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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-11-07
Rronchifis.

Bronchus literally means the wind
pipe. But with its plural bronchD it
denotes not only the windpipe, but also
all the branching passages through
which air is conveyed to the air-cells at
their numerous examinations. These
bronchial tubes are lined-except the
very finest portions-with membrane
whose Office it is to secrete thin fluid,
mucus, whereby their walls are kept
moist and soft.
Bronchitis is an Inflammation of this
mucous membrane. 1t is common
everywhere. Generally its seat is the
large tubes, most often the portion ex-
ternal to the lungs. Occasionally its
seat is the small tubes, when, especi-
ally in the case of children and the aged,
it is apt to be speedily fatal.
In its acute form it commonly origi-
mates in cold which first affects the
nasal passages, and then travels down
ward, giving rise to a dry cough, and
causing sense of tightness, and feel
ing of soreness in the chest, This lasts
few days, and constitutes the first
stage. Then the expectoration, instead
of being transparent and scanty, be-
comes thick, yellow Tor greenish) and
more abundant. The soreness eases, and
the person feels greatly relieved.
The disease is self-limiting, and termi-
mates in recovery within ten or twelve
days on an average. AS rule it tends
neither to pneumonia nor to consumption.
The liability to it connects with some I'M
known condition of the atmosphere. It's
most frequent exciting cause is chill of
some part of the body. A dose of salts,
light diet, and, if the attack is severe,
keeping in warm bed few days are all
the treatment needed.
If the acute attacks are frequently re-
peated, and the general health is low,
they may result in chronic bronchitis-a
much more serious ailment. The latter
is most common in old age. 1t inclines
to persist for years, and in the aged, for
life. Its Characteristic is frequent fits Of
coughing, and an expectoration more or
less abundant. If the smaller tubes are
affected, the matter expectorated is more
solid and tenacious, and is raised with
much difficulty. The appetite may re-
main good Though it is often otherwise,
and there may be no marked loss Of
flesh. 1t does not increase the liability
to consumption, but, says Flint, "per-
haps the reverse"
In treating it, the leading object
should be to invigorate the health. To
this end tonic remedies may be used,
while the diet should be generous, and
the life be spent as much as possible out
of doors. Youths Communion.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-11-07
HOW Girls Grow Plump.

The gentle Olive Harper tells how
girls and women grow plump and full.
They go in most decidedly for hygiene,
she says, and they take their baths and
exercise like prize fighters, and science,
too, comes in little in the shape of two
or three parties who get we'll paid for
directing them how to add or diminish
their aVoirdupois. Exercise and a. strict
adherence to Banting's precepts are
ordered Tor reducing, and baths Of
what do you think2 Baths of cod liver
oil and Banting again, are given for the
purpose of adding to ones weight.
We asked one young lady how it had
affected her, and she said that the smell
of the oil was well nigh insupportable at
first, but now she only takes it at night,
and then gets into bed and holds a
strongly perfumed handkerchief to her
nose till she goes to sleep. In the morn
ing she takes perfumed and very soapy
warm bath, and that ends it until night
again, and she AYERS that she has gained
fifteen pounds in four weeks.
When we asked her if it was not
rather expensive, she laughed and SAID !:
"Well, little, but then not so much so
as cosmetics and l really feel stronger
and better than have for years. l am
willing to pay all do, you know. I
DON'T, of course, use over two quarts at a
bath, 1t is absorbed, suppose. To tell
the truth, my newly gained weight has
cost me, with the advice, about $40 a
pound. That isn't so very dear, now, is
itW And we thought it wasn't.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-11-07

The matter of holding a permanent
exhibition in New York is being dis
cussed. In his address at the opening oil
the American Institute Fair recently
Honorable Abram S. Hewitt declared
that New York should have great ex.
hibilion, located in Central Park, and
kept open six months in every year.
Since then the press has taken up the
subject, and the drift of public senti
ment seems tending toward permanent
exposition, kept open the year round, to
be located in one of the new parks,
where splendid geological and botanical
gardens could be maintained in connec
ton with grand exhibits of mechanical
and other industries, forming a splendid
peoples college," always available fol
the amusement and instruction of the
community.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-11-07
Hollands Fight with the Sea.

