Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-02-22
NO. T..
Items Of Interest.

hand street car, and is looking out for
an opportunity to buy track that will
fit it at auction.
A patriotic Bostonian is deeply in
dignant because nobody in Detroit will
give him dollar for genuine sword
from Bunker Hill.
An infant child of Mr.. James Wood,
of Lansingburg, N. Y, died last week
from the bite of a rat, inflicted while
it was sleeping in its cradle.
Charleston papers itemize a resident
of that city who has actually read the
Bible all through. He did it for bet,
in little over two days and half.
A Wisconsin man who lately fell
headforemost into well forty-six feet
deep with three feet of water in it, and
stayed there an hour, is getting well.
The Elizabeth Herald thinks an aged
couple of that city odd because they are
both well educated, both get drunk,
and allow their pigs and hens to live in
the same room with them.
The question is being debated, "Why
not have Old Mems Christian Associa-
tions?" That's so. Old men some
times stand more in need OF controlling
influences than young men.
Sydney Smith once commenced a
charity sermon by saying: "Benevo-
lence is q sentiment common to human
nature. A never sees B in distress
without askingC to relieve him"
A BaItimorean who was refused q
nights lodging in q station-house the
other evening Immediately secured
the desired accommodation by going
out and throwing bricks at railway
train.
What a glorious thing it would be if
all women were rich. Now there is that
rich Ohio woman who cheerfully pays
her little $50 fine every time she feels
like beating the unfortunate man she
calls husband
A fond husband in Michigan lately
left will bequeathing to his widow
the rope with which he had committed
suicide; feeling, perhaps, that nothing
would be likely to inspire her with
pleasanter associations.
When Lee met Meade on the Palm
Sunday of 1865, near Appomattox
Court House, he said with trivalty SO
!
"Why, Meade, what are you doing
with gray in your beard % D." You have
have a good deal to do with it, retorted
his condueror with short laugh.
Germany proposes a school reform in
the matter of using states. 1t is urged
that they are noisy, hurtful to the eyes,
and help to form bad handwriting. A
substitute is proposed-an elastic, light,
paper affair, on which ink can be used,
and from which it can be removed cas-
lily. That is good so far, but can the
ink also be easily removed from the
hands and clothes of the unskilled little
users?
A hint: A Hartford topper appealed to
a merchant of that city for the where
withal to buy a drink. The merchant,
being a temperance man, could not
comply with his request but the fell
lows imploring manner and condition
touched him. "Well," said the per-
sistent fellow, 8" if you can't give it to
me, couldn't you lend that gentleman
ten cents (pointing to clerk, and he
could give it to me-" 1t is needless to
say that the chap got his ten cents.
A Canadian farmer has devised a new
dodge. He took a load of very poor
hay to the residence of gentleman in
Ottawa, and informed that gentle
mans wife that he had been directed to
leave the hay in the yard and receive
from her $40 in payment. She sup
posedit was alright; but the husband, on
his return, was disguised to find that he
had load of hay that he did not want
and had never ordered, and that his
wife had paid for it three times as much
as it was worth.
Henry Boykin, colored, of Columbus,
does not rejoice in the best OF reputa-
tions His evidence in Court was i'm
peached, and several negroes swore that
he had an immense quantity of truth i'll
him, as he never let any out. One
negro said he had heard another negro
say he was "the grandest Of liars :
another, that "he wouldn't trust him
the width of his door ;" another, that
che was the liar of Georgia. another,
that "his reputation for falsehood was
national :" another, that " he was afore
day coon liar"
Routine and tape Qed) are as FREEDOM
inant in Halifax, n. S., as elsewhere. A
lady of that city desired the removal of
dead cat. Upon inquiry, she was IN
formed that she must tell the senior al
derman of the ward, who would tell the
mayor, who would tell the health in
spector, who would tell a policeman,
who would tell the dead-cat man, who
would come and carry away the ANIMAL
All this would take time, and possibly
the cat still remains upon the premises.
1t would have been easier for the poor
woman to have buried it at once.
Mrs. Sherman, the female poisoner
under sentence of death in New Haven
Jail, has been visited by TIE Rev. Mr..
Goodsell, who reports that she appears
"to be person born with no moral
sense whatever, with not the slightest
idea of right and wrong, and yet not to
be a person of loose habits, deep pas
sions, or of libidinous tendencies. 1t
is hard to believe that a person with in
tellect enough to conceive the idea of
administering poison, and with shrewd-
ness enough to conceal for time this
particular crime, can be totally deficient
in moral sense. If she did not know
that the deed was evil why did she try
to hide it?
A novel invention is now on exhibit
ton in San Francisco, by which an in
tense heat may be obtained at trifing
cost. 1t consists of burning streams of
hydrogen and oxygen gases, by which a
degree of heatis produced unattainable
/. bxy ordinary 1oeons IT. ia in the aDDli-