Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-01-25
Items OF Interest.


Baltimore exports annually SS, ,009,00)
worth of canned oysters.
Seventy-five coal mines are now work
ed in Mclean County, Ill. ....... .
Three young men siated one hundred
and twenty-five miles on the upper Mis-
sissippi.
An Atlanta woman lately hogged her
inebriated husband and the man who
sold him the liquor.
A man who takes to drink because hs
is crossed in love always has the SYM
pathy of the women.
A grave digger at Table Mound, Iowa,
lately froze to death in the pit he was
digging for another.
A Trenton, ILL.,, man went on ter
rife spree and afterwards got 800 for 1t
from the liquor seller
Another woman in Springfield, Ill,
has committed suicide by kindling the
fire with the kerosene can. ..
Whoever has new article to dispose
of must advertise it in some way, If he
wishes to obtain ready sale.
The laws of Iowa no longer make any
distinction between husband and wife
/ in their control over theirown property.
The firmest friendships have been
! formed in mutual adversely, as iron Is
most strongly united by the tiercest
/ flame.
Young married men at Rockland,
/ Me-, have devised plan OF co-opera-
tive house building, in order to obtain
homes.
A man died. recently, at Pottstown,
Penn, whose liver, stomach, and other
internal organs had turned to about
eight gallons of liquid.
"To get horses ont of burning
building" says an exchange, " harness
them MS if for their usual work, and
they will follow as if nothing were the
matter.
The Maine State College of Agricul-
ture has seventy-one students, OF whom
thirty-two are freshmen. Female stu
dents are admitted on the same terms
as males.
1t is far easier to detect error than to
discover truth. The one lies on the
surface and can easily be discerned;
the other lies deeply hidden, and few
are able to find it.
Among the most formidable iron clads
in the British navy are the Warrior and
Minotaur. The former cost 81 1896, 900;
the latter, which is the finest war ship
in the world, $780, 900. .
1t is reported that deposits Of hema-
tite iron ore have been found on the
Pennsylvania and New York sides of
the Delaware, in the neighborhood of
Calicoon, and adjacent to the line of the
Erie Railway.
A ST. Paul newspaper thus rings out
the epizootic: Welcome once more the
reign of the rein, the return to duty of
our equine friends, and the era of gay
ETY. and sprightly runaways for which
we have pined.
A man in Kentucky placed three
perch in a well two years ago, and on
cleaning out the well recently he recov-
cred one of them, but singular to say,
stone blind, and it's dark natural color
bleached to almost transparency.
The fur product of Siberia is not sur
passed by that of any country In the
world. In 1871 there were exported to
San Francisco, among other valuable
furs, nearly 1000 sable skins and over
43. 900 dried and salted fur seal skins.
The income of young Mr.. Bennett, of
the New York Herald, is said to be
about 100000 per annum; apronss OF
which cynical swell remarks, This
will do, of course; but we had supposed
that the old gentleman was really
wealthy"
When Lee met Meade on Palm-Sun-
day, 1866, near Appomattox Court
House. he said, in light, airy way,
"Why, Meade, what are you doing
with ali that gray in your beard ?" "You
have had good deal to do with it, re-
torted his conqueror, with ashort laugh
Here is sad case of retributive JUS
tice as set down by the Minneapolis
tribune: "a man, said to be wealthy,
named McCue, residing at Janesvllle,
Waseca county, was severely beaten by
his wife few days ago. He was fined
$50 and costs. His wife still lives with
him"
The Boston Bulletin says: " A new
ly married couple started on their we'd
ding trip yesterday noon. The tram
proceeded less than half a mile, when
it stuck in snow bank But while the
wind howled vociferously outside, there
was snugness and comfort in one seat
} within-you bet "
Ladies' who are in the habit of smok-
ing pipes when they go out sleigh
riding should take warning by the eX-
ample of Vermont dame and her
daughter, who narrowly escaped being
burned to death last week at Whitehall,
spark from the elder lady's pipe hav-
ing set their vehicle on fire.
The Illinois Liquor law is likely to
make the business of dispensing intexi-
eating fluids very Improbable. A man
! was murdered lately at the town of
, Edwardsville, and his widow and three
children have each brought suit against
ahe man who sold him his liquor, and
also against the man who sold liquor to
the murderer. r
The wife murderer awaiting his exc
: cution at Indianapolis, in an appeal to
the public, in which he confesses his
{ crime, inquiries of the community at
t large if he could have been in "his
t sane senses" OF course not; the act
e of killing is, in these days, always q
sure symptom of insanity. But in
: closing his address he exhibits CLEAN
9 of reason, and protests against being
4 interviewed any more. a.I.r-.
The doves about the streets in Belfast,
Me-, had hard time in foraging for
food during the severe weather. On