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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-01-31
The Necessity of Plenty of Sleep

A writer in Scrj6ner, considering
"The Relations of Insanity to Modern
Civilization, speaks of the loss of sleep
as prominent cause of insanity, and
says:
During every moment of conscious
ness the brain is in activity. The
peculiar process of cerebration, what
ever that may consist of, is taking place;
thought after thought comes folth-nor
can we help it. 1t is only when the
peculiar connection or chain of connec-
tion OF one brain cell with another is
broken and consciousness fades away
into the dreamless land of perfect sleep,
that the brain is at rest. In this state
it recuperates its exhausted energy and
power, and stores them up for future
need. The period OF wakefulness is one
OF constant wear. Every thought is
generated at the expense of brain cells,
which can be fully replaced only by
periods of properly regulated repose.
If, therefore, these are not secured by
sleep-if the brain, through over-stimu-
lation, is not left to recuperate, its ener,
gy becomes exhausted; debility, disease,
and finally disintegration supervene,
Hence the story is almost always the
same; for weeks and months before the
indications of active insanity appear
the patient has been anxious, worried
and wakeful, not sleeping more than
four or five hours out of the twenty -four.
The poor brain, unable to do its con
slant work, begins to waver, to show
signs of weakness or alteration; hallu.
cinations or delusions hover around
like floating shadows in the air, unit
finally disease comes and
"Plants his siege
Against the mind, the which he pricks and
wounds
With many legions of strange fantasies,
Which in their throng and press to that las
hold
! ConfOund themselves
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-01-31
About HOrse.Cars.

John Stevenson, who built the first
street car in 1881, is still making them
at New York and shipping them all over
the world. His first car was in three
compartments, held thirty passengers,
and was cross between an omnibus, a
rockaway and an English railway coach.
Stevenson's best make to day is the bob
tail one horse car, costing from $500 to
81, 900, and is supplanting the heavier
and less manageable two-horse affair
wherever they have been placed in COM
petition. Stevenson has lived to see
nearly 400 street railways built IN the
United States, and sent his first foreign
shipment to Batavia, Java, in 1858. The
attempt to introduce street cars in Lon
don caused a riot, in which the rails
were torn up, but now American cars
are running at London, Liverpool, Not
tingham, Leeds, Wolverhampton, Hull
and Birkenhead, in England; at Edin-
burgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen, in Scot
land; and at Swansea, in Wales. In the
British possessions, also, they have
been established at Montreal, Quebec,
Toronto, Hamilton, Ottawa, st. Johns
and Halifax, in the Dominion; at the
Cape of Good Hope, the only place in
Africa; at Christ Church, Wellington
and Dunedin, in New Zealand; at Bonn
bay, the only place in India; at Kings
ton, in jamaica; at Adelaide, Port Ade-
laide and Gamberton, in South Austria
liza, and are soon to be built at
Melbourne, Sidney, Tasmania and Ho-
bartstown, in New South Wales. The
French protective policy has shut
American street cars out of all that re-
public's cities but Calais; but they are
running and popular at Berlin. st
Petersburg, Vienna, Stockholm, Chris
tiana, Hamburg, Bremen, Amsterdam
and Brussels, on the continent. Like
the British flag, tie sun never sets OF
American street cars, which are alst
running at Havana, and at the principa
cities of Mexico, Brazil, Uruguay, the
Argentine Republic, Chill, Peru, Vene
zuela, Guayaquil in Ecuador, San Jos
in Costa Rica, and are to be substitutes
for omnibusses at Bogota, the capital o
Colombia,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-01-31

The true worker understands the I'M
portance of rest, and rarely overtaxes
himself consequently he can work at
apy time. Many q man can work only
at particular seasons and in particular
moods. His mind is like horse run
ming loose in the pasture, and he can
not always catch it at least, it will take
some time to bring it up and put it into
harness. Now it is evident that man
can do nothing in twenty minutes II 1t
takes him half an hour to get his mind
at work but the true worker has his
powers always at command. In any odd
fifteen minutes he can do full quarter
hours work. These fragments OF time
count up in the long run. The gift OF
work must be accompanied with the gift
of resting. To get the most money out
of team of horses, not only must they
be pushed hard when under harness,
but between work hours they must be
embarrassed, rubbed down, and made
most comfortable. Some men manage
their minds in so bad way as to leave
the harness on over night, They worry
over their work during the intervals OF
labor, SO that when they come back TO
their toll they are half exhausted before
they begin. But the noted workers are
those who in intervals Of toll take things
more easily. Such a one, when tne
work hour is over, drops his task ana
uuharnesses his mind. Then, wnen
called again to his work he can put ms
whole strength in 1t,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-01-31
ISLAND POND, VERMONT FRIDAY, JANUARY 81 1879.
There Comes a Time.

