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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-02-27
Comparative Cost Of Living in Europe
and the United States.

One dollar will buy twenty pounds of
flour in Boston, says the last Massachu-
setts labor report, one or two pounds
more in several European seaports, but
the same or a considerably less in q ma
jority Of the places compared. In Bos-
ton one dollar will buy 5,56 pounds of
fresh beef, roasting piece. In no place
in England will it buy so much by q
pound or more, and in Europe still less,
Copenhagen being the only place given
where it will buy more. Butter in Eu-
rope averages o pound more to the dol
lar than here, cheese less by more than
that except in few spots AS for pota-
toes, they are cheaper here than in Eng
land, and dearer than in Ireland or Ger
many. Seven or eight pounds of pork
for dollar are sold here, and not much
more than half as much can be obtained
for that sum in England or Europe, and
nowhere as much. In rice, milk and
eggs they have the advantage of us. Tea
costs less here than in England, butmore
than on the continent. With coffee it is
about the same, though the difference is
little. In sugar, the British are little
better off, the continentals good deal
worse Coal is cheaper here than in
Germany, and dearer than in England.
Merrimac or common prints are cheaper
here than in England or Europe. Boots
are about the same here as there. There
are but two or three places in England
or the continent where brown sheetings
are cheaper than here, while in brown
shirtings the foreigners are better off
Rent for four-roomed tenements is from
two to four times cheaper in Great
Britain and on the continent than in
Boston; in Austria fifteen times cheaper.
Board also is from one and half to
twice as cheap in Europe and Great
Britain as in Boston. rEE.s4
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-02-27
Typhoid Pneumonia.

The frequency of deaths by typhoid
pneumonia and kindred diseases is a
solemn warning to all persons in delicate
health to guard against the vicissitudes
of our changing climate. Clear and
warm in the morning, cloudy and cold in
the evening, pleasant to-day, tomorrow
rain or snow, we can scarcely reckon
upon two successive days Of equal tenn
perature, and a chilling humidity is the
prevailing tendency. A common and
fruitful source Of colds, pneumonia and
other arrangements of the lungs is al
most entirely overlooked. Most houses
are heated by coal fires. There always
escapes more or less gas from these fires
into the atmosphere of the rooms. This
gas, combined with the air exhaled from
the lungs of the persons in the rooms,
however unconsciously it may be
breathed, is certain to vitiate the blood
and produce debility, especially of the
lungs and mucous membranes. Persons
going from such atmosphere, thus de-
bilitated, into the cold and chillier air
out of doors are almost certain to expert
ence some sort of congestion. If the
feet are permitted to become damp and
cold, the danger is still greater.
The diseases produced thereby are
generally colds, catarrh, arrangements
of the liver and kidneys, and these grow
into pneumonia, rheumatism or typhoid
fever.
1t is difficult to avoid such exposure,
but sometimes little timely precautions
will ward of. disease, such as keeping a
vessel of water upon the stove, which alb
serbs the poisonous gases in the room,
watery vapor having q strong affinity for
the carbonic acid gas, which is the
poisonous element, eating healthful, nu-
tritious and easily digested food, and
wearing warm clothing-always clean
and in amount regulated by the changes
Of the. temperature, from indoor to out
and from warm, sunny days to damp,
chilly nights, or to storms. Every per
son, however circumstanced, may exer
else these precautions to greater or less
extent, and thus avoid many of the dis
eases prevalent during our winter sea-
sons.
The severity of whooping cough and
scarletina diseases, now prevailing among
children, is aggravated by these same
causes, and might be mitigated by the
same kind of precaution, and the lives of
many of the little ones thus saved. "An
ounce of prevention is worth q pound of
cure"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-02-27
The Question Of Burial.

