davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
, 1880-08-25

made in West End and the neighbour
hood. Entries have been made at
night into the residences at Buffers
Bay, Hannah's Rest, and the Mora
Wan Mission. At Hannah's Rest a valu-
able case of jewelry was removed from
thehouse and broken open, the articles
being scattered among the grass,
whence nearly all the contents Of the
case have since been recovered. This
incident, and the fact that in two
instances the thief or thieves make
their way to the larder, leads us to
conclude that there is nothing like
an organized band of burglars. The
robberies have probably been perpe-
trated by some miserable wretch who
is living on his wits, and is just now
very hard driven to get along. He
wants a little cash, but is not profess
sional enough to know what to do
with other articles Of value. We
understand that the police in West
End nearly laid hands a few nights
since on q wandering character, com
ing out Of a yard, who, on being
challenged, moved off along the street
a little faster than a good conscience
would have rendered necessary. 1t
will be fully needful for every house
holder to be on the alert till the
rascal, whoever he may be, is
either caught or satisfies himself
that his present business is dangerous
and Improbable. Upper windows
cannot safely be left open, for one of
the entries mentioned was made
through an upper window by means
a a ladder, and another with the help
of a barrel and the kitchen roof.
Neither will it be safe to attribute all
night noises in a house to the rats and
mice, or to the wind. In two%unsuccess-
full attempts the thief pulled violently
at a door, hoping, no doubt, to burst
it open without waking the inmates
Of the house, in a third case a stick
was forced inside the shutter, and in
another case, "a second attempt at
Buffers Bay) the intruder began to
saw out a piece from one of the shut
tiers, with the intention doubtless of
getting access to the hooks. I'm
pleasant as these occurrences are, we
do not think they should be made the
ground Of any serious alarm. AS we
have already minated, they may all
be the work of one man.; and it
would be exceedingly unfair to lay
the blame at the door of the unem-
ployed factory Iabourers, OF to make
the robberies an excuse for growing
over recent legislation.
The danger in which this town was
placed last Friday Morning from an
explosion of Kerosene leads us to say
a few words on the management of
hat useful but not very safe article.
We do not wish to say anything
harsh of the parents Of the two
children whose lives have paid the
penalty Of their want Of forethought:
they were out, as labouring people
oftennecessarily are, at an early hour
of the morning on the honorable
errand of earning bread for them
selves and their four children, and
we think the scene that met them on
their being summoned back shortly
of+orprardc rroc D,DicbmnOt anOuOh
, 1880-08-25
NEW ADVERTISEMENT
Notice.

Il he public examinations in
Y Z the Country Schools will be
held this year as under. =
- Parents and guardians and
the friends of the schools generally
are invited to attend.
The examinations will commence
on each day at II o'clock am.
East Hill on Friday 3rd September
La Princesse " Tuesday 7th
Peters Rest " Friday 10th
Friedensfeld " Tuesday 14th 4"
La Vall6e Temporarily closely
Diamond |" Friday 18th September
Two Williams +" Tuesday Dist
Rose Hill Friday Oath
Country Schools Commission, 23rd
August 1880.
J. T. FEILBERG,
Chairman.
, 1880-08-25
SUKKERPLANTAGE
Upper sov

med alt tilbeh0r beliggende / Prind-
sens Kvarteer sub No. Is G 10, blive
stillet til Bortsalg ven Ell 4de Auction
som afholdes paa Auctionskontorot i
Frederiksted Torsdagen den ode Sep
tember 1880. XII 2 Eftermiddag,
Ire Auctioner i Henhold til Plakat
22de April 1917 have varet afholdte.
De Salget vedr0rende Documenter
ere til Eftersyn her paa Kontoret.
Frederiksteds Auctionskontor den
24de August 1880.
K. PETERSEN.
, 1880-08-25

0F0LGE Vedkommendes Begjering
vii den Planter John F'arrelly til
h0rende
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-04-23
Caring for Snakes.

