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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-07-13
FOR SALEi

The Mrs Sarah Besulieu place, at the upper
end of Derby Street, being the residence at
present occupied by Mr.. John Pckey. This
property comprises good house and IS acres
of lund, with an abundance of lumber wood
and water, and several desirable building
lots. For furtherp particulars enquire or adj
dress LOUIS MCGEE,
Island Pond, VT
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-07-13
MACHIN Err Y
FOR SALE.

One forty morse power engine. one forty
horse power boiler with fire bOX attached.
one hotter Of 20 horse power. which would
have to be land in brick. and lot of Shafting,
Pulleys. Pump, Inspiration. and lot OF other
machinery 200 numerous too mention The
above hats been taken out of 4. VI StetsOn's
mill IN Boston. aud will he sold cheap. Also
one Woods planer: will plane and match
from one inch to four inches thick and rs in
good condition.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-07-13
BORN

In Cranky. JulY7, daughter to
Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin Wilson.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-07-13

L of sap of fuel. and of the fabric, where
Dobbins' Electric Soap is used according
TO directions.
Ono Trial will demonstrate its great
merit II will pay you to make that trial.
Like all best things, it is extensively i'm
'tatGd and counterteited.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-07-13
BILLY BOUDETT !.
VIII make the season of 1885 at Rosebrook'
Mills in Brighton.
DESCRIPTION,

BILLY BOUDETT YVES raised in Lyndon by
David Boudett; his color is dark mahogany
chestnut; he is perfectly sound and healthy
in every respect,and is Il fine specimen of the
old TYNE Of the
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-07-13
M organ Horse.


BILLY BOUDETT was sired by Geo Ide's
Watson horse: he by Old Black Morgan; he
by the Bachop horse; he by sherman: he by
Justin Morgan da,n of Watson horse by Cor
net; he by Billy Root; he by sherman: heby
Justin or Goss horse, grand dam of Watson
horse by Steel horse; he by Batchelder; The
by Sherman: by Justin, dam Old Black
Morgan by BatcheIder. Dam of houdett horse
by Woodbury. Morgan. s--
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-07-13
Beware Of limitations.

Like all best things, It Is extensively I'M
'tatGd and counterieited.
++++%+++++++++++++
Beware of limitations.
++++++++++++++++++
Insist upon Dobbins' Electric. Don't take
Magnetic, Electro Magic, Philadelphia Elec.
trio or any other fraud. simply because it is
cheap. They Will ruin clothes, and are dear
atany price. Askfor
DORBINS' ELECTRIC
ami take no otner. Nearly every grocer from
Maine to Mexico keeps it in stock. If yours
hasn't it, he will order from his nearest
Wholesale 81 occr.
Read car efully the inside wrapper around
each bar, and be careful to follow directions
un each outside wrapper. You cannot afford
10 wait longer before trying tor yourself this
old, reliable, and truly wonderful
D0bbins' Electric Soap.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-07-13

j. II. Walbridge has lost valuab
Jersey heifer from milk fever.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1888-03-31
GREAT INVENTION.
An Ink That Will Save Many Totteri1
Reputation.

An Ink That Will Save Many Totterins
Reputation.
II have invented an ink said a
man to an acquain lance, "that will
make my fortune
II didn' think there was SO much
money in ink" the acquaintance re-
piled.
Ordinarily, no; but in this ink there
is. You may write a line with it and
it will show up black, but in ten min
utes afterward the paper will be as
blank as if 4 pen had never touched
it,
..I.see no advantage in that. :"
you don't? Well, you have never
lived in community where it is the
fashion to slip in on fellow, put pis-
tol to his head and make him sign Ii
bel. I have known many high-spir-
tied and prosperous young man to be
ruined in that way. Now, if a man,
sitting at desk, had a bottle of my
ink before him he would be safe. He
could sign the libel and let the fellow
take the paper away with him. Then
he could arm himself and wait for the
fellow to come back. tell you what,
this ink will save many q reputation
anssbe worth many dollar to me. -
,x4rta,ssaw 1race.er.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1888-03-31
FOLLY OF FLIRTING.
How the Practical Coquette Is Regarded
by all Young Men.

