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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-01-29
Strictly Business.

At the reception given to Lawrence
Barrett by the Penn club an American
who had just returned from Europe, after
a long residence there, said: Marriage
abroad is a business. just before | left
Marseilles a great trouble grew out of the
circumstance that an American naval
officer then there did not know or forgot
that fact A beautiful French girl was
singing at musical party at a noble
mans house. The naval officer, who was
present, was so smitten with her that he
burst into tears at the song before all the
company. He afterward called on the
girls mother, and was accepted as a
sutton before he knew it. When the first
feeling had worn off he saw the situation
he had gotten himself into with mama,
and went to Nice to get out of it. The
mother, however, followed him there, and
insisted on his carrying out the promise
that she contended he had made. He
declared that he had never offered him
self as a candidate for the girls hand
The mother, all the same, threatened
him with suit. Before there had been
any question of intention, however, she
had, like the prudent mama she was
written to Washington inquiring as to
the officers financial condition. She now
received areply informing her that he had
nothing beyond his good looks and his
pay. She dropped him without more
ado.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-01-29

1t will be remembered that a novel fea-
ture of the New Orleans exposition was
the exhibits which the eolored people as
race were invited to offer for the purpose
of showing their progress in industries,
education, art, etc. The experiment
proved only fairly successful in the dis
play then made, but it has borne valua-
Bile fruit in arousing interest in similar
undertakings. As proof of this the New
Orleans Times Democrat says: excited
by the exposition, Mississippi held col
ored fair few months ago, which was a
thorough success; Tennessee has just
opened another at Nashville; South Caro-
lima will soon follow suit, and it seems
highly probable that every Southern
State will, sooner or later, have its col.
ored exposition" We agree with our
Southern contemporary, says the New
York Herald, that these are encouraging
signs which betoken substantial benefits
to the colored people and useful results
TO the community at large.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-01-29

1t is hard for lover of birds to ap-
proach the sparrow question:" Spar
rows are found to do more harm tEa1
snakes or tigers. Natures thieves and
vagabonds they are. This is the verdict
of every one who investigates the mat
ter. They drive away birds which do
more good and little, if any, harm. For
every noxious insect they destroy they
consume more corn than one likes to cal
culate. A Cheshire farmer, indeed esti
mates the loss to England due to depre-
dations of sparrows at e770,0 94 in a
year, and this loss is on the increase. No
amount of sentimentalism can find any
countervailing advantage. The careful
and long-continued experiments of Col
onel Russell, in Essex, show that sparrows
do unmitigated mischief, and the expert
ence of our colonies and of the Ameri
cans confirms the facts beyond cavil.
There is really nothing to be said for the
sparrow. He carries destruction with him
wherever he goes, and leaves devastation
to mark his increase. From every point
of view he must be looked at as the enerny
of man. Either he must give way to us
or we to him, and just now his power is
such that>heseems in, fair way to be.
come here, as he has already become in
Australia, factor in politics. --LonGOn
A~sdeDaV.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-01-29
Wages In Europe.

