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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-15
Sufferings of Buffalo Hunters.

Five buffalo hunters were brought
from Fort Dodge to Leavenworth,
Kansas, on Tuesday, Feb. 19, in an aw-
full condition, they having been out in
a terrible snow-storm that prevailed on
the plains during the last week in JAN
uary, and badly frozen before reaching
the settlements. The Leavenworth
Times of the Goth says: The hunters
were taken to the Sisters Hospital, where
every medical attention was rendered.
Despite the most careful nursing and
efficient treatment, however, one of the
hunters, T. A. Sevfres, died yesterday.
The Drs. Thomas yesterday amputated
the right leg of r. Marsh above the
ankle, and amputated his left foot at
the instep. Mr.. Marsh is from Wash
ington Ind, and there are fair prospects
of his recovery. w. A. Mallory, of De-
troit, Mich, had both feet amputated
iuat above the ankles. The attending
physicians think he will survive. A. D.
Sidwell, of Brown County, Ohio, had
both legs amputated above the ankles,
and the same operation was performed
on j. E. Thomas, of Park County, In
diana. James Gillen, of the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, will lose
some of his toes.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-15
The Dry Goods Trade.

The New York Daily Bulletin, in its
weekly review, says: Both agents and
jobbers are disappointed at the result
of the seasons trade thus far, but
neither are despondeIt. The actual
condition of the trade throughout the
country appears to be entirely satisfac-
tory ; stocks are light in dealers hands,
and the different sections are in po-
sition to operate freely when the proper
time arrives, but there is no disposition
to anticipate future wants, nor is there
the least indication of speculative ten
dency, so that purchases for the coming
season will be based upon strictly
legitimate consumptive demand. Col
lections come forward with commenda-
BILE regularity from all parts of the
interior, and there have been very few
important failures throughout the coun-
try, which circumstances argue we'll for
the prosecution of q successful spring
business, which will, however, open
later than usual.
During the week there was a consider
able improvement in business with both
French and British Importers. job
bers' stocks begin to show more COM
plete assortments, particularly of dress
goods, and some of them have effected
fair sales to the Southern trade. Prices
abroad continue firm for all manufac-
tured goods, whether composed of silk,
woolen, cotton, linen or mixtures, and
the scarcity and high prices of labor,
fuel and building materials seem to
indicate continuance of present rates
at least, with the probability of a
further advance on some frbrics.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-15
The Virtue of Economy.

1t was one of the follies of Robert
Burns to imagine that saving was a sor-
did and small occupation. The poor
cleaner of his bread from the sterile
Scottish glebe might be pardoned that
weakness and despair if anybody could.
1t was the apparent hopelessness of
making headway against his cruel for
tune which made Burns affect to des-
pise the painstaking thrift of his neigh
bors, not sense that it was mean and
inferior. He must have admired their
stern courage, their heroic poverty
His shiftlessness was not due to the
possession of genius, but his self-in
diligence and irresolution. We, who
have milder difficulties and more leni-
ent fortunes, are without the excuse of
his unhappy circumstances, and must
not make the mistake of attributing that
to his greater qualities which is really
due to those human weaknesses which
he shared in common with his kind.
The truth is that economy is always a
necessary and noble quality, is often a
heroic one. 1t is especially fine in
those men who care little for money in
itself. Thrift may become a passion
just as self-indulgence may become a
passion; it is the duty of reason to curb
and regulate both. The man who has
once began to save soon finds it great
er pleasure to add fifty dollars to his
little pile than to spend the sum upon
tailor or caterer. AS soon as he be-
gins to confuse the means with the
ends, reason should demonstrate that
the present has its demands as surely
as the future has its exigencies. So,
when long habits of self-pampering have
taught one to think that he must have
everything he wants, it is good to learn
to deny himself. 1t is odd to see the
tricks and deceptions we play upon our
selves. We judge of our needs by our
habits. "We used to pay so much for
our dinner " eve used to go to such a
place for our summer vacation :"
whether we need such dinner, or to
go to such a hotel, does not occur to us.
The great virtue of economy, we may
remark, is to economize to-day and not
tomorrow, for in the future virtue looks
attractive, and then it has none of those
prosaic difficulties which beset it just
now. 1t makes not the least difference
about the triviality of the economy.
Truth and wisdom are qualities which
ennoble any action they may touch,
however sordid and common these
actions may seem to our prejudiced and
uneducated eyes.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-15
A Question for Scientific Men.

