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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-12-19

Hose-carts, Automobiles, Sleds,
Dolls, both dressed and I'M
dressed, Childrens Books,
Writing Paper, Episcopal
Prayer-books and Hymnnals,
Catholic Prayer-book and BIZ
bles, Games, ol-tables, Pic
lures, Picture Framing, Bas-
kets, Toy Pianos, Children's
Books, Trains of Cars, Combs
and Brushes, Toy Horses, Air
Guns, Scrap Albums, Burnt
wood B oxes, Medallions,
Smoke Sets, Vases, Water
Sets.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-12-19
Rogers Bros 1917 Ware
SEE OUR CANDY DEPART MENT

Looking glasses, Diaries for
1908, Hook and Ladders,
Wagons, Carts, Toy Engines,
Rocking-horses, Mail Carts,
Trucks, Stoves, Toy Tea-sets,
Tables, Furniture Sets, Fire
Engines, Rocking horses,
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-12-19
THE NORTH STAR FUR COAT

needs praise from ushe praise in eveyone's mouth who
knows them. We sell them exclusively for ladies
to 500. $4,000 worth just received, all Prices lowest
consistent with honestly made goods We continue sell the
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-12-19
We Are Known
By Our Works

And pretty much every wedessed assisting spread
ing fame That being assured you and do
the rest The past week has witnessed the receipt Of CAR
LOAD of new goods And they your service.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-12-19
Be sure and look over our
BOOK DEPARTMENT

We have all the Latest Books,
and host of Gift Books. Big
line Of 1jc. Books.
Violins, Autoharps, Accor-
deems, Shaving Sets, Calendars.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-12-19
NELSON AND SUFFOLK HATS

known to everyone as the best. Our S
ter Caps cannot be excelled. Prices ri
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-05-31
SALT ENGINE IN ACTION

the wheel firmly to the pasteboard
with sealing wax. Place large spool
on the box for cylinder, and drop loose
end of the piston rod into it. Now fas-
ten the driving rod to one of the spokes
of the wheel, about an inch from the
axle, and exactly in position as shown
in the illustration. Greatest care
must be taken to have driving rod ar
ranged properly.
Now that your little engine is all set
up, cut out four pieces of stiff writing
paper two inches by IL inches, and
crease over one side Of each, about a
quarter Of en- inch, as shown In din
gram. Attach these papers to hatpin
circle with sealing wax. See diagram.
Now take pasteboard box, bore a
hole in the bottom Of 1t and set It in
position on some books In such a man.
ner that when the salt falls through
the hole at the bottom of the box r.
will fall directly onto the paddles OF
1 the writing paper wheel.
BE careful to place your fiywheel
supports perfectly level with each
other, and also see TO it that holes
In supports, piston and driving rod are
such that there will be no friction.
If arranged properly this little en-
CINE will run splendidly. You NAV use
as largea box as you please for holding
the salt, and, too, by tipping one end
up, as shown in the illustration, the
salt Will run out for a much longer
period without replenishing. Make all
fastenings with sealing wax.
A pasteboard shoe box will furnish
you with just the material you need for
the manufacture of this little engine.
Meredith Nugent, in Milwaukee SEN
stinel.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-05-31
IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.

