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Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-06-04
Boring for Salt.

The process of salt extraction is not
without interest. The boring operations
are commenced from the surface where
there are indications of salt bearing strata,
a shaft being sunk after the manner of an
ordinary well. In the section that | my
self have seen the upper layers consisted
of alluvial deposits of the peaty black soil,
which rested on about hundred feet of
red marls, some bands of which became
hard rock, varying in different layers from
deep red to gray or even blue argillaceous
marls. At the base of this stratified but
unfossiliferous rock the steel rods struck
a hard calcareous mass, rebounding as they
came in contact with the matrix. This
was an indication that the gypsum bands
had been reached, intermixed with irregu-
lar agglomerations of rock salt.
Beneath this obstruction the hollow res
ervoirs exist, the rock salt and gypsum
forming a roof, as it were, to the caverns
below. Immediately the hard mass has
been pierced, stream Of the strongest
brine wells forth with such a sudden rush
that men have often difficulty in effect
ing an escape to avoid disaster The brine
is of such a density that common table
salt will not dissolve therein, and an egl
will roll on the surface of the water.-Gen
tleman's Magazine
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-06-04
PEN, PENCIL AND BRUSH.

Violet Fame is translating the memoirs
of Marguerite of Valois, queen of Navarro.
Millais, the painter, is a great smoker,
and, like Lord Tennyson, prefers his pipe
to a cigar
Imbert de St. Armand, who has two
fold celebrity in Paris as a literary man
and music critic, is a bachelor OF forty
five, and very clever and brilliant talker.
The writing of Algernon Swinburne, the
poet, is a scrawling schoolboy's hand, but
his manuscript comes to the printer clear,
legible and decided. with scarce an era
sure.
George Augustus Sala, the veteran Lon
don journalist, says his market value Is
twenty-five dollars an hour. This, with
an eight hour day. would give him $50 ,OOC
annually.
Harriet Monroe, who has written the
ode to the Worlds fair, has published
volume of poems and contributed largely
to the press. She is not yet twenty-eigh'
years old.
When Grant Allen in his story OF '"Ths
DEVILS Die" described his heroes as find
ing a wreck in midocean swarming will
rats, the critics said it could not be. Tn
wreckers who went aboard the GottenburI
Castle, off St. Mary's isle, recently, ha'
Just that experience.
Oscar Wilde has wonderfully goo
memory when other peoples Jokes are con
cerned. One day when Whistler made on
of his overwhelmingly funny remarks Osca
nurmured: "Ahl how goodl / wish
had said that" And Whistler replied
you will, Oscari You willP'
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-06-04

Queer world! Queer people! Here
are men and women by thousands sur
fering from all sorts of diseases, bearing
all manners of pain, spending their all
on physicians and getting, no better
but rather worse" when right at hand
there's a remedy which says it can
help them because it's helped thou
sands like them. Another patent
medicine advertisement" you say.
Yes-but not of the ordinary sort. The
medicine is DIR. Pierce's Golden Medi-
cal Discovery, and it's different from
the ordinary nostrums in this: .
1t does what it claims to do, orlit
costs you nothing
The way is this: You pay your drug
gist 81 for bottle, You read the di-
rections, and you follow them. You
get better, or you don't. If you do,
YOU buy another bottle, and perhaps
another. If you don't get better, you
get your money back. And the queer
thing is that so many people are will
ing to be sick when the remedy's so
near at hand.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-06-04
Grub Street, London.

Up to the Seventeenth century Grub
street was on the outskirts of London. 1t
was a street tenanted by bowyers, fetch
ers, makers of bowstrings and everything
else that appertained to archery. Later
on John Fox lived in Grub street, though
he did not write his famous Book of Mar
tyrs" there. Fox's residencein Grubstreet
occurred about 1872. John Speed, the tail
or archeologist, was resident OF Grub
street, where he was famous as the most re-
sponsible parent, having a family of twelve
sons and six daughters. Grub street of old
and Milton street today is noted for its
great number of alleys and courts.
From Grub street issued such famous
old literary skits as Jack the Giant
Killer" tom Hickathrift," ''The Wise
Men of Gotham" and scores of others now
a part of every boys library. Probably
literary men first began to populate Grub
street in any numbers during Cromwelrs
time. Then a great number Of seditious
and libelous pamphlets were circulated,
and as the authors, for safety, had to seek
obscure living places, they found fitting
retreat in the maze of alleys which webbed
the Grub street section. At any rate, by
the commencement of the Eighteenth cen
fury Grub street had become quite notori
GUS as the poor authors quarter of Lon.
don. All the authors, except a very favored
few, were poor then. The life of Grut
street author was that of a modern tramp
only he did more work and obtained fewer
square meals. But they were true Bohe
mians always.-Collector
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-06-04

