Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-06-20
NO. 25.
Items OF Interest.

Good Quarters-Quarter dollars.
Who have the tenderest feet? Corn
ish men.
A stove-pipe may be termed the pipe
of peace.
The Quaker loves the ocean for its
broad brim.
We hear much of the common lot
is it the ballot?
An insurance secretary's vade mecuns
the "semi-detached house"
Earthern behives are a novelty sue
cessfully introduced in California.
The quickest way for man to forget
all common miseries is to wear tight
boots.
"God made the country and man
made the town." Who made the water
ing placesP
Mr.. Boston, of Boston, was recently
registered in Chicago. His wife IT.
reVerently speaks of him as " Hub"
A western editor cautions his readers
against kissing short women, as the
habit has made him round. shouldered.
They who are most weary of life, and
vet are most unwilling to die, are such
who have lived to no purpose-Who
have rather breathed to no purpose.
There are 3,453,68 unmarried wo-
men in England above the age of
fifteen, who are engaged'i in specific oc-
cupations, and are earning money there
by.
Proctorsville, VT, has a spoon that
skips about. It is a silver spoon, and
not the kind that stands around the
door of lecture-room waiting for the
girls.
"I am indeed very much afraid of
lightning" said a pretty lady. And
we'll you may be-" replied despairing
lover, "when your heart is made OF
steel"
1t is said that the fumes of sugar
snuffed up the nose will cure ordinary
cases of neuralgia. Put small guam
tity of sugar on a hot shovel and try it
as directed.
The Honolulu Gazette is responsible
for the statement that the captain of
vessel which recently arrived there, af-
ter wintering in the Arctic, reports that
he had very mild season, which the
natives attributed to the fact that the
Americans had taken possession OF their
country, Russian America.
Shocks mother and old Mrs. Stubbs
were talking about little babiesa
"Why," said Mrs. Snooks, "When q
was baby, they put me into quart
pot and put the lid over me" And
did YOU live ?" was the astonishing
inquiry. "They tell me did," was
the peculiar reply. "Well, did you
ever ?" and Mrs. Stubbs fell to knitting
like one bewitched. %"
It is stated that in consequence of
the great success of the duplex system
of telegraphing, by which messages are
transmitted through wire in opposite
directions at the same time, and by
which q considerable reduction has
been made in the manual labor of work
ing, the British Post Office contem-
plates the immediate reduction of ex-
listing charges in ratio of about 30
per cent, and are making inquiries
with the view of carrying the object
into effect.
The extent of the trousseau of the
Grand Duchess Marie was such that it
could never be worn out in the longest
life. 1t seems Russian custom to be
thus profuse on imperial weddings, for
it is stated in Memorials of Quiet
Life" in letter dated Weimer, in the
wear 1904: eft was only on the 9th in
stant that the hereditary Prince brought
home his bride, Grand Duchess OF
Russia, since which there have been
nothing but dinners and festivals.
The Grand Duchess's wardrobe
arrived in eighty aOagonS, and her pro-
fusion of iewelry is su,h that she could
change the set every day for twelve
month"