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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1899-04-21

Presidents "come high, but we
nave got to have them" 1t costs Us
sII4, $50 year for Chief Fxecu-
tive. Iiis salary is $50, 900 and
found, us our Western neighbors
say. The Presidents finding is rather
comprehensive, covering about every
possible requirement of family His
private secretary, the clerks, door
keepers, messengers and steward, and
three other servants cost US $33, 500 Il
year. Then there is contingent
fund of $4,000 year, which the Presi-
dent may use according to his discre-
ton.
In furniture and repairs to the
White House the sum of $1,000
more, to be used by the direction OF
the President, is provided by the ma
ton and is always expended. For
iuel alone $4,000 is allowed, and for
necessary repairs to the greenhouse
there is $4,000.
Altogether the Presidential "fnd-
ing amounts to the snug sum of $64,
865, nearly S15, 600 a year more than
his salary. The two aggregate $l14,
sos. This is an imposing aggregate,
but it is small compared with other
Presidents. The President of the
French Republic receives as salary
$780, 900 a year, $50, 4S0 for con
tingent purposes and a handsome
house. rent free. SO we get our
President rather cheaply, after ALL
Boston journal.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1899-04-21
JAPANESE CUSTOMS.


At the close of formal dinners in
Japan the guests are presented with
any portion of the meal they may fail
to eat. However great or small the
amount they may fail to eat, it is
cheerfully wrapped up for them, and
they are expected to take it home
with them. The unique custom was
followed at official dinners until a
short time ago, when it was discon-
tinued, but the withdrawal of Govern
ment example has not materially
affected the practice. The plan has
been followed for many years, and it
is difficult to place its origin, says the
San Francisco Chronicle.
Peculiar as the custom is, it is not
without its attractive features The
husband who stays out late at night
can pave the way to wifely pardon
with the neat and tempting parcel
under his arm. The impecunious or
temporarily embarrassed can hold out
enough to tide them over several
hungry days. The indulgent father
or mother can pass the sweets and
carry them home to their children.
Half a dozen satisfactory combina-
tions can be worked on the plan.
There may be all kinds of elaborate
courses at dinner that one does not
care for. but the mental struggle OF
saying no is not half so hard when
you know you will get chance to
carry the food off, and either give it
to your children, feed 1t to your dogs
and cats or distribute it among your
friends. The japanese practice is all
that could be expected. Each kind OF
food is kept in a separate parcel, and
at the close of the dinner the share C:
each guest is made up in a neat ana
artistic bundle.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1899-04-21
NEWSY CLEAMlNCS,

The United States Industrial Commission
has decided to investigate trusts.
The keel OF the Shamrock, the Americas
Cup challenger, was laid successfully.
The English Government is making n
atr"nu2us effort 10 stamp ont rabies in the
British islands
The rush Of emigration to this country
has set in in Europe, and steamers are
taxed beyond their carrying capacity.
Som" v0nd1l recently broke off aud stole
the index tInger Of the right hand of the
Jefferson Davis statue in Jackson, Miss.
The Yale Di-Centennial Committee has
appealed TO all graduates for So, coo 900, TO
be used in carrying out plans for the 1901
celebration.
The French Government has decided to
grant II temporary drawback on sugars
used in the manufacture of TRANSPARENT
soaps for export.
The Norwegian Minister OF War has re-
fused the usual permission to the Swedish
Minister otWar to attend the autumn army
mGnmuvres in Norway.
The rural police OF Santiago de Cuba.
backed by the American troops. are doing
excellent work in the suppression of minor
offences in the country.
Tho Atlanta (Ga) School Board has re.
pealed the rule under which children were
permitted to attend church on church
holidays without demert.
As a result OF the pourparlers which
nave been going on between the powers, 1t
Is reported that the Sugar Conference will
reconvene in August next.
Proposals have been invited by the
Chilean Government, to be opened May Is.
For the building OF important railroads in
the south, to unite Naldivia with the main
line.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1899-04-21
He Was Very Amusing.

