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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-05-30

Tulare lake in California has during
the last few years been rapidly drying
up, and the time is apparently not fan
distant when it will cease to exist. Within
the memory of men still living it was
thirty three miles long and twentyfou.
miles wide. To-day it is only about fif
teen miles long and eight miles wide.
being shrinkage III superficial area Of
more than $50 miles. The cause of this
drying up is largely due to human agency.
Probably the extensive systems of irriga
tion recently put in operation in the vi.
cinity are mainly the cause of the subsi
dence. Nearly all the rivers and brooks
which have acted as feeders to Tulars
lake have been tapped. In some cases
they have beee entirely diverted from
their natural courses, and have been made
to minister to the reclamation of arid
districts for agricultural purposes And
in a few years every gallon of water
which now empties into Tularc lake viii,
be carried through artificial channels to
hundreds of farms which would other.
wise be of little value. The fact is inter-
esting as showing not only what man can
do to remedy the deficiencies of nature,
but to whata large extent he may change
the face of nature. In this case there i
probably no question of the propriety o
drying up the lake; but in great num-
Der of other instances human interference
with nature has resulted disastrouslY.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-05-30
Earthquakes and Luminous Paint

The connection between earthquakes
and luminous paint would hardly be ap-
parent to any one without explanation.
1t nevertheless exists, and the recent
earthquakes in our own country have
served to remind us of its existence. As
a matter of fact large consignments of
this paint are sent to those countries
where earthquakes are prevalent The
use to which it is put invests it with the
utmost Importance just for the few criti-
cal moments of the shock. In the Philip
pine Islands, where earthquakes are not
uncommon, small metallic plates coated
with luminous paint are so placed about
the premises that at the first warning the
inmates are quickly guided to the door,
and thus to the street. In Manila it is
laid on in patches about the bedrooms
and staircases, serving as guides for the
door handles and the stairs, night lights
being considered especially dangerous as
likely to set fire to the falling house, and
thus to roast the inmates in their own
homes. 1t follows that those who live in
districts likely to be visited by earth
quakes will do we'll to adopt this plan.
anu W puiH Ho udllle iShVS az night, eS-
pecially in the case of gas, the pipes for
which might be broken asunder, and the
gas escape and take fire. The gas should
be turned off at the main nightly, and
luminous labels be so placed as to indi-
cate the door handles and other guides
to the main point of egress, which would
enable the residents to find their way out
of their houses in the dark before the
walls perchance buried them. 1t will be
remembered that at Ischia there was just
sufficient time between the first shock
of the earthquake and the downfall of
the Grand hotel to permit those who
acted promptly to save their lives. Iron.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-05-30
HUMOR OF THE DAY.

The most courted belle--The dinner
bell.
The Egyptian Mummy's
the word"
A chants cquaintaince-an introduc-
ton to pretty member of the CHOIR
Hartford Journal.
The hen that thinks woman throwA
shoo's at her for good luck is very much
mistaken. Bradford Mail.
Hospitality. "Do take some more oA
the vegetables, Mr.. Blood, for they go
to the pigs anyway.--LLar0ard Lampo0n.
"Another expedition to the pole,"
said the man, as he wended his way to
his barber shop Cincinnati Saturday
Night.
eyes" she said, ''I always obey my
husband but reckon have something
to say about what his commands shall
be. e."-B0st0n Post.
My love and for kisses played
And it did chance TO be
The darling girl won all the stakes
And gave them all to me.
Salem Sunbeam.
The garden season is here, and the
husband of the woman who throws.
stones-at-the hens is getting himself into
position to dodge.-.Bradtord Sunday
Nail
Lady, to small boy with dog-JohA
ny, does that dog bark at night2 Johnny,
who is a connoisseur in dogs-No, maam,
he barks at cats and other dogs.--Mer-
ehdnt- ITa0eLer.
Now is the time when the small boy IN
the country comes into the house with
his hair all wet and tells his mother thar
he ran home from school so fast that he
is all perspired. Boston Post.
The price of Circassian girls hes lately
dropped to $600-the lowest figure ever
known. All young men who have been
despising matrimony because wives are
so cheap can now purchase one for about
years salary and be happy.-Burling-
ton Free Press.
81 don't think I'm cranky" said dud,
ish young fellow, but when l go out
with my dog, and hear man whistle
and look around, and he says he was
whistling at the old dog and not the
puppy, think it is time | was asserting
my rights. Merchant IraoeZer.
"In Siberia you can purchase vito
for eight dogs" As long as girls can be
had for the asking in this country, very
few of our young men will go to Siberia
to procure wife. And one who har
seen a Siberian wife will wonder why
they come so terribly high.-NoTist0aon
Herald.
1t is said that as late as the latter part
of the thirteenth century, "the uppoY
classes in Europe ate whales for dinner"
1t is not stated, but we should think one
whale would not only make dinner fer
the largest family in Europe, but there
would be enough left over to warm up
for next mornings breakfast. Norris
toaon Herald.
A messenger boy recently fell off the
roof of a very high building up town.
but was not hurt at all. 1t seems when
he fell he was asleep, and the slowness
which characterizes him when on life
and death errands didn't desert him.
In fact he dropped to the ground 50
slowly and softly, that when he landed
he was not awakened, but went right
on dreaming until policeman arouseu
him. .--Ptck.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-05-30
A Too willing Young Man.

