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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-02-07
A Home of Ones Own.

Human existence implies the neces-
sity of food, raiment, and shelter. A
habitation is scarcely less important to
life than the question, what shall we
eat, and wherewithal shall ye be cloth
ed?" Happiness in civilized coun-
tries largely depends upon the COM
forts and conveniences with which q
home may be invested.
Every man in this country, says "The
Home Guide, especially if we have a
family, should possess a home of his
own and generally this may be secured
in few years by industry, frugality
and prudence. In large towns and
cities, the money expended for rent by
persons engaged in ordinary avocations
will, in few years, purchase a modest
home. To be dependent upon land
lords year after year for habitation is
often inconvenient and unpleasant, be-
sides being very poor economy. There
are many vexations !, and annoyances
which few renters escape, attending
their experiences as tenants of other
peoples houses and tenements, while
the burden of taxation for municipal
purposes fall mainly upon the tenant ;
as landlords charge the taxation i'm
posed forpublic improvements on them
to the rent-roll, and it therefore comes
out of the pockets of the tenants.
In house of his own, one feels not
only that he is less dependent than
when occupying a tenement belonging
to another, but there is an incentive to
improve and beautify home ; to make
it attractive, and thus add to its value
"a motive not often present when
man lives in rented tenement.
From every point of view it is adyis-
able for man of family, when he has
found permanent place of residence,
to determine to provide home for
those dependent upon him. Whether
in town or the country, this is advis-
able, and the reasons for it are SO OBJ
vious that it is scarcely necessary to
refer to them.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-02-07
How the Chinese Catch Fish.

The cormorant is largely employed as
an assistant to the fisherman, and is
carefully educated to its work by pro-
fessional trainers. When thoroughly
trained, pair of birds is worth forty
dollars, the high price being explained
by the cost and labor of instruction.
During the first seven months of its
life, the cormorant is left with the flock
and is taught by its elders how to feed
itself on small fish. After that age,
however, a collar is fastened about its
neck so that it cannot swallow its prey,
and to one of its feet a cord, some two
feet long, is attached, terminating in a
bamboo float.
At signal from the fisherman, whose
sole implement is q forked stick some
ten feet long, the cormorants plunge
into the water and search for fish, each
bird, as fast as he catches one in his
beak, rising to the surface. The fisher
man then hooks the birds float with his
stick and draws it towards him, taking
the fish away f1om the cormorant as
soon as it comes within reach of his
arm.
When the fish is very large and
weighs seven or eight pounds, for ex-
ample, the cormorants will assist each
other, one catching the fish by tail, an
other by the head, etc. They rarely
catch anything less than quarter of q
pound. After every capture small bit
of fish is thrown to the bird as reward,
the piece being sufficiently little for the
bird to swallow in spite of its collar.
Chinese fishermen keep their feath-
cred assistants at work as long as day
light lasts. Occasionally the birds be-
come tired and refuse to dive, a pro-
ceeding which occasions a series OF
frightful yells and beating of the water
with a stick by their master, which
frightcns them to such an extent that
they resume labor instantly.
This mode of fishing, which is not in
terrupted even by severe cold, is quite
lucrative, as twenty or thirty birds car
readily catch about dollar and hall
worth of fish per day. In general the
fishermen are associated, and the birds
belong to society which marks them
with peculiar brand of it's own. Oil
of sesame is said to be the panacea fol
all ills of the cormorant, which con.
tinues it's career of active work until
about ten years of age.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-02-07
Can Paralysis be Cured,

Paralysis, according to an English
writer, is rare, much that passes for
paralysis being durable, especially
through the imagination. The opinion
is supported by the statements of one
of the best medical men in Paris, who
in 1849 was physician in the great
hospital there, the Hotel Dieu. In
that year this hospital was particularly
famous for the cures effected in it, and
many were the hypochondriacs whose
imaginations sent them home well after
a stay in it's wards. One odd case was
that of young girl in the department
of the Ain, whom a sudden fright had
rendered dumb and paralyzed. Local
physicians could do nothing for her,
and at last asserted that only the doc
tors of the Hotel Dieu could cure her
Firmly believing this herself, the girl
was sent to Paris and admitted to the
hospital, where the hurried physician
merely examined her as matter ol
form, promising to return on the next
day. When he came he heard to his
astonishment that the patient was in,
clined to speak. He spoke to her, and
she answered instantly that she thought
that she could walk with little help
and she did walk twice around the ware
very easily. The next week she re-
turned to her native village as we'll az
ever. :" I knew" she cried, "that the
Hotel Dieu would cure me p 1t would
be hard to find more striking instance
of the mysterious power of the imagi
nation, and of strong belief upon The
physical structure.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-02-07
The Condensed Milk Man.