A good story is told of the late DR..
Boyd. He once went to visit woman
who had just lost her husband. By
wav of comforting the widow he pro-
ceeded to set forth with great earnest
ness and beauty of language the joys
of the state to which the departed one
had attained. The bereaved woman,
with a vivid recollection of her hus-
bands defects, found it hard to share
in the minister's hopes, although she
wished to show her sense of his kind
ness. She unburdened herself thus:
"Weel, DR.. Boyd, you're maybe no
vera instructive, but you're aye anus
inc. Pail Mall Gazette.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1899-04-21
Polish Jehus.

To drive slowly over cobblestones
is not Joy, but to drive four Russian
horses at gallop over cobblestones
was something to make you bite your
tongue and to break your teeth and to
shake your very soul from its socket.
| most solemnly assure you it was any
thing but simple drive to one fresh
from the asphalt Of Paris, for, like
Jehu, they drove furiously. Their
horses are all wild, runaway beasts,
and they drive them at an uneven
g&llop resembling the gait of our fire
engine horses at home, except that
ours go more slowly. Sometimes the
horses fall down as they drive across
country, or stop only for stone walls
or meats The carriages must be built
of iron, for the front wheels drop a
few feet into burrow every now and
then, and at such times an unwary
American is liable to be pitched owes
the coachman's head. "Hold on with
both hands, shut your eyes and keep
your tongue from between your teeth
would be my instructions to one about
to take q drive" in Poland. WON
ans Home Companion.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1899-04-21
New Chlnese Nuts.

The ly-chee nut has appeared above
the horizon as the latest accessory to
the luncheon or dinner party. 1t
comes from China, and in appear.
ance, taste and odor has all the orr
entalism of most such products. Be,
side being hard to obtain, it is sufi
GENTLY dear to prevent its becoming
common, while it also possesses the
value of being decided novelty. But
no hostess need fear that her guests
will consume too many ly-chee nuts,
to the exclusion of other viands on
the table, for while they taste as san
dalwood sweetened might be supposed
to taste, two are about as many as the
ordinary palate cares for.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1899-04-21
CT have called Mr. BilliWinks

81 have called, Mr., Billiwinks, tc
tell you I love your daughter, Mis-,
Fanny, and l want to marry her.
"Well, it will not take me long to an
swer you, Mr.. Harkalong. You can
have her" Your refusal pains m,
deeply. BY the way, Mr.. Billiwink
are You carrying all the life insuranc,
YOU wsnt?'-Chicago Tribune.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1899-04-21

''To what extent has it beensused in
surgery and medicine?'
Thus far cancer has been treated
with it. and the most gratifying re-
suits have been obtained. 1t is too
early to say Just what its value is. |
do know that its application to cancer
has stopped the spread of the disease
and in one case the wound has con
tracted to a very small one. In an
other case, after a number of appllca-
tons to cancer on the breast OF a
woman, it fell out into the operator 8
hand. A number of cases OF cancer
have been under treatment, and IN all
which were in incipiency OF mad not
been rendered incurable by the Tree
but vain application of the surgeon 5
knife, it has arrested the cSacerouS
growth. 1t has, besides, " marked
effect in removing the pain accom-
panying the disease. A patient SUI,
fering from cancer of the nose SAID
that the shooting pains which had pre-
viously afflicted him disappeared en-
tirely after the first application OF the
air. 1t is quite possible that it may
have some special value as a local
annsthetic. It appears certain tina;
gangrene can be arrested long enough
for amputations to be made that Will
save life. But, Of course, am not
a physician OF surgeon, and it is not
the curative properties of Liquid air
which have chiefly interested n1e. Its
use in medicine and surgery is now
under careful study by physicians. !
may add in this line that liquid all
appears to be an irresistible GERM
eide, and that I think I have Incl
dentally discovered means hv,which ii
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1899-04-21

can he so applied as safely TO reach
the lungs and destroy the bacilli of
tuberculosis. Indeed, the physicians
have succeeded in applying it to parts
OF the body where | thought it could
not be applied, aud, therefore it
seems a distinct probability that
means will be devised 10y which dis.
ease germs. wherever they may he in
the human body, can be reached and
killed.
"As for its use for refrigerating
purposes, that is as wide as the need
of refrigeration is. lee can be made
with 1t; 1t can take the place of ice in
refrigerators; it will he useful in
packing houses. in markets, in hos.
pitfalls, and in hotels aud houses in
summer"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1899-04-21

