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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-06-18
STRAINS and BeIts.

1t is a habit in some of the schools and
colleges for youths to employ a strap or
other form OF belt for holding up their
trousers; one boy sets the example, and
the Others think it right to follow; so the
practice becomes general, and you find
tight line indicating pressure marked
round the bodies of the wearers. Fortu-
nately, in their case, as they emerge into
life, and before great mischief is done,
they give up the strap, and take to sup
porting the clothes from the shoulders
by the brace, and so they escape further
injury but while it lasted the injury I'M
doubtedly was severe.
There is another and more permanent
injury of this kind, however, carried out
by boys-even by men-which consists
in wearing a belt for the purpose of Civ
ing what is called support. Boys who
are about to run in races, or to leap, put
on the belt and buckle it tightly, in or
der, as they say, to hold in their wind,
or breath. Werkingmen who are about
to lift weights or carry heavy burdens
put on belt for the same purpose, their
declaration being that it gives support.
Actually there is not a particle of truth
in this belief. 1t is the expression of a
a fashion, and nothing more. The belt
impedes respiration, congresses the alb
dominal muscles, congresses the mus
Giles of the back, subjecting them to I'M
necessary friction, and actually impedes
motion. No boy would think of putting
belt tightly round the body of his pony
if he wished it to win race or to leap a
hurdle; no working-man would put a
belt tightly round the body of horse to
make it pull with greater facility load
which it was drawing. On themselves
they commence the practice because
somebody has set the example, then they
get accustomed to the impeachment, anC
think they cannot get on without it
Drinking is learned by Just the same alb
surd process.
Respecting this belt for boys and mer
there is word more l must say, which
is of serious import. When they put OF
the belt for the sake of performing som,
feat of strength, they risk another dan
gerous mischief. COMPRISING the abdo
men, they force, through the exertion
the contents of the abdominal cavit,
downward under pressure, giving n
chance of residence back again after til
exertion or shock. In this way they fire
quently cause hernia, or rupture. l hav
seen several instances of this occurrenc
in boys, and amongst workmen VIII
wear belts this disease is so common thu
it is the rule rather than the exceptio
to find it present.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-06-18
MOOnshine.

The Tyrolese cure freckles by washing
them at night with water in which the
moon shines. In the Harz mountains
and Silesia the remedy for golfers is to
turn ones face to the increasing moon
three evenings running; then take a
stone, silently touch the swelling with
it, and throw it over the left shoulder.
Meier quotes a Swabian charm for the
toothache. When the crescent moon re-
appears for the first time, the sufferer
must gaze at it steadfastly, and repeat
thrice: 81 see the moon with two points /;
my teeth shall neither shoot nor ache I'M
til see the moon with three points,
The ancient Greeks and Romans con-
sidered the moon to be a protection
against the evil eye, and they hung small
moons made of metal round their necks
as amulets. Even the wives and horses
of the Romans wore them. The custom
has not yet disappeared in Italy and the
East. Some years ago Neapolitan ladies
useds.to wear small silver half moons or
their arms, as preservative against cpl
lepsy, which popular belief has Away.
connected with il the evil-eye. The tai
ismanic crescent has ever been the badg
of Islam, and it still glitters over tn
minarets.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-06-18

4 colored brother gives the following
reason for naming his tenth son "Judus
Iscarut." Says he:
"Dat's de boys name. Judus hez been
sighted. Nobody hez cher had de i'm
moral courage ter name chile for dat
man. But dat amt de main reason why
l named him Judus. Use got de Bible
ter stand by me in gibin de chile dat
name"
GLOW does the Bible sustain you in
desiring to perpetuate that nameP" ask
ed the magistrate.
Hits dis fack. In remarkin' OBJ Judus,
it is said dat it would hab been better
for dat man eff he hadn't been born"
"Well."
AN considerin' how many mouts is
opened at the doc when I goes home wild
side OBJ meat, it would hab bin better
fur dat boy OBJ mine eft he had neber seed
daylight. / take de Scriptur frum de
references. In de futur, eff finds dat de
boy has made Improvement on hisself
den I'll change his name ter jim"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-06-18
Children's Country Week,

