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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-07-03
An Army Routed by Locusts.

Of all destructive foes none are more
dreaded in most eastern lands than the
locusts, whose dire visitations may we'll
be national calamities. In point of fact,
the lands which are exempt from their
occasional presence are the favored few.
A very few details of their invasion in
Southern Russia in the years 1879 and
1880, will give us some idea of their multi
tude. They fell upon the province of
Caucasus, utterly destroying vineyards
and gardens, blockading the streets so
that traffic was suspended, filing the
ovens so that for several days baking was
quite out of the question, and so choking
the water courses that not a cup of water
could be drunk until filtered.
In Georgia they fairly routed detach-
ment of Russian troops, who, not liking
to turn aside on their march repealed by
mere insects attempted to face the locust
army, although reports said it covered
twenty square miles of the country. So
the soldiers advanced, but soon found
themselves literally covered by the cling
ing, creeping insects, which crawled all
over them, until finally the men fairly
turned and fed, slipping and sliding as
they ran over the crushed and oily bodies
of their martyred foes. For forty eight
hours they were were detained, taking
refuge in a village, and assisting the in.
habitahts to kill millions Of the invaders,
whose corpses they carted off to manure
the fields, which, however, were in the
meantime stripped of every blade of grass
or corn, and the trees shorn of every
green leaf.
On the road from Tifis to Poti the
locusts lay SO thick on the line that the
trains were INSTRUCTED. Large districts
of Southern Russia were swept as bare
of all vegetation as if fire had ragged
over the land, and hundreds of peasants,
utterly beggared, abandoned their homes
to seek bread wherever it might be
found. In the province of Chersom
alone, 10000 roubles was voted by
government for expenditure in the effort
to free the land of this plague; in another
district 10000 persons were employed
daily for three months in the same work
the government expenditure on the whole
organization was estimated at 200, 900
roubles, without any calculation of the
loss on crops of all descriptions.
Another notable scene of locust plague
was Algeria in the year 1866, when the
damage done by these insects was esti
mated at 80, 900, 900 francs, and resulted
in a famine SO appalling that 200, 00C
natives died of starvation. -AU The Year
| Round.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-07-03
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.


Imperfect compact of the soil around
the seed, in which is included undue
hardening OF the surface by rains, is the
chief cause of failure in seed termination.
In planting seed corn we have often
found a difference of one OF two days in
the time for corn to come up in favor of
that where the seed was pressed into the
ground with the foot after being covered.
In a very dry time some of the corn not
stepped on never came up, and the diff
ference of one or two days was where
conditions were apparently favorable.
A kernel of corn is large and swells to
twice its bulk before the seed shoots
starts TO grow. The smaller grain seeds
are more liable to injury than corn.
Probably on most fields large proper
ton never comes up, or grows so feebly
that it makes only weak plants. This is
one reason why very thin seeding often
produces extremely large crops when
other conditions are favorable. One of
the heaviest oat crops ever reported had
only a bushel and a peck of seed per
acre. But the soil was in fine filth and
just moist enough. Probably ia this
case nearly every seed grew and was able
to stool so as to entirely cover the ground
five weeks after sowing.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-07-03

The common way of dropping cut po-
tatoes is to drop the pieces cut side
downward, and of course with the eyes
up and ready to grow. But a great i'm
provement on this is to be particular to
have the cut side up and the eyes down
ward. AS each piece is dropped step on
it to press it farther into the loose soil.
The roots start from the base of the eye
and needs iirmer soil than is usually
scraped over them. If there is hollow
space under the potato set the hill will
suffer from drought all the season and
cannot amount to much. Many failures
from planting on newly-turned sod re-
suit from this cause. After a potato is
planted cultivation does not much affect
the character of the soil under the hill.
Hence all the greater necessity that the
planting should be just right. 1t is
possible to use merely the eye of the po-
tato with only the skin attached, as
seed. In such case the ground should
be in fine filth and fertile, so that the
roots, as soon as formed, may get nutri-
ment to push the plant with vigorous
growth. In the ordinary large sets the
first growth of the potato is from starch
decomposed in the potato itself.-CuIti-
gator.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-07-03

