Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-07-11

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The Henry Bill Publishing Co., offer
great inducements TO agents in another
column. See their advertisement.
Mr. d. w. Davis who has opened a
grocery store on Cross Street, informs
.usth6 he will receive fresh fish and lob
sters every Thursday night.
The entire offices of the Grand Trunk
Railway Co. at this place are being
4 generally improved, by whitewashing
the ceilings. coloring the walls, etc.
The next regular communication of
Island Pond Lodge, No A, F. &. A. NJ,
will be held in their Lodge Room next
Monday evening. Soiourning brethren
in good standing cordially welcomed.
We learn that suit has been institu-
ted against the person who run his
team over the son of NJ. II. Davis, last
Friday, for damages thus occasioned,
but the parties settled it among them
selves.
Mr. A. G. Palmer is building large
and commodious house on his farm.
The frame work is all up, boarded in,
and is otherwise rapidly approaching
completion. The house when finished
will, for conveniences, be one of the
most elegant in town. We will wait
for the house warming before we at
tempt full description.
The temperance people for the past
few days have been ''raking after" our
Fourth of July celebration by picking
up some of those who sold and used
more "tangle-foot'' than the law al
lows. While you are about it, gentle
men, just take peek into G. e. & 2.
w. Clarke's. There's something there
something strong, and something
that has a great attraction for people
who don't like water or Cruel. When
Elliott got sick by drinking from Zene's
new pump we passed it by as being oc-
casioned by the newness of the pump.
We can't do it now, however, for we
know ofat least one man who got "aw-
full sick' on the Fourth by drinking
from that pump, Zene says that's X.
oil pump. Perhaps it is. The man
who drank there the Fourth did not
say what he thought it was. lie hadn't
time. He was very busy. He couldn't
play base ball ; he couldn't go in the
foot race he lost his chance in the
boat race and he didn't respond when
called on to deliver an grafton, as all
his spare moments were taken up in
holding on to his stomach, and he
clasped that SO tightly that it looked
like collapsed balloon. Whether he
has got Strengthened out yet we don't
know, but we will risk a guess that he
will not only look into, but smell of the
next water he tries to drink. Zene says
he shall be obliged to pull that pump
out for there's a lot of critters round |
who will drink X. oil in preference to
water.
DOES PARIS GREEN Poison THE
This is an important |
question, and though we have, in for
mer years, given our reasons for assert |
ing that there is no danger from this !
source, the repetition of the question
makes it necessary to briefly go over
the same ground again, to meet the
doubts of new readers. 1t is true that |
some of this compound of arsenic will |
get into the soil, but the quantity will |
be less than 1900 of a grain for each
square foot of the surface of the soil. |
1t is a we'll established fact that nothing
enters the plant except in solution in
the water of the soil. 1t has been |
shown that the Paris Green soon COM
bines with the oxide of iron of the soil |
and forms an insoluble compound. |
Professor II. G., KedZie, of the Michigan
Agricultural College, who has thorough
ly investigated this question, concludes:
"1st. Paris Green that has been four
as such, but has passed into some less
soluble state, and is unaffected by the
ordinary solvents of the soil. 2nd.
When applied in small quantities, such
as alone are necessary in destroying in
sects, 1T does not affect the health of the
plant. 3D.. The power of the soil to
hold arsenious acid and arsenites in In
soluble form will prevent water from
becoming poisoned unless the Green is
used in excess of any requirements as
an intesticide." If potatoes to which
Paris Green had been applied were
poisonous, we should have abundant
evidence of it, since millions of bushels
have been eaten during the past few
years. The only source of danger is in
the careless handling and use of the
Green, and it should be kept and used
with full knowledge of its highly
poisonous qualities, and no familiarity
with it should lead to carelessness in
handling or using it, Keep the poison
carefully locked up, and the pals or
what ever vessels are used in mixing
and applying it where they can not be
got at for any other purpose. -Americaa
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