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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-03-13
Curious F0ed.

The lion is eaten by some African
races, but Its flesh is held in small esteem.
The Zulus find carrion SO much to their
liking, that, according to the late Bishop
Colouso, they apply to food peoplod by
largo colonies Of larve, the expressive
word "uborni," signifying in their un-
couth jargon "great happiness" David
Livingstone, that keen and accurate OBJ
server, reminds us that the aboriginal
Australians and Hottentots prefer tho
intestines of animals. "It Is curious, I"
he says, "that this is the part which
animals always begin with, and IL is the
first choice of our men," On this point
may remind the civilized reader that
the woodcock and the red mulet, or sea
woodcocls, are both eaten and relished
without undergoing all the cleansing
processes which most animals used for
food among US generally experience to
ft them for the table, so that our aver
sion 10 the entrails OF animals 10 not
absolute, but only one of degree. The
hippopotamus 10 o favorite dish with some
Africans when they can get this unwleldy
and formidable river monster, and when
young its Hesh 10 good aud palatable,
but with advancing years 1t becomes
coarse and unpleasant. The Abyssinians,
the amisble people to whom, according
to the Italian Prime Minister, his couu.
trymen proposed To teach wisdom and
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-03-13
A S0ngstress aud Her Diamonds.

William Castle, in q talk about Emma
Abbott, printed in the Philadelphia Press,
says:
"She conducted all her business mat.
ters in very methodiCal wsy-even the
care of her diamonds and current earn
ings. She had several secret pockets
in her dress, one for every day in the
week, and some over for jewels. She
put the earnings OF each day and night
in its own pocket, and securely buttonod
and pinned them up until she could put
them in bank. She carried usually about
$50, 900 worth of diamonds that she de-
posted in the same way. | remember
funny incident about those diamonds.
ave were travelling in Texas several
years ago and during the excitement
about train-robbers. Several daring
robberies had taken place, therefore you
can imagine our feelings when conduc-
tor of train on which we we're travelling
came into our car and whispered to us
that there were four men in the smoker
whom he believed to be train robbers,
and that we should look after our valu-
ables. We we're in CONSERVATION in
stsntIy, for we all had little something.
Mr.. Wetherell, the manager disposed Of
several thousand dollars in cash by de-
posting it an old stove, for fortunately
the time was summer
".tftcr we had all settled down and in
fear aud trembling were awaiting our
fate, the train stopped, aud in moment
more the conductor came back again and
told us that he guessed he had made q
mistake after all, for his suspicious
characters had all got out at this station
and gone about their business. Then the
train started again. We all tried to look
brave, and we giggled while we sneaked
Sound and got our valuables out OF theiI
places Of secretion.
"After the rest of us had all been fixed
right l saw Miss Abbott coming from the
back part of the car hugging an old oil
can to her bosom. 1t certainly looked
ridiculous, until she conddentiaily whis-
pered to some of us that in the midst o.
the scare she had found the can, hal!
filed with oil, amidst some train hands
effects in the back part OF the car. She
had thrown out the oil and poured hcl
whole $50, 900 worth Of diamonds iate
the can. She got them out safely, bu
she had great time cleaning them up
We never forgot that scare, though
have always suspected that that funD!
conductor set up job on US innVcents
abroad"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-03-13
t2-VoI. Editions, till Feb. I, 1891, $50. 90.

humanity, find the rhinoceros to their
taste; so they do the elephant, which is
also eaten in Sumatra. Doctor Living
stone describes the elephants foot as de-
licious, and his praises will be issued by
many travellers in lands where that sa-
gacious monster still fingers in rapidly
decreasing numbers. "We had the foot, "
wrote the doctor, cooked for breakfast
next morning and found it delicious. 1t
is whisish mass, slightly gelatinous
and sweet like marrow. A long march
to prevent biliousncss Is a precaution
after meal of elephants foot. EIe-
plants tongue and trunk are also good,
aad after long simmcring much resemble
the hump Of buffalo and the tongue Of
an OK, but all the other meat is tough,
and from its peculiar favor only to be
eaten by a hungry man. ."-AnRd'' OF
Xu1ieRe
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-03-13
THE CANADIAN ELECTION.
A Hot Contest-The Maritime Prov.
inccs Save the Government,