There Comes Time.
There comes time when we grow old,
And, like sunset down the sea,
Slope gradual, and the night wind, cold,
Comes whispering, sad and chillingly
And locks are gray
As winters day
And eyes Of saddest blue behold
The leaves all weary drift away,
And lips of faded coral say
There comes time when we grow old.
There comes time when joyous hearts,
Which leaped as lesped the laughing main,
Are dead to all save memory,
As prisoner in his dungeon chain;
And dawn Of day
Hath passed away,
The moon hath into darkness rolled,
And by the morning, wan and gray,
hear voice in whisper say;
There comes time when we grow old.
There comes time--when manhood's prime
Is shrouded in the mist of years,
And beauty, fading like dream,
hatn passed away IN silent tearsi
And then how dark
But, oh, the spark
That kndles youth to hues OF gold
Still burns with clear and steady ray,
And fond affections lingering say:
There comes a time when we grow old.
There comes time when laughing spring
And golden summer cease to be,
And we put on the autumn robe
To tread the last declivity;
But DER the slope
With rosy hope,
Beyond the sunset, we behold
Another dawn with fairer light,
While watchers whisper through the night
There comes time when we grow old.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-01-31

The father OF all deer has been killed
at Devils lake, Wisconsin. He had
been seen in the vicinity for six or seven
years his hind hoofs had grown out
about ten inches, so that his track in
the snow was known to all the hunters
he weighed 288 pounds, and his antlers
had twelve prongs each.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-01-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST

Nebraska has popcorn sociables.
The Turks prefer sour over sweet
milk.
A hard thing to sharpen-The waters
edge.
A locomotive drinks forty-five gallons
a mile.
Nearsigbtedness is unknown among
savages.
There we're 1922 deaths in Chicago
last year.
The ice harvest is harvested doubtless
with an icicle.
The man who has a fellow-feeling-
The blind man.
A thing sometimes brought to pass
A counterfeit bill.
Some men are like brooks, they are
always murmuring.
The worlds production of gold is one
third less than in 1850.
A tunnel under the Mississippi river,
at st. Louis, is projected.
Anti-beer drinking societies are
springing up in Germany.
If home is where the heart is, " what
vagrant is the coquette
"The world recedes, it disappears
Hid from sight by asses cara.
Organs were first introduced into
churches by Pope Vilalianus, in 1850.
Nothing can constitute good breeding
that has not good nature for it's founda-
tion.
People who are in the habit of flying
into passion should have their wings
clipped.
Dimes that try mems souls-When
the last ten.cent piece proves to be
counterfeit.
The wood OF the poplar tree has come
to be used extensively in the manufac-
ture of paper.
The world does not know FOOLS in
frmities half 80 well as wise man
knows his OVID.
Adapt yourself to circumstances is the
best way to fit yourself for life's strug-
giles and defeats.
Advertising is the oil which tradesmen
put in their lamps. They that are I'M
wise put no oil in.
It is no wonder that the arm OF
Young man who goes courting should
grow thin, because it goes so much to
waist.
One of the Rothschilds signed S., ,O00,-
600 worth OF checks in three months.
We didn't-sn account OF not having
the time.
Have YOU ever observed how mad it
makes a man with sore throat because
he can't swallow about 250 times every
four or five minutes?
Cleanliness is generally regarded as
virtue, but in Germany they call a pain
"bad, and even in France they look
upon it as "bain."
A village home, a village home,
With village stream and tree,
| Where the hearts are clean and the graves are
| green,
Oh, q village home for me!
The Norrstown Herald indicates its
belief in the Oriental origin OF man by
stating the well-known fact that botn
the poppy and the mummy come from
tho East.
An immense CRATE or vault is being
made in the cemetery OF Pere la Chaise,
in Paris, in which to place the remains
of all the forgotten combatants of the
var of 1870.
A Western railway superintendent
gives this practical caution to engineers
for severe stormy weather: "Run
slowly and carefully. OF time on the
track is better than off the track on
time |"
Professor Liebig says that it can be
proved with mathematical certainty that
as much flour or meal as would lie on
the point of table knife is more nutri-
tious than nine quarts of the best Ba-
varian beer.
A society composed Of none but the
wicked could not exist; it contains with
in itself the seeds of its own destruction,
and, without a food, would be swept
away from the earth by the deluge OF
its own iniquity.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-01-31

