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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-05-25

MEETING OF THE ADDISON COUNTY
CONFERENCE.
The Addison county conference OF
Congregational churches will hold its
annual meeting with the church in Mid
dlebury on Thursday and Friday of
next week. The programme of the ex-
ercises follows:
Thursday-M Morning Session.
10 3d. Social half.hour.
IL 0O Organization.
Devotional Service.
Led by Rev. A. w. Dickens.
II 00 Recess and COLLATION..
afternoon Session.
l As. Reports on the Condition of the
Churches.
2 To- Church Unity.
(d) History of recent movements
toward Organic Unity.
BY Rev. w. \. Bacon.
(b). Discussion: Advantages of Or
ganic Church Unity.
Led by Rev. S. ii. Barnum
and Bro. L w. Peet
(c). Discussion; Difficulties OF such
Led by Rev. c. y. Thomas
and Rev. Levi Wild.
tdD. Discussion; How to promote
churches as shall tend TO Or
ganic Unity.
Led by Rro. C. A. Bump and
Rev. j. C.. houghton.
Ecening Session.
7l5. Praise Service.
Led by Rev. W. N. Bacon.
: 80 Conference Sermon.
BY Rev. II. R. Titus.
Communion Service.
Friday-Aforning Session.
30. Devotional Exercises.
Led by Rev. w. c. Detling.
Q co. Address Young men outside OF the
churches. BY Rev. b. Swift.
8 80. The Sunday School.
"a. Discussion The Duty of the
Church to the Sunday school.
Led by Bro. n. w. Huntley
and Bro. l.. c. Needham
~. Discussion: what are the best
Sunday school Lesson Helps?
Led by Dea. X. II. Holmes
aud Prot. T. f. Boyce.
(c). Address.
BY Rev. f. J. Marsh, represent
ing the Sunday school and
Publishing Society.
IL 100. Discussion: The Power of the Gospel
to overcome Worldliness.
Led by Rev. II. J. Barton
and Dea. 5. James.
II 100. Recess and COLLATION..
Afternoon Session.
80. Business.
. 90. Missionary Hour.
Address by Miss Virginia Dox, rep
resenting the American Education
Society.
Address by Rev. c. w. Shelton, rep
senting the Home Missionary So
ciety.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-05-25
REGENT DEATHS.

Miss Olivia Comstock. who had been
i'll Tor several weeks with a complication
of diseases. died at / o'clock Tuesday
morning at her home on South Main
street, aged 90 years. The funeral was
attended from the house at 10 o'clock
yesterday morning, Rev. S. b. Blunt
conducting the service and Rev. G. l..
Leonard having charge There was a
very large number of friends and neigh
bOrs present. The interment was in tbH
West cemetery.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-05-25
WHO KNOWS WHEN


Steamboats, will sink or burn?
Railroad trains will be wrecked?
Boilers or lamps will explode?
Horses will take fright and run
Bricks or timbers will fall?
Fire burn or lightning strike?
Machinery will crush or mangle?
Tools or glass will cut?
Splinters or nails will wound?
Slips or falls will happen?
Hammers and weights will bruse?
Limbs will be sprained or broken?
Ladder or staging will give way
Animals will kick or bite?
Fatal or disabling injury by accident
may be caused in any one of thousand
ways.
SINCE NO ONE KNOWS
Don't wait to be injured, but take out
an accident policy at once in the "Old
and Reliable" Travellers Insurance Co.
of Hartford. Conn. which has paid out
over $l5, 100000 90 for accident claims.
Lowest rates for the best kind of IN
demnity. Call and investigate the vari-
Gus plans.
j. NJ. CHENEY, Middebury, VT
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-05-25
THE CONGREGATIONAL CHuRoAes.

MEETING OF THE ADDISON COUNTY
CONFERENCE.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-05-25
FOREIGN.

Heavy snow storms prevailed the first
of the week in the midland counties of
England, and the weather was intensely
cold.
The anarchists Codina, Cerezuela,
Sogas. Bemat, Villarubia and Mir, who
were condemned to death for completely
IN the attempt of Pallas to assassinatc
Gen. Martinez de Campos, were shot al
Barcelona, Spain, Monday morning.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-05-25
HIS BURDEN SHIFTED.

