Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-06-14
Facts and Fancies.


used on official documents in Spain.
A boiler explosion in a factory In
Brussels killed fourteen and injured
many, some of whom will die. g &.
The witticisms of Bailey, of the Dan
bury NeUS are now more extensively
copied throughout the country than
those of any other humorist. . sr1
Down East, when they want to speak
of mans liberality, and don't want to
praise him too much, they say he has a
heart as big as Rhode Island. -.s..
Intensely swell young gentlemen of
New York and Boston have their cigars
manufactured expressly for them, and
ornamented with their monograms in
gold. ..L .1y .s... ....
There is a good deal of sound wisdom
in the suggestion of the farmer, eff you
want your boy to stay at home, don't
bear too hard on the grindstone when
he turns the crank.
A Harrisburg small boy stood on his
feet in closet, asleep, for three hours,
while his distracted parents searched
the city over for him, under the impress
sion that he was lost .a"."7
Ex-Governor Jewell, of Connecticut,
has accepted the Russian Mission, and
will at once make arrangements for his
departure. He expects to leave New
York the latter part of June. .....
Sydney Smith once commenced a
charity sermon by saying: "Benevo-
lence is sentiment common to human
nature. A never sees b in distress
without asking G to relieve him.
A Dubuque grocer refuses to adver-
tise in the papers, but spoiled $50 suit
of clothes in covering the fences and
walls with o painted sign, which reads:
"Buy yoor Kodphish, & Kauphy at
Bilsons."
The pale, sad looking young men
whom one occasionally meets on the
street are not consumptive, are not
mourning the loss of friend, and are
not divinity students. They are break
ing in tight boots. .........
An Illinois girl, having six lovers, Of
fered to marry the one who should
tbreak up" the most prairie in three
days. The result was that she got a
smart husband, and her father found
his new farm ready for planting free of
cost.
A young poet once asked Douglas
Jerrold to pass q candid criticism on
two of his productions. Jerrold waited
rather impatiently until his tormentor
had concluded reading the first poem,
and then quickly exclaimed" 1 like
your other poem the best" "But you
have not heard it read" "That is why
L peter it.
A society of Louisville colored people
recently conducted q funeral on eco
nomical principles. The remains were
placed in an express wagon, and the
mourners, fifty in number, embarked in
a number of street-cars chartered for
the occasion, and the cortege moved
solemnly up the horse railroad, through
the principal streets of the city.
According to Mr. Creswel, the postal
cards cost the U. S. Government $1.36
per thousand. The orders up to date
have reached the enormous amount of
25, 900, 900, of which the cost to the
people will be $3.50, 600, and to the Gov
ernment $34, 900. Allowing $16,00 for
duulGlOudl 0Ap6llSS VI uollNcl y-MA1On
we presume, is liberal allowance-and
the net addition to the revenue is $780,
900. aaa.sas .
Thirty years ago a man entered the
City of New York in an almost penni-
less condition, and without single ac-
quaintance in the great wilderness of
houses. To-day his name is known
wherever humanity breaths. tisspoken
in every city, and is as familiar to the
worker in the mine as to his brother in
the mills, and wherever language is
known and ideas are expressed the name
of this penniless, unknown, and uncouth
lad of thirty years ago is uttered. 1t
was John Smith. ............
The contractor for the Cleveland
water works tunnel says that when over
q thousand feet from the shaft, and
with thirty-fve feet of water and the
same amount of earth above him, he
has repeatedly heard the falling of the
rain on the water above almost as plain
ly as it could be heard when falling on
the roof of house. The workmen
mention it as common occurrence to
hear the splashing of steamer or pro-
peller wheels passing in the water
above. Last fall the ripple of water
around a boom of saw-logs passing
over the snOt was D1ainlv heard