Consul Dithmar, AT Breslau, Germany,
has made a report TO the United States
department of state relative to agricul-
tural labor. He states that the laborer
usually lives upon the estate and is en-
ployed upon it the year round. The
working hours in summer are from 6 A.
NJ. to p. NJ, and in winter from sunrise
to sunset. He is given free lodging and
fuel. and it is customary also to allow his
family to the use of 100 square rods of
land for raising vegetables. As direct
wages he receives per annum, $40 to
$23. so in cash and twenty-four bushels
of rye, three bushels of peas and one and
one-half bushels of wheat. The laborer's
wife is bound to work in the field
whenever required, and receives for
a days work in summer twelve
to fourteen cents and in winter ten to
twelve cents. OF tea, meat, tobacco and
schnapps the farm laborer gets but little.
If he smokes a pipe it is but seldom, and
his tobacco is manufactured leaf. In
harvest time he is treated to schnapps to
encourage him in his work. The
government tax is no longer paid by
farm laborers, but the commercial in
come tax amounts to fifty or seventy-tive
cents a year. A writer on economic
subjects figures that a laborer's family,
consisting of himself, wife and five chill
dren, under twelve years of age, can sub
sist on $40 1-2 week or $75 year.
Consul Dithmar also gives tabular
statement of the wages paid to miners
and mine laborers, showing that they re-
ceive daily from SO 1-2 cents (Which is
paid to foremen, engineers and carpen-
ters), to 1S 1-2 and fifteen cents paid to
women and minors. The average cost of
the subsistence of a miners family, in
Guiding rent, clothing and taxes, amounts
to 1922. 80 per annum. The rents paid
by miners range from thirty-six cents to
$1.19 per month.
The consul at Brunswick, Germany,
Mr. Fox, transmits a report on agricul-
tural labor in the Duchy of Brunswick.
The rate of wages paid to agricultural
labor depends upon the locality where
such labor is employed, being considera-
bly, higher in the level than in the noun
famous districts. In the former the
wages of man and wife aggregate
$194.26 per annum, while in the noun
famous districts man and his wife, as
sisted by child, earns but $1S4.92. In
the district of Wolfenbuttel the laborers
receive cash wage of 35 cents per day,
summer and winter-working time, five
to eleven A. NJ. and one to six P. NJ.
Women are paid nineteen cents for the
same time. A man will earn SO 12 to sew
enty-one cents per diem moving, and a
woman from Twenty-Five to thirty-five
cents for gathering behind the scythe.
Men and women both earn from thirty
five to forty-seven cents hoeing, and from
forty-seven to ffty-nine cents gather
ing beets. In this latter work chill
dren are also employed to cut off the
leaves, and child from ten to twelve
years old will earn in a period of three to
four weeks twenty-four cents daily.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-01-29
A Mystery.

How the human system ever RECEIVERS from
the bad effects of the nause0us medicines often
literally poured intoit for the suppositiye relief
Of dys epsia, liver complaint constipation,
rheumatism and other ailments, is a mystery.
The mischief done by bad medicines is scarce
ly less than that caused by disease. II they
who are weak, bilious, dyspeptic, constpated
experience Of invalids who have thoroughly
tested Hostet;er's Stomach Bitters, they would
in every instance obtain the spcediest aid de-
riyable from rational medication. This me H.
cine Is searching and at the same time a
thoroughly safe remedy. derived from vege
table sources, and possessing, in consequence
cinal stimulant not TO be found in the fiery
local bitters and stimulants often Tesorted TO by
the debilitated, dysIept.c and languid.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-01-29

With Ely's Cream Balm a child can be
treated without pain or dread, and with perfect
safety. Try the remedy. 1t cures Catarrh
Hay Fever and Colds in the head. 1t is easily
applied with the finger and gives relief from tho
first application. Price 80 cents. At drug
gists. GO cents by mail. Ely Bros, Owego NY.
Ely's Cream Balm has entirely cured me Of
a long standing case OF catnrrh have nevor
yet seen its equal as cure for Gods in the
head and headache resulting from such colds.
1t is remedy Of sterling merit.-Ed. L.
Grossly, Nashville, Tenn.
have been q severe sufferer from CHtarrh
for the past fifteen years, with distressing pain
over my eyes. Gradually the disease work d
down upon my lungs Abouta year an ahalf
ago commenced using Elys Cream Balm,
with most gratifying results, md nm to-day APP
parently cured.-Z. G. Warren, Rutland, Vt.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-01-29

A st. Louis hairdresser has invented
an apparatus which, if adopted, would
revoluntionize railroad travel. His OBJ
ject is to overcome delay caused by stop
ping train at various stations, and he
intends to have all trains speed on from
terminus to terminus. At every inter-
mediate station automatic machinery
would remove the rear car, containing all
those who wish to get off there, and an
other car, containing passengers who
wished to join the train, would be sub
stituted without decreasing the speed of
the train.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-01-29

A correspondent of the New Orleans
Medical and Surgical Journal tells of re-
markable result of the use of steam as a
disinfectant of ships. The vessel to be
treated was made tight fore and aft, and
the steam turned on for the requisite
time. The hold was found to be in good
condition after the cleansing, and the
disinfectors entered the cabin. But
they discovered that the fine furniture
and cabin work had fallen apart and lay
in a comprehensive heap on the floor. The
steam had melted the glue.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-01-29
Most readers of Shakespeare are aware

