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The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-09-04

with Central Pacific Railroad for Sacramento
San Francisco and the principal cities 10
California, Nevada and Idaho.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-09-04

With the Chicago q Northwestern, Chicago
Rock Island q Pacific and st. Joseph & Coun-
ell Blum Railroads and Missouri river line OF
Packets to and from all the principal Eastern
and Southern cities.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-07-25
Putting on Airs.

DR.. Deems says in his Sunday MGga-
zine some good things on this subject:
. Putting on airs is the assumption of
manners incongruous to ones character
or position. The reasonable thing for n
man to do is to cultivate his character
as thoroughly as possible and let it pro-
duce its own manners. as a living tree
produces its leaves. The assumption of
what does not belong to us is fraud in
the community. Such cheats and shams
are all those who are quitting on airs. :"
There is the ''air" of wisdom which
many people do greatly affect The old
caricature, if caricature it may be called,
great gold-headed cane, held up against
closed, and the other was turned up as
if in deep thought, when all the while
the old humbug knew that he was going
ever the case of the patient might be.
"a still tongue makes wise head is
fools saw that has led to much put
ting on of airs Men say nothing. are
SOlemnly silent, look unutterable things,
or shrug the shoulders as if they add to
their vast store of knowledge the dis
| CIeblOn Ol DclitS very Cfllclu WHtO uhCJ
said and to whom they said it, and
when and where and how. These people
put on the "air" of wisdom's bird, look
Just as wise as Minerals owl, say as
! little, and have as little sense. The
biggest fool we ever saw looked wiser
than, it seemed to us, the Creator ever
intended any man to be. What folly is
this putting on of airsP" A young
preacher undertakes to carry the style
of the Archbishop of Canterbury; aman
of business walks round his store con-
descendingly pointing out to his custom
ers what goods he has, with a slight
rattan held in kid-gloved hands; a CIR
at Long Branch or the Springs behaves
like member of some old Knicker.
booker family, when everybody knows
that her grandfather drove dray and hel
mother retailed gingerbread; you'll
raised on bacon and green's in countr!
cabin where floors never saw II carpet
makes more trouble at n hotel table o.
in a boarding house than q travelling
nobleman; oh, what fantastic tricks ar,
these My friend, if people do not Sc
thee, why "put on airsPn Ifthey do no
see thee, dost thou not know that the,
see through theep Then why be "put
ting on airsP" Put off airs and put ol
hunesty-an be natural.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-07-25
The Champion Hot City.

Chicago will have its little joke on st.
Louis. Here is the latest, from the Chi
cago Inter- Oceans account of an inter-
view with par-boiled citizen: Z" have
been to Ceylon, Calcutta, up the Nile to
Cairo, and to the Sandwiches and Brazil.
At Ceylon one summer the tarred ropes
hung like wet strings, and the ship siz-
zed like hot iron as she went through
the water. It's singular what differ
ence there is in the effect of heat in diff
ferent climates. We were off Calcutta
in midsummer, and the planks of the
'Gad-hy' were warped like barrel slaves,
and she took water like a sponge-- We
threw overheard valuable cargo of
cotton and Sheffield hardware, and
towed her into port where we had her
sheathed with Indian copper. We went
back to Liverpool and then sailed for
Rio. Just across the line we struck a
calm and laid by for eight Of the hottest
DAYS ever experienced. The heat was
terrific. The ropes got so soft we could
not fasten them, and they ran down to
the decks and laid around like snakes.
The copper gradually melted from the
sides and raised u cloud of stream around
the ship rs it dropped into the sea. The
shin sprung a leak, and the men worked
at the pumps bare naked, and you could
almost see the flesh disappear from their
bones. Finally we got light norther'
and went into Rio with u lot of skele-
tons. | have been where it is hot, mess
mates, or gentlemen awful hot-but the
all-firedest hottest weather ever hauled
to in was st. Louis took n contract
there last summer to pick up sun-struck
people off the streets. | went bankrupt
in three days. Why. they laid around
thicker than dead dogs in Chicago dur
ing the poisoning season. l have seen
flagstones bend double, and whole blocks
of pavement twisted all out of shape.
The fire plugs were red hot, and the
water in 'c.n boiling. The sun want
more than arod away and looked as red
as furnace mouth. The air was all in
simmer, and the heat came down
with such force that you couldn't raise
your hand. 1t was lust rs bad at night.
Nota breath of air, and the heat crowded
into the buildings and was packed in the
streets. You couldn't get q breath. One
night ] went down on the levee and
found gang of men with $, ow shovels
throwing the heat into the river in great
chunks. dropped off and swan across,
and came to Chicago.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-07-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
cheap coun try seat-A stump.