The relative merits Of burial and Gre
nation are discussed from a new, if not
exactly from a novel point Of view, by
Mr.. +. Seymour Hayden, who argues in
a recent letter to the London Times
that the sanitary and aesthetic objections
Justly urged against existing methods of
burial do not necessarily prove anything
in favor of cremation. These objec-
tions, he says, are not valid against
burial, but only against improper burial,
whereby, instead of being committed to
the earth to be by it resolved, the bodies
of the dead are merely hid away in the
earth in close or hermetically sealed
coffins, in which slow putrefaction is in
definitely prolonged. Alluding to the
absorbent properties. OF earth, and
especially OF dry and porous earth, he
says that it is the most powerful Of anti
septics, and that the process Of change
which, under the influence Of the air or
Of the liquids of the body, is putrefac-
ton, in the earth becomes resolution;
that which was offensive becomes in
offensive; that which was decay, pro-
cess of transmutation. The conditions
of effective burial, he says, are attained
by excluding the body from the air to
prevent putrefaction and by invoking
the absorbent properties of the earth to
effect the less offensive resolution of the
body into its component parts-in short,
by burial in loose coffins. AS the result
of observations which it hal come i'll his
way to make, he asserts that when the
loosely buried body is sought at the ex-
piration of five or six years, it will be
found indistinguishable from the earth
with which it will have become assimi-
lated, leaving no trace of corruption be-
hind, whereas the body buried in close
coffin, if examined at the expiration of
fifty years, will be found in state Of
advanced but unprogressive decay. He
insists that burial should be made with
out cofiins, or if these are required, they
should be so constructed as not to Sc
clude the body from the action sf the
earth. One such coffin which he de-
scribes is not without aesthetic sugges-
ton 1t is coffin Of some light, per-
meable material, such as wicker-work,
open at the top and filled in with any
fragrant herbaceous matters that hap
pened to be in season. A layer of ferns
or MOSES for bed, bundle Of sweet
herbs for a pillow, and as much as it
would still contain after the body had
been placed in it of any aromatic or
towering plant for a coverlet-such
covering, in short, as, while it protected
the body from the immediate pressure
of the earth as effectually as the stoutest
oak, would yet not prevent its resolu-
ton. AS counterpart to these sugges-
tions, he asks, not without point, What
would be the effect upon the atmosphere
of London if the vapor from the bodies
of the 1,600 people who die there weekly
were drivenint by cremation furnaces9
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-02-27
A Massachusetts Farm.

[ visited three or four of the most
celebrated farms in Massachusetts, says
Walks and Talks IN Agriculture. It
is very different farming from ours. I
saw no straw stacks and no sheep. Hay
and milk are the chief products on the
farms I visited. Corn fodder on one
farm is raised extensively, and on an
other oats are grown and cut soon after
the grain is formed and made into hay.
The land was seeded down with this
crop, and | never saw better catch. It
seemed to be quite common, too, to fall
low field and then seed it down with
timothy and clover in the autumn with
out any other crop. This is pet recon-
mendation of my own, and I was glad to
hear that it worked admirably.
I would give good deal for one of
these Massachusetts barns-that is, if [
had money enough, I would give, say
from one-third to one-half what they
cost. I could use them to great advan-
tage. One barn, built by the former
owner of the farm, at cost probably
little less than what he afterwards sold
the farm for, was about 100 feet long and
40 feet wide-the barn-hoor running
through the center, the long way of the
barn. There was an L to this main
barn, about 80 feet long and perhaps SO
feet wide. 1t was occupied by two rows
of COWS, facing a wide passage in the
center, and there were several loose
boxes for calves and for COWS about to
calve. The arrangements were excel
lent. "This is magnificent" said I,
"but what is the use of this wide pas
sage between the COWS. 1t seems great
waste of ROOM" "That is horrible
heresy here, replied my friend. Buthe
gave me no satisfactory reason. Under
meath the whole of this large barn is q
splendid cellar. 1t is dry, warm, well
lighted, and well ventilated. If I had
such cellar, I think could find ample
room in it, with open yards attached, for
q flock of two hundred long-wool sheep,
fifty or more head of cattle, one hundred
or more pigs, stable for all my horses,
and cellar capable of holding 10000
bushels of roots. All this room is sacri.
feed, at any rate to q great extent, ap-
prently for no other reason but to Sc
cure manure cellar. The advantage Of
&c
very great, to pay for such large and
costly receptacle. One-ffth of the room
would be sufficient to hold all the manure
for six months, and the labor of putting
the manure into barrow and wheeling
it to one end of the building and dump
ing it into the cellar, would not be mucl
more than opening and shuttingso man,
trap-doors behind the animals.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-02-27
4 Fish.HOOk's Travels.