A reporter of the Philadelphia Press
has been learning on what the snake
man at the Geological gardens, in thai
city, feeds his pets. This is what he
learned on entering the professors pri-
vate office: Two cages stood on the
side of the room, one on top of the other,
Immediately facing the door. One cage
held white and spotted rabbits, and the
other cage contained guinea pigs. There
were twenty OF thirty altogether. This
was the food the snake-keeper was fat
tening for his serpents-the boa-con-
strictors and other large snakes of the
expanding jaws, which can swallow
down the largest-sized rabbits without
the slightest difficulty. The rabbits
were seen sporting about the cage, all
unconscious of the fate in store for
them, fate all the harder from the
fact that the luxurious serpents must
have them to swallow alive OF not at
all, as they will not eat dead food. The
guinea pigs are sacrificed the same way.
This form OF serpent diet the snake
keeper does not go down into New
jersey for. The rabbits and guinea pigs
are kept in the gardens, where they
breed very fast, and more than keep
up the supply for the large serpents
The garter-snakes and water-snakes, and
worms and frogs, which he brings in his
satchel and tin can, are fed to the rattle
snakes and the king-snakes, and serpents
of that sort. The way the snake keeper
gathers up his food for these reptiles is
amply in keeping with his giant charac-
teristics, and well calculated to inspire
terror to the weak and timorous. he
gets out in field or woods down about
Woodbury., N. j., where garter-snakes
abound, and as fast as he sees them he
gathers them up with his hands and
throws them into his tin can or satchel.
The water-snakes he gets along the
brooks and swamps. Every man tc
his calling" says the adage. The snake
keeper, on the authority of those who
know something of his habits and pecu
liarities, has his heart in his work k, and
by all accounts would not exchange
with anybody.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-04-23
Making a King Sing,

An Engishman arrived at Paris some
days before the revolution of July. 1880
He very eagerly sought to inspect the
interior court of the Palais Royal, where
the prince, Louis Philippe of Orleans,
was receiving deputations that came to
him from all parts OF the country, vii
layers with the mayor and drummer at
their head, brave fellows well furnished
with addresses and often excited by the
fatigues of the road and the heat of the
day.
The Englishman, on arriving, asked
if Louis Philippe had made his appear
ance.
Certainly" they answered him, "he
is just retired"
tAh! am very sorry for that" he
said. g am come to Paris to see
him."
"Never mind" !" said one near him; 81
will show him to you" So he shouted
out: ''Vive Louis Philippe! Vive la
Charter and the multitude cried out
the same.
A window opened over balcony, the
prince appeared, humbly saluted the
crowd, and retired.
"Ah! am very glad indeed, said the
Englishman; ''but / have heard some
say that one might see him with the
tricolored flag, and surrounded by his
family.",
"That is very easy" said the other
give me some sous, and he will come
forth"
Indeed! Here are some, with great
pleasure" said the Englishman, handing
a franc to his neighbor.
Immediately "a voice raised the coup
let, which thousand voices immedi
ately repeated:
Soldier. with the tricolor flag,
Who from Orleans dearest it." etc.
And the couplet did not cease to be
heard before the prince, surrounded by
his family and holding the three-col.
ored flag, came forth to salute the
crowd.
There was silence for short time.
Then the complaisant neighbor, turn
ing toward the ear of the Englishman,
said: "Now shall make him singP As
it is rather a difficult matter, you will
have to give me ten francs"
81 will do so willingly" said the
Englishman, assured by the success of
the former engagements,
Then the man, with his ten francs,
exerted himself and shouted with others
around him so eagerly and Justify,
"Vive le roiP Vive la Charte! la Mar
seillaise!" that at the end of twenty
minutes Louis Philippe presented him
self again before large crowd exulting
with impatience and joy.
The Marseillaise was Justify raised by
the crowd. The new king was about to
retire from the balcony, but stopped in
the midst of the applause, and sang with
the people, marking time with his feet.
The story relates that the king-exhibi-
tor, addressing the Englishman, said to
him: Now if you give me one hundred
francs he shall dance" But the other,
thinking that the show had gone tar
enough, went away.
Some may think this anecdote comes
from n suspicious source. 1t is taken
word for word from the contemporary
history of G. A Daubin, work in use
among students of philosophy. 1t ap.
peared to the learned professor to be 50
characteristic that he thought it worth
relating, although at first sight it ap.
peared to him unworthy of the gravity oi
history.-LeiSWre Hour.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-04-23
Life Among the Central Park Animals.