Most readers Of Shakespeare are aware
that Juliet was very sweet youngmaiden.
The thrifty citizens Of Verona take mer-
camille advantage of the fact. They sell
outlets tears" which are CONNECTIONS
resembling liquid gum-drops, or brandy
balls. The correct tribute to leave on
Juliet's grave is gold-paper heart and a
dried rosebud, wrapped in a magnolia.
The Veronese tradespeople take great
stock in the popular reverence for the
fair Juliet,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-01-29
Signs of the iodine.

A most interesting and original introduction
to book comes in little work in the shape Of
a humorous article, entitled 1.-The Twelve
Signs of the Zodiac" illustrated by Thomas
Worth, the well-known New York artist. The
old and familiar signs with which we are well
acquainted through almanacs and otherwise,
are given a new and every day meaning, and
we defy any one to look at them or to read the
text without indulging in a hearty laugh.
bill Nye's" thrilling experience with a cy-
clone is also wittily treated by that humorist,
and Wade Whipple," m Quad" and others
of those writers of to-day, who "shoot folly as
it flies" are among the contributors, while
artists such as 0pper, Cox and Coffin, have
furnished apt illustrations The book, which
is the St. Jacobs OIL Family Calendar and
Book of Heath and Httlnor for the Mutton for
1886, is published by the Charles A.. Vogeler
company, of Baltimore, Md, and it is only
another proof of the well-earned reputation
of the remedies manufactured by that house,
that such literary lights should be ready to as
sist in spreading the story of the full
cures wrought by st. Jacobs Oil. Another
speciality now being manufactured by this
house,-Red Star Cough Cure, which costs
only twenty-five cents, is shown by analysis to
be free from opiates, and is of remarkable eff
fcacy. A whole regiment of carriers Is now
distributing the book in large cities, while in
towns and villages it can be had through drug
gists and if it cannot be obtained in any of
these ways a copy will, on receipt of n stamp,
be forwarded to any address by the publishers,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-01-29
PrtrnIcnm Y. Misty.

ID. r. Locke, Petroleom V. Nasty, editor
Toledo BLADE" writes: ~ had on forefnger
Of my right hand one OF those pleasant pets,
'run-round.' The finger became infamed to a
degree unbearable and swollen to nearly twice
its natural size. friend gave me HESRYs
CARBoLIC SALvE and in twenty minutes
the pain had so much subsidized as to give me a
fair nights rest, which had not had before
for a week. The Inflammation left the finger
In a day. / consider IL most valuable article
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-01-29
The Desks of Senatorial SO1ons.

The mahogany desks used by the mem
bers of the United States Senate are,
with few exceptions, seventy-fve years
old. They were built away back in 1910
II. Like old wine they have improved
with age and are apparently as strong
and durable as when first placed in posi-
ton. Captain Bassett, who has been a
sort of factotum about the Senate for half
a century, is the only person living who
can point out the desks used by the
great men of the past, and he, it is I'M
necessary to say, guards his secret well.
If he did not the relic hunters would
chop them to pieces within a month.
When Mr.. Tabor, of Colorado, was a
member of the Senate he endeavored to
learn the history of his desk, but Captain
Bassett declined to crafty his curiosity.
Tabor is said to have replied: "Never
mind; I'll at least leave my mark upon it,
so that postcrity may remember me by
that, if nothing else" He wore at that
time pair of gold sleeve-b buttons with a
large solitaire diamond setting in the
centre. With these he gradually made
two intentions in each corner of the desk,
and doubtless flattered himself that he
had outwitted the captain. But the lat
ter, as soon as Mr.. Tabor retired from the
Senate, plugged up the holes so deftly
that no trace of their existence remains
- Chicago Neps.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-01-29

FoR pYsFKrsIA, INDIGESTION depression ofspir.
its and general debility in their various forms,
also As preventive against fever and aguo and
other intermittent fevers, the "Ferro-Phosphor-
aied Elixir Of Calisaya," made by Caswell,
Hazard 4 Co, New York, and sold by all Drug
gists is the best tonic and for patients recover
ing from fever or othor sickness II has no equal
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-01-29