Mr.. Osgood Peabody, special agent of
the Country Week, " is meeting with
cordial reception by ministers and
churches in New Hampshire, in his work
of love, securing temporary homes in the
country for city children. They are Sc
lected with great care as needy but de-
serving, by the teachers of the Boston
Public Schools, and by missionaries and
Sunday School teachers. Who among
us cannot give to two OF more of these
children home with us for ten days in
either July or August. Many are the
testimonials of good done the children by
such refreshing changes in their child
life, and as many the instances where
the giyer has been more blessed than the
receiver. Often have homes opened of
their own accord for a heightened and a
return visit. The children are sent free
of expense to our homes, and we are only
asked to care for them and make the ten
days pleasant, as we would have others
| do for ours.
The general oversight of this work
is in the hands of the Boston Young
Mems Christian Union. During the five
years that this work has been in progress
over 5000 children have been sent into
the country. From 100 in 1875, the work
has steadily grown, till last year 1920 re.
ceived the benefit of this kindness. Those
best qualified to judge are sure the work
pays well for both the expenditure of la
Dor and money, and more than all in thu
enlargement of human sympathy anC
gratitude. Any persons who feel to hell
on this good cause will please hand theil
name and the number and ages of chill
dren they prefer, to the pastors of tn
churches of their town. Any furthe
desired information will be cheerful.
given by Miss II. G. Putnam, Is Boylstol
street, Boston, secretary of the commit
tee for the summer of 1880.-PeterbOr
Transcript.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-06-18
ConnectIcut.

The First Episcopal society at New
Milford accepts the gift of a church site
from the late Miss G. Z. Boardman, and
will comply with her condition that the
building shall be of stone.
OF the $1,000 which Hayden paid his
lawyers, it is said that Watrous gets
SO, 500, Jones 81, 900, and Hubbard about
81 500. The Hayden family is reunited
for the first time since 1873.
William Pachey, of Waterford, has
saved during IS years SO, 100, but was
told at the New London savings bank
the other day that he had but 1850 to
his credit. Investigation shows that
some one had secured his handbook, and
drawn out 81 $50 in small sums during
the past three years. The bank will be
sued, the money being paid on the simple
presentation of the book.
The physicians who experimental on
Hoyt's body after his execution at Bridge
port, say that fall of from four and one
half to five feet, with the knot tight be-
hind the left ear, is most likely instantly
to kill.
The army worm, which is such a pest
on Long Island and in New Jersey, has
appeared in the rye fields about Madi-
son,
Mrs. Bridget Forrell, Hartford's Oldest
inhabitant, died lately, aged 100 years
and three months, from hurts by recent
fall down stairs.
The assessed damages to the New Y ork,
Housatonic and Northern railroad by the
New York and New England's use of its
land is $20,577.
On the Naugatuck Railroad, the other
evening, bird dog found an approach
| ing train close upon him, and instead of
jumping one side, lost his self-possession,
as many human beings would have done
under the circumstances and stretching
himself on plank awaited his fate. The
pilot struck and tossed HIM into a river,
from which he swan the next moment
unframed.
A Norwich manufacturer is making
cast-irOn axes to be traded for ivory with
the natives of Australia.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-06-18
Printing in COlOrs.

A process of printing many colOrs at
one impression is said to be in successful
operation in Paris. The following &C
count from the Iron gives fair pop
ular notion of its nature: "The pig
ment for the ground color is formed into
a solid block of the required thickness,
to the surface of which the design, traced
in artificial tale, is transferred by mere
pressure. All the parts of the block that
do not form the ground are then cut out
by the hand, with sharp knife set in a
jointed parallelogram, so as to be capa-
BILE of moving in all directions in hori-
zontal plane, but at the same time kept
rigidly vertical. The spaces thus cut
out are then filled by pouring in the hot
liquid pigments corresponding to the
colors OF shades that are to be represent
ed, pieces of wood soaked in water serv-
ing to complete the sides of the temper
airy mould. When cold, the recently
added color is trimmed off by the knife,
and another poured in. In the case of q
large design, several operators are en-
gagged at the same time on parts, which
are afterward fitted together; and the
method is being tried of cutting out the
pattern in wood or metal by the hanC
saw, and forcing the dies so cut out into
the block of ground-color by means O
an hydraulic press, thus forming the pat
tern at once. When the whole mosaic
as it may be called, is complete, it il
placed in a press somewhat resemblin!
that used for TYPOGRAPHY, and the uppe
surface is shaved off, so as to render i
trueand level. The surfacei is also slight,
moistened with a suitable combination
of chemicals, and the material to be print
ed on is placed thereon face downward
A frame carrying six rollers, is the
passed once Or twice backward and for
ward over the material resting on tn
block. A perfectly clear impression
thus obtained, and, in the case of textil
fabrics, the color goes completely throug
their substance. After exposure for fey
moments over a hot plate to drive off tn
fumes of the chemicals employed, TIL
work is finished.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-06-18
DeStrOYnd hN lee.

