Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-08-28

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What with her fresh water and salt
water troubles, the city has been having
a hard time for two weeks. The Croton
In the reservoirs has been tainted with |
decaying vegetable matter accumulated
though the drought and hot weather,
and for days got worse and worse till
the total abstinence men would have
been driven clear to distraction if they
had not stopped at-Beer. This and
kindred beverages have been eagerly |
sought, not only by their regular pat
rons, but by the large class who have
some small conscientious scuples on the
subject. but are satisfied with micros-
copic excuse for going over to the ene-
my.
At the same time with this difficulty
a quarrel between the authorities of
Brooklyn and New York has been in
progress over the dumping of garbage
and street refuse by the latter in the
waters of the former domain. This
trouble which under the head of 1.-The
Garbage War; is an regularly reported
in the papers as the proceedings of Con-
gress or the amount of watermelon that
Commodore Vanderbilt has eaten during
the day. Legal proceedings have been
commenced by the Brooklynites, and an
injunction procured preventing our po-
lice from making the accustomed disps-
sition of refuse which has consequently
accumulated to some extent, and to-
gether with the impure water has injured
the health of the city for the time being,
as shown by mortality report for the
week ending August II, which shows
81 more deaths from thyphoid and con-
tagious diseases than during the previ-
Gus week.
Let me advise your lady readers if
they have any intention of investing In
any kind of silk goods, whether for
dresses, ribbons, or sewing purposes,
not to put off buying single day. The
silk worms are on big strike-that is,
] Judge that's what it is. At all events
these little creatures in all the silk pro-
ducing countries of the world have sud-
denly reduced their production nearly
one half. Just why this is nobody can
tell. Maybe its because those bloated
aristocrats, the caterpillars, have got
up corner on mulberry leaves and
put up the price on them, but the fact
remains, and so the silk association OF
this country has met and decided that
they must Immediately put up prices
from % to 80 per cent. So make haste
ladies and get in your silk stocks (and
perhaps stockings) before it is too late.
E PHILADELPHIA, August l9
A quiet week has been the past al
the Hub of the Universe-title loaned
by the courtesy of the capital of Massa
chusetts, for this six months only-th,
average crowd going through the average
amount of sight seeing in very much the
average manner. Many of them NOV
so lazily, that they seem to long for du
plicates of that dog-velocipede in tn
: main building, that triumph of lnVentiV
, genius which none of your readers VIII
] have been here can have failed to notice
7 am of the opinion that the designer Q
6 that vehicle must have been the identi
= cal gentleman who said he wasn't feel
q ing at all well and expressed the conviC
ton that working between meals wa
running his constitution. 1t is sort {
/ trotting sulky. without shafts, each {
- whose two wheels, from the hub nearl
10 to the tire, is wire cage, entirely sin
\ liar is operation to one of those whirl
a. gig arrangements attached to squrr
= cages to afford the hushy tailed occupal
- a chance to settle his breakfast witho
= getting too far from home. Into the
10 wheels are inserted two unfortunate ca
m ines and steam is got up by giving Il
or vehicle a gentle push which presen
to the astonished 'purps" the altern
!, tive of either working their passage
y. turning a good many somersaults, t
: average dog incautlously chooses t
former, and once started is doomed
- illustrate perpetual motion till he drol
= or till the rider, who, meanwhile,
comfortable seated on the axle. sees
to release him.
So the excursionist who doesn't ia
kindly to doing his own locomotion,
contemplation of this invention awake
N feelings of envy and delight. VisiC
:, of summer trips to be conducted VI
- small labor and expense rise at OF
on before his heated imagination, and
ks the class alluded to is by no meats sma
an 1 shall not be surprised if the new st,
ut of ''dog cart becomes quite popul
div Consider its simplicity and varied ut
ty. With sigh of relief the city m
ian chant oppressed by hard times, sells
the his costly equipage, and with an ins
hat niicant fraction of the proceeds purch
ven es the new improvement. catches
,st couple of the vagrant quadrupeds in
40" streets, and sails down to business W
yer an applauding conscience. The hun
as out for days sport. instead of us
) of up his strength in the preliminary traI
and simply puts his faithful hounds into
~ treadmill and calmly reads his no