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

The bank note paper on which Amerf-
can legal tender, national bank note
currency and government bonds are
printed is made entirely at Dalton, Mass.
If you should happen to stop at the pa
per mill, with proper introduction and
credentials, you may perhaps be allowed
to handle sheet of crisp paper, where,
as the wet, grayish pulp is pressed be-
tween heavy iron cylinders, bits of blue
and red silk are scattered over its face
and silken ribs laid on its service. You
may go beyond into the counting room.
where each sheet, as it comes from the
drying room, is carefully examined,
counted, and then returned to the paper
cutter to be divided into smaller sheets.
If you trace this paper still further, you
will find that from the cutters hands it
passes again into the counting room, and
is separated into packages containing
1000 sheets each, the amount recorded in
a register and then packed in bundles and
stored in fire and burglar proof vaults to
await shipment to the United States
Treasury. From the pulp room to the
vault the precious paper is watched and
guarded as carefully as though each sheet
were an ounce of gold It's manufacture
is one of the greatest secrets connected
with the governments money making.
From the vaults of the paper mill at Dali
ton to the guarded store rooms of the
treasury at Washington is a journey of
several hundred miles. In the capacious
vaults of the treasury building among
gold, silver, copper and nickle coins,
bullion, paper currency and official
records you will find thousands of pack
ages of the bank note paper made at Dali
ton. 1t comes in little iron safes, such
as are used by the Adams Express COM
pany, and each package and every sheet
is carefully counted before the manu-
facturer and express company are relieved
Of further responsibility. The paper that
arrives to-day may lie in the treasury
store room for years. or it may be sent to
the bureau Of engraving and printing to-
morrow, to return in the course of a
months time legal tender or bank note.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19
Speech by Sight.

Not long since the Mirror recorded
experiences in what it entitled clip
Reading"-which in more complicated
form appears to have been subject of
special culture. The little town of Mys-
tic, in Eastern Connecticut, has school
where the dumb are taught to speak
from the motion of the vocal organs,
founded ON a combination of signs
formed from the position of the lips,
teeth, tongue and palate as they are en-
ployed in speaking. The system is
methodically taught.
1t may amuse the reader who is inter
ested in elocution and Evolutionary meth
DDS to know that the general shapes of
the organs above named are the principal
basis of the teaching, The vowel
sounds, for instance, are all represented
by front view of the lips-the sound
of e, as in eel or me, is represented by a
straight line for the upper-lip, and a
slightly curved line joining the straight
line at both ends for the lower. If you
look at your own lips in a glass and
pronounce any word that has long e,
you will see that they assume this posi-
ton, and so on, changeably, through the
whole gamut of vowe,s. 1t should be
understood that it is the principle ma
tured and enlarged that furnishes a vo-
cabulary for the deaf and dumb. 1t may
be considered with profit by actors,
teachers of elocution, lawyers, preachers
and Others of the oratorical brotherhood.
-NeW York Mirror.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19
The Manufacture of MOccasins.

Everybody in Maine is familiar with
the baggy, yellow boots and shoes called
moccasns, which in winter form the ia
vorlte footwear of our lumbermen and
farmers. These unique boots have a his
tory which dates back to the middle of
the century.
The material is common leather, but
tanned in a peculiar way. The principal
ingredients in the tanning are salt and
alum. with kind of oil. The method
is something of secret known to but
few.
Leather thus tanned was first used as
lacing for mill belts. 1t was some time
before its utility as boot and shoe mate
rial was discovered. In 1851 e. P. Bald
win, who kept shoe shop in Bangor,
obtained some of the leather from Paw
tucket, and began the manufacture of
the moccasin. In 1852 the business had
increased considerably in Bangor, and a
mandatory was established in Oldtown.
The work in those days was quite crude,
and far behind that Of to-day in style and
started in Bangor, and from this estab-
li.hment was sent the first pair of mecca
sins that ever went to Dubuque. Trade
was very prosperous until the opening of
the rebellion. Then the business Ian
guished, but in 1868 became established
upon permanent basis.
In 1871 the mode of moccasin manu-
facture was revolutionized by the advent
of improved machinery and new ideas.
fNho - IF tha lacs o1tora1 70
bring the seam upon the side instead
of at the back, and the seam which for.
merly made an uncomfortable ridge in
the leg was superseded by the flat lap
seam. Much of the sewing is let out at
so much dozen pairs to French Cana
dian families who live in the suburbs.
The larger part of the stock still comes
from Rhode Island, but Bangor is the
great centre of the moccasin manufacture,
as many pairs being made here, probably,
as in all other places combined. At Red
Wing and st. Paul, Mimi, and Racine.
Wis, the manufacture is quite extensive
ly CARRIED on, and it is from these places
that Bangor encounters the strongest
competition Over 300 people are en-
ployed here, and the production, which
in 1881 was so, 900 pairs of boots and
20, 900 pairs of shoes, has been increasing
yearly.
The tanning renders the leather per-
feet non-conductor of water, and, to a
considerable extent, non conductor of
heat and cold. For these reasons the
moccas'n is popular with lumbermen and
farmers, and thousands of Western far
mers are supplied from Bangor, while
our own lumbermen would as soon think
of going into the woods without their
axes as without their moceasins. When
new the boots have an oily feeling, an
ordor not disagreeable, and of bright
golden color. The axe artist trudges
away in winter in boots to the snowy
woods, while the small boy of the city
frolics in shoes that are now known as
Bangor's golden slippers.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19
Heaviest Clock in America.

