Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-08-01
Items Of Interest.

Dollars and sense do not necessarily
travel together.
A Montreal girl chopped off finger
to get rid of sewing. .t
A youngster, in describing his Sun.
dav dinner, said We had roast beer
and chicken, but the chicken was kept
too long before it was killed. .''il
A Youthful Pennsylvania granger,
about to be chastised by his father the
other day, called for his grandfather to
protect him from this middleman.
A Young lady asked clerk in news
store if he had "Festus." No, re-
plied the clerk, "but I'm afraid a boil
is coming on the back of my neck.
A man in San Francisco who closed
his saloon one night recently to allow
lady in the rooms above to die quietly,
is now suing her heirs for $3.50 for the
favor.
II is said that the leaves of the COM
mon walnut tree placed over doors,
windows. manteis or in Wreaths or
lunches about the house will drive nles
away. r...,
The popular way of cleaning off the
infant population, nowadays, IS to give
the children the wrong medicine. Gro
ton oil for castor oil and creosote Tor
yalerian are the latest substitutlons.
1t is reported that the next grand
grove of Druids of the State OF New
York has appointed Rochester as it's
meeting place. The convention Will
accordingly meet on the first FRIDAY IN
June, 1875.
r. is stated that the practice of put
ting people out of the way by means OF
poisoned needles is growing to bequlte
prevalent in India, this method 0elng
less liable to detection than the ADMIN
istration of internal doses.
It is officially reported that citizens
of the United States will be permltted
to enter France from any direction
without showing their passports but
they must be prepared to prove tnelf
nationality when required.
"Do bats ever fly in the daytime 2
asked teacher of his class In naturaA
history. "Yes, SIR" said the boys con-
fidentiy. "What kind of bats? " ex-
claimed Jn6 dSUon1oAOa
Brickbatsp yelled the triumphant
boys.
"Mv SON." said benevolent stranger
to a lovely, golden,haired child the
other day, "yox look like boy who
has been brought up by atfectlonate
parents" "Was I? Was z ex-
claimed the excited lad "just look at
my back y
II is said that the committee on
female suffrage in the Connecticut
Legislature will report q bill providing
that single women having in their own
right $500 shall be entitled to vote in
any town, city, borough or school dis
trict meeting.
A lady writer points out the fact, as
worthy of notice, that "while the men
who commit suicide are almost always
unmarried, the women are married or
widowed. This leads to the inference
that. while men cannot live without
women, women find life unbearable
with men,"
A bill before the the British House OF
Commons provides that workmen IN
iured in the course of their labor may
recover damages of their employers,
and that the family of workman killed
at his employment may recover sum
not greater than one years wages OF the
person killed. The bill excerpts all em
; ployers who do not employ over fifty
hands. '..4
The tender young poet who began
r ssT Liseed her under the silent stars,
> and whom the newspaper to which he
, sent the poem represented as beginning
anneaIed before the editors and pub
fishers assembled in Convention at
Lockport recently, and preferred, the
; raonest that the name of the room from
, which typographical errors emauate
might be changed forthwith. He wants
it called the discomposing room. '.'.