Among the perils faced by the ocean
voyager none are more formidable than
those which come from ice. Many gal
liant ship that has weathered storm after
storm successfully has succuu.bed to this
terrible agent of destruction. Usually
the catastrophe is so complete as to leave
no trace of the vessel or her Inflated
crew. Occasionally there is case like
that of the Arizona, which last autumn
escaped from an encounter with an ice
berg, after having her PROV crushed and
a portion of the work carried away, but
they occur so seldom as to be notable ex-
ceptions. The Belgian steamer Helvetia,
on recent voyage, encountered a group
of at least thirty icebergs. Some of them
were two hundred feet out of water and
one thousand feet long. The rays of the
sun had melted the upper parts
of many of them into the most fan
ciful shapes, and imaginary likenesses of
crags, cliffs and castles could be traced
in those parts more exposed to the lines
of heat. Streams of water in pictur-
esque cascades were flowing down into
the sea, and the huge, majestic masses
seemed to be moving southeast. The
Helvetia passed near enough to several Of
them to distinguish plainly the noise OF
the waves as they broke against the rug
ged sides of the bergs. As night closed
in, and the moon arose, the sight was in
deed beautiful. The beams of the moon
illumined the icebergs, giving them g
weird and CHASTITY appearance. Fol
many hours these gigantic bergs were
seen by the crew of the Helvetia, and il
was morning before the SUBMITS of the
most towering had faded into the dis
tanpa
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-06-18
A New York Character.

The thousands of New Workers who
have for the past thirty years been in the
habit of riding over Mr.. Vanderbilt's
Fourth avenue railroad will be sorry to
hear that Peter Hill, the lifelong start
er" of cars from the Thirty-second street
depot, is dead. He was i'll only three
days, and had reached the good old age
Of seventy-siX. Peter was character in
his way. Though rather arbitrary in his
method of carrying out the orders of his
superiors, he had always the best of in
tentions, and was ever ready to lend a
helping hand to those in distress. He is
celebrated in the Mark Twain HorSe-car
Poetry, and never forgave the BROAD In
nocents," as he used to call him,
for the following, which will live longer
than epitaphs written in longer and more
serious meter:
"When you mount Madavenue cair,
Ask politely the conductair,
To show you the gentlemanly old Petair,
Who's all of the grace of the 'Commodair,
And is known as the amiable old startair
Who wears an mcommonly long Ulstair,
Be weather foul or be weather fair"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-06-18
Another Electric Lamp.

A lamp has been devised by G. Stew
art. 1t consists of number of square
carbon rods placed radially upon a disk
of wood or metal, so that the inner ends
Of the carbon rods form complete cir
Gle. There is circular opening in the
wooden disk, through which the light is
seen from beneath. The carbons are
forced toward the centre by uniform
pressure as they are consumed, and to-
gether they form the positive electrode of
the lamp. The negative electrode is a
hemispherical cup of copper, which, be-
fore the current is transmitted, is in con-
tact wit the carbons, but when the cur
rent is sent into the lamp, an electro
magnet raises the cup, and the electric
arc is formed between it and the carbons.
Such is the essential part of the specif-
cation. 1t appears that this lamp has
been tried, and that it has operated salts
factorily.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-06-18
Massachusetts,.