1nces save the Government.
Sir John A. Macdonald's Conservative
government appears TO have been sustained
us result OF voting throughout the Domln-
ion, but its majority Of members In a House
of 2l1 seats has shrunk TO 10, and 1t may be
shown later on TO be even less. Whether
this narrow msjority will be sufficient to sus-
tain the government in all its parliamentary
work is a matter Of some doubt, but 1t Is
quite possible that Sir John, when the House
assemblies, may be able to win over to his
side enough of the Independents and Quebec
Natiounsts now in the Liberal column to
help him through.
The main Liberal support has come from
Ontario and Quebec, the large provinces,
aud the opposition has lost heavily, even
disastrorsly, in Nova Scotia and New Bruins
wick. 1t has also lost two seats in Prince
Edward Island, which before sent a solid
Liberal delegation 10 Ottawa.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-03-13
DRANK FIVE PINrs AND DIED.

George johnson, the colored porter at the
Court Exchange, Paris, Texas, was sent TO
feed some horses but went instead to another
saloon whe.e the porter invited him to drinS.
He poured out pint of whisky and drank 10
of. The owner offered him another, which
he drank, and bystanders put up three more,
all Of which he swallowed. He was too
drunk to go alone, and a negro was sent to
pilot him home and put him TO bed. About
two hours later his employer hunted him up
and found him dead The enormous quantity
OF whisky he had taken 1t is supposed arrest
ed heart sction.-S Louis Republic.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-03-13

MERRITT l.. FERsALD, son Of President NJ
@. Fernald, Of the Maine State College, has
accepted the place of assistant botanist and
herbalist in Harvard College. Though only
sixteen years old, he Is already known in
scientific circles. Within the last two years
he has discovered and classified thirty plants
hitherto unknown In the Hora Of Maine.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-03-13
More Boomers.

The passage of the bill opening the Cour
dAlene, Wash, reservation to settlement
has created stampede almost equal TO the
Oklahoma craze. For several months large
numbers of people have been camped along
the borders of the reservation, and fully
1000 men have poured Into Port Falls and
Cnur d'Alene City, which are on the border
Of the reservation, during the past few days.
More settlers are coming in by every trsin
They are waiting for the President TO issue
proclamation, and then trouble is feared.
ns some OF the Indians will object to giving
up their lands.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-03-13
PROBATE COURTS.

Probate Courts, within and for tho Distrio
u Essex, will be holden until otherwise or
asrsd, As follows:
At the Probate Office in Guildhall on the
ID Tuesday OF each month
At West Concord on the lst Tuesdays Of
January and July.
At island Pond on the lst Tuesdays Of
Tebrusry and August
At Lunenburgh on the lst Tuesdays of
March aud September.
Al Canaan on the lst Tuesdays Of April
md October.
At Gailups Mills in Victory on the lst
Tuesday In May.
At Bloomfield on the 1st Tuesdays Of June
and November.
c. f. BENTON, Judge.
Guildhall. December LIST. 1850
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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-03-13

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The Arizona champion., 1891-03-07
The snap Mines of NeyahA