While John Boggs and Leander Nc
Elfresh were taking ice from Sugar
lake, Kansas, few feet from the shore,
a tree standing at the edge of the lake,
at the roots of which fire was burning,
suddenly toppled over and fell with
crushing force upon the men and their
wagon. Boggs was struck on the head
by heavy limb and was killed instant
ly. McElfresh was badly crippled by
the heavy branches, but was not fatally
injured. A man on the shore warned
the men as he saw the tree falling, but
too late ; Boggs had barely time to look
upward when he received the fatal blow.
The fire had been built at the tree for
the men to warm by, and had been
burning several days.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-01-31
TIMELY TOPICS.

A thoughtless mother at Cornesse,
France, recently put some burning en-
bers from her oven into q stove with no
chimney, in a room where her two sons,
three daughters and one sister were
sleeping. They never woke.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-01-31

Gary's Boston motor promises to
greatly reduce the expense of telegraph
ing and change the present methods,
the apparatus the inventor has prepared
being about as simple as that of tele-
phone. A piece of soft iron balanced
on the neutral line in the magnetic field
produces electricity with every vibra-
ton, and, being attached to a lever
which is manipulated at key in tele-
graphing, the dots and dashes of the
Geographic alphabet are communicated
to a sounder at the other end of the wire
Just as in the present method of tele'
graphing.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-01-31

A cooperative store has been estab-
lished in Paris by English capitalists,
which employs about ninety persons,
and deals in almost everything required
by housekeepers. The capital is $500,
600. The London cooperative societies
report handsome profits. One concern,
upon sales of s., 200, 900, is said to have
realized $4,000 clear of expenses,
though selling about twenty per cent.
below the ordinary retail prices.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-01-31

There will come to this country from
Russia this year $1,000 Mennonites to
sattle in the gr0at West These people
afe German Baptists who have conscien'
tious scruples against fighting. Thei1
ancestors settled in Russia long ago,
having been guaranteed immunity from
military service. The guarantee has
been withdrawn, hence the exodus.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-01-31

California cactus is one of the newest
articles from which paper is made, and
a process has been patented in Ger
many by Mr.. Nordlinger, of Stutt-
CART, for rendering the fiber of the hop
plant sufficiently tractable for the pur-
pose. The stems and other parts of
the plant are boiled in water and soap
for three quarters of an hour, thor
oughly washed, and then again boiled
in very much diluted acetic acid. The
fibers are then washed, dried and
combed, and are ready for working.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-01-31

An association has been organized in
England to protect persons charged with
lunacy. The secretary Of the ciety is
lady, and she makes some startling as
sertions as to the abuse of those alleged
to be insane, and the imperfections of
the British law. She does not pay a
high compliment to the gallantry of
English gentlemen, and says: "Sup.
preston of a wife by lunacy certificate
is coming to be practiced as an ordi-
nary marital right; and that the lunacy
commissions unscrupulously coLnte-
nance the iniquity." Efforts are being
made to obtain the appointment of a
royal commission to inquire into the
whole subject.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-01-31
oUNDABoU1

Sweet, my sweet,
My being upraises
Its voice in light lilt
To warbls thy praises
Sweet, my sweet,
Thou delicate treasure,
Empty would be
without thee-life's measure.
Sweet, my sweet,
Daintily tender,
Happy am l
when thou dost surrender
Unto my lips,
In melting caresses,
Thyself, as cool dew
The parched meadow blesses'
Sweet, my sweet,
Faithfully tickle
Sweet, my sweet!
(Which the same is sweet pickle')
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-01-31

Its large local sub crip'ion list makes this
newspaper most valuable advertising medium.
Advertising space can be secured at reasonable
rates. Correspondents, solicited. Orders from
respectable aud responsible sources receive
prompt attention. The publisher endeayors to
make the investment OF his adyertisiIg < patrons
return them a large profit.
Agents allowed reasonable commissions on
subscriptions and orders for advertising. Per-
SONS Of integrity and capacity, only, uet apply
for agencies.
general interest always acceptable. Corres-
pOndents must inclose full name and address,
not necessarily for publication, but as gnar-
antee OF good faith. The editor does not
necessarily identify himself with the views tx
pressed by his correspondents.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-01-31
Oh GsssS County Atrald.
W. H. BISHOP. Publisher.
ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY
Island Pond, VT.

