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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-06-11
Vermont.

The trial of Frank Lawrence, formerly
of Brattleboro, which began at Grand
Rapids, Neb., last week. on the charge of
having administered fatal dose of prus-
sic acid to his father, has resulted in a
verdict of not guilty.
The cost of restoring the recently burn
ed courthouse at Montpelier will be
about $4,000.
The Vermont Baptist Sunday-school
convention atMontpelier has chosen these
officers for the coming year: president,
Rev. Charles Hubbard of Middlebury !;
vice president, j. j. Estey of Brattlebo-
ro; secretary, S. henry Archibald of
Wallingford assistant secretary, S. P.
Rider of Brandon; treasurer, W. w.
Sprague of st. Johnsbury; directors,
Rev. r. M. Luther of Bennington, P. c.
Abbey of Essex, E. A. Fuller of Burling-
ton, Rev. H. A. Rogers of Montpelier,
A, G. Michel of Brattleboro Falls.
W. G. Brown, the Rutland bank teller,
whose accounts are $500 short, is held
for trial at Rutland in $4,000.
Ex-senator Patterson, of New Hamp-
shire, is to deliver the alumni address at
the Randolph normal school.
The suit of Alexander Stewart against
Judge Hilton, for alleged non-fulfillment
of his contract in consideration of ceas-
ing the effort to break the will of Alex
aader T. Stewart of New York has been
transferred at Woodstock to the United
States district court, where it will come
before Judge Wheeler.
The American tool company, which
has working capital of $3.50, 900, wishes
to build works at st. Johnsbury, provided
enough subscriptions to stock are made
there to give local majority to the di-
rectors.
A meeting Of all the clergymen and
three laymen from the western Vermont
Methodist churches is called at Rutland
for the 10th, to take action on the pro-
test against their transfer from the Troy
to the Vermont conference.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-06-11

A prize was offered at an Odd Fellows
picnic in San Francisco, the other day,
of a chair for the fattest baby, and when
the award was made it was discovered
that the chair was so narrow that the
winner could not sit in it, The proud
but exasperated mother declared that
the blunder was "just like the men."
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-06-11
wArERrowN UNION LIVE srocx Market

WAThHIVWN NE7IVIV 1--WE DFVN1E 71I1'1FR17I'
MARKET BEEF-Choice, $725; extra, So 20 a 500; nrst
quality, IS Is a $780, second do s. rs q $500; third
do, $500 "a $425. -
STORE CATTLE-FaTrow cows Sl2 IA $25 fancy cows SJO
"a Sos; working oxen per pair 500 "a Sl6O; mllch
cows and calves $40 "a S45i yearlings g s4i two
years, Sl2 q $25 three-years, $40 q SSS. ~.
SHEEP AND LAaBsn lots 81 90 a IS so eachi extra 80
a $40; lambs, I "a Sc. per ID; veal calves LIZ "
43-4c. per H.; sheared sheep, s LIZ "a l-zc'
Classification Of Cattle and Sheep-CholGe grade n
cudes nothing but sall-fed LOO to l40O TO- bulcoks
Extra and first quality includes the best large Fat oxen
second and third quality incl ides oxen, two and tlee
wears old steers Extra she p includes cossets when
those of inferior quality are tn own out.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-06-11
THE REST,

William H. Wilson, NJ D., Springfield,
Ellington county, Ga, says, 81 prescribed
Hunts Remedy in complicated case OF
Dropsy which had been treating for eight
years, and l find Hunts Remedy is the best
medicine for Dropsy and the Kidneys have
ever used" Trial size, rs cents.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-06-11
New Hampshire.