| In Nevada are several deposits of min | eral soap. Que of these has been worked
 Tor three or four years. The soap is sometimes made up into cakes as it 'omes from the mine, but usually it is toned down by admixture with various | other soaps. In Dakota and Wyoming ! are also deposits of natural soap. In re- i glOns where soda, boraX and mineral oils | abound 1t Is only necessary to bring these ingredients together and a soap mine is the result. Hot springs assist materially in uniting and concentrating the mate rlals provided by nature. The soap found about hot springs is, therefore, generally harder and more perfect than that produced in the dry way in and about the basins of extinct lakes.
 The waters of Owens and Mono lakes are so thoroughly saturated with borax and soda in solution that the addition of any oleaginous matter produces soap. The waters of Mono lake produce myriads of grubs (which after time become flies) which are washed ashore, and in some places form beaches a foot or two in depth. The oily matter contained in the grubs or flies, uniting with the alkai in the water of the lake, forms deposit of soap an inch or two in thickness each year. Thus, in the course of ages, de- posit of natural soap of great depth has been built upon the east side of the alkah lakes, where the worms are stranded prevailing winds being from the west. These particular grubs are the only living things found in the waters of Mono and Owens lakes.
 At certain seasons an insectivorous duck, called the spoonbill, frequents these lakes, and, feeding upon the aquatic flies and grubs, becomes so fat it can hardly fly. Hunters kill these spoon bill ducks for their oil, as the grub on which they feed imparts to them a tishy taste so strong that they cannot be eaten except by Indians, who eat both worms and ducks. Ducks killed by hunters and lost are sometimes found in the waters of the lake. All the feathers are eaten off the fowl by the alkaline solution. and the layer of fat beneath the skin, an inch in thickness, is found to be changed to soap, hard as the best castillo and beau tifully white.-Virginia City Enterprise.
The Arizona champion., 1891-03-07
A Woman on Kissing.

It has been the gallant habit of men, from time immemOrial, to comment un- favorably on the habit which women have of indulging in the useless distribu- ton of kisses among themselves, but 1t is not often that the animadversion of the erring sex itself is visited on the same theme A critical young lady, however, was recently heard expatiating vigor- ously against this senseless custom. ''Do, for goodness sake" she remarked, "say something about the silly way that women have of kissing each other every time they get together. If twenty women were to meet in the street every last one of them would have to kiss the other nineteen, and there would be-let me see -3S0 kisses worse than thrown away, for probably in ten minutes the whole party would separate into squads and go off talking about each other. When you see one of these very violent miscellane- ous skiss-everything-within-sight kind of woman, it is safe to set her down as a fraud, which she generally is. If had my way, kissing should be confined to family use and for medicinal purposes. Now, don't you put my name to all this or will kiss you right on Washington street the very first chance l have" Then the talk ran off on other kinds of kissing, and a story was told of young lady who kissed a baby held in its fathers arms; then in moment of temporary insanity or abstraction she stood on tip toe and kissed the papa. Realizing in- stantly what a dreadful thing she had done, she wheeled around and kissed the babys mamma, who was standing near, and retired in good order. Her satirical sister sQuelched the poor young woman as they left the house by asking her if she didn't want to go back and finish it by kissing the hired girl.-Indianapolis Journal.
The Arizona champion., 1891-03-07

return to my country, am able to as, sure madatue that nothing would be less agreeable" And Albertine closed the l drawer with a brusqueness so different from her usual habit that her mistress wheeled quickly.
 We will speak of it no more," said | the bracelets in place again, and-ah, 1t is you, Henri.' as the door opened and her husband entered the room. "Yes-I-Suzanne-in a bad humor. 7" "You, Henrii
 "Yes, and with reason; that con- founded Auguste and his notion for marrying"-
 A start of anger, quickly repressed but none the less violent, escaped the placid Albertine.
 He's stubborn as a donkey, that fel- low; he won't give up, and what do you think? persists in demanding to talk to Albertine i'll our presence. He says he can persuade her.
 Its useless, Henri. Albertine will not hear of it, and, frankly, myself have heard enough of it.
 ''I, too, dearest; but you see I've prom ised, and he's waiting outside there. Au- guste, Auguste, say!'
 The door opened; two cries resounded simultaneously-one from the comtesse as her husband seized her by the waist and dragged her to the end of the room; the other from AlbeTtine, grasped by the strong arms of two agents of the police, who had entered at the heels of the am orous valet de chambre. Yells, curses, kicks and bites from Albertine, writhing e, icl- of loot orl, of a broad, gleaming blade suddenly whisked from Albertine's corsage.
 Eh bien! in three minutes time it was over, the chestnut bandeauX and velvet coif lying in the corner, and mademoi- selle the maid, with the queerest look ing poll shaven like convict's and GOV way through the crowd of domestics clustered about the doorway to the car riage that waited for her at the porte cochere-a ride taken at the citv's ex- pense.
 Meanwhile Auguste, hat in hand, had returned to make his explanations as soon as Mime. d'Aloys had somewhat re- covered from the shock.
 q beg that Madame will pardon us" said he. We have disturbed you great
 
