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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-02-01
What the SeasOn Suggests.

To assume warm clothing at the commencement
Of the cold season is only an act Of common pru-
dence. But something more than this is required
to put the body in state OF defense against the
searching atmosphere Of winter. Damp has de-
pressing effect on the vital organs and the animal
spirits The amount Of life power taken out of the
strongest Of us by the chilling vapors whish fire.
quently load the air at this period of the year Is
very considerable, and to the weak and langutd
they are extremely deleterious, To protect the
system against their Effects it must be inwardly
toned regulated and reinforced, we'll as shielded
outwardly by appropriate garments. This essen
tial service is safely and satisfactorily accom-
pished by the daily Of Hostetter's Stomach Bit
ters than by any other means within the province
of medical science. The fact here stated is as In
controvertible as a demonstration in mathematics
Nobodydisputss 1t. 1t Is q matter Of common be-
lief and Of general record Here the case might be
rested but the public, naturally enough wants to
know why this famous vegetable specific is 80 far
ahead OF all other medicines of its class. This rea-
sonable curiosity be readily gratifed. The Bit
tiers comprise ave important elements, viz: slim
ulant, tonic, an aperient, and blood depurent
Each Of these components, as we'll as each Of the
other subordinate ingredients, is the purest and
best of it's kind. They are proportional in accord
ance with formula that has been In use for twenty
years. and operate harmonieusly and si1nultane-
ously. Hence the uniform success OF the medicine
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-02-01

A FIXED FACT IN PHARMACY. Con
sidering the multitude of diseases, it
is amazing that we live; in view of the
countless remedies for them, it is won
derful that we die. Unfortunately,
however, all the diseases are realities,
whereas most of the remedies are hum
bugs. One exception to the latter rule
demands the recognition and approval
of the press. We refer to DR.. JOSEPH
WALKERS VINEGAR BrrTERs. OF the
doctor himself, we know nothing but
of his medicine we can speak from OBJ
servation, for it seems to have found its
way into almost every household.
Probably it is more extensively used in
this country, as family remedy, than
any other preparation, although it has
not yet been before the world three
years. Wherever we go we hear of it.
and whenever we hear of 1t the COM
ments on its efficacy are enthusiastic.
We have questioned sufferers from liver
complaint, remittent fever, fever and
ague, chronic headache, vertigo, irregu-
larities of the bowels, indigestion, rheu-
matism, neuralgia, govt, kidney dis
eases, and affections of the lungs, as to
it's effects, and the uniform answer has
been, "N is doing me good. Believing
chat what everybody says must be true,
we have no hesitation in admitting that
VINEGAR BrrTERs is the Great Medical
Success. of the present century.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-02-01
Spontaneous Combustion.

Among the many strange beliefs to
which the modern novel has thus given
currency, there is no one better fitted to
the purposes of the sensational writer
than the belief in the spontaneous COM
bustioA Of human beings. Herman
Melville, in his story of "Redburn,"
gets rid of an obnoxious character by
this mode Of death; and Dickens, in
"Bleak House" has rendered the hor-
rible case of Mr.. Krook world famous.
Dickens, however, was severely criti-
cised for lending credit to the belief,
and accordingly defended himself by
plausibly citing several authorities. It
will be the purpose of this paper to ex-
anime some of the authorities, bring
forward several of the alleged cases of
human spontaneous combustion, and
show how the matter really stands.
The materials for this work areabundant.
Nearly every treatise upon medical
jurisprudence contains chapter upon
this subject. And, as recently as 1850,
no less person than Baron Liebig was
engaged as an expert in case of this
kind.
-No"J uuo ouppOolIlOu WHICH rs pOpu-
larry entertained is this: that certain
persons, addicted to the excessive use
of spirits, have been known to consume
with an inward fire, which, quick-spread-
ing and inextinguishable, soon left it's
victims mere heaps of cinders. Writers
upon temperance have accordingly found
this supposition a good field for the
display of their rhetoric, and for the
deduction of solemn and terrible warn
ings. We find plenty of such cases re-.
ported-Devergie alone, in his work on
"Medecine legale," having recorded
twenty of them. OF these, about two
thirds occurred before the beginning of
the present century, the earliest being
dated 1892. Fodere, however, mentions
one yet earlier, which took place at
Lyons in 1914.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-02-01
The Wheat Field of America
Hsalthful Climate, Free Homes, Good
Markets.

THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD offers for
sale LANDS IN CENTRAL AND WESTERN MINNESOTA,
embracing: l. The best Of Wheat Land 2. Excel
lent Timber for the Mill, the Farm and the Fire;
g. Rich Prairie Pasturage and Natural Meadow,
watered by clear Lakes and running streams-in
healthful Climate, where Fever and Ague is I'M
known
GRAIN can be shipped hence by lake to market as
cheaply as from Eastern Iowa or Central Illinois
Cars now run through these lands from Lake Su-
peror to Dakota Price of lanI close to track S4O0
to $500 per acre. further away $3.50 to S4.00 SEVEN
YEARS. CREDIT; WARRANTED DEEDS; Northern Pa
cifc 790 Bonds now selling at par, received for land
at S110. No other unocupied lands present such
advantages TO settlers.
SOLDIERS under the New Law GIarch, 1922 get
leo acres FREE, near the railroad, by one and two
years residence
TRANSPORTATION AT REDUCED RATES fur
nished from all principal points East to purchasers
of Railroad Lands, and to Settlers en- Government
Homcsteads. Purchasers, their wives and children
carried free over the Northern Pacific Road. Now
is the time for Settlers and Colonies to get Railroad
Lands and Government Homesteads close to the
track
Send for Pamphlet containing full information,
map and copy of New Homestead Law. Address
LAND DEPARTMENT, NORTHERN PACIFIC
RAILROAD, ST. PAUL, MINI,
or % FIFTH AVENUE cor 9th St., NEW YORK.
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The Printers Greeley Monument

At a special meeting of the New York
Typographical Union No. 6, ths follow
ing resolutions were unanimously
adopted:
WHEREAS, It has been proposed that
the several printing offices in the United
States give one or more pounds of old
type for the purpose of making statue
of Horace Greeley, to be erected in He
lot in Greenwood where his remains
are inferred; and aOhereas, type-metal
is specially adapted to reproduce sharp
and definite outlines, and peculiarly
,tted to speak in the mute form of an
image to those who, in after yslrs, visit
his resting place, as it did beneath the
training of his hand, and the grandeur
of his brain, and the largeness of his
heart; therefore
ReSoIUed, That we approve of the
idea of erecting statue of Horace
Greeley in Greenwood, made of type
metal Which has been cast into type and
worn oyt in the service of teaching the
people; and further, be it
ResolUed, That we ask Of our fellow
craftsmen (many of whom, now scat
tered over the country, have, like our
selves, either worked with or for him
during the 40 years gone by) to set up,
on Monday, Feb. 3, 1878, the cd ami
versary of Mr.. Greeleys birth, 1000
ems, and give the receipts for the same
to be expended in making and erecting
the statue; the money to be forwarded
to the President of New York Typo
graphical Union No. 6, No. % Duane
street, New York City, of which Union
Mr.. Greeley was the first President.
RoOlUed, That the above preamble
and resolutions be given to the press of
the United States, with a request that
they be printed and circulated as wide
ly as possible.
ReSolved, That committee of nine,
together with the President and Secre-
tary of this Union, be appointed to car
ry out the objects of the above reso-
luti)ns.
ResoIved, That a copy of the above
be furnishedsto the Associated Press
for publication.
Those sending type-metal will please
direct to Hugh Dalton, No. "a Beekman
street. All moneys will be sent to
Hugh Dalton, President Typographical
Union No. 6, No. % Duane street, New
York.
The old type-metal is arriving al
ready.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-02-01
The Goldfish.

