Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-06-28
NO. 25.
Facts and Fancies.

The Mammoth Cave is for sale price,
half million.
The best scholar in the Princeton, Ill,
high school, is colored girl.
James Carruthers was hanged at
Barrie, Canada, for the murder of his
wife.
An Indiana schoolmaster declares
that the use of tomatoes as food induces
insanity.
An unknown metal has been found
on an old Indian camping ground near
Kemper, Ill.
The Illinois river at point between
Peoria and Spring Bay is 81 feet deep
at low water.
A st. Louis woman took the veil re-
Gently. She was caught and had to give
it up though.
A fellow in New Orleans is said to
have eaten box of CASTLE soap to get
rid of freckles.
Frank Fl. Walworth has pleaded not
guilty of the murder of his father, for
which he has been indicted.
By way of consolation, the next time
you are hard up, reflect that the Bank
of England has capital of 800, 600, 600.
OF the 100000 United States three
per cent certificates outstanding NOV;
/, 1870, all but 10000 have been called
in and redeemed.
A New Albany, Ind, Judge has de-
cided that if man gets drunk every
other week, and stays drunk week at
time, he is not an habitual drunkard.
Seventeen persons have been arrested
fifteen tried, and fourteen convicted
and sent to the State Prison in New
York for circulating immoral literature.
Two girls at Athens, Ga, were made
quite sick by swallowing the poisonous
flowers of heartsease, under the roman
tic notion that whatever they wished
then would come true.
A very sensible law has been passed
in Massachusetts and should be copied
in every State in the Union. 1t pro-
hibits, under severe penalties, the de-
facement of natural scenery by quack
advertisements or otherwise.
A veteran proprietor of summer hotels
declares that whenever a landlord has
had two prosperous seasons in success
sion he should always retire from busi-
ness, since it is the result of his expert
ence that the third season usually loses
what the other two seasons have made.
At Steubenville, Ohio, at the house
of miner named George Edmonds, a
can of gun powder weighing 125 pounds
exploded,e killing three children and
fatally wounding another. The can had
been placed in q cupboard, and in the
absence of their parents the children
had set fire to it.
Gov. Austin, of Minnesota, after serv-
ing two years in the Executive office,
declines a denomination because it costs
him $4,000 year more than his salary
to live. "This," he says with some
show of reason, "when man has made
what little he has by hard knocks, is
not very satisfactory"
A nicely dressed gentleman applied
for q marriage license at Dover, Tenn,
but when he spoke the lady's name the
polite. County Clerk suggested that,
if it was all the same to him, he would
prefer that he should name some other
party, as the one mentioned had be-
come his wife the previous evening.
Here is an instance of mothers love
from Rhode Island paper: GA New
port woman recently discovered that
her children, seven IN number, showed
unmistakable signs of having the scarlet
fever Being unable to procure any as
sistance, she worked, watched, and adj
ministered medicines day and night to
her children, until her system gave out
and she became insane, in which condi-
ton she still remains"
On one of our eastern trains the other
day, a newly married couple starting on
their wedding tour, gave vent to their
emotions as follows:-Husband Cean-
ing over very tenderly toward the part
ner of his joys and sorrows, Dose
little pet lamb is 'ou?' Wife with re-
sponsive tenderness)-"Ou's." ;" Hus-
band-"Oo does 'ou love?" Wife
"Ou." I. g., being a single man, was
completely overcome at this point of
the conversation, and joined the euchre
playing crowd in the smoking car.