How the Practical Coquette Is Regarded
by Al Young Men.
If young ladies who pride thonl-
selves on their skill and tact i'll the art
of Irritation, could only hear all that is
said of them behind their backs, we
think they would renounco their mere
tricious Establishments forever, and
blush, if not past that wholesome indi-
cation of shame, for the false oart.thoy
had SO far played in society. The
practical fiirt is looked upon by all
young men, save those green enough
to be her victims, mere y us a friyol"
Gus piece Of human trumpery, with
whom it may be we'll enough to while
an idle hour, now and then, when
nothing better in the way of amuse-
ment offers. She is freely discussed
in club-roo1n conversation, and her
tricks of fascination are the subjects OF
the coa1sest tests. Instead OF the re-
spect with which all honorable men
regard true women, she earns for her"
self their contempt, while the good and
amiable of her own sex look upon her
with loathing. Of obtaining ~ desiras-
bic husband she has not the slightest
chance. and the probability is that She
will either die unmarried or accept, as
a last resort, some wretch who will
avenge upon her, by his brutality. the
deception she has endeayored to prac-
tice upon better men. In either case
she will deserve her fate. We would adj
wise any young lady who is inclined to
Irritation, to ask some old jilt, who has
been through the mill whether She
thinks that sort of thing pays in tue
enl.-N r. Led0er.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1888-03-31
EARLY RAILROADS.
Eo,1e of Those Operated in Centurtes
Long Gone BY.

Eo1ne of Those Operated in CenturteG
Long Gone BY.
The celebrated trial OF locomotive
engineers upon the Liverpool & Man
chester railway, for the purpose of de-
te,rnining the relative advantage OF
stationary and locomotive power ,spon
su.h roads, was had in 1929, and re-
suited in favor Of the latter. In Bed
fields Practical Treatise upon The Laso
of Railroads, the author says in rela.
ton to their origin: Although some OF
the Roman roads, like the Appian
Way, were a somewhat near approach
to the modern railway, being formed
into q continuous plane surface by
means of blocks Of stone closely fitted
together, yet they were, in the prin"
ciple of construction and operation,
essentially different from railways.
The idea of distinct track for the
wheels OF carriages does not seem to
have been reduced to practice
until late into the seventeenth
century. In 1875 some account
is given of the transportation OF
Goals, near Newcastie-ou-Tyne, upon
very imperfect railway, by means OF
rude carriages, whose wheels rnn upon
some kind of rails Of timber. About
one hundred years afterwards, an iron
railway is said to have been constructed
and put into operation at the colliery
near Sheffield. From this time they
were put into very extensive use for
conveying coal, stone and other like
substances short distances, in order TO
reach nav;gable waters, and sometimes
near the cities where large GUAM titles
Of stone were needed for bui'ding pur.
poses.
These railways, built chiefly by the
owners of coal mines and stone quar-
ries, either upon their own land or by
special license, called way-leave, upon
the land Of others, had become nu~
merous long before the application OF
steam-power to railway transporta.
ton. All railways, or similar corpo.
rations, in this country, exist, or are
presumed to have originally existed,
by means Of an express grant from
the Legislative power of the State or
sovereiontv.-Ccr n. y Observer.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1888-03-31
SAVING THE CHILD.
Mr.. Bixby's self-Possession Under Trying
CirCu1r stances,

