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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-30
THE WINTER sOLsTICE.

The earth has once more swung
round the vast circle marking her annu-
al revolution, and reached the starting
point of her course. The sun this day
touches his extreme limit of southern
declinatiop and the winter solstice of
1879 is safely inaugurated. The days
are of their midsummer length, nine
hours and three minutes, and the shadow
of night no longer encroaches upon the
light of day.
For little while, the sun seems to
stand still in his, career, his winter
path lies low in the heavens, the short
days hasten mournfully to their close,
and darkness falls over the earth like
sable pail. For seven days, from the
10Th to the 26th, the measure of sun
shine is at the minimum. After this
period has passed, mighty change oc-
ours. 1t is but minute added to the
shortest day, but that minute of sun
light is the precious harbinger of physi-
cal regeneration, the visible sign in the
heavens that the laws which sway the
universe will not fail, the first trophy
in the combat between light and dark
| ness.
Modern nations understand so we'll
the simple laws that rule the movements
of the worlds in space, that little heed
is paid to this great time-mark. But
the nations of the Old World delighted
to surround the period of the suns re-
turn with every manifestation of religi-
Gus observance and social enjoyment.
The Scandlnavians drew huge yule logs
from the forest, rekindled the yule fires
with the last years half burned logs,
and drowned the memory of feuds in
the wassail bowl. The Druids gathered
| the mistletoe from the sacred oak, and
! sacrificed hecatombs of human victims
to their sanguinary gods. The Romans
revelled in the orgies of the Saturnalia.
The Persians relighted their sacred fire.
For them the epoch was an annual
miracle. around which clustered their
hold on life and the blessings that sur
rounded their heartless homes. In the
strange blending of Christmas and Pa
gan ceremonies that resulted in our
Christmas and New Years festivities,
it is doubtful if civilization has made
great advance upon the sincerity and
heartiness which found expression in
the simple faith of the races of ancient
times, who lived near to nature, and
acted according to the light they pos
sessed. They had the advantage of US
in celebrating great physical epoch as
their season of good cheer, while Christ
mas is of doubtful chronology, and New
Years is both arbitrary and artificial
Providence Journal.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-30
HEAT is LIFE--CoLD Is DEATH.

There is no greater fallacy than the
opinion Of many, particularly the young
and strong and vigorous, that winter
especially sharp, frosty one, with plen-
ty of snow-is the most healthy season Of
the year. Very few persons seem to
realize the fact that cold is the condition
of death. and that in both warm and
cold climates it is our unconscious effort
to maintain our bodily heat at a tenn
perature Of ninety-eight degrees that
wears us out To this temperature
called "blood heat every cubit inch Of
oxygen that serves to vitallze our blood
must be raised by our own bodily heat,
or life ceases Since in cold weather the
maintenance Of sufficiently elevated
bodily temperature becomes very often
difficulty TOO great for our strength,
the advent of severe winter is really
more to be dreaded than visitation Of
! pestilence. The saying. "Heat is life
cold is DEATH" has striking illus
tration and confirmation in the reports
now regularly submitted by DR.. Russell
to the Glasgow Sanitary Committee.
The death rate rises and falls with the
regularity of the thermometer. So many
degrees less heat, so many more deaths
and vice versa. In one of his fort
nightly reports DIR. Russell says, 1.-The
death rate was twenty one, and in the
second week twenty FIVE. The mean
temperature in the former week was 40 s
degrees Fahrenheit, in the later 3O5 de-
grees." He attributes the low rate of
the first week to the high mean temper
ature of the preceding fortnight, which
was 47.O3 degrees, and adds: "This is
a good illustration of law which we
frequently observe in these reports of
temperature and death rates-that a
week of low temperature produces rise
in mortality the week following" In
our climate it would probably be difficult
to find a more frequent cause of serious
ailments than taking cold. Whatever
weak place We have, whatever constitu-
tional disorder we are subject to, cold
will surely discover. We take colds be-
cause our vitality is too low to ward of
the effects of the reduced temperature
around us. AS matter of first impor-
tance. then, to resist cold and the vari-
Gus arrangements of the system conse-
quent it is necessary by proper nutri-
tion to maintain our animal heat ; Sec
ond, to retain this heat by sufficient
quantity of clothing; third. to regulate
with care the temperature of the air We
breathe. to the opinion cur.
rent among lovers of cold weather, a fire
In bedroom in the winter is cheaper
and better than doctors bill for ow-
ing to our inactive condition during sleeE
the circulation of the vitalizing blood il
both slow and imperfect, and hence The
danger of taking cold by breathing colo
air is greatly increased. A cold Is the
beginning of everything that is bad. /
should never be forgotten that "heat il
|
life-cold is death. ''-.Scientifc Amer
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-30
THE POOR RICH MAN.
NEW VERSION OF THE STORY.