A cargo of cotton from New Orleans,
La, arrived at Dover, for the Cocheco
manufacturing company, on the largest
vessel that ever came up the Cocheco
river. The shipment was a successful
experiment to learn whether cotton may
not be shipped thither by water instead
of rail.
A New Ipswich child, aged two and
half years, was so injured by ram late
ly, that he died within a few hours after
the accident.
Zadoc B. Robinson and wife of Laco-
mia, who will have been married 60 years
on the 9th of the coming August, are
supposed to have lived longer together
than any other couple in Belknap coun-
ty.
The Manchester city government pass
ed 5000 resolution for new bridge
over the river, and the supreme court at
Concord has granted an i"junction re-
straining the committee from making
any contract. The hearing will be had
before the full bench at Concord.
Sheriff Kent of Portsmouth has recent
ly discovered evidence that James
Wright, keeper of the county house at
Harnden's island, Rockville, N Y, has
been forwarding supplies, among them
being 70 barrels of flour and IL barrels
of liquor, belonging to the county, to his
farm at Epping, and that the stealings
amount to several thousand dollars. 1t
is stated, too, that Wright had sent sew
eral paupers under his charge, to work
one of his farms. The investigation re-
suited in Wright's discharge, and the
question of instituting criminal proceed
ings against him is to be submitted to the
district attorney. Wright's real name is
James H. Young, and he is a native of
Chinatown.
The state medical society meets at Con-
cord the 18th and 10th.
The Northern district telephone COM
pany has pledged stock of 100000, and
Its two lines will run from Manchester
through Haverhill to Boston, and from
Portsmouth through Dover, Exeter,
Great Falls, Salem and Lynn to Bos-
ton.
The Essex and Coos Congregational
conference closed two-days' session at
Littleton Thursday. Rev. Charles Duren
of CRANKY, VT, Dea N. G. Farr of Lit
tleton and Dea. Doors of Bethlehem were
chosen delegates to the New Hampshire
state associa ion; Rev. G. F. Sumner of
Lancaster, delegate to the Congregation
al national association at st. Louis.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-06-11

A young Darwinian. - Jack Ito his
married sister): eli! Pollyt Look!
Here's your baby trying to walk on its
hind legs!-Pu'ach.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-06-11

Let your son labor: for isn't the labor
er worthy of his sire?
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-06-24
The ssRoil Beng0l Tagger."

These are little Johnny's observa-
tons on the ''Roil Bengol Tagger," as
communicated to the San Francisco
Ayqonaa1t: lone time there was man
who had tagger, and the taggar it was
a sho and the man he luke the money
for to get in. The man he had a bi g
paper naild onto the tagger's den, and
the paper it said, the paper did: The
Roll Bengol Tagger, sometimes cald the
Monnerk of the Jungle. Hands Of No
Techin the TaggerH The monnerk of
the jungle it was always layin down
with his nose tween its poz, and the
folks which had paid for to get in thay
was mad cos it wudent wock and rore
like dissent thunder. But the sho man
he said: That's oil rite when / git the
new cage done, but this is the same
cage which the off1e teller broke out of
in Oregon, time he ct up the seventeen
men and their families Then the foxes
they would oil stand back and took in
wispers while the tagger slep. But one
day teller witch was drunk he take to
punchin the tagger with the masthead
of his umbreller, which stampeeded the
oddience wild, and the wimmin foxes
they stud onto chairs and hollered like
it was q mouse, but the drunk chap he
KEEP q jobbin the monnerk of the jungle
crewel. Pretty sumo the monnerk it
bellered off1e and riggled, but the Teller
KEEP pokin like he was fireman to a
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-06-24
Lip Language.

There was an interesting exhibition
lately in London of the new way of
teaching the deaf and dumb to speak
and to understand by the motion of the
lips. There is school for this purpose.
in London, of sixty pupils, founded
chiefly through the benevolent exertioDs
OF the Baroness Mayer de Rothschild.
The school assembled at Grosvenor
House, the abode of the Duke of West
minister, now the richest nobleman in
England, and numerous body of guests
were invited to witness the progress
they had made. The teacher. Mr. Van
Praagh, showed the steps of the process
by which mere infants are taught both
to understand and use the lip-language.
and, at an early age, to frame sentences
and hold easy conversation. A gentle
man among the audience asked one of
the pupils to name a member of the
House of Lords The answer inmedi-
ateiy came, Lord Beaconsfeld." An
leading member of the House of Com
mons. "Mr. Gladstone was the re-
ply. The sounds they make are monoto-
nous, as they cannot emphasize or in.
feet their voices. But the main point
IS, they can make themselves under
stood. This blessed invention of ena-
bling the dumb to speak and the deaf
to understand, ought to have been made
at an earlier day. We read in one of
VOltaire' letters of 176O: 1--WE have
in Geneva a woman hundred and two
years old, who has three deaf and dumb
children. They converse with their
mother Gan educated LADY, from morn
ing until evening, sometimes by moving
their lips, sometimes by moving their
fingers. They play all games very well.
know all the gossip of the city, and tell
funny stories about their neighbors as
well as the greatest takers can. They
understand everything that is said to
them by the movement of the lips, and,
IN word, they are very good COM
Dany. Youths COMPANION.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-06-24
A Drugstore Conversation.