We find the following in. the Dover
On. h Enquirer: Some eight years
ago lad of thirteen, son of Charles E.
Myers, q well-known citizen of Ports
mouth, while fishing from one of the
wharves of that city caught fish-hook
in the fore-fnger of the right hand, near
the roots of the nail, drawing it into the
bend of the hook. His father saw that
the only thing to be done was to open
the finger on line with the hook and
take it out, but preferred to call in their
family physician to do it. After looking
at it for moment the doctor, by sud
den twist, wrenched the hook from the
finger, minus the barb and point The
parents were Justly indignant at such
rough treatment, and insisted that the
hook was not all removed, while the boy
came near fainting from extreme anguish.
The doctor, however, insisted that no in
convenience would result, and dressed
the finger in some simple and safe man
ner, and in due time the wound healed.
But the finger and arm troubled him for
long time. After q year or two the
lads health had so far failed as to be-
come a subject of serious alarm to his
friends, he being subject to frequentand
alarming fainting fits and other spas
modic affections or symptoms. The state
of affairs continued for years, with more
intensity until year or two ago, when
the boys health became nearly or quite
restored. In the spring of 1874 the
young man, while dressing himself one
morning, tore a pimple from his left
shoulder, and, on examining it, he drew
from the flesh the point Of the hook
which seven years before was imbedded
in a finger on the opposite side Of his
body. -.4. ..-.r...t ..n.. .....
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-02-27
Group Mixture.

In cases of Group the first thing to do
is to get hot water ready, and place the
feet of the child in it as soon as possible,
and give dose of any emetic to cause
vomiting. A good emetic is made by
taking equal parts of tincture of lobelia
and blood root; or take anything which
will cause the child to vomit freely, such
as mustard water made weak and warm,
or salt and water, or even goose grease
and chamber lye mixed in equal proper
ton. Then lay cloths wrung out of hot
water upon the chest and throat, chang
ing sufficient to keep them hot. The
bowels should be kept free.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-02-27

Bryant, with her dazzling smile, "don't
you think that dollar n week that you
save, at, l am sure, some inconvenience
to yourself, and, l am equally certain,
some annoyance to your landlady, would
help the relief society more by keeping
your washerwoman beyond the need of
its help, by giving her honest pay for
the only part of her work on which she
makes any real profit, than to put it into
the soup-house fund to help you don't
know who, or how needy or deserving
they really are9 Don't you see that you
take honest bread to give to possible
impostors2"
"But, Miss Bryant, don't you ap-
prove of the BAZAAR Don't you think
the soup-house good thing2"
"Yes, the strikers think so, feeling
sure that their families will be helped
while they fight their employers. The
frontier towns think so when they have
foreign invasions of needy adventurers.
One who has depended on the soup
house will depend again; and you do
much to encourage vice and idleness.
No, girls Have your bazaar. Enjoy
yourselves, make yourselves pretty, and
have your good time. God bless you
all But while you are doing it don't
discharge the music-teacher and teach
the little sisters if you can afford to pay
her, for she has a mother to support, or
somebody else; nor do unsuitable work
and make yourself i'll, when the fee for one
doctors visit will be godsend to some
poor woman glad of the job. If you are
rich enough to be generous, you can be
honest, and help others to be. If you
economize, try to do it all yourself;
don't crowd another's place. Don't try
to teach, and take the place of poorer
girl who could do it just as well, OF bet
ter, who lives on it, while you only buy
ribbons with the money"
"But the example -
"Fudge! as Burchell says. People
who are needy don't want your example;
they want your place. Your room in the
army of teachers is far better than your
company. Now there is large class of
people born and bred to better days who
will grow very cold and feel very hungry
and never tell anybody, who will always
be decent and pinched and patient, and
l hold it is the business of good Chris
tians to help these, and help them with
honest pay for honest work, and with
such timely help, delicately offered, as
will confirm them in their own self-re-
spect."
This was quite a speech for Miss Bry-
ant. BuG the result was seen: for
although not nearly so many persons
"donated work or articles, or were
asked to do SO, so much was paid out for
such offices that there were not so very
many poor folks to help that winter.
And the young folks had q glorious
good time, and will talk of it for years to
come.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-02-27
Looking After tie Germans.