 no other way to avert suspicion and secure your jewels at the same time. Your real jewels" he added, smiling a little as his eye caught the sparkle of the gems in the jewel case that Albertine had not had time to close and put in place again. ''They are false," he re- sponded to the look of astonished in quiry thrown upon him by the comte and comptesse; ''the two years work of the shrewdest rascal, counterfeiter, forger and murderer who ever for three years long escaped the hands of justice. But do not be alarmed, madame la com tesse," Auguste continued, ''in the handle of the knife we took from his bosom, NJ. Albert's, or Albertine's, as you know him better, the jewels will be found intact. The delay in relieving you was occasioned by the necessity of locating the booty: The jewels and the commissaire are here if madame la con- tess is ready to identify them. Monsieur le comte, madame la comtesse, I beg to salute you "-Translated from the French of Georges Grand, by E. c. Waggoner, for the New York Mercury
The Arizona champion., 1891-03-07
Ice Made with Coal.

The various cold storage companies now springing up over the south and west promise to work wonders in trade and household affairs. The anhydrous ammonia, which is their cooling agent, comes from the soft coal used in making gas. It is driven off in process of cool ing. It costs nothing but for fixtures to refine and make use of it. A ton of coal yields twenty gallons of ammoniated water, from which the ammonia is separated in vapor, then forced into iquefaction by a pressure of about l20 pounds to the square inch. When al lowed to return to gas, it takes away the heat of whatever it touches. As it can be sent through pipes and come back to be used over and over again, there is little cost to the process.-New York Telegram.
The Arizona champion., 1891-03-07
Around Edinburgh.

The surroundings and environs of Edin- burgh are as full of interest and beauty as the town itself. Roslin Chapel is situated about seven miles from Edin- burgh on the north bank of the Esk, and is one of the loveliest of spots. The Gothic chapel was founded in 1446 by William St. Clair, Earl of Arbury and Lord of Roslin. The pillars and arches display profusion of ornament, executed in most artistic manner.
 Beneath the chapel lie the barons of Roslin, all of whom, up to the time of James VII, were buried in complete suits of armor. Itwas believed that the night before the death of any of the barons of Roshn the chapel appeared as if in flames, and this is the legend to which Sir Walter Scott alludes in his beautiful ballad of "Rosabelle."
 Hawthornden, once the habitation of the poet Drummond, is well worthy of a visit He was the friend of Ben Jonson and Shakespeare. The former walked from London to visit Drummond, and lived for many weeks as his guest at Hawthornden. Under the mansion are some caves, hewn out of the solid rock with great labor, and communicating with each other by means of long pas sages. Doubtless these were used as places of refuge in troublous times, when ordinary habitations were unsafe. At short distance from Hawthornden is a cottage where Sir Walter Scott spent some of the happiest days of his life.
 Weeks may be pleasantly and profita- bly, spent in exploring Edinburgh and its neighborhood. Few towns are so full of memories of the past.-Cor. San Francisco Chronicle.
The Arizona champion., 1891-03-07
The Turned Around" Mystery.

