Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-03-28
NO. II.
items Of Interest.

is goOu.
California produces lemons weighing
"a ounces apiece.
The population of France decreased
one per cent. last year.
Defaulters are now more elegantly
called "hypothecaries."
Love is an egotism of two. The first
sigh of love is the last of wisdom.
The way they bunch up dresses in
the back nowadays is astonishing.
A Keokuk butcher gives away a
chrome with every ten pounds of meat.
The wives of Brigham Young are the
envy of their sex. They remain always
Young.
The tariff on snuff is 30 cents pound
This makes it mighty expensive to
sneeze.
By industry good farmer in Europe
can get $50 year and suit of clothes
as wages.
A hungry panther recently tried to
rob the U. S. mails between Burksville
and China, Tenn.
The Parisians are confident that the
Column Vendome will be done in time
for the next Commune.
The Ohio women have closed up 1856
saloons thus far, leaving some svillages
without drinking place.
A lad of fourteen is conducting re-
| ligious revival in Illinois, and is win
ming converts by the score.
1t is said that the difference of two
farthings q pound in the price of rice
in India brings on famine.
The New York Chemist says there is
not hair dye in the market which will
not in time make the head bald.
An Indianapolis reporter aptly called
the late unsuccessful printers strike in
that city Typographical error"
Gold hunters are leaving Oregon in
large numbers for the Alaska mines.
The mines have not yet been practically
explored.
A Montreal man said, "By the Lord
Harry p and a justice fined him ST and
costs How could Yankee ever put
up stove in that country ?
Hot alum water is a recent sugges-
tion as an insecticide. 1t will destroy
red and black ants, cockroaches, spi-
ders, chintz bugs, and all crawling
pests.
"And did you hear him call her my
dear, or anything like that p asked the
lawyer. "No, sir of course not why,
she was his wife," answered the lady
witness.
The Green Bay girls, having heard
that certain young men would not marry
a woman who could not do housework,
can now be seen every morning sweep
ing off the doorsteps.
A Baltimore jury recently brought in
verdict for the respondent In the case
of will contested because it was writ
ten partly in ink and partly with "a
lead pencil and was not signed.
Merimee says, in one of his letters,
"I don't like relations you are obliged
to be familiar with people you never
saw, Just because they happen to be
sons of the same father as your own
father"
At Chatham, England, there is man
who regularly refuses to have his chill
dren vaccinated, and will not pay the
fines. The Anti. Vaccination Society
support his wife and family while he is
in prison.
$50 you are taking lessons in draw
ing, Sallie ?" eyes, and the teacher
says am an apt pupil, as [ draw more
inferences, insinuations, admirers, ard
allowances than any girl in the
academy"
Americans who pay nearly million
for an artillery regiment may well envy
the fortune of Sir Garnet Wolseley,
who hired all the soldiers he wanted
from two African kings at $50 per
thousand men.
The editor of a New York child's
paper received letter from o lady
subscriber recently, in which was
written "Our Anna died last week,
after reading the last number of your
valuable paper"
A quarrelsome couple were discuss
ing the subject of epitaphs and tomb
stones, and the husband said: My
dear, what kind of stone do you sup
pose they will give me when Idle =
Birthstone, my love" was the afec-
tionate reply.
Speaking of the half-naked statue of
Washington, which cost $50, 600, in the
East Capitol Park, Grace Greenwood
wittily says that his outstretched arm
points reproachfully toward those glass
cases in the Patent Office, where hang
his much desired habiliments.
A worthy Quaker thus wrote 81
expect to pass through this world but
once. If, therefore, there be any kind
ness can show, or any good thing |
can do to my fellow human being, let
me do it now. Let me not defer nor
neglect it, for L will not pass this way
again"
The King of Masindy, in Upper
Egypt, having died, was lately buried,
his wives being inferred alive with him.
A number of prisoners of war were
taken to the immense grave, their limbs
broken, and their mutilated bodies
flung on the dead king and his wretched
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