The clock in Trinity church tower in
this city is the heaviest In America. The
frame stands nine feet long, five feet
high, and three feet wide. The main
wheels are thirty inches in diameter.
There are three wheels in the time train,
and three each in the strike and the
chime. The winding wheels are formed
of solid castings thirty inches in diane
ter and two inches thick, and are driven
by opinion and arbor." On this arbor
is placed jack, or another wheel, pin
ion and crank, and its takes $50 turns of
this crank to wind each weight up. 1t
requires 700 feet of three inch rope for
the three cords, and over an hour for
two men to wind the clock. The pen
dulum is eighteen feet long, and oscil-
lates twenty-five times per minute. The
dials are eight feet in diameter, although
they look little more than half that size
from Broadway. The three rEeights are
about eight hundred, twelve hundred and
fifteen hundred pounds respectively. 6
large box is placed at the bottom of the
well that holds about bale of cotton
waste, so that if cord should break the
cotton would check the ccncrssion.-
Scientific american.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19

The United States ship. of-war Quinne-
baug has had an unexpected success in
an unexpected quarter. The sultan Of
Turkey has been so impressed with the
proficiency of the band of music which
ACCOMPANIES the vessel that in an ebul-
htiOn of enthusiasm he has presented to
each musician set of diamond studs, to.
gethef with less valuable pieces of
jewclry. The f1nte-player he even de-
Hires to appropriate and make his own,
sh0uld Admiral Baldwin consent to part
with him., Whether the present Turkish
rulers appreciation of music is greater
than that CT one of his predecessors has
BOT been ascertained, but it is still recol-
.lected of a former Sultan that after lis
tsning to the elaborate execution of
many important works by an orchestra,
be desired them to repeat the theme
which had pleased him the most, and
after many futile attempts to discover
what that might be, the chance tuning
of his instrument by a violinist was
hailed with Joy by the Sublime Porte,
vino declared that to be his choice among
all
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19
Yearning for the Unattainable

One who will recognize me when | am
compelled to wear patched breeches;
who will take my hand when l am sliding
down hill instead of giving me kick to
hasten my descent; who will loan me a
dollar without requiring twenty dollars
worth of security, who will come to see
me when am sick; who will pull off
mis- coat and fight for me when the odds
are two to one; who will talk of me be-
hind my back as he talks to my face
Such friend is wanted by ten thousand
human beings throughout this broad
earth. San Francisco Post.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19
Common chamois skins are only
sheep skins carefully tanned. Real
chaInois skins are very expensive.
90 AaGn0l aRNexy.D

are the words used by lady, who was at one
time given up by the most eminent physicians,
and left 10 die. Reduced to q mere skeleton.
pale and haggard, not able to leave her bed,
from all those distressing diseases peculiar to
suffering females, such as displacements, leu
corrhoea, Inflammation, ETC., etc She began
taking DR.. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription, s.
and also using the local treatments recon.
mended by him, and is now, she says, "as
good as new" Price reduced to one dollar.
By druggists
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19
on Knnclss The snots,,,

and everything in the nature Of eruptions,
blotches, pimples, ulcers, scrofulous humors,
and incipient consumption, which is nothing
more nor less than scrofula Of the lungs, COM
pletely out of the system 1t stimulates and
invigorates the liver, tones up the stomach,
regulates the bowels, puriies the blood, and
builds up the weak places of the body. 1t is a
purely vegetable compound, and will do more
than is claimed for it. We refer to DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19

