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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-01-25

Just taken his Bitters. We heard
seedy-looking individual with an alarm
ingly red nose remark to a brother soak
er that he had "just had his bitters,
but he did not mind taking another nip"
His remark suggested train of refec-
ton. How was it, we asked ourselves,
that the word "bitters ".had grown 10
be synonym for gin, whiskey, rum,
and other alcoholic stimulants, TO which
it was applied indiscriminately. Bit
ers, We reasoned, suggested the idea of
a healthful tonic, not of a poisonous
stimulant; something invigorating to
the system, not an alcoholic irTitant
full of fusel oil, producing present in
toxication and ultimate insanity, idiocy,
or premature death. Moreover, our
idea of bitters was totally irreconcila-
BILE with ''gin cocktails" "rum pun
ches," and "brandy tmashes," which,
we are informed, are sweetened with
sugar and rendered 6oubly injurious
with essences colored by means of min
eral poison. This was Littar-sweet
with vengeance. We mentioned this
problem to friend. He solved it by
exclaiming; "Why, don't you know
that most Of these bitters advertised
as remedies are only drains in disguise.
Topers know it, if you do not. Unjust
make one exception, however" he add
ed, land that's DR.. WALKERS CALIFoR.
MIA VINEGAR BTTTERs there isn't par.
ticle of alcohol or fermented liquor il
it, and it is the best vegetable tonic and
Alternative in America"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-01-25
NAPOLEON In America.

There are citizens still living in New
York who remember the squat figure
and solemn, half-melancholy air of a
strange Frenchman who arrived in
America as long ago as 1887. He soon
became known as Louis Napoleon,
nephew of the great Emperor, whose
death lately took place in England, but
there was nothing in his course of life
here which indicated the great power
which he was in few years afterwards
to possess or stamped him as more than
an ordinary gentleman of leisure.
He resided in Hoboken, in a small.
sparsely furnished room, and the table,
bed and chairs which he used are still
preserved there by the keeper of his
boarding house as a memento of his
distinguished guest. He devoted HIM
self, while thus situated, 10 study, al
though it is stated that he saw not a
little of the interior life of the city after
nightfall.
1t will be remembered that the ex-
Emperor had made an attempt at
revolution and failed, whereupon he
selected America, as Louis Philippe
had done before him, as an asylum and
place of refuge. He remained but a
short time, and devoted himself to the
study of American politics, our arts,
sciences and inventions.
he was particularly interested in the
development of electro magnetism, and
one of his first acts after the coup d'etat
of December 2 was the offerer of mag
nifcent premium for any decided i'm
provement in electro-magnetism.
! 1t was believed that Napoleon intend
ed to remain in America for a number
of years, and he had already planned q
tour of exploration to the central and
western portions of the continent, when
he received letter summoning him to
the bedside of his dying mother He
thereupon returned to Europe, but arTiv.
ed only just in time to receive her last
blessing and close her eyes in death.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-01-25
Terrible Weather Out West.

A st. Paul despatch says that the
great storm resulted in many fatal cas-
ualities in Minnesota, and that it was
unprecedented in its severity. 1t was
so binding that many persons persisted
within a few rods of where succor could
have been obtained, had they known in
what direction to go. Three brothers
Charles, John, and Stephen O'Neill,
and Thomas and Michael Holden, each
with two-horse team, started for vii,
mar with wheat, and were found about
ten miles from home in terrible condi-
ton. Two of the O'Neills and one of
the Holdens were found in sleighs froz-
en- to death. The others were alive and
did survive. Five or six teams in the
same vicinity were found frozen to
death, and the drivers are supposed to
have abandoned them and shared the
same fate. At Herman station on the
st. Paul and Pacific Railroad, o man
was frozen to death while going from
the depot to the water-tank. At New
Ulma little boy while endeavoring to
reach his home wandered eight miles
and persisted, and man was found frozen
near st. Peters. Many other casualties
have been reported. During the storm
the binding snow rendered it Impossible
to see foot in advance, and many per-
sons were unable to find their homes or
shelter, and consequently persisted
The Cedar Falls and Minnesota branch
of the Illinois Central was badly block
AIDED, snow-drifts being found from 200
to 1900 feet in length, and from five to
twenty feet deep.
The body of an unknown man was
found frozen to death at Nicolet, Iowa,
and two teams of horses frozen near
Worthington, MINI. One of the driv-
ers is missing, and the other so badly
frozen that he cannot live.
The stage between Sibley and Rock
Rapids lost one passenger by freezing
to death.
Two small boys were found frozen to
death near Humboldt, Iowa.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-01-25
A Talk about Tonnes.

