl-
rection of Emporia, and directly in the
distance we could see the dim CLEAN Of a
headlight. Something was wrong. No
train was due over the line for fully an
hour and ten minutes. We did not stop
to argue the case. The train would be
on us before we could throw the car off.
The order of the section boss was to keep
ahead of the engine, if possible, until we
passed Strong, thinking, no doubt, that
the approaching train would stop there.
We worked like Trojans. Everybody
laid hands on the power-bar and worked
for dear life. My, but we made that
hand car fairly slngl We kept ahead
of the tram for at least mile and half.
Then it ran into US, but we were going
so fast that the shock was slight. /
would rot like to repeat the experience. !"
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Passaic City record., 1893-01-28
Solid EIuciiage.

Muci' age, in convenient solid form,
and which will readily dissolve in
water. for fastening papers together,
may be made as follows: Boil one
pound of yhe best white glue, and
strain very Gear; boil also four ounces
of isinglass, and mix the two to-
gether; place them in water bath
glue kettle-with half a pound Of
white sugar and evaporate till the
liquid is quite thick. when it is to be
poured into moulds. dried, and cut
into pieces OF convenient size.
HANDKERCHIEFs have been added
to the equipments Of the Russian
soldiers. Heretofore the warriors Of
the Gar have depended upon coat
sleeves and fence rails.
Passaic City record., 1893-01-28
An InsoIuble Puzzle to Naturalists.

The peculiar breed of cats found in
the Isle of Man differs from others only
in that they have no tails, and the lack
thereof is the insoluable puzzle to
naturalists. Since it has become the
fashion to explain everything by the
principles of evolution, two theories
have been offered lone, that owing to
the limited range and lack of dense for
ests the original cats had no use for
tails, and consequently they (the tails,
not the cats) gradually atrophied for
lack of use and became rudimentary;
another, the primitive Manx cut off all
their cats tails, and in the course of
time developed tailless breed. One
thing is certain, the cats are there and
they have no tails. The highbred Chinese
cat is splendid proof of what may be
done by kindness and culture. If you
were to repeat to well-to-do but un-
travelled Chinaman the current saying
with us that cats are selfish creatures,
utterly devoid of affection, he would
be very much astonished, and, if the
owner of thoroughbred, probably in
dignant. The Chinese cat appears capa-
BILE of intense attachment to one person,
and ages of selection and careful breeding
have brought the species up tc high
standard. The Chinese claim that one
of these cats-and any cat to some ex-
tents valuable clock. In the morn
ing the pupil of its eye is broad band
it contracts regularly till noon, when il
is mere hair-line, and expands again
as regularly till night. So when Q
Chinaman wants to know the time Of
i day he picks up his cat and looks. New
York News.
Passaic City record., 1893-01-28

of the bodice crossed peasant fashion and
was of the rainbow stuff The sleeves were
split to show the arms. Black velvet made
and sleeves were edged with black feather
trimming, and the fan with which she made
her little Delsarte gestures was black. She
was in such pretty hurry to greet her
guest that she had to lift her gown to avoid
tripping and that showed a petticoat of rose
silk.
Passaic City record., 1893-01-28
TIE PIECE OF GOLD.
BY JAMES VAUGHN.

HERE are times
in every circle
of story tellers,
when a spirit of
reverie seems to
come upon every
one. Thus it
was when the
learned judge of
the court, sit
ting with his
friends, had re-
lated an instance
of ne W h o
through trying
to defraud a sis
ter of her share
IN tn e fathers
property, o u t.
witred himself
and came to a
Passaic City record., 1893-01-28

Then. as time went on. modesty became
more and more foreign to the short-waisted
gown. Exaggerations alone had vogue.
Gowns were short wasted with long tight
sleeves or short ones or the arms were bare
or covered with long gloves The skirts trail
ed and all sorts OF headgear was in vogue.
The Greeks were borrowed from for head
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-06-23
Dr.. Andrew J. Willard's
Establishment for the treatment
of nervous disease, sometimes
known as "The Nervine"
and "Kest Cure"