There was once a rich man that was laid on his back
By sudden, mysterious. and serious attack
There ice in his spine. a FIRE in his bones,
So he sent in hurry for the good DIR. Jones.
The Doctor arrived. sounded heart, brain and lung.
Examined his pulse, took squnt at his tongue,
And showed by his gravity silence and doubt
That he feared he going to 'step down and out"
"oh dear Doctor" painted the sick man, "I'm IN
awful agony. Help mel save me Don't let me die I
cant die now. have just begun to live. I'm rich
What's five thousand dollars to me? Save and 1t
is yours"
The Doctor went home with the gravest of fears,
Looked over his books, that were piled up in tiers
Yea deved in them all. from the ceiling to floor,
And repenIshed his brain with choice medical lore.
Then armed with reliable potions and pills,
lie rushed to the bedside, to combat the ills
The patient endured-he wrested all night
With the direful disease till mornings pale light,
When the sick man fell asleep-he breathed easier,
q gentle moisture bedewed his exhausted frame. The
Doctor heaved sigh Of relief SHOULD these favora-
BILE symptoms continue" he murmured, ''he may pull
through" The patient awoke Really, dear Doctor,
feel better already; keep and that thousand dol
lars is yours"
For many long days. was the danger great,
That the Doctor scarce rested, travelled, or ate;
He watched by the bedside, by night and by day,
Scanned closely the symptoms, the fever to stay,
Till at last he could leave him few hours or so,
Worn out by questions of those wanting to know
"Hows - doing ?" Much better, think,
Though really poor fellow he's been deaths brink"
At his next visit. Doctor found the sick sitting
up for few moments. He smiled and thus spake he
-"IIOw do, old fellow, YOU see I'm improving. l
guess you've won that hundred dollars"
In three days, so, the Doctor looked in,
To see the patient was still on the gam.
He found him as cosey cosey could be,
New dressing-gown, SLIPPERS chicken, jelly and tea.
"You see" he said, laughing, "as fast as can
I'm getting on bravely, to be a well man,
For there's nothing at present to think of or do"
In fact he was pulling most splendidly through.
Say, Doc" he said carelefsly as that worthy was
about to leave after expressing his keen satisfaction
at his rapid recovery, "Wfe says you've been here
matter oftwenty times or so Now don't be hard on
poor fellow. know you doctors charge terribly but
make out your bill and send It along. stand the
pull If 1t isn't over twenty dollars"
Hrs. II. A. Haynes in Pldttsburgh Sentinel.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-30

friends One tried friend in poverty is
worth thousand when fortune smiles.
The old adage has in, "that it is very
lnconvenient to the poor" and SO it is ];
but, then, there is one advantage the
poor have over the rich, viz z: they are
not subjected to many of the ills, and
not half the annoyance of their more
prosperous fellow-crcatures. 1t does not
follow that ''poor people must have poor
ways for the beggar in his rags may
show some evidence of thrift. Poverty
should not. therefore, beget habits of in
dolence and filth. but, on the other
hand, economy. and an honest. faithful
effort to accomplish something and be
something in the world.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-30

