Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-05-02
items of Interest.

The Canadian militia cost over
twelve hundred thousand dollars last
year.
No man is always wrong clock that
does not run at all is right every.
twelve hours. ...t .... ....
A San Francisco clergyman says that
nine-tenths of the persons whom he
has married we're over thirty-four years
Of age. is| -- Oh
Instead Of saying, " It's long time
between drinks" Western men now re-
mark, "It's long time since L signed
my last pledge" %"
A custom house man writes that ne
has heard ladies of refinement, wealth,
position, and education lie a customs
officer cut of countenance. .1. 2.t .
A Danbury man; whose wife recently
died, subsequently confessed to afrlend
that "nobo5v could pull I, down an
underceat as neatly as Jane did. igu.
The Voz de Merico relates that in
Jonuta. State of Tabasco, tie prisoners
in the town jail are not fed, bu$ are al
lowed to go into the streets and beg.
A law, has gone into effect in the
Cherokee Nation prohibiting the carry
ing of concealed weapons. Whisky
and six shooters are the curse OF thetla-
tion. ,.. ajslrgg a.. lr.- .,-g ar,r
Here is the way they announce hotel
arrivals in st. Louis "The Hon.
J. A. Bryant came from Chicago to
Barnum's Hotel, in this city, to get 9
square meal"
. A law court in Iowa has fined a
farmer 800, because he made his: eson
turn grindstone 16 consecutive hours,
for going home with an old maid from
singing school. .'' -'' 80 ."iy
! PRoF. H. r. PALMER Of Chicago
Prof. l.. O. Emerson of Boston, and
other noted teachers, hold four weeks
Musical Institute at Dunkirk, N. 4,
beginning July 49,. HEHo . " ian E.d
A salmon weighing over forty pounds
caught in the Taunton river, Massachu-
setts, the largest yet raised in the Uni
ted States since the revival of fish cul- .
ture, is on exhibition at Boston. ,-s. GIL.
An undescribed monster is said to
have appeared in Lake Harney, Florida.
Twenty feet of it was seen by the pas
sengers of the steamboat Lollie Boy,
and it spouted water like whale.
A Troy cremationist asks, wouldn'tit
be pleasant to receive dispatch some
thing like this, some. day: " Dear
Mother-William died at noon to-day.
Ashes by mail. Your, in sorrow, John
Smith. "a -J.Ey or ln Aas j GO
A man named Button died recently
in Southern Berkshire, Mass, and
when the sexton started out with pick
and shovel, somebody asked him what
he was going to do. ".Going to make
Buttonhole," was the not very grave
reply. 'e' 5.t mag
A Sacramento paper says: &C An old
friend tells us that out of 2, 700 sheep
on his winter range near OroEllle,. he
has but GAO left" It is estimated that
81 900, 900 will not cover the losses IN
horses, cattle and sheep in California
during the past winter. Il. n3,
A band of fourteen little scamps OF
from ten to twelve years of age have
Just been arrested at Montmartre,
France, where they have committed nu-
merous depredations. They were under
the command of chief, boy hafdly
four feet high, known as lie Chauffeur,
and the others had slang names. .
"Nothing," said an impatient hus-
bond, "reminds me SO much of Balaam
and his ass as two women stopping in
church and obstructing the way to in
dulge in their everlasting talk" "But
you forget, my DEAR" returned the
wife, meekly, "that it was the angel
who stopped the way, and Balaam and
his ass who complained of it." @'
A new method of preparing coffee is
becoming popular in France. After
roasting, the coffee is ground to very
fine -four, which is then slightly. moist.
ened, mixed with twice its weight OF
powdered sugar, and presssd into tap
let's. Coffee prepared in this manner
is claimed, pound for pound, to be. sus-
ceptible Of far more complete utillza'
ton. .... ........... ., ....,,.