Miss Shaw denounced mans disposition
TO claim everything at a woman's conven-
ton in Kansas City. Why" she said,
there's Old Abe, the bald eagle-the men
named him Abe. They say he screams
and he stretches his wings; he does this
and he does that. He was carried through
the war and then taken to the Centennial
He was pointed out to the youth of the
land as the emblem Of liberty. The truth
is, after Old Abe was taken to Madison,
Wis, he got tired of doing nothing and
went to laying eggs. San Francisco Ar
ponaut
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-06-04

1t is next to impossible to give dog or
cat any liquid medicine or powder, and the
only proper way is 70 mix the medicine
with butter, lard or some greasy sub
stance and smear the mixture from time
to time upon their noses. They at once be-
gin licking of this unnatural substance
with their tongues, and in few moments
an effectual dose Of the most nauseous
compound can be administered.
in Philadelphia Press.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-06-04
FAIRHAvEN PosToFFIoE
Corner of Larrabee Avenue and Twelfth
Street

Arrival and departure Of mail from Fair
haven; Wash, Postoflice, taking effect March
q, 1892:
MAIL CLOSES FOR
Port Townsend, Orcas, FRIDAY Harbor,
Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 4:45p.m.,
via boat, and tuesday, Thursday, Saturday
and sunday at 12:45 p. m. via Seattle.
Sedro, Anacortes, Seattle, Tacoma and
Eastern mail at l2:45 D. m daily.
West Ferndale, Blaine and British Column
bia at l2:4j D. m. daily.
New Whatcom Electric Street Railway at
7:45 a. m. and 4:45 p. m. daily except Sunday.
MAIL ARRIVES FROM
Port Townsend, Orcas, Friday Harbor,
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at $500 "a.
m, and at 500 D. M
Blaine. West Ferndale and British Column
bia at / :35 p. m. daily.
Seattle, Tacoma and Eastern mail at LAS
D. m. daily
New Whatcom via Electric Street Railway
at 500 am. and 500 pm. daily except Sunday
Fairhaven TO Beach closes closes at s a. M,
and arrives at p. m. daily except Sunday.
Fairhaven to Chuckanut closes at D. m.
Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and arrives
at D. m.
Office Hours, a. m. TO D. m. Sunday
from to D. m.
s. II. KELLER, P, NJ.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-06-04
A sinrnIar pistinotIon.

George Eliot tells Of a woman whose dis
tinction consisted in the fact that she once
had the cholera, and she never felt that she
was assigned to her proper rank with a
new acquaintance until she bad impaired
that information and enjoyed the sensation
that Il ade.-Boston Commonwealth.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-06-04

The first steamship that crossed the At
lantic was the Savannah in 1919. IL took
that ancient vessel twenty five days to make
the voyage. It was not until 1910 that a
regular line of transatlantic steamers was
established by the British and American
Royal Mail Steam Packet company
York Advertiser
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-06-04

ROAD DISTRICT NO. q FUND
Emery McGinnis, overseers fees...,...S q
ROAD DISTRICT NO. 3S FUND
Jonathan Loveall, overseer's fees and -
team work and labor done on roads.s Il W
ROAD DISTRICT NO. 30 FUND
w Mule, overseers fees = % "
SALARY FUND
ID c Mckee, services as deputy as ~
II A Smith, services as deputy assessor I'D N
Recess taken until 8 O'Clock a. m,
Monday, May 10th, 1892.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-06-04

When Baby was sick, We gave her Castoria
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria-
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-06-04

One of the finest opals in the world, it is
said, is worn on his cap by the Chinese
minister at Washington. 1t is as large as
a pigeons egg, and is surrounded by dia-
monds. The value of the cap, with its
ornament, is placed at 5000.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-06-04
Frenoh Tansy Waters

Ladies will find these waters just
what they need, and can be depended
upon every time to give relief. Safe
and Sure. Can be sent by mail sealed
securely. Price, $500 per box. Fol
sale by Engberg & Darling, druggists
Eleventh and Harris.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-06-04
me rIrst trumpet.