TERMS, sl5O PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1879-07-09
The Catamaran.

f. III. Armstrong has had move
sail-boat constructed, of that style
of boat known as the catamaran. 1t
consists of two boats, sharp pointed
at both ends, and covered with q
water tight deck. The two boats,
which are several feet apart, are
connected to each other by cross
pieces, at three places-amidship
and both ends. The two end pieces
are arranged so as to let the ends
of the boat work freely, while the
center piece is fastened solid. On
the cross pieces is the deck, capable
of holding ten or twelve persons.
Each of the boats is furnished
with a rudder, which are so arrang-
ed as to be moved by single tiller
The outfit consists of a mainsail
and jib.
The advantage claimed for the
catamaran style of boat, are free
dom from danger of capsizing, no
chance of being filled with water,
except by leaking, owing to both
boats being completely covered
over, and the very desirable quail
ty of not laying over on one side
when sailing in a stiff breeze on
the wind. To ladies and landsmen
generally the laying over of sail
boat, yacht, etc, deprives marine
recreation of most of its enjoy
ment. There is certainly no pleas
ure in setting on a seat that per-
sist in standing perpendicular. 1t
is neithor a natural, graceful nor
pleasing way Of taking a rest.
On the afternoon of the Fourth
we had the pleasure of taking a
short trip on the catamaran, and
we must say that, judging from our
experience that afternoon, we were
well pleased with catamaran sail
ing. She sailed lively, kept her
equilibrium when sailing close haul
ed, appeared to be able to stand
any ordinary sea, and came about
very satisfactory. There is a novel
ty in catamaran sailing that will not
be found with other crafts, and
there is also something startling in
the way the two boats go dancing
through the water. Yet, after all,
t is fun to be darting over the
waves in a small craft that main
aims an even keel, and does not
appear to take a fiendish delight
n sailing on one side and doing its
pest to make its passengers as I'M
as it can.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1879-07-09
About the Dunlap.

This fine steamer is gaining the
reputation along the shore of be-
ing a fast traveller. Last spring
she made the run from Oscoda to
Alpena, discharged quite a "jag"
of freight, and arriving back TO
Oscoda in nine hours and twenty
five minutes, stopping at Green
bush and Harrisville both ways.
Figuring the distance at GO miles
(it is 81 as the crows flies) which
would be q fair allowance for the
distance lost by running into the
ports named--and you have an aver
age speed, stops included, of a
mile in Al minutes or IL and 6-7ths
miles an hour. Quite recently she
made the GO miles from Alpena to
Oscoda in 4 hours and Is minutes,
two stops included. We think the
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1879-07-09

process Of erection, marked the
large show Of building improve
mcnts going on about town, while
the pipe-laying for the new Holly
Water Works which are being
added TO the city for fire protection
and sundry purposes, betoken the
enterprise of the citizens. We
were kindly shown about the city
10y His Honor Judge futile, aud
enabled to view the important fea-
lures therof. The Judge is fortu-
nately the Possessor Of q forty-acre
parcel of land handsomely situated
within the city limits, from which
be informed us he was selling num-
eTous lots this season. A large
brick block Of five stores is
being erected by George l.. Maltz
one of three stores, 10y A. W. Com
stock ; and one Of three stores, by
Fletcher IL johnson. Over the
stores in the former block will be
an opera house with auditorium
60xG0 feet, stage 25xG0 feet, cell
ing 2S feet in the clear, with patent
upholstered seats, aud all modern
improvements. With the compile
ton of this new block, Mr.. Maltz
will have handsome piece of pro-
perty.
The numerous mills in the city
were running at their fullest capaci- !
ty and turning out large quantity
of lumber. The total log crop of
last winter is said to have been over
100000, 900 feet, and that the full
amount will be manufactured into
lumber and shingles, at Alpena,
this season.
We dropped in upon and chatted
a while with the editors Of the AR
GUS and Pioneer, both of whom in
formed us that business was good
and money not any too plenty. By
the way, new weekly, 4-column
folio paper, the Reporter, Walsh d
Cousins, proprietors, has just been
established in Alpena, and a newsy
little sheet it is, too,
Fred Lincoln, formerly of Harris
Vile, is carrying on quite large
fishing operations at Alpena this
season, with his little steam tug,
the "Anspach." He has Samuel
and Charles Girvin helping him.
The fletcher House, under the
management of a. Damn, is a well {
kept house, but is larger hotel {
than Alpena will ever have any
use for, now that the mineral spring
mania has cooled off.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1879-07-09
Installation.