We have just discovered the reason
why our winters are growing colder
every year. Scientific men announce
that, after giving the matter careful
study, they are of the opinion that the
climate of Alaska is annually growing
milder. Formerly it was considered
impossible to raise vegetables there !;
but now the harder kinds of garden
are cultivated with consider
able success. The experiment has also
been made of transplanting apple trees
from California, and several trees,
planted four or five years ago, have
already borne fruit. OF course this ex-
plains everything. Ever since the
United States purchased Alaska, some
five or six years ago, gradual amalga-
nation has been going on, and Alaska
has sent SHOWS and frosts from her
bountiful supply, thereby making her.
solf little more comfortable. But
wouldn't it be good plan for U S. to
annex some tropical country-just for
winter use.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-15
Calculating the Distance Of the Sun.

At present the distance from the
earth to the sun is reckoned at ninety
two millions of miles, with a margin of
miles. 1t is for the main purpose of
reducing this margin, by at least one
half, that the observations of the coming
transit of Venus are to be undertaken.
In recent lecture on "The Constitu-
tion of the Sum-" Professor Young made
use of the following curious illustra-
tion, in order to aid his hearers in form
ing an idea of the suns distance. "You
know" he states, "that, if you touch a
part of the body, one does not feel it
instantly. If you touch the hand of
any one with pin, it will be an appre-
ciable part of second before he will
feel it and draw his hand back. Now,
if I had an arm long enough to reach to
the sun, and should put my fingers into
the solar fame, and burn them there, it
would be a hundred years before /
would find it out, and another hundred
years before / could remove my hand.
Such is the distance of the sun, and
yet, across that space, the earth re-
spends to every impulse of the solar
surface" An illustration of this char
acter, while it elected the applause of
the audience, failed, we doubt not, to
convey to many any more definite idea
of this immense distance than that OBJ
tanned from the simple statement of
that distance in English miles. That
the idea may be rendered more clear, it
may be stated that all external impress
sions, that is, impressions conveyed to
the brain from the organs of touch,
hearing, or sight, travel along the
nerves at the comparatively slow rate OF
from sixty to seventy feet per second.
For instance, if man of average height
receives an injury in the foot, there will
be lapse of rather less than one-tenth
of second before any sensation of
pain will be felt, and twice that time
before the injured member, in obedi-
ence to a return signal from the brain,
can be withdrawn or removed from
danger. 1t has been noticed, more
over, that the nerve-currents travel
more slowly at low temperatures than
at high ones, and that the speed is not
the same along the whole length of the
nerve. Thus, as has been stated by q
late writer, we find that thought does
not spring instantaneously-it is phe-
nomenon subject to natural laws of time
and space. In different observers, the
time lost is not alike one perceives,
reflects, and acts more briskly than an
other-it is o matter of temperament
and of accidental circumstances. This
explains the differences always remark
ed between astronomers busted in OBJ
serving the same phenomenon. Two
persons never saw at the same instant
the passage of star across thread
this difference in the speed of the nerve
currents is known as the personal eqata-
tjon of the individual, and, in the more
delicate astronomical observations, al
lowance for this difference in time en-
ters into the final calculations.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-15
The Story of Some Hot Water.