"Do you love me as dearly as men have
ever loved women2" said Mabel, finding
an easy anchorage for her cheek about
the latitude of his upper vest pocket and
the longitude of his left suspender.
"More," said George, with waning en-
thusiasm, for this was about the two hun
dred and fourteenth encore to which he
had responded since s o'clock. ''More,
far more dearly. Oh, ever so much
WORE"
"Would you," she went on, and there
was tremulous impressiveness in her
voice that warned the young man that
the star was going to leave her lines and
spring something new on the house /
''would you be willing to work and wait
for me, as Rachel waited at the well,
seven long yearsW
''Sevenl" he cried, in burst of gen
uine devotion. ''Sevenl Aye, gladly !
Yes, and more Even until seventy times
seven! Let's make it seventy, anyhow,
and prove nv devotion.
Somehow or other he was alone when
he left the parlor few minutes later,
and it looks now as thoughhe would have
to wait about 700 years before he saves
fuel by toasting his shins at the low-down
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-05-30
The Elevator.

The person that first put an elevator
into high structure, so as to save pas
sengers the labor of walking up many
steps of stairs, little dreamed of the i'm
portant results that have followed the
adoption of that expedient. 1t has
practically revolutionized the domestic
and business architecture of large cities.
In New York there are literally hundreds
of high buildings accommodating thous-
ands of persons, although the apartment
and office buildings are thing of yester-
day. In this city there are scores of
dwellings between 14O and 100 feet in
height. One house is over 1S0 feet high.
The lower part of New York has num-
ber of enormous structures filled with
offices luxurously furnished. The oc-
cupants of the upper floors prefer them
to those nearer the surface of the earth.
The air, they think. is purer, and there
are fewer annoyances, while the elevator
is a swift and pleasant means of com
munication. .-Demorest
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-05-30
ISLAND POND VERMONT, FRIDAY, MAY 80 1884

as death, had staggard to garden
bench.
"My Godp he exclaimed. cit is
EmilyI"
Yes, it was Emily. Of this there
could be no doubt. The tree had long
held its fearful secret, and was still un-
able to reveal it. 1t had given up
Emily's skeleton, but how came the poor
girl to be immured within this living
tomb?
Further examination, however, re-
vealed the whole horrible truth.
81 see how it all was, f" my old neigh.
Dor said, in broken and faltering voice,
"She had thrown her shawl over the
wall that it might not be in her way,
and then mounted the tree to where the
three great branches meet; and there,
hidden by the masses of ivy, lay the
fatal trap Through that great hole she
slipped, and the ivy closed over her in
her living tomb"
He shuddered, and the tears gusheo
into his eyes.
We neither of us expressed the thoughts
which chilled and moved our hearts to
pitying horror Had her death been
sudden, or had she hero slowly starved
and pined to death Her cries could
not have been heard, for the house stood
apart, and her parents had left home and
gone in pursuit of her. thought of
Cecie's strange fancy concerning the old
tree, and lost myself in vague conjectures
as to the nature of those mysterious in
fluences which sometimes affect our
human perceptions, how or whence we
may not know.
This was the secret which the old tree
so long held. And l may add that to
this day Cecie knows nothing of it; for,
beside the clergyman who gave Christian
burial to the remains of the poor girl,
no one but ourselves, who made the dis
covery, ever knew the secret. We
thought it best that it should be so.
But observed that Cecie never after
complained of the uneasy influence which
had before so annoyed her. With the
removal of the tree and the burial of the
bones, nature resumed her bright and
joyous sway in the old garden.-Susan
A. Weiss
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-05-30
Over the Fence.