A sad-faced woman haunts the state
house, seeking pardon for her son,
Albert joy, serving life sentence at
Concord for murder in Essex county in
1877.
There were exported from Boston last
week 3799 cattle and $500 sheep, the lar
gest shipment ever made from that port
since expectation began, three years ago.
A young woman of Cambridge, jealous
of the honor of the students, on hearing
of the late defeats of the Harvards at
baseball, remarked, responsibility: eff
the young gentlemen had paid more at
tention to their baseball and less to their
books they would not have been so badly
beaten"
The organization is certified at the
state house of the Supreme Parliament
of the Golden Rule alliance, mutual
benefit association of evangelical church
members.
James V. Kenney, 90 years old, is I'M
der arrest at Boston for trying to burn
the Boylston museum the other evening.
in anger at his discharge as a supernu-
merary. The drop curtain, worth $500,
was destroyed.
bay State, =" a trotting horse valued at
$4,000 by its owner, William Mason, Of
Taunton, died lately, just as the Beacon
park races, in which he was to take part,
were called.
Tufts college divinity school graduated
recently nine clergymen, who will all be-
gin preaching at once.
The sewerage pumping engine for the
city of Boston, which has capacity Of
$4,000, 900 gallons day, is Just finished
at the Corliss works at Providence.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-06-18
Vermont.

A new steamboat 142 feet long and 25
broad. has been launched at Grand Isle.
The owners are stockholders in the Port
land and Ogdensburg railroad, and she
will run between Maquam bay and
Plattsburg N. Y. touching at intermedi-
ate points.
The old Norton tavern, which marks
the place of the Westminster massacre in
the Revolution, is being torn down.
Mr.. Ely, of Vershire, is sued for
100000 by shareholder of the Yer
mont copper mining company, on the
ground that the plaintiffs shares were
sold at auction to Ely to pay assessments.
A serious cattle disease prevails at
Fairfax and Georgia, soon passing from
weakness to violent trembling and
breathing, swelling of the throat, with
mucous discharge, and death. Ransom
Stevens, of North Fairfax, who tried to
skin COW dead of the disease was in
oculated, and will lose hand.
The rear drive of 10000, 900 #. of the
not get off the Fifteen-mile falls above
McIndoes this spring unless the water
rises.
The Boston, Concord and Montreal,
Southeastern, and Portland and Ogdens-
burg railroads have agreed with the
Wells river road that all freight from
Lake Champlain and the West shall &c
over the Portland and Ogdensburg; the
Wells river line combining itself to local
business.
The controller of the currency has de.
clared dividend of 20 per cent in favor
of the creditors of the national bank Of
Poultney, making in all dividends of &
per cent.
The Chittenden county Republican
convention is called at Burlington, July
7, to nominate candidates for senator's
assistant judges of the county court
judge of probate, state attorney, sheriff
and high baliff.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-06-18
How He Caught Him.

Dana Krum, one of the conductors on
the Erie Railroad, was approached before
train time by an unknown man, who
spoke to him as if he had known him for
years. Il say, DANA" said he, Il have
forgotten my pass, and | want to go to
Susquehanna; l am fireman on the
road, you know" But the conductor
told him he ought to have pass with
him. 1t was the safest way. Pretty
soon Dana came along to collect the
tickets. Seeing his man, he spoke when
he reached him: Say, my friend, have
you the time with youP"
Yes" said he, as he pulled out a
watch, at is twenty minutes past nine. !"
''Oh, it is, is itp" Now, if you don't
show me your pass or fare, | will stop
the train. There is no railroad man that
that ever saw who would say twenty
minutes past nine He would say, nine
twenty"
He settled.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-06-18
The Young Man who Went West.

| was falling into doze, when a plain,
Acknowledgment across the aisle poked
me with his cane and said: "Been up in
the WestP" told him that | had, al
most to the land of Nod. But that didn't
make any Mods to him, tor he continued:
Great country, that West of ours.
'Tain't half appreciated yet. Greeley
understood it, though. He knew what
it could do for young man. Now, we
haG a young fellow up where l belong
Huron County, smarter'n whip Could
do anything. But, bless We, he hadn'tno
chance round there. Everything occu-
pied except himself. Every place full.
Folks said if hewould only 60 West with
all his talent, he would seon be big
man. He wouldn't listen to it for q long
time-kept struggling on, but finally he
went. This was two years ago. And
now, sir (rising up in his seat with Gag
erness and animation, while |, catching
something of his enthusiasm half rose
myself, and now this young man, who
had no chance in the world in Ohio,
where do you suppose he is?" l said
didn't know. (Resuming his seat)-
''Darn'd if do either. We haven't
heard u word from him since he left"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-06-18

