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Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-08-21

FISHING BY FoRoE,-The use of explo-
sives by salmon poachers in England has
recently been the means of bringing to
light the report of au exneriment made
some years ago by Mr.. ]. ID. Douglll.
f. S. A. 1t appears that Mr.. Dougall
having valuable angling preserve
placed at his disposal, sank, in fifteen
feet of water, small bottle containing
one and a half ounce of a chemical
mixture, the effect of the explosion of
which he thus describes: ''Fer about an
acre of space on either bank of the river,
the ground trembled under the feet OF
the spectators. No fewer than two hun
dred fish of various kinds rose to the
surface, some quite dead and Others
more or less stunned, according to their
relative distance from the explosion.
These fish showed with one or two ex-
ceptions, no appearance of abrasion OF
other injury, and were Immediately col
ected by means of landing net used
from boat" So far, the poacher has
been permitted to stand alone in the use
of this important discovery, evidently
very much to the disgust of Mr. Dou-
gall who claims TO have clearly demon
strated the serviceabllity of explosives
for reaching well stocked fishing grounds
that are now comparatively useless, ow'
ing to the inaccessibility to the ordinary
methods of fisherman. 1t is also stated
that this system can be used with equa
effect in deep sea fishing.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-08-21
An OIL Wen.

Although we hear comparatively little
Of sudden accessions 10 wealth
by needy farmer, owing 10 oil discov
cries on their farms, such as were com
mon in the height Of the oil excitrment
new developments are contiOuallymakiDg
in the oil regious OF Pennsylvania, ana
incidents occasionally occur which are
as remarkable as any OF those which
created 10 much comment n few years
ago. New oil territory Is constantly
added 20 the productive districts. and
mauy vicissitudes continue 10 mark the
fortunes of those ebgaged in Its develop
ment The Iitusyille Hraid tells stiry
If a well lately bored on a farm which
had been considered outside the bounds
Of oil territory. The experiment was
described by the experienced oil men of
that region, as ''the widest kind OF Wild
catting.n But the men who had charge
of the undertaking bored on with undi.
minished confidence until, on comparing
its depth With other wells, the surveyor
pronounced il already too d d-ep, and the
old experienced driller who superin-
tended the job declared there was no use
in boring any deeper. Thereupon the
proprietors sold out the we'll as 81 dry
hole to a party of operators who bad
a theory, and we're willing to pay some
thing for an opportunity Of testing it.
The well and thirty acres of land were
bought at five o'clock in the afternoon,
operations were Immediately resumed,
and the new owners proved the correct
ness Of their theory by striking oil al
eight o'clock on the same dav. Before
the tubing could be put in 700 barrelI
flowed. In a very short time thu
news had unaccountably spread, aud thu
fields around the well were filed with al
eager, excited crowd of men, whil'
horsemen secured the surrounding
country calling the stupefed farmer
from their beds, and paying them sum
for their farms that they had neve
dreamed of possessing. Since this even
the farmers in that region have becom
demoralized, and think nothing of ask
ing 100000 for barren little farms
which, for agricultural purposes, woul'
be dear at $1,000.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-08-21

A LOVE LETTER. following is q
true copy of letter picked up on the
street not thousand miles from Utica:
Der Miss I reed note from you to
Day with fotograft of Myself and Re-
questing me to send you one that have
OF yours that you had from Lady
friend that Wanted one and you wished
TO give her one and had none for her l
am very sorey that l did not git in time
to you for her accommodation But l am
very sorey to think that You have a
lady friend that you would take you're
pictyer from me and give 1t to anyone
for [ do ashore you that there is none on
earth that Love as | do you seLs the
Death of my wife the furst time ever
saw you have loved you and when /
exchanged pictyers with you l was in
hopes that at some feut1r time that you
and Eye would live in the andloyments
of this life and father my Family are all
welplesed with your fotograft and Bette
has put it in her albumin and fancy my
Babey who is years old Kis it Every
Day and Gales it mama and from these
concider Rations Eye should hate to
give up But will say to you that you are
nv choise from all others and will moi
sen the pictyer until hear from you 9
game Made the swap in good faith But
if you are in earnest Let me no and
will re,ant But do hate to give you uF
Beleave me yours, true lover unit
| DEATH -"
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-08-21

