Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-03-07
NO. 8.
Items OF Interest.

dlstlllery. Just the place for spirits
Pittsburgh has 81 bottle, "a window
glass and 25 flint and lime glass fac
tories. 4..v .Fte a. rss.
Have no respect for any man who has
to feel the public pulse to learn his pri-
vate duty. zT,le- if. "A
It is a wonder what troubles well
meaning persons fall into in everyday
experience.
There are only eight gold watches in
Harrisburg Han isl gEgFss. Pa--aeaording to the Off
The National Grange has selected
Charleston as the place for the next
annual meeting. rl'sa
The vintage of the Australian vine-
yards is estimated at 500, gallons.
That of California for 1872 was A, 900, 900.
In Carthage, ILL.,, boys under the age
of 16 are, by a city ordinance recently
passed, prohibited from chewing to-
bacco.
John Carter, Duluth boy of sixteen,
hung himself the other day because he
had fight with the school teacher and
failed to conquer him.
1t was an expressive remark of prac-
tical man regarding the woman of the
period recently: "She don't know
enough, sir, to boil water"
An old maid in New Jersey has
twenty-eight pet rabbits, and with these
for pets and hot brick for comfort she
manages to get along very nicely.
The French military tribunals engaged
in trying Communists have thus far
given 40, 900 decisions. including %, 200
condemnations and 1900 acquitatls.
F. Schonman, of Milwaukee, worked
hard for four years, did well, and then
sent over the seas for his Katrina.
When she arrived she died from excess
i've JOY.
DR.. Tietze, of the Imperial Austrian
Mining School, sent out by Baron Reu-
ter for geological research in Persia, re-
ports the existence of extensive coal
fields near Casvia.
A London physician, after laborious
collection of the statistics of the trade,
concludes that the opportunity of con-
slant tippling shortens life an average
of three years and half.
"M. Quad" of thu Detroit Free
Press, has patent kicker which ami
hilates the man who "drops up" to read
the exchanges, paw over the copy, or
bore the editor in any other way.
A woman at Vassalboro, No, recent
ly returned to her husband after a nine
years stay among the Shakers. Her
husband invited all the neighbors to
celebrate the event and welcome her
home.
A housekeeper, writing of poor SER
wants, says that if women would study
housekeeping as their husbands study
law, medicine, and bookkeeping, there
would be much less complaint of bad
servants.
Two thousand dollars is pretty high
price to pay for single rooster. That
is what Mr.. Davis of Portland has
given Ira Batchelder for a black Spanish
cock considered the best game bird in
the country. ........
The hatred of the Chinese in San
Francisco is thus placarded in cigar
store "No Cinnamon employed or
Chinese goods sold here. Established
sixteen years on the principle of white
labor only" to 9t- .
A proposed amendment to the New
Jersey constitution is that property of
no kind shall be exmpt from taxation,
except that of the State, counties, and
and burying grounds
not held by stock companies.
No country upon the face of the
habitable globe, having railroad sys-
tenn in operation, has so carefully
guarded against the possibility of col
lisions as the republic of Costa Rica.
It rejoices in single locomotive.
A Titusville paper says: " A man
called at one of our stores and va1nly
essayed to get on either numbers IL,
IL or 13 shoes. The store-keeper sug-
gested that he should put on thinner
pair of stockings and try on the box"
Certain Philanthropists once petit
toned the Legislature of Massachusetts
to ordain that all hanging should be
done by clergymen. sa At recent exc
cution in Gloucester, Eng, doctor
1fered TO operate gratuitously, for the
love of the thing. &A
The National Grange, in session at
st. Louis, unanimously adopted
to the Patrons of Husbandry
in the cotton States, arguing for mixed
husbandry in the South, instead of ex-
pending the energies of the people in
raising single crop.
The series of fourteen "extras "
issued by the New York Tribune are
undoubtedly The cheapest and best
popular scientific publication in the
world. The Tribune will send free to
any applicant circular giving the full
contents and details of this remarkable
" Library for One Dollar" El
"A prominent lawyer in st. Cloud,
Minnesota. carried home nice young
turkey, but he was told by the servant
girl that it must be very old, as it had
lost all its teeth, whereupon said law
yer was greatly surprised, and replied
that he had not particularly examined
the turkey, but had relied wholly upon
the butcher. who said it was young.
Two children belonging to the COM
mune of Rothenbourg, in the Canton
of Lucerne, Switzerland. aged ten and
thirteen years respectively, recently
another child in so barbar-
ous a manner that it lost consciousness,
and finally died. The motive for the
act is said to be jealousy of the way IN
which their unfortunase little victim
had distinguished himself at school.
The Pennsylvania Agricultural Col
lege is not profitable institution.
Joseph @. Turner, one of the trustees,
saws that when he became q trustee
six wears ago, the debt of the college
was about $112, 900, and it has been in
creasing at the rate of $4,000 year