Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-03-14
NO. 10.
Items of Interest.

consumption?
The population of France decreased l
per cent. last year.
Many valuable horses have died of
lung fever in Lewiston, Me.
OF 9OS births in Hartford in one year,
702 were of Irish parentage.
The liquor dealers call the women's
movement gar-coated pill.
A hog has been trained for hunting
purposes by an English gentleman.
Harvard says that "enquire is
right, and Yale says it is enquire"
eff we can't hear it amt for lack of
ears" as the ass said to the con6eld.
st. Louis, with envious malice, calls
the national capital Whitewashington.
A Chinese plant which changes color
three times day has been sent to
Paris.
The Catholics are said to be making
many converts among the natives OF
India.
Three sisters own and operate o
Maine Touring mill, and they are max
ing money.
A dog acts as mail carrier over
twelve mile route in Minnesota, and he
is always on time.
A modern writer has defined the
"last word to be the most dangerous
of internal machines.
Some vocalists take pride in exhibit
ing fine falsetto voice others IN dis
playing fine false of teeth.
A talking man makes himself artif-
cially deaf, being like the man in the
steepIe when the bell rings.
Dakota has been doing sums and
finds that she has only three-eighths of
white man to an acre of land.
A newspaper in the oil regions bears
the name of the Daily Sand Pump. Its
editor should have lots of grit.
Microscopes for two" are regularly
called for with the cold ham and bo-
lognas at Cincinnati restaurants.
The funeral expenses of men killed
in the Hoosac Tunnel, and paid by the
contractors, amounted to $4,000.
If the warfare of the papers be waged
with very small jokes, it must be re-
membered that they're only wee-puns.
. One thing, said an old topper, was
never seen coming through the rye, and
that's the kind of whisky one gets,
nowadays.
A malicious person says that cotton
sheets and newspaper sheets are alike
in the respect that great many people
lie in them.
A man in Keokuk lately dropped
dead while combing his hair, and yet
| IL l. h will CT ~, tho
dangerous habit.
The Madisonville, KY, Times gently
reminds contributors that it is not neces-
sary to quote every other word and
italicize the rest.
A Master of the Kentucky Grange
, offers to marry members free of charge,
thus dispensing with the services Of
clerical middle-men.
A Cincinnati journalist has been look
ing over the old laws of that State, and
has found that every marriage for the
last 81 years is illegal.
Chester Pike broke his leg in Con-
cord, and was carried home. His wife
was frightened, and in running to meet
him fell over dog, breaking her arm.
, A young lady of spirit in Indiana was
so disguised with her young man for
running at the sight of ghost that she
is making preparations to marry the
ghost.
If you wish to live the life of man,
and not of fungus, be social, be
brotherly, be charitable, be sympathet-
ic, and labor earnestly for the good of
your kind.
A harness kept soft and pliable with
good neat's-foot oil will last almost
lifetime. 1t is stronger, because
slightly elastic, and will seldom wear
7 off the hair.
Your horses shoes will hold on
| longer if the clinches are not weakened
) by the file in finishing. Insist that the
file does not touch the end of the nail
where turned over.
It is averred that the reason American
girls refuse to enter domestic service is
that they object to anything approach
i, ing menial employment. What they
l seek is hy-menial.
= The Parisian's love for black toilettes
is on the increase. For street wear
there is scarcely anything else to be
a SS6D, ANU 1OE uluucI anu oNCnIhE PERGS
= they are universally adopted.
I 1t has been found possible to impart
! any desired perfume to honey, by al
: lowing the bees free access to the box
to be perfumed only while the flower,
t the odor of which is desired, is in full
: bloom.
Q One day little girl, seeing in the
: last part of one of her Christmas books,
: that sequel to it would soon be pub
t lished, called out to playmate, go,
g Kitty isn't this nice d? My new books
Y got squeel to it !"
Take everybody's advice and act upon
i it. This is the way to suit everybody.
: No matter about yourself. To wish to
have mind of your own is only an
: insidious form of selfshness. Boggs
has tried pleasing everybody, and he
9 wants others to try it, badly.
! An ingenious vile in Des Moines
: cured her husband of snoring thus:
. She had utta-percha tube with two
y cup-shaped ends, one she puts over his
nose and mouth, and the other over his
;, ear. He consumes his own noise, as q
= stove does its own smoke, and wakes
q up instanter.
d Daniel Webster once said to an as
@ piring but modest young lawyer, who
It expressed his apprehension that til
/ profession was over.crowded: "My
% youno friand there is always plenty of