The object of tonic is to increase the elasticity
and strength Of tho muscular fibre, and to invgo-
rate the general system. AS means Of accomplish
ing these ends, is expected to improve the ap-
petite ard the digestive power Of the stomach
These are certainly i'm portant cons derations; but
to cure dyspepsia, bilious affections, chronic de-
bntty, intermittent fever and other complaints i'm
yolving arrangements Of the liver the bowels and
secretiye organs generally, something more than a
mere tonic is required. Hostetterg Stomach Bit
ters may safely be pronounced the best and most
wholesome nvigorant eNtOnt, but the other special
medical properties which belong to This remarkable
vegetable restorative have much to 90 with tina
wonderful results produces to its tonic virtues
For example, it has certain Alternative qualities
which literally change the habit or constitution
re-estabiishing the healthy functions of the bod y
without causing any undue evacuation by prespira.
ton, vomiting, or purging. Its entire effect is to
put the whole machinery of life in perfect order, to
bile, and not only to operate an anidote TO dis
ease where it exists, but to strengthen, regu-
late and otherwise improve the condition of
the system ia render it proof against the vcsgi-
tudc6 of temperature, changes Of water, infected
mir, and other predisposing causes of liver and
bowel disturbances and epidemic disorders. Hence
Ii is medicine for all seasons and Climcs-useful
alike to the traveller and the resident in an I'M
healthy region, and invaluable sateguard against
the physical disturbances which accrue from cold,
damp, inclement weather, well as against the
mental depression which is apt to overwhelm the
weak and nervous at this somewhat gloomy period
of the year.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-01-25
What an Engineer Did.

Some years ago, so the story runs,
and is told by an Indiana paper, there
was a well-known engineer, who ran a
passenger train on one of the railroads
that run out to indianapolis. At GER
tain place on the road, every night for
about week, as the passenger train
run by this engineer came laundering
along, ii was certain to be thrown from
the track by obstruci IONS placed there.
Several Of these mishaps to the train
caused loss of life, and the company
was becoming considerably alarmed,
and the ability of the engineer WAS be-
ing seriously questioned. One night,
as the unfortunate train was nearing the
fatal spot, the engineer, who had been
sitting glum and silent at the throttle,
turned to his fireman and said /:
IF this train jumps the track to-
night, you follow me don't stop for
anything, but keep close after me.
Somebody has been throwing this train
OFF the track, and I'm going to catch
him."
When the train arrived at the usual
place, it struck a misplaced rail, and
was banked. The engineer, closely fol-
lowed by the fireman, jumped from the
engine, and ran into cOrnfield, and
started up a man that lay concealed
there Upon bringing the culprit back
to the wreck, the enraged passengers
wanted to lynch him, but the engineer,
q stern, cool, determined man, prevent
ed them, saying that he would take
charge of him, and, through the inter-
cession of the conductor, the trembling
wretch was left in charge of the en-
gineer. The train was righted, and was
soon speeding ON its way. The prison
er, who had confessed his fiendishness,
had been seated on the engine, and the
fireman placed beside him as a guard.
When the train was on smooth piece
of track, bowling along at the speed of
twenty-five miles an hour, the engineer
beckoned the fireman to stand out o.
the way. The fireman stepped aside,
and the engineer picked up a stick of
wood and struck the criminal such a
blow upon the head that it stunned
him. He then caught the quivering
form of the poor wretch, and, opening
the furnace doors, threw his body into
the hot, seething hell of flame. The
doors were shut, the train ratified on,
and never, until upon his death-bed,
the engineer confessed the act, was it
ascertained what had been the fate OF
the fend who had been in the habit OF
throwing the train off the track.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-01-25
How the Ancients Lighted Their Houses.

The ancients knew no method of REIN
ing oil, As great luxury, they mixed
it with perfumes, such as essence of
roses and sandal wood; but this rather
detracted from than added to the burn
ing properties of the liquid, and all that
was obtained by the process was an in
crease of fragrance and a diminution of
light. The dwellings of wealthy men,
who expended extravagant sums upon
scented oils, would not have borne com
parison, in point of lighting, with the
grimiest tap room Of gas,lit public
house. The gold and silver lamps, hung
by slender, well-wrought chains to mar
BILE pilasters, only yielded at their best
lurid, tapering fame, that gave out an
enormous deal of smoke, futtering in
the slight breeze, and went out alto
gether at gust of wind. Neither was
it possible to steady the light by closing
the apertures through which the air
came, for had Roman or Grecian houses
been possessed of glass windows they
would have soon become uninhabitable.
The fresco paintings of Pompeian villas,
the delicate colors on the walls of urban
palaces would, in less than month,
have been hopelessly coated with lamp
SCOT. At the end of an hours confer
ence of an evening party of noble Ro-
mans would have resembled a congrega-
ton of chimney sweeps. A tunic dyed
in Tyrian purple would have acquired q
mourning hue in no time.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-01-25
Our Growth and Habit.