After delicious breakfast of coffee
different kinds of cheese, always indis-
pensable in Dutch breakfasts, we took
the railroad again and crossed Zealand,
which chiefly consists of four islands,
Noordt, Beveland, Zuid Beveland,
Schouwen, and Walcheren, and is less
visited by the rest of the Netherlands
than any other part of the country. The
land is all cut up into vast polders, as
the huge meadows are called, which are
recovered from the sea and protected by
embellishments. Here, if human care was
withdrawn for six months, the whole
country would be under the sea again
A corps of engineers, called "Water-
staat" are continually employed to watch
the waters and keep in repair the dikes,
which are formed of clay at the bottom,
as that is more waterproof than anything
else, and matched with willows, which
are here grown extensively for the pur-
pose. If the sea passes dixie ruin is
imminent, an alarm bell rings and the
whole population rush to the rescue.
The moment one dixie is even menaced
the people begin to build another inside
it, and then rely upon the double defense
while they fortify the old one. But all
their care has not preserved the islands
of Zealand. Three centuries ago Schou-
wen was entirely submerged, and every
living creature drowned. Soon after
the Noordt Beveland was submerged and
remained for several years entirely under
water, only the points of the church
spires being visible. Zuid Beveland has
been submerged in the fourteenth CEN
fury. Walcheren was submerged as late
as 1903, and Tholen even in 1926. 1t
has been aptly asserted that the sea to
the inhabitants of Holland is what We
suvious is to Tore del Greco. De Ami
els says that the Dutch have three enc
mies-the sea, the lakes and the rivers;
they repel the sea, they dry the lakes,
and they imprison the rivers, but with
the sea it is combat that never ceases
Good Words,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-11-07
Among Alaska Glaciers.

A letter from Alaska to the Providence
Journal says: A vast ice field, the &C.
emulation of ages, stretched back as
far as the eye could reach, or rose still
like seemingly limitless walls they met
the horizon. Icebergs whose wondrous
colorings and grotesque formations ex-
ceeded our widest imaginings, surround
ed us on all sides. A huge blue pyra.
mid, growing fainter toward the apex,
where rested a mass of snowy whiteness,
sailed slowly by to be followed by an
other, black at the water line, growing
bottle-green, lighter olive, and then by
inexplicable transformation becoming
tipped with delicate turquoise. Pin
nacles, arches and domes in turn drifted
by, till the speed of the Ancon was
checked, and we found ourselves ready
to drop anchor, while before us rose a
vertical ice-wall 500 feet in hight and
with frontage of three and half
miles. Not daring to attempt a pen-pic-
ture, quote the words of Muir, the
State geologist of California: "The
whole front row of this majestic glacier
is dashed and sculptured into a maze of
EARNING chasms and crevices, and be-
wildering variety of strange Architectural
forms appalling to the strongest nerves,
but novel and beautiful beyond descrip-
ton. Clusters of glittering, lanced-
tipped spires, gables and obelisks, bold
outstanding bastions and plain mural
cliffs adorned along the top with fretted
cornice and battlements, while every
gorge and erevasse, chasm and hollow
were filed with light shimmering and
pulsing in blue tones Of ineffable tender
ness and loneliness. When at the firing
of cannon huge masses of ice became
detached and plunged into the water,
with force that threw the spray hun
dreds of feet into the air, and even at the
distance we were, caused our steamer to
sway violently, the excitement culmi
mated, and the cheers of the party mingled
with the echoes of the fall as the dis
tant crags sent them back to us. We
were landed on shore, and after almost
the entire afternoon spent climbing the
side moraine, looking back at our ship,
an atom in the distance, we returned,
feeling the half had not been told us.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-11-07
The Fate of Russian Rulers.