The Duke of Athole had recently as a
guest Frenchman who was desperately
anxious to shoot stag. He shot at
many, but with one unvarying result,
that when he opened his eyes the animals
had disappeared; but one happy day a
herd few past him; he fred and a
monarch of the glen fell The counts
JOY was extreme. He ran forward, seated
himself on the PROSTATE body of the stag
and alphabetically condoled with him
on his misfortune to be shot. swell,
mon ami, so you are dead Poor fellow2'
be cried, and having stroked the defunct,
proceeded to take some snuff. With an
air which nature has denied to all but the
French nation, the count held pinch Of
snuff to the deer's nose. "Take pinch,
mon ami-take pinchp' he exclaimed,
and in moment found himself all in a
heap on the ground. Wheth her the deer
had been stunned, shot through the loins
or in some other way temporarily dis
abled does not appear; but, revived by
the snuff, he sprang to his legs and
bolted. "Stop, traitor, stop" cried the
count but the stag never needed; and
80, consigning the beast to regions re-
mote, the poor count returned sorrowful
and stagless to dinner. BdjDbuTy Scots.
man.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-07-03
What the Brain Does.

1t is well known fact that people
whose limbs have been amputated tell
you that they can feel their fingers and
toes for long time afterward-for years,
sometimes-and will even describe pains
and definite sensations affecting certain
joints of individual digits. This is
readily understood when we remember
hat the brain is the only part of the
body that feels, all sensations and inn
pulses being conveyed to it from differ
ant parts by nerve fibers. Feelings oil
pain, heat, cold, touch, and the func.
lions of the special senses are telegaphed
20 it; and when the connecting nerve is
divided it may be some time before il
learns to localize truly the seat of the
sensation it appreciates. When we knock
our "fupny bones" we experience a thrill
in the little finger and the inner border
Of the hand; the fact being that we
have stimulated the bundle of telegraph
wires-known as the unar nerve
which transmits sensations from that
finger and part of the next, in the mid
die of its course, as il winds round the
joint of the elbow.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-07-03
A Queer Rat.

Among the many strange pets which
Crank Buckland, that strange man and
rdent naturalist, kept in his house, a
at or two were always included. "Rats
ormed the subject of his first magazine
rticle. One special rat he saved from an
mt eater in the Geological gardens, and
arried it in his hat to his home, where
he rat was given cage on the mantel-
'iece opposite the cage of Judy, mar
noset. Both Judy and the rat would
tay all day coiled up in their own cages.
When the gas was lighted, however,
10th slowly reused up, and ventured
.ut Judy would wander over to the rats
quarters, and, when his back was turned,
would steal his food. The rat. on the
,ther hand, would sneak into Judy's cage,
md pick up forbidden titbits. One day
he rat came home and found July steal
ng. Whereupon he pitched into her,
nd would perhaps have killed her had
lot Mr.. Buckland, hearing her screams,
ONE in time to save her life.
One characteristic of the rat was its
curiosity. He would get upon his owners
writing table and cautiously examine
very object in hope of finding some
hing worth carrying off. A sugar basin
'tood there, and its contents were greatly
o the little animals liking. His plan was
% stand up on the hind legs, steady him
Ielf, tripod fashion, by the help of his
,ail, tip the basin over, and then, pick
ng up lump, make off with it, This
at would never eat where he could be
Ieen he always carried away his food to
ais house. To do this with the sugar he
nad to get upon the mantelpiece, eigh-
zen inches above the table; and a little
adder was set up for his accommodation
After Mr.. Buckland had shown him
,nce or twice he soon learned how tc
climb it, and would carry pretty heavy
weights. He would steal a whole red
herring, for instance, and, after several
rials to get it well balanced in his teeth
would scramble up the ladder with it,
waving his tail from side to side like a
balancing pole. The herring was toe
ong to go through the round door OF
mis- house, so he would drop it, and then,
going inside, would reach out, catch the
ish by the head, and drag it in length
wise with great ease. The first time he
encountered this difficulty, however, i
puzzled him for few moments. This
rat made its nest of old envelopes, which
ne tore into small pieces. -Manche8tel
| (EngtGhtd) Times.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-07-03