Mrs. Slingonin put her head over the
fence andsthus addressed her neighbor,
who was hanging out her weeks wash
ing:
"a family has moved in the empty
house across the way, Mrs. Clothes line. "
eyes, l know"
''Did you notice their furniture"
"Not particularly"
''Two loads, and / wouldn't give dol
lar load for it. Carpets! l wouldn't
put them down in my kitchen. And the
children! won't allow mine to associ-
ate with them. And the mother She
looks as though she had never known a
days happiness. The father drinks, l ex-
pect Too bad that such people should
come into this neighborhood. l wonder
who they arc"
81 know them"
''Do you9 Well, I declare. Who are
they2"
"The motheris my sister, and the father
is superintendent of the Methodist Sun
day school,"
A painful pause ensues.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-05-30
VOL. XII.
IF WE HAD BUT A DAY,

We should fill the hoar with sweetest things,
If we hal but day;
We should drink alone at the purest springs
In our upward way;
We should love with lifetimes love IN an
hour,
If the hours were few;
We should rest, not for dreams, but for
fresher power
To be and to do.
We should guide our wayward or weary
wills
BY the ciearest light;
We should keep our eyes ON the heavenly
hills,
If they lay In sight;
We should trample the pride and the discon-
tent
sr Beneath our feet
We should take whatever good Col sent,
With trust complete.
Weshould waste no moments in weak regret,
If the days were but one
IF what we remembered and we regret
Went out with the sun;
We should be from our clamorous selves so
free
To work or to pray,
And be what our Father would have us be,
If we had but day.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-05-30
Hired Help.

Mrs. Jooblewizzle had hired new and
a very green errand boy, and she sent
him with basket and the money to get
some groceries. When he came back he
did not report, and she called downstairs
to him:
"John, did you get the cabbage3"
"That's wot you tole me to git" he
answered, with lazy drawl.
"Did you get the potatoes?"
"That's wot you tole me. to git"
"Did you get the starch9'
"That's wot you tole me to git"
"Did you get the soap"
"That's wOt you tole me to git"
"Did you get the sugarl"
"That's what you tole me to git"
81 know that" she shrieked, after the
same monotonous reply foated up to her
for the fifth time, 'but did you get
them2"
"No, ma'am, lost the money, and
some dang thief boy stole the basket.
Merchant IrGUeler.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-05-30
New Cent aad a Quarter Pieces.

New Cent ald a QuarSer PieceSs
Scene-Park Row.
Dramatis Persone-A bootblack and
newsboy.
Bootblack with great unction) Say,
chummy, did you see any of the new
cent and quarter pieces?
Newsboy with vehement surprise)-
See what?
Bootblack with great deliberation)-
See any of the new cent and a quarter
pieces.
Newsboy with evident sympathy
Been out all nightG
Bootblack with fervid anger)-No, I
amt been out all night. I'll bet you a
banana l can show you one of the cent
and quarter pieces.
Newsboy with lofty scom)-I don't
want no banana, but I'll buy whole
bunch for you if you show me the cent
and quarter.
There was wicked look on the boot
blacks face as he went down in his
pocket. Then he retreated a step or two
and took out cent and a quarter of a
dollar. "There's the cent and quarter
pieces" he said as he sloped away, ''and
I'll take the banana some other time. y
NeD York american Queen.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-05-30

gate in the parlor again. There arc men,
my son, who always overdo the thing
they want to be meeker than Moses,
stronger than Sampson and ten times
more particular than Job, the printer;
that is, he isn't, but he used to Uz.-
Hlackgye.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-05-30
MOMENTS FOR MERRIMENT.
sToRIEs THAT WILL DHIvE DULL
CARE AWAY.