The tenth census, "like wounded
snake, drags its wearicd length along"
Thirteen large volumes have been pub
lished, and Others are going through the
press, while number of other reports
remain unpublished, including those by
]. R. Dodge, the statistician of the agri-
cultural department, on fruits and or
chards, sheep-husbandry and wool-grow-
ing and hop culture.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-01-29

Henry W. Williams, president Of the
Massachusetts, Bicycle Club, must be an
enthusiast. Since and including 1880, he
has ridden 1888 miles. He took to
bicycling for his health, and it has made
a well man of him.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-01-29

Joseph Arch, who commenced a move
ment in favor of elevating the condition
of farm laborers in England some twenty
years ago, has been elected to parliament
from the northwestern district of Norfolk
county. His opponent was Lord Henry
Bentinck. The business of Mr.. Arch was
that of setting out and trimming hedges,
but he obtained a national reputation as
founder of the agricultural laborers' I'M
ion. Farm laborers in this country are
not elected to Congress, or even to State
legislatures.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-01-29

at is fact we'll known to the medi-
cal profession, said prominent physi-
clan the other day, ''that much less harm
is done in New York by those diseases
most feared by the public and the health
board than by diseases which cause little
alarm in the community. The so-called
plaques are not likely to cause much havoc
in this latitude, particularly in a city
where the sanitary regulations are good.
No scourge is so much feared as Asiatic
cholera, yet the deaths from that disease
in this city during the year of the great
est epidemic were less in number than the
deaths from consumption last year. Yellow
fever has killed fewer people in New
York in this century than whooping
cough has destroyed in a single year.
Smallpox, which is causing so much
alarm at present, kills fewer persons here
than does either measles, Group, or
whooping cough. The deaths from
typus fever in this town has been for
many years less numerous than those
from typhoid fever. These statements
may be surprising to many residents of
the city, but they can be easily substantial
ted by an examination of the death
records, which are about the only reliable
records to be found in the health depart
| 7 l. 4ho -
my estimation, if the sanitary officers
would spend more time in investigating
those diseases which cause the greatest
mortality. 1t would be well, also, if
some of the newspapers would call
attention to the facts instead of causing
useless excitement in the public mind
about improbable epidemics of cholera,
yellow fever, or smallpox"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-01-29
whut Would the World Do

without woman? asks the cssayist who starts
out to say something new en- thiS oft-treated
subject. OF course, the human element of tho
world would not exist without woman, so tho
question is gratuitous. 1t would have been
more sensible TO ask: What would the world do
without the salvation of woman, without a
panacea for her physical ills and cure for her
peculiar diseases. In a word, what would the
world do without DR.. Pierce's "Favorite Pro-
scription," the great remedy for female weak
nesses2 1t is indispensable for the ills Of
womankind
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-01-29

The New York World says a child in
that city was poisoned by cough syrup
containing morphia or opium. There is
no such danger in Red Star Cough Cure.
1t is purely vegetable, prompt, safe and
sure. % cents.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-01-29
Nightmares,

sick headache, 6epr ession of spirits, and want
of ambition are symptoms of diseased liver.
The lungs, stomach and bowels are all in sym
pathy. Life is only living death. DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery" acts upon the
difficulties and disorders. Nervous feelings,
gloomy forebodings, and irritability of temper
all disappear.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-01-29

A small family can live for day on
these purchases. The coffee will be suf-
ticient for big potful, and the tea is
enough for two drawings. The rice and
raisins make a small pudding. The stale
bread will serve for meal, and there is
enough sugar to sweeten the tea and cof-
fee. The onions, potatoes and barley,
with the addition of beef bone or piece
of meat and penny bunch of potherbs,
will make a stew or soup. There is
enough soap to wash the dishes and scrub
the children's faces, enough oil and wick
to last all night, a scuttle of coal and
wood to kinde the fire in the morning.
Then there arc lard, molasses, and the
next thing to butter, oleomargarine, and
the two good-sized pickles for relish.
The penny grocers buy small stale loaves
for half cent each and retail them at a
cent. Medium-sized stale loaves cost
them one and half cents and sell at two
cents, and large stale loaves they retail
at three cents. The coal they sell is coal
yard sweepings screened, and contains o
good deal of slate.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-01-29