The church of st. Peter and Paul is
the burial place of the emperors, and
solemn place it is, says a st. Petersburg
letter to the Hartford Times. The large
white tomb of Alexander II. is regarded
with veneration- and surrounded with
emblems of grief; they call him their
martyred emperor and honor him as the
emancipation of the serfs. Next lies his
father, Nicholas l., who poisoned him
self. By his side is the body of his elder
brother who, having married a Polish
lady for love, abdicated the throne which
he had forfeited by marrying beneath
him. But the abdication could not save
him; he disappeared, and his death was
considered necessary to avoid revolu-
ton. Our guide, continuing the sad
history, said: "Here lies Paul who was.
suffocated; there is the body of Peter
Ill. who was assassinated; there is the
tomb af Annie, who was exiled to Siberia
and died of a broken heart, and next
lies her son, who was stabbed" We
looked at the gilded magnificence of the
church and the calm of the beautiful
marble tombs, and shuddered with hor
ror at the recital.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-11-07
Chinese Floating Homes,

The family ouse-boats, which are one
of the most curious phases of domestic
life in China, are described by an Eng
fish resident of that country as practi-
cally proving the old truism that imam
wants but little here below" for the
"lttle" which forms the clean and happy
homes of three generations is boat
about the size of two four-post beds
set end to end, and covered in at night
by a series of telescope sliding roof of
bamboo mating. Here man and wife,
grandparents and little children cook,
sleep and worship; for, no matter how
small the place, the family altar occupies
the place of honor.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-11-07
Irritating Gowns.

A lady, who has an aptitude for re-
garding her own troubles from the hui
morous side, recently described to an ed
itor of the Boston Courier, her sufferings
as a child from being obliged to wear
gowns which were ''made overn from
those of her grandmother.
"You may fancy" she said, "that
colors and patterns which were extreme
ly suitable for woman of sixty were by
no means so appropriate for child of
ten. Then, too, l was always regarded
as direfully destructive child because
these same gowns wore out so quickly.
My grandmother would declare solemnly
that she had worn that brown delaine for
ten years without tearing it, while had
ruined it completely in month. 1t
never seemed to occur to her that ten
years use might have made a gown
quite ready to wear out on a growing
girl. l remember one gown in particular
which had ground of dull chocolate,
over which struggled blossoms of hide
Gus smutty purple, with leaves and ten
drills of wood color. 1t is positively true
that my temper was ruined for the day
by having to don this gown"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-11-07

There are many unsupported ways in
which farm animals, wild animals and in.
socts spread diseases. A curious instance
is given IN the Medical and Surgical Re.
porter of village in which one person in
each of several families was suddenly
found to be suffering from consumption
Of the lungs or tubercuar phthisis. Upon
Investigation it was found that the dis.
case had been spread through the village
by means of spring chickens sold therein
from a private hospital near by where
the chickens had been reared. A patient
of the hospital, lady, had amused her.
self by feeding and petting the chickens,
and had given them the meat which she
had chewed for its juice. The spittoon
used by the patient had also been emptied
near where the chickens had been fed,
and the fowls had consumed the sputa
from it. When the fowls were examined
they were found to be badly diseased,
many had died, and most of them had tu,
bercular bacilli in their livers and flesh.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-11-07
FOR FEMININE READERS
where women are Old mt Thirty.


The government Of the house of the
Brahmin is strictly in the hands of the
man; of the father during the youth of
the family, and of the eldest son after
he marries. The son always takes his
wife to the parental roof, and as the sons
marry, additions are built to the house
until it becomes village in itself. In
this place the women are imprisoned
literally buried alive. From the day of
their marriage, which is at very early
age, they never see more of the outer
world than the narrow expanse of sky
and cloud that looks down upon them
between the walls of their prison home.
No men are allowed to enter the house
but the members of the family and the
priest, except on very rare occasions, and
then unseen by the women. Married at
ten years-for spinsterhood is abomina-
ble-mothers at twelve, they are faded
and old at the beginning of their fifth
lustrum. They die of sheer old age at
about thirty.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-11-07