London eats $1,000, 900 fowls a wear.
Eight British commanders have been
granted dukedoms.
mile of hedge and ditch occupv.
on an average, an acre of land.
Widows in Great Britain outnumber
w1dowers by almost two TO one.
The royal dock at Portsmouth, with
an area of 2oS acres, is the largest in
England
Great Britain contains 60 species of
mammalia, pa of birds, Ia of reptiles.
and 263 of fish.
British survey vessels discovered
last year 2T2 dangerous rocks and
shoals, which were recharted.
Torquay and Cork are the warmest
places in the United Kingdom. Their
mean temperature is 80 degrees.
The average Scotchman weighs 165
pounds; the Welshman. ISIS pounds.
the Englishman, 81 pounds, and the
Irishman, 154 pounds.
The biggest geyser in the world is at
Rotomahana, in New Zealand. Its area
is just an acre, and its spouts rise TO
800 feet.
The right Of trial by their peers
which belongs TO hereditary members
of the house of lords, does not extend
to bishops.
At London docks, the highest tide of
the year is % feet 1t occurs on March
80; the lowest-about I6 feet-occurs
on September 30.
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trace it back to these two. With such
illustrious forbears it is no wonder the
Abyssinian sovereign bears the proud
title of "Negus Negusti" (Eing of
kings); and that the people acknowl-
edge no other race their equal.
The highest plateau In Africa is
that of Abyssinia. The people are
mountaineers, hardy, independent,
jealous of foreigners and hostile to-
wards them. They are not an agricul-
tural folk, the land being given over
largely to pasturage; sheep, cattle and
goats finding abundant sustenance and
Aourishing accordingly. Forests of
very valuable timber add TO the riches
of the land, while coffee and ivory, the
chief exports, further suggest the
character of the country. Though
close to equatorial Africa, Abyssinia is
blessed with a climate healthful and
invigorating. Surrounded on two
sides by the deserts of the Soudan, it
rises green oasis in n parched land ;
with sound Of running water, sight
and shelter of leafy tree, and broad
extent of grassy plains.
Ancient Ethiopia was the designa-
ton given to what Is known in the pres
ent day as Abyssinia. It's earliest his
tory we have no authentic account of,
but we have evidences that the Ethio-
plans were held in esteem by the most
cultivated nation of ancient times, the
Greek. They were converted to Chris
tianity in the fourth century.
In the fifteenth century, handful of
Portuguese settled In Abyssinia and
brought in some outside influence.
When the king that had protected
them died, his successor and the
priests treated them badly, the colony
ended in failure, and Abyssinia was
again shut to foreigners. In 1867, when
Theodorus was king OF Abyssinia, an
English expedition penetrated his fast
nesSes and made known TO the world
a great deal concerning this hitherto
very exclusive nation.
King Theodorus, angered because
the British government had peid no at
tention to letter he had sent TO the
queen. soliciting her friendship, in 1864
seized and imprisoned the British con-
sui, Mr.. Cameron, and all his suite. A
messenger, Mr.. Rassan, was sent out
bearing letter, signed by the queen.
demanding the release of the captives.
Mr.. Rassan himself was imprisoned.
In 1867, an expedition, consisting Of
1900 British and 5000 native troops
under Gen. Sir Robert Napier, was dis
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-05-31

over AbysSinia, evacuated the kingdom
of Tigre, and the boundaries of italian
possessions were definitely drawn.
The Negus rules over a territory Of
10000 square miles and population
of 100000; a people of Coptic, Jewish,
Arabian and negro extraction The
ruling class are the Philippians, who are
of Arabian descent. Owing to the fact
that the form of Christianity is derived
from the ancient Alexandrian church.
the Russian government has been
interested In tho maintenance OF the
independence OF the empire
The French and English have per
manent Representatives az King Meme
lexis court. The French are building
a railroad from Jibutil to Harrar and
Adds Abeba, a distance Of 40 miles.
The telegraph has also begun it's work
in that country, and its click is heard
at Adds AbSba, the capital of Abys-
s1nia. KATHERINE POPE
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-05-31
ANIMALS ARE GREEDY.
Tastes OF Three Cats and n Dog Are
Very Peculiar, But n Jersey
Frog VIII Eat Everything.