A WRoNa THAT SHOULD BE RToHTED.
in q recent report on railroad acci-
dents in the United States, the ap-
palling statement occurs that since the
first day of December, 1871, no less than
forty seven railway employees had been
killed while coupling cars, and thirty-s'x
Others have been seriously injured. In
nearly everv case where the accident re-
suited in death, an inquest was held, ,and
the Jury invariably included statement
in their verdict, that mo blame attached
to the railroad corporation or its en-
ployes."
1t strikes us that railroad corpora
tion which persistently uses such coup
ling gear as inevitably exposes its EN-.
ployes to mangling and death, Is
blamaale for the logical results OF its
course In that matter. When an en-
ploye on q railroad, in the discharge OF
his duty IS caught between two cars, and
crippled for life, he has no claim for
damages against the company; and IT he
is killed his wife and children have no
claim. This being the case, the compa-
nv is not at all solicitous MS to the per-
sonal safety of any CIR coupler, or other
employe. If he is killed, they get an
other in his place. If he is crippled,
they discharge him to life of suffering
and poverty and get another victim
t. take his place. This is not right.
A corporation should be compelled to
provide to the utmost possibilities OF
science for the safety of such employ es
as are necessarily exposed to unusual
danger in the discharge of their duties.
Aud in default of such provision, the
corporation should be liable for the re-
suits of its niggardly mismanagement.- =
| To<I,oa.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-08-21
Item, Of Interest.

A child in Indiana has died from the
bite OF a rat
What grows bigger the more you Goa
tract il? Debt
A woman at Chelsea, Ill, has died
from a spider BITE.
A rattlesnake bite was cured lately at
Fayette, ILL.,. by liberal applications oi
mudl
Itisan error 10 Imagine that women
talK more than men. They're listened
to more-ihlt's all
A stylish bonnet can be obtained from
Paris for s126. Indulgent husbands viii
cut this out to show their wives.
A husband can readily foot the billscf
n wife who is not afraid OF heing seen
footing the stockings of her husband,
Kink Amadeus, OF Spain. has signed
a dOcree providing for the gradual a6oh-
ton of slayery in the colonies OF Cuba
and Porto Rico.
A writer, IN giving advice to bathers,
remarks that il is only good swimDaers
who get drowned at the beaches. They
venture out too far.
The public should remember that the
rate of postage upon transient newspa-
pers to any port in the United States is
now only one cent.
A little boy in Buffalo bled to death
from the effects of wound in the leg,
caused by a glass bottle which was thrown
at Kim by playmate. ...|
In Switzerland, milkmaid who is a
good singer gets more salary than Others,
because under the influence OF music
cows ''give down" better and give more
milk.
OF a miserly man who died of soften
ing of the brain, local paper said, "His
head gave way, but his hand never did.
His brain softened, but his heart
couldn't"
Carefully.prepared statistics show that
during the last six wears upward OF thir
teen thousand collisions at sea have
taken place between vessels in all parts
of the world. ....
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-08-21
Troubles OF Country Life.

The Cleayeland Leader has the following
pleasant story: When ] arrived at home
/ found a team Of dashing horses bitched
II q oouhle Of dwarf pear trees in the
front yard, and bright red wagon filed
with ladders and thugs stood in The
middle of bed Of fuchsias and geran-
iums; bulldog OF the yellow variety
aud with teeth like a cross-cut saw smiled
at me from the door step. while two men
upon the roof we're busy tearing OF the
shingles and driving hooks into the
chimney. / made n careful detOur, and
entered my house to tiud hlack-whisk-
cred chap, smelling strongly OF patch
ouly, leaning lovingly over Angelina :
shoulder, while she was engaged in prac-
ticiDg on sewing machine. What in
the name o. all that Is cheeky does this
meau?" said L. "Ahl" IT piled Patchouly,
with leer at my wife, "your husband,
] presume. Tue fact is, sir, your wife,
"a devilish fine woman, by the way) has
decided TO purchase one OF our double
treadle, reversible needle, warranted not
to rip, ravel nor run down at the heel
sewing machines" But toTbear-why
repeat what followed? My entry in this
journal to day will be brief, but to the
point. i am wearing a Saddle Rock
oyster over my eye. Angelina is in tear'
and in bed, with strong odor OF cam
phor about her person. But no back
action, double treadle sewing machine
decks my house, and were it not for tn,
trampled condition of my flower bed ant
few displaced shingles on the roof, on'
would never dream that two able bodied
lightuing-rod men had attempted to g
through me yesterday. l must organic
for war, however, ON the . russian plan
Peace exists in our household once more
l have pacifed Angelina on the sewini
machine question, and we have forme'
an alliance for offensive purposes agains
all enemies, to our peaceful home and 1t
happiness. A smallpox" sign kept tn
"agents away for two days, but tn
milkman and postman also forsook us
and we were forced to take it down
Since then, by keeping thu doors doubl
locked, and using system of counter
signs and raps when members OF til
family desired ingress or egress. the oil
trusive visitors we're kept at bay.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-08-21

