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Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-07-14

Certain species of electric fishes have
been known from very early times. Oc-
casionally we find people ascribng
mysterious powers to them both of
good and evil. 1t is certain that the
Abyssinians knew an electric eel and
used 1t cas- remedy for nervous dis
cases." and the lIindoos and other ma
tons Of the east in times past were
also conscious of its powers. Hum
boldt describes an old method of cap
turing this eel practiccd by the East
Indians, which consisted in driving
horses hato waters inhabited by the
eel and allowing the cells to exhaust
themselves by attacking the horses
with their electric organs, when they
We're easily harpooncd by the Indi-
ans" but subsequent travellers in the
same parts where Humboldt says the
custom was practiced have denied the
report, and it is now not generally be
lieved. However, the electric eel has
been known to those people for centu-
rieS
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-07-14
Some Curious Book Titles.

In the sixteenth century we find the
greatest extravaganza displayed in the
titles of books. These may be taken
as examples: THE Spiritual SnuffboX,
to Lead Devoted Souls to Christi and
"The Spiritual Seringa For Souls
Stepped In Devotion" A work on
Christian charity published in 1857 is
entitled Buttons and Buttonholes For
Believers Breeches." Another quaint
publication is Father La Chaucies
work entitled "Bread Cooked on the
Ashes; Brought by an Angel to the
Prophet Eligiah (Elijah) to Comfort
the Dying" Another was issued with
the curious title of THE Lamp Of S.
Augustine and the Flies That Fit
Around It,"
The following very attractive title
appeared in book published at New
castle In 1905: "Some Beautiful Bis
cults Cooked In the Oven of Charity
and Put Aside For the Fowls of the
Church, the Sparrows of the Spirit and
the Swallows of Salvation"
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-07-14
Deadly Prussic Acid,
Hydrocyanic acid, or, as it ia !

HydrOcyanic acld, or, as 1t IL most
commonly called, prussic acid, Is one
of the most deadly poisons known to
animal life. 1t Is a volatile principle
contained in numerous shrubs and
trees, chiefly the wild cherry, bitter aim
mond, sherry laurel, ST. Ignatius bean
and the peach tree. 1t Is obtained by
distllation from ferrocyanide of potas-
stun by the action Of sulphuric acid
in the form of a light, colorless gas.
The preparation kept in the drugstore
is a dilute acid Of strength Of 2 per
cent Of anhydrous acid in distilled wa
ter, colorless liquid with the odor Of
bitter almonds The dose is from two
to six drops. One-half grain of the
anhydrous acid is sufficient to produce
death. 1t is used in medicine in cor
recting diseases Of the stomach, also
in whooping cough and the last stages
of consumption.
1t is very volatile, and the fumes will
destroy vegetable life, causing the
stems of plants to withcr and dry up.
Its effect on the lower animals is sim
liar to its action on man, with the eX-
ception of the horse and the hycna,
upon whom it does not appear TO pro-
duce any impression. In fatal doses
it causes death quickly 10y paralyZing
the hearts action. After death the
rigor mortis sets in, and in a few mo-
ments the unfortunate subject is as
stiff us board.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-07-14
A Disnppointed Kentuckian.

At the time when John g. Carlisle
was senator from Kentucky his
speeches were widely printed and at
tracted Il great deal Of attention. One
day when the senate was In session a
mountaine,~from the widest wilds Of
Kentucky presented himself at the
door and asked to see Senator Carlisle.
The visitor wore homespun and leather
boots and was travel stained and dus-
y. Tie explained that he had read Mr..
Cafhsle's speeches and considered
them great, and had walked more than
hundred miles in order to see the
senator from his state. Mr.. Carlisle
was busy at the time, and the clerk in
formed the visitor that he could not be
disturbed. The farmer looked disap-
pointed ana seemed reluctant to de-
part. Finally he asked if he might be
taken where he could just catch a
glimpse of the great man he had walked
so far to see. The request was grant
ed, and Mr.. Carlisle was pointed out
to him. After "A brief scrutiny the
farmer turned to the attendant:
Breads heap better'n he looks" he
remarked sententiously, and prepared
to walk back home.-New York Times.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-07-14
Tiffany's Big Day In 1887.