The highest masts of sailing vessels
are from 100 to 1870 feet high. anC
spread from $4,000 to 100000 square
feet of canvas.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1899-04-21

The liquefaction of air is one OF the
scientific achievements of the last
quarter century In the first success
Jul experiments only q few drops Of
liquid air were obtained, but six or
seven years ago the British scientist,
Professor James Dewar, demonstrated
that it could be produced in quantity.
The expense, however, w&s enormous
"a pint costing about $4,000. Mr..
Tripler declares that he has produced
gallons of liquid air at cost of about
twenty cents q gallon. He further
claims that LIQUID air can be used to
make liquid air in larger quantities.
that he has actually obtained ten gal
Ions from three.
He holds that there is no reason to
doubt that this process can be re
peated indefinitely, and that, there
fore liquid air can be produced in I'M
limited quantities at practically no
cost Except, of course, that of plant
and labor. Mr. Tripler also expresses
confidence that the commercial and
scientific applications Of liquid air are
so numerous and so important that it
must effect no small revolution in
modern life.
1T is a fact of SCIENCE" said Mr..
Inpler, that air liquefes at a
temperature OF 312 degr ees below
zero. The problem has been how to
obtain, and subject air to, that degree
OF cold. / have discovered that air
compressed air-can be so used as
to produce that degree of cold, and,
consequently, to liquefy other air; and
l have invented a machine by which
the liquid product can be made in
great quantities at low cost
Liquid air is n clear and fluent sub
stance, which, upon exposure, evap-
oates rapidly in a heavy mist 1t is
so intensely cold that the hand held
ov@ it is speedily chilled. If the hand
Is plunged into it, the sensation is
that e burning, and unless it is i'm
medlately withdrawn the skin is bis
tered aad scared. When the hand is
removed it becomes almost instan-
taneously dry, for the liquid which
had adhered Immediately gathers in
bright beaos and drop heavily to the
floor.
For liquid an, as power, Mr.. Trip
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1899-04-21
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

II is generally believed that the
common house martin, which leaves
England when nesting time Is over,
spends the winter IN Africa. But. al
though millions OF the birds disappear
from Europe every autumn, the orni-
thologist, DIR. Sharpe, knows Of only
one single authentic instance Of the
capture Of martin in tie African con-
tlutut.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1899-04-21
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SOME NOVEL AND AMAZING EXPERIMENTS

Valllng temperature, and that every
additional degree of heat applied Yields
twenty pounds Of pressure. Steam
pressure is not obtained until water
has been heated to a temp erature of
2l2 degrees Fahrenheit, and each adj
dltional degree of heat produces only
one pound of pressure. He asserts.
moreover, that liquid air can be ap-
piled as substitute for steam to any
engine, with substantially no further
change than the displacement of the
boiler by the smaller and lighter re-
ceptacle holding the air. It's general
adoption, therefore, as motive power
would not mean the diScarding of ex-
pensive engines now used. Hence,
the first cost of its adoption would be
slight, and with lis vastly greater
rotentiality, itmust he claims) super
sede steam, if it can be made cheaply
enough.
For that Mr.. Tripler provides by his
application of liquid mir to the manu-
facture of larger quantities of LIQUID
AIR. He asserts that he has accom-
phshed sucn a result; that he first
used steam as the power requisite in
the process of making liquid air; that
he took liquid air thus made, applied
1t to an engine as Il substitute for
steam, operated the engine thereby,
and used the power thus obtained as
he had used the steam power.
Il find IN this matter" he said
THAT | have been generally misun-
derstood. don't claim to create en-.
ergy, to make something out of moth
ing, to upset any Of the laws of nature
! do say, though, that the scientists
have been wrong in some of their
notions, and that they will have to
change them. | assert that by the
use of given quantity OF liquid air,
substituted for steam power, ] can
make, and have made, larger quaint
ties Of liquid air. | use over and over
again the liquid air employed in the
making. It seems simple enough to
me, and the principle Is so simple that
it ought to have been grasped by any
scientific mind at once, but, to my
surprise, it has not; what my critics
say appears plausible, but in fact their
contentious are all aside from the
mark, for they have got hold of the
wrong end of the proposition, and do
not comprehend at all what l am
about.
Then, whatever the modus oper.
andi may be, you do distinctly claim
that by the use of any given quantity
of liquid air You can make u larger
quantity?"
Il positively and absolutely make
that claim"
You claim also that by the use of
three gallons of liquid air you have
produced teu?"
II have done that very thing, re-
piled Mr.. Tripler with emphasis.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1899-04-21