Gail Borden, the Condensed Milk
Man." died in Colorado County, Texas,
on Sunday, January II, in the seventy
third year of his age. Mr.. Borden first
came to New York from Galveston,
Texas. In 1850 he invented what is
called meat biscuits, containing, in the
smallest possible space, all the nutritive
properties of the beef or other meat
used in its manufacture. After thorough
tests. both in this country and Europe,
the highest authorities pronounced the
meat biscuit an excellent article, re-
tanning unimpaired the nutritive prop
critics of it's constituents. A council
medal was awarded at the great exhibi-
tion in London in 1851. The report on
the subject says: GA more simple,
economical and efficient form of port
able concentrated food than the Ameri-
can meat biscuit has never been brought
before the public. Mr.. Borden toiled
necessarily, and often under great dis
couragements, in producing this article,
but he still saw defect in it, which
was the agency used in desiccation.
After further experiments for several
years, he perfected process by which
pure broth is reduced to solid form.
He next turned his attention to making
condensed milk. Preparations of milk
were known in Europe and in
this country, but they were
too costly to admit of general use, and,
moreover, foreign substances were in
troduced which were less nutritive than
new milk. Mr.. Borden was the man to
overcome all obstacles in this matter,
and he set to work with great zeal and
confidence. His experiments were long
and expensive, but he. at length sue
ceeded. The first factory which he es-
tablished was at Litchfeld, Conn, and
the demand for the milk still increased.
In 1860 more extensive works were
erected in Dutchess county, New York,
on the line of the Harlem Railroad,
where three vacuum pans were employ
ed, capable of working 5000 gallons
per day. Another factory was estab-
lished at Brewster's, Southeast, Put
nam county, another at Livermore
Falls, Me-, and another at Elgin, Kane
county, ILL.,. the two latter having each
capacity of 1900 gallons per day.
At the latter place there is also fac
tory for the manufacture of the extract
of beef.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-02-07
Old Laws.

Some of the ancient laws of Massa-
chusetts are worthy of consideration at
the present day. In 1642 there was a
law providing that "those who do not
teach, by themselves or others, their
children or apprentices, so much learn
ing as may enable them perfectly to
read the English tongue, and knowledge
of the capital laws, shall be fined twenty
shillings for each neglect therein" In
those days it was also thought proper
that no interference should prevent
suitable marriages. A law of 1641
reads that 'if any person shall willfully
and unreasonably deny any child timely
or convenient marriage, or shall exer-
else any unnatural severity toward
them, such children shall have liberty
to complain to authority for redress in
such cases."
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-02-07
Pete.