Mr.. William A. Conklin, director of
the Central Park menagerie, in his an
nual report gives much interesting in
formation. There were 1905 animals
in the park during the year. Of these
400 were birds, 242 mammals and twen-
ty-four reptiles. The births were as
follows: Eight lions (two litters of four
each), one puma, five prairie wolves Cat
one birth), one Nubian goat, one zebu,
one Cape buffalo, one Wapiti deer, one
Virginia deer, one Mexican deer, one
Toulouse goose, five wild geese, four
white swans, four black swans, eight
pea fowls, five white turkeys, twenty
Guinea fowls.
The mortuary record is as follows:
One leopard, one prairie wolf, one sea-
lion, one tapir, one Vicuna, one camel,
one yak, one SambOO deer, one tiger
bittern and one European crane.
The animals consume 1913, $50 pounds
of hay, 1926 pounds of straw, SAL bush
els of oats, 466 bushels of corn, 1876 bags
ot bran, thirteen bushels OF seed, 1880
pounds of meat, 25,7 ,762 pounds of bread,
7,493 pounds of fish, 3, ,1l6 quarts of milk
and ten barrels OF crackers. A large
proportion of the above provision was fur
nished by the owners OF the animals. The
maintenance of the animals cost the city
nearly $Il 900. Repairs, etc, made the
total expenditure $l4, 1892 SO.
The most valuable animals on exhibit
ton, according to the report, were two
black leopards, four polar bears, one
two horned rhinoceros, a sea-lon and
cub. The mother sea-lion was the one
that died. The cub was disconsolate,
and refused food, but after tom cod and
smelts had been forced down its throat
for time it took to q regular diet and
survived.
Among the fish in the Central Park
lakes are catfish, white perch, yellow
perch, goldfish, suLfsh, black bass,
suckers and cells.
Thirty gray squirrels and fifty quail
set free in the park have increased and
multiplied wonderfully, and their pres
ence has drawn great numbers of hawks,
of which many have been shot.
The determination of cats and dogs
does not come in Director Conklin's pro-
vince. Superintendent Dawson, who
has charge of this work, reports the
killing of nearly 800 cats and l30 dogs
in the past year, besides many moles
and few muskrats. .-NeU York Sstn.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-04-23
Life in the Polar Regions,

1t is impossible to form an idea of
tempest in the polar sea. The icebergs
are like floating rocks whirled along a
rapio current. The crystal mountains
dash against each other, backward AMI
forward, bursting with a roar like thun-
der, and returning to the charge until
losing their equilibrium they tumble
over in :. cloud of spray, upheaving the
ice-ields, which fall afterward like the
crack of whip lash on the boiling sea.
The sea gulls fly away screaming, and
often black, shining whale comes for
ar instant putting to the surface. When
the midnight sun grazes the horizon. the
floating mountains and the rocks seem
immersed in wave of purple light. The
cold is by no means so insupportable as
is supposed. We passed from heated
cabin at thirty degrees above zero to
forty-seven below zero in the open air
without inconvenience. A much higher
degree of cold becomes, however, in
sufferabIe if there is wind. At fifteen
degrees below zero steam, as if from
a boiling kettle, rises from the water.
AT once frozen by the wind, it falls in a
fine powder This phenomenon is
called ice-smoke, At forty degrees the
snow and human bodies also smoke,
which smoke changes at once into mil
lions of tiny particles, like needles of ice,
which fill the air, and makea light, con
tinuous noise, like the rustic of stiff
silk. At this temperature the trunks oi
trees burst with loud report, the rocks
break up, and the earth opens and
vomits smoking water. Knives break
in cutting butter. Cigars go out by con
tact with the ice on the board. To tall
is fatiguing. At night the eyelids are
covered with crust of ice, which mus
be carefully removed before one car
open them. - Professor NordenSkjold.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-04-23
Women Voting.