About two hundred years ago, a man,
bearing the title of the Marquis of Wor-
cester, was sitting, on cold night, in
small, mean room, before blazing
fire. This was in Ireland, and the man
was prisoner. A kettle of boiling
water was on the fire, and he sat watch
ing the steam as it lifted the lid of the
kettle and rushed out of the nose.
He thought of the power of steam,
and wondered what would be the effect
if he were to fasten down the lid and
stop up the nose. He concluded that
the effect would be to burst the kettle.
Chow much power, then," thought he,
"must there be in steam"
AS soon as he was let out of prison he
tried an experiment. 81 have taken, "
he writes, ga cannon, and filed it three
quarters full of water, stopping firmly
up both the touch-hole and the mouth,
and, having made good fire under it,
within twenty-four hours it burst and
made q great crack" After this the
marquis contrived a rude machine,
which, by the power of steam, drove up
water to the height of forty feet.
About one hundred years after this,
little boy, whose name was James
Watt, and who lived in Scotland, sat one
day looking at kettle of boiling water,
and holding a spoon before the steam
that rushed out of the nose.
His aunt thought he was idle, and
said els it not a shame for you to
waste your time SO ?" But James was
not idle he was thinking of the power
of the steam in moving the spoon.
James grew to be good and great
man, and contrived those wonderful
improvements in the steam engine
which have made it so useful in our
day.
What will not the steam engine do?
1t propels, it elevates, it lowers, it
pumps, it drains, it pulls, it drives, it
blasts, it digs, it cuts, it saws, it planes,
it bores, it blows, it forges, it Hammers,
it files, it polishes, it rivets, it cards, it
spins, it winds, it weaves, it coins, it
prints, and it does more things than
one can think of.
In the year 1907, Robert Fulton put
the first steamboat on the Hudson
river, and in 1920 locomotive steam
carriage went over a railroad in Eng
land.
And this is the story of some hot
water From so small beginning as
the steam from a tea-kettle resulted the
steam-engine, and the steamboat and
the locomotive engine.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-15
Physical Education of Youth.

Physical education for the young,
though beginning to be regarded in its
true light, is still so generally discs
teemed in our schools that there is
ample room for improvement in this
highly important branch of education.
We quote these words of truth from the
late annual report of the superintendent
of Boston public schools:
"We ought to aim, not merely to
avoid injuring the health of pupils
while carrying on their instruction in
our schools, but to increase their phys
ical health, strength, and beauty. 1
dare call that system of education a
failure which sends out into the world,
to fight the battles of life, its finished
graduates, with narrow shoulders, fiat
chests, crooked spines, pale faces, weak
muscles, and low vital energy. Our
boys receive less physical injury from
their schooling than our girls. Nature
helps the boys more. The boy manages
to get some wholesome play. But the
poor girl is easily crushed under the
terrible weight of school lessons. Her
strong love of appreciation, given to her
for wise purpose, is easily made to
work her physical ruin by the machin-
cry of examinations. 1 do not hesitate
to tell any mother in Boston that, i'll the
present state of things, the head of a
class in school is not very safe or de-
sirable place for girl to occupy. l
would urge two items of immediate re-
form in view of this matter: first, that
the rules in regard to home lessons be
rigidly enforced and second, that our
high-school girls shall no longer besee
carrying home daily, for study, large
bundles of class-books."
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-15
Narrow Escape from Burial Alive.

In New York city Coroner Young was
notified at his residence recently by
Mr.. Depew, that a colored servant of
his, named Carrie johnson, was found
dead that morning in her bed, at his
residence, 33 Morton street, and per-
nit was given to him to remove the
body to the Morgue the gentleman
was so certain that the girl was dead,
that he did not deem it necessary to
send for physician, and he took the
permit to station house, and the war
den of Bellevue Hospital was telegraph
ed to send the .dead-wagon. 1t arrived
at the house about half-past 2 o'clock
p. M, when on proceeding to the room
it was discovered that the girls head
was leaning over the side of the bed,
but it was supposed that some one had
moved it in the meantime. When the
driver of the wagon, however, took hold
of the body to place it in the coffin, he
felt warmth about the stomach and
loins, which he thought could not be
the case if the person were dead. Mr..
Depew Immediately sent for a physi-
clan, but before his arrival the driver
had forced open the teeth and placed
some salt in the mouth.
The physician decided that life was
not extinct, and applied the usual means
to restore animation, but it was not un-
til Saturday afternoon that she was fully
restored, aud at o'clock on that day
she took Sixth avenue car and went
to West 18th street, where she is al
present residing with friend. f
The girl was similarly affected some
time since, and then narrowly escaped
burial.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-15
Careful Banking.

