Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-05-02
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Miss Virginia French, young lady of
New Orleans, wrote such q pretty poem
for the Picdytt7ge some time ago that
Young Tenneseean fell in love with it and
her. He went to New Orleans, pleaded
with the ,Ricaygt1ae editor Ca LADY, for the
name of the poetess, got it, bobbed down
on his knees before Miss French, and
before long made her his wife. ".is a
The telephone is beginning to misbe-,
have itself. A telephone wire in Chi
cago, the other day, began Irritation
with streak of lightning, and the oti-
ces at each end of the wire were entered
by the lightning and the furniture de-
stroyed. If person were to get streak
of lightning emptied in his ear while
listening at the telephone, it would be
very apt to embarraSs him.
Cornell University has just established
an experimental station, which is pre-
pared to analyze different kinds of COM
mercial fertilizers in the laboratory and
to test them in the field; to examine
seeds that are suspected to be adulterated,
and to identify and name grasses, weeds
or other plants. The board of control is
formed of several professors of the uni
versity and of the chief officers of several
agricultural societies of the State.
Two inventors in Philadelphia, says
the Times of that city, are incubating
great revolutions in the art of printing
that are only surpassed, if at all, by the
recent alleged inventions in rapid tele-
graphy. One has a perfected justifying
type-setting machine which uses new
type only, since by its methods it is
cheaper to make new type than to dis
tribute it; while the other inventor uses
type SO sparingly that single alphabet
is all that is needed in any given font,
and neither type-setting nor distribution
is required, the type making an impress
sion in wooden block when touched OF
"set," and this block forming a matri&
for stereotype for type plate. t.
The Mormons have planted a colony
of $50 believers on Little Colorado, Ari
zona. They are provided with ma
chinery for complete woolen mill, now
being erected. The have sawmills to
build their houses and improvements,
flour mills and sugar mills, also tan
merry, focks of sheep, seeds and farming
implements, with food to last till harvest,
and with no lack of capital to attest an
earnestness that knows no failure. With
consummate Judgment these disciples of
their modern prophet have selected the
most desirable lands of, northern Ari-
zona, where water abounds for power
and for gation-where the climate is
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The street railway system and the cars
in use upon street railways in European
cities seemed to have been generally bor-
rowed from America. Those in use
upon the tramways of Paris are admira-
| bly, arranged, commodious and conven-
| lent. Upon some of the lines the cars
| are provided with double row of seats
upon the, top, the passengers sitting on
| the top benches back to back, and tlley
| have conveniently designed stairways
| for ascending to the top. The cars on
the principal lines seat twenty passen-
gers on the top and twenty-five inside,
and afford standing room for six persons
on the platform. The guard never
allows larger number to get upon the
cars. The lines are managed with great
| SN SICIIl dutl run Will COlllllG1CtdDIt GGgu-
larity, and n marked regard is shown
for the convenience of passengers. The
| fare for any distance upon any line or to
any point upon connecting line with a
transfer is six cents below for any dis
| tanCe upon the same line the fare on top
is three cents. In keeping with the OBJ
servance OF the class distinction so con-
| spicuous cverywhereinE Europe, the top
was designed originally for the peasant
and laboring population of Paris. In
good weather. however, the deck seats
are considered the most desirable and
are occupied by all classes of passengers.
| Numerous attempts have been made of
late to show that the variations in the
number of spots on the SUMS face were
the cause of excessive rains, poor wheat
crops, commercial panics and other ter
restrial occurrences. Now comes Mr..
B. G. jenkins, Fellow of the British
Royal Astronomical Society, who SAYS
that cholera, the black death and other
plaques are the effect of planetary infu-
ences, and particularly of those of the
| four outer planets, Jupiter, Saturn,
| Uranus and Neptune. He goes back for
hundreds of years, asserts that all the
plaques which have swept over Europe
during that period can be accounted for
by the movements and positions of one
or more of these planets, and concludes
with this ominous prediction g l would
say that within the next seven years
there will happen that which has not
happened for hundreds of years-all
the planets at or near their nearest point
to the sun about the same time. 1t is
true of the earth that its magnetic in
tensity is greater about the time when it
is near the sun; the same is probably
true of all the planets; therefore we
may expect extraordinary magneticphe-
nomena during the next seven years, and
great plaques, which will manifest