Miss Louise NJ. A,cott, in letter to
the WonlGn'S Journal about the Con-
cord, Mass, election. at which womn-
voted for the first time for school COM
mittee, thus describes the scene and rer
ports her impressions: The moderator
(who is also the registrar, and has most
kindly and faithfully done his duty to
the women, in spite of his own differ
ence of opinion) then announced that
the ladies would prepare their votes and
deposit them before the men did. No
one objected, we were ready, and filed
out in good order, dropping our votes
and passing back to our seats
as quickly and quietly as posi-
BILE, while the assembled gentle
man watched us in solemn silence.
No bolt fell on our audacious heads, no
earthquake shook the town, but a
pleasing surprise created general out.
break of laughter and applause, for
scarcely were we seated when Judge
be closed. The motion was carried be-
fore the laugh subsided, and the polls
were closed without mans voting-a
perfectly fair proceeding, we thought,
since we were allowed no voice on any
NNhSL 4hSSOlOu. lIo DuSlut5S VI bIl0
meeting went on, and the women re-
manned to hear the discussion of
ways and means, and see the officers
elected with neatness and dispatch by
the few who appeared to run the town
pretty much as they pleased. At five
o'clock the housewives retired to get ten
for the exhausted gentlemen, some of
whom certainly looked as if they would
NM ptrane ,t,n-, - Il
their labors. was curious to observe,
as the women went out, how the faces
which had regarded them with disap-
proval, derision, or doubt when they
went in, now smiled afably, while
several men hoped the ladies would
come again, asked how they liked it and
assured them that there had not been so
orderly meeting for years. One of
the pleasant sights to my eyes
was a flock of schoolboys watching
with great interest their mothers,
aunts and sisters, who were showing
them how to vote when their own eman-
cipation day came. Another was the
spectacle of women sitting beside their
husbands, who greatly enjoyed the
affair, though many of them differed in
opinion and had their doubts about the
suffrage question. Among the new
voters were the descendants of Major
Buttrick, of Concord fight renown, two
of Hancock and Quincy, and others
whose grandfathers or great-grand-
fathers had been among the first settlers
of the town. A goodly array of digni-
fed and earnest women, though some of
the first families" of the historic towns
were conspicuous by their absence.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-04-23
How to Judg e a Horse.

The following simple rules will be
found useful to all parties about to buy
q horse:
|. Never take the sellers word; if
disL onest he will be certain to cheat
you; ifdisposed to be fair, he may have
been the dupe of another, and will de-
ceive you through representati which
cannot be relied upon.
Q. Never trust to horses mouth as a
sure index of his age.
3. Never buy horse while in motion;
watch him while he stands at rest, and
you will discover his weak points. II
sound he will stand firmly and squarely
on his limbs without moving any of
them, the feet planted flat upon the
ground, with legs plumb and naturally
poised. Ii one foot is thrown for ward
with the Toe pointing to the gr ound and
the heel raised, or if the foot is lifted
from the ground and the weight taken
from it, disease of the navicular bone
may be suspected, or at least tenderness,
which is precursor of disease. If the
| foot is thrown out, the toe raised, and
the heel brought down, the horse has
suffered flom laminitis, founder, or the
| back sinews have been sprained, and he
| is of little future value. When the feet
are all drawn together beneath the
horse, if there has been no disease there
! is displacement of the limbs at least
and weak disposition of the muscles.
If the horse stands with his feet spread
apart or straddles with the hind legs,
there is weakness of the loins and the
kidneys are disordered. When the
knees are bent and the legs totter and
tremble the beast has been Nained by
heavy pulling, and will never be right
again whatever rest and treatment he
may have. Contracted OF Informed
hoois speak for themselves.
a. Never buy a horse with blush
or milky cast in his eyes. They indicate
constitutional tendency to ophthalmia
moon blindness, etc.
s. Never have anything to do with ,
horse who keeps his ears thrown back
ward. This is an invariable indication
of bad temper.
6. If the horses hind legs are SCARED
the fact denotes that lie is kicker.
, 7. If the knees are blemished the hors
is apt to stumble.
, g. When the skin is rough and harsh
and does not move easily and smoothl
/ to the touch, the horse is q heavy eater
and his digestion is bad.
9. Avoid horse whose respirator
2 organs are at all impaired. If the ca
l is placed at the side of the heart, and
t whizzing sound is heard, 1t Is an ind
cation Of trouble, Let him 60.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-04-23
A Bad Day for AIligatOrs.

The Orlando (Fla.) Reporter says:
Mond ~ proved field day with the alli-
gators. They came out in large num-
bers 10 bask in the warm sunlight after
the rain. Fatal recreation! everybody
on board went to shooting them. Even
the scullion would leave his dishpan to
take shot. And it seemed hard TO miss
them. The champion SLAYER was an old
hunter from the Granite State. When
ever he raised his rifle death was in the
air, and it's sharp report was the crack
of doom for some cousin of the croco-
dile. The 'gator-slayer expended his
last cartridge in the evening; but not
until he had scored his sixty fifth alliga-
tor. Their vitality is remarkable. |
chopped off the head of one few min.
ut9s after he had been shot. Several
minutes after the head was entirely sew
cred from the body, | thrust an oar at
it. The jaws opened and snapped to
again, like huge steel-trap, driving the
teeth three-fourths of an inch into the
| hard oak and splitting the oar handle.
Even twenty minutes later that gator.
head would not have been safe toy for
children.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-04-23
IS [ Am Guiminei!"