Bronze gree and pomegranate red are
the colors most used by combinations in
Paris this month.
Pomegranate red, Eton blue and AL
derney cream are fashionable colors in
England just now.
Tan-colored, undressed kid gloves re-
main in fashion both for the street and
for full-dress occasions.
Parisians have named a new shade eil
de roi bleu, kings eye blue. 1t is most
frequently combined with ruby red.
Many Of the combination dresses for
winter are made of three different mate
rials-two Of wool, the third of velvet.
Bretelles are once more seen on the
bodices; they run over the shoulder and
down both back and front to the waist
line.
A pretty costume for little boy is a
plated blouse waist, in plain goods, and
kilt or box-plaited skirt, in plaid, at
tached.
Laced stockings are new this season
and are liked by those who object to
carriers. The part laced is from the knee
to the top.
Black embroidered laces with seal
Hoped edges and embroidered net to
match are the new trimmings for dresses
of black silk or satin.
Those velvet brooches in which the de-
sign is sruken in the pile instead of being
raised ali Jve the ground are called lavo
relieva or intaglio velvet broche.
A cunning imported coat for a child
of from two to four yelr is of white
lambskin. Plush coats for misses, trim
med with lace, are also very effective.
A very stylish overcoat for boy of
four years of all-wool plaid, double
breasted front, with trimmings of As
trachan cloth. The price is moderate.
New Partisan bonnets are real birds
nests full of newly fledged birds, which
are designed to be set on the top of the
bonnet, the frame being followed out to
receive them.
The ornamentation admissible on a
cloth jacket consists of braid, velvet or
stitching. The braiding may be more or
less elaborate, and if done in good style
and pattern looks well.
Travelling cloaks are made this season
with capes which form sleeves, and
which in reality are large shoulder
pieces, giving the effect of cape, except
at the back, which is very narrow.
The Spanish and Escurial fchus are to
be worn this winter as carriage head COW
ering by young ladies. The Spanish
fashion will be carried out even to hav-
ing them fastened by a yellow or pink
rose.
The newest shapes in dolmans are cut
straight across the back, a little below
the waist, with long square tabs in front.
The sleeves are both round and square,
and the whole garment is lined with
some brightlytinted satin.
One of the bouquets of crisp flowers
which are illuminated by means of cleo
trio wires, burst into flames recently at a
New York theatre. 1t was seized by a
ballot girl, who took it from the stage
and quickly extinguished the blaze.
Brocades with a satin ground and flow
ers or figures of velvet, plush or frise, or
of the three combined, are used for dol
mans and wraps. The trimming consists
of marabout and fringe of soft chenille,
some of which is tipped with jet and
others plain
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-11-07
or Hrrnnrp Irp TH1nrrrr M11rs .,

ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN Miles OF
ORGAEs.-In numbering the organs Of their
No. 10000. Arranged in a line these woull
reach llS miles, or would fence tins railroad
on one side from thu rand Cent. al Station il
New York, to within tNeaty miles Of Spring
field, Mass. Not only does this show the great
popularity Of American organs, but it Illus.
trates what was declared by James Parton u
be general fact tia. he who makes the best
article in his line always has the test sue
cess
We understand that the Mason & Hamlin
Company's new Upright Piano Is now com
handing large sale, and Is, in every way,
up tothe standard Of their unrivaled organs
We predict a largo success for this piano,
which is constructed on q new system, said
to be decided advance over the prevailing
wrest-pin system. Journal
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-11-07

During the siege of Paris hippophagy
was a matter of necessity; indeed toward
the concluding months horse meat had
become a. luxury unattainable by the
vast mass of the population. Since 1871
the consumption of horse flesh has gone
on steadily increasing. In 1874 the
number of horses slaughtered for food
in Paris was 4, 682. Ten years later the
consumption had more than doubled
in 1883 Paris ate 0,4S5 horses, 307 asses
and forty mules, or not far short of five
million pounds weight of horse, ass and
mule meat. The explanation of this in
crease is, of course, the high price OF
beef and mutton in the French capital.
While the artisan can purchase horse
steak at less than sixponce pound, he
has to pay three times as much for cut
of beef or mutton. Among the. hippoph-
agists of Paris the flesh of the ass and
the mule is esteemed even more highly
than that of the horse, those delicacies
fetching a price fifteen to twenty pei
lcent higher
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-11-07
In everr mari of ths nnnntru the rnil.