Mr.. Charles L. Tiffany and his part
ner, Mr.. Young, began business on a
capital of $1,000 borrowed from Mr..
Tiffany's father
Their first stock of salable goods
consisted of bric-a -brac, Chinese and
japanese wares, umbrellas, walking
sticks, desks, dressing cases, cabinets,
fans, fine stationery, pottery, fancy ar
ticles and curiosities. The total sales
for the first three days are said to have
amounted to only $4.9S, but as the ma
ture of the business became known the
patronage increased, new features
We're added from time to time, and on
the day before Christmas Of the year
1887 the sales amounted to $685.
American Monthly Review Of Reviews.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-07-14

II man has corn, it can be re-
moved, but if he is suffering from rub
Der foot fever no chiropOdist can help
hin, and the only thing to prescribe is
LIBERAL bathing Of the feet and remOv-
al IF the cause. Rubbers should only
be worn to keep wet out, and they
should be removed the moment the
w1arer gets indoors. Failure to note
this gives man wet feet in a far
Worse sense than if he had waded
through mud ankle deep.
1t was the trouble resulting from
forcing the perspiration to soak the
stockings and keep The feet perpetual
ly damp that drove rubber soled boots
out of the market Even loose rubbers
are a source Of danger and the cause
Of many more serious colds than they
avert.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-07-14
Breaking n Will.

A wealthy woman named Silva died
at Lisbon and left her entire property
to a rooster She was fervid spirit
ualist, a believer in the transmigration
of souls, and imagined that the soul of
her dead husband had entered the
rooster. She caused special fowl
house to be built and ordered her serv-
ants to pay extra attention to their
masters" wants. The disgust of her
relatives over the will caused the story
to become public, and lawsuit might
have followed had not one of the heirs
adopted the simple expedient of hay
Ing the wealthy rooster killed, thus be-
coming himself the next Of kin.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-07-14
THE CLUMSY MAN.
You Can Never Be Sure Of What His
Next Break VIII Be-

The great virtue about the really
clumsy man is that he never exhausts
his capabilities. When you think that
the bedrock is reached, there is still
lower depth. If detrimental relative
should exist, the clumsy man asks aft
er his health with great particularly
and will not be satisfied until he re-
ceives full and detailed reply. Should
there be any incident in your past
which everybody has generously agreed
to forget it Is the clumsy man who
seiZes the one. the inevitable opportu-
nifty when the club is at it's fullest and
says loudly: Somebody was talking
the other day about that unfortunate
little affair of yours in '95. Now tell
me-
When Oh meeting him you say casu-
ually and with no desire for informa-
ton, "How are your" he insists on Civ
Ing you complete data, and he Is as full
of small complaints as refractory
pauper. 1t is only fair to add that he
will ask affcctionately after the colds
Of yesterye"r, and his favorite locale
for this is ut the corner Of a drafty
street. He might be subsidized by in
huenza or he might get commission
on sore threats from his eagerness to
pin you into the most dangerous posi-.
ton that can be discovered.
One desires an adequate amount of
sympathy In Distress but our man al
ways goes little beyond this point.
You are growing thin. and he says that
you are wasting away to a shadow.
You are growing stout, and he tells an
unamusing anecdote about apoplexy.
He can be more critical than a hair
dresser if occasion gives the least ex.
cuse.-Philadelphi Ledger.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-07-14
THE ARABS OF YEMEN.
A story Which Throws Strong
Light on Their Character,

The Times of India tells the follow
Ing story to show the character of the
Arabs of Yemen. A man Of Zaraniks
who several times cut the telegraph
lines and who was punished more than
once was caught on one occasion by
an Arab shcik in charge of the lines.
The sheik intended to send him to
Needy for imprisonment but the wife
of the accused came in and stood as a
guarantee for his future good behavior
The sheik accepted the bail and re-
leased him, but shortly afterward he
again resorted to his old practice Of
cutting the wires and bolted away to
another village at distance of day.
march, where he had another wife.
The sheil then sent for his first wife.
who stood security for him, and told
her he would disgrace her among the
Arabs if she failed to bring in her hus-
band.
The woman asked the sheik not to
spread the black sheet" "a custom Of
the country when any one commits
breach Of trusD until the following
day. She started that night, taking a
sharp dagger concealed under her
clothes, to the village where her hus-
band was staying. She found him
asleep in his abode and stabbed him,
cut his throat and carried his head
back to her home. The next morning
she went to the sheik and presented
the head Of her husband, saying: "Here
is your criminal, and am freed from
the BAIL Please do not atflx the black
sheet "-London Telegraph.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-07-14
Dublin's Red Haired Club.