There are several methods of prepar-
ing fence posts for the purpose of in
creasing their lasting qualities. 1t has
been learned by experience that posts
thoroughly seasoned when set will out
last those put into the ground when the
wood is green, and it has also been
proved that those set with the tops in
the ground will remain sound long after
Others from the same quality of wood
set with butts down have decayed.
Charring the ends of the posts set in the
ground drives out the sap contained in
the wood and closes the pores so as to
prevent the moisture in the soil from
penetrating it. This is probably the
cheapest method known, and has proved
very satisfactory. A paint composed of
linseed oil and finely pulverized char
coal is very highly recommended. To
prepare this put quantity of oil in a
strong kettle, place over the fire and lett
remain until it boils, then stir in the char
coal until it is as thick as ordinary paint
and apply liberal coat to the posts.
Coal tar is used by some instead of lin
seed oil, equal parts of pulverized char
wal HulShilhlC DOiIS uoCu luoIGdIl VI
the charcoal alone. The proportions
recommended are five gallons of coal tar
to one pound each of finely pulverized
charcoal and freshly Stacked lime. The
coal tar should be brought to a boiling
heat in an iron kettle, when the charcoal
and lime should be added. Apply while
hot, either with brush or by dipping
the posts into the mixture. Another
very cheap, durable paint is made as fol-
lows: Take fifty parts of resin, forty
parts of finely pulverized chalk, 800
parts of clean, hard sand, four parts of
linseed oil, one part of red oxide of lead
and one part of sulphuric acid. Place
the resin, chalk, sand and oil in an iron
kettle over the fire until the resin is
melted; then add the lead and acid,
slowly stirring the mass until thoroughly
mixed. Should it prove too thick 10
spread conveniently, add linseed oil
until brought to the proper consistency.
Apply while hot This method is used
in France, and the paint when cooled is
said to be very hard and durable.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-07-03
rvhen mn the uirh Sena.

On the rail, on steamboat, aboard a fishing
smack, or yachting on the coast, Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters will be found a reliable means
of avefting and relieving ailments to which
travellers, mariners and emigrants are peculiar
ly subject Sea captains, ship DOCTORS voya-
gers or sojourners in the tropics, and all about
to encounter unacclimatcd, an unaccustomed
or dangerous climate should not neglect to
avail themselves of this safeguard of well as
certaIned and long -tried merit. Constipation,
biliousness, malarial fevers, Indigestion,
rheumatism and affections of the bladder and
kidneys are among the ailments which it Grad
icates, and it may be resorted to not only with
confidence in its remedial efficacy, but also in
its perfect freedom from every Objectionable
ingredient, since it is derived from the purest
and most salutary sources. 1t counteracts the
effects of unwholesome food and water
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-07-03