An old lady of Louisville kept it up
in this style for half an hour at drug
gist's and with the following result:
Old Lady-How much is this bottle
Druggist-One dollar and thirty cents,
ma am, if you take but one, or SIP q
o. How did you say 1 must keep
it? 7.t
D.-You must keep it on its side
ma'am, until you want to use it.,
o. L.-Yes. Well, my daughter told
me to get this particular preparation.
It's the right kind isn't ita -s'A
Do, yes, ma'am. We only keep
that brand. st -,
o. How much did you say it wasP
D.-One dollar and thirty ceGts a
| single bottle; but if you take dozen
.. Ii thought you said it was only
81 bottle. aG.Z.t1
DIT you take dozen
o. Did you say it would keep on
its side until it's used? 81
Dyes, ma'am; and if you uncork
|. it, it must be all used at once.
q. L.-YOu're sure its the right
brand?
Do, yes we keep TO-
o. LA dollar bottle?
DIFF you take dozen; but S1.3O
single '''' :.
6. LII thought you said 81 4 bottle.
D.-E you take dozen.
0. but don't want dozen.
D.-Then a single bottle will be
$1.30. ~.
Q. land it must be kept on its
side until used? 20
DYES, ma am. tE
o. L.-Well I've a great mind to take
a bottle. l think it's what my dauch-
ter wanted me to get. Do you sell less
than bottle?
D.-No, ma'am.
o. L.-And whole single bottle is
S1.30.
Dyes, ma'am.
.. l. We'll, think I'll go home and
talk to my daughter about it. How
much did you say it was?-N. y
GTdphlc.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-06-24
Sc School is Out.o

A day or two since withered ND lit.
tie old man entered the Central Station
and asked to be sent up as vaorant,
adding as he took chair: r
School is out and vacation will last
forever
Being questioned, it was found that
he had journeyed here on foot from
New England and was out of funds
and broken in health.
"Im sixty-seven today" he said,
as he took off his hat, land I've been a
school-teacher exactly forty-one years.
First class in history stand up. What
is a prison? A place where an old ped
agogue can lay his bones after life of
hard service. Correct, my son. What
is old age? Old age is that period in
life when you can't help any body and
are therefore left without help yourself.
1t is better to be a young dog than a
poor old man. Correct, again. You
may take your seats"
$50 you are aschool-teacherp'' quer-
led the Captain.
''For forty-one straight year, I've
coaxed, fattered and pounded knowl-
edge into the human Uranium" was the
reply. 81 broke this finger in Jerking
Vermont scholar over his desk; ibis
scar above the eye l got from Il Gew
Hampshire mother for whaling her ION;
was bitten here on the back of the
hand in Massachusetts,; this scalp wound
was received in Rhode Island whn /
started out to lick forty-seven boy for
looking out of the window at circus
procession. l can count IN twenty-five
scars as certificates of my professbn.
''And you've had to quitp''
"Yes. They don't want old leaders
like me any more. Everywhere go
Pm told that I'm too old. I'm OFT of
funds, out of friends, out of job,and
think I'll take sixty days in the York
House for a change"
Ibid you have good Successes a
teacher?"
Eyes, up to fifteen years ago. My
plan was my own. When l had ask
a boy three days running how nany
States there were in the Union, quit
smiling and coaxing and tied hir in a
hard Knot in about forty seconG. l
also believe in pulling hair instsd of
using whip. Land save We! LIQUID
lift the tenth boy in natural histey off |
his seat by the hair of the head ad let
90 before he missed me off theplat-
form! 1 never made boy sit the
dunce-block in my life. 1 hmbled |
him by fastening a spring clotts-pin
to his nose I had various wys of |
bringing out Information as to thoearly |
settlement of New England, lifelong
est rivers in America and the Ehest
mount aims in Europe, but this Ddern
Sweet-milk waV of teaching has Id me
on the shelf. Lock me up and ge me
about sixty days in the Work buse."
He was given a cell, and ate few
minutes was heard calling out him.
self:
g The class in grammar will I've for
its next lesson the sentence: : In a
prison cell | sit School , dis
dr'-Detr0H Pree Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-06-24
gor aoang Beadtrs.
THE BEDPUsr DOLL.

