Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-07-04
Items Of Interest.

Keep an article of dress long enough,
we are told, and the fashion will come
round to it.
Chicago has not less than four to six
thousand young men who have no busi-
ness, no occupation, no stated employ
ment.
The elephant, like the whale, is said
to be dying out. In India he is be-
coming almost as rare as the red deer Of
England.
A chief engineer in the Amerisan
navy receives 50, 800 per annum, while
the pay in the British navy for similar
services is $1,1O0.
Said a conscientious auctioneer
Ladies and gentlemen, there is no
sham about the carpets they are gen.
uine tapestry carpets. [ bought thenA
of old Tapestry himself.
During q gale in Maine, man was
in his barn, when it was taken into the
air about hundred feet and carried a
distance of over half mile, where it
struck in swamp. The occupant was
uninjured.
A lady demonstrated with her hus-
band on her being left to herself good
deal, and she qdoted Byron's words
Happiness was born twin" Yes,
dear" replied the husband, "but not q
Siamese twin"
If people knew the origin and signi-
fication of the horseshoe, set with dia-
monds or otherwise decorated, which
they are so fond of wearing as an orna-
ment, their taste upon the subject
might be somewhat changed. I'D.
King Kalakana of the Sandwich Is
land, is Of the opinion that father and
mother raising large family of chill.
drer are benefactors of the State aud
should be exempt from taxation. His
subjects are anxiously waiting to learn
the number necessary for exemption.
Lions range in value from 81 800 to
81, 1000, and live from eight to twenty
years. The next most valuable animal
is the Bengal tiger, which lives from
fifteen to eighteen years. African ele-
plants range from $500 to $4,000, and
live to three-score years. Camels and
llamas are worth about 81 200. ~ .fvrl
The picnic season opened in Column
bus, Miss, with numerous fatalities.
A wagon body had been swung by four
ropes to large, bending oak tree, aud
in this some twelve or fifteen boys and
girls were swinging. All at once the
top of the tree broke off and came down
upon the children, turning the picnic
into funeral.
G. W. Graham, the ex-army Cap
tain, convicted of having attempted to
rob q paymaster on the highway IN
Colorado, recently escaped from the
prison at Canyon City, and hasnot been
reeaptured. He belongs to q respect
able family in New York City, and has
caused much grief to his friends by his
guilty career. In his cell was found
touching letter from his sister. & F.!
Unless the Reno Crescent exagger-
ates, Senators Jones and Stewart may
be left some day without a constituency.
The amount of water accumulated in
Lake Tahoe is more than o thousand
times that which devastated the Massa-
chusetts valley, and this inland sea is
held back by an artificial dam. The
Crescent thinks that is only question
of time when the dam will give way and
the valley be overwhelmed by a roaring
Niagara. .sua' a.aal
There was a party given in Dallas,
Kan, and this is the way reporter of
that place goes into the toilet business:
"Miss x wore a red bombazine
dress, ruched with point alpaca, and an
overskirt of rose gingham with a bor-
der of parsley blossoms. Her tournurs
was particularly noticeable, from the
fact that her hair was so delicately
scrambled in front. She also wore No.
8 lilac double button gloves, No. 6
store shoes slashed at the heels, and
Pompadour socks" 49,.