At the battle of Shiloh in April,
1862. A. D. Macarthur of the Texas
Rangers, in the confederate army. was
shot in the left shoulder, the ball passed
through the upper portion of the left
lung lodging in the right side. From
that time until few days ago its ex-
act location was mystery. He finally
drifted west to California, and few days
ago felt stinging sensation under his
right shoulder blade. A doctor was
called in, who could plainly feel the
ball, and with the aid of instruments
extracted it from the place where it had
been concealed for sixteen years.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-30

lou are carrying tnls tnlng TOO far,
said policeman, as he arrested thief
running off with mans watch.
A Western lawyer included in his bill
against his client: "To waking up in
the night and thinking about your case,
five dollars"
In Bath Abbey, England, is to be
seen the following: Here lies Ann
Mann. she lived an old maid and died
an old Mann"
A courtly negro recently sent reply
to an invitation, in which he regretted
that circumstances repugnant to the ac-
quiescence would prevent his acceptance
Of the invite"
The relationship of a man and woman
in rainy weather is discovered. If they
are lovers the woman will have all the
umbrella and the man won't care how
wet he gets. But is they are married it
is just the opposite.
Here is an extract from genuine
love letter which the London Chtsttan
Signal vouches for: dearest love,
have swallowed the postage stamp which
was on your letter because l knew that
your lips had touched it,
An exchange says: "Kind words are
better than gold.'' Well, they may be
for some purposes, but when you want
to choke off bill collector with heavy
under jaw, COLDS the best. Such men
don't run to sentiment much.
"Do eagles give milk, mother ?" asked
the boy. mo, my son; what made you
think so ?" Because, I've heard of the
eagles scream" The mother reached
for her slipper, but the precious youth
had vanished.
An Ohio man, being informed by /;
dentist that one of his teeth was affected
with "nodular calci6cation of the pulp,
went home and hung himself, having
. first written a letter to his wife, stating
that be had no desire to live. lest h
should give the disease to her and tn
) children.
Said an orator in Indiana: Fellow
/. citizens, shoulder your axes and blaz
such path through the forest that you
political sail shall catch the conquerin
breezes and enable you to reach the oasi
of good times in the Sahara of dubiety
| which stretches its Briareus-like arm
on every side.'
K "What news to-day ?" said merchar
L to his friend, lately. "What news
s respondent the other. Nothing. onl
:; s. things grow better-people are gettin
a ON their legs again" ION their legs ?
!. !. srid the first. why, yes" replied tt
N other; folks that used to ride al
:. obliged to walk now is that not gettin
on their legs again o.
Many of the congregation made it
part of their religion to twist their necl
l out of joint to witness the entrance
every person who passed up the aisle
the church. Being worried one afternoC
by this turning practice. Mr.. Dean sto
ped in his sermon, and said: "No'
you listen to me. and I'll tell you wi
the people are as each one of them com
. in" He then went on with his discour
until gentleman entered, when
bawled out like an usher: Deacon A
who keeps shop over the way"
then went on with his sermon, VIII
presently another man passed into t
aisle and he gave his name, residen
and occupation so be continued
some time. At length some one open
! the door who was unknown to Mr.. Dea
when he cried out: "a little old ma
with drab coat and an old white ha
don't know him--look for yourselves
The congregation was cured.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-30
ONLY A BOY.

The natural history of boyhood is
very interesting study. 1t is hard for
the old folks to look at things from his
standpoint. because their memories are
short. However, he will grow old soon
enough, and the era of mud pies and
marbles will fade only too quickly.
Only boy with its noise and fun,
The yeriest mystery under the sun;
As brimful of mischief and wit and glee,
As ever a human frame can be,
And as hard to manage as-ahl ha mel
'Tis hard to tell,
Yet we love him well.
We can't see why it should be fun for
him to put piece of orange peel on the
sidewalk and then watch until the un-
wary traveller lies on his back, sputter-
ing all the oaths which the living and
dead languages afford or to tic string
from the floor to the lamp post just high
enough to knock off every rybody's hat who
hurries along. or to slip out the tail
board of lemon cart and then start the
horse on run, while the dismayed ven-
der gnashes his teeth and expresses the
wish that cholera would come quickly
and make short work of the little ras-
Gals. No, we can't see the sport in all
that, but twenty years ago we did. We
can't remember that we ever stopped
the chimney up and filled the house with
smoke. or put eight particles of gun
powder in the middle of the old gentle.
mans cigar, and watch for the explosion
looking SO meek and absorbed in oul
geography lesson that the victim of oul
mischief thought there must be mis-.
take somewhere, and that if he thrashed
us he would do an injustice to an limo
cent student. Well that is probably
what we did, nevertheless, and that il
just what other boys are doing nova
days.
Only boy who will be man
1fnature goes on with her first great plan
If water. or fire. or some fatal snare.
Conspires not to rob US of this our heir,
Our blessing. our trouble our rest our care,
Our torment, our joy.
"Only boy"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-30

