Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-02-08
Facts and Fancies.


far East towards the West.
On Wall street, railroad bonds have
lately taken a start upward.
The mails to the Yosemite Valley are
carried twice a week by an Indian.
An Illinois hog, buried under hay
stack, eat his way out in one hundred
days.
United States currency skies ARE
quoted at 1.14a-registered bonds at
1.15f.
An effort is making to reduce U. S.
letter postage to two cents instead OF
Hon. Timothy o. Howe has been re-
elected United States Senator from
Wisconsin.
If Adam is accountable for "conse-
quential damagesP he will have aroagh
time of it. .,...
A woman who died few days ago in
Boston left nine helpless boys, five OF
whom are deaf and dumb.
The Ohio Legislature has passed
law making the vendors OF non-explo-
sives responsible for the damage done.
Josh Billings says d" If kin have
plenty of makrel far.. breakfast, can
generally make the othertwo meals out
of water.
A little child has died in Allegheny,
Penn, and several others have been
i'll, by eating cake which had been
colored by aniline.
From across the continent comes the
story of eleven acres of hops grown on
California rancho, and yielding the
enormous quantity Of 1894 pounds to
the acre. o.
A man at st. Louis has brought suit
for $40. 900 damages against the father
of the .ady he wanted to marry, for in
terfering and persuading his daughter
not to have him.
At Seymour, Ind, man was lately
canpht bv revolving shaft, and after
being carried around few thousand
times was deposited on his feet without
the slightest injury.
It is said that an Indiana man, whose
wife has borne him twelve sons and tit-
teen daughters, wants to know II sucn
conduct on the part of his wife isn't
sufficient ground for divorce.
A nervous youth in Louisville, after
his marriage ceremony, slipped nickel
five-cent piece into the parson'a hand,
instead Of five-dollar gold piece which
he had ready in another pocket.
T The watering troughs in San Francis
co were recently covered with a thin
coating of ice, and next day all the lead
ing papers contained long sensational
articles on the horrors OF winter.
"A Nashville washerwopan, finding III
lot of dirty clothes new-fashloned
shirt opening at the back, sewed 1t up
cut open the bosom and sewed on butt
tons, to the intense disgust of her Gus
toner.
The yacht Henrietta, famous for her
victory in the great ocean race with the
Vesta and Fleetwing in 1856, has been
wrecked near Ruatan. She was driven
ashore in heavy. gale. The crew was
saved. :
A Virginia editor has come to the
conclusion that man might as well un-
| dertake to'hold himself at arms length
and then turn a double somersault over
n church steeple as to attempt to publish
paper that will suit everybody.
A description of toy in great demand
in London, just now, consists OF
wooden turkey or goose, and it appears
that the fun to be chiefly got out of this
weapon of amusement consists IN send
ING it to q friend in hamper, and con-
ferring on him the privilege OF paying
for the carriage.
The latest statistics of the battles OF
Koniggratz, Gravelotte and Sedan have
appeared. In the first, 100000 Aus
trians and Saxons were engaged against
215. 900 Prussians, and in all 40, 900 men
were killed in the second, 10000.
French contented with 200, 900 Germans;
and at Sedan there were 10000 French
men against 100000 Germans. These
are the figures as given by German
authority.
Charles Lamb gives some advice about
making speeches which might be applied
with advantage to other occasions. he
saws speaker should not attempt to
express to much, but should leave some
thing to the imagination of his audi
ence and he tells how, being called on
to return thanks for q toast to his health,
he rose, bowed to his audience, SAID
Gentlemen" and then sat down, leav-
ing it to their imagination to supply tue
rest
A Young Briton won bet on spiders,
an, the following ingenious manner: he
n. ID oered that n spidef which he would
pfoduce would cross plate quicker
than a spider to be produced by
4 friend. .slEach spider was to have its
ownplate. His opponents spider, how
ever ON being started, would not stir,
while his rival ran with immense speed
The bet was consequently lost; ana the
looser soon found out the reason why ;
his friend had a hot plate.
According to an estimate, out of
twenty-five hundred and forty Emperors
or kings ruling over sixty-four nations,
two hundred and ninety-nine were de-
throned, sixty-four abdicated, twenty
committed suicide, eleven went mad,
one hundred died on the battlefield,
one hundred and twenty-three were
made prisoners, twenty-five became OF
were pronounced martyrs and saints,
one hundred and ffty-one were assas-
sinated, sixty-five poisoned, and one
} hundred and eight sentenced to DEATH
! Total, nine hundred and sixty-three.
A correspondent of the Michigan
Farmer writes: "Fed my breeeing sowt
most of the time on turnips--The Sweet
Russia, or Jenny Linds, as they are
called here. This was their food dur
ing the latter part of the Winter anc
until grass grew, when they entered in
to the clover. They eat them readil.