eff person swallows poison by ac-
cident or purpose]y, instead of break
ing out into incoherent and multitu~
dinous EXPLANATIONS, dispatch some
one for the doctor.
"That sounds sensible" said Bixby,
as he read the above advice to his wife
one evening Then he read:
"Meantime run to the kitchen, get
half Il glass of water, put into it tea
spoonful of salt and as much ground
mustard, catch firm hold of the pei
sons nose, then down wit the mix
ture and mp will come the poison"
There, my dear" said Bixby to his
wife. you'd better keep that in mind
in case one of the children should acct
dentally get hold Of poison and I
shouldn't be home. But you women
fy ght off the handle at the very time
you ought to be self-possessed and
have ali your wits about you.
The very next day the servant came
rushing up stairs and gasped out:
ooh, ma'a,n! Oh, MI. Bixby! The
baby! He's swallowed half a bottle Of
loddynum, and
"Great Scott!" shouted Bixby, jump
ing six feet straight into the air and
yelling like Comanche. 'The child
III be dead in ten minutes. What we
going to do? Run for the doctor! Get
some of the neighbors in! Call some-
body in from the street! My good
Lord? Are we all going to sit here
and see the child die? We must have
help! Help! Murder! Can't you think
of some thing to do? Here, what'd 1
read the other day? / told you to re-
member. 1t said half glass of salt to
teaspoon of water and cup Of mus
tard, didn't it? My soul! has the child
got to de while we all sit here doing
nothing! Give him warm water and
soda! Run your finger down his
throat! Do o,nethsng! Put your
head out of the window and yell for
help!"
And while he was doing SO himself
and a crowd was collecting in front Of
the house. Mrs. Bixby, who had not
said a word, discovered that the child
had swallowed nothing bat q teaspoon
of vanilla extract Detroit Free Press.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1888-03-31
YANKEE SHREWDNESS.
EIow an American Outsyitteci ts,e Off
ciA.s Of nIorocco's Sultan.

How an American Outwitted tsle Off
ciass Of Morocco's Sultan
One very good story was told by Mr..
Radford, illustrating the " go-ahead "
character of the American. There is
only one machine mill i'm Morocco. 1t
belongs to all enterprisng citizen OF
che United States named Cobb. Its
erection was utterly illegal. The pref
unlice against machinery among tha
M ,ors is as strong as it used to be
{ among English hand-loom weavers,
Mr. Cobb's application for the au~
thorjzation of his mill was rejected.
The Prime Minister would,not hear Of
il, the Sultan absolutely forbade the
newlangled method Of grinding corn.
MIR. Cobb, however, went "rjght
ahead" He built his mill, he put in
his machinery. Only one 1inishn g
touch was necessary. The grinding
stones were duly delivered at tie
wharf. But this gave the authorities
their opportunity and they calmly inn
pounded them. 1t was useless going
to the Moorish Government, SO Mr..
Cobb applied to the United States rep
resentative. He got a formal reply,
informing him that, since the Prime
Minister and the Sultan had both for
hidden the execution of the project, it.
would be idle for him to expect any as.
sistance from the formal representative
of the United States. That letter WAC
all that Captain Cobb needed. He
took it to the local authorities, who
had his grinding stones in charge. and
asked them if they could read En- slisl,.
mol" "Then read this" cried Cap
tain Cobb. There were the arms of the
United States; there was an undoult d
official signature; and Captain Cobb
said he was going "straight ahead ~
with his mill. Nobody knew what COM
p!ication might ensue if this deter
mined American were disappointed.
The stones were given up, the mi was
finished, and the next time the ST. tan
came that way he sent all his corn to-
be ground by machinery.-Live1roo!
lMercury.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1888-03-31
THE QUEENS PEARLS.
Why They Are No Longer Kept on the
Royal Writing Table.

Why They Are No Longer Kept on tho
Royal Writing Table.
The Queen has taken great care that
all her daughters shall have fine pearl
necklaces for their shapely necks.
She has looked after them in that re-
spect from their very babyhood. One
OF her first purchases after the birth OF
each has been two or three pearls Got
which jewel the Queen is very fond);
and every year until their marriage
she has added pearl or two to her
stock, until the necklace she required
was ready. In this quiet, economical
way she has been enabled to make up
rope of pearls for each of the Prin-
cesses, and those who have seen the
necklaces at Court will bear me out in
saying that the Queens daughters are,
80 far as pearls go, well supplied with
jewelry. Thereby hangs tale, for
which the correspondent can vouch.
Some years ago her Majesty bought
from a well-known London pearl mer-
chant three very beautiful pearls, the
united cost of which was not far short
of $500. Four hundred and eighty
pounds is the exact sum mentioned.
They pleased Royalty greatly, and
were paid for without demur. A little
while after the purchase had been made
the merchant was surprised to receive
a letter from lady at court saying:
"The Queen wants very much to know
whether pearls will burn The reply
to this somewhat startling scientific ill.,
curry was an assurance that if her
Majesty wished to oxygenize pearls
for her amusement she would find that
they would burn in an ordinary fire.
This rejoinder produced the secret.
The Queen had placed the pearls on
her writing-desk in d piece of the tissue
paper which jewellers use. AS she was
writing one morning she used the tissue
paper to wipe her pen aid threw it
into the fire. The pearls, all unob-
served, went with it. The ashes ofthe
CRATE were searched for them in vain.
They had been destroyed so utterly as
to leave no trace. The Queen with
her own hand had cast three splendid
Jewels, worth more than the average
income Of her middle-class subjects,
iuto the blaze. Pearls have not since
ell kept on the royal writing-table. ~-
Live1poo3 Me7carV.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1888-03-31
Forming a Erie ndship.

