Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-08-29
Items OF Interest.
ben is the full dress meal At sara-

Supper is the full dress meal at Sara
toga.
Chinese maxim Never rub your eyes
except with your elbows. tt.
II does not follow that loaf of bread
is inhabited because there is little
Indian in it.
A Kansas editor attributes his nom
success to publishing nonparell paper
in a long primer town.
The Brooklyn scandal has had at
least one good effect. 1t has thorough
ly cured the hydrophobia in that city
and New York.
It is comfort in these days for one
to 90 to bed or get up and know that he
hasn't got any children to be abducted
and held for reward.
Baltimore papers say that such
prostration as now affects the shipping
interest of that port has not been expe-
rienced during the past fifteen years.
A correspondent in Iowa complains
that in the town where he lives he IS
underrated in every capacity except
that of taxpayer, and in that he is over
rated.
A scientist announces that a human
being has seven millions OF pores
through which perspiration and ez-
hausted PARTICLES of the system escape.
We are all pore creatures.
If one doubts that the American peo-
pie are overworked let him pass along
the wharves of Detroit and see how
many men are struggling to get the
softest spot on bale of hay.
Several bandits who were recently
captured in the mountains OF Santa
Anna, Nicaragua, received two hundred
lashes each, band of music