The New York Journal q C,sHasres,
IN answer 10 a question Of n correspond
ent, what is the secret Of business sue
cess, responds:
II is not genius. All with such pecu-
liar gifts make bad managers Of any
business, and are too cratic for ordinary
executive purposes. Aud II is not high
intellectual attainments. Few scholarly
men vill Law asi,le their devotion to let
tiers for their own sake, and follow the
plodding course by which success in
business is 10 be attained. And IL lies
not in force of circumstances. Some
who might otherwise have been success
ful ON a clear course, have doubtless
broken down in the face OF popular OBJ
stacles; but the man who can bend oc-
casions and conditions to his will can
achieve his triumph in spite Of such adj
verse surroundings. 1t is not luck.
There is less of happy chance in such
success than is commonly supposed. Ii
is true that many tempt their fate and
csc ape as by miracle, but this can form
no rule of life; success in business Is
obedient to law that can be clearly and
ulstiuCll1 lTdCtu tuTouBuout bhc Nupie
of ones career. This law is based on
the principle that everything has lis
price, and they only who are able and
willing to pay it can acquire that which
they covet. Some are unable through
want of nerve, or failing health, or de.
fective Judgment, or other mental and
physical defects, from succeeding in the
struggle. But more who are able fai
because they are unwilling to meet the
cost. They seek the end, but will mo-
Ivy patient self denial employ the means
Present ease, present qualification, som,
form of indulgence not consistent will
the end which has been proposed, offer
"a temptation to strong for them to resist
To morrow they will begin a sterne
course; pext week will turn over anothe
leaf with different reading on the OBJ
serve side; hut to-day let the bands b'
folded and the old incumbrance remains
No man is on the road to success whit
has not already paid part of the pric
and is not now holding out to fortune il
full the next installment that is due.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-08-21

PAPER SHOES FOR THE WAR.-A trial
is now in progress at Lille, in France,
against the furnishers Of shoes with paper
soles to the Army of the North during
the late war, and the most fagrant
rascalities are being brought to light in
the investigation. One unfortunate sui
fcrer testified that some days before the
battle of St. Quentin, shoes were dis
trbuted among the men of bis company,
and two pairs came to his share. One
pair he put on in the morning of the day
preceding the battle, and oy midday they
were completely played out, literally fall
ing from his feet. AT midday he put on the
other pair, and by four o'clock they, too,
had almost fallen to pieces, and when he
attempted next day to march in them,
they fairly dissolved from his feet in the
mud, leaving him to march bareioote' IN
the intense cold, by which his feet weie
so badly irostbtten that he afterward
had to submit to amputation. This poor
fellow, it is said, manages to move along
by che aid OF two crutehes, and is COM
pletely incapacitated for work. The lur-
nishers of these shoes are immensely
wealthy, and no one has manifested any
disposition, until very recently, to relieve
them of a portion Of their scandalously
earned fortunes.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-08-21

Coon MANNERS. Young folks should
be mapnerly. How to be so IS the ques.
ton. Many good girl and boy feel
that they cant behave themselves in the
presence of company. They feel timid,
bashful and self dstrustful the moment
they are addressed by a stranger or ap-
pear in company. There is but one way
to get over this feeling, and acquire easy
and grateful manners; that is, to do the
best the, can all the time at home, as
well as abroad. Good manners are not
learned bu arbitrary teaching so much
as acquired by habit. They grow upon
us by use. We must be courteous
agreeable, civil, kind, gentlemanly and
womanly at home, and then it will be-
come kind of second nature to be SO
everywhere. A course, rough manner
at home begets habit of rouehness
which we cannot lay off if we Try when
we go among strangers. The most
agreeable people we have ever known in
company are those who are perfectly
agreeable at home. Home is the school
for all good things especially for good
| mannerS.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-08-21