The New York correspondent of the
Louisville C0Wrier-JoarnGl writes.
Everybody had heard of Stradivarius, of
Cremona, who achieved his celebrity by
b Eating every other man IN the fiddle
business In fact he was equally cele-
brated with the gentleman who lived
in Lexington and made such wonderful
rifles. A third celebrity has sprung up
in New York, named Guiminei, who
boasts that he can make better fiddle
than Stradivarius or the other varius,
who also lives in fame by the same
means. When asked why he doesn't
advertise his business, he poses, heroic
ally strikes his left breast, and eXclaims:
"I am Guiminei. Let them come to
men Whenever an old church with
wooden easements thousand years old
is pulled down, and they are always do
ing such thing: here, the modern Stradi-
varius is sure to be on hand sounding
and poking for Eastwood and other
coifi ls OF the wood nymphs to get hold
of something that is seasoned. lie sent
to the Paris exposition one of his violins,
expecting to get a first class medal. OF
course. He was like Ophelia, the
more deceived" and more his hopes
scared high. The chairman OF the COM
mittee on tuneful things sent back by
mail knowing wink suggested in the
phrase: "You can't tool us; what you
sent us as your own is genuine Stradi-
varius." He had unintentionally mis-
led the most knowing of experts. When
the Italian received this decision, which
l will not positively aver was couched
in the languageI have used, he instantly
proceeded to the nearest curbstone, gave
three flaps of encouragement with his
elbows, and crowed aloud: II am
Guimineiw I understand that he inn
mediately raised the price of fiddles to
So, 900. In some kinds of art ii is better
to be an imitator than an original.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-04-23

Over and Over Again.
Over and over again,
No matter which way turn,
always find in the book OF lite
Some lesson have to learn.
1 must take my turn at the mill;
must grind out the golden grain;
must work at my task with resolute will
Over and over again.
We cannot measure the head
OF even the tiniest flower,
Nor check the flow of the golden sands
That run through single hour;
But the morning dews must fall,
And the sun and the summer rain
Must do their part and perform it all
- nuAr and nuar rasain---.--.-
Over and over again
The brook through the meadow flows;
All over and over again
The ponderous mill-wheel goes;
Once doing will not suffice,
Though doing be not in vain,
And a blessing failing us once or twice
May come, if we try again.
The path that has once been trod
Is never so rough for the feet;
And the lesson we once have learned
Is never so hard to repeat.
Though sorrowful tears must fall.
And the heart to its depths be riven
With stolm and tempest, we need them all
To render us meet for heaven.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-04-23
At the Dark Hollow stone quarry,

At the Dark Hollow stone quarry,
near Bedford, o., one of the largest
stones ever blasted in America was
" lifted" short time ago. The stone
is forty or fifty feet square and about
thirty feet thick and it required 1856
slip wedges to make successful blast.
When cut up into pieces it will make
nearly 300 car loads of building stone.
Immense blocks of stone are frequently
taken out of the quarries here which
would make the stones in Solomon's
temple mere pebbles in comparison
Its weig ht was estimated to be 6,OsO,OOC
pounds.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-04-23

Taken altogether the beauties of art
and nature do not begin to interest the
inquisitive female so much as the view
ehe gets through keyhols. Fulton
Times.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-04-23

A farmer recently jumped into a well
because his wife ran him into debt,
He found, however, that he couldn t
keep his head above water any betltr
after he got there Boston 1rGsserfpt.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-04-23

Judge DAILY, of New York, in his re-
cent annual az dress before the American
Geographical society, said that fresh
discoveries of the cur eiform inscriptions
at Nineveh have revealed the fact that
the ancient Assyrians were acquainted
with the existence of spots on the sun,
which they could only have known by
the aid of telescopes. These, it is sup
posed, they possessed. Mr.. Layard found
crystalline lens in the runs of Nineveh.
The Assyrian cyclopedia, imprinted on
bricks, was an exhaustive work. The
inscriptions on these bricks, on being
deciphered, disclosed that houses and
lands were sold, leased and mortgaged,
that money was loaned at interest, and
that the market gardeners, to use an
American phrase, worked on shares"
that the farmer, when plowing with his
oxen, beguiled his labor with short and
homely songs, two of which have been
found-thus connecting this very re-
mote civilization of 1000 B. G. with the
usuages of to-day.