NoGreat Loss -0Ver the Fen-e-BIre
HeIp-T0O TOugh-EeH Cent and u
Quarter Pieces
A gentleman bought a newspaper and
rendered in payment a piece of forty
sous.
The newspaper woman-"I haven't
the change; you can pay me as you pass
along to- morrow"
The gentleman" But suppose /
should be killed to day2"
The newspaper woman - Ooh, it
wouldn't be very great lossW-Paris
VT
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-05-30

A new poetess from the West remarks:
eff love you give no more I'll ask, When
this poetess has little more experic ce
she will learn that th"r9 are times when
single cold potato possesses more in
trinsic worth than whole moonligk;
evening full of love PHILADELPHIA Call.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-10-18

"Um. | see. First-rate time to trim
trees. I'm. Exactly"
He hadn't got two blocks away before
number two came along called out:
''Going to trim your trees, eh?'
eyes"
"Ah! see. Ought to have waited a
month LATER"
The limb was off when No. 3 halted,
stood for minute with his hands in his
pockets and then asked:
"Going to trim your trees, eh?"
Eyes"
"Onght to have done that last month";
No. 4 said that April was the proper
month. No. wouldn't trim tree ex-
cept in May. No. 6 thought November
the best time of year, and so it went I'M
til every month in the year had been
named and there were five or six in
dividuals to spare. Before the first tree
was finished the seventeenth pedestrian
halted, threw away the stub of his cigar
and loudly demanded
"Going to trim your trees, eh?"
The man hung his saw to limb, got
down off the ladder, and splitting on bis
hands he walked close up to the inqulr-
er and said:
oh, nothing" answered the other, as
he lodged around pile of brick; Il wa:
simply going to ask you if you used tai
or porous plasters to cover the scars"
The citizen got his saw and ladder anC
disappeared in the house, and the re
mainder of the work will be done a
| night.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-10-18
To Make the Hands Beautiful.

The first great requisite toward beau
ty is absolute cleanliness. This can
never be attained without the plentiful
use of pure, soft water and good soap.
Nothing keeps the hands in such good
condition as rain water or distilled wa
ter but as these are often unattainable,
the next best must be made use of. A
bottle of ammonia and a box of powder
ed borax are indispensable toilet articles.
A few drops of one or tiny bit of the
other in the hardest water will make it
soft and pleasant to the touch. Neither
very hot nor very cold water should be
used; tepid water softens and cleanses
better than either. Extremes and sud-
den changes in temperature should be
avoided also. Fine white sandwich
may be dried and used again and again
poured into the basin and used with
the water will be found efficacious in
smoothing rough places and in remov-
ing certain stains which have not become
too deeply settled into the pores.
For whitening the hands there are va
rious preparations which may be used
without harm. Glycerine, vasaline, cold
cream, or mutton tallow, well rubbed in,
with pair ofold gloves worn over night,
will do much to soften and whiten. The
white of an egg, with grain of alum
dissolved in it, spread on the hands and
wrapped in old linen over night, will, SO
the chroniclers of Queen Anne's time
say, make even soft and flabby flesh
firm and clear looking. Oatmeal and
cornmeal, both dry and moist, may be
used with good effect. The toughest
and ugliest pair of hands may be made
smooth and soft, if not white, in one
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-10-18

The new combination of Smart Weed
md Belladsnna. as used in Carriers
Backache Plasters has proved to be one
of the best that could be made. Try
one of these popular plasters in any case
If weak or lame back, backache, rheu'
matism, neuralgia, soreness of the chest
or lungs, &c, and you will be surprised
and pleased by the prompt relief. In
bad cases of chronic dyspepsia, plaster
over the pit of the stomach stops the
pain at once. Ask for Carriers Smart
Weed and Belladonna Backache Plasters
Price 25 cents.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-10-18
Mr.. KELLY EXPLAINS.
The Method by Which His Inter-Atomic
Ether Is produced.

