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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-08-11
Thoughts for Saturday Night,

ALI philosophy lies in two words
sustain and "abstain.
Men give away nothing SO literally as
their advice.
One ungrateful man does an injury to
all who are wretched.
Rochefoucauld says we have more in
dolence in the mind than in the body.
Seneca says that malignity generally
drinks the greater part of its own poison.
A good word is an easy obligation, but
not to speak i'll requires only our silence,
which costs nothing.
Judge thyself with judgment of sin
cerity and thou wilt Judge others with
judgment of charity.
Friendship is like those ancient affairs
where the unhappy, and even the guilty,
found sure asylum.
There are falsehoods that represent
truth so well that it would be Judging i'll
not to be deceived by them.
Deceit and falsehood, whatever con-
veniences they may for time promise
or produce, are, in the sum of life, OBJ
stacles to happiness.
Men love better books which please
them than those which instruct. Since
their ennui troubles them more than their
ignorance they perfer being amused to
being informed.
If you have talents industry will i'm
prove them; if you have moderate abii-
ties industry will supply the deficiencies.
Nothing is denied to well directed labor;
nothing is ever obtained without it.
An intelligent class can scarce ever be,
as a class, vicious; never, as class, in
dolent. The excited menial activity ope-
rates as counterpoise to the stimulus of
sense and appetite.
A dull man is so near dead man that
he is hardly to be ranked in the list of
the living; and as he is not to be buried
whilst he is half alive, SO he is as little to
be employed whilst he is half dead.
When we have practiced good actions
awhile they become easy, and when they
become easy we begin to take pleasure
in them, and when Trey please us we do
them frequently. Form, then, the habit
of doing good.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-08-11
A Female Chemist.

We often read of women who unsex
themselves in appearance in order to en-
gage in some masculine employment,
such as that of sailor or soldier, or
even farm hand. But a Russian jour
nal tells the following incident, which is
still more curious than any of these:
A young Russian has for some years
been prosecuting his chemical studies at
the university of Leipsic with unusual
zeal. The young man, of an arlstocratic
exterior, made friends of all who came
in contact with him. Recently he passed
a most brilliant examination, which was
rewarded with the dignity of master of
arts
Soon thereafter young lady called on
one of the most prominent professors Of
the university, addressing the celebrated
savant in the following words:
81 desire, professor, before depart
from Leipsic, to express to you my most
hearty thanks"
The professor, perfectly astonished,
observed:
Thanks-but for what ?"
Listen, sir. was married to the
old Prince -. My husband died
some years ago. He died insolvent, SO
that / was left even without the daily
bread I resolved to seek the necessary
means of subsistence in science"
The professor then interrupted her,
saying:
eyes, most gracious lady +; neverthe-
less cannot see why you should ad-
dress any thanks to me. "
The lady continued
"Observe, then it is now more than
three years that here in Leipsic have
been student. The student who lately
passed the examination, and whom you
considered worthy of distinction, is none
other than myself"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-08-11
Why the Barometer Rises and Falls.

