Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-12-06
NO. 48.
Facts and Fancies.

Fears are entertained that the United
States steamer Ada has been lost with
forty hands on board.
Powdered borax is a sovereing rem-
edy for water-bugs. 1t never fails when
sifted about their haunts.
A fight between Turks and Arabs in
El-Ahsa, Arabia, recently, resulted in
the killing of 300 of the latter and
seventy of the former.
There was never time when news
papers made so much "bustle in the
world as of late, and yet they do not
seem to be getting very much behind.
A philadelphia merchant who has
been in business 80 years owned up the
other day that he didn't know what q
sight draft was, and he wasn't blind,
either.
Fiji offers the right of suffrage to all
foreigners after they have resided six
months in the country. Australians
fear that the offer is not an entirely dis
interested one.
Since the beginning of the United
States government it has given away
rs, ,O52, 800 acres of land to soldiers,
making in all half million farms OF
100 acres to each.
Ohio is becoming quite tobacco
growing State. During the present
year it has produced 10000 bogsheads
of tobacco, and Cincinnati bids fair to
become an exporting centre and market
for the popular leaf.
In Indiana and Illinois one rides
hundreds of miles through cornfields
which have been bearing fifty bushels
to the acre, year after year, without
manure, for twenty years in succession.
The soil seems inexhaustible.
An English gentleman, recently de-
ceased, imperatively willed that his
wife should not, after his decease, "ot.
fend artistic taste or blazon the sacred
feelings of her sweet and gentle nature
by the exhibition of widows cap"
Fashion presents some curious prob
lens. When skirts were worn three
yards in diameter, eighteen yards of
material were enough for dress, but
now they are made to fit closely to the
figure at least thirty yards are neces-
sary.
Some young fellows in Lowell con-
sidered it a good Joke, at the close OF
lecture in Huntington Hall, to raise
their umbrellas. The result was that
every one who came out with an UNI
brella opened it and sailed away amid
the cheers of the aforesaid youngsters.
It is officially announced that the
British Government will hold the Gov
ernment of Spain and all concerned re-
sponsible for further executions of
British subjects in Cuba. At the same
time, Great Britain reserves its de-
cision on the executions which have al
ready taken place.
1t is rumored that Ryan and Varona,
of the Virginius, not dying easily,
Spanish officer thrust his sword through
Ryan's heart, and that the bloodthirsty
mob severed the heads from the bodies,
placed them on spikes, and marched
through the city. The Virginius is re-
ported sunk at st. Jago.
As q consequence of the panic, the
price of yellow seal Johannisberger,
which is sold "only to crowned heads
and Americans" has fallen to Sl5
bottle. This will be grateful news to
many of our unfortunate bankers and
brokers whose suspension forces them
to economize even in the necessaries of
life.
A horrible case of murder and mutila-
ton at Ghazepoor, India, has occurred.
It appears that woman, having cut
her step-son in pieces, roasted them,
and served them up for her husbands
supper. He, however, discovering a
finger among the pieces, was sohorrified
to find it belonging to his infant son,
that on extracting a confession from his
wife, he at once sent for the police and
gave her into custody.