Here is rather nice tale of careful
banking, which comes to us from an
Eastern city Some years ago friend
of its cashier brought to suburban
bank Government bond valued. at
81, ,000 He was in the habit of receiv-
ing the coupons regularly, but last
January no coupon came. Upon inquiry
it was found that his bond was missing,
and he was told that it had probably
been dropped in waste-basket and sold
for old paper He was further told that
he had no redress, as the bank was not
responsible for individual securities left
in its care--a great mistake, if we know
anything of common law. Still further
research develops the fact that other Sc
curities lodged in the same bank are
missing to the value of 100000. These
probably were also dropped into the
waste-paper basket.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-15
The Cannibal Man.

It's about an ancient cannibal man,
Who came from an island near Japan
A cannibal man who was tough and old
When Barnum bought him and paid in gold;
And whether the man or Barnum was sold
You will learn in this solemn story.
His teeth were sharp as the teeth OF saw,
And he had two rows in his lower jaw,
Filed and polished and ready for use
On any customer full of juice,
Or the first baby that lay around loose,
For babies were all his glory.
sad mistake for a cannibal hand
To come to an almost babyless land,
For babies are strangely out of style;
You may travel the country many mile
Without the light Of baby-smile
Unless with the Dutch and Irish.
But Barnum kept his man in a cage,
Though he felt quite sure, at the fellows age,
That his cannibalistic feats were done,
Unless he should eat man for fun;
And once, on the sly, he fed him one,
Which wasn't wise proceeding.
For, haVlag tasted white mans meat,
He was always ready to kill and eat
And he looked with longing at rosy gir,s,
Who came to the show in shining curls,
With cheeks like peaches and teeth like pearls,
And he wondered how they tasted.
1t happened once when the flesh was weak,
That he snatched a bite from rosy cheek;
When Barnum entered the cage to beat him,
The cannibal thought he had come to treat him,
And straightway began to eat him
Without even salt or pepper.
And though he was stingy and awful tough,
For good square meal he proved enough;
Alas alack what terrible omen
1t teaches to women as well as to showmen,
That whether a cannibal, Greek or Roman,
Be ever so old you can't trust no man.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-15
Value Of Fish.

The value put by epicures upon par
ticular varieties of fish, seems to depend
in great degree upon their costliness.
Thus, the sturgeon, which along the
Hudson is used exclusively as fertil-
izer, is regarded in Europe as dish fit
only for King-merely because the fish
is rare, and hence brings very high
price. 1t is not impossible that the
common herring is about to rise in
further estimation for o similar reason.
During the present season, it has been
unprecedentedly scarce on the coast of
Scotland and has commanded prices
that the Pail Mall Gazette calls enor-
nous. If the scarcity should continue,
and the price of herring steadily rise,
time will come when broiled herring
will be beyond the means of any one but
millionaire. We shall then be told of
the extravaganza of some dissipated
young Duke, in breakfasting dailyupon
herring, and shall read of the reckless
prodigal who carries salt herring in his
pocket on the Derby day, and ostenta-
tiously lunches thereupon in the pres
ence Of astonished and admiring multi
tudes.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-15
An EnglishwOman's Experience in an
American Sleeping Car.

