Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-15
NO. 10.
Facts and FaneieS.

Strange out ITue- w H6H u lOuLu lOl-
lows his own bent he is apt to get into
Strengthened circumstances.
The inmate of boarding-house in
Hoboken describes the programme of
his breakfast as "bells tangled out of
tune, and hash.
There is a ship now sailing from Hol-
land which was built in 1858. She
passed the Cape of Good Hope in Octo-
ber, 1864, being at that time 224 years
old.
Charles Bradlaugh, ponderous Eng
ish republican, said to be a cross be-
tween Henry Ward Beecher and Robert
Collyer, is coming her to lecture next
season.
The Japan Gazette of the 23d of JAN
uary published the following announce
ment: Benrikoshi- -Uyeno-Kaganori has
been appointed Minister for japan at
Washington.
Queen Victoria has granted a pension
of $3.50 year to the widow of the gal
liant Captain Knowles, of the Northfeet,
who lost his own life in exertions to
save others.
Henry Taylor, who for thirty years
has rocked the "Cradle of Liberty" in
Boston (that is has been Superintendent
of Faneuil Hall for that period, has de-
clined reappointment.
Our valetudinarian, being told by his
medical adviser that he must wear
thicker boots, replies that when fell
low has to walk through so much water
pumps would be more appropriate.
Milwaukee papers speak of Lake
Michigan being bridged over with ice
at a place where it's width is eighty-five
miles. This has not occurred before
within the memory of the oldest inhab-
liant.
The Utica Herald has discovered that
ait is now unlawful for tobacco chewers
to beg chew. The United States
internal revenue law allows no person
or persons to sell or dispose OF tobacco
in any form, no matter how small or
great the bulk, without paying first
license of S."
Boston keeps within the city limits
1000 COWS. Milk for the city also
comes from other parts of the State, and
even from Maine and New Hampshire.
There are about 600 wholesale and a, 900
retail dealers. Nearly 1890 cans OF
milk, containing about $1,000 quarts,
are delivered daily.
An eastern journal, never known to
exaggerate, asserts that a rural visitor
to Augusta, Maine, who read the sign,
"Look out for the locomotive" at
railroad crossing for the first time,
climbed to the top of the pole, and,
gazing up the track, anxiously wanted
to know where it was.
Correspondents say that Dennison,
Texas, was wilderness five months
ago. Now, it has population of 4, 800;
houses are going up in all directions
its streets are 100 feet wide; hotel
containing 100 rooms is nearly COM
pleted, and there are three banks, an
opera house, and an immense freight
depot.
A contemporary urges chemists to de-
vote their ingenuity to the invention of
a safe match which won't set things on
fire. but which shall be itself easy to
light and hard to blow out, requiring
no apparatus to ignite it. We fully
concur in the opinion that any one capa-
BILE of supplying such desideratum
would probably make fortune.
The collection of American newspa-
pers at the Vienna Exhibition will be
about seven thousand in number. A
newspaper will be printed at the Expo
sition in English. The United States
government vessel which has been sta
toned at the Brooklyn Navy-yard for
the reception of goods for the Exposi-
tion will sail soon.
Among the amenities of Western
journalism are such little paragraphs as
the following, from the Louisville
Cb,trier-J JonrnaI: 1.-THE hide of the
immense elephant Romeo has been
tanned, but it is said that the owner
doesn't know what to do with it. Why
doesn't he procure another just like it,
and convert the two into pair of slip
pers for the editor of the Chicago
Post ?" .4
The San Francisco Bulletin has re-
ceived despatch from Boston aunounc-
ing that jury " verdicted. The Bal
letiga thinks that "epizootic" is bad
enough, and "suicided " little worse;
but "verdicted" is altogether beyond
the limits of human endurance. And
now the paper heart-essly uenalos, III
not much more elegant English than
that complained of, that the reporter
making use of this term shall be forth
with "squelched." are.
If recent informationis correct, Japan
is already leaving her teachers behind
in her educational march. A system OF
compulsory education is to be adopted
in that country for all children above
six years of age. Fifty three thousand
public schools are to be established,
two hundred and fifty-six high schools,
and eight colleges. If these figures are
at all accurate, Japan is to be congratu-
, lated on her prompt, excellent and eff
cient measures.