First of all, what is a barometer? 1t
is tube or pipe, closed at one end and
open at the other, made of some trans
parent material, such as glass, SO that it
may be seen through. This tube is
filed with the melted metal called mer-
curry, and, when quite full, the thumb is
placed over the open end $50 as to keep
the mercury from falling out), and the
tube is turned upside down. So the
closed end is at the top, the open end at
the bottom, and, if the thumb were re-
moved, the mercury would, of course,
run out. But now suppose you wished
not to waste any, and SO put the open
end of the tube into basin with some
mercury in it, and then remove your
thumb, what would happenH "Why,
the mercury would all run out in the
basin, some one will say. But this is
mistake, as the italian philosopher
Torricelh found out; and whatever size
or length of tube be taken, the whole of
the mercury will not run out, but a
length of about thirty inches of the tube
will remain full of mercury, and you
cannot make it run out into the basin
unless you either pull the open end of
the tube out of the mercury or make a
hole in the closed end of the tube.
This puzzled Torricelli for long time,
until at last the thought struck him that
the only thing which was on the mer-
curry in the basin was the air, and that it
was probably the weight of the air press
ing on the metal which prevented its
running out into the BASIN, eff so"
thought Torricelli, then if 1 take my
tube and basin of mercury up noun
tain, less and less of the tube will re-
main full, for there is evidently less air
above the basin at the top of the noun
tain than at the = bottom" You may be
sure he didn't wait very long before he
made the experiment; and to his great
delight, he found the mercury getting
lower and lower in the tube, thus prov
ing that it really was the weight of the
air that kept it in the tube at all; and so
the instrument was called o barometer,
which is derived from the Greek, and
means in plain English "weight
measurer."
But if the barometer is watched it
will be found to contain different quanti-
ties of mercury on different days. On a
fine day the mercury will, as q rule,
stand higher in the tube than on wet
day or just before rain; and now for the
reason Of this: Why does the barometer
rise (or, rather, the mercury in it) in fine
weather, and fall when it is going to be
wet? Now, dry air is much heav-
ier than wet air, or air containing steam.
T1hn .c 1lok -
gets moist it becomes lighter, and
presses less on the mercury of the ba-
rometer, SO more mercury flows out
into the basin, and consequently, less re-
mains in the tube, or, as we usually ex-
press it, the barometer falls. Now,
when the air is very wet, there is, OF
course, more chance of rain than when it
is dry, for rain is formed by the cooling
of the steam contained in moist air.
Little Folks.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-08-11
Japanese Night Shops.

The great thoroughfare thus lined by
gay shops and brilliantly illumined by
gas lamps, would in itself be sufficiently
attractive; but at this season of the year
it is rendered much more so by the
presence of "night Shops" which ex-
tend in almost a continuous line from
Kio bashi to Sulkei These shops are
kept by very poor dealers, who come out
between eight and nine o'clock in the
evening and stay till eleven or even later.
Their mode of doing business is very
simple. Each merchant spreads his
meager display of goods on q mat in the
gutter, on one corner of which he sits,
keeping sharp lookout for the depre-
dators who crowd about his exposed
property. The wares on sale are of
the cheapest description, of course, but
are attractively arranged, and make a
pretty appearance, often, in the weird
chidrO o8curo of the torch lamp of tai
low saturated paper. Generally second
hand, but sometimes new, they comprise
almost all kinds of goods in common re-
quest, such as domestic utensils, books,
sandals, gotas, "chop-sticks," mats,
flowers and "curios " of every conceiva-
BILE and inconceivable shape and purpose.
Some stocks are, collectively, of consid-
erable value, but in many cases FIVE
dollar note would buy out the entire es-
tablishment. But to most of their GUS
toners such an amount of ready cash is
undreamed of wealth; and few of the
transactions mount to higher sum than
that for which copper coins can suffice as
medium of exchange.
Most of these tradesmen have other
occupations during the daytime, or go
about the streets, with boxes on their
backs, picking up trifes at low prices
when they can find promising bargain
within their capital. Some, again, are
sent out by established houses to work
off cheap and damaged goods. When
not engaged in business, they may be
found in very dirty houses called by the
japanese uradana, or back-shops, in
inner courts and miserable localities
where they make a shift to live. But
despite their deep poverty they seem to
share the happy disposition of their ma
ton, and a passer-b by who stops to ex-
anime their wares will find them polite,
pleasant and clever. And occasionally it
will be worth his while to examine the
wares, as, now and then, really very
pretty articles may be picked up at very
low prices. And the purchaser, sharp
as he may think his bargain, may rest
assured that he has sent one poor soul
happy to bed that night over unaccus-
toned profits. Toxic Times.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-08-11
Without Interest.