TINRIPE FRUIT, Impure Water, unhealthy Gil
~ mate, UnwhoesOme Food, Malaria Epidemic
and Contagious Diseases, Cholera Morbus, Cramps
Pains, Indigestion, Darrhea, Colds, Chil!s Simple
Fevers, Exhaustion, Nervousness, or loss Of Sleep
that beset the traveller household at this season.
are nothing to those protected by timely use Of
SANFORD'S GINGER the Delicious Summer
Medicine. Avoid mercenary dealers, who for few
cents extra profit try to force upon you their own
or others when you call for sANFoRD'S GINGER.
Sold by wholesale and retail druggists, grocers,
etc., everywhere.
Potter Drug and CHI I'm cal Co., Boston.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19

h. Kuhn, of Lafayette, Inl., had very
narrow e cl2e from death This is his own
story: -" Cha year ago 1 was in the last stages
OF c0nsunpu n Our hest physicians gave
my ca-e Ut. finally got so low that our
doctr sail / could rot live twenty-four
hcues Ny friend then pu chased bottle Of
DR.. VIM. Halls Balsam for the Lungs, which
bsre6tsi me. continued until am now in
perfect heath, having used no other
msii.ine."
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19

Queen Victoria is sixty-five years of
age. She has been forty seven years on
the British throne. With the exception
of Edward III and George III, she has
reigned longer than any other British sew
ereign. Queen Elizabeth's reign lasted
forty-fve years, and is next to that of
Queen Victoria in length.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19
Throw Away Trusses

when OUT new method IS guaranteed to rer-
manently cure the worst cases of rupfure
without tho use of knife. Send two letter
stamps for pamphlet and references Worlds
Dispensaly Medical Association. 66S Main
street. Buffalo. N V.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19

"That is what you call the music of
the future" remarked Fogg, in refer
ence to the baritone player in the
band. CAT any rate, he manages to
keep ahead Of the time right along"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19
HAr FrvER. I have been a rre.t sulrerer

HAY FEVER. have been a great sufferer
from Hny-Fever for Is years and have tried
various things without doing any good. read
of the many wondrous cures If Elys Cream
Balm and thought / would try once more. In
Is minutes after one application l was wonder
fully helped. Two weeks ago | commenced
using it and now l feel eptHeiy cured. II is
the greatest discovery ever known or hearl of.
DUHAMEL CLARK, Farmer Lee, Mass. Price
20 cents
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19

KELLER g. Co., the leading Furniture deal-
crs of Boston, issue special catalogue of Fur
niture which win be mailed upon application
SO to 81 Washington street, corner Elm.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19

The medical properties of petroleum have
long been known to the aborigines, and since
Caroline has become SO well known as hail
restorer and dressing, petroleum takes from
rank among the new remedies.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19

Druggists in malarial districts say that
Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is
as much the standard remedy for female weak
ness as quinine is for the prevailing chill5 and
fever
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19

Is one that yields its owner a good profit
through the whole season. But he must sup
ply the cows with what they need in order for
them 20 be able 10 keep up. their
product. When their butter gets light in color
Richardson 6 Co.'S, Improved Butter Color.
1t gives the golden color of June, and adds five
cents per pound 70 the value Of the butter.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19
SANF0RD'S GINGER

PREPARED with the utmost skill from IMPoR-
l. TED GINGER, CHOICE AROMATtCS AMI
the purest and best Of Medicinal FRENCH
BRANDY, from the world renowned winners,
Messrs. OTARD, DUPUY & Co, C2GNAC. rem
derng It vastly superior to all other "Gilsers' all
Of which are made with common alcohol. largely
impre grated with poisonous fusil oil and strengthened
with cayenne pepper. Beware of limitations.
sANFoRD's is the finest ginger in the world and,
notwithstanding the high cost of Its ingredients
is the cheapest family Medicine Sold every
where.
Potter Drug and Chemical Co., Boston.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19
A GpIendId Dairy

though on Dentist" Tooth Powder.
Smooth, refreshing harmless, elegant, cleans
ing, preservatye aud fragrant. l5c. Druggists
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19

A man in Leeds, Englands, says he
can build a ship which will cross the
ocean in three days.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19

AS BEVERAGE, with hot or cold water,
IN sweetened or hot or cold milk, or added to ice
water. lemonade, effervescent draughts and min
eral waters, S iNFORD'S GINGER forms a re-
freshIng and tnvigorating beverage, unequalled in
simple ty and purity by any tonic medicine, while
free from alcoholic reaction.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19

Bed-Bu2s, Flies.
Flies, hes, ants, bed bugs rats. mice chip
hunks. cleared ont by CROUCH on Rlts. Is
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19

