Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-04-12
NO. a..
Facts and Fancies.

every mile OF railway.
There is said to be skeleton in ev-
cry house, but not always a skeleton
key.
The poet says, "Shoot folly as it
flies," but the trouble is that folly never
flies.
Smallpox is still scourging the in
habitants of San Peto and Salt Lake
City.
The outstanding legal-tender notes
of the United States amount to. $685.
669,997.
San Francisco, by local census con-
tains 189, 900 people, of whom II, ,OOOare
Chinese.
party of forty persons emigrated
from Syracuse, n. Y, to found colony
in Kansas.
It is not an uncommc sight in Russia
to see women working with men paving
the streets.
The immediate slavery emancipation
law for Porto Rico has passed the Span
ish Assembly.
PleSioSaurus California is tie as
ing name OF bug which inhabits osn
Francisco beer.
George Taylor, captured by the
Apaches in Arizona, was burned to
death at the stake.
Wisconsin is another State that rep
rimanded her representatives for in
creasing their salaries.
The girl in Iowa who as announced
by telegraph last week danced six sue
cessive sets on wager died on Friday
last
The French and German governments
have exchanged ratifcations of the
treaty for the German evacuation of
France.
In Fremont, Nebraska, you can buy
potatoes for thirty cents bushel, eggs
at twelve to fifteen cents dozen, and
beef at ten cents pound.
One of the mills of the American
Powder Company, at Acton, Mass,
blew up recently, killing two workmen,
one named Wentworth, and injuring
three others.
Langston, who murdered the old lady
and little girl in their beds near Para
disc, ILL.,, recently makes confession of
the crime, and duplicates his wife as
his instigator.
Defalcation seems to be a contagion
among the county treasurers of New
York State. Four counties have had their
affairs sadly complicated by tho malfeas-
ance of treasurers.
Don't sit lop-sided when you write,
squirting at your chirography across
the bridge of your nose. A distinguish
ed ocuist declares this attitude extreme
ly hurtful to the eyes.
The United States Government sale of
seventeen of the engines of the New
York Central Railway Company real
lied only 1000, leaving $445,00 of
the tax claim still unpaid.
A new horse disease has appeared in
Portland, Maine. 1t effects the legs,
making them so weak that it is with
diffic xty the animal can stand. No
cases have proved fatal yet.
Two young ladies i'll n Minnesota
town volunteered to nurse the family of
/. neighbor during an attack of a con-
tagious disease, and both were taken
i'll, died, and were buried in a common
grave.
An anxious gentleman, bargaining
for house to rent from old MacMasters,
asked If the house was cold. "Well, "
said the old gentleman, seriouslX Y, 81
can't say as to that; it stands out
doors. +"
"Why," asked governess of her
little charge, 'do we pray God to give
us our daily bread? Why don't we say
four days, or five days, or week?"
"We want it fresh, replied the ingen-
uous child.
A silly fool of lover at Des Moines
draws blood from his arm and uses 1T
in the place of ink to write to his girl.
Ten to one that he don't pound her with
the stove-handle in less than year
after marriage.
A Buffalo drug clerk, who was instru-
mental in badly poisoning citizens
son by mixing an injurious article IN
salve he was ordered to make, coolly
remarked that it was "only slight
mistake of his.
Francis Joseph of Austria offers five
thousand forins, equivalent to two
thousand dollars, for the best editorial
on Austrian affairs to be written IN
German and not to contain more than
one thousand words.
The father of the simple minded boy,
Willie Clark, has brought suit for 3d.
600 damages against the Massachusetts
sheriff who arr ested him on the charge
of placing Instructions on the Boston
and Albany Railroad.
A lady about to be married was told
that her intended, though good man,
was very eccentric. Well, she said,
&" am glad to hear it, for if he is very
unlike other men, he is the NOR: likely
to be good husband. "
A New Haven lady, who has been
| dumb for two months past, was fright
ened into distinct utterance, by the
sudden and silent approach of men,
Der of her family while she was ran
sacking the attic of her house.
When city editor of the Tribune
once suggested the reformation of his
neck-tie, MIR. Greeley answered, "You
don't like my dress, and l don't like
your department. If you have any i'm
provements to make, please begin at
home"
A Vermont paper remarks: GA resi-
dent found something offensive in his
last dozen of eggs, and took the dealer
to task. what is the matter with
them p asked that individual. They
are not good, was the reply. Well,
that can't be wondered at, was the
apologetic rejoinder, the hens are SO
drove now they amt expected to be
particular as usual. ""