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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-05-21

England is behind the United States
In most things, but in the discovery and
adoption of postal Improvements and
conveniences she is not. The latest con-
trivance in this line is an automatic box,
whereby one may buy postal cards with
out the attendance of any one, the drop
ping of coin into the slit AUTOMATICALLY
releasing drawer in which one postal
card is found. This is surely a greet
convenience; if its me hanical operation
is perfect success it is indeed an ines
Unable boon. There are few persons
who patronize the mails who do not fire.
quently experience the troublesome diff
Guilty of furnishing themselves with pos.
tai cards and stamps. If some ingenious
person could only hit upon a plan for
providing postal cmds, stamped letter
envelopes and stamped newspaper
wrappers wherever and wherever wanted,
he would enjoy the fame of public
benefactor,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-05-21

Considerable interest attaches to the
results attained by various American and
foreign scientists in their attempts to as
certain, by careful and prolonged obser-
vations, the daily increase of the earth's
mass from the falling upon it of metcors
and cosmical dust Briefly, these obser-
vations indicate that about $50, 900 me-
teors fall upon the surface of the whole
earth every hour, the average weight of
these bodies being about Ave grains each,
the total representing nearly 8, 600 pounds
per hour, or fraction short of sixty tons
every twenty four hours. 1t is remarked
that such an amount of material falling
thus daily is certainly no small increase
to the earth's mass, and for this increase
the earth's attraction is considered re-.
sponsible TO the extent of twenty per
cent. the balance of eighty per cent, it
is alleged, would be increased each hour
by a globe the size of the earth, even if
It had no attraction.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-05-21
The Modern Greeks,

The reason why the Greeks are so bel
ligerent is, that they assert that if Bull
garia is increased and strengthened by
obtaining fresh Turkish Territory. they
ought to have more Turkish Territory,
too. They assert that certain portions of
Turkey, which lie adjacent to the borders
of Greece, are inhabited by Greeks, and
ought to be included in the Greek do
minions. They say that they have not G.
ceived all the Territory which the Con-
gress of Berlin promised them; and that
if their Bulgarian rival is to be favored,
they ought not to be left without slice
also.
1t tseens at first sight surprising that a
little kingdom, whose area is less than
that of our State of Maine alone, should
be able to keep all the great powers Of
Europe agog with suspense, anxiety, and
constant effort to keep it quiet for
months together.
But as fact, Europe looks with spc-
cial alarm upon any disturbance which is
threatened in the Balkan peninsula.
Such disturbance is likely at any time
to embroil the powers in q great war,
since 1t tends to place Turkey and Con-
Stantinople in jeopardy.
Greece is all the more dangerous to the
peace of Europe, as the race which in
habits it inherits many of the bright, en-
terprising qualities of its renowned an
cestry. The modern Greek is superior
in intelligence, mental quickness, adroit-
ness and warlike valor to either the Ser
Wan, the Bulgarian, or the Turk.
He is restless, ambitious, and full OF
impetuous ardor. He does not wish any
of his neighbors to 'get ahead" of him.
He regards himself as the true heir of the
Turk in Europe, since what is now
Turkey was once entirely under Grccian
rule. He believes that he, rather than
the Servitn or Bulgarian, or even the
Russian or the Englishman, is best fitted
to rule as master on the Bosphorus.-
YOuth's COmpdnion
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-05-21
One of the results of the new system OF

One of the results of the new system of
celestial photography will undoubtedly
be the discovery of hitherto unknown
planets in our own solar system. The
most distant planet yet discovered is
Neptune, but it has Teen long suspected
that there are others whose orbits are
still more remote. Their great distance
from the sun and the faintness of their
light, however, has made it impossible
to distinguish their slow movement
among the myriads of small fixed stars
through which they travel. BY means
of the accurate Photographic charts which
are now being made the movements of
all the heavenly bodies can be at once
detected by a comparison of plates taken
at different intervals, and thus the value
of the application of photography to
celestial observations can readily appre-
ciated. A plan has already been suggested
by which a complete Photographic
picture of the entire heavens can be OBJ.
tained by means of systematic co-opera-
tion of different observatories in the
northern and southern hemispheres. 1t
would require about ten years to carry
out this project, but it would render an
invaluable service to science. The Lick
Observatory in California will, when
completed, be one of the most efficient
in the world for this kind of work.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-05-21