The Method by Which His Inter-Atomic
Ether is produced.
John w. Kelly, the inventor of the
Kelly motor, who las denied himself to
all interviewers for four years, has ex-
planned at length the wonderful expert
ments with his new motor gun which
were made at Sandy Hook at the ex-
pense of the Government.
stripping the process of all technical
terms" said the inventor, "the motor
gun is simply this: | take water and
air, two mediums of different specific
gravity, and produce from them, by gen.
eration,a effect, under vibrations, that
liberates from the air and water an inter-
atomic ether. The enormity of this
ether is boundless and can hardly be
comprehended. The specific gravity of
the ether is about four times lighter
than that of hydrogen gas, the lightest
gas so far discovered. The gun | used
at Sandy Hook was a breech-loading
rifle weighing 500 pounds. 1t was spe-
cially constructed for me. 1t was four
feet long and had four-inch bore. On
Wednesday last l charged my tube, a
five gallon reservoir of wrought iron and
Ii inches thick, with etheric vapor
Then boxed it up, and did not even
test it, so certain was l of It's power.
For three hours before the experiments
it remained untouched in my shop. The
process of charging 1t consumed less
than four seconds of time. You could
not guess how much material was used
in making the vapor land the inventor
smiied) to project twenty leaden bullets,
each weighing nearly five ounces, at
velocity of over 500 feet second. There
was required six drops of water and
about pint of air. From this combin-
alton derived sufficient force to fire
250 bullets of the weight of those used,
and fhe most curious thing about it all
ments that had increased the power in
my tube, instead of diminishing it, just
as race-horse needs to be warmed up
before he can do himself justice. The
initial velocity of the last bullet was
more than that of the first one. can
take the same tube and operate it an
other day..
Have you ever estimated the power
of your inter-atomic ether?" was asked.
81 have produced frequently" was the
answer, "a pressure of 10000 pounds to
the square inch in a quarter of second.
The process, In reality. is instantaneous
have succeeded in making vacuum of
thirty-one pounds pressure. The steel
coil attached to the gun increases the in
tensity OF the vibrations 6fteenfold. At
ter the ether is introduced into the
weapon to hold the projectile, the vibra-
tons liberate it, it expands, and the bull
let is propelled out with great force
four times as great, as l told you, as that
of gunpowder. l have succeeded in
generating pressure of Sc 600 pounds 10
the inch, and have torn Shaw guage
to pieces under the immense pressure. l
have propelled lead outlet through a
four inch plank of wood. In this in
stance, after passing through the wood,
so great was the force of it's progress it
flattened itself out the size of plate.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-10-18

month, if the owner will but see to it
that they are well washed in warm wa
ter every night, and rubbed with which,
ever OF the simple preparations mention
ed agrees with the skin one or two ap-
plications will discover that-and then
encased within pair of gloves, from
which the ends of the fingers have been
cut.
Now that we have the hands shapely,
soft, and white, let us turn our attention
to the nails. The modus eperandi OF
the professional manicure is as follows:
The finger tips are put to soak In dell
cately colored finger bowls half full OF
tepid water, slightly scented with per-
fume. After twenty minutes OF patient
waiting the operator takes one hand
and with an ivory blade, or dull pointed
steel one, loosens and pushes back the
cuticle from the half moon, which in
most cases is nearly or quite covered.
This is often attended with considerable
pain, or at least discomfort in stubborn
cases some manicures use acid, but this
is not desirable, as it makes the fingers
sensitive for DAYS. When the flesh is
well loosened all the supertiuous part Is
cut away with tiny pair OF curved scls'
sors, made expressly for the purpose
The nails are then trimmed to the prop
er shape. Pointed French ones are con
sidered the latest, put people of the best
taste find that an oval-shaped nail lit
tie longer and about the shape OF thu
finger, gives better taper to the finsel
than the pointed ones. However, tina
is matter of individual taste; but NJ
matter what the shape, they must b'
left to grow quite long.
After a filing, a chamois polisher ant
powder ale used until they shine beaut;
fully then comes a thorough washing
and brushing in tepid water, and agail
they are polished with the attendant
bare hand, the oil from the human ham
giving higher degree of polish on fin
ger-nails as well as on wood. This pro
cess consumes about an hour, and is en-
joyable. Many people pay stated sun
quarterly and go to manicure twice
week, but this is not at all necessary
Every time the hands are washed tn
flesh should be carefully pushed bac
with the towel; this will keep it loos
and in good shape, and two minutes rut
bling will give them good polish. ID
Dio Lewis.