PURE WATEE.-A writer in the Coa-
stit,aion in discussing the public
health of Esrope, draws attention to "the
dangers of pure water" His theory is
that the purest wuter-or what appears
so-frequently contains thousands OF
germs OF all sorts only visible through
the microscope and probably germs or
eggs still more minnie which develop
themselves 10 the human body, produc-
ing morbid affections, isolated maladies
ana even epidemics. The mode of over
coming these dangers. he says, is BY
boiling the water, by which all perni-
oious germs are destroyed. He therefore
recommends the use OF tea and coffee,
although he says that wine and even
stronger liquors are good, as alcohol
destroys those germs in water so dan
gerous to heslth.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-08-21

Duty. Nearly 100 years ago there was
a day of remarkable gloom and darkness,
still known as the dark day, o day when
the light of the sun was slowly extln-
guisbed as if by an eclipse. The Legls,,
lature oil Connecticut was in session, and
as its members saw the unexpected and
unaccountable darkness coming on, they
shared in the general awe and terror. 1t
was supposed by many that the last day,
the day OF judgme t-had come. Some
one, in the CONSERVATION of the hour,
moved an adjournment. Then there
arose an old Puritan legislator, Daven-
port Stanford, who said that if the last
day had come he desired to be found at
his place doing his duty, and therefore
moved that candles be brought so tnat
the House could proceed with its DUTY;
There was quietness in that mans mind
the auietness of heavenly wisdom-an
infexible willingness to obey present
duty. Duty, then, is the snblimest word
in our language.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-08-21

THE TIME TO ADvERTIsE.-The dull
season, as 1t is called, is the best time for
Advertising. When people
have most leisure, they read most. AT the
watering places and numerous summer
resorts, where tourists are congre rated, the
merchant who takes advantage OF his oppor-
tuniry will not fail to send his circular;
or, il he depends upon newspapers mainly,
he will net pass by the quiet dullness of
summer without keeping his business con-
stantly before the people who have de-
serted the town for more congenial life in
the open country. 1t pays to advertise
judiciously-it pays to advertise IL the
truth is told. 1t don't pav to stop adver-
tising. All you have spent is wasted. If by
your neglect to keep the public acquainted
with the advantages you can. offer, they
discover the usual enterprise wanting at
any time for any reason in the manage
ment of your business. What's the
matter with A. B. G & Co., they don't ad-
vertise any more. Guess they are played
out" said trend of ouis, not long since.
Well, sure enough, when we had our
attention called to the tact, it did appear
SO TO US, and it was not long before we
read among the items of the day, " we re-
gret to announce the temporary suspension
Of the well known firm Of A. 3, Q Co.
Liabilities and assets not yet ascertalned,'
etc. "By throat latch" wins the race
Keep little a. head don't get tired, for 1t
is just here the applause is against you, and
once the popular current sets in adversely
you may "throw up the sponge" for you
are no longer counted among the probable
winners Of the race Intelligent, persistent
effort truthful advertising in season aanc
out of season, fair dealing, small profits
one price strictly adhered to. and th'
terms q. o. .. to all, will surely result II
success to a retail establishment
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-08-21

THE LIGHTNING ON A SPREE.-The
strange doings of the electric fluid
through the fine old house of Mr.. Jonas
Clarke, at Waltham, Mass, attracted
visitors in throngs. Entering the house
by the side of the front door, the liquid
fire sped deftly along the bell-wire,
cracked or tore the plastering in all the
rooms of the west half of the house,
broke glass, and completely tore out the
western gable, and set the attic on fire.
" itn great presence of mind Mr. Clark
seized bucket of water and instantly
extinguished the flames. The fluid left
the house by the way Of the water pipe
leading from the spring, distance OF
some fifty feet. There were twelve per-
sons in the house at the time, carriage
load of visitors from Boston being aboAt
to leave the house. None of them were
seriously injured, though son OF MIR.
Clarke was stunned by the shock.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-08-21