"rm Pete. An I'm newsboy. This
story amt writ by me, coz 1 can'twrite.
Nor 1 can't read, so if anything's took
down wrong, it won't be my fault.
ga gentlemnn in one of our offices
says to me 'You tell me the story of
your young un, an I'll take it down,
and git it printed in 81. Nicholas An
he says to begin at the very beginnin',
wen fust seed my young un-a little
chap what I foun' arter his father died,
an he hadn't nothin' but fiddle in the
world. When I fust goes up to him in
the park, down to City Hall, and asks
him to play, he takes his stick an pulls
it acrost an acrost the strings, an
makes the wust Mise ye ever heerd in
yer life. He felt so took down when 1
laughed that / asked him, serious, to
keep at it, ill he says, lookin' up inter
my face, drefful disappointed, 'They's
awful n'ses, amt they?' I says, 'Wal,
no I've heerd the cats make ten times
wuss ones nor that. guess it'll come
some time if ye keep tryin'.'
$50 he hugged up his fiddle an we
started down to the corner. An I says,
Were air ye goin' p And he says,
now'eres p An he says, NO. An I
says they wasn't no use in it, fur he
couldn't no more take keer of hisself
than baby ken, an he'd have to live
with me. An he says, Will yOu take
care O meY An I says, Yes, will. ,
An that's the way he come to be my
young un.
81 axed him wot was his name, an
can't tell yer it, fur it was one of them
blamed furrin' names, an I couldn't
never get it right, so I allus called him
jes Young Un.' An he axed me wot
was my name, ah' 1 telled him, Pete,
an then we knowed each other.
"W'ere do ye live, Pete p he SAYS !;
an I sez, wal, 1 live roun'--ies about
roun'-here, I guess. Ye see, moved
this mornin'.' An that was sumner. I
warn't newsboy then, ye know I was
on'ya loafer. But seed a airy so I
says, Wal, we'll wait till all the lights
are put out down stairs in this house,
an then we'll live here ternight. But
we mus go fust an get our bed afore
it's dark, says. So we walks roun'
to lot were they was buildin', an he
waits vile digs out the bed from I'M
der pile O. stones. Yer see, had to
bury it in the mornin's fur fear O. rag
pickers, cause it was very good bed
an comf'table, specially in Aries.
'Wot was it ? 1t was a ole piece O.
carpet wot foun' in front NV house
wunst arter some people moved away
from it, an it was ez long ez you air,
sir, an longer too. I takes it under
my arm, an the young un hol's on
to my other han, an we finds the airy
agin. But we has to loaf roun' a good
vile fore the lights is put out. When
it's all dark we goes down under the
steps, an [ rolls up the carpet kind O.
loose an tells him to crawl inside of it..
will ther' be room fur the fiddle too p
he says; 'coz if ther' won't I don't
mind, ken sleep outside, Pete An
he looks SO Worried that I sings out,
'Of course ther' will Do yer think I'd
leave the fiddle out ter cotch his death
O cold an be laid up an tooken to
the orspital?' An that makes him
laugh, an then he crawls in fust an
crawls in last, an then theer we was,
all three of us, squeedged up conf ta-
BILE together. "-,S. Nicholas.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-02-07
Items of Interest.

A great many children get on the
wrong track because the switch is mis-
placed.
An old definition of salt-the stuff
that spoils potatoes if they don't have
any on.
Rhode Island is one of the seven
States in which the postal service pays
expenses.
The greatest pleasure know is to do
good by stealth, and to have itfound out
by accident.
Genius is that power of man which,
by its strength and originality, gives
laws and rules others.
Out of the six million eggs a Goldfish
has been known to spawn in one year,
less than hundred survive.
Mr.. Aston, of the U. S. Navy in the
South Pacific, says that the Indians of
Eten, Peru, speak a language under
stood by Chinese coolies.
An Indiana paper says girls should be
taught that God made them in His own
image, and that no amount of tight
lacing will improve the model.
Professor Reynolds has found that,
by means of strong discharge of cleo
tricity, he could burst a tube which
could stand discharge of one inch of
powder, retained by wire slugs three
quarters of an inch long.
A couple of fellows met Mr.. Kellar
near Mount Jay, Pa, the other night,
and requested him to give up his money
or his life. He thrust his hand into
his pocket, remarking, "Well, I'd
rather lose my money than my life"
but pulled out a revolver, with which
he instantly killed one of the highway
men and wounded the other.
An explosion occurred at a cartridge
factory at Bel Air, in France, which
caused the death of five women and
dangerous injuries to six others. One
of the survivors states that it was
common practlce with the workwomen
to amuse themselves by igniting small
quantities of illuminate by friction be-
tween copper plates in order to produce
slight explosion.
The hen fever, which has prevailed
to some extent in this village, says the
Dover Observer, is abating. One man
who kept debit and credit account of
his chen money" finds that thirty-five
hens have netted just thirty-four cents
during the year, above the cost of keep
ing. But calculating the number of
miles travel which they have caused at
four cents per mile, and he finds
balance against each hen of one dollar
and ninety-seven cents. He will not
cultivate hens next year.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-02-07
Oatmeal.