You needn't make fun Of my doIlieI tell 20,
she's dearer.to me f
Than all the most beautiful dollies that evel
came over the sea
From Paris. or London, or Antwerp, or any
where under the sun: ~
There was never a don like my darling fo
goodness or patience or fun IT
You needn't have called her +" a bed post sawr
OF Of grslndmaInnias bed
For that little round knob that Il stood on
makes just the loyeiiest bead.
But shall call you a nsg,tyltaiss, because you
were made out of dust: -
And you know-yea, you know. Fred wilson
that you bored THAI hole there yourself
And stuck in that piece OF broomstick that
- you took down OF " The shelf
AND made her some arms-they are arms-a
man with one eye could sce that
It's Just like that straw-it once was straw, but
" now it's your Sunday hat. ......
And her hair--yes. it may hare been cornsilk-
but now it's beautiful switch
And you made her eyes Ind cyebruws-did you
.. mark them with backing OF pitch?
think You might play II was silk
Don't play I had Ices ana bon-bons when it's
ss nothing but crackers and milk?
Wouldn't have had a wax-dollie-what rood
do you think II would do?
IL always must lie in drawer must always
n.
Or II you do take IL out why soon there's n
r.. crack In its head,
Or else all the wax comes OF. and thsn-why,
the doIiie Is dead. s.f- ..
Besides, these imported doIlies are always AZ
dreadfully rude,
That stuck-up Merino Waters won't speak to
my darling Gertrude;
She's almost as bad as her nother-does moth
ing but giggle and prink-
IL had Paris dollie, I'd teach her good man.
. ners. think
know where IS one-at schwarz's, all friEzes,
and fuses. and curls,
And IT Just stares out OF fhe window on pur-
pose to plague little girls
You needn't be calling me "jealous"-I
wouldnt have had IL, say, 4
Besides, father couldn't AFFORD it-therc's fif-
teen dollars to pay. Zoo = .H.
You think hi that my trip 70 the city has made
Cause city girls don't play with such playthings
- as rlDpon-grass, corn-silk and mossl
Wen, they don't-'hey have china-dishcs and
wonderful! watches with keys,
Ard they say to their country cousins, A" Do
you have nice playthings like theset'
1t isn't polite, not bit-come, Trudie, come
We won't think any more of Merino-the hor- |
rld dressed-ip: mean old thing:
Sow Trudie, Tlltell you "A secret, don't think !
Merino's so bad,
And Bess didn't mean to provoke me-but oh /
1T did make me 50 mad! ~
let, I guess, after ALL Trudie darling, it's best
to be loving and kind,
Ind II we are not very rich and can't have nice |
toys. we won't mind.
Fine clothes don't make people proud" as |
Aunt May said, the day she was here,
IND plain ones shnn't make us nauRhty-and I
now we will play, my dear. -.
WIDE Atcake.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-06-24
Learning Foreign Languages.