The S. Weir. Mitchell RestTreatment spec
iality. DIR. willard is Il graduate OF Yale, '53
and Medical Department u NJ, ~. Some OF
his permitted references are as follows;
Bishops Atwell, Mo-, Bissell, VT, Davies,
Mich; Presidents Angel, Ann Arbor, Buck
ham, U. v. NJ, Dwight, Yale, ex-President
White, CORNELL Professors Goodrich, Grin
nell, Perkins, Roberts, J. B. Wheeler, Wit
thaus, u V. NJ; DIR. b. j. Andrews, Hon. G. q
Benedict, Rev. DR.. Bliss, ex-senator Ed
munds, Rev. f. Hungerford, eXMinisteI
Phelps, Hon. b. B. Smalley, Judge Wales
Hon. c. W. Woodhouse, Burlington; Drs Ed
dy, Middlebury, Caverly, Rutland, JENNIE, st,
Manchester; Prof Smith, Hanover, n. H.; Drs
Kellogg, PIattsburgh, Leith, Lancaster, n. H.
G. p. Thayer, Boston, Sawyer, Barre, Crisand,
Worcester, Mass, Frank Lewis, n. Y, Dennis
Newark, Nd. j. Rollins Brown, Brooklyn, Cal
Kins, Springfield; Edmund Clarence Stedman,
Charlton F. Lewis, Rev. Dr. Wilton, Rev.
Kinsley Twining, Isaac Bromley, S. w. Kne'
walls, New York, Rev. DIR. Stafford, Brooklyn,
Rev. DR.. Munger, New Haven, Wayne Nc
Veagh, Philadelphia, Pref. f. II. Griffin, Bal
timore Judges S. Shiras, Washington, Bill
ings, New Orleans, Prot. p. Collier, Geneva,
Hon. ii. e. Robinson, DR.. II. p. Sterns Hart
ford, C. +. and f. ii. Russell, Drs. +. w. Page
c. f. Stedman, Boston, Rev. VIM. r. Camp
bell Roxbury, Rev. J. w. Buckham, Salem
Mass, Rev. Theodore Bacon, Essex Junction
Rev. Dr. Chester, Nashville, Tenn, Rev. Dr
Poor, Philadelphia, Rev. Hiram Bingham
Honolulu, S. l., Gen. Harland Norwich, Conn.
Gen. G. A. johnson, san Francisco, Rev. DR.
Hough Santa Barbara, Albert Emmett Kent
San Rafael, Cal.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-06-23
MISTOOK The SIZE.

"Now." said the professor of magic,
81 am about to undertake feat in which
I shall require the use of pint flask of
whiskey."
There was dead silence.
"Will some gentleman in the audience
favor me with pint flask of whiskeyT'
asked the professor, advancing to the
front of the platform.
There was no response, and things
were becoming embarrassing.
"Surely," he said, sin Southeastern
Kentucky community I ought not to
have to ask a second time for such a
thing. l pledge you my word l will
return 1t uniniured. Is there no"
"Stranger," spoke up a tall, gaunt
Manufactured man on front seat
"would quart flask do jest as well?"
"Why, certainly, merely"
But the generous, open-handed aud
fence had risen as one man and was OF
the way to the platform.-[C Chicago
Tribune.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-06-23
A BOOM THAT BURST.