When Snidewel got religion and got
up in meeting to say that he had made
up his mind to cast his burden on the
Lord, Mrs. ). was heard to remark, II
don't know as | care, so long as | am
eased of at least "A portion of it in future.
lis nit to be expected that Daniel would
ever bear his burden himself. - EX-
change.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-05-25

Andersonvile prison so long that when
he returned home he was badly broken in
health and has never since been well.
Evening star., 1894-02-17

bUzzed as i walked through the many
rooms and tried TO understand it all You
could lose yourself in its basement as i'm
the catacombs of Rome and wander for
hours trying to find your way out The
grand staircase. which takes up a space
equal almost to that of a quarter of an
acre.is to be finished in white marble and the
great marble columns which rise one above
another are already in place and surround
ed with wooden boards to keep them from
injury. The reading room will be in the
rotunda in the center of the building and
it will be covered with the dome This
room will be as large as the rotunda of
the Capitol and it's area will be about a
quarter of an acre. 1t will have seats for
;,tD readers and the desks of these run in
concentric rows around the central desk
In which the manager of the reading room
will sit and from which he will have con-
nections with all parts OF the library by
pneumatic tubes or other modern inven-
tions, which will enable him to send
message III the twinkling of an eye to any
part of this great book palace, and by the
touching { f Il button bring back the book
he wants. Electricity and everything that
the modern mind can think of has come
10 the aid in adding TO the conveniences
of the library, and it is thought that
an electric railroad viii be built to carry
the books from the old library of Congress
in the Capitol over to this new building.
From this great central dome run out
Ike arms massive buildings in which are
to be housed our national library of the
future These are known as book stacks,
but the word conveys no idea of their char
acter. Imagine a great long warehouse
with glass walls high one of the
largest New York flats and hundreds of
feet in length. Let the sides of these be
walled with glass set into square columns
of white enameiei brick and have the plate
glass wedged into these columns without
framework. as is the case in windows.
Make the interior to consist of one mass of
iron network running from the floor to the
roof, that when you stand within it you
see nothing but iron frames rising one
above the other and flling the whole vast
high room. This may give you some idea
of the book stack. The iron network con-
sists of book shelves, and these are reached
by stairs which run from one tier of iron to
another and by walks of iron paved with
marble. which are suspended between the
tiers at regular intervals from the floor to
the roof. There are several of these vast
book warehouses in the building. The one
have just described will contain S00.O
books, or more than are now in the Ma
tional Library. The walls of glass give per-
feet light and the books are So arranged
that~stAe~ greatest numbers can be packed
into the smallest compass. making every
pamphlet thoroughly accessible ----v
Evening star., 1894-02-17
CLOCK AND CLOAK,
4 Misunderstanding About the Word
Led to II Detectives Annoyance.

\ Misunderstanding About the Word
Led to II Detectives Annoyance.
From the Toledo Commercial.
The whole detective force as well as evarv
man on the police staff. is holding his sides
with laughter over little incident which oc-
CURED yesterday afternoon. 1t seems that
cloak had been reported as stolen from the
high school. One of the able detectives read
over the report as the chief or some one had
Jotted 1t down, but some way he got IL
clock instead of cloak"
Il know where that clock is" he re-
marked.
The other detectives looked at each other.
every man of them catching onto the mis-
take quick scat.
Better go over and get it" one of the
officers remarked.
And. accordingly, the detective disap-
peared. rushed over to a secondhand store.
on st. Clair street. pointed toward a great
big oid-fashioncd clock on the wall with a
church front to it, and asked:
Here, | want that clock; it's stolen.''
II fought dot clock for
But the detective would allow no exnIa
nation, and rushed back to his office brave
ly Juggling along the clock. He set il IN in
a prominent place in the office and remark
ed
There it is"
1t cost the boys an effort, but they sup
pressed their feelings. All sat a few min
utes, when finally Nichter opened the hook
and commenced to read off the rannrts
again. When he came to the cloak thief
the big detective gasped:
'What?'
But it was so. He looked the book over
half n dozen times, and there IL was cIool,
instead of clock. With sincere contrition
and apology on the part of the bearer tba
CLOCK was lugged back to Stark's
Evening star., 1894-02-17