The country will be greatly relieved
to learn that the committee on ways and
means has decided not to tinker with
the tariff this session. Manufacturers
and merchants can now go on making
arrangements for the future, without
fear of the marring interference of the
alleged statesmen of the lower house.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-30
TRACES OF nITCHING.

suppose, said he, in accents soft,
"A felloe, just like me
should axle little girl to we'd
What would the answer be p
The maiden drops her liquid eyes
Her smiles with bushes mingle-
"why seek the bridle halter when
You may live ON, Sur. cingle ?"
And then he spoke--"0h. be my bride,
ask you once again;
You are the empress of my soui,
And there shall ever rein.
"I'll never tire of kindly deeds
To win your gentle heart,
And saddle be that shaft that rends
Our happy lives apartr'
Upon her cheek the maiden felt
The mantliDg bushes glow
She took him for her faithful hub
To share his wheel or whoa.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-30

A Funny INcIDRNT.-The Glen Sut-
ton correspondent of the Palladium. re-
lates that while young man named
Pelkie was out hunting few days ago
he chanced to espy fox industriously
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-30
How dared you make love to me ?''

'How dared you make love to me p
she gasped. you"
Because | loved you," he said.
woman, if | had not fallen in love
with you that night | would have killed
you also. 1t was risking my life to
spare you. with your screams calling
men TO hunt me down
.'Oh, if you had but killed me then p
she moaned.
"Well, ! am at your mercy now," he
said.
She answered -
"You can kill i wish you would. ]
pray do it. You killed my husband.
The murderer of my husband must be
brought to justice, and yesterday,
nay4an hour ago-I loved you! Oh,
6Sa pity me | have loved this man,
this thief, who came in the night to
rob my husband, and who murdered
him p
She remembered saying this. After
wards strange drowsiness overcame
her. She seemed to let go her hold
of the world. She family recognized
the fact that Colonel Humphries knelt
at her feet and kissed her hands. Then
there were blank hours. and strange
wild dreams, and she awakened in the
twilight, found herself bound fast to a
great armchair, long cords about her
arms tying her hands and confning her
feet
So her servants found her. but she
was the only living being in the great
house. Col. Humphries and his two
black servants had vanished, no one
knew whittier.
The empty bottle of chloroform on
the floor, the fact that he had left little
behind him, and that he had always
kept his money in form that left him
free to leave the country at any time,
all proved that detection had been pre-
pared for. And he was never traced
or had the means to bribe those who
were set upon his track.
Ida Halifont lived through it all. She
lives to-day in the quiet house beside
the river, but no one has seen her smile
since that hour. No one will ever see
her smile again, and from her deepest
slumbers she often starts in terror, fan.
cying that she sees uplifted menaclng
ly above that cruel. terrible arm. mark
ed with the blood-red stain. There is
no hope of happiness for her, for she
never can forget that this arm has alst
embraced her.-Erchonqe.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-30

They are beginning to suspect at
Washington what has been PLAIN enough
elsewhere, that the clamor for making
trade dollars legal tender comes from
spectators who want to get one hundred
cents for coin whose bullion value Is
only eighty five cents.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-30
NERICAN g. FOREIGN PATENTS.

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hutries. No FEES IN ADVANCE. No charge
less the patent is granted No tees for making pre-.
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4 aud conducting rehearing BY recent decision
the Commissioners ALL rejected applications may
es before the Patent Office, Extensions before Con
,ss. infringement Suits in different states, and all
cation appertaining TO Inventions or Patents
md stamp TO Gilmore 81 Go. for pamphlet
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-30

The Northern Pacific railway is look
ing up once more. The directors have
just accepted bid for building one
hundred miles of the Missouri division
and have ordered revision of the sur
veys of the second hundred miles to
Yellowstone, preparatory to letting out
the work on that
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-30
SHOT GUNS J.
BARTON, VT.