The first trumpet was seashell, and
was used by very old nations. Trumpets
were well known in the days when Ho
mer lived, and Jewish feast Of trumpets
is spoken of in the Bible nearly 1900 b. Z.
Alexander the Great is said to have used a
speaking trumpet 1876 B C.-Harper's
Young People.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-06-04

Various causes may have lowered ones
natural powers of endurance-lack Of sleep
exhausting excitements, sedentary habits.
and undue accumulation of fat, weak
ened heart, or other organic disease.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-06-04

1t is said of Thomas b. Reed, the MEM
Der of congress from Maine who was
speaker of the house of representatives for
two years, that he considered it great
hardship to have to tell a man the same
thing twice.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-06-04

1t would be sound economy for a man to
reserve, say, per cent. of the adulation
which he lavishes during courtship for
home consumption during married life.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-06-04
Timber Land Wanted

Parties having Timber Lands for
sale, send me location, quantity of tim
Der estimated and lowest price, by letter
only, to ID. H. MERRIMAN, Fairhaven.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-06-04

It appears from researches that the oxide
produced on the surface Of iron when
heated is practically transparent.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-06-04
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION

Notice is hereby given that the partner
ship heretofore existing between Henry
Engberg and ID. X. Darling, under the firm
name OF Engberg & Darling, is this day dis
solved by mutual consent, ID. X. Darling re-
firing All bills due the late firm should be
paid to the undersigned, who will settle all
HENRY ENGBERG.
Dated Fairhaven, Wash, May q, 1892
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-06-04
Printers
Stationery

We carry an Immense Stock
Including
News and Poster Print
Fine Book and Cover Papers
Light and heavy Card Board
Wedding and Reception Stock
Calling Cards
Envelopes
Shipping Tags
Letter and Note Heads
Bill Heads and Statements
And the finest Linen Stock IL
Flats and Letter Sizes
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-06-04
TO LOAN
MISCELLANEOUS.
NOTICE

Parties wishing to connect with sewers are
hereby notified that the work of connection
can only be done by persons duly licensed
nv The city in accordance with the provs-
ions of ordinance No. 81. Full information
can be had and licenses obtained at he office
of the city clerk. ,,,...e,,--,-
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-06-04

Arrival and departure of mail from Fair
haven: Wash, Postofiice, taking effect March
u, 1892:
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-28
Hints for Hot Months.

Special care of the sewage must be
taken during warm weather, and some
disinfectant should be poured down
the cesspools and sinks as often as once
a week. For outdoor drains nothing
is better than copperas. Five cents
worth dissolved in boiling water is
powerful purifier and deodorizer.
Potash or common washing soda
dissolved in boiling water is one of the
best articles to use in the kitchen sink.
1t is wise also to keep little Chords
of lime standing about in~places of
doubtful atmospheric purity, but it
should be kept in some high place out
of the reach of children.
Meat that has become slightly tainted
may be restored by cutting away the
dark parts and washing the surface with
a teaspoonful of borax dissolved in half
a cup of water.
A large piece of charcoal laid in the
refrigerator will help to keep the atmos-
phere sweet. 1t needs to be renewed
once week.
When poultry and meat are brought
into the house and are not to be eaten
the same day, put a large piece Of char
coal inside the poultry, removing it
when the poultry is cooked, and rub
vinegar over the meat, washing it off
when ready to be cooked
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-28
Women Should OIL Themselves.