Col. D. j. Williamson, Quarter Master
U. S. A. and eX-U. S. Consul at Callao,
Peru, spent $50, 900 in eight years in try
ing to cure himself of rheumatism, but
got no relief until he used st. Jacobs
Oil, which cured him.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-01-29

Young or middle-aged men suffering from
nervous debility and kindred weaknesses
should send 10 cents in stamps for large illus
trated treatise suggesting sure means of cure.
Worlds Dispensary Medical Association, Buff
falo. N. Y.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-01-29
Penny Groceries in Nen York.

Within the last six months a number
of Italians and Germans have started
penny groceries in the parts of New York
all populated by the poor, and these places
seem to be prosperous and thriving. Ten
cents is thought by these grocers to be a
big bill, and the investor of a quarter is
inevitably regarded as a millionaire. In
conversation with Mail and Express 70
porter leading retail grocer said:
There is no doubt these penny gro
ceries are on the increase. They are an
evil, and the penny grocer is really the
poor mans enemy instead of his friend.
In the penny grocery the poor man pays
twice as much for his provisions in the
long run and dosen't get as good quality
as if he bought them in moderate qusnti-
ties from larger stores. The penny gro
ceries are stocked with what the poor
man is likely to buy. The quality of the
provisions is not good; the coffee and tea
are especially poor, and the vegetables in
variably stale Many of the penny gro
ceries sell bad whisky to their customers,
but few allow it to be drank on their
premises"
An Italian who keeps a penny grocery
in South Fifth avenue, near Blocker
street, gives the following list as an illus
tration of what can be done in penny
grocery with a silver quarter:
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-01-29

EXPRESSES HIS GRATrTUDE.-AlbertA A. Lar
son, of Kirkman, Ia, writes to the proprietors
of Aliens Lung Balsam: II firmly believe my
wife. would have died of consumption, If not
for the timely use OF, your Balsam." Price 25c.,
6Oc. and 81 per bottle, at Druggists.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-01-29

The most scientific compound for the cure Of
coughs, colds and all throat and lung troubles
= Dr. Bgelow's Positive Cure. 1t is pleasant,
prompt and safe. so cents and 81.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-01-29

An engineer recently employed in Burmah
says the women were the best laborers to be
found there.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-01-29

Physicians indorso Hairs Hair ReneWer. l1
use Ia always attended with coed results.
For throat and lung troubles, the most 70
liable remedy IS Ayers Cherry PectOral.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-01-29

A wife is the making or unmaking of the
best of men.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-01-29

Great Britain lays claim to one-third of
the sailing vessels of the world; in steam
two thirds of the total tonnage.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-01-29

Your destiny may be decided in a day
there are moments of more value than q
wear
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-01-29

The best Ankle Boot and Collar Pads are
made Of zinc and leather. Try Them.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-01-29
Frazer Axle Grease

Don't work your horse to death with poor axle
grease; the Frazer is the only reliable make.
Use it once, and you will have no other
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-01-29

If afflicted with Sore Eyes use DR.. Isaac
Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell it. Csc
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-01-29

Straighten your old boots and shoes with
Lyons Heel Stiffeners, and wear them again.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-01-29

Three ounces of coffee. Observation-Disclosures.
One ounce of tea. /
Three ounces of rice Observation-Disclosures.
Small loaf of stale bread. ..... .........
Six sticks of kindling wood. 1
lhree onions. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, l
Four potatoes odd Observation-Disclosures. l
Three ounces of barley. INSTRUMENTATION.
Three ounces Of brown sugar. ....s........
-Four ounces OF starch. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. |
INN slice bar soap. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. l
Enough raisins for rice pudding ...........
Small teacup black molasses. ............ 1
Lampful of oil. Observation-Disclosures. l
Quarter of yard of lamp wick. ......... l
Quarter pound oleomargarine ............. 4
Scuttle of coal tmixed) Observation-Disclosures.
Three ounces of lard. Observation-Disclosures. !
Two pickles. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. |