Considerable attention has been
given for years by Newark man to
/ the peculiar appetite of the animals
he has met. Mr.. Magruder has a
whiffet dog and three cats.
The grandmother tabby has re-
Gently shown an appetite for the
white fiaky cinders of anthracite coal
and gorges herself upon them when
ever she gets chance. All three
Ecats will eat bread and cheese, but
Will not eat sweet cake. The old cat
| is fond of CLAIMS and oysters, raw or
cooked, and at n pinch will eat
cooked potatoes.
4 Tommy Magruder says that the
fcats are not patch upon the whiffet
Tor cranky appetites- The dog eats
oranges, when they are peeled and
Fquartered; is fonder of fish than Of
meat; eats all kinds of nuts; despises
pork; has been known TO swallow n
live sparrow with one gulp; eats rub
Der bands with avidity, and is more
greedy about fresh candy than any
thing else in the world. She will
Icrack up and swallow pieces OF coal,
will eat honeysuckle blossoms and
roses whenever they are given TO her
and delights in chewing ice in sum-
mer.
] In talking about queer things he
had seen inside of creatures he had
opened in his time, Magruder said:
"The greediest thing In the world
is frog. I once killed frog up
at Singac in the Passaic river which
had swallowed "a fresh water musseI
and was slowly digesting the shell so
that 1t showed pearly in spots and
around the edges.
another one which caught near
the same spot contained water
turtle still alive and measuring two
inches in length. / have frequently
found frogs fun of crayfishes. Two
/ or three times 1 have taken dead
Esparrows and wrens out of frogs
which did not seem TO be much b;o-
lger than the birds they had caught
Eand swallowed.
Once / saw n frog in the act of
swallowing small ground snake. /
have heard Of rogs pulling down and
swallowing young ducks, and I be-
lieve the yarn, although I never saw
IAN instance of 1t.
II have found dace, trout and min
nows in frogs, but never found one
that had eaten a pollywog, so am
willing TO believe that the frog Is no
fcannibal.
"The frog is stupid In his greed,
.and think he often swallows things
like the mussel, which he was I'M
'doubtedly sorry for afterward. Cows
and other animals often do that sort
of thing, you know. I once knew of
ia COW that swallowed a two-ounce
bottle containing muriatic acid. Manv
a COW has been killed by swallowing
nails, glass and metal things."-N. Y.
Sun.
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sinian kingdoms. Massowah is a very
hot place, unfit for residence by Euro
peans, and the Italians presently be-
gan to look for more salubrious sur
roundings. PersistentIy they pushed
their way southwark, making consid-
cradle Roadway until Menelek's men,
an army over 10000 strong, assumed
the aggressive toward them. During
the conflict with the Italians, Menelek
and his officers treated their adver-
saries with courtesy and generosity,
on one occasion furnishing them with
transportation for their wounded and
their baggage. The Italians, at the
battle of Adowa, March 1, 1896, were
utterly defeated, $4,000 being left dead
on the field. When peace negotia tions
were concluded with Menelek, the
Italians renowned their protectorate
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an almost indefinite period, and sur
prise, too, to learn that it will carry
an astonishing amount of weight
while afoat. For the fun of it place
a piece of writing paper in dish of
water and just see how much it will
carry.
BY careful distribution of the
weight l have placed on single sheet
of floating writing paper a table
knife and fork, small pair of scis-
sors, large wooden spool, besides
a number of one cent piecesl It
hardly seems possible, does it? But
try 1T for yourselves and see.
As for the merry-go-round, when It
Is set in a pan of water, and in a
darkened room, a prettier sight YOU
never saw. Why, the picture does
not begin to do justice TO it. Now
all try and see what you can do.
Cut out a disk of writing paper.
any size you please, and fasten to
this in an upright position four mar
row columns of rolled writing pa
per, with sealing wax. These col
umns should be carefully rolled and
fastened with sealing wax. Now cut
out two light cardboard disks-very
stiff wrapping paper will answer
for the second and third floors. Place
one disk on top of first set of col
umns, fasten it with sealing wax. and
on top of this set four more paper
columns exactly in position as shown
In picture. On top of this set an
other disk, and on top of this again
a paper wheel which should be made
as follows: Whittle out n delicate
stick about six inches in length and
fasten these crosswise on top of the
longest stick; now slip over these
cross sticks square pieces of writing
paper at angles as shown in illustra-
ton. After this fasten the whole in
an upright position in exact center of
top disk.
Cut out four more delicate sticks.
attach these in horizontal positions
TO disk on second story--see picture
and slip over ends of these triangu-
lar pieces of paper at angle as shown
In picture. Now place candles in
position under these four pieces of
projecting papers, and also two can
dies on top, under the wheel, but be-
fore placing candles in position set
your merry-go-round very carefully
into pan of water.
Light the candles, turn out all
other lights in the room, and you will
have a merry-go-round that will
please and delight you.
BY varying the angles of the pa
pers' projection beyond the second
story and the papers on the wheel,
you will be enabled to make the
merry-go-round travel faster or slow
er, as you may wish.-Meredith Nu-
gent, in n. Y. Herald.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-05-31
TOLD OF THE WOMEN.