Statistics show that within the last
decade in our larger towns the deposits
in the savings banks have increased
threefold, and, what is equally signif-
cant and gratifying, the number of de-
positors has increased about the same
ratio.
In the country towns and on the farms
the population is not increasing. The
towns are filling up at the expense of
the rural districts. The mills and shops
and the counting rooms are taking
the best brains from the farms. This
is the natural result of our manufacture
ing progress, and to a certain extent is
not perhaps to be deplored.
The robust women of former days are
becoming obsolete. The number of
children who die in infancy is increas-
ing; the prudence of the olden time is
given away to falser notions of life.
We must till less land and till it bet
tea. There must be more flower gardens
less monotony on the farms and more
peaceful surroundings. The country is
the place, after all, for pure enjoyment.
The one great drawback is that our peo-
pie will not be as economical as they
ought to be. There is too much spent
upon dress there is not that frugality
in housekeeping which would conduce
alike to health and comfort. We have
not yet learned to live well and cheaply,
and this remark applies to almost every
household in the land. Our girls are
not brought up to understand and to dc
housework; there are too many servants
in the house, and there are servants
where it would be much better that
there were none.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-01-25
Josh Billings ON Beauty and MO0esty.

Josh Billings being asked what was
best for woman, replied as follows:---
For quick return, perhaps buty IL,
but for an investment, for the sake of
the interest, we, reckomend modesty.
Modesty never gifts stale, but buty is
like buckwheat cakes, amt good cold,
nor warmed up next day neither. We
consider buty one ov the best kollatter-
ais that woman can possess, but if she
hain't got nothing else but buty she
amt no better off than if she had life
insurance policy, which was forfeited
for the non-payment- of premiums
Buty alone won't wash at all and keep
its color. The best time to get married
IL when you kan find the right kind ov
a man, who is anxious to make you his
wife. A CRATE MEME marriages are I'M
happy, but this isn't the fault ov the
customso much as it IL of the custom
ers. An old maid IL living reproach
tew every old bachelor within two hun
bred and fifty miles ov her.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-01-25
NapoleOn's Life ut Chiselhurst.

The chateau in which the ex-imperial
family have resided since the disasters
Of the empire has been the cynosure of
the eyes Of Europe. Although living
like a private gentleman, surrounded
only by the ordinary comforts of pr.
vate family, avoiding display and de-
voting himself to the education of his
son and heir. every movement of the
Emperor has been jealously watched,
and every expression that has come
from him through voice or pen has been
scrutiuized as carefully as if upon his
utterance depended the fate of nations.
The aristocracy, from the Queen down
words have never failed to recognise the
character of the distinguished exiles,
and by all means in their power they
have sought to ameliorate their unhap-
Ply condition. The family has been
the recipient OF the most generous
courtesies, and no doubt the British
heart is to day throbbing with warm
sympathy for the noble and bereayed
Eugene, whose womanly traits as wife,
mother, Empress and citizen endeared
her to all who came Within the scope of
her heroism and influence.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-01-25
THE FOLLOWING Is THE SCORE
Wealth of Presidents.

Washington left an estate worth about
SoOO, 600. John Adams died moderate.
y well off, Jefferson died SO poor that
II Congress had not given SIC. 900 for
his library he would have been banI-
rroptt. Madison was economical and
died rich. Monroe died SO poor that
ne was buried at the expense of his re.
iatlves in New York. John Quincy
Adams left about $50, 900, the result Of
prudence. His son, Charles Francis
Adams, gained large fortune by mar.
rage: jackson died tolorablv Well off
van Buren, died worth some 1900 600
1t is said that during his entire admin.
,stratlon he never drew any portion of
ms salary, but on leaving took the
whole $4,000 in a lump. Polk left
about $l5O,OOO. Tyler married a lady
OF wealth and accomplishments and
died died rich. Taylor left about $3.50 GOO
Hllimore was always an economical man
and added to his wealth byhis last mar.
rage. Pierce saved about s50, 0O0
Buchanan left about 5000, 600: Lincoln
ABOUT $75' 900; Johnston, about $50 Co.,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-01-25
Strange Birds.

Australia abounds in strange things,
and particularly in animal forms, singu-
larly deviating from all other types on
other continents. Among them the
bird called the cipoz, mound builder,
is truly remarkable on account of pecu-
liar habits and instincts. The male and
female concur in the construction of a
mound of leaves, grass, and materials
that in their decay generate heat. They
seem to know exactly when warmth will
be evolved by the chemical disintegra.
ton. On the top they can excavate a
hole, and into it an egg is dropped
Some of the mounds are twelve feet in
circumference by three in height. Each
egg, to the number of eight, is artist
cally lodged, and covered with loose
sand. All this is done in the darkness
of night, so that no eye of an enemy
may know where the treasure is hidden.
Both parents then pursue all earnest
plan for securing the propagation of a
new generation, with degree of precis-
sion, skill, and apparent knowledge of
certain natural laws that imply a rea-
soning faculty. Thus the eggs are in
cubated without the detention of the
mother bird ON the nest in climate
that would be fatal to her in confne-
ment. s4Jtst Et w "a
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-01-25