1t is very simple process for chill
dren to become acquainted with each
other, if they are left to their own de-
vices. This is the way it comes to pass:
why. Il did not know that you and
that little girl had got acquainted yet, y
said Roxbury father to his six-year'
old son. who came in from a walk on
the adjoining lawn with the tiny
daughter of the new next-door neigh
Dor.
eyes, Clara and ] have been quaint
ed lots of days. said the very small
boy.
s.What did you say to her frst7''
asked the father.
80, Glars spoke to me first. She
came down by the chicken-house, and
asked me how many prayers ! say
Isrti ehts, and i told her; and then l asked
t ;l how IS any pray ers she says, ( and nd
n ashe told ne, and then We were quaint
esto,,5 Record g!
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1888-03-31
MARRIAGE AND INCOME.
The Views of a Married Economist and
Those of Bachelor Journalist.

A friend Of mine. who is q married
gentleman, said to me the other day:
! II would advise any young man to re-
main single until he is in the possession
OF Il ~ Of at least twenty-five dol
lars s. eek. Il is almost impossible to
keep house on less House rent, fuel
and other essentials come high, and a
young man who only earns fifteen or
twenty dollars a week must necessarily
run behind He can live quite COM
fortably on fifteen dollars a week if he
is single, but let him attempt to sup
port wife, and perhaps a family on
this sum, and he will sec where the
ends will meet My friend is either
a spendthrjft himself or he has an ex-
travagant wife. If he expects every
young man to wait until he receives
twenty-five dollars week before he
marries, he will soon see the popula-
ton of the world dwindle down
TO the same number it con-
tanned before Adam and Eve began
their existence. Married people can
live and do live comfortably ON fifteen
dollars week, and sometimes less. In
many instances man never begins to
amount to any thing until he is married
and has wife to help him over the
sloughs of dependency. 1t is often the
encouragement, frugality and energy
of a wife that enables man to acquire
wealth. The very great majority of
the wealthy men of the nation married
while they were poor, and if asked they
will say that their riches must be cred
tied as much to their wives as to them
selves. If my friend thinks it essential
that married couple should have
three or four servants, attend the OPP
era six times week, ride in carriage,
ETC., then his advice is good, only a
young man should have more than
twenty-five dollars a week. The hap
piest families are not always the
wealthiest, and a young man. if he can
get good wife (and there are plenty
of then). had better get her. even if
he is receiving less than the stipulated
sum of my married economist. MI.
neapolts Tribune.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1888-03-31
MODERN SPELLING.
rhs lack of Rhythm Displayed Upon the
Pages of School Books.

rhs Iac1 of Rhythm Displayed Upon the
Pages Of sci,oo1Bon'ss.
Examining Il modern "speller" the
ear is pai,,ed by the lack OF rhythm dis
played upon its pages. For instance,
upon one page Of this book the word
"tisi,' is found; then follow various
words relating to fishing and fish Gull
ture; no Thy tim whatever TO please the
ear Or uniformity to attract the eye.
"Fish, fishes fin, head, tail, scales,
line, hook, breeding, water, eggs, etc. u
The child masters 'tiish" and perhaps
FIN" BY the time :'6n' is learned che
poor ''tish'' has sunk beneath the
waves of forgetfulness, and the heads
and tails are about all that are RETAIN
ed in the mind Of the child by this
mode of nispiacing words, as spelling
lessons Now look at the old method,
where the words arranged in columns
had, perhaps, no affinity, save in the
matter of euphonious classification,
fish, s'dish,' "wisl." stake, "
make 'cakc, - etc. Now this method
pleased the child's love of rhythm; it
pleased the ear and eye as we'll, and so
was better adapted to his powers OF
memory than is the present conglon-
Grafton of words, a tangle of monosyl
tables and pollysyllable, in which the
over-taxed brain of the poor little spell
Ter becomes inextricably involved, so
that his early experience remains a
sorrow and vexation to him his whole
life long, Bookmaker.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1888-03-31
hypnotism in Spain.