A cheap coun try seat-A stump.
Said he as he stole one, seal my
love with n kiss" And she, suiting the
action to the word, replied, | seal mine
with whacks."
Of the four Napoleons forming the
imperial dynasty all have died beneath
the British flag but one, and he was
never recognized.
The family physician asked the clergy
men satirically how the patriarchs came
to live so long. Because they took no
physic," said the minister.
Now hieth the poor clerk out to his aunts,
And he helpeth to NOW away hay,
When he returns he'll tell his cronies OF jaunts
He had on the beach at Cape May.
CORY He, aid.
AT what age were you married ?"
asked she, inquisitively. But the other
woman was equal to the emergency, and
quietly responded, AT the parsonage?"
Sense in the lead is more valuable
than cents in the pocket. With the first
you can always get the last, but with
the last you cannot always get the first.
-lEeriden Recorder.
The Carolinas and Louisiana raise an.
nually about 80,000,000 pounds of rice,
but the Oriental countries raise 5000
times as much, the production last year
reaching $50, 600, 100000 pounds.
YES.
There's wonderful charm in that little word
Eyes"
When pronounced by some roseate tair,
And it thrills you with ecstasy double-dis-
titled,
From the soles oil your boots TO your hair
Unless tits pronounced to your formal request
(Ahi then how your whole being quails)
To take one more saucer OF berries anc cream,
When to back you your exchequer tails.
Louisville COUrier-JourndL
A widow, seventy years old, not far
from Austin. Texas, has a cattle ranch
with 300 head of cattle on it, which she
takes care of herself. She is out in all
weathers, and rides a mustang on the
full run. What woman seventy years
old can beat thatp Another woman in
the same locality, a Mrs. Pierce, herded
500 sheep one winter, following them
everywhere, and looking after them en-
tirely. She had an invalid husband
who took care of the children at home.
Official statistics just published show
the proportion of soldiers in the German
amy who have never had any school
ing. Among the troops from Wurtem-
berg there is not one. Out Of % corps OF
about 1000 from Baden there were fifty
five, and out of n similar corps from
SaXony only twenty-five. The largest
percentage was found in the second
Prussian corps, where out of about 5000
men 7l0 had never attended school. The
average percentage Of the whole army is
not over two to three per cent.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-07-25
A Ghastly Relic.

Mrs. w. F. Peterson, who resides ut
No 727 Vallejo street, has in her posses
sion miniature of Abraham Lincoln,
which, together with its setting, forms
one of the most curious relics OF the
President now in existence. 1t will be
remembered that after the tragedy at
Ford's Theater, Washington, President
Lincoln was carried to house on Tenth
street, between Il and + streets, north
west, opposite the theater. The house
was the residence of William Peterson,
ST. 1T was an ancient-looking house,
built of brick. In Il room of this house,
noted as the only private residence in
which Cabinet meeting was ever held
Lincoln breathed his last. The bullet
of Booth had entered his victims head,
and to staunch the wound a towel was
wound about it. This towel was pre-
served by the Petersons us precious
relic. And when afterward a portrait
of Lincoln, painted by Uhlrick, was
added to Mr.. Peterson's collection, n
portion of the towel was employed as a
setting for the picture. The portrait is
an oval miniature, six by eight inches in
| size. The towel - stained with the
blood of Lincoln--is stretched upon a
square wooden frame. The portrait is
spoken of by those familiar with the
Presidents features as an extremely
faithful likeness. In connection with its
unique framing the portrait is of more
than passing interest and possesses nc
slight historical value.--Sdn FrGTctScC
Chronicle.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-07-25
Fashion in the Country.