The short hacking cough, which leads to
consumption, Is cured by Pisos Cure.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19

An interesting series of maps showing
the cholera routes in the different cpl
denies beginning in 1917 is printed in
the Chicago Tribune. The epidemic of
1917 did not reach this country, but
beginning near Calcutta it travelled
about the Eastern hemisphere for six
years, disappearing in 1923. The cpl
demic of 1926 started in India, and even
tually reached this country, appearing al
most simultaneously in New York and
Quebec; followed the water routes
westward to Buffalo, Detroit and Chica-
go; went down the Mississippi, and did
not disappear until 1882. The epidemic
of 1912 reached this country by New Or
leans, and did not disappear until 1S49.
The epidemics of 1865 and 1871 were
of shorter duration. Both reached this
country, the former appearing in New
York and the latter in New Orleans.
There has seldom been a visitation Of
cholera in any city that did not leave a
large number of victims. Many citizens
do not record the deaths, and statements
OF the number cannot be made. Doc
tor John @. Peters, of New York, makes
this statement: In 1882 there were 2, 966
deaths from cholera in New York, $50
in Albany and 5000 in New Orleans.
In 1S49 67S persons died Of cholera in
Chicago, 953 in st. Louis, 1,400 in Gin
cinnati. In 1866 1900 died in New
York, 900 in Chicago, $500 in StLouis,
LOO in Cincinnati, GOO in Nashville.
These figures are small, however, when
compared with the ravages of the dis
ease in India. In Calcutta, during one
season of cholera, the lowest number of
death per day was 2,5O1, and the high
est number 6,417. War has never made
such havoc as this frightful scourge.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19

Ifyou are falling; broken, won out and ner
vOus, use "Wells Health REVIEWER" 81. DrZts
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19
ADeIiCious Summer Beverage
Endorsed
y Physicians

Asa PURE FRUIT sTIMuLANT for the
IN aged, mentally and physically exhausted, care
worn or overworked, for delicate females, especi-
ally mothers for those covering from deoiltatnJ
diseases and as means of reforming those Cd
dIcted to an excessive use of alcoholic stlmulants
sANFoRD's GINGER is unequallsd in medicine.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19

FoR RATES for advertising in this pa err apply to tn
publisher " IL 3S
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19

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

The consumption of beer in Italy is
steadily increasing, while that of wine
is lessening every year.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19
Thin People
n nnlnrlknble [tarane.

Uhtn People.
"Wells' Health Remover" restores health anC
vigor, cures dyspepsia. sexual debility. 81.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19
TIMELY TOPICS.

Doctor Carlos Faremba, of Mexico,
has addressed a circular letter to all
representatives of foreign governments
now in Washington, advocating the
celebration of the discovery of America
on its 40Oth anniversary, October 10,
1892, and the erection of a monument
on the spot where the first landing was
made.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19

The Germans have succeeded in
making the finest and most delicate
wheels of watches from paper pulp.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19

ordinarily noticed as the effect Of distance.
At one time there was an opinion that
this atmospheric phenomenon went with
the cholera, as it was several times OBJ
served in cholera years; but the soundsr
opinion is that it is only an evidence that
the atmosphere is charged to an unusual
degree with vegetable spores. In such a
year the cholera, if started, would be
more likely to spread than in another
year, but the condition has no necessary
relation to the presence of that malady.
But diseases dependent in any degree
upon atmospheric causes are worse in
such year; wherefore this may aggra-
vate our ordinary maladies and give rise
to exaggerated reports of epidemics here
and there, against all which reports the
pubic should be upon its guard and
keep its head level,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19

The Massachusetts, bureau of statistics
states that in 1868 the chance of a per-
son being killed on or by steam cars was
enc in 5,026, 281, while in 1882 it had
diminished to one in 0,927, 034. This
is less than the chance of being struck
by lightning, and much less than that
of being injured by kerosene lamp ex-
plosion.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19

According to the New York Herald
this is the 'blue-mist year." The vapor
that early in the day obscures the view
across the valleys, ordinarily gray, is Low
distinctly blue in color; and the air has a
quality in virtue of which it gives to OBJ
iects comparatively near by the azure hue
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19

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 melan-
choly, and it is only among courtesans
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
struck by political lightning or of rich
relative dying, but hang on simply for
the fun they will have. The higher we
advance in civilization the less we seem
to value our opportunities for fun, and
give our mind wholly to serious and
mighty matters. AS the jovial and con-
vivial elements of our nature die out they
are replaced by melancholy and ennui,
the tendencies of which are to death.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19

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 a
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
tnsipid. 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.