A handsome, clear-skinned woman of
fifty, who might have passed for twenty
years less than her age, when inquired
of as to her methods of preservation.
replied promptly: 81 lubricate, that's
all; just lubricate, as the old Greeks
did," Referred to such unimpeachable
authorities, the inquirer was surprised
to find how invariably Homer and his
successors in the poetic dynasty, says
the Housekeeper, oiled their heroes.
Achilles and Agamemnon had their
differences in love and war, but in the
matter of toilet they were as one. Even
the much-enduring Ulysses, who might
be excused for lapsing into rougher
ways, embraced the very first opportu-
nifty after leaving Calypso's isle to take
care of himself and be anointed
If this hardy fellow, tossed about on
land and sea, why not the dainty woman
of to-day, acquainted with baths, Rus.
sian and Turkish, and taking pardon
able pride in her well-kept person? So
thought the inquirer. "What do you
use?" she asked the modern follower of
an ancient custom. "Glycerine, olive
oil and vaseline. You'll have to ex-
pertinent and see what suits you, as |
did" SO the list was tried. Glycerine
diluted with rose water proved excel
lent for the hands and face, as well as
for cleansing the scalp; olive oil was
good to rub into the skin after plunge,
and vaseline on the feet after pilgrim
age rendered them as supple as the
psalmist's. Then came the masseuse
with her added information, her 'move-
ments f" and percussions." 81 use
cocoanut OIL" she said, and we found
it Just the thing-clean, fragrant, easily
absorbed, leaving no trace in garments
coming in contact with it. From that
day to this, unless positively disabled,
we have fabricated with cocoanut oil.
Try it, you who who are $50 tired that
you ache from hand to foot" 1t looks
like an exertion, but rest assured that
the refreshing oil does half the rubbing,
and sinking into dry, fevered skin and
stiffened joints, revives and strengthens
the rubber, so that the finishing off is
done with flourish. If the back of the
neck and shoulders are lame from bend.
ing over sewing or writing, rub with
cocoanut oil makes them as good as
new. And there is nothing better for
that painful result of sitting in draft,
stiff neck.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-28
Curious Implements Of Torture.

In an old tower in Nuremburg there
is a room set apart especially for the
preservation of the curious instruments
of torture used during the uncertain
period historically referred to as the
Middle Ages. In that room you can
see thumbscrews of the most approved
pattern closely arranged along shelves
filled with "liar helmets" and "bridles"
for gossiping women. One horrid relic
called the spike Wheel" is a heavy
cylinder, on one side of which stand out
two or more score Of sharp iron spikes.
In days of old, when an offender had
been sentenced to undergo a trolling"
he was stripped naked and firmly bound
on plank, face down. In this position
the "spike Wheel was slowly dragged
up and down his back, the number of
times depending upon the gravity of the
crime and the wording of the sentence.
In several instances the poor victims
were prodded so full of holes that they
died before they could be removed from
the plank. When death was intended
the number of "rolls" was not speci-
fed, but double length spikes, heated
red hot, were put in the surface of the
cylinder. This mode of carrying out
capital punishment was hardly as expe-
ditious as the guillotine, but it was
equally as certain
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-28
BARRE TRAINS.
Central Vermont Railroad.
Commencing July II, 1892.

Trains Going South and East nil Leave Mont
pelier as folloloS.
9:OOA. NJ. MAIL. for Fitchburg, Boston, Spring.
field, New London and New York.
$3.50 p. M FAST TRAIN, for Boston via Low
ell and New York via Springfield.
I:5o p. Nj, MINED for Northheld, Roxbury,
and way stations to White River Junction and
5:5S p. NJ. PASSENGER, for White Rive,
.Is;4O A. III. EXPRESS, for Boston via Lowell
and all points in New England, New York and South.
Trains Going North and West:
1850 A. NJ. EXPRESS, for Montreal ogdens-
8:s3 A. NJ. RECOMMENDATION, to St. Adams,
Burlington and Rutland, Troy and New York.
1000 A. M. PASSENGER. for Burlington, st.
Adams Richford, Rouse's Point and st. Johns max
connections for Troy Albany and New York.
$3.50 p. Nj. PASSENGER, fer Burlington, st.
Adams, Montreal 0g Dc and the West ..
darlington, Lake Champain and Adirondack points,
5 l5 Z; N, FAST EXPRESS Pullman sleel'
s;e5 p. Nj. local PASSENGER TO ST. Adams
making connections at Essex junction for Troy, AL
bany and New York.
Through tickets to Chicago and all points West for
sale at the principal stations,
Suburban Train Service.
Leave Montpelier at '3;l5, 800, 9;l5, l0;l5 A. NJ 900
tO, $50, 40, 1880 Z. NJ. Arrive at Barre twenty
i've minutes after leaving time. ,,oo
Leave Barre at taos, 500, s'2a $40 A. NJ lsO VO,
$40, 800, $3.50, II 100 p NJ, Arrive at Montpelier
twenty-five minutes after leaving time,
Trains leave for Williamstown at lOil5 A. NJ ana
Daily Sundays included. Sundays only.
All passenger trains will stop at the Pioneer Works
to take or 'eaEe Sa'Tffah8SsMfPi Tas Ssens
T.. w. BALDWIN, General Superintendent.
s, W, CUMMINGS, General Passenger Agent
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-28
The Mockingbird in California.