Americans are gradually waking up
to the fact that oatmeal is by no means
an unimportant article of diet. AS
food, the merits of which have stood
the test of centuries, and which is cal
culated to promote the sanitary inter
ests of the nation by laying the foun-
dation for more hardy and vigorous
constitutions for the coming generation,
let us regard it's general adoption as an
article of diet as nothing short of
national good. Its phosphorescent
qualities act as q gentle and healthy
stimulant to the brain, and on no other
food can one endure so great or so pro-
longed mental labor as on oatmeal por-
ridge. Properly cooked it is not only
a most healthful and nutritious food,
but it is decidedly palatable, as is fully
attested by its wonderfully rapid adop-
ton as popular diet by the very fas-
tidious palates of our American people.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-02-07
Religious Statistics,

A valuable table of the statistics of
christianity is presented in Professor
A. J. Schem's Statistics of the world"
for 1878, just published in New York
and London. In North and South
America ,out of apopulation of 84,50O,-
600, 100000 are Roman Catholics,
and 100000 Protestants. In Europe
out of population of 301, 900, 900, 147,-
100000 are Roman Catholics, II, 800, 900
Protestants, and 7O,200,000 adherents
of the Greek Church. In Asia out of q
population of 794,000,000, 4,700,0O0
are Roman Catholics, 1,800,0 ,000. Prot
estants, and 8,500,000 adherents of the
Eastern churches. In Africa, out of a
population of 1872, ,500,0 900, 100000 are
Roman Catholics, 1000, 900 Protestants,
and 3.200,00 adherents of the Eastern
churches. In Australia and Polynesia,
out of population of 4,400, 900, 100000
are Roman Catholics, and 100000
Protestants. This gives for the whole
world, out of total population of L.
377, 100000, 201, 200, 900 Roman Catho-
lies, 10000, 900 Protestants, and 81
10000 Greek and Eastern Christians.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-02-07
VOL. II.
III YOussWant a Kiss. Take 1t.

There's a jolly Saxon proverb
That is pretty much'like this,
That man is half in Heaven
When he has womans kiss;
But there's danger in delaying
And the sweetness may forsake it;
So l tell you, bashful lover,
If you want kiss, why take it.
Never let another fellow
Steel march on you in this;
Never let a laughing maiden
See you spelling for kiss;
There's royal way to kissing,
And the jolly ones who make it
Have a motto that is winning
If you want kiss, why take it!
Any fool may face cannon
Anybody wear a crown,
But man must win woman,
If he'd have her for his own;
Would you have the golden apple,
You must find the tree and shake it /;
If the thing is worth the having,
And you want kiss, why take it.
Who would burn upon desert,
With forest smiling by?
Who would give his sunny summer
For bleak and wintry sky2
Oh! 1 tell you there is magic,
And you cannot, cannot break it;
For the sweetest part of loving
Is to want kiss, and take it.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-02-07
Effect of African Climate.

Tt is really pitiful to look at the faces
of young Europeans who have been out
here only couple of years or so, says
correspondent on the African gold
coast. Their color is that of a pallid
yellow. They seem to bear on their
features that stamp of despair which
only those deprived of all hope of
health can have. Though the oldest is
not twenty-three years old, should
Judge, yet one of them is as gray as
man of fifty. They all look like old
young men, with their jaundiced COM
plexions, from which every freshness
of youth has departed, their lack-lustre
eyes and languid movements. The
trade in which these Europeans, under
Mr.. Croker, are engaged, is that of pur-
chasing palm oil, gold dust and gum
copal, while the Basle Mission buys not
only palm oil, gold dust and gum copal,
but black monkey skins, cotton, India
Rubber gum, and almost everything
that can be turned into money remu-
neratively in Europe. When the mer-
chants have finished boiling the palm oil
they pour it in great puncheons con-
tanning over $50 gallons, wnitewash
both ends of the puncheons, and ship
them to Europe.
The currency of the Gold Coast is
gold dust, and, in some parts, cowry
shells are still used, though they are
being rapidly superseded by British
silver coin. An ounce of gold dust is
sold for G3 12s. The natives frequently
exchange among themselves the weight
of even a small bead in the precious
dust, which they call a pessua-a trife
as insignificant to the Accras as a plea
yune would be to US.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-02-07
A Very Tall Tower.