Women in Russian spinning mills
earn about five dollars month; :
weavers get about $3.50.
The rose is the emblem OF secrecy
IN Greece and accordingly this flower
used to be hung over the table where
guests were entertained in token that
nothing heard there was to be re-
peated.
Mrs. Minnie Davis, of Omaha. Neb
thinks she is the youngest great
grandmother in the United States.
She was married at the age of IL. be-
came mother at IA, a graadmothe err
at IS and n great-grandmother at As.
She has children who are younger
than her granddaughter.
The other day I'm Paris a vouno, ,adv
was walking when suddenly the wind
blew the end of her boa into the
wheel OF a passing cab and she was
tArown down and nearly stranpled.
She was taken to hospital with a
fractured jaw and a broken arm.
For painters Nine. Melba has much
admiration and for writer's a kind Of
reverence. One somehow never asso-
'ciates books with great singers. ir
their Journeyings the costumes leave
SO little space for works of Literature
In their trunks. Mime. MeIba's favor.
tie books may be seen at her home
on little table by the fireplace
There Is an easy chair near it and the
pages Of Rossetti, Shelley, Keats and
Fltzgerald's Omar" show that thev
have been read
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-05-31
PRETTY LITTLE TOY.
HOW to Make N CandIe-LiEht Merry
Go-Round That VIII Delight
All Who See 1t

Now boys and girls, here is the
prettiest merry-go-round you ever
saw, and you will all think so your
selves after you have made one, I'M
less L am very much mistaken. Just
Imagine it, too! This merry-go-
round is made entirely of paper, with
the exception of the two upper disks,
or hoors, which are of thin card
board.
The lighted candles make it go
round, and you will all be surprised
how quickly it does go round.
To most of you it will be news that
fat piece of paper will float for
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-05-31

shape of its head and teeth, but
4 on the other hand its hind legs are
of the same height as the front legs,
whereas the hind legs of hyena are
|shorter. Moreover, its form, which
Eclosely resembles that of a sheep dog,
is much more elegant than that of a
Ehyena. It's color is yellowish, black
and gray, and its countenance is very
Intelligent.
B In Africa these dogs often annoy
sportsmen by carrying off antelope
and other game which they have
killed. When they cannot get a meal
in this way they must hunt for prey
themselves, and, as they are pos
Isessed of great speed and endurance,
they quickly run down any animal
they pursue. According to antiquar-
ians, the old Egyptians were wont
to train these dogs and use them for
hunting antelope.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-05-31


Henderson with a gavel made from
Philippine hardwood
Due de Loubat has presented to the
college of France an annuity of 81 200
TO be expended in a chair of American
antiquities. 1t is a novel departure
in French academic organization.
Andre Castaigne, the distinguished
French artist, visited the grave of Ed
gar Allen Poe in Baltimore recently
and gathered grass and weeds to carry
back as mementos TO the poets friends
in France.
Owen d. McGoyern, a BROOKLYN
truckman, has fallen heir to 500, 900
from his uncle, Father McGovern, the
Oldest priest in the archdiocese of Hud-
son, n. Y. He says he win continue
his trucking business.
Henry II. Edes, at recent meeting
of the Colonial Society of Massachu-
setts, read a paper in which he said
that Prof. John Winthrop and not
George Washington was the first per-
son TO receive from Harvard college
the degree of doctor Of laws.
Michael Donky, who a few months
ago married Mrs. Mulesky, who kept
a boarding house in Jersey City, was
arrested on his wife's complaint for
being disorderly. He said his stepson,
Edward Mulesky, had kicked him out
of the house.
Frank Patterson, of Port Chester. N.
Y, fell from the top of a fiagpole on
the top of a hotel at White Plains,
dropped off the tower down to the roof
and caught himself at the caves. His
only hurt was a bruised arm, but he
says he has had all the fagpole bust
ness he needs.
John Sincox, of Sterling, Kan. has II
children and 81 grandchildren and
great-grandchildren. In his family
there has been but one death, that Of
his wife, in more than so years. He
never lost a child nor grandchild and
in so years a doctor never crossed his
doorstep on professional business but
once.
All the Rhodes family manifested
idiosyncrasies. None of them ever
married. The empire builders sister,
Miss Rhodes, is of a very masculine ap-
pearance and took great pleasure in
riding among the strongholds of the
rebellious natives to distribute glass
beads and other articles of clothing for
the native warriors.
Josef Hoffman, is more than n piano
player. He is an expert mechanic and
an inventor as well. Since his arrival
In this country this season for a con-
cert tour he has secured at Washington
patent right for an Improvement on
steam engine This is the second
patent that the young pianist has Sc
cured in this country this season.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-05-31
SALT POWER ENGINE.
IL Ii Made of Cardboard and, II Prop
eriy Arranged, IL Bound TO
Run Splendidly.