Some of my most intimate acquaint-
ances have been the mockingbirds in
the California groves. 1t seems almost
unnecessary to cage them, they are so
happy among the ever blooming trees,
but cages hang in balconies, at doors
and windows, all about the courts and
under the caves, and passing down the
streets one hears at all hours gushes of
melody from the wonderful mimickers
in their prisons. 1t is a cheerful sound,
vet like better to listen to them as they
fit at will where the red pomegranates
flower, where the wild figs rear their
massive canopies, where they may hide
their young as they choose in the fra
grant orange trees tops.
One splendid fellow has his perch on
a windmill fan opposite my door, where
all day long he pours out trills raptur-
Gus with glee. Some mornings he is in
such ecstasy that he bubbles down his
notes in snatches, wasting no time in
weaving them together whenever | APP
pear ON the doorstep. know he watches
for my coming, for he apparently boards
his musical culver full of gay darts,
keeping silence for intervals when | am
unseen, letting them fly in an arrowy
shower as if he would transport me
when reappear. He is the saucy tyrant
who pecks at my hat, my hair, my
gown, when venture too near the rose
vine on the lattice where his newly
Matched babies are. - Correspondent,
Christian Union.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-28
EBENEZER SCRIBNER'S ESTATE,
" STAIE OLE NERMNNT Ne shinutnn niatrict q

In Probate Court. held at Montpelier, in said Die.
trict, on the 18th day of September, AID. lsg2:
James W, Brock, Administrator Of the estate Of
Ebenezer Scrbner late of Montpelier. in said Dis.
trict deceased, presents his administration account
for examination and allowance, and makes appca-
ton for decree of distribution partition Of the
estate of said deceased Whereupon, 1t is ordered by
said Court that said account and said application be
referred to session thereof to be held the Probate
Office, in said Montpelier. the 18th day of Septem-
Der, A. ID. lSs2. for hearing and decision thereon;
And is further ordered that notice hereof be given
to all persons interested by publication OF the
three weeks successfully In the Vermont W0tchmdn
d State JOurHdi, newspaper published at Mont
pelier previous to said time appointed for hearing,
that they may appear at said time and place, and
show cause. If any they may have, why said account
should not be allowed and such decree made
BY the Court,-Attest,
O9-ll HIRAM CARLETON Judge
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-28
A Monkeys Curiosity.

One day recently new lock was put
upon the door of the monkey cage in
Central Park. The monkeys watched
the proceedings with great interest,
and the curiosity of one monkey be-
came particularly excited. After the
workman had finished and gone away,
he drew near to investigate this strange
ornament to his house. He felt the
lock all over with his paws; poked his
finger through the keyhole and twisted
it about, shaking the door while he did
so. Then he looked long and earnestly
through the keyhole, first with one eye
and then with the other Then he ex-
amined the hole with another finger.
During his examination of the lock,
a little monkey drew near and stood
watching his actions attentively. The
inquisitive fellow happened to turn
around, and found himself observed.
He flew at the little monkey with a
cry of rage, and gave him sharp box
on the ear. The poor little monkey,
in great alarm, fled to the farthest cor.
ner of the cage, and crouched down
there whimpering. Having so de-
Tended his outraged dignity, the first
monkey resumed his study of the lock.
He climbed up the bars of the cage,
and took views from above. Then he
stopped down, and took an observa-
ton from below. Then he peered
through the keyhole, first with one eye,
then with the other, as before. Then
he explored it again with his finger.
Presently, finding himself again
watched by the little monkey, he
sprang at him again, and gave him
another beating.
Overmuch curiosity is always pun
ished in this world, and by-and-by
this monkey found it out. He caught
his finger in the keyhole, and, in spite
of all his efforts, could not release it.
He twisted and struggled, chartered
and screamed. His outcries finally
brought keeper to his rescue, and his
finger was extricated, with loud laugh
ter from the spectators. Seemingly
much Inundated, the monkey retired
to corner of the cage, where he sal
nursing his wounded finger, and sulk.
ing as Enthusiastically as ever a cross lit
tie boy sulks. And in the opposite
corner sat much smaller monkey, anC
l am sure, if ever monkeys smile
inwardly, that little monkey was do
ing that very thing.-Harper'S Young
! PeOple.