One of the characters of Washington Is
a young man who pads his clothing so
as to make him seem to be nearly twice
as large as he is. His clothes are always
neat, but as he wears them he looks more
like a stuffed man than real one. He
wears a pair of boots with heels fully
four inches high. His coat sleeves are
SO long that they cover the tips of his
fingers, and even beyond that he has a
pair of enormous cuffs. This young man
is the son of wealthy parents, and is
generally regarded as being trife daft
One of his peculiarities is love for his
own figure He thinks he is the hand
soonest man alive. He rents an Office in
an uptown building, to which no one
save only favored few are admitted
This room he has arranged so that the
walls and ceiling are entirely covered
with mirrors. Strange stories are told
of the young mans actions in this apart
ment. It is said he will remain there
for hours admiring himself as reflected
in the glass, all the while cutting up the
most extraordinary antics. On the street
he never looks to the right nor to the
left. He never speaks to any one unless
first addressed. Several times he has
been guyed by young fellows who
thought they would have lark at his
expense. In each and every instance
they have been soundly thrashed,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-05-21
Origin of the Term "Blue Blood. 50

This term, which is 50 often heard
used in connection with people who
claim to be of aristocratic birth, is de
lived from the Spanish phrase "Saagr
ozu." Its real meaning is, not that the
blood it elf is blue excepting that all
venous blood has a blush tinge), but
that the rson or class to whom the
term is applied have skins so white and
transparent that the veins show blue
through them, and this is taken as
certain indication that the class of per-
so-s thus DIES 'gnated are without an ad-
mixture of races. Any one who has
travelled in Spanish countries,
or in Spain, where the term originated,
would see at once its applicability. The
descendants of the Gothic conquero,s of
Spain retain to this day the Characters
tics of their ancestors, the white, trans
parent skin, blue eyes and auburn or
tawny hair, and their veins show blue
through their cuticle; but in case of an
admixture of African or Moorish blood
the blue blood (veins) gradually disap-
pears, until in case of great preponder-
ance of the latter races the veins show
merely rs ridges. Tourists in Mexico
will notice this popularity in all Mexi-
can cities, as we'll as in the haciendas
throughout the country, ON account of
the great admixture of Indian aztec,
Toltec and Tlascalan) blood in the
population, and everywhere they will
find that the people whose veins show
through the skin are the ruling class.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-05-21
COiIins In Mexico,

In my wanderings around the city of
Mexico, writes Pittsburg Dispatch cor
respondent, found street on which
there were no business houses or even
pulque shops-nothing but coffin manu-
facturers. From one end of the street to
the other you see in every door men and
boys making and painting all kinds and
sizes Of coffins. The dwelling houses
are old and dilapidated and the street
narrow and dingy. 1t reminds one of
the streets around the Point, in Pittsburg,
except the buildings are higher. Here
the men work, day after day, never
whistle, talk or sing, and naught is said
as they go at their hewing, painting and
glueing, with long faces, as Ii they were
driving nails into their owa collins.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-05-21

The report of Dr. John S. Billings
Surgeon U. S, A., in his report on the
mortality and vital statistics of the
United States as returned for the tenth
census June /, 1890, in order to study
the influence upon the health of the in
habitants exerted by peculiar.ties of
topography, drainage, climate, etc.,
divides the country into twenty-one re.
gions, the physical characteristics of
which are more or less distinct. From
the data presented it appears that the
mean annual increase of population in ten
years due to excess of births over deaths
was S7S, 522. The mean annual birth
rate for the United States is given as
thirty-six per 1000. The report shows
that the United States, as a whole, dur
ing the census year had a comparatively
low death rate and high birth rate.
The death rate was higher in the colored
than in the white population, in the for
eign element than in the whites of Amer
lean parentage, and in the cities than in
the rural districts. The most important
causes of disease and death were con-
sumption, pneumonia, diphtheria, ty-
phoid fever, malarial fevers, and those
ill-defned forms of disease to which
children under one year of age are sub.
ject. The total number of deaths We
756. 500.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-05-21
The Red Snapper.

The Atlanta (Ga) Coastaution says
'The red snapper that is seen in every
fish stand in the South rivaling in num-
Der, size, and cheapness the catfish that
are plentiful in all inland waters, are not
caught in nets, as many people doubtless
think they must be. They are caught
with hook and line. Small sail vessels
carving about six men go out in the
Gulf Of Mexico, and in the course of a
week they return witha load of snappers
There are millions of them in the gulf,
no fish in its waters exceeding them in
number. Their presence is ascertained
by sounding lines, which have baited
hooks attached, and If the fish are feed
ing near the lines, they are sure to bite
and the first victims are apt to be the
beginning of boat'sload. The red snap
per is not at all chary OF wary. He take
the baited hook without delay or sus
picion, and that is why he is SO numcrou
in the fish markets.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-05-21
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.