In response TO a Senate resolution, the
Secretary Of the Treasury has furnished
that body with an elaborate statement,
showing the expenses Of the Government
on account of the war of the rebellion,
from July /. 1861, TO june 80, 1879, in
elusive The statement exhibits the
gross expenditures, ordinary eXpendi-
lures, and expenditures growing out OF
the war in all the branches of the SER
vice either directly or indirectly affected
by the war. The grand totals are as fol-
lows: Gross expenditures, Sc, 795, 792,
500; ordinary expenditures, S6O9, 549,-
1874; expenditures growing out of the
war, Sc, ls7, 2i3, 1856.
The New York police have informa-
ton that n person travehing through
the eastern states, selling and buying
hats, is swindling merchants wherever
he goes by means of forged checks,
number ofwhich purport to be signed by
j. d. Lassell & Co.
A Montreal despatch says: At a meet
ing of the Consolidated bank, now in
liquidation, the president read the names
of twelve Montreal firms, by which the;
bank made losses amounting to a million,
and a half. 1t also came out that
syndicate of directors had been sustain
ing the shares of the bank in the stock
exchange before the failure of the funds
of the institution, involving a loss to
the bank of S65,OOO. The carelessness'
of the directors was severely censured,.
and resolution carried asking them to
transfer to the shareholders 5000 shares
as restitution. The estimated surplus,
after paying all liabilities, is 100000, out
of the original capital of $4,000, 900.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-06-18

In joiners' work, executed during the
18th, l4th and 18th centuries, the wood
has neither warped, split or shrunk in
the lemons or at other joints. This ex-
cellence is ascribed to the practice of sea-
soning the wood for at least six years aft
er it was sawed, by first leaving it in
damp places or even in water, and then
stacking it in open piles under cover,
where twas often turned and sometimes
smoked After such treatment, the
wood, when worked, has a tendency to
acquire in the course of time the appear
ance of Florentine bronze.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-06-18
The Grape-Yine

luXuriates in loose, warm soil, natu-
rally or artifcially well drained Lime
stone, sand, clay and iron are desirable
elements. The production of grapes for
the table and for wine are separate and
distinct objects, requiring different kinds
of soils. Rich, fat lands give generous
growth of wood and good-sized punches
of large, watery fruit, while thin, gray
ely OF rocky soils yield light crops of
rich, highly favored grapes. Before
planting a vineyard, the wine-grower
should make up his mind as to the kind
and quality of wine he desires to make,
and then select his site and choose his
vines accordingly. He can produce eth
er large quantities of medium wines, or
small quantities of choice wines, but
large yields and fine qualities do not 60
together, and are essentially incompati-
BILE. Poor soil, rich product, great
wine in little quantity" is the rule all
over Europe. Wines of the best char
acter are made from vines that flourish
among stones and rocks. Hermitage, for
example, was first grown among granite
rocks, broken smaller by art, with little
or no dressing of earth and flint stones
are sometimes carted into vineyards in
the Medoc district, although nature has
provided them with a very liberal sup
| nlv
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-06-18

halt was called, and the Celestials debat-
ed mentally a moment. Then the more
venturesome seized his dish with both
hands, raised it to his lips, and brought
it down empty. His example was fol-
lowed by the other, and then, after each
had emptied his plate of crackers INTO
his pocket, they were ready to settle.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-06-18
NEW YORK.
WArERrowr UNION LIVE STOCK MARKET

MARKET BEEF-Choice 81 so; extra, 800 a S725; first
quality, $3.50 a $780, second do, $500 a S525j third
STORE CSTTLE2Farrow cows sl2 sos; fancy cows, $50
a SOS; working oxen, per pair, 500 q slGO mllch
COWS and calves $40 "a S45; yearlings 81 q S4 two
wears, S12 a S26: three-years, $40 a S3S.
SHEEP AND LAMBs-In lots, $500 a $500 each extra 81
a $40; lambs, a &C. per l6,; veal calves, liz q
Use per ID. sheared sheep, IL a l-2c.
Classification OF Cattle and Sheep.-Choce grade n
cludes nothing bot stabilized 100 to l4VO d. 6Qcds.
second and third quality incl des oxen two and IIee
wears old steers Extra she ep includes cossets when
those of inferior quality are II own out