In all the large cities of the East, par.
ticularly here, it is said that many well.
to-do parents are so fond of intrusting
their small children to French bonnes,
or nursery-maids that the children often
grow to be eight and ten years of age
without learning to speak their own
language, save with a marked accent.
Their parents are so DESTROYS to have
them acquire French that they are rather
pleased with this grave defect in their
education, comforting themselves with
the thought that later on they will nec-
essarily speak their own tongue with
perfect purity. They have notion,
and a very absurd notion, that it is a
fine thing to have their children better
acquainted with French than English,
and are prone to mention the fact to
their friends with much complacency.
1t is very well, no doubt, that children
should acquire other languages than
their own in their tender years, when
they can do so without conscious effort.
But it is not very well that they should
acquire a foreign tongue at the expense
of the vernacular. The language that
is learned unconsciOusly before six years
of age is very apt to be the dominant
and most natural language to us in
after life. If we can get only one tongue
ut that period it should be by all means
lac mother tongue. Little folks in
Germany often speak German, French
and English before they are ten or
welve, and it would be advisable for
-'ur children to do the same. But to be
'sble to rattle away in French and to
ak their own language with a foreign
ooent ia q oroaf y,1isfako which oil Az
rect parents would certainly prevent.
t should be remembered, too, that the
french of nursemaids is not the French
which Tame or Renan uses, or which is
accepted as polite in Paris. As the
children usually have nobody to correct
their foreign speech. they are very
likely to grow up with a very fluent
French which savors, as the Parisians
say, very redolently of the markets.
parents can not be too careful
to instruct their children by oral exam
pie in the best use of their native tongue.
-NeaO York Times.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-06-24

SOCIETY and occupation in the world
OF the sea are represented by masons.
builders. maratiders. usurpers and
plunderers, and all have their disiin-
gushing peculiarities. A fancy of the
quaint spider crab, or " dandy crab."
as he is sometimes called, Ia to decorate
himself with alge and sponyes. and
none but the most brilliant In color
seem to please him; this, however. not
for vain display. but, primarily nj least.
for personal protection. When wish.
ing to array himself he finds n brilliant
sponge and pinches of piece after
piece with his long, slender claws:
these, when broken, are Dipped in \
glutinous fluid contained In the mouth
and are carried to the back and fasten,
ed securely. Sometimes after he has
attached q particular fragment he
reaches back his claw q second time TO
satisfy himself that il Is secure. This
practice is INDUCED In only ,whep the
crabs are young and In the fall, and its
object Is to obscure the crab from
hungry. surgeons and skates. when
placed In q tank with many animals the
crabs take the same preoaution acnin.t
possible enemies. and often cover them
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-06-24
How SpOOls Are Made.

Drummondville is situated the St.
Francis River and the Northn Divi-
sion of the Southern RailwayCanada.
passes through it. Several ,ars ago
the prevailing wood which gry in the
vicinity was white birch, With does
not we believe, make first-ass fire
wood, but which appears to 1.-THE best
for the manufacture of spds. This
probably was the cause w Drum
mondville was selected as tt place in
which to locate these factori, and the
farmers in the vicinity can ways find
a ready market for this kindf wood at
about so. 80 and SO per cord. The wood
after being delivered to the ctories, is
first sawed into pieces abol four feet
long and from an inch TO amch and a
half square, according to thsize of the
spool it is desired to me. These
pieces are put into a dryouse and
thoroughly dried, from whee they are
taken into the factory and ven to the
roughers, who, in an incrtbly short
space of time, bore hole the center
couple of inches deep, tn about the
same space round, and thelcut off the
length required for spool The ma
chimes used for this purposare revolv-
ing planners. in the center which is a
revolving gimlet or bit, an,mmediate-
ly to the right small rcular saw
with guage set to the pDer size OF
the spools. The roughereceive one
and half cents per gross their work
and experienced men can IN out from
one hundred to one hundr and thirty
gross per day. The rounblocks pass
from them to the fnisher who place
them in machines which re them the
shape of spools and ma them quite
smooth. The spools are town loosely
into, a large cylinder, wh revolves
slowly, so that the spoohre polished
by constant rubbing up. each other
for some time. On beinaken out of
the cylinder they are plal in hopper
with an opening at the bonn, through
which they pass down ae for inspec-
ton. Here the inspOr sits and
watches closely to see It no imper-
feet spools are allowed toss and very
small knot or scratch is aicient to con- /
denim them. They are cked in large
boxes made the proper le'and no adj I
ditional packing is need. The pack /
ers receive one-quarter mt per gross
for packing and a smarby who IS az
ustomed to the work pack about I
: wo hundred gross perry. One pr
prietor ships over twmillion spoois I
per month to Englan, and another
firm ships over one mOn spools to
Glasgow, Scotland.