A Chapter of Household DOn'ts.
Don't stand when you can sit just as
well.
Don't put off the mending from week
to week.
Don't you know that vinegar will
clean the isinglass in the stove doors9
Don't you know your floor oil cloths
can be washed in buttermilk or kero-
sene2
Don't hesitate to place piece of zinc
on the live Goals in the stove; it will
clean out the stove pipe.
Don't throw away nice wooden stock
ings when the feet are worn out, but cut
them down for the children.
Don't fail to be clean and tidy in every
nook and corner, but don't be a slave to
a shining stove or carpet
Don't do unnecessary work because
your grandmother did. There was not
half so much TO be done in her day.
Don't cherish the idea that you will
catch cold if you feel bit of fresh air,
OF know there is an outlet for heated i'm
pure air.
Don't throw away old suspender rings,
but sew them to the corners of kitchen
holders serving better purpose than
loops to hang by.
Don't flirt dirt from one piece of furni-
ture to another and call it busting, but
take it up carefully in a busting cloth
and shake it from the window.
Don't say "micky" for milk, "ridey"
for ride; baby will understand "hand
Etf1o lraccr l;1,,
you said "bring his title dess to mama"
Don't talk servants or family matters
to callers, and don't tell them the exact
date of their last call. They will be
likely to make the interval longer the
next time.
Don't you want to know that rose
bugs can be destroyed by adding three
or four spoonfuls of kerosene to water
ing pot of water, if used freely when the
bug appears?
Don't fail, in conversation, to occa-
sionally pause and give the listener an
opportunity to speak, and don't mistake
polite listening, prolonged, for interest
in your subject.
Don't lose a moment of the day; fin
ish one piece of sewing before commence
ing another; don't fail so to plan the
work that several things may be at
tended to at the same time.
Don't fail to rest yourself during a
long days sewing by changing your
seat occasionally, and in warm weather
don't fail to remember that washing the
face and hands will be found very re-
freshing.
Don't sit over the stove, with feet in
the oven, complaining of being cold,
but dress warmly and take brisk walk
in the open air, when you will think the
fire has taken a fresh start, or the
weather has abated. Sarah j. Blancb-
ard, in Good H0nseheepinq.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-07-03

Cocaine, the new local anaesthetic
which has suddenly achieved such an
excellent reputation, has been known as
uch for great many years, but for a
long time was found to be too expensive
Tor general use. The great progress now
IS the cheapening of the product. It's
properties are dueto a substance nearly
Identical with theme, the active prin-
siple in tea, and it is, indeed, obtained
from one of the tea plants, the mate, of
Paraguay. This is know botanically as
srythroxylen coca, cocaine, of course,
being derived from the specific name.
This plant has long been known to the
Pataguayans, who chew the leaves, as
aeadening the pangs of hunger.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-07-03

An Illiro law fines every engineer
300 and his railroad company 5000 for
his failure to stop his train not less than
200 feet from railroad crossings, draw
bridges, tc,-the money going to the
lnformer. 1t has been the habit of some
persons to watch the trains and measure
The distance. If the engineer went over
The limit at all complaint would be en-
tered and the informer pocket the cash.
One man is said to have 5000, 900 worth
d claims now pending. An amendment
70 the law proposes to interfere with this
"home industry, by ordering trains
stopped anywhere within 800 feet, and
iurning the fines into the county treas
tries
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-07-03

FLOWER MEDICINE Co., Boston, MASS.
Gentlomcn:-For some four years past !
have suffered from dyspepeia, rendering me
very miserable. Almost everything | ate dis
agreed with me, and there was no one thing
that l could eat feeling sure that it would
agree with me. About two months ago
made up my mind to try your Liver and
Stomach Sanative. Previous to this | had
been treated by physicians, and had also tried
about every preparation ON the market without
benefit. have now taken five bottles of the
Sanative and am feeling like different person.
l eat with q relish anything my appetite Graves.
and never experience the least distress OF
inconvenience, and my general health is betteJ
than IL has been for years. Yours gratefully,
w. b. MOORE, Mace Place, Lynn, Mass.
MRS. ELLEN ID. FLANDERS. III Corr
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'Your Liver Sanative has been worth dol
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GEO. T. MOFFATT, NJ. d., DDS. 1873
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remedy that can heartily recommend. Their
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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-07-03