1t is curious to note the history of a
goldfish from the moment wnon, on the
hook of the fisherman, it is dragged
from its native element, tillit disappears
down the human throat on the ,anks of
the Amazon, the Parana, the Tagus, or
the Pc. After few expiring wrigg.es
and it is comfort to be informed by
naturalists that fish are almost insensi-
BILE to pain-the cod is flung from the
fisherman's boatupon thorough "stage,"
where it is seized by the cut-throat, "
who cuts the fish open across the throat
and down the belly, and passes it to the
"header." This operator proceeds to
extract the liver, which is dropped into
vessel by his side, to be converted
into cod-liver oil, the great specific for
scrofulous diseases, especially consump-
ton. He then tears out the entrails,
and wrenches off the head, and throws
these into another receptacle, to be pre-
served for the farmer, to mix with bog
and earth, thus forming most fertiliz-
ing compost for his fields. The tongue,
however, is taken out, and also the
"sounds or air-bladder; and these,
fresh or picked, are an excellent article
of food. The fish is then passed to the
"splitter, who, by dexterous move-
ment, cuts out the backbone nearly to
the tail, and thus lays the fisk entirely
open, and capable of being laid fiat on its
back. This is the incest part of the
operation, and the "sphtter always
commands higher wages than the other
operators. The "salter" next takes the
fish and washes it we'll from all particles
of blood, salts it, and places it in piles
to drain. After lying the proper length
OF time, it is washed and spread to dry
on the flake" which is formed of
spruce boughs supported by frame
work resting on upright poles. Here
the cod are spread out individuallYs to
bleach by exposure to sun and air, and
during this process require constant at
tention. At night, or on The approach
of rain, they are made up into little
round heaps, with the skin outward, in
which state they look very much like
small hayoocks. These heaps are tech
nieally called heapies. VIII On the bloom,
or whltish appearance which after time
they assume, comes out on the dried
fish, the process is finished, and they
are then quite ready for storing. On
being conveyed to the premises of the
exporting merchant, they are first "cull-
ed, or assorted into four different kinds,
known as Merchantable, Madeira, West
India, and Dun, or broken fish. The
first is prime fish, the second nearly as
good, the third is intended for tougher
stomachs, and the fourth, which is in
capable of keeping, is used at home.
The cod sent to hot countries is packed
by screw power into small casks called
"drums J" that which goes to the Medi-
terranean is usually exported in bulk.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-02-01
Industrial Progress.

Spike making is about to be carried
on extensivel, at Allentown, Penn.
Virginia city, New, recently received
one consignment of quicksilver, weigh
ing 5000 pounds, from San Francisco.
The Danish Government recently in
vited tenders or 10000 pounds of rails,
ard the New-Zealand Government for
1000 tuns. 49,
The portions of the great steel works
at Essen, Germany. liable to suffer from
fire, were recently insured for the i'm
mense sum of 81, $40, 900, by II German
companies.
The British Society of Arts has offer
ed a large gold medal for the best
specimen of steel in next years Non-
dom international . ibition. The
steel works of Jersey City and Pitts
burgh has confidently compete for this
plize. Ill.
The San Francisco sugar refners, we
reaa, are endeavoring to break down the
two beet sugar factories, because
the latter not only refine their own beet
sugar, but also foreign cane sugar at
time when the refiners usually suspend
work.
A company is organizing in England
to construct and run between Dover and
Calais q line of steamers fitted with Mr..
Besssmer's suspended cabin, and pos
sessing other improvements, which will
it is expected, prevent sea-sickness.
1t is expected that the B. itish mont
tor Devastation will be ready by the
end of January to start on her trial trip
across the Bay of Biscay. The result of
this voyage will be of interest to al
maritime nations as she is the first ship
to mount 35 tun guns and is of extraor.
binary size for an iron clad.
The American Railway Master Nee
hanic's Association offers a premium of
$75 for the best drawing of machinery
for removing snow from railroad tracks,
and $50 for the. best drawing of appli-
ances for supplying locomotive tenders
with water or fuel. The drawings are
to be submitted before May 10, 1873.
The apparatus for measuring the tenn
peratures of decomposition and Of ex-
blossoms of decorating compounds re-
Gently introduced by French chemists
consists of bar of copper 0. OPS meter
diameter and 900 meter long. Every
decimeter a cavity containing oil allows
the temperature Of the bar to be deter
mined when one end of it is htats d. 1t
has been ascertained by this invention
that gun cotton explodes at 900 degrees
Cent. sporting powder, 28S degrees;
common powder, 295 degrees; nitro-gly-
cerine, 256 to 257 degrees; and lead
m rcury, and iron picrates at 296 de,
grees.
Crushed bones are compressed in
Melbourne, Australia, into cakes three
inches thick and six inches square, in
order that they may be exported eco
nomically. The cakes or tiles thus
formed are just adhesive enough to ad-
nit of their being handled freely, and
yet, when required for use as manure,
they can be readily crushed or melted
by the application of little hot water.
This novel plan has been devised to
turn to account the large quantities of
bones which the new meat preserving
operations accumulate. 1t may possibly
be employed with advantage in Texas
and South America as means of utili
zing the bones and other animal refuse
so plenAful in these places.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-02-01

The best time for painting the exterior
of buildings is late in autumn or during
the winter. Paint then applied viii en-
dure twice as long as when appSed in
early summer or in hot weather. In the
former it dries slowly and becomes hard,
like a glazed surface, not easily affected
afterwards by the weather, or worn by
the beating storms. But in very hot
weather the oil in the paint soaks into
the wood at once, as into a sponge, leav-
ing the lead nearly dry and nearly ready
to crumble off. This last difficulty, how
ever, might in a measure be guarded
against, though at an increased expense,
by first going over the surfac with raw
oil. BY painting in cold weather, one
annoyance might certainly be escaped,
namely, the collection of small flies on
the fresh paint. .
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-02-01
An Ocean Signal Station.

