Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-12-12
Items OF Interest.

Worship your heroes from afar con-
tact withers them.
"Fred, how is your sweetheart ?"
"Pretty well, 1 guess she says I
needn't call aRy more"
"How far villa penny goP" Well,
o Scotch firm of wire manufacturers
have drawn one out to 2,700 feec.
Tramps are getting fewer in New
England, the plan of arresting them as
vagrants having been widely adopted.
We are told that "the smallest hair
will throw a shadow" And so it does.
It throws shadow over your appetite
when you find it in your victuals.
The running horse Longfellow is
held to be worth more than $50, 900,
the abo7e-mentioned price having been
offered and refused for him the other
day.
The proper way for lady to direct
letter this winter is to run the direction
from corner to corner, scatter three
one-cent stamps over the envelope, and
write important" on any vacant space
left.
The Paris police have discovered a
manufastory of begging letters not
only was there o good sale for these,
all in various forms, but, actually, a
list of soft-headed citizens could be
purchased into the bargain.
Dexter is fed low, according to pre-
vailing ideas of horse diet. He bas
not, in Mr.. Bonners hands, been
treated to more than nine quarts of
oats day, a quart or two of bran, and
few wisps Of hay, given carefully and
with great regularity.
A woman in Manchester, N. H,
came very near having two husbands.
The ceremony of uniting her to a GER
tain man was about to be performed,
when her husband, who disappeared
years ago, stepped into the room, and
the proceedings came to sudden stop.
A company of California farmers,
being unable to get their grain to mar
ket at reasonable rates of transportation,
Joined together recently and built
narrow gauge railroad, twenty miles
long, TO the nearest port. They expect
to pay for the road in short time by
their savings on freight.
James Higgins and family were
saved from death, near Worcester,
Mass, by the providential strength OF
harness leather. They were riding in
a wagon, the horses ran away, the hind
wheels went off bridge into chasm,
but the harness caught on timber and
held the rest of the vehicle safely.
An old French countess of the most
exquisite politeness was aboutto breathe
her last, when she received call from
an acquaintance ignorant of her mortal
illness. The answer sent down from
the chamber of the departing sufferer
was memorably unique; "The Count
ess de Rouen sends her compliments to
Madame de Calais, but begs to be ex-
cused, as she is engaged in dying"
A young lady who whistles defends
herself in the Christian at Work as fol-
lows: "Let no one deny me the privi-
lege of whistling when sewing alone at
my sewing machine. If am compelled
to walk the street alone at night,
never fear danger at ali approaching
footstep if it be accompanied with the
music of whistling. do not believe
person can whistle who is intent on
evil"
Ira Aldridge, the colored actor who
gained such fame in Europe, used to
play Lear as white man. A fesh-col-
ored skull cap with few locks of sill
yer hair covering his head came down
to his eyebrows; a wax addition was
made to his nose thick coat of paint
bedecked his cheeks, while great
white beard concealed the lower part of
his face and fell upon his bosom. He
dressed the character successfully, and
in Germany and Russia, where he was
a great favorite, he was thought to play
it with magnificent force and genius