Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-02-15
NO. 6.
Items Of Interest.

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worth of dry goods.
Three more Communists have been
shot on the plain of Satory.
The deer taken in New Hampshire
are all affected with the epizootic.
Capt. Halls skeleton has been sent
from the Arctic regions to England
Business is almost suspended in Salt
Lake on account of the epizootic.
Monogram window curtains are the
freshest pustule of New York society.
Oscar H., the new king of Sweden,
is to be crowned Oh the 10th of May.
An eagle was shot in Iowa recently
while endeavoring to carry off an eighty
pound porker.
There is a law in Rhode Island by
which any man may be fined S. for
calling another liar.
The new census of France shows the
population to be 36, ,102, 921, decrease
of 366, 935 since 1865.
The ex-Empress Eugene has decided
to leave Chiselhurst, to reside in some
other part of England.
The Congregationalists of New York
State have 229 ministers, 264 churches
and 27, 1877 communicates.
ANorth Carolina wood cutter, wearied
of life, so felled tree that it fell upon
him and crushed him to death.
There is nothing formidable about
death but the consequences of it, and
these we ourselves can regulate and
control.
An Iowa man bought chair at dol
lar store the other day, and before
night he fell through the same and
broke couple of his ribs.
A husband in North Carolina can
strike his wife three icks with
switch"-that is what the Judge calls it
and escape punishment
Northampton boasts of young lady
who has framed and raised barn. We
know maid who raised a whole house,
and all because she could not find her
back hair.
A writer in lsng ago copy of the
Brooklyn Monthly says: "The judi
cious mixture of printers ink with the
arterial system tends to longevity and
content.
A novelty for early spring costumes
is folllard laine, and all-wool fabric.
fine and closely woven, as soft and fex-
ible as cashmere, yet of as little weight
as foulard.
By saturating your coal pile with tar
water, you will triple its heating power.
This is one of the manifold devices prac-
tised by the English poor in the present
scarcity of coal.
The King of the Sandwich Islands,
Just dead was great borrower, a great
beggar, and was always in debt Dur
ing his last days he would eat nothing
but shark-meat soup.
Dreadful it is to note from such sta
tistics that in the year 1870 nearly 5000
children were born in New
York city, of whom 80 per cent. died of
neglect, opium and disease!
Emigration from England to Brazil
seems to be growing in extent, al
though the reports received from Euro
pean farmers and mechanics already on
the ground are very conflicting.
It is gently limited that if young
ladies would use little more discretion
in the application of the powder puff,
society men would not find it necessary
to have two dress coats in one season.
The bill for the creation of commits
sioners of commerce and for giving
bounties to American shipbuilders was
virtually killed in the U. S. House by
being laid on the table by vote of III
yeas to 63 nays.
The benefit of advertising was recent
" illustrated in Boston, where q mer-
chant advertised for boy wanted" in
a morning paper, and on going home in
the evening he was presented with two
babes of male persuasion.
At the Morgue in Paris there is al
ways a detective in plain clothes, whose
business it is to observe the impression
which the sight of the bodies makes
upon the spectators. Many murderers
have thus been discovered
A gentleman at Lancaster, Pa, has a
horse that takes his children to school
in the morning, returning home driver
less, and at night returns for them in
the same way, rubbing his nose against
the window-pane to indicate his pres
ence.
If fish did not devour each other and
men did not devour the victors, there is
no telling what would become of the
ocean. Two herrings in three years
would produced 154, 10000 and in
twenty years would fill the ocean so
that they would have no room to move
about in.
There are thousands of gallons of
infammable oil, stored iu old wooden
buildings in New Yolk, that are almost
rs easy of ignition as is handful of
tow. Some of these days Lowell paper
saws, a fire will break out. and the Fire
Department will find itself entirely un-
able to cope with it.
A little romance about Ben. Wade's
daughter and her "tall young carpen-
ter" will have to be given up. Ben.
says that to begin with he made no OBJ
lection to their marriage, in the second
place that his daughter never was en-
gagged to the carpenter in question,
md thirdly that he never had a daugh-
Ter.
The Amherst Student tells of an
Instance of maidenly pluck, m young
ady whose escort youth of collegiate
lame, returned to her after being absent
which was really two hours,
n really exalted condition. The lady
was equal to the emergency, and taking
/ firm hold of the boozy student, quietly
aid him in the sleigh, took the reins
md carried him to his mother.