Horses in civilized lands suffer more
from ailments of the feet than from any
other cause. The feet of horse are sub
ject to many injuries, both from bad shoe
ing and from ill-kept roads, aud it is i'm
portant for owners of horses to study well
how these causes of diseased feet can be
avoided. But in the consideration of this
question there are some points not we'll
understood. The London St0ck- keepe,
gives a statement that a horse weighing
sixteen hundred pounds, when drawing
q load, bears weight upon the feet OF
two tons, the extra pressure being caused
by the downward force of the act of draw
ing. Now, an average horses draft power
amounts only to a forN ard strain of one
hundred and fifty-seven pounds. AS the
horse is only exerting this forward force
by pressure upon the collar, it is clear,
the feet cannot press with any more
force upon the ground, so that the above
explanation of the cause of injury to the
horses foot, is imaginary. 1t is not the
force exerted by work at ALL A wild
horse, galloping at the top of his speed,
presses upon the ground with his feet
more than a horse moving a ton in a
wagon upon road at the rate of two
miles an hour; and yet wild horses have
excellent feet and are never lame. But
they have choice of smooth path, and
have no blacksmiths to cut away the frogs
of their feet, and so deprive them of the
very means nature provides for the pro.
lection of the foot. If the roads were
kept in good condition and free from
loose stones, and the frog of the foo
were never pared, horses would rarely
suffer from foot lameness Frog pressure
expands the heels, toughens the horns
cures corns, and does much toward giving
a horse sound feet. -AmericdR Aqricul
tug5St.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-07-03
70 aising Calves,

More calves are injured every year by
long fasting and over feeding than in
any other way. When calves run with
their dams they take their food often,
and, of course, little at time, but in
our artificial treatment we reverse ma
ture's methods. If calves ore allowed
to suck, the injury from long fasting
will be less marked, for the milk is taken
at the right temperature, and in its natu-
raj state. But when we milk the COW,
and then keep her milk twelve or more
hours for the cream to rise before feed
ing the calf, we are departing still
further from natures methods. Since
by artificial methods of feeding, and by
breeding for that purpose, we have
greatly increased the proportion Of
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-07-03
Marriage md Health.


Pittsburg, Penn, Nov. 5, 1888. Mrs. Lydia
E. Pinkham: GAS is frequently the case with
mothers who have reared large families, ]
have been a great sufferer for years from
complaints incident to married life. have
tried the skill of a number of physicians, and
the virtue of many medicines without relief,
and as an experiment l concluded to try
yours 1 can assure you that the benefits
have derived from it came not because fany
faith I had in it, for had but slight hope Of
any permanent good. am not a seeker after
notoriety, but 1Cant to tell you that have
been wonderfully benefited BY your medi-
cine. am now using my fourth bottle and
me that my health is fully restored l should
like to widely circulate the fact of its won
derful curative poWersn Pheba O. Roop
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-07-03
BROWNS Little InIre-

''Why, Brown, how short your coat is, ,
said Jones one day to his friend Brown, who
wittily replied: eyes; but it will be long
enough before get another Some men spend
SO much for medicines that neither heal mol
help them, that new clothes is with them like
angels vists-few and far between. Internal
fevers, weakness of the lungs, shortness Of
breath and lingering coughs, soon yield to the
magic influence of that royal remedy, Dr.. r
V. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-07-03
An Only Daughter Cured of Consumption.

sumption, all remedies having failed and DR..
II. James was experimenting, he accidentally
made a preparation of Indian Hemp, which
cured his only child, and now gives this recipe
on receipt of stamps to pay expenses. Hemp
also cures night sweats, nausea at the stom.
ach, and will break fresh cold in "a hours.
Address Craddock g. CO., 1882 Race street,
Philadelphia, Pa, naming this paper.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-07-03

The proprietor of household article
recently informed the publishers of a
we'll known monthly magazine of large
circulation that the insertion of a small
Advertisement twice in the pages of their
magazine had brought in more than eight
thousand inquiries. And yet some PEG.
pie are still wondering if newspaper and
magazine advertising pays!
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-07-03

The former proprietor of DR.. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy, for years made standing, public
offer in all American newspapers OF $500 fol-
a case of catarrh that he could not cure The
present proprietors have renewed this offer.
All the druggists sell the Remedy, together
with the "Douche," and all other appliances
advised to be used in connection with it, Nc
catarrh patient is longer able to say 81 can
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-07-03

Structure Of the urethra in It's worst forms,
speedily cured by our new and improved
methods Pamphlet, references and terms,
two three-cent stamps Worlds Dispsnsary
Medical Association, G63 Main street, Buffalo.
n. Y.