Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-04-18
Items Of Interest,

Cure for felon-Take it to the peni-
tentiary.
An Iowa man who was called fraud
has recovered 13 cents damages.]
The Auburn flying machine is de-
clared failure, and its inventor a hum
bug.
The sharpest torments are said to
be those caused by trouble which never
comes.
Dry weather, high winds and sparks.
Young ladies will please be careful of
sparks.
Three millions of cocoanuts are ex-
ported in a single year from the island
of Ceylon.
Marriage is described by French
cynic as a tiresome book with very
fine preface.
A remarkable spear-head and silver
plate have been discovered in an Indian
grave in South Florida.
1t is a common thing, in the voyage
of life, to mistake, like Sinbad, a
whales back for an island.
A nervous editor, whenever he gets
excited, goes into the composing-room
and becomes composed"
A doctor writes to the Baltimore San
that hydrophobia can be produced by
the bite of perfectly healthy dog.
"The one thing" says Jean Paul,
(Which a maiden most easily forgets IS
how she looks-hence mirrors were in
vented.
Three tons of base ball bats have
been shipped by a single Vermont
manufacturers to the Boston market
this winter.
Eight young ladies took the final
VOWS of the sisterhood and fourrecelved
the initiatory veil at st. Joseph's Con-
vent, Troy, lately.
A Western paper is dead. In its last
gasp it gently whispered: Two hun
dred subscribers, and only thirty-one
of them paid up"
Few take care to live well, but many
to live long though it is in mans
power to do the former, but III noman's
power to do the latter.
,"I say" said rough fellow to a fop
with conspicuous bow-legs-"l say,
don't you have to have your pantaloons
cut with circular saw"
In murder case in Kentucky 300
men were summoned as jurors before
they could get 12 who didn't know any
thing and were therefore eligible as
jurors.
The telegraph message boys of
Albany formed ring recently, and
charged and received pay for over
1000 messages that had never been re-
ceived.
If a New York Alderman attends
strictly to business he can in the course
of two years accumulate two race
horses, eight coach dogs and acomforta-
BILE brick mouse.
A Cincinnati editor ACCUSES another
of stealing three lead pencils and a
sheet of paper. The progress of edi-
torial courtesy in Cincinnati appears to
be Stationery"
A Portland school teacher, to punish
a little boy for chewing gum, compelled
him to chew all taken from the other
scholars, and for one day that boy got
tired of gum.
The st. Cloud (Minnesota) Journal
says that several Chippewa Indians
we're in that place few days since,
studying civilization and picking up
cigar stubs in front of the saloons"
1t is related of Poussin that being
shown picture by person of rank,
L i lx1x l1ttIn
poverty, sir, to make you a good paint
er."
clasped her tiny hand in mine, I
vowed to shield her from the wind and
from the worlds cold storms. She set
her beauteous eyes on me, and with her
lips said she, can umbrella will do as
WE'LL"
DIR. Brown-Sequard successfully in
grated cats tail in cocks comb, but
there are some coxcombs so firm On the
head that not even tale of sorrow like
that could be made to penetrate or take
hold on them.
Silver was first coined by Phidon,
King of Argas, about $50 B. G., the
epoch of the building of Carthage, and
about 140 years after the building OF
Solomon's Temple.
Parson. This term, now vulgarly
used for minister of any kind, has a
classical origin, and is derived from the
Latin term "persona ecclesiae," the
rector being corporation sole.
A young lady in Gloucester is charged
with keeping her light burning in the
parlor until very late on Sunday night,
in order to harrow the sensitive feelings
of an envious neighbor into the belief
that she had really got beau.
A lady asked a pupil at public ex.
animation of Sunday school, "What
was the sin of the Pharisees ?" Eat
ing camels, ma'am," was the quick re-
ply. She had read that the Pharisees
"strained at gnats and swallowed
camels."
A young man recently wrote to the
Mayor of Pittsburgh {" desire to get
some information in regard to razor
grinding. Will your Honor please visit
the place where they grind them, and
write to me whether they grind on one
side or both sides at the same time,
what size stones or wheels they use and
if dry, and oblige."
You may step out of your Pullman
car to get breath, in journeying
through Nevada, at some little way sta
tion, and stumble over pile of silver
bricks breast high, and worth fifty or
hundred thousand dollars. You will
generally perceive, on very close in
spection of the phenomenon, loaded
revolver which has singular trick of