as high as those of the talest New York
fat, and you can lose yourself in its long
corridors and winding passages. 1t
has dome plated with the purest
of gold larger than the largest
circus tent, and the golden torch
which flames over its top. though 1t looks
not bigger around than your fist as viewed
from the Capitol is in reality as big as a
hogshead, and it may be seen from Alexan-
dria and fa- down the Potomac. This new
library building is a work of wonderful art.
Its exterior is made of drab granite cut in
places so smooth that it looks like marble
and o=namented here and there with won
derful carvings. The building has about
1.SOO windows and the four sides OF the
main gallery have thirty-three great arches
the keystOnes of which are images repre-
senting the heads of all the races of the
world. Every type of man known to eth
nology has a place in one of these arches,
and the faces are marvellous in their eXecu-
ton and character. Over the main en-
trance are the types of the highest oder OF
men. such as the Greek. the Latin and the
Saxon, while at the back of the building
you find the lowest types. such as you find
in Africa and in the South Sea Islands. l
can't describe the wonderful execution of
these figures. They are the most lifelike
pictures in stone L have ever seen, and they
seem to almost talk to you as their stern.
stony eyes look down at you from over the
windows.
This building covers nearly as much space
as the Capitol. Its dome is not so large
but its plate of gold makes it infinitely more
conspicuous. II you will take five city lots
and carpet them with 24-carat gold you will
get an idea of the golden quilt which COW
ers this immense dome. There is no room
In the United States so large that IL would
fit this great golden carpet. and it is the
largest golden dome in the United States
1t has been called the largest golden dome
In the world. But this is mistake. The
dome Of ST. Isaac's in st. Petersburg has
smaller diamete-. but it covers more space
and it cost infinitely more than this. 1t
took 2O0 pounds of solid gold to cover il
and when You remember that gold at the
mints is worth 81 an ounce you will see
that even at that low rate the ST. Peters,
burg dome cost $4,000 to gild.
Evening star., 1894-02-17

We had here about 5000 volumes Then the
British came and burned the Capitol and
the books went up in smoke. A short time
after this, President jefferson, who had
gotten into financial straits at Monticello
offered his library for sale to Congress He
had, all told between six and seven thou
sand volumes, many of which were valuable
and rare. Congress paid him $4,000 for
them, which was, it is said. just about half
what they cost him, and they were hauled
in wagons from Monticello to Washington.
Parton, Jefferson's biographer says they
made sixteen wagon loads of books and
that Jefferson was very sorry to lose them
In 1851 the library had increased to $1,000
volumes. Then another fire occurred and
3aOoO of these were burned including many
OF the most valuable. The fire took place
from defective fiues, and only 10000 vol
Evening star., 1894-02-17
DANGER IN BEING DECORATED.
Empty ButtOnhOles the Rule in Paris
Because of an AuarcIiiSt's Tbre,,

Every foreigner who has visited Paris
has been struck by the enormous number
of men wearing the rosette either of tie
Legion of Honor or else OF some foreign
decoration in the buttonhole of the lapel
of their coats. Indeed. it seems to be the
sole aim of the Frenchman of every class of
society to become decore. and once they
have attained that distinction. they never
dream of moving out of the house without
the rosette in their buttonhole You NAV
imagine. therefore, the sensatiO crea ed
during the past few days by the almost
complete disappearance OF these bits of rib
bOnS. The cause is related by Eogue's
Paris correspondent. The young anarchist
who committed the murderous onslaught
on the Servian envoy while the latter was
dining at the Bouillon Duval restaurant in
the Avenue de rOpera explained that he
had selected the diplomat as his victim
simply because he happened to be the only
person in the place who was wearing tie
red ribbon of the Legion of Honor in his
buttonhOle. He informed the police author
tiles that on the evening before the tragedy
he had visited another restaurant hoping
to find there aristocrat of whom to
make an example" and that while he saw
great many well-dressed men. none of
them happened to wear a decora tion
hence he postponed his design.
Evening star., 1894-02-17
A WATER BICYCLE.
You Might at First Think II a Very
Difficult Machine to Make, but Ii Isn't.
From Hardware.

FROM lfafuWare.
At first sight a water bicycle would seem
a difficult thing to construct. but really it
is very simple. Take two cylindrical air
floats, and, placing them parallel with each
other, fasten them together at a suitable
distance apart. Here you have a raft. Now
suspend the frame of the bicycle between
the two, SO that the front wheel will pass
Into the water to the depth of two or three
inches. This forms the steering apparatus.
Now fix 20 the spokes of the rear wheel
cross-pieces of wood, precisely the wheel
of a sde-wheeled steamer is constructed.
and, the propellng power is gained. The
whole is capable of great improvement, for
as now the ordinary bicycle is applied to
the float, special and much cheaper forms
could be got up, and also more of an ad-
vantage could be had in the economy of
power Indeed. one would have to go but
a few steps further. and attach the twin
screw propeller to the aquatic novelty to
produce desired results. AS it now stands,
the scope of the idea is limited to still wa
ter, the slightness of the affair making ii
dangerous in its application to waters
in any way turbulent.
Evening star., 1894-02-17