"We're going in the country, Jane,
The summer months to spend"
"Your papa must be awful rich!"
Spoke up her little friend.
"oh, no, he is'nt-dearest Jane,
If you will promise true,
Upon your word, to never tell,
A secret I'll tell you"
al never will, upon my word,
I'll cross my heart as well,
And hope to die right on the spot,
Ii do ever tell"
Well, then, you see, heard my pa
Tcll ma that we would go
And spend the summer on the farm,
The farm of Uncle Joe.
"And ma, she'll sew there for her board,
And psl work at the mill,
And Sam will help them plow the corn,
And milk the COWS will Till.
"And I'm to gather berries, too,
My share of board to pay,
And Jimmy, though he's rather small,
Can help them rake the hay.
"While you're in town the summer long,
With dust, and heat, and all,
We're in the country fixing up
Our old clothes for the fall.
"But don't you tell, now, tor my ma
Is saying to each friend,
That she must have the country air,
Her shattered nerves to mend"
Modern yareo.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-07-25
POND, VERMONT, FRIDAY JULY 25, 1879.
What is Life.

What is Life.
When the tolls OF day are ended,
And we pause from all its strife,
Looking DER the way we've wended,
Comes the question-What is lifeG
And the answer comes as surely,
To the simple, trusting soul,
Lille is time for living, surely,
Writing truth upon its scroll;
lime for strong and honest labor,
Time for kindly " ord and deed,
Time for love to every neighbor,
Time to give to every need
Bread to hungry mouths, and famished,
Water clear to thirsting lips,
And to him whose hopes are vanished,
Who the dregs OF sorrow sips
PHYS tears, heart-hunger filling,
Sympathy's sweet cup of balm,
Cheering hath and service willing,
Stretching out the helpful palm.
Lite is losing self in duty,
Loving best its lowliness;
Life is finding self in beauty,
Following most its holiness.
Life is growing each day stronger
For its conflicts stern and rude;
Life is finding each day longer
For its larger stores of good.
Life is not the greedy grasping
Of the pleasures OF day,
But the firm and thankful clasping
OF the joys that ever stay.
Lite in youth is aspiration
After high and noble aims
Manhoods life is consecration
To the work that honor claims.
Life for age is recollection,
Frightening still with hopes above;
Lille for all is clear reflection
OF the Fathers grace and love.
Let us then fill out life's story
With our noblest faith and strength,
Work for God, and not for glory,
Make this earth heaven at length
Req. Charles Il. Humphrey.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-07-25
Infant Mortality i'm New York.

A New York paper says: OF our total
population of l,04l 1856 in 1875, 1913, 1863,
or little over IL per cent, were chill
dren under five years of age. Of 1904
deaths in that year, l4,S4S, or more than
485 per cent, were of children under five.
While the rate OF mortality for the entire
population was 29.47 in thousand, for
these little ones it was 1854 in Il thous-
and, or about one in nine of the whole
number. OF these, 8,540, or considera-
bly, more than one-half, were infants
under one year of age. These helpless
little ones, in fact, furnish 81 per cent.
of all the deaths of the year. The whole
number being, according to official
enumeration, 27,782. it is evident that
more than one-quarter of all the human
beings born in this city go down to the
grave before they are twelvemonth old.
This CHASTITY blight upon the precious
crop of humanity is not evenly distrib-
uted over the city or through the year.
While the number of deaths per day
varied in january from 70 to ITO, of
which from 81 to so were of children
under five, in July the daily number
varied from 70 to 1856, of which 81 to l05
were of these little ones. The average
in the heated season is nearly double
what it is in the cold months. 1t IS un-
necessary to say that the ratio in the
crowded and filthy tenement-house quar-
ters is vastly greater than in the more
wholesome districts of the city, though
accurate comparison canno5 be made.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-07-25
TAe GsstS County atrala.
W. H. BISHOP, Publisher.

ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-07-25

Mr.. Plum committed suicide at
Palmer, Kan, and his wife, on hearir G
of her bereavement, also killed herself,
Their daughter made an attempt on the
following day to hang herself, but was
rescued.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-07-25

The McGregor NeaOS discovers the pre-
else thing for the season; " A cool ro-
nance counting girl over ice-cream. "
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-07-25
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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-02-15
Important to Pensioners.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, PEN
SION OFFICE, WASHINGTON, d. c., Janu-
airy p, 1S79.-CIRCULAR LETTER.-Persons
who are entitled to arrears of pension, I'M
der the act granting arrears, approved jan
uary %, 1879, and whose pensions were
granted previous to that date, will not re-
quire the assistance of q claim agent in OBJ
tanning the amount due them. All corre-
spondence in relation to any claim for such
arrears will be with the person entitled, and
no claim-age will be recognized in such
claims. A letter addressed to the Commits
sioner Of Pensions, signed by the person who
was in receipt of the pension at the date
aforesaid, and two witnesses, in the pres.
ence of a magistrate, will be the only appli-
cation required-and upon which the rights
of all parties concerned will be adjusted
The pension certificate should not be sent to
this office-but it must be exhibited to the
magistrate. The letter should be In the fol-
lowing or equivalent form:
To the Commissioner Of Passions:
I,--, a pensioner under psnsfon
certificate No. =, hereby apply for the ar
rears due me, under the act granting arrears
Post Office address is here insert the name
of the Post office, and if the claimant resides
in city, the name and number OF the street
and residence must also be gfven.l
1.-TWO witnesses.l Name of Claimant.l
State ~, County ~, IS:
Signed in my presence, by - -, who
is known to me to be the person he describes
himself to be- and at the same time he exhtb
tied to me his pension certificate. which is
numbered -. Magistrates signature.1
j. A. BENTLEY,
Commissioner of Pensions.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-02-15
A Particular Man.

Henry Dwight had his nose turned up
all the morning. He was disguised be-
cause his cell was not carpeted and pa
pered, and he refused to wash his face
because there was no hot water. He
didn't want to enter the Courtroom un-
less provided with red silk handker-
chief to hold in his left hard, and when
he got before the desk he demanded
chair to sit down on.
eff you were half as particular about
what you drink, you'd get along great
deal better in this world" observed the
Court.
"I'm no common plug of drunk
ard!" retorted the prisoner.
"Wel, perhaps not. The officer
says he found you drunk and asleep in
a nice, clean snow-bank on an aristo-
cratic street."
+ 81 expect he did, sir. When I get
drunk 1 don't go rolling around in the
cutters of common streets. plead
guilty to having been on high-toned
drunk
ssIf it was q common drunk, should
impose common fne," said the Court,
as he took up his pen, but as this was
a heightened spree shall make the fine
$25, and the alternative three months"
"I'n have my banker call and pay
the cash." replied Mr.. Dwight as he
reached for his hat.
"And you'd better sit down in the
corridor until he comes"
Mr.. Dwight consented with poor
grace, but at once made out an order ON
a restaurant for champagne, toast and
quail. 1t was sent around the corner by
a boy, and he returned with clam
shell on which was written: sd. b.
Police Report in Detroit Free Press.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-02-15
Michigan Eccentricities.