The late Sidney EEMorse, says a
New York paper, some years since de-
vised plan Tor erecting ocean signal
stations, geographically connected with
one another and with the shore. Pro-
ceeding on the well-known fact that at
brief depth below the surface of the
sea the water is undisturbed by storms
or currents, he proposed to sink to this
depth large iron buoys, securely anchor
ed. Upon these buoys, as a solid foun-
dation, he asserted that small watch
towers could be built, which would
withstand the blows of the Winter waves
better than can any absolutely immova-
BILE tower like the Eddystone Light
house. The latter, being unyielding,
must bear the full force of every sea
that strikes it, while the former would
yield somewhat to the blow, which
would lose much of its power. The
same plateau that serves as q bed for
the Atlantic cable would serve as an an
chorage ground for the submerged
buoys, and the task of sinking and Sc
curing them would be much less difficult
and expensive than was the work of
laying the transatlantic wire. The vast
advantages of such ocean signal stations
ned no comment. Not only could they
warn passing vessels of approaching
changes in the wind and weather, serve
as oceanic mile-stones, marking the lat
itude and longitude, but they would
afford temporary refuge to shipwrecked
mariners, and would thus fulfill the
double purpose OF signal towers and
life-saving stations.
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The MOUNDS. Agassiz to-

The MOUNDS. Professor Agassiz to,
whom was submitted the question of
the famous Washington Territory
monds, gives it unhesitatingly as his
opinion that the mounds were formed,
during the period when these prairies
we're lakes, by fish of the sucker family,
as covering for their eggs, and he states
that the same process may be seen'goinc
on at this day in the ponds near Bos-
ton, where similar mounds are being
built.
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Browns BnoNCHAL TRooHEs, for Pulmonary
and Asthmatie Disorders, have proceed their eff
fieacy by a test of many years, and have receiv-
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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-02-01

We received very pleasant letter of thanks
from our old friend Kendall, since his return
home, for a bottle Of JOhisOn's Anodyae Lint
n,ent which we gave him. and which be says has
entirely cured him Of the troublesome and dan
gerous cough he had when here.-Com.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-02-01

On the death Of one of England's most emf
nent physicians, all his effects were sold by
auction, and among other things was sealed
packet marked Advice to Physicians" which
brought great price. The purchaser on open
ing the packet rea2 as follows: " Keep tie head
cool, the bowels open, and the feet warm If
physic is necessary, use Parsons PUrgdtiue
Pills they are the most scientifically prepared
pill that has appeared in the last hundred years.
Com. -.... .......
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ALIENS LUNG BALsAM

Is your hope. It has been tried by thousands, such
you, who have been cured many, in their graft
tude have left their names TO that suffering LEI
manity can read their evidences and believe. Don't
experiment with new and untried mixtures-you
can not aford tt-but try at once this invaluable
article tits warranted 70 give entire satisfaction
in all cnses of Lung and Throat difficulties. As
ExpectoTant 1t has no equal.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-02-01

CR1srADoRo's EXCELSIOR HAN DYE Is the
most sure and complete preparation Of it's kind
in the world its effects are magical its ehArac-
ter harmless, its tints natural, lie qualities en-
during
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-02-01

A soldier, telling his msther OF the
terrific fire at Chickamauga, was asked
by her why he did not get behind a
tree. "Tree, said he, "thore wasn't
enouah for the officers"
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coNsuMPT1vEs, REApl

Would you cure that distressing Cough, and bring
back that healthy vigor till lately planted in your
eheek2 II you would do not delays for, ere you
are aware, II will be too late.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-02-01

Like Lightning Are The Miraculous Cares
effected with. FLAGG's INSTANT RELIEF. Aches,
Pains, Sprains, Bowel Complaints, etc, CASSoT
EXIST if this great medicine is used. Relief
warranted or money returned.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-02-01

WANTED farmer in every town as agent for
the COLLINS STEEL PLows. For terms, &c,
address, CoLLISs & Co., 2l2 Water St. New
York - COM
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a CHAEEENGH
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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-02-01

IT IL ALTOGETHER WRoSa, to tribe with "a Bad
Cough or Cold when the risk is so great and rem
edy 80 sure, prompt and thorough as DR.. Jayne's
Ex nacinrnnt cnn be readily found.