A Paris paper has the following A
capitalist is just about leaving Paris for
America on pressing business, when he
misses his pocketbook containing 10000
francs. He cannot afford to lose an hour,
and so, with much agony, he goes ON his
way. At the end of the year he returns,
hurries to the prefecture of police, details
his loss, and-ioy, learns that his wallet
is in the bureau of lost objects. Thither
he goes, obtains it, and, with trembling
fingers and eager spectacles, counts it's
contents, makes a hurried calculation,
and his jaw falls.
"Well," said the clerk, "isn't it all
right ?"
No." says the baron, =" it is short. :"
"Short? How much? What do you
find there P'
"The years interest"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-08-11
A Town of DWarfs,

A writer in the London Times de-
scribes tho effect of excessive inter-
marriage on the inhabi tants of Brotes, a
little town in the province of Santander,
Spain. Until eighteen or nineteen years
ago, the village was quite shut off from
the rest of the world. Its inhabitants,
from their ever-recurring intermarriages,
had become quite race of dwarfs. On
market days the priests might be seen,
with long black coats and high black
hats, riding in to purchase the simple
provision for the weeks consumption,
men of little intelligence and no learn
ing, sprung from the lowest ranks.
About eighteen years ago, the Galician
laborers, of Galiegoes, from the mines of
Galicia, swarmed into the town for lodg-
ing, ETC., and since their colonization the
population has increased in strength,
stature, education, intellect, and morali-
ty. Their intellects, also, have i'm
proved-intellects which have been
stunted, .dwarfed, and ruined by their
frequent intermarriages,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-08-11
COlOrs of the Ocean.

The ocean has naturally pure blush
tint. All profound and clear seas are
more or less of deep blue while, ac-
cording to seamen, a green color indi-
Gates soundings. The bright blue of the
Mediterranean, so vaunted by poets, is
found all over the deep, pure ocean not
only in the tropical and temperate zones,
but also in the regions of eternal frost.
The North sea is green, partly from the
sandy bottom mixing with the essentially
blue tint of the water. In the bay OF
Loango the water is of the color of blood,
which results from the reflection of the
red ground soil. But the hue is much
more frequently changed over large
spaces by means of enormous masses of
alge, and countless hosts of small sea-
worms, floating or swimming on the
surface.
Near Callao the Pacific has an olive
green color, owing to the greenish mat
ter found at depth of 800 feet. Near
Cape Palmas, on the coast of Guinea,
Capt. Tuckey's ship seemed to sail
through milk, phenomenon which was
owing to the immense number OF little
white animals swimming on the surface.
The peculiar coloring of the Red sea,
whence its name, is derived from the
presence of a microscopic alg@, or sea-
weed, less remarkable even for its beau
tiful red color than for its prodigious
fecundity. In many more instances from
like causes the deep blue is varied with
strips of yellow, green, brown, orange or
red Small yellowish meduse are the
principal agents in changing the pure
ultramarine of the Arctic ocean into
muddy green. OF these, it is computed a
cubic inch must contain sixty-four;
cubic foot, 110,592 1t is here that the
giant whale of the north fiuds lis richest
pasture grounds.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-08-11
The Chief Justices Wetting.

About three weeks ago Chief Justice
Horton of Kansas came to Leavenworth
from Topeka, and desirous of reaching
Atchison that night, concluded to try
and make the train across the river on
the X. O., st. Joe and @. B. road. The
river was at it's highest, and the ferry
boat had ceased running for the night.
Thinking that the trip could easily be
made in skiff, he visited the levee and
engaged son of one of the boatmen to
take him cross, but the father dared not
trust his son on the river at that time
of night, it then being about eleven
o'clock, and he refused to let him have
the skif. A bystander who happened
to overhear the conversation told the
Judge that he would take him across.
He was engaged, and soon appeared
with skif, and they embarked on their
perilous journey. When about mid
way the passenger discovered that the
boat was rapidly filling with water, and
the boatman asked the Judge if he
could swim. The Judge is not skilled in
the art, and told the seaman SO. He
then told the Judge that he would swim,
and taking off his clothes he jumped in.
He was able to reach shallow water
in safety on Missouri soil, though not
without bitterly repenting his folly in
attempting to cross the river after DARK.
The man who furnished the Judge with
transportation did not own the skiff, but
went up this side of the coat shaft and
borrowed one that had been lying in the
sun all summer, and was warped to such
an extent that water went through it like
sieve. When the beat reached the
other shore it was nearly even full of
water.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-08-11
The Seasons.