A QUESTION. "A curious controversy
has occurred in an English courtroom
about veal outlet. A gentleman was sum
moned to answer the charge of assau'tand
battery upon a waiter employed In re
staurant The case was briefly as follows:
The defendant, with friend and some
members of bis own family, went to dine
ut the restaurant. Among other articles
ordered we're two veal outlets; but it
happened that three persons partook OF
the outlets. Whereupon, when the bill
was presented, it was found charge
was made for three outlets. When the
gentlemen refused to pay the extra
charge, he was informed that it was a
regulation that no customer should give
to another part of dish ordered by
him without paying for an extra portion.
The indignant customer, however, did
not choose that any one should dictate
to him how the food he had bought
should be disposed Of, and he rendered
the amount OF the bill less the charge fol
the extra outlet. The saloon keeper re.
taliated by ordering the waiter to secrete
the hat belonging to the friend who had
accompanied the party. Immediately
the assault and battery" followed, re
ported to be terrific, but of which NJ
traces could be exhibited by the plain
tiff. The magistrate to whom the cause
was brought dismissed the complaint
fning the plaintiff sixty shillings, will
the addition of forty shillings costs, ant
a severe rebuke for such "o1trageou
imposition" in a first class restaurant.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-08-21

PIAps AND STRIPES. = Very small
plaids for children are the only plaids
shown. Says fashion journal, these are
irregular and OF but two colors, blue,
green. or brown, with white or black.
The plaids Of the last past years have
been to large and gay for people OF taste
and have cons, quently lost favor.
MERCHANTS of experience predict that the
bold stripes brought out for this winter
will also bring stripes into disfavor, ana
we warn the reader that this is probably
their last season.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-08-21

COUNTRY ROADS. s.--There are two old
time affairs, says the Watchman and
Reflector, which should be revived and
kept in faithful operation in our country
towns-guide- boards at all blind places
on the public tboroughfares, SO that
stranger can go from one town to
another and make long journeys without
losing his way; there are few things
more aggravating to tired traveller
than to come to fork in the road +"
and find no guide board; try it once
yourself. The other old fashioned GUS
tom is that OF watering-troughs at con-
venient places by the roadside. so that
the weary horse MAJ refresh himself.
These are comparatively small things,
but they are important, and our rural
people Gun scarcely do wiser or better
deeds than putting up guide boards and
watering-troughsi lew trees set out BY
the latter would in short time make o
| grateful shade 10 man and beast
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-08-21

To SwIMMERs.-A French inventor has
patented an apparatus for swimmers. For
the hands he has large membranous fin,
which is beld in its place by loops passing
over the fingers and strap around the
waist. Their effect is to reduce very much
the effort required to swim without them.
But the greatest ingenuity is displayed in
the form and fitness Of the fins for the legs,
which are attached to the ankles, and are
so formed that they act upon the water
both in the movement Of bringing the legs
together and throwing them back. They
act so finely in threading water" as swim
mers call it, that one can really walk, u
not on the water, at least in it. The old
swimmer has no trouble in using the fms
the first trial, and IS surprised to findIwfth
what ease he can swim without exhaus5
ton,
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-08-21

THE INCREASE OF POPULATION IN
EURoPE.-Dr. E. Decaisne, in note COM
municated to the Paris Academy of Sci
ence, shows that from the triple point OF
view of the fecundity of marriages, of the
absolute number OF births, and of the ex-
cess of births over deaths, France occupies
the lowest place of all the European States
In Prussia 100 marriages give 460 children;
in France the same number OF marriages
give only coo children. In Prussia the
number of births for each 100 Of the popu
lation generally is 3.93 per annum; in
France there are only 2 IS. In Prussia the
excess OF births over deaf hs in each million
of the population is 1900 per annum,
while in France it only amounts to 2.400.
"If we admit" says DR.. Decaisne, as a
conclusion from the above figures, that the
doubling Of the population OF France, des-
poiled OF two OF its finest provinces. and by
unheard OF disasters, will require 10 years
TO be effected, while that OF Prussia re-
quires only AZ years, Great Britain 81, and
Russia &c, some estimate may be made oil
the amount Of the e.il that has befallen
this country"