The Red Haired club Of Dublin
which flourished years ago, was So
ciety which barred out all whose hir
suite covering was not Of the most pro-
nounced auburn. In order that no one
could gain admission by false pretenses
it was required at the initiation Of each
member that the applicant wash his
hair and whiskers in hot soda and
water. This effectually took out any
"dye" that might have been used.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-07-14
All Agreed,

Krankleigh-Naw. don't like my
new neighborhood at all. Every man
on the streets cad.
Sharpe-You don't say?
krankleigh-Yes, and there's one man
in particular who isn't fit to live there
at all.
Sharpe-Strange; that's what all the
other neighbors say. - Philadelphia
Press.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-07-14
Telling a Horses Age by Wrinkles.

"The popular idea that the age of a
horse can always be told by looking at
his teeth" said veterinary surgeon,
SIS not entirely correct. After the
eighth year the horse has no more new
teeth, so that the tooth method is use
less for telling the age of a horse
which is more than eight years old.
As soon as the set Of teeth Is complete.
however, wrinkle begins to appear
OH the upper edge Of the lower eyelid,
and new wrinkle Is added each year,
80 that to get at the age of horse
more than eight years old you must
figure the teeth plus the wrinkles"
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-07-14
MOnuuitOes and Straw berries

Mosquitoes and stra wbvrlips make il
queer combination certainty, |!t that
Is what the people in the neigh Or.oo !
Of Mount ST. Elias can boast OF in u
region of perpetual ice and Snow.
Along the edge of the glacier. it is said
is a strip Of luxurious vegetation
where strawberry vines cover the
ground for miles.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-07-14

The shooting stars are small bodies,
weighing at most few pounds ans
consisting mainly Of iron and carbon.
They traverse space in swarms and
also revolve around the sun in long.
elliptical courses, like the comets.
When these little bodies enter the
earth's orbit, they are Grhected to-
ward the earth, ana great numbers are
esen in q single night.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-07-14
A Domestic Jar.

"My brain is on fret tragically ex-
claimed Mrs. Bob as she threw herself
down upon the sofa.
"Why don't you blow it out?' absent
mindedly replied Bob, deeply absorbed
in the newspapers. And then he lodged
a flying hairbrush.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-07-14
An HOnest Horse Trade

"Tll have you arrested for making
false representations. I bought that
horse Of you only because you told me
he had record"
every true, but the record is bad
one. You didn't ask me what kind Of
a record he had"
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-07-14
His whole Bust ness.

Tar water as remedy many years
ago in England became the universal
nostrum. Horace Walpole tells that a
man went into a chemists shop and
asked. "Do you sell tar water?" "Tar
water" replied the apothecary. "Why,
sell nothing else"
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-07-14
Not So Tactless as That.

She-Mrs. Boreton called today, and
l thought she would never go.
He-But you are so amiable sup.
pose you never gave her the slightest
hint that you wanted her to go.
She-Indeed did not. If had, she'd
be here now.-Brooklyn Life.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-07-14

Irish Maid - Do you want good
beating, Master Jimmy, or do you not,
because If you don't behave yourself
this minute you'll get both?
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-07-14

The superior man is satisfied and
composed; the mean man is alwf
full Of stress.-Confucius.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-07-14
We Are In Business To Do Business |!
SAMPLE OF OUR SELLING SYSTEM READ rHE,Fo11 OWING