docs its success as great rev0-
lutioni2ing agency in modern indus.
try and lie depend upon the produc.
ton of larger quantities from given
quantities?" the reporter asked.
IF / had not achieved the abolition
Of steam in the manufacture Of liquid
air | should have accomplished moth
ing. THAI is. although liquid air
might still be Of use in some special
application-as, for instance, in sur
gerry and medicine it could not be-
come the supreme and universal pow
er-producer which | expect it to be "
You believe that it will supersede
steam?'
II do-for the traction of railway
trains, for the propulsion of ships and
for the operation of machinery in gen
eral. As motive-pOwer its advan-
tages over steam are great. 1t will
cost far less, it will save bulk and
weight of plant and apparatus, 1t will
be vastly more efficient.
"Do you expect that its use will en-
able railway trains and steamships to
attain greater speed?'
81 do look tor such result. There
is every reason to believe that, given
this greater power than steam, higher
speed can be produced"
"How would it be used--stored OF
made i'll transit?"
"It seems to me to be quite feasible
L., ~
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1899-04-21

IN a late volume DIR. 4. Il. Fison
says that though our own sun has
passed tue zenith Of its career, il may,
IN the remote future, brighten into
rivalry with Sirius itself, which is
seventy-tiye times hotter and brighter
than our central luminary. The dis
lance from us Of Arcturus is four
million times that of the sun, and his
motion Of 1877 miles in a second must
be continued for 200 years before he
would be carried across a space in the
heavens which to our eyes would be
no greater than the width of the moon
at the full"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1899-04-21

Mr.. Tripler referred TO Hudson
Maxim, the brother of Hiram Maxim,
who had been present in the labora-
tory few days before, drawn by re-
ports which he had heard Of the pos
sibllities of liquid air as an explosive.
Mr.. Maxim had been told that n small
quantity of cotton waste saturated
with liquid air had been placed in q
small iron pipe, which had then been
encased IN larger pipe, as protection
from the possible effects of the explo-
sion, and that by means of long fuse
the waste had been touched with fire:
he had been shown the fragments of
the inner pipe and two great holes
which had been blown through tho
outer one. Mr.. Maxim desired to see
precisely the quantity of cotton waste
which had been used, and to know
whether the ends of the pipes had
been closed. The merest PAINFUL of
waste had been exhibited, and the
ends of both pipes, he was told, had
beenleft open.
There is no explosive in use, " Mr..
Maxim declared energetically, (which,
in such small quantity and with so
little confinement, could have pro.
duced anything like this effect" His
interest was so much aroused that he
at once made an appointment with
Mr. Tripler for business interview
on the use of liquid air in combina.
ton with an explosive which Mr..
Maxim had invented.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1899-04-21

For liquid an, as power, Mr.. Trip
Ter claims thatit has about one hun
dred the times he expansive force of
steam; that expansion Immediately be-
gins under the Influence Of the pre-
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1899-04-21

An interesting paper on the effects
Of light at very low temperatures was
recently submitted to the Paris Acad.
envy Of Sciences by NM. Auguste and
Louis Lumiere. by using liquid air
they were able to obtain very low
temperatures. and when a sensitized
gciatino-bromido plate was immersed
III it and exposed to light for a short
lime, no tint was shown on develop
mcnt. When the plates were i'm
n"rsed in the liquid air, but allowed
to regain their original temperature
w!thou. being exposed to the light,
they did not show any changes in
their properties. If, however, plates
of great senSitiycness were exposed at
.-I9l degrees Ceniigrade, they re-
gained an exposure about four hun,
'trci times as long as at ordinary tenn
reratures.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1899-04-21

