Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-11-08
Items OF Interest.


The Pope is now in excellent health,
and holds daily receptions.
A Minnesota man has become insane
from the excessive use of tobacco.
Blythe burning of shanty in Toledo,
Ohio, three persons lost their lives.
1t is now asserted that within eleven
weeks 1, 800 persons died of the yellow
fever in Memphis.
Mrs. Virginia L. Minor, of st.
Louis, Indignantly refuses to pay taxes
unless she is allowed to vote.
A lady reporter sent to an agricul-
tural fair wrote of lot eff pigs ''Ihey
look too sweet to live minute"
A Wisconsin man has had to have his
lip amputated on account of a cancer
produced by excessive smoking.
No Saratoga hotel except Congress
Aall paid expenses this last season.
Stewards grand house lost $4,000.
Naturalists, after years sofinvestigation of
of the anatomy and morphology of eels,
have discovered that they are of no sex.
A prudent gentleman, unwilling to
accuse neighbor of lying, said he
used the truth with penurious frugal
ity.
Cairo has only two policemen, and
these spend half the time fighting to
see who shall be chief and who the
"force."
A Kansas paper says: The gay, jump
ing grasshopper, the brown-colored
grasshopper, the cussed old grasshop-
per, is here.
A gentleman once met a very quiet
newsboy selling newspapers. " Is
there any news ?" inquired the gentle
man. Lots O news" j" replied the boy,
"but nothin' to holler. :,
The oranges of the States of the Mis-
sissippi valley, lately in session ct
Keokuk, decided to establish a system
of agricultural statistics in every State
in the Union.
"I declare, mother" said a pretty
little girl, in a pretty little way, "'tis
too bad You always send me to bed
when I am not sleepy, and you always
make me get up when am sleepy "
Mrs. Patterson, daughter Of Audy
johnson, and who was mistress of the
White House while that gentleman was
President, has been awarded the pre-
MUM for the best butter at Tennes-
see fair.
A match at chess for $4,000 side
has been made between Dick Pearce
and Mr.. Gallagher, of Austin, New.
Five thousand dollars side forfeit has
been put up, and the match will come
off six weeks from next Christmas.
The farmers in Illinois are running
the thing on an economical plan. At
one of their conventions in Efingham
county they made the candidates pledge
themselves to perform the duties of
their offices at 81, 200 each, and furnish
their own assistants.
At Clerkenwell Police Court, in Eng
land, few days sincel the manager of
the Newcastle Colliery Company was
convicted of having knowingly sold an
inferior quality of Goals for good one.
He was fined 91O and costs, with the
alternative of one months imprison-
ment.
An exchange says: "Out of seven
hundred and fifty redingotes seen upon
the street, only three were of style
or quality that did not disfgure the
wearer. Yet they are fashionable and
homely, and can be made expensive
three things that commend them to
majority of the sex.
The sardine fisheries in France at
present employ 20, 900 sailors and some
$4,000 men, women, and children on
land to prepare the fish for market. 1t
seems that the catch is now diminishing
every year, and the almost, complete
failure of the fish may be anticipated
at no remote period.
Professor Hitchcock states that the
total area of the coal fields of the
= Tinted States amounts to 230, 659 miles,
besides the strata which belong to
other formations than the carbonifer-
GUS. as for instance those of Virginia,
of the territories west of, the Missouri
river, and those in California.
England has received news of the de-
parture from Australia of ship loaded
with meat preserved fresh by a new in
vention. 1t is simply laid in a great
iron tank, on the lid of which rests
quantity of artificial ice froze much
harder than the common natural ice.
This ice, which costs $25 ton, so
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! said to be impossible.
Postmaster Burt gave lecture on
the postal service at Boston last week,
and Illustrated the proverbial careless
ness of letter writer's by showing his
, audience two hundred letters taken in
the Office the previous day, which were
: not properly prepaid or directed, and
. two hundred and fifty postal cards with
all sorts of messages on the backs, but
not sign of direction on the face.
SO numerous are the mosquitoes in
, some localities of South America, that
the wretched inhabitants sleep with
/; their bodies covered with sand three or
four inches deep, the head only being
left out; which they cover with clath
: and travelers.have been obliged to have
recourse to the same expedient. Even
thick clothes afford at best very par
tial protection, being readily penetrated
with the sharp proboscis of the insect.
According to writer in the Popular
Science Monthly, a house should be so
placed that the direct rays of the sun
/ can have free admission into the living
{ apartments, because the suns rays i'm
part healthy and invigorating quality