lHt otdoOnss
"When spring comes laughing
By vale and hill,
By wind-hower walking
And daffodil-
Sing stars Of morning,
Sing, morning skies,
Sing blue of speedwen,
And my loves eyes.
" Whom comes the summer,
Full-leaved and strong,
And gay birds gossip
The orchard long
Sing hid, sweet honey
That no bee sips
Sing red, red roses,
And my loves lips.
"When autumn scatters
The leaves again,
And piled sheaves bury
The broad-wheeled vain
Sing flutes of harvest
Where men rejoice
Sing rounds of reapers,
And my loves voice.
"But when comes winter
With hail and storm,
And red fire roaring
And ingle warm
Sing first sad going
OF friends that part
Then sing glad meeting
And my loves heart"
Austin Dobson.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-08-11

The lawyer conducted Blanche to
seat and bowed to the others in the
room.
Then he proceeded to open paper he
held in his hand.
Virginia turned cold.
1t was the second will.
1t gave everything to Blanche.
In thwarting her husband at first in
his wish to make will Virginia Aubrey
had overreached herself.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-08-11
Items OF Interest.

That harmless South American animal,
the armadillo, when in danger, rolls itself
into ball and becomes very hard.
The Java squirrel flies from tree to tree
by a membrane stretched like a sail.
They are about eighteen inches long.
At Toronto, Canada, the newsboys
have Temperance lodge. The first one
organized with eighteen active members.
The commitments for crimes in 1881
in Ireland were 8, 1902, of whom 262 were
capitally convicted and thirty-nine exc
cuted.
The wearing of rings is very ancient
At one time it was prohibited in Rome
to all mechanics and men of mean con-
dition.
In Italy July is the month Of bread;
August the month of wine. In the first
the Roman peasants reap; in the second
they gather the grapes.
Greece has 1O1 journals and periodi-
cal publications, which gives one for
each IA, 434 inhabitants. The number of
political journals is eighty-two, of which
thirty-six appear at Athens.
The worlds annual production of
sugar aggregates 2, 140, 900 tons Of cane
sugar, 1, 100000 tons of beet-root sugar,
150, 900 tons of date sugar, 10000 tons
of maple sugar and 10000 tons of sorg-
hum sugar.
The largest of the pyramids in Egypt
is 543 feet high and 693 feet on the sides.
Its base covers eleven acres, and many
of the stones are above thirty feet in
length. To construct it 100000 men
were employed.
The ascendancy of Europe over the
other three-quarters of the world in
modern ages is attributable to the dis
covery of gunpowder, made by monk
about 1900. This is the only discovery
traceable to that class.
The Egyptians believed that their
souls after many thousand years would
reinhabit their bodies if they were pre-
served. hence the embalming process
and situation of sepulchres In places not
subject to the innundations of the rivers.
A public reader says that when he be-
gins to declaim the stirring piece com
mencing: "Strike the Tyre p the effect
of the first sentence on some of his hear
ers can only be compared to what follows
the cry of Glow BRIDGE" on canal
| boat.
Animals may think, but sometimes
they do not think very fast. A COW got
into a garden, in Rome, N. Y, and it
her half an hour to make up her mind
where to go out. A man and dog were
flooding her mind with information all
the time, too.
At last,
When life is old,
And vanished are its dreams,
Will prospects bright or dark unfold
Will suave airs come with breath of buds and
balms
And purple summers lift their fronded palms
In low horizons of far seas of gold?
Or mystery's voiceless night enfold
Us in its dubious arms,
And leave cold
Blank past?
Within ten years, no less than II, 0OO,-
900 acres of of forest have been cut down
OF burned over in the United States.
Much of the timber is used for fuel,
twenty-five cities being on record as
consuming from 5000 ceres to 10000
acres each. Fences use up much tim
Der, and railway sleepers require the
product of 100000 acres per annum.
The amount of pine and lumber timber
yet standing in the forests of the timber
States is estimated at 225, GOO, QUO feet.
The sum of $144, 900, 900 is invested in
the timber industry, employing 200, 600
men.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-08-11

A peculiar way of discharging printers
exists in Dayton (Ohio) offices. Each
compositor has nail to hang his coat
on, and when the foreman concludes to
dispense with the services of one of the
hands, he takes hammer aud drives
the nail in to the head.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-22
Arsenal NJ atters.