Journeying to Boston from Washing
ton the authoress had her berth made
into bed, and, divesting herself of her
outer garments, retired behind the cur
tain and slept until daybreak. L
knew" she proceeds, "that at each end
of the car there was toilet room, with
marble basins and washing parapher-
MALTA. I put my head out between the
opening of the curtain to see if the
place was unoccupied, when, to my
amazement, what should meet my eye,
all the way up and down the narrow
corridor, but stockinged-no, I mean
socked-feet struggling into boots of
the most decidedly masculine persua-
sion. AS I was contemplating the pos
sibility of threading my way through
this novel living hedge, I came to the
knowledge that was the only lady in
the car, and that, unknown and unpro-
tected, L had been passing the night in
the most ignorant and helpless security
with about twenty menl In any other
country this discovery would have been
horrifying in itself and extremely dis
agreeable in its results /; but short as
my experience of American chivalry had
been, it was quite sufficient for me to
know that I had absolutely nothing to
feel uncomfortable about. Most of the
gentlemen did me the honor to ignore
my presence completely, thereby ma
king me feel very much assured. Those
that did not neither stared nor spoke ;
but as the train slackened at the Jersey
City station two of them helped me
down the steps of the platform, and
one, taking my shawls and the other
my nd-bag said, ALLOW me, madam,
to see you to the ferry p whittier they
accompanied me and bowed themselves
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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-15
How Muskrats Swim Under the Ice.

Muskrats have q curious method of
travelling long distances under the ice.
In their winter excursions to their feed
ing grounds, which are frequently at
great distances from their abodes, they
take in breath at starting, and remain
under the water as long as they can.
They then rise up to the ice and breathe
out the air in their lungs, which remain
in bubbles against the lower surface of
the ice. They wait till this air RECEIVERS
oxygen from the water and the ice, and
then take it in again, and go on till the
operation has to be repeated. In this
way they can travel almost any distance,
and live any length of time under the
ice. The hunter sometimes takes ad-
vantage of this habit of the muskrat in
the following manner When the
marshes and ponds, where the muskrats
abound, are first frozen over, and the
ice is thin and clear, on striking into
their houses with his hatchet, for the
purpose of setting his traps, he fire.
quently sees a whole family plunge into
the water and swim under the ice.
Following one of them for some dis
tance, he sees him come up to renew his
breath in the manner above described.
After the animal has breathed against
the ice, and before he has time to take
his bubble in again, the hunter strikes
with his hatchet directly over him and
drives him away from his breath. In
this case he browns in swimming few
rods, and the hunter, cutting hole in
the ice, takes him out. Mink, otter
and beaver travel under the ice in the
same way, and hunters have frequently
told us. of taking otter in the manner
we have described when these animals
visit the houses of the muskrat.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-15

One of the largest and most infu-
ential Protestant denominations of this
country has had the keenness to see
that sooner or later Mexico must be
Americanized, socially and politically,
probably within few years, and has
taken prompt steps to prepare itself for
the occasion. The missionary mana
gers of the denomination are now hav-
ing thoroughly educated in the Spanish
language, in one of their leading insti-
tutions, twenty-five young men, who
are intended for the missionary field of
labor in Mexico. There is nothing like
being on time.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-15

The manufacture of rails by a new
system which does away with manual
labor to great extent, is to be carried
on in o rail mill which is now being
erected at Louisville, KY, at cost Of
100000. In the process of making
the rail, the iron passes through thirteen
sets of rolls, without halt, and is
turned over five times for side-rolling
The iron is taken from the heating fur
mace, and transformed into rail in half
q minute.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-15

A young Japanese law student, who
is about to leave Washington for his
native country, will take with him a
handsome black walnut model, com
plete, of the gallows recently used in
the execution of Jenkins, johnson, and
Woods. We wonder if it is the youth s
intention to apply for the position of
prosecuting attorney, in case of the
Japanese Government adopting our
method of furnishing crime?
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-15

A New w-Orleans paper complains that
the beggers walk their beats in that
city as regularly as the policemen, and
are certainly much wider awake.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-15

The U. S. Senate decided that here
after the official debates should be
printed and published at the Govern
ment printing Office, and the House
concurred in that action. The present
Globe firm are left with vast establish
mont on their hands, and with stereo-
type plates of the debates for the last
forty years.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-15

Misunderstanding should never be
washed with anything but salt and wa
ter-a pint of salt to half pailful of
soft water, moderately warm. Dry
quickly with soft cloth. Twice during
the season will probably be sufficient
washing for bedroom, but room
much used will require it somewhat
oftener.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-15

Mans chief wisdom consists in being
sensible of his folies.