There is a lady living in Detroit who has
eaten pound of candy daily for weeks
past. About year ago, after recover
ing from a severe attack of typhoid fe-
yer, she developed a certain fondness
for -raisins. She bought them by the
pound and the box, and she has been
known to devOur two pounds of raisins
in day. After q time her taste chang
ed to CONNECTIONS, and now she eats them
day and night, on the car, at the opera,
and even in church. She buys only the
finest and most expensive, and never
less than a pound per day. There is a
man So years old who has resided in
Detroit ever since the first street-car
was started, and yet he has never enter
ed car. In rain, and snow, and heat,
he joys along, meeting and being passed
by cars, but nothing can drive him into
becoming a passenger. When the pres
ent Post-office building was erected the
site displeased him, and he has never
yet entered the building. In going up
and down Michigan Avenue he always
walks on the south side. There is a
man living in this city who has for years
kept two men and two women servants,
and he has always insisted that the men
should be black-haired, and the women
red haired. 1t is said that years ago he
passed a black-haired man and a red
haired girl walking arm-in-arm, and
during the next ten steps he picked up a
wallet with a large sum of money in it
which was never claimed. His good
luck brought with it the whim that he
now INDUCES. On Sixth Street lives a
middle-aged man who will no, speak to
man wearing q stove-pipe hat. Once,
after sending for n doctor for his wife,
he refused to let the physician enter be-
cause he had silk hat on.-Detr0H Free
Press.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-02-15
The Butcher Boy and the Bak.
er's Girl.

It was down in the yeast part of the
city. He was burly butcher boy-she
was the pie-ous daughter of German
baker next door, with eyes like currants
and her yellow hair twisted on the back
of her head like a huge cruller. They
leaned towards each other over the
backbone of the separating railing. He
was casting sleeps eyes at her, while
hers turned to him with provocating
roll.
"Meat me tonight beef-fore quarter
to ten," he said.
Oh, dough-nut ask it," said she.
al make no bones about it," said he.
You're not well BREAD" said she.
Only sweet bread" said he.
"Don't egg me on" said she.
"I never sausage girl. Don't keep
me on tender-hooks! " said he, quite
chopfallen.
"Why don't you wear the dear -four
I gave your" asked she.
"Pork-quoiP asked he.
"Oh, knead sayP" asked she.
"That don't suet me-" said he.
"You're crusty. I only wanted to
cracker joke" said she.
"You gave me cut-the cold Shout
DER" said he.
"Ah, you don't loaf mel" sighed
she.
"Veal see. I cleave to you and no
mis-steak-if you have money" said he.
81 can make abundance, said she.
"Then no more lamb-entations,"
said he. "You shall be my rib!"
"Well done!" said she.
And their arms embraced like bret
EEL So his cake was not all dough !;
she likes man of his kidney; and being
good livers, they will no doubt live on
the fat of the land, raisin lots of chill
dren. This world is queer tumble,
but love seems "bread in the bone" ~
PoHer'S Monthly.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-02-15
A Shocking Case of GOut.

The old man had softly snored several
seconds sitting in the chair by the
grocery fire, while the neighbors were
discussing the high prices of living.
The old mans head fell back more and
more, his mouth opened wider and wider,
the somnolent sounds came louder and
louder, until with noise like blast of
a bugle his head dropped against the
back of the chair, and was dropped for
ward again as he started up wide awake.
"Talking about high living" he ex-
claimed. "What do the people
nowadays know of high livingP Dash
the old brass buttons of my blue coat,
they know nothing. A few weeks of
drinking, banqueting and feasting lay
'em all out. Disraeli has the govt and
half of the celebrities are laid up
with the same disorder. Don't
tell me they know anything about
it. Why, when 1 was young
man, and minister to the Court of St.
James, had hardly time to preach my
sermon and open the court with prayer
each morning, before the Queen sent in
a gilt edged note on gold plate, stud
ded with diamonds, asking me to attend
banquet or feast, or the Lord Chan
cellor invited me up to his room to open
a cask of champagne. 1 kept it up for
10 years. Did I have the goutP Well,
now, if you'd seen the bandages and
bottles of arnica l used on this wooden
leg of mine"
Right here the enraged citizens
brought down his gray hairs in sorrow
to the floor, with a well directed throw
of a salt bag.-OI City Derrick.