The Italian bee is said to be the gentlest
of the various kinds and to work on
greater variety of plants than any other.
By a new German process finely di-
vided tin is precipitated upon textile
fabr.cs. giving flexible and brilliant
coating.
Leaves of larch which had been rolled
into balls-the largest more tlan foot
in diameter-by the whirling motion of
water have Just been exhibited before the
Berne Naturalists Society. Such balls,
free from cementing mud, are formed in
certain Swiss lakes, and in other places
are produced from various plants.
Pasteur discovered that when milk
was heated for a short time at 172 de
sweet much longer than the unheated
milk. DR.. J. Van Gems finds that this
treatment disables and destroys most
of the lower organisms in the milk, SO
that they are only able to revive when
the conditions of temperature are ex-
tremely favorable.
Cotton is not fibre, but plant hair.
It holds to be spun into th!eld because
of peculiar twists in each hair, shown,
under the microscope, especially in
PolGrized light. Linen thread may be
spun because the fax tibres have certain
roughnesses on their surfaces, which en-
able them to cling together. Hence it is
impossible to make as fine linen as cot
ton cloth. but it is much stronger. 49,. {
A recent writer on photography and
chemical properties of light says: THE
experiments of modern photographers
have revealed to us extraordinary chem
ical properties in the suns rays, while
| some of these rays are entirely destitute
of this p cu,iar power. 1t has also been
discovered that there are rays of light
outside of the solar spectrum, and which
are invisible to the human eye, Just as
there may be vibrations in the atmos-
phere too high or too low to produce an
audible sound"
The arrangements of fibres and woody
tissues in palms and grasses are peculiar
and interesting. AS an example of the
former the rattan may be mentioned,
which runs along on other vegetation for
| thousands of feet Here we see the wood,
not in compact form, but scattered with
the fibres. In the case of bamboo the
fbres form an exterior layer, inside of
which is a layer of fibre mixed with a
good deal of wood. The hghtest and
most flexible fishing rods are made of
these stems with the inner woody layer
removed.
The ordinary solid trunks of our trees
have a bark, then inside the compact
wood On the inner side of the bark are
bast fibres, which are shown to perfec-
| ton in the linden or bass tree. This
bast is composed of very elastic fibres,
and in storms the trees are by this means
enabled to bend and not break. If q
cyclone should strike the tree twist is
the result, which sometimes sewers the
trunk, leaving a brushy-looking stump.
Whether we look at trunk, branch, twig
or leaf, the materials are the same
woody tissue and tibres. But the pro-
portions are different, the woody tissue
growing less in comparison with the
tibrons matter as we pass from the trunk
through the branches and twigs to the
( leaves.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-05-21
A City of Rich Cattle Dealers.

"Probably the richest city for its size
in the world is Cheyenne City, Wyoming,
the home of the cattle kings" SAID
Charles Jennings, huge-sizcd Western
man from that Territory, at the Union
Depot. THE population of the city is
only about ), 200, and it has about $50
business houses, counting the cattle COM
panies' Offices which number sixty-six." D."
,"How much money is there invested in
cattle in Cheyenne City?" asked the re-
porter.
''To my knowledge there is $32, ,500,-
100 in that branch of business alone"
GAN American, I supposeW
'No, a great deal of that amount is
English Investments. know of at least
S., 900, 600, and there may lc great
deal more know nothing of. The Swan
Land and Cattle Company's paid in capi-
tai is $3.50, 900, and then there is the
Powder River Cattle Company, with a
capital stock of 81, 500, 900, the Duke OF
Manchester being the Chairman of the
company, thus showing the large amount
of stock held and controlled by English
capitalists"
'How about other kinds of business"
''Do you know it seems to me that there
is not poor person in the whole town.
If there is, they are very few. There is
about rs much invested in other kinds OF
business as there is in cattle-raising, thus
making town of 5000 inhabitants
worth sos, ,OC0, 600, and where can you
find another city of that size in the world
so wealthy! The town has all the modern
improvements, such as electric light,
theatres, &c, the same as large cities.
Good d-bye, stranger. If you want to be.
come rich 90 there" was his parting
words as he left to get aboard an Easter
train. n.--PitSbuig Commercial.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-05-21

A new industry has found a home in
Vlnalhaven, Maine. A firm purcha aes
lobEters whcn they are cheap, in the lat.
Ter part of the summer and in the fall,
and puts them into forty-acre pound.
This pound is situated in cove. The
entrance to this cove has been wired
across in the manner of fishing weir.
Here the Holsters are kept through the
winter, and are fed on fish heads and
similar food. When spring arrives they
can be sold in the Boston market for $40
hundred pounds, and each lobster will
weigh from two to six pounds.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-05-21

Nearly all the canoes used in this
country come from Italy, though some
very fine ones come from Paris. The
quartz blocks from which the canoes
are cut are imported in shapes ready
for cutting. The KIND of quartz most
commonly used are onyx, sardonyx, chal-
cedony, jasper, turquoise and certain
species of shells. They can also be cut
on any stone or jewel except a diamond.
A cameo differs from an intaglio in that
1t is executed in relief. while the latter is
sunk engraving. Canoes are best cut
in minerals which present various bands
Of two,or more distinct co,ors.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-05-21
For Heavy Sleepers.