In the whole history of financial col
llpses there is no more Interesting story
than the rise and fall Of Sioux City.
I,Na. says the New York Press. With
in the past six weeks half IA dozen cor
poiauunS, syndicates and individuals
have gone under for an aggregate of
more tl.an $1,000 900. whose assr,s are
dissolvihs view and who's" liabilities
from day to day ascend as"llills oyer hills
and Alps on Alps arise. Every energy
of its leading men was put forth; every
scheme was employed that human in
genuity could devise 'the power of
printers ink was layishly expended in
all manner of advertising, and the races
of the earth, without distinction of
trace, color or previous condition of
servitude," were invited to swell the
city's population. And all this with an
eve single to particular end-to boom
the Importance of suburban real estate,
to lend a fictitious value to stocks,
bonds and other securities, and to cover
with the profusion of population, enter
prise and apparent public prosperity the
operations of the "Napoleons of finance
mp to the day of the inevitable Water
loo. These enIerprising gentlemen sue
ceeded admirably. And to their credit
be it recorded that they "builded better
than they knew.
They created and fostered live stock
market and meat packing industry ex-
ceeded only by those of four or five
cities in America. The value of the
Union Stock yards plant and property
exceeds S2,750,0O0. Not content with
nine lines of railway centering here and
three or four other lines having traffic
arrangements, they laid the foundations
of scheme to build another road-th6
Sioux City and Baltimore-they had
erected one of the statellest and mos
commodious central railway depots in thu
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-06-23

West, and had made considerable prog
ress with second railway bridge across
the Missouri river. when, under pressure
of the general financial striusencv. the
Inevitable collapse came much sooner
than vas anticipated.
The town site of Sioux City as 1t APP
pears on paper is larger than Manhattan
island. There are single "addditions"
larger than Central Park, New York,
and scores of additions on which a single
house was never erected and probably
never will be. Between the real city,
with its present population of 10000 or
$4,000. and the city limits there are broad
acres of nature here and there mutilated
by cuts and fills in the hurried efforts to
grade nominal streets and avenues. The
town site stretches along the Missouri
river from the village of Sargents Bluffs
to the public crossing of the Big Sioux
river, a total distance of thirteen miles.
1t was upon these houseless additions
that Sioux City boomers reaped their
golden harvests. The mode of realizing
cash upon these additions was as follows
The town site proprietor selected some
utterly irresponsible vagabond, sold
him block of the new addition for a
consideration, as apparent of record, of
$4,000 and took purchase money mort
gage for $250O. This mortgage was
duly sold to the innocent customer of
some savings bank in New York State,
Rhode Island, Connecticut or New Hamp-
shire. Such security for $500 was
actually worth little less than the two
acres upon which, IN the last analysis, it
was based, namely, the sum of 1925.
Pay day and a day of reckoning came
upon the accumulated millions and
villalnies comprised in these mortgages,
and failure after failure was the re-
suit. The mystery of mysteries is the
whereabouts of the millions that mark
the discrepancy between the broad portal
of nominal assets and the actual value of
assets.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-06-23

DR.. NJ. J. Davis is prominent
physician of Lewis, Cass county, Iowa,
and has been actively engaged in the
practice of medicine at that place for the
past thirty-five years. On the Goth Of
May, while in Des Moines en- route to
Chicago, he was suddenly taken with an
attack of darrhna. Having sold
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and Dlar-
rhea Remedy for the past seventeen
years, and knowing its reliability, he
procured a 25-cent bottle, two doses of
which completely cured him. The ex-
element and change of water ana diet
incident to travelling often produce a
diarrhpa. Every one should procure a
bottle of this Remedy before leaving
home. For sale by druggists; also sold
by F. c. Dyer, West Salisbury, Vt.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-06-23

Fifty cents Is Il small doctor bill, but
that is all il viii cost you to cure any
ordinary case ur rheumatism IT you use
I hamlmrlan'> Pam h In. Try 1t aud
y"u l. ~. sir,ri.cu 1T th" prompt ~
st J. dti ,r'is. I ~ ii nppl di wi,
quiet the pain. 50-cent bottles for sale
by all druggists; also by F. G. Dyer,
West Salisbury, VT.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-06-23
The oo1AENRuRo WAY.

A recent issue of the Independent con-
tains an interesting account of the Nor
wegian system of dealing with the
liquor question, known as the Gothen-
burg plan.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-06-23

Lanes Medicine Moves the Bowels
Each Day. In order to be healthy this is
neceSsArX.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-06-23

COUGHING LEADS TO CONSUME
TON. Kemp's Balsam stops the cough at
once.