House on Maple Ave. beside
about SIX years ago and recently painted nicely
conveniently arranged to make easy Lot rods
front and rods deep nice large garden and large
VIII trade Tor n farm. Price 81, 800.
new Queen Ann Cottage bath
e located East street extension One Of the finest
city and Surrounding country be from
the house, very broad piazza large lawn cemented cellar This
house was built for home and the work all done the
sed in hard wood and has spring the cellar
take good building lot in part balance Price $1,000
Two tenement houses In South Barre besides
Price 81 200
Center, miles from Montpelier post creamery
mile to good school, Will 10 buildings
good; house has up Of
cattle. Horse barn with carriage capboarde1 painted
Cellar under both barns. New
orchards IS commencing bear
spruce and hemlock Price $500 Will
if desired. Will trade renting property.
Farm Cabot 80 in high cultivation. cut
about 80 good PASTURE plenty sugar
small orcard land very productve
will buildings
do have Of the fashioned
but in good repair Price for immec 81 600
Farm of seven acres miles from office
road House has four finished
three stalls not quite finished Good running Price $3.50
500 down, balance monthly payments
The F. B. Cate Real Estate Agency,
hOoM boAS1Eh blOCk BARRE, VT
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1902-09-11
BURIED A HORSE

A valuable young horse belonging
to R. c. Pierce. fell into an open
sewer on Ohio street few evenings
ago while being led across narrow
trip of earth connecting the roadway
on either side of the excavation and
it was not without considerable diff
Guilty that its life was saved. The
sewer at that point is about ten feet
deep and as the animal had fallen
upon its back, it was no small under
taking to dig it out: the task requiring
the labor of two or three men several
hours fer its accomplishment. The
unfortunate circumstances has prob
ably caused the victim to add to the
equine decalogue the orison, pre-
serve US from the open sewers,
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1902-09-11
ATTENDING cRANDLoDcE

A number of the members of the
local lodge. knights of Pythias went
to Colorado Springs last Monday to
be present at the animal meeting Of
the Pythias grand lodge, A. l..
Jefferey and Supt. Of Schools George
E. Colgate being the official repre-
sentatives of Couer de Leon lodge, No.
IS, of this city. Among the Others
in attendance at the sessions of the
grand lodge here are Allen Jameson,
Clyde @. Dawson, A. p. Nelson and o.
II. Rundhal. 1t is understood that
two or three of the local frsters will
be iuducted into the mysteries of the
order of the Knights of Khorassan
during their visit to the Springs.
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1902-09-11
Lingering summer Colds.

Don't let y cold run Ut this season.
summer colds, are tine hardest kind to
cure and il neglected may linSer
along for months, A long siege like
this will pull down the strongest con-
stitution. One Minnie Cough Cure
will break MP the attack at once.
Safe, sure, acts at once. Cures
coughs, colds. Group bronchitis, all
throat and lung troubles, The chill
drcn like it. Palace Drug stone
Coo pa1lax Nor
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1902-09-11
Beware Of the Knife

No profession. has advanced more
rapidly of late than surgery, but it
should not be used except where abso-
lutey necessary. In cases Of piles for
example, 1t is seldom needed. De-
Wits Witch Hazel salvc cures
quickly and Prominently. Unequalled
for cuts, burns, buises, wounds, skin
diseases. Accept no counterfeits. ~
WAS so toubled with bleeding piles
that ! lost much blood and stength. =
says ]. G. Phillips, Paris, Illinois.
''Dewitt's Witch Hazel Salve cured
me In short time. Soothes and
heals. Palace Drus store, Geo. Pedley
Mgr.
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1902-09-11
BACK FROM The EAST

o, +. Sawyer has returned to
Canon from St. Louis, Kansas City,
and other eastern points and is work
ing like a trooper preparing for the
opening of the big dry goods estab-
lishment of the o. F. Sawyer Dry
Goods Co. at 413-415 Main street, of
which he is the proprietor and general
fsctotum- The new store will be
formally opened Saturday morning,
September 20, and big rush of shop
pers. is anticipated by Mr. Sawyer.
All of the mechanical work in the
interior of the building has been COM
pleted and the stock of merchandise is
being placed on the shelves as rapidly
as possible.
There is an air of hustle and metro
politanism about the place that presa-
ges success and indicates that the new
firm as determined to win an impor-
tant position as a factor in the dry
goods trade of Canon City and the ad-
jacent country.
Mr.. Sawyer was accompanied on
his return to this city by his son-in-
law, p. A. Lowell and wife of Topeka,
Kansas. who will be his guests at e0s
Greenwood avenue for n couple of
weeks or more. Mr.. Lowell is con-
nected with the editorial department
of the Topeka State Journal and is
enjoying we'll earned vacation from
his newspaper duties.
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1902-09-11
MARRIED