The proposed centennial tower is to
be 1000 feet high. st. Paul's is 365
feet above the crowded streets of the
great city at it's base, overtopping, by
comparison, the dome of our own Capt.
tol at Washington fully IS feet. Trinity
steeple, in New York city, is 286 feet
from foundation to apex, and Bunker
Hill monument 221 feet high.
The Cathedral of Strasbourg towers
1853 feet from earth to pinnacle, Michael
Angeles grandest work, the dome of
st. Peters, has a height of 457 feet,
while a pyramid, that of Cephren,
brother and successor to Cheops, is 454
feet in heighth.
The material for the tower is Ameri-
can wrought iron, made in the form of
Phoenix columns, united by diagonal
tie bars and horizontal struts. The Sec
tion is circular, and is $50 feet in diane
ter at the base, diminishing to 80 feet
at the top. A central tube, 80 feet
in diameter, extends through the entire
length, and carries the four elevators.
The latter are to ascend in three and
descend in five minutes, so as to be
capable of transporting about 500 per-
sons per hour. There are also spiral
staircases winding around the central
tube.
The site will probably be in Fair
mount Park, Philadelphia, in proximity
to the buildings of the Centennial Ex-
POSITION. By calcium and electric lights
from the tower, it is suggested that the
latter, with their adjoining grounds,
might be illuminated at night. The
summit of the spire will also form q
magnificent observatory, while the view
of the surrounding country would be
unparalleled.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-02-07

ANGRY CAME1.-The camel is gener-
ally supposed to be meek and harm
less animal; but recently one of the
camels in the menagerie of the Central
Park violently attacked Mr.. Conklin,
superintendent of the Animal Depart
ment, and would probably have killed
him but for the intervention of the
keeper. Mr.. Conklin was engaged in
feeding the camels, when one Of them
without any warning, seized HIM with
it's teeth, lifted him up, and then dashed
him on the ground and trampled on
him. This unproyoked attack is thought
to be case of jealousy, the offending
animal having recently manifested in
tense dissatisfaction in consequence of
Mr.. Conklin's kind treatment of its
mate when the latter was in sick con-
dition.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-02-07

WOMEN IN THE ORANGES. One of the
features of the Oranges is that notTa
single one can be organized without the
companionship of women. No charter
will be issued to organize Grange,
even if a hundred of the best farmers
want it and ask for it, unless certain
number of women join.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-02-07

Dobson says his friends seem de-
termined to give him the title of DIR.
His butcher, baker, and all the rest do
SO, but they put DR.. after his name, in
stead of before it.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-02-07

A man writes to the editor for 81,
"because he is so internally short, and
he gets in reply the heartless response,
/" Do as do, stand up on chair"
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-05-20

Henry Ward Beecher answers as
follows an inquiry as to the proper
ground to take in the temperance dis
cussion and practice:
DEAR SIR do not think any man
in health is the better for using in
toxicating drinks.
Total abstinence is the rational and
safe remedy Tor intemperance.
/ am in favor OF all measures for the
prevention or suppression Of traffic 10
alcoholic drinks, which experience has
shown to be feasible; but, on the other
hand, | am utterly opposed to bigotry
or violence or partisan feeling in be
half of temperance, as L am to the
same qualities in religion, in politics
and In all other causes.
l have been from boyhood. and an
now, an ardent lover of my kind, and
desire to sec my fellow men free from
the despotism Of strong drink; but
would win them from danger ant dis
grace by reasoning, by moral infiu-
encc. and by Kindness, rather than by
any form of violence.
/ hold that preventive laws are right
in principle, and should be employed
wherever public sentiment IS. STRONG
enough to secure their executions: but
at present, the tone of feeling is SO low
that [ think stringent legislation
would fail of its end, and SO be worse
than useless Very truly yours.
HENRY WARD BEECHER.