The gold on the dome at Washington did
not cost one-tenth OF that amount 1t was
put on in little sheets. each of which was
about four inches square and one one hun
dred and fifty-thousa ndtns of an inch thick
1t takes two thousand such sheets to make
an ounce Of gold. and this amount will
cover a space about as large as that of the
average hall vestibule. The gold made in
this form costs 81 an ounce. and at that
rate il must have cost over $4,000 to aiId
st. ISaac's. Russia has many cathedral
domes plated with gold. and the gold-plat ted
temples of the world are many. In Bur-
nah and SiaIn there are pagOdas and tenn
pies covered with gold. and at Rangoon /
saw paSOda about two-thirds as high as
the Washington monument which is a great
round mountain just plastered with gold
leaf: The dome of the capitol at Boston is
eoid-piated. as are also those of the
connecticut state house at Hartford and
the Hotel Des Invalids a Paris. / went up
TO the top of this golden dome yesterday
and took look at it. The gold is laid upon
copper and II Is polished so that IL is as
orlght as new wedding ring. 1t is said
20 oe very durable. and is the whole. I
unuot not. cheaper than the white lead with
Nhich the Capitol dome is PAINTED nearly
every Year The gold was put ON by special
istS VINO worked under canvas and one of
.horn nearly lost his life at the work. The
ny w II the dome is. Judge. about one-third
tne height of the Washington rnOnumant
I,On lhe earth. This man was working on
the sihoOth surface. when his foot slipped
r,,I,,,. go L.e sl1 DOWN it as though it We're a
..ountalf OF ice He came to the edge at a
nSInS FeIocity and shot over il on 10 the
raiIhe OF the granite fence which runs
srotI'h IT'S base. His foot fortunately caught
on the inside Of this railing ana he tnn,bIad
noMH M III heap on the iron pavement. which
runs around the dome. Had he struck tbe
oP Di the railing half an inch higher he
would have slid over and u-o,,Ij -, g ~,
sheer LOO feet onto the granite living in
me court below. This is the only reaIIv
aangcrods accident that has occurred in tba
been employed upon II for several yaars
no lives have been lost
Like the Catacombs
can't describe the wonders Of the in
terror of the National Library. My head
Evening star., 1894-02-17
THE NEW LIBRARY
Uncle Sans Book Palace and Its
Wonderful Features.
GOLDEN DOME And GLASS WAREHOUSES;
Railroads for Window Washers and
Electric Lines for Carrying Books.
A CHAT WITH MR.. sPOFFORD.

Written for The Evening Star.
Evening star., 1894-02-17
TO ADVERTISERS.

Advertisers are urgently re-
quested to hand In advertisements
the day prior to publication. in
order that insertion may be as
sured. Want advertisements win
be received up to noon Of the day
OF publication, precedence being
given to those first received.
Evening star., 1894-02-17
B E NCH HUI M 0 RS
Methods That Are Followed in the
Supreme Court.
FOUR YEARS TO GET A HEARING
Some Of the Personal Peculiar
tiles of the Justices.
THEY HAVE NO SINECURE
UR YEARS TO GET A HEARING
THEY HAVE NO SINECURE
PRESIDENT

HAT PRESIDENT
Cleveland did not
nominate Mr.. Horn
blower a second time
for the Supreme
Court was a surprise
to some people. Chef
JUS tice Taney'S
name was rejected
twice by the Senate
before he was finally
confirmed for that
offic Meanwhile
the great mechanism
of nrncra Stin1 tipn
Evening star., 1894-02-17

slL E-N nv
noon this week in go
ing through tine new
National l. 1 b rar y
building. / can't be-
gin to describe it. 1t
will be the finest pub
lie building an the
United States, and 1t
will be the most
beautiful library in
the world. 1t covers
nearly four ac-es.and
it is already under
roof. Its walls are
Evening star., 1894-02-17
TARIFF SPEECHES
Those Who Will Deliver Them in
the Senate.
THE Vice PRESIDENTS LITTLE LIST
Work for the Clerks in Preparing
Data.
AN ENDED DEBATE
Written for The Evening Star.