One ot the annoying things of life Is what Is known as being turned around that is, confused as to the points of the compass. Probably nearly every one has had something of this experience, but it IS much more vexatious in some cases than in others, A friend of the writer thus describes his experience: 1.-The only place where have been thoroughly and persistently astray in this matter is Poughkeepsie, which l have had occa- sion to visit few times in the course of my life. Everybody has heard of the orator who, in an impassioned moment, exclaimed: I know no north, no south, no east, no west Well, his condition was greatly to be envied by the man who thinks that west Is east and north is south, and who cannot rid his mind of the idea.
 1.-The first time went to Poughkeepsie. some fifteen years ago, it was firmly i'm pressed on my mind that the city was on the west bank of the Hudson and that the principal street, which runs directly back from the river, went in direction exactly west. Passing Poughkeepsie on one of the river steamers, l am well aware that it is on the east side, but the moment my foot is set on the shore de- mon takes possession of me and my no- tions of direction are all awry. I am even in doubt when the train enters the station whether it is going north or south, and if left to myself should prob- ably take the train bound for Albany when wanted to go to New York.
 ''The other night had to wait half an hour for a train there, and during the interval l made desperate efforts to set my mind right. On the newspaper in my hand l drew a mental map of the Hudson, and then, starting with the as- sured fact that Poughkeepsie is on the east bank, 1 tried to convince myself of the true state of things. But my mind refused to stay convinced. As I think of Poughkeepsie now, Main street, as you go up it from the river, runs just west. l wish some one could explain this phe- nomenon for me. One part of my men, tai make up knows positively which direction is north and which is south, as well in Poughkeepsie as elsewhere, but the other part land the one which is con- trolling) refuses to accept this knowl- edge. Why is it? Where is the philoso- pher who can explain it?"-New York Tribune.
The Arizona champion., 1891-03-07
A Surfeit of Beauty.

It is doubtful if there is any one state in America containing so many pretty women as California and any one con taining so few as New York. As one walks down Kearny or Montgomery streets in San Francisco, one becomes al most surfeited by the unrelieved ranks of pretty girls, with their round, plump figures, their vivid coloring, and deli cate, regular features. They are fire guently painted, but they are triumphs of nature over art for all that, and could well afford to discard the rouge pots. They do not dress as well as they might, but their figures are so delightful; they look such thorough women, instead of suggesting stuffed fashion plate, that one is willing to forgive San Francisco her lack of good dressmakers.--Gert Franklin Atherton in San Francisco Ar gonaut.
The Arizona champion., 1891-03-07
En:.,t Rnn,lnpe Sore Eyes.

The custom, prevalent among physi- clans as well as the laity, of tightly bandaging or tying up the eye as soon as it becomes iniamed or sore is bad one. The effect upon the eye is bad. It pre- clGaes the free access and beneficial effects of the cool air, and at the same time prevents or greatly retards the free egress of the hot tears and morbid secre- tions of the infamed conjunctiva or cornea, or both. In those cases, too, where foreign substance has got into the eye, the bandage (which is usually clapped on the first thing) presses the lids more closely against the ball and thus increases the pain and discomfort by augmentinG the laceratioy1s caused by the foreign body This cannot fail to be harmful. in those cases where the light Is painful adjust over the organ a neatly fitting shade, which, while it excludes the light, allows the free access of air. Herald of Health.
The Arizona champion., 1891-03-07
Mourning CoIOrs.

Besides black, the following are used as a sign of grief for the dead Black and white striped to express sorrow and hope among the South Sea Islanders Grayish brown, the color of the earth to which the dead return, in Ethiopia Pale brown, the color of withered leaves, is the mourning of Persia. Sky blue to express liIc assured hope that the de ceased has gone to heaven. This is the mourning of Syria, Cappadocia and Ar menia. Deep blue in Bokhara. Purple and violet to express kings and queens to god" The color of mourning for cardinals and kings of France. The color of mourning in Turkey is violet. White (embIem of hope, the color of mourning in China Henry VIII wore white for Anne Boleyn. The ladies of ancient Rome and Sparta wore white. It was tlie color of mourning in Spain till 149S. Yellow (the scar and yellow leaf, the color of mourning in Egypt and in Burmah. Anne Boleyn wore yellow mourning for Catharine of Ara gon.-NOtes and Queries.