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LAND CASES, LAND WARRANTS
ANN HcRIp.

bsntested Land Cases prosecuted before the U. 8.
neral Land Office and Department Of the Interior.
tvate Land Claims, MINING and PKE-ENIP-
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Land Scrip in 40, 80. and $50 acre pieces for SALE
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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-30


Misunderstanding is SO often the
result of circumstances which throw two
people together; of no consideration of
the fitness of things; of momenttary i'm
pulses, .or of cool deliberation-tha
that which should be the happiest state,
is often the unappiest. And people
speak of a wedding as they would Of a
lottery. where there are more blanks than
prizes.
The only true matches are made by
love, and when two people have really
loved-really. from the depths of their
very hearts-nothing can ever part them
again.
do not say this of those who have
only been called, or called themselves,
lovers. A couple may be engaged. or |
doubt not, even married, and yet that
wonderful tie of great love may never
have existed between them. When it
does once exist all the waters cannot
quench it, nor the seas cover it. For
ever and forever-at least in the forever
of llfe-those two are more to each 9TH
er than any two who have not loved can
be.
Sometimes happy fate actually unites
two love thus, and they live long life
together. and their children rise up and
call them blessed.-M. X. u.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-30
MEADOW
ARM FOR SALE

The subscriber living one mile from South Hardwck
fers his farm for sale at low price. The farm
sts OF about 100 acres suitably divided into tllage,
Rsturage ane woodland. There s about thirty acres
| excellent meadow land that cuts very heavy grass.
he budings are excellent-a Large barn with cellar
Id chance 10 draw In the second floor aboye-a
ew house that was built in 1879 Mt cost Of about
3,000 and suitable Out~buildngs The farm Is con-
enient 10 the village a road tnat never drifts
very easily carried on and is very desirable place
Those looking for farms are invited to call and ex
mine this.
s. O. BURNHAM.
South Hardwick, VT 3ltf
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-30

The MONITOR is only $3.50 in advance.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-30

The POPULATION OF GREAT CITIES.
The population of the great cities of
the world is a matter of perennial inter.
est. According to the latest official
estimates in each city, or the latest GEN.
sus, where these are not attainable, they
range as follows: London, of course,
heads the list with its 1888, ,494. Paris
comes next with l.S5l.792. by the
census of 1872; then Peking, with H.
100000. and Canton, with 100000;
next comes New York, with l,O69,362,
and closes the list of those having more
than 100000 inhabitants. OF those
having less than 100000 and more
than 100000, Berlin comes first, with
994, 345 then Philadelphia. with $780,
926; next Toxic, Japan. the Yeddo of
the old biographies, with 100000; Vi
emma, 690.548; st. Petersburg, $685.
74l; Bombay, 644,405 Kioto. Japan,
100000; Glasgow, 555.933; Ozaka,
japan, $4,000; Brooklyn, 527, $50;
Liverpool. 527,0S3. St Louis claims
100000, and. if allowed her own esti-
mate, heads the list of those ranging
downward, from 100000 to 24O, 900
Then followed Naples, with 457,407
Chicago. with 100000; Calcutta, 429,.
535; Marking, 100000; Madras, 397,.
552; Hamburg. 393, 3,5S9; Birmingham
377, ,346; Manchester. 1929; Balti
more. 355, 1000; Boston, 354, ,765; Shang
hae. 100000; Dublin. 3l4,4O1; Am
sterdam. 302, ,266 San Francisco. 800,
Leeds, 29S, S,lS9; Rome, 252,2l4; Shelf
field, 282,13O; Cincinnati, 2SO,OOO
Breslau, 269, 9,345; Melbourne, $500
Havana, 100000. Thus it will be seel
that there are 80 cities. each havln,
250,000 inhabitants, or more, supposin,
none to have been omitted, and an ag
gregate of about "a 100000.