IL - n = - -
busy preparing for
the great tariff de-
bate, with the pros
pect that the discus
sion will continue for
two, three or even
four months.
The average news
paper reader if he
has not watched the
progress of tariff dis.
cussions in the past
will wonder, perhaps,
how eighty-fiye Sen
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-09-27
SELMA SETTINGS. W. F. Aldrioh Suggests Managers of Elections for Dallas.
DEMOCRATS AMONG THEM
Selma's Cotton Receipts to Date-Personal and General
 Topics of Interest.
AG R. Fl ERALD BUREAU,

Mir. w. F. Aldrich, republican nominee for congress from this, the Fourth, district, was in Selma yesterday with his cohorts, e. B. Dean,. chairman of the popuIist con gressional committee; and J. D. Hardy, chairman of the repu blican committee. A Caucus was held at their private rooms in Hotel Albert nearly all day, which was att tended by the prominent JeffersonIans, populists and repu blicans of this place.
 In the afternoon a committee composed of Aldrich, Dean and Hardy called upon Judge Wood and offered him long list of names, two from each beat in the county, and suggested that the judge select from this list the republican inspectors for the November election.
 It is said by those who are in position to know that the names of some good organ ized democrats appear in this list, aud that MT. Aldrich is laboring under an halluci- nation if he believes his cause will be ad vocated by these gentlemen. How he has been mislead in the matter we are not pre- pared to say. On his list appear the names of such democrats as Frank Boykin, Jr. s. Kirkpatrick, Minthorn Woolsey and others.
 MAKING IMPRovEMEE"s.-
 The fourth floor of Hotel Albert is being furnished by Millspaugh & Go. This floor has been lying idle since the opening of the hotel, but the increased patronage of this popular house now demands more com modious quarters, and the third floor will be furnished in keeping with the elegant apartments of the building now in use.
 sELMA's COTTON RECEIPTS.
 Since September Selma has received Il 745 bales of cotton and has shipped up to yesterday S809 bales, leaving stock on hand, including old cotton, 40e5 bales. The receipts yesterday ran up to 798 bales; of which 784 were shipped.
 SELMA GUARDS GIVE DANCE.
 The Selma Guards gave dance at their armory last night with twenty odd conples in attendance. They made-a a success of the entertainment, as the Guards do of all their undertakings.
 PERSONAL.
 Alex M. Garber, Esq.,, solicitor for Tal- ladega county, was in Selma yesterday.
 Dr. James R. Garber of Livingston is spending few days in the city. a Misses Annie Lee Crook and Katie Bell of Jacksonville, Ala, are visiting friends in the city. Lem Crenshaw, Esq. has returned froni a short visit to his parents at Marion. Hs brought back with him one of the dne steeds for which the Crenshaw place is famous.
 MT. o. L. stickney of Louisville was registered at Hotel Albert today.
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-09-27
BASEBALL.
THE NATIONAL LEAGUE.

At Pittsburgi Rnns-Pittsburg, 9; Brooklyn, 8. Base hits-Pittsburg, 13; Brooklyn, 13. Errors-Pittsburg, 0i Brooklyn, s. Batteries-Pittsburg, Col. colough and Weaver; Brooklyn, Kennedy and Daley.
 At Cleveland: Runs-Cleveland, G.; Bal timore, 2. Base hits-Cleveland, 13, Lal- timore, 8. Errors-Cleveland, 9, BaIti- more, 8. Batteries-Oleveland, Cuppy and Zmmer; Baltimore, Hemming and Clarke.
 At Louisville: Runs-Louisville, 5; New York, g. Base hits-Lousvile, II; New York, Il. Errors-Louisville, @; New York, New York, Meekin, German and Wilson.
 At St. Louis: Runs-St. Louis. l2: Philadelphia, 6. Base hits-St. Louis, IF. Philadelphia, 13. Errors-St. Louis, 4: Philadelphia, 8. Batteries-St. Louis Breitenstein and Twineham; Philadelphia. Johnson and Buckley.
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-09-27
A SOLEMN CEREMONY.

CH1LDERsBURG, Sept. 26.-lSpecial Correspondencel. .--The very solemn and impressive ceremony of the ordination of ou young and.promising fellow ownsman, |, W. W. Lee, 10 the full work ot the ministry was performed in the Baptist church at this place last night by presbytery consisting. of W. Wilkes, D. D. Sylscauga, chairmarSs J. A. French D. D., of 1aIladega, and tcS pastor, Rev. Thomas Henderson. b. French preached the ordination sermon, from Romans xii chapter and 13 verse, fully elaborating the high calling of the ministry In forceful and inspiring words; after which an earnest an fervent ordina- tion prayer was offered by the pastor. Then came the solemn charge by the venerable Dr. Wilkes, in his own peculiar eloqaence of diction. In this there was a coincidence, Dr. Wilkes being the oldset living alumnus of the Howard and the candidate being an alumnus of the last session of the How ard. MT. Lee expects to continue his course of studies for the ministry at the Theological seminary in Louisville, Ky, entering at the opening on the first day of October next. This church having elected him to ordination hope and confi- fdently expects much good by him in his chosen field.