During the stay of the United States
steamer Swatara at the Australian ports
an article appeared in the Melbourne
Age, which was copied into the Mercury,
and ran as follows:
On the 14th of October a party of
German astronomers and scientific men
sailed from Melbourne in the French
bark Alexandrina for the Auckland
Islands, where they were to observe the
transit of Venus. IT was expected that
the vessel would lave returned to one of
the New zealandports nearly month
since, but at the date of latest advices
from the colonys she had not done SO, and
some anxiety Is felt in reference to the
safety and welfare of the party. On as
certaining this fact Captain Chandler, of
the Swatara, with that kindly considera-
tion that has marked the conduct of that
gentleman and his brother officers since
the arrival of their vessel here, called at
this Office, and, an intercolonial mail be-
ing expected next day, begged that he
might be informed if any intelligence
was brought by it of the Alexandrina.
Having learned that no New Zealand
papers were received by that mail, and
that the Melbourne and Sydney papers
made no mention of the missing vessel
and party, Captain Chandler telegraphed
to Mr.. Adamson, United States Consul
General, Melbourne, as follows: Has
the German Consul any fears regarding
the safety of the bark Alexandrina, which
conveyed the German party for the OBJ
servation of the transit of Venus to the
Auckland Islands," To this Captain
Chandler received an answer, stating that
the German Consul had great fears for
the safety of the German party. Imme-
diately on receiving this information
Captain Chandler resolved on altering
his present arrangements, under which
he would have remained here for some
time yet. Every effort is being made,
and Captain Chandler expects to proceed
direct to Wellington, whence he will
proceed to the Chatham Islands, picking
up the American party stationed there
in passing. The Swatara will then pro-
ceed for a similar purpose to the Bluff,
and from thence to Dunedin, where, if
there is no word of the Alexandrina, he
will steam to the Auckland Islands, after
which Captain Chandler will return to
Hobart Town. The simple mention of
the fact that the captain of the Swatara
has thus so promptly taken actionfor the
relief of the German party will be &C
cepted with a feeling of universal salts
faction. 1t is in the highest degree
creditablo to the individual and to the
nation to which he belongs, and is but
in keeping with all that is known of him
and his officers since their arrival in
Hobart Town; and we trust their con
duct will be made mention of, not only
in these colonies, but in England and
throughout Europe, as well as in the
United States.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-02-27
Value of Courtesy,

At certain bank gentleman recently
opened an account. "I came here" he
said, "not simply because / knew my
money would be safe with you, but be-
cause you are always civil. [ have been
depositor in - Bank for many years.
1 went in to-day to see the cashier. I
knew him when he had no society to.
boast of, and hardly money enough to
pay for q. dinner at cheap restaurant.
I laid my hat on the desk, which l sup
pose had no business to do. He waved
his hand with an imperious air, and said:
Take that hat off, removed my hat,
when he said: Now I'll hear what you
have to say Disguised with his pom
posity, / told him had nothing to say
to him, then went to the book-keeper,
ordered my account made up, took the
banks check for forty-two thousand
dollars, and this wish to. deposit.
Sauciness does not bear high CONNER
cial value among the financial men Of
any city.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-02-27
Mother.

When she undid her hair at night,
About the time for lying down,
She came and knelt. l was 30 small
There in my bed, her curls did fall
All over me, light gold and brown.
fell asleep amid her prayers.
Her fair young face (fAr off it seems).
Her girlish voice, her kisses sweet
Thepatter Of her busy feet
Passed with me into charming dreams.
And when l woke at merry morn,
Through her gold hair saw the sun
Flame strong, shine glad, and glorify
The great good world. Oh, never canI
Forget her words" My darling onem
All ! checkered years since then have crept
Past her and me, and we have known
Some sorrow and much tempered joy. .s
Far into manhood stands her boy,
And her gold hair snow-white is blown.
The world has changed by slow degrees,
And as old days recede, alas
So much of trouble have the new,
Those rare far joys grow dim, seen through
Sad times as through darkened glass.
But just this morning when woke
How lovingly my lips were kissed
How chaste and clear the sunlight shone
On mothers hair, like gold-dust sown
Athwart thin clouds of silver mist
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-02-27
Winter the Colts Well.

