Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-12
Items of Interest.

Fifty cents will buy thirty-pound
salmon in Portland, Oregon. In San
Francisco the same fish would be worth
about three dollars.
A Minnesota paper asserts that kero-
sene lamp, so set that the rays of the
sun passed through it and came to
focus on window-curtain, set the cur
tain on fire.
gentleman having horse that ran
away and broke his wife's neck, a neigh
Dor sought to buy the animal as means
of divorce. 9'fNo, nc" said his owner
81 intend to marry again myself before
long" --f.r .lt..sg ..s,..
The aggregate membership of the
Farmers Oranges is in the neighbor-
hood of two millions. If this organiza-
ton can be induced to vote a unit,
some political calculations will come to
naught. a'H. .Ai
Lovers of claret and Burgundy will
be pleased to learn, on the authority of
an eminent French chemist, that red
wines nowadays are commonly colored
with rosantline, which contains arsenic
enough to cause symptoms of poisoning
if it be taken in frequent doses.
Texas is a large and scarcely popula-
ted State, but the people appear to be
doing their best to fill it up. There is
man in Waco who is the father of fifty
children, thirteen by his first wife, eigh-
teen by his second, ten by his third,
six by his fourth, aud three by his fifth
wife, who at last accounts was still liv-
ing.
The Waterbury (Ct.) american tells
the story of a very scrupulous man who
recently left that city for the West.
Being indebted to shop-mate in his
former home in the sum of eighteen
cents, he forwarded the amount the
other day in old-fashioned pennies, the
express prepaid, costing him tifty-one
cents. r( ..E frI
Mrs. Addie Ballou, who is regular
clergyman, writing "Rev." before her
name, was called all the way from Terre
Haute, Ind, to Cincinnati, Ohio, to
marry couple, the bride having de-
| termined never to be united by man.
It is strange she did not extend her
strong minded ideas to the choice of
husband.
A New York Central Railroad conduc-
tor seized nobility dressed young fell
low who had dropped an insulting note
in lady's lap on his train, the other
day, dragged him from his seat, and led
him by the ear through the train to the
smoking car, where he bade him re-
main. The passengers hugely enjoyed
the Young reprobate's discontinue.
There is an Irish woman of gigantic
strength in st. Paul. One morning she
lifted barrel of sugar from the ground
into a cart. The next evening she pre-
sented her husband with twins. Two
days after she did the washing for
family of ten persons. Not so FORUM
ate was Missouri girl. She washed all
day, made a supper of twelve hard
boiled eggs, and then danced all night.
1t is mentioned that her funeral process
sion was nearly a mile long.
Mr.. Gail Borden, of White Plains, N.
Y, the preparer of condensed milk,
has made some experiments orthe pur-
pose of determining the correct weight
of crude milk. He took the milk of
several cows, and mingling it together
and thoroughly cooling it, he carried it
directly to the U. S. Sealer of Weights
and Measures, who measured and
weighed the milk by accurate Govern
ment weights and measures. The result
was that q quart of milk SO measured
and weighed on delicate scales was
equal to 2 lbs. 24 OF. The tests were
made with different samples of milk at
different times, but without materially
altering the weight.