Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19

diminished to one in 20, 927, O34. This
Is less than the chance of being struck
by lightning, and much less than that
of being injured by kerosene lamp ex-
plosion.
Step by step the leading food pro-
ducts of Europe are being reproduced in
this country. Macaroni is made by
Italians in New York, Neuchatel cheese
by Swiss in New jersey Schweizer
kase by GermaDs in Ohio Albert biscuit
by EnglishGen in Albany, and caviare
by Russians in Harlem. Nearly all of
these are exported to Europe, and there
solo as domestic manufactures.
In discussing the question of irriga-
lion In California, the San Francisco
papers sound the alarm that the system
is being overdone especially in grape
and fruit raising. Copious moisture in
warm climate promotes rapid growth,
yet it does not permit trees and plants
to mature. The wood is consequently
soft and sappy, and the fruit watery and
insipid. This accounts, in part at least,
for the favorless fruits and vegetables
often shipped from California. The
forcing process may seem to insure tenn
porary profits, but may ultimately work
more harm than good in the fruit itself.
Last year the government distributed
3,622, 1888 packages of seeds, of which
2,912, $50 were given to Congressman.
The seed distribution is the most pop
ular of the perquisites of members of
Congress. 1t began in small way, but
now 800, 900 are appropriated for the
purpose, and 100 women and fifty men
are employed by the department of agri-
culture in putting up the seeds, which
are of all sorts, from field corn and potatoes
to the rarest flowers. Peas, beans, corn
and potatoes are put up in quart sacks
and the flower seeds in tiny envelopes.
The list includes over fifty kinds, while
OF vegetables there are 1923 varieties and
of flowers 131.
The Cinnamon on the Pacific coast are
very careful to return to China the bodies
of all their deceased countrymen. A
Western paper says: "When tomb is
opened the resurrectionist scratches
around in the dust until he has secured
every part of the dried skeleton, and
these are carefully sacked up in clean
white sacks, about two feet In length.
and labeled for the Flowery Kingdom.
The cost of collecting, permit and trans
portation to San Francisco is SIS per
skeleton, and across the ocean the
charges are $50 per ton. No one is
missed; not Celestial is so poor but his
bones are transported to the land he left
in the years before"
1t has been suggested that Bartholdi's
statue of Liberty could be made useful
as we'll as ornamental by putting in the
torch an electric apparatus for projecting
an intense cylindrical beam of light
against the overhanging clouds, which
would show the location of New York
to vessels far out at sea. The apparatus,
it is said, would not cost more than three
thousand dollars, and it is believed that
the beam of light would produce cloud
illumination which would be visible
from vessels at least sixty miles off shore.
The light which it is proposed to put in
the torch will be visible at distance of
about forty miles under favorable condi-
lions, or from little over twenty miles
outside of Sandy Hook, and will be of
very little practical use to navigators.
''This country should be made too hot
for the despicable italian padroni,n de.
clares a Philadelphia paper. "Years
ago they began purchasing little children
in Italy, who were brought here and
made to slave in the streets of the great
cities as musicians and bootblacks for
the sole benefit of their remorseless own
ers. But the children learned English,
became Amercanized and rebeled. This
forced the padroni to turn their attention
to another field of oppression and money
getting. They, therefore, imported
gangs of Ignorant Italian peasants, and
for some time have hired them out as
railroad laborers, eXacting the greater
part of their earnings from them and
treating them in the most shameful man.
ner. Fortunately, the padroni system
of slavery has been completely exposed.
1t should now be totally eradicated."
According to the returns prepared by
the French ministry of agriculture, the
law which has been passed within the
last two years with regard to the destruc-
ton of wolves has had the effect of in
creasing the vigilance of the officials APP
pointed for that purpose, as well as of
private individuals. A sum of $40 is now
paid for every wolf which has attacked
human being, and nine were killed last
year in three of the central departments
OF France. A reward of $50 is given for
every she.wolf with young, and thirty
two of them were killed last year. A
sum of $40 is given for every other wolf
killed, and TIA were killed, this being
exclusive Of 493 cubs for each of which
reward of So is given. Altogether, 1, 3OS
were destroyed last year, at cost to the
government of $40, $50 in fees alone.
The greatest number of wolves were
killed in the northern and eastern de-
partments bordering upon Belgium and
Germany.
Apropos of the suicide mania, Louis
vile, Ky, gentleman calls attention to
the fact that negroes hardly ever take
their own lives. Although great many
of them are hard up from the day Of
their birth to the day of their
death, they seldom become mean-
choly, and it is only among couresans
that suicides occur. Notwithstanding
their complaints of hard times the gim'-
me-a-nickle expression on their counte-
nances and generally hungry appear
ance, they hang on to life with the te-
nacity of mud turtle. They are not
prompted to do so through hope of being