1t is fact well known that farmers
colts are poorly wintered as q general
rule. There are exceptions, of course.
We would have better horses if the colts
were bettered wintered.
The form and character of the colt is
formed in the first three or four years of
its life. Its character may be good or
bad; it depends almost wholly upon the
handling to which it has been subject.
Its form or build depends, in great
manner, on the way it has been fed.
There are more colts injured by poor
feeding in the winter than in the sum-
mer, for the reason that there is more
pasture in the summer than fodder in the
winter. ~ "a a.
A colts build may be spoiled the first,
second or third winter by poor feeding,
and no amount of feeding afterwTd will
restore its original build. When it has
arrived at working age, it is not only
ugly and ill-shaped, but its value is also
below par.
We import stations at many thousands
of dollars apiece, for the Improvement
of our stock, which is money almost
spent in vain, and will continue to be
spent, until we, as class, winter our
colts better. Colts should be housed
through the cold, rainy days of the fall,
and when it is pleasant they should run
out. In winter they should have a lib,
oral allowance of hay. They should also
have few oats. Oats are better than
corn, for they make bone.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-02-27

An extraordinary attempt at wholesale
poisoning was recently made at Calstock,
in the west of England, where there is a
large mandatory of arsenic. The one
hundred and fifty people employed by
the establishment all get their water
from one tank, and somebody put pail
full of arsenic into it, one night. The
next morning sixty persons were poison
ed, and it was only by the immediate
use of remedies that their lives were
saved.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-02-27
THE DAYs.-At Hamburg, the longest ;

THE DAYs.-At Hamburg, the longest
day has seventeen hours, and the short
est seven; at Stockholm, eighteen and 8
half hours, and Ave aud half at St.
Petersburgh, nineteen, and five; at Fin
land, twenty-one and II half, and two and
half. At WandOrbus, in Norway, the
day lasts from the 31st of May to the
I'd of July, the sun not getting below
the horizon for the whole time, but
slimming along very closely to it in the
north. At Spitzbergen the longest day
lasts three months and a half
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-02-27

KEEP CooL.-The Importance of keep
ing cool was strikingly exemplifedin in the
Tennessee Legislature. During the bal
loting for United States Senator one of
the delegates, named Smallwood, sup
porter of General Bate, became so ex-
cited that he was prostrated with palpi-
tation of the heart before his name was
called to vote,sand had to be carried to
the ante-room. Had Smallwood's vote
been cast Bate would have been elected,
as he only fell one vote short of the re-
quired number on this ballot.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-02-27
Cure for a Cold.

A hot lemonade is one of the best
remedies in the world for cold. 1t acts
promptly and effectively, and has no
unpleasant after effects. One lemon
properly squeezed, cut in slices, put
with sugar, and cover with half pint of
boiling water. Drink Just before going
to bed, and do not expose yourself on the
following day. This remedy will ward
off an attack of the chills and fever if
used promptly.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-02-27

A little thoughtful attention, how
happy it makes the old They have
outlived most of the friends of their early
youth. How lonely their hours Often
their partners in life have long filled
silent graves; often their childten they
have followed to the tomb. They stand
solitary, bending ON their staff, waiting
till the same call shall reach them. How
often they must think of absent, la
mented faces; of the lovewhich cherished
them, and the tears of sympathy which
fell with theirs, now all gone. Why
should not the young cling around and
comfort them, cheering their gloom with
songs and happy smiles.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-02-27

PARROT DRILI.-This characteristic
illustration of the parrot drill of public
schools is given by a writer in the Penn
MonthB; 1t is said that q gentleman
who fell in with one of our school boys
offered him quarter if he would tell
him the names of the capitals in Europe.
1t was done, and quickly. "Now," +"
said the gentleman, 81 will give you
another quarter il you will tell me
whether they are animals or vegetables. :
"Animals, was the ready and confident
answer.