Twenty men are at work IN the armory
at Rock Island Arsenal putting old sabres
in good condition. There are five thousand
Of these sabres on hand; as each one is
taken out of the pile it is inspected-thrown
aside as old steel ii past repair, and LAID
with those fit for use if rust is all that ais
it. There are forty men at work on
haversacks and different parts of harness
in the leather shop. Davenport Gazette.
And still it is said there is no money to
pay the many stone cutters, blacksmiths,
carpenters and other mechanics who de-
pend upon work at Rock Island Arsenal
to support themselves and families, and
who are now standing on our street corners
with nothing to debut there is plenty of
money to pay favorites to rub the rust
from the blade of some old sabre or re-
pair some dilapidated saddle, for Grant,
Chandler, Morton, Cameron & Co.'S wal
they are trying to get up in order to hold
on to Offices the people refused by theil
ballots to give them.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-22
The Tribune Almanac for 1927.

We have received copy. 1t is edited
by Edward Mcpherson, formerly clerk
OF the house of representatives, and once a
member Of congress from Pennsylvania.
1t contains great amount of valuable in.
formation which is probably generally re-
liable. But we notice, 10 making up the
table Of electoral votes for 1876 the vote
is given SIS lS5 for Hayes and IS4 for Til
den. To arrive at this result every cleo
tor in Louisiana, Florida, South Caroline
and Oregon, and every alleged ineligible
elector is counted for Hayes, and the
only explanation given is as follows:
In 1876 the vote is given believed to have beer
legally cast. 1t will be officially declared in Feb
ruary,
Believed by whom? BY Edward nc
Phersou, Of course, 'Lega lily cast" anC
legally counted will give Tiiden Loris
lana and Florida, certain, and probab |,
South Carolina. And will dock Hayes one il
Oregon, one IN Vermont. and probabl,
one or two others where unnaturaIlzed per
sons were voted for. Ii the Tribune Al
manac is to be considered party almanac
then the editor may be excused for set
| ting up arty claim-not otherwise.
The price is % cents. For sale at al
| bookstores.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-22
Relief Without a Doctor.

Though we would by no means be un-
derstood as deprecating, but rather as rec
ommending, professional aid in disease,
there are multitudes of instances when it is
neither necessary or easy to obtain. A family
provided with comprehensive household
specific like Hostetter's Stomach Bitters,
is possessed of medicinal resource ade-
quate tn most emergencies in which medi-
cal advice would be otherwise needful
That sterling tonic aud corrective invar-
iably remedies and is authoritatively rec
cmmend for debility, indigestion. liver
disorder, an irregular habit of body. uri.
nary and uterine troubles, ipcipient rheu-
matism aud govt, and many other all
ments Of frequent occurrence. 1t eradi
Gates and prevents Intermittent and remit
tent fevers, relieves mental dependency
checks premature decay. and inyigorates
the nervous and muscular tissues. Sleep
digestion and appetite are promoted by it
and it is extremely useful in overcoming
the effects of exhaustion and exposure.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-22

A WONDERFUL REMEDY.-The Worlds
Great Cough Medicine DIR. Kings New
Discovery for Consumption will cure a
cough in one-half the time necessary to
cure it with any other medicines, and it
does t not by drying it up, but by remov-
inE the causes. SubduiDg the irritation
and Lea!Iug the affected parts. For all
cases Of hoarseness, suppression or loss of
voice, severe chronic or lingering coughs
bronchitis. or affection of the throat aud
lungs, it will be found to far surpass any
medicines that have ever before been Of
Tered to the public. 1t has wrought a
complete change in the cough medicines.
Is entirely different from all others II
you would convince yourself of its wonder
full qualities call at the drug stores and get
trial bottle free of cost or a regular size
bottle for one dollar.