Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-03-21
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Items OF Interest.

he marries second.
When is singer like price list?
When he is in voice.
What none of us ever drank from
the tap of the drum.
The number of grape vines in Sonoma
county, CAL, is 3,45O,O0O.
Silence is the safest course for any
man to adopt who distrusts himself.
A French court has sentenced man
| to four years imprisonment for duel
ing.
The Colorado market is supplied with
buffalo meat, which sells at two cents q
pound.
Reyiyals in the Western States are
said to have been unusually numerous
this year. a ai
Yellow River, Ark, has resolved
that the great need of this town is about
forty women.
A cousin of President Jas. Madison,
81 years old, is now in the Nashville,
Tenn, poorhouse.
Is there any objection to teacher
"warming" the naughty scholars If he
keeps school himself?
The greatest men live unseen to view,
while thousands are not qualified to ex-
press their influence.
The yield of hemp on Kaw river bot
toms, in Kansas, is said to average
1000 pounds per acre.
What musical instrument does
cheap public house remind one Of?
Why, a vile. inn, of course.
A young doctor being recently asked
to dance the Lancers," said he was
much more able to lance the dancers.
We cannot conquer fate and necessi-
ty. vet we can yield to them in such
manner as to be greater than if we
could.
Senator Jones, of Nevada, is said to
be the wealthiest member of the U. s.
Senate. His property is valued at ST.
100000.
An Iowa engineer married a young
lady while waiting for q late train last
week. 1t doesn't always pay to be
prompt.
The aggregate coinage of the three
United States mines during the fiscal
year was 32, ,523, $40 pieces, of the value
OF $3S, $780, ,183.
The ladies engaged in the rural tenn
perance movement are pouring all the
whisky in the streets. There's public
spirit for you.
Two officers of Northfeld, Vermont,
had their houses smeared with lamp
black for their too rigid enforcement OF
the liquor law.
, The Illinois Sen ate has passed bill
making drunkenn ess of railroad officials
during their hours of employment O
7 criminal offense.
An English clergy man, the rector Of
Twycham, was fined SIS the other day
for using armorial bearings without
having paid the duty.
A physician was badly hurt the other
day by the caving in of we'll upon him.
, He should have attended to the sick
, and let the well alone.
Fourteen Connecticut girls have
sworn a solemn oath never to marry any
, young man who spits tobacco juice on
, the top of hot stove.
What world of gossip would be pre-
: vented if it were only remembered that
> person who tells you of the faults of
others, intends to tell others of your
faults.
Corn cutters are gradually taking the
place of rolling-pins in New Jersey as
" weapon of defense among the women.
1t doesn't require half the muscle to use
them.
Maine is going into the cheese bust
) ness pretty heavily. Petitions for the
!, INCORPORATION of no less than twelve
!, factory companies are before the Legls-
! lature.
As the best writers are the most can
did judges of the writings of others. SO
I the best livers are the most charitable
} in the judgment they form OF their
: neighbors.
Mr.. Kingsley shows that America had
a very narrow escape from having Scan
!, dinavia for its mother country, which
would have made very perceptlble
difference with us all.
, An exchange says: -" Every lady
who educates her servants into greater
, truthfulness, fidelity, self-respect and
orderly ways of life, is doing mission
ary work of the best sort"
| It is thought that Brigham Young
3 will discard all his wives but thirteen.
; This is step in the right direction,
l but the old fox probably contemplates
n marrying female seminary somewhere.
Purest intentions and the noblest de-
. . signs are very often exposed, as well to
= the slanderous imputation of the enc
q mics, as to the malignant cavils OF
q those who are interested in defending
U abuses.
/ Some young men in Green Bay pre-
Q sented preacher with horse and re-
ceived his heartfelt thanks. Two days
d after the presentation the horse was
:, taken away by the farmer from whom
d it had been stolen.
il Bridget Campbell, who, until two
:, years ago, could turn out as big q wash
: as any woman in Chicago, died there,
y the other day, aged 108. The pernici-
Gus habit of smoking was what cut hel
off in her prime.
Q Seneca says that the great sources OF
. anxiety in life are three; the fear OF
. want, the fear of disease, and the fea1
!. of eppression1by the powerful. He
. says that the. last of these three is the
= greatest. Seneca is about correct.
:. Every mans past life should be his
= critic, his censor, his guide. He who
! lives, and is done with life the moment
:. it drops hour by hour from his hands
q is not half man. He is like plucke6