Here is an engine which works Just
like real engine. The cardboard
wheel goes flying around, the piston
roo works up and down in it's spool cyl
1nder, and the crossbeam, surmounted
by two American flags, seesaws fully
as perfectly as those run by steam.
The power used in this little engine
is not steam, though, but salt, yes,
common salt! such as you use at
table. The engine itself is made of
cardboard or pasteboard, and as fol-
lows:
FIRST cut out wheel of pasteboard
or cardboard six inches in diameter.
Make 1T with spokes and just like wheel
IN picture. Then cut out a pasteboard
driving rod five inches in length, a
crossbeam eight inches in length and
piston rod in shape of that shown in
picture, six inches in length. Also cut
out pasteboard support for cross
beam eight inches in length, and two
supports for hywheel, to rest in each
three inches in length.
Now take box cover and fasten the
upright for the crossbeam in position.
as here shown. Then stick a pin
through this upright and fasten the
head OF it firmly to the pasteboard
with sealing wax. Also stick a pin
through each end of the crossbeam
and fasten the heads of these firmly
In position, which should be horizontal,
with sealing wax.
With a hatpin make hole in exact
ly the center OF your crossbeam and
slide it onto the pin in the center of
the upright. Attach driving rod and
piston to the crossbeam in the same
manner. After this place little bits
OF paper over these pin points to with
in three-eighths of an inch of the cross
beam. This viii prevent the ma
chinery from coming apart.
Now, take your fly wheel supports,
and fasten them to the box cover, one
on each side, and Just in a line under
the point of the crossbeam, when the
latter is in horizontal position. Bore
fair sized hole in each support and
another in exact center of wheel. then
pass through supports in wheel hat
pin axle-through the wheel first and
supports afterward. Fasten the head
of the hatpin which projects beyond
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Here's a snnke stnrr

In the geological gardens at Mines
France, tessellated snake, measuring
about 3S inches, recently devoured
within week black-marked SNAKE
only three-quarters of an inch less in
length than itself and viperine snake
of II inches. The former could not,
have been in exactly prime condition.
for it had not, at the time of its death.
touched food for 800 days. One of the
viperine snakes in the Mines collec-
ton, though not the one in question.
had previously tasted for 464 DAYS.
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patched from India TO bring Theodorus
to terms. 1t took little time. There
was a slaughter of the natives on the
plain of Arogi, but it was not until
Magdala was bombarded that Theo-
dorus realized that the British were
too many for him. AS the English en-
tered the palace he shot himself, pre-
ferring death to the disgrace of defeat.
John, or Johannes, his successor,
fell in 1889 in the war against the
Dervishes of the Soudan, but prior to
his fa!l he was engaged in conflict with
Egypt in regard to the boundary ques-
ton, conflict in which the latter was
worsted. Gen. Gordon endeavored to
arbitrate the matter, but was not sue
cessful in his mission to the naughty
Abyssinians; for several weeks he was
kept prisoner by them, and it is
doubtful if he was even allowed an
audience with the august "Negus."
Johannes was succeeded by Menelek
II.
When Menelek aspired TO the throne
he was assisted in the subduing of his
rivals and the accession to the kingship
by the Italians, with whom he made a
treaty, by virtue of which the Italian
government claimed a protectorate
over the whole empire, although Men
elek himself did not give the treaty
any such Interpretation. When the
Italians first began colonization in
Abyssinia, they occupied Massowah,
the sea port and seat of government of
Iigre, the northernmost of the Abys-
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ahead of me, and he turned to mo
and said:
If you wish to use the wire first,
81 ahead
But you have the privilege re-
piled.
"'Yes, but I'll waive it.
Il only wish to talk with Chicago.
while your message may be one of
life or DEATH
"'Oh, it's not so bad as that he
vepHed, with grim smile. My wife
eloPed with windmill man last
night but you go right ahead with
your talk. 1 was simply going to
notify the constables along the line
20 let her slide right along"
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-05-31
Annual Waste of Gold.

Each year, says 81. Nicholas, the
world loses a large amount of gold.
An impalpable golden dust-so in
lfnitely fine as to seem rather a vapor
than dust-is worn from all gold in
|use and passes forever from our
wealth and our knowledge. And IN our
handling, enough gold to make one
'person intellectually rich disappears
every year, lost as absolutely as if IL
had never existed.
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!. During the middle ages ordeal by fire
was one OF the methods employed for ascer-
tta1ning whether q person accused OF q
grave crime was innocent or guilty. II
such person was able to walk unsca the
tover hot plowshares or through q blaxiax
nre' he was adju6ged innocent; 81 the heak
ieft any mark on his flesh, he was consfa-