Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-09-06
NO. 35.
Items OF Interest.

The numberof Farmers Oranges now
is said to be 5, ,147.
The question of taxing church prop
erty is now widely discussed.
In these times we fight for ideas, and
newspapers are our fortress.
Milwaukee has fined Dan Rice $40 for
being "drunk and disorderly."
1t is no good nowadays for a man to
offer his hand if there's nothing in it.
"Natural lemonade" from the acid
springs at the geysers is sold in San
Francisco.
Twenty republican newspapers have
been suppressed by the French Govern
ment this month.
Horace Maynard is mentioned as the
probable Republican candidate for
Governor of Tennessee.
A herd of Kansas buffaloes was three
hours passing given point, and nobody
was chasing them either.
The late DR.. Storrs, of Massachusetts,,
preached sixty-two years from one pull
pit at an annual salary of $500.
A local geologist of Terre Haute says
that any person having taste for gold
mining can clear from forty to sixty
cents day almost anywhere in Vlgo
County, Ind.
When q man "squats " on another
mans claim, in Nevada, he is first told
to rise" If he won't rise, he is shot
at, and if this fails, a crowd of men
haul him up to q limb and leave him to
enjoy the morning air. .-
Here is the inscription on tomb
stone in Pennsylvania: " In memory of
Tabitha, beloved wife of Joseph Wright,
Thomas Andrews, Eben Halsted, Ed
ward Murray, and Charles Dean, by
her devoted husband, Cyrus Morgan. ="
A baby was found in Boston depot,
lately, labeled, "This baby belongs to
Mr.. Dane, of Lowell, living on Middle
sex street; whoever will return the
child to it's parents will be well re-
warded. I took the baby in fit of in
sanity"
An English exchange predicts that
steel bars will shortly be substituted
in that country and the United States
for bells. They are light, and give
more scope to architectural design in
the steeple. They are more easily
rung, and are not liable to crack.
A servant girl employed in a st, Paul,
Mich, family recently used the com
pound "Sap lio" as a toilet soap in
taking a bath. The result, as regards
cleanliness, was eminently satisfactory,
f,,1 b. +a eho GO lN1nccnDop6
in purple and red" from head to foot.
At latest advices she was delicate
pink. . ... ....-..
Gold water, copiously applied, is re-
garded as one of the best remedies for
un-stroke. If all who are forced to ex-
pose themselves to the direct rays of
the sun during the hottest months
would lay cloth wet in cold water upon
the top of the head within the hat, it
would usually be an effectual protec-
tion against injury.
A house ought to be a work of art,
just like picture. Every bit of furni-
ture in it should be particle of great
composition chosen with reference to
every other particle. A grain of color
a hundredth of an inch across, is of the
utmost importance in a picture and a
little ornament on the chimney piece is
of the utmost Importance in house.
The Detroit Free Press tells this joke
on some of its friends: A family of six
persons arrived here from the East
yesterday morning and desired to go to
| the house of an old acquaintance to get
dinner, and save two or three dollars
enpense. They drove about from one
place to another until the expressman's
charges amounted to $5, and then the
search was pursued on foot, the assist
ance of the police having been evoked.
About one o'clock the residence of cold
acquaintance" was found, the front door
bearing the placard, sc Gone into the
country"