On Tuesday evening, July LIST
the following officers of Alpent
Lodge No. 10, l. 0. 0. f., wer,
duly installed, a. Harshaw official
ing as installing officer;
n. &C. Alpern.
V. G.-R. II. Upton.
Sec'y.-B. f. Walsh.
Il. Sd. Burthwick.
Treas.-R. A. Campbell.
C.-J. Mckenzie.
l. G.-J. Thompson.
O. CIV. NJ. Spain.
Il. s. y. Oh. B. Marsh.
L. S. N. CT. Oliver.
r. S. V. G.-L. Beach.
L. S. V. CIV. Mercer.
r. S. 81. Bingham.
l.. S. Sd. Gibson.
S. p. G.-J. Hamilton.
O.-W. w. Wilson.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1879-07-09
Lake IrpightS.

The Detroit Free Press reports
the following charters of vessels to
carry lumber, ETC., from Alpena:
Schooner NJ. |. Wilcox, lumber,
Alpena to Cleveland, at S1.25.
Schooner A. j. Dewey, lumber,
Alpena to Detroit, at S1.1S.
Schooner Belle Stevens, lumber,
Alpena to Monroe, at $1.30.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1879-07-09
Manhood: How Lost, How
Restored

Just published, q new edition
Y92saH Essay on the radical cure with
s=IE0--.'-Sss- out incdicinel of Spermaturrhna
or Seminal weakness, involuntary scminol losses,
mpotcncy, mental and physical ineaprcity, i'm
pcdimon's Of marriage etc ; also, consumption,
epilepsy and fits, induced by self-indulgcnce or
sexual cNtravGgaEcc. etc.
The celebrated author. in this admirable Essay
clearly demonstrated from n thirty years sue
coSsiui practice, that the alarming consequences
of ,cit-abusc may be radically cured withoutthe
dangerous use II internal medicine or tie appli-
cation of The knife; point ing out II mode of cure
NJ once simple, certain AMI eif'ctual by means of
which every sufferer, no matter wha his condi-
lt'on may be. may cure himself choapy privately,
and radically.
30 This Lecture should be in the hands of ev-
cry youth and every man in the land.
sent free, under seal, in plain envelope, 10
any address.
Address the publishers,
ThE CtLVERWELL MEDICAL CO.,
l0yi II Ann ST., Now York p. .. Box, 1885.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1879-07-09
They Want 1t.

Persons Hiring in Alpena are often re-
questcd by their friends, at distance, 10
tell them something about Alpcna, and
most persons mould like 10 be able 10 do so,
but for the almost impossibility Of doing
so by letter. To do IL properly wouH re-
quire an immense amount of labor, in
Uestig0tion, ioriting, and considerable pa
per and postage stamps.
The best and cheapest w0y . 10 send a
copy Of the "History of Alpena County"
10 your friends. Price % cents. For
sale at his office.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1879-07-09
What the Review Man Saw in Alpena

What the Review Man Saw In AlpeDa.
The editor Of the Altoona Review,
who was recently in this place, re-
cords his impression Of the city as
follows:
Our first visit to Alpena was a
surprise, in one sense of the word.
That is to say, we found there much
more Of town, heater in appear
ance, than we expected to see.
There seemed to be, too, a good
deal OF life about the place, and a
commendable degree of enterprise
displayed itself in various portions
of the city. Numerous new brick
stores and fine, wood residences in
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1879-07-09
State Troops.


Adiutant General Robertson has
issued general order No. 16 for the
control of the State troops during
the coming annual regimental en-
campments. The time for each en-
campment is limited to five days.
Companies are expected to have
full ranks and none will be accept
ed with less than the minimum, and
they must be prepared for the
regimental target practice. At
these and all subsequent encamp-
ments The "Roehm & Wright prize, -
offered by the Detroit jewellers Of
that name, will be competed for.
The company making the highest
team score in the three regiments
will be entitled TO receive and re-
tain it until won by some other
and the member of such
team having the highest score will
have the privilege of wearing it
while on parade with the company.
Courier.