In every part of the country the rail
roads have been much troubled by the
rank growth Of weeds on and near to
their tracks, which have cost them q
great deal of money and trouble to
eradicate. A Western road is trying q
contrivance devised to destroy these
weeds, and which promises to prove
quite successful. 1t consists of two iron
pipes projecting on each side of the en-,
CINE in front. The exhaust steam is con,
Quoted into these pipes instead of into
the sp1okc-stack, and the steam and gas
arc thereby thrown out close to the track
in front of the engine or each side. 1t
kills weeds and grass foY two feet on
each side of the track.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-11-07
A Venetian wedding Day.

"A Venetian festival, says q correspond
emit, IS synonym of all that is magnifi-
cent and romantic. From the earliest
history the fetes have been events of the
greatest popular interest and Importance.
They have been celebrated most frequently
to perpetuate the memory of some tri-
umph of the Venetian army, and the
patriotism of the people has been kept
alive by these fetes quite as much as by
the consciousness of commercial import
ance and power.
For centuries the Marian festivals were
the most important holidays of the year.
1t was custom introduced early in the
tenth century to select from the different
parishes of the city twelve poor maidens,
distinguished for virtue and beauty, who
were provided with dowry at the cost of
the state, and fitted out with wedding
trousseaus from the treasury of st. Mark.
The girls were dressed in long robes of
white, with loosened hair interviewer
with threads of gold, and in a rich barge
were carried to the Church of st. Peter,
followed by a cortege of gayly decorated
gondolas, with music and singing, the
doge and signory accompanying the pro-
cession. Each maiden bore in her hand
small box containing her dowry and met
her appointed husband in the church.
Mass was celebrated, and the bishop of
ticiated in the marriage ceremonies. This
was the beginning of the fete, which
lasted whole week. With the growth
of luxury and laxity of morals the fes-
tival lost its original character, and it
hnpaDon 10 I,,,ft 60 H.
and during the Genovese war, in the
fourteenth century, the celebration was
neglected and fell into disuse. An Incl
dent which happened in the tenth cen
fury during the observance of this fes-
tival has long been favorite theme of
artists and poets, and illustrates too well
the spirit of the day and the isolation OF
the new republic to be omitted here.
The Trieste pirates long watched an op-
pcrtunity to rob the festal barge of its
treasures both human and monetary. and
one fine morning of st. Mary's eve thew
burst open the doors of the church, sur
prised the congregation and escaped with
the brides and the treasures. The doge,
who was present, urged immediate pur-
suit. Every boat capable of CARRYING
rowers was manned and put to sea in the
greatest haste. Venice rose as one man to
join the pursuit of the pirates and to as
sist in the recovery of the brides. The
enthusiasm of the Venetians was so ire
sistible that the pirates were overtaken
and beaten in one of the entrances to the
lagoon Not pirate escaped, such was
the fury of the pursuers. The brides
were recovered entirely unframed, and
the ceremony of marriage took place with
increased pomp the same evening.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-11-07
me Innsnese amman to hn determin.a

The Japanese appear to be determined
70 render themselves, as far as possible,
Independent Of foreign countries. They
have, says the Pharmaceutical Journal es
tablished in Toxic factory for the pro
duction Of pharmaceutical chemicals on
large scale. A company with a capital
OF about $40, 600 has been formed for
this purpose. of this amount the gov.
eminent has contributed one-half free oil
interest for twenty years, beside making
free grant of land and erecting the
necessary buildings. A similar company
is taking up the utilization of the waste
sake from the native bieweries in the
manufacture of alcohol, and the manu-.
facture of bleaching powder on large
scale has been commenced.