September Bird, at tine home of the
brides parents at Mesa, Colorado, A.
Ii. Ripley of this city was married to
Miss Frances Ball.
OF the affair the Plat Valley Stock
man of Collbran, Colorado, has this to
say:
After the wedding dinner had
been served the bride and groom de-
parted for Debeque, to take the train
for Canon City, where they will make
a brief visit and then go to Chicago,
where both will enter the Denham
Medical college. The pretty little
romance which surrounds their court
ship might here be appropriately men
toned. Miss Ball. after her gradua-
tion in the Grand junction high
school two years ago, decided to
equip herself for a professional career.
the medical profession being her
choice. She thereupon entered the
medical department of the state uni
versity at Boulder, where she met Mr..
Ripley who also had just entered
school. Their acquaintance through
the two years they spent in the uni
versity ripened into more tender in
timacy, and now Mr.. Ripley claims
Mesa's pluky little medical student
rs his bride. and they go together to
finish thir college career in a school
that offers better clinical advantages
than the university affords.
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1902-09-11
OIL for the
Children.

Give them oil-Cod-liver oil.
curious to see the result.
Givc it 10 the peevish, fret
81 child, and he laughs. Civ
10 the pale, anamic child
nd his face becomes rosy anG
i Of health. Take 4 flat
,ested child, or a child that
aas stopped growing, give hin,
the oil, and he will grow big
and strong like the rest.
This is not a new scheme.
.t has been done for years.
0t course you must use the
hight oil. SCOTS Emulsion
the one.
SCOTS Emulsion neither
looks nor tastes like oil because
NE are 50 careful in making It
pleasant to take.
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1902-09-11
Raised From the Dead.

o. W. Lands, Porter for the
Oriental Hotel, Chanute, Kansas,
says: II know what it was to suffer
with neuralgia, decd | did, and l got
a bottle Of Ballard's Snow Liniment
aud | was raised from the dead
tried to get some more, but before l
had 'dosposeo' of my bottle, was
cured entirely. am telln' de truth
too, !" 50 cents and si,0o at Hunter
Palmer's.
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1902-09-11
a Sine Mountain liome

80 acres, 5-room house, good barn,
store room, grain room, chicken
house, etc, Water right No, l.,
priority from adjacent creek; y milo
from X. r. station, d milo from
school house, and about 80 miles from
Canon City. water piped into house
from springs on ranch, Price very
reasonable if sold within 90 days.
Jos. W. Milsom,
sitf Record office.
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1902-09-11

Record Want Ads cheap-four lines
for n dime-if paid in advance
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1902-09-11
new LAW FIRM

Hon. Joseph.H. Maupin, A. n. Nc
Lain and G. II. Wilkes have formed
a law partnership under the firm
name of Maupin, McLain & Wilkes.
Mr.. McLain will move to Canon City
from Florence and he and Mr.. Maupin
will attend to the business here, while
Mr.. Wilkes will remain at Florence
and attend TO business there. This
makes n strong legal firm.
Go to Avery's for go-carts and baby
buggies. 4 big line of couches and
Davenports TO select from at
H. d. Avsry's.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-04-09
HAVANA STREET CARS.
The Natives Derive Much Pleasure from Hiding on the New
 Electric Railway.

One of the principal features of the AmericaniZing of Havana has been the intoduction of electric cars. There were formerly about six miles of track hn the capital, but the equipment, con sisting of little. bob-tailed cars and .scrawnv, under-sized mules, did not combine to make d service worthy of Enthusiastic mention. When the track twas heightened out to 24 miles and Wizard Edison's big electric flyers put lon, all of Havana $ 250,000 inhabitants wanted to ride at once. One of the Deculiarities of the service is the ten ,dency of the motormen to run ahead of the schedule. They tear through the narrow, crooked streets at a rate that is exceedingly dangerous. The frequency of fatalities does not seem to have the desired effect. These yell low fellows are strangers to the auto lmatic brake. They have been so ac customed to driving steeds that have to be urged by the constant applica- tion to whip and spur. that they seem to have no fear of one that will run away. As consequence, the Havana lstReet cars put the island express trains to shame.