PLAIN WINTER DRESSES - Woo,sn
dresses for daily wear at home are now
made In such fashion that thew nav
be worn in the street also. They have
a plain polonaise, either belted Grin the
princess shape. The skirt is usually
untrimmed, though single deep flounce
may be added, or else a cluster of Ian.
ping folds is used, with a narrow box.
Ple9tlnng on each side. Skirts with
back breadths trimmed to the belt with
ruf1es or kilt pleating are too elaborate
ana TOO easily disarranged for house.
dresses. A preferable fashion is plain
SKIRT, with merely an apron in front and
sashes IN the back. The materials for
these dresses are the wool diaponals
serges, satinets and merinoes. and the
softer repped fabrics, empress cloths
Blarritz and velours. These are now
sofa at from rs cents to 81 yard. The
basque corsage is used with the skirts
Just described, and should be made in
the simplest jockey shape, with merely
a facing of silk or velvet for trim.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-01-25

EXPERIENCE IN KEEPING IoE.--C. w.
Ryther, Erie county, N. Y, says: at
have kept ice the most of the time for
fifteen years, and have seldom run short
of supply. Spent tan is the best ma
tsrial for filling in around the ice, and
II feet is sufficient. If you use saw
dust, two feet is better than greater
depth. Thesawdust must be quite dry.
The best plan for cheapiee-house, and
for filling the same, is to put up rough
building ithno inside wall. Set inside
posts one foot distant from the siding /;
place plank on the edges against the
posts; then pile the ice one foot from
the plank, fill between the ice and
planks with dry sawdust or spent tan.
Prevent circulation of air, and secure
proper drainage, and you shall have ice
10 use and to keep. <&H
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-01-25
s1AuarnR1Se BurFA1o.-A letter wri-.

SLAUGTERING BUFFALO. letter wri-.
ter says buffalo hunting party spent
most Of its time at Medicine Lodge, in
the very heart of the Indian, country.
He reports the slaughter among the
buffalo as most wanton and excessive.
The Indians, he remarked, "leave
very little on the carcass, always taking
more or less of the flesh. 1t is pleasure
parties who should be mainly held re-
sponsible. These people hunt the buff
falo merely for the sport of the thing.
A robe apiece is all they want, yet they
will oftentimes kill as many as ten for
each one Of the party, leaving the bod
les untouched and prey only for the
wolves and carrion birds"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-01-25
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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-01-25

ELEoTRIoIrY.--Ani ingenious inventor
has turned electricity to O new account,
but not as yet with complete success.
His object is to Use 1t as a motive power
for the propulsion of vessels in lieu of
steam, and he tried the experiment the
other day on yacht named Miranda,
with the screw detached The result
was the driving of the shaft at such an
immense velocity that before the ma
chine could be stopped it had broken
away the fastenings, being too power
full by half for all the work it had to do.
The inventor of the machine, which is
called the Electro-Magnet Motor"
estimates the number of its revolutions
at full speed at from /, 400 to 1000 per
minute.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-01-25

PRESENCE OF MIND.-A short time
ago a school-house in Jersey City took
fire while one htndred and twenty chill
dren were i'll session in it. Undoubted-
ly there would have been serious acct
dent and loss of life had not the lady
pFincipal with great presence of mind,
prevented rush down the stairs by
peremptorily ordering the scholars to
sit still, placing herself in the doorway
and compelling them to file out singly
and in regular order. To think what
one would do first in case of a sudden
alarm of fire, whether i'll private
house, in a church. in a theatre. or in a
hotel, would tend to prevent those
panics which are always so fatal, as well
as those rash and foolish acts which
show an utter lack of forethought and
presence of mind.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-01-25

In the average height of mountain
ranges, Switzerland does not compare
with Colorado, or, for that matter, with
any Western Territory. The mean
height of the Alps is from eight to nine
thousand feet above the sea. The mean
height of the Rocky Mountains is from
ten to twelve thousand feet. It is pro.
bable that the average height in Color
ado, which is the table land of the con.
tinent, will approach very nearly to
twelve thousand feet,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-01-25

CorFEE.-A recent work on coffee
gives a simple test which housekeepers
mightapply with advantage d" A spoon
full of pure coffee, placed gently on the
surface of glass of cold water, will
float for some time, and scarcely color
the liquid; if it contains chiccory it
will rapidly absorb the water, and, sink
ing to the bottom of the glass, commu-
nicate deep reddish-brown tint as it
falls" Numerous substances besides
chiccory are used to adulterate coffee.
A test for all of them would bS useful