The papers OF Madrid, Spain, are
full of hypnotic experiment made at
the royal palace. An Italian hypnotist
put to sleep young lady from fam
lily moving in the best circles of the
capital. He gave her a raw potato to
eat, and suggested it was fine pie,
which the lady pronounced delicious.
She suffered very powerful electric
current pass through her without
finching, hid and found objects, and
inhaled for a full minute the inhalation
of a bottle of ammonia, and pro-
nounced it the most exquisite eau de
cologne. Answering questions made
by the Queen, the patient described
the royal working room, which she had
never seen, and named the contents Of
the pocket in the Queens dress. The
Queen asked the operator if anybody
was able to hypnotize, and being told
that it did not require any thing but 3
strong will and absolute concentration
of thought the Queen tried Immediate
ly and put the girl, who had been
awakened. into sleep again and made
some successful experiments with her.
Chicago Ne,Os.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1888-03-31
LICK OBSERVATORY.
Something About CALIFORNIA; Famous As.
trOnOnical Station.

trO0Onlcal Station.
The observatory for which James
Lick, private citizen of California,
gave 500, 900 in 1875, is at last fin
ished and ready for work. Expert
ence has shown that the site chosen is
most satisfactory one. 1t is on the
summit of the highest peak in the
Monte Diablo range 4.2O0 feet above
the sea and some fifty miles from San
Francisco. Three-fourths of the year
is almost interruptedly clear, and the
observing weather during this time is
especially excellent. The stars do not
twinkle owing to the equal tempera-
ture which prevails at night at this
high altitude, and can therefore be OBJ
served with the highest magnifying
powers. The heat of the valleys is
confined by a blanket of fog which
rolls in from the sea every afternoon.
and which does not rise above 1000
feet.
Nearly all the instruments of the
observatory are really subsidiary to the
largest telescope and are intended to
make its work either more perfect or
more complete. The large telescope
is covered by an immense dome Is feet
in diameter, whose moving parts weigh
1O7 tons. It has been built in the best
manner by the Union Iron Works Of
San Francisco. All the bearing of the
different wheels are made like the bear
ings of a racing bicycle-running on
hardened steel balls. This plan has
never been tried before in such a
structure, and it has proved to be a
real success. A man merely pushing
against the dome can set it moving; Il
push of 200 pounds can move IL mass of
21400o pounds, or one pound moves
1000. The chief novelty in the dome
is the adoption of an elevating floor on
the ingenious plan proposed by Sir
Howard Grubb, of Dublin. The whole
floor moves up and down through a
space of 16 feet, carrying the observer
(or party of observers) to the proper
point for looking through the eye end
of the telescope, which at times is far
above the base of the dome. This plan
also is new. and it is sure to be I. sue
cess if sufficient water or other power
can be obtained on the mountain to
make the floor move with sufficient
speed.
The largest object-glass in the world
for visual purposes has been the 30-inch
glass at St. Petersburg; the Lick tele~
scope is IS inches in aperture. and col
lects 20 per cent more light. The
largest Photographic objective has been
the Paris glass of Is inches; the Lick
Photographic objective is 81 inches,
and collects seven times more light.
BY the latter lens photographs of the
sun Or moon can be taken nearly six
inches in diameter without enlarge
ment. Photographic maps Of the stars
can be made with this lens which will
give thousands and thousands OF stars
where q tolerably good telescope will
only show few score. All sorts OF
minor appliances as spectroscopes
and micrometers, are also provided. --
HGrper's Weekly.