Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-06-21
Facts and FancieS.


A person who tells you Of the faults
of others intends to tell others Of your
faults.
Gen. Barry has prohibited the sale of
spitituous and malt liquors at Fortress
Monroe. E.el.. I'D -..
A Virginia journal gives notice that
il any of its patrons fail to get the pa
per tbey should call at the Office and
subscribe. This journal "means busi-
ness" ... .......-.... o..
The Congress appointed the time and
place of the next meeting of the Ameri-
can Agricultural Congress at Atlanta on T.
the second Wednesday in May next
year,
A resolution advocating the applica-
ton OF the eight-hour system to farm
labor was voted down after much DIS
cussion in the q. s. National Agricul-
tural Convention. -dA. tsl
There is said to bea small vale lying
between the Roane and Blue Ridge
mountains, in Tennessee, where the
bones of dead animais are so thick that
they can be walked ON Tor over mile.
An awkward man, attempting to carve
a goose, droppedlt ON the floor. There,
now" exclaimed his wife, "we've lost
our dinner" Oh, no, my dear, answer,
ed he, "it's safe-I have my foot on 1t.
Tyndall illustrates the value OF sim
gle potato by supposing that every poo-
tato in the world but one was destroyed,
that one would contain initself the pos
sibility of again stocking the world
with an invaluable article OF food.
About half century ago, the sur
vivor in a fatal duel in England, though
an officer OF high rank, was convicted
and hanged for murder. Thereupon
duelling became unpopular in England
as means Of settling personal diff
eulties. ..f .,-, r-s, ,...l.
A prominent citizen of Terre Haute,
Ind, who received challenge from q
hot-headed young Southerner tem-l
porarily residing there, shortly after
met him in the street, and taking him
by the coat-collar, shook him into de-
cency and common sense. ..e'-
Mr.. Fred B. Perkins, in his clever
story of "Scrope," published i'll Otd
And NetU, tells a story of a lawyer who
never wrote his name in his law books,
and whenever he found law book in
any of his friends offices with no name
in it, he always carried it off as his own.
Our farmers and country gentlemen
do not seem to know it, but there is no
easier way to make money than by
stocking their ponds with fish. The
cost is nothing, the yield large. One
may feed his own family and the poor
of the neighborhood al! the year round,
and not feel the expense.
A candidate in Virginia makes the fol-
lowing announcement Notice. Nonce
nv Self A candidate for the legislator
for the Mex sission to Repezent the
Agucultary and the manucu tray lntress
of the farmers intress of this County
and the heavy thaxiation that is on the
people of this county, of sevel calesls'
Henry Brooks. May the 20 1873. "
The Missouri editors at their late
convention formally resolved that man
has the same right to walk into a gro
cery store and order barrel OF sugar or
a sack of coffee, or into law office and
demand a legal opinion from its occu-
pant, or into an uudertakers and re-
quest coffin, without expecting to pay
for their respective wares or services,
as into a newspaper Office and demand
the use of its brains and muscle and
type, without thought of recompense.
1t often becomes desirable to insert
screws in plaster walls, without attach
ing them to any woodwork, hut when
we turn them in the plaster they give
way, and our effort is vain. And yet
screw may be inserted in plaster so as
TO hold light pictures, etc, very firml Y.
The best plan is to enlarge the hole to
about twice the diameter of the screw,
fill it with plaster of paris, such as is
used for fastening the tops OF lamps,
ETC.. and bed the screw in the soft plns-
ter. When the plaster has set, the
screw will be held very strongly.