Alarm clocks, as is well known, after
time lose their power over sleeper and
fail to awake him, since he becomes ac,
customed to the noise. To remedy tn $
defect an ingenious inventor has added
a cylinder, the base filled with com,
pressed air and the remaining space with
cold water. A perforated tin tube is at,
tached, which is pointed in the direction
needed. When the alarm bell goes of
the pressure OF air is relieved and the
water in the cylinder is driven out
through the perforated tube over the
head of the sleeper, who is sure to b'
awakened by the shower bath. - Chicago
Times.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-05-21

IN accident which has often been pre-
dicted and which funny artists have
illustrated with much corroborative de-
tail, recently happened to vessel on the
banks of Newfoundland. Her anchor
iouled one of the Atlantic cables, and it
was two days before she could get clear,
and then it was by leaving the anchor
and cable behind her.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-05-21
te National Department of 40

ae National Department of Agricul-
ture, in its forestry division, has prepared
a schedule for observations of tree life,
and accompanying it, of weather condi.
tlons, for the purpose of aiding an in
terest in forestry work, and to arrive at
certain results explained on the sched-
ules. Everybody interested will be well
come to apply for the blanks to the de-
partmeut at Washington.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-05-21

A device for feeding lambs has been
extensively introduced in France. A
reservoir containing milk, which is kept
at proper temperature, has number of
flexible nipples, from which the milk
is extracted by suction. The advantage
OF the invention is supposed to be that it
facilitates the weaving process by elm
mating the personal element.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-05-21
VOL. XIV.

Consul-General Jussen reports to the
State Department at Washington: Il
can state with absolute certainty that
Vienna is the most expensive city as
regards the cost of living upon the con-
tinent of Europe" He writes that the
general condition of Austria Hungary in
its industrial relations is about as bad as
it can well be.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-05-21
POWER.

Build to my gloryr said the worldwide
king.
They reared mighty palace sheathed In
gold.
"Carve me a STATUE for further thingw--
And spotless marble imaged him score
fold.
Then laughed the kiudless one, ayield tC
lust
"These goodly marks, uprearei when am
dust,
What Nero was an after age will show
My state remembered and unknown my
crimem
The poet wrote line in wax, and, 10
A king made Infamous for endless timel
--Elvyn A, Barron, in the Current
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-05-21
In Summer Fields.

AuOWn tne uale,
Over the vale,
Abross the lea,
Sports the bee.
A youngster spies
With eager eyes,
And merry glee,
The little bee.
To deftness lend
His business end,
Happy and free,
Bends the bee.
A constant shrek
That lasts a week;
But nanght cares lie,
The wicked beel
--Ud-Bits.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-02-02
No More Bald Heads.

entirely bald. I
procured 4 bottle
of Ayers Hair
Nigor. and, BE-
fore l had used
al its contents, Q
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-02-02
Opinions.

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Snip NOTES,
PoRr TowSsKNn. EaI

POET TOWNSEND, Feb. Let.
The barkeptine to be commenced soop
at Port Ludlow will be built BY ship.
wright Murray, who built the barksn-
tine Discovery in 1874, and will DO com.
manded by Captain Herman, who is
nov in that weasel.
Bark Nonantam. Captain B. G. Reddy,
was towed out yesterday by tug Blakely
bound 10 Boenos Ayres. A few days ago
some OF the crew protested against GO
ing to sea In the bark on account of a
leak. A survey Vas held on her. After
sealing the pumps il vas reported ths
leak was found to be less than an inch
OF water An hour, and the vessel pro-
oesded to sea. Captain @. E. Foye, the
owner, will proceed to San Franci 90.
Ship Yosemite, Captain Saunders.
sailed with cargo of coal bound to San
Francisco.
Barkentine Amelia, Captain Nevhall,
arrived yesterday, II days from Homo
lulu. This 10 the quickest passage made
from that port TO this for number OF
years, and only surpassed within our
recollection by the bark Lizzie Marshall
three years ago.
Captain Henry Morgan, late Inspector
OF Hulls, sailed this morning for d ug
las Island, Alaska, in command Of the
steamer Lucy, recently purchased by
him for the fresdveli Company. The
| order for this purchase came through
Captain Carroll Of the Idaho, and sone
OF the suspicious ones smell opium in
the air. but Captain MorRan's reputs
| ton for honesty 10 OF many wears
standing. and while be is at the vince
there can be nothing Of an Illicit natur,
connected with his visit North. The
Captain has not sailed vessel Of an,
description since his arrival in thi.
country, more than thirty years ago
and IL seemed strange to see him round
ing Poin: Hudson with the Lacy.