\ new process for coating iron and
steel consists in the use of bath con-
sisting OF zinc, tin, and aluminium 1t
Is claimed that this produces a coat
ing which is much superior to any
now known, adhering 50 firmly that
the sheet will stand working after it
has been applied and will resist zorro
sion and can even be heated red hot
without injuring it. The coating is
applied in the same manner as in the
we!l-inown process of galvanizing,
that is, by dipping galvanized sheets
in the metal alloy. The most APP
proYed mixture is made by melting
together 81 parts Of zinc, II parts of
tin, aud / parts OF lead and O'5 of a
part Of aluminium. The process Is
patented.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1899-04-21

Professor W. c. Peckham. of
Adelphi Institute, Brooklyn, from
whose pen an article on liquid air APP
pears in the Century, has also written
on the subject in the Scientific Ameri-
can. In the latter journal he has given
this description of the plant and pro-
cess of Mr.. Tripler:
at (the plant consists of q triple air
compressor, cooler and li0uefer
The compressor is of the ordinary
form, having three pumps upon one
piston shaft working in a line. The
first gives sixty pounds pressure; the
second raises this to 100 pounds,
while the third brings the air under a
compression of 1000 pounds per square
inch.
after each compression he air flows
through iacketed pipes, where it is
cooled by city water. For this work
about forty horse power is employed.
After the third compression the air
flows through an apparatus which dis
poses of some of its impurities, and it
passes on to the liquefer, 1t is this
part of the apparatus which consti-
tutes Mr.. Tripler's special invention.
BY means of the peculiarly construct.
ed valve, whose details are not made
public, a portion of the compressed
air is allowed to expand into tube
surrounding the tube through which
the remaining air is flowing This
expanded air absVrbs a large amount
of heat from the air still under com
preston in the inner tube The con
tents of the inner tube are thus cooled.
In this way the air is brought below
the temperature OF liquetaction and
its pressure is very much reduced, so
that, upon opening the valve at the
bottom of the apparatus, stream of
LIQUID air is received, flowing ont with
scarcely more force than the water
from our ordinary city service pipes.
Thus the liquefaction of the air is ac-
complished by the 'self-intensitica-
ton of cold produced by the expan
sion of portion of the compressed
and cooled air. without employing any
other substance to bring about this
result
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1899-12-29

daie repdbliao ineondicional de lca
vepcrd res
En- AlboHito est8 a1n maleado q aire
ON 81 polvo que Iavapteban en- 1887 los
cabalIos dc Is Guardia Civil.
Esa derrota es uuestro orgullo. Y
solo Ia ssntimos por el puhado dc pa
triotas de oraz6n shogados alli por Ia
svalancha do los antiques secuaces dc
Palauios.
En- Cabo Roio, eata puridcada Ia at
m6sfera por 81 recuerdo de Betsnces ]
por Il gloria de Brau. Para resarcir 4
Ia sooiedaa de aqual pueblo historico dc
Ia pagina bochornosa dessrrollada en-
1887, neeesitabase an triunfo emineu
temente puertorriqusfio, sminentemente
regional, sin visos nj resabios incopdi
oionales; J ESQ solo pueda darlo e
Partido Federal.
Ell cuadro no puede ser mas p6aimo
mientras al ampsro del pabellon tricolol
organfzanse los pueblos todos de Puerto
Rico dentro del orien actual del impe
rio americsno, para Aibonito no hay
reparsci6n possible, Sin redeuci6n syor
sin redenci6n hoy.
Vfctimss de un grupo de osciques ba
10 la dictadura de Palscios; vfctimas d
los mismos asfores bajo Ia direction d
Rossy J de Barbosa. iQue ejsmplo tai
POGO e1ifcsnte! iPaz paranuestros her
manos, los dOsterrados en- Aibonito!
Y mientras 81 buitre de la Coloni
disp6nese desgarrar de nuevo el cora
z6n de squel ORGANISING enfermo desd
1887, ca la gentil y altiva Cabo Roio
donde no caben mas premisas que la
de la dignidad en- Ell seno augusta de !
Patria, leyantase gallsrdo el estsndart
federal amparando las lcgftimas espe
ranzas dc un pueblo deseoso de justici
| de libertsd. iQa6 contraste 81 de 10
dos pueblos! Cabo Rojo en- la Iglesi
federal esoUchando entusissmsdo el hin
no redentor de las auevas ideas. Aibo
nito frente q la mezquits cerrada adn
oontemplando abatido 81 hundimient
del Sol por Oocidente.
Aibonito: redimido seas.