Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-08-09
ERMs s1.50 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE.
NO. 81.
Items Of Interest.

ltCmS vi AheOAOSts
Iowa raspberry pickers get only 2i
cents quart at the markets.
A circuit court-The longest way
home from the singing school.
Beloit College, Wis, aspires to be
called "the Yale of the West"
"Millions of white worms came
down in a shower at Elizabethtown,
KY.
Il is stated that all the candidates for
Governor in Minnesota have announced
their cordial friendship for the farmers.
If apy person has doubts whether ad-
vertisemeffts are read or not, let him
put something he doesn't wish known
in an obscure part OF the paper.
A Minnesota paper saws: II pitching
fish from the lakes with an ordinary
thin tined hay-fork is any indication OF
good fishing, then we have good fishing
here"
The export of boots and shoes from
the United States in 1850 was $103, ,508.
In 1860 it amounted to 81, ,456, ,S34, an
increase during that period of over
seven hundred per cent. l,E
We have been told that Freedom
shrieked when Kosciusko fell. 1t ap-
pears. however that Freedom shrieked
for the wrong name. The will Of this
Polish person has been found IN his
own handwriting, and it begins u,
Thadeus Kosciuszlio," etc.
Mr.. J. s. Thompson, of the town of
Auburn, Wis, had maple orchard he
thought very attractive. The tornado
spoiled over one thousand OF the trees,
mainly by the uprooting process. Oak
trees four feet in diameter, near the
same forest, were torn up by the roots.
A schoolboy's composition on tobac-
CO.. "This noxious weed was invented
by g. distinguished man named Walter
Raleigh. When the people first saw
him smoking they thought he was a
steamboat, and as they had never heard
of such thing as a steamboat, they
were terribly frightened.
An order for machinery was recently
received in Indianapolis, which was
written on a postal card, which was
then enclosed in an envelope with
three-cent stamp on it, and the package
then sent by express at cost Of twenty
five cents, prepaid. The sender was
one of your careful men, and determined
to have the thing reach its destination.
The mess system at the University of
Virginia has reduced the board of the
students to an almost miraculous degree
of cheapness The University report
mentions a mess of eight whose board
only cost them SO per month, and one
State student whose total expense tor
living during the session, including
room rent, board, lights, fuel, and wash
ing, has been under $40.
The editor of the Record, an Arizona
paper, has on his table two invitations
to act as second in duel and one to an
Indian hunting RAID, pair of bearskln
pants presented by hunter, three
pound nugget of silver, free pass on
Stage route, two lottery tickets, three
Apache scalps, call to act as Postmas-
ter and Justice of the Peace, and twen-
ty-seven dollars worth of faro checks.
And still he's not happy.
1t is said that in Richmond, Me-,
when gentleman's family leaves home
for week or two, the gentleman COM
piles list of his friends and neighbors
and mails them the following circular:
"--- sends his compliments and
announces to the gentlemen named
below that he will do them the honor
of dining with them on the days placed
opposite their respective names. lie
will expect good dinner"
The Peoria Review has this blood
curdling account of o fight with mon
strous snake, happening in that town
lately: A rural gentleman visiting
friend in the Third ward, found IN the
back yard, after dusk, an immense
snake lying in the grass. He procured
an axe, and when he had chopped the
reptile into about dozen pieces, he
discovered it to be garden hose which
had not been properly hung up IN the
coal shed. ..ne. -...,..r.-.
Charles Dickens, whose criticism on
existing abuses were more orthodox
than his processes of reform, thus plain
ly sets forth very pregnant fact "Ihe
first Napoleon caused more deaths than
all earthquakes since the days of Noah;
the cupidity of ship owners and the su-
pineness of sailors have lost more ships
and lives than all the storms that ever
blew; the filthy state of our towns
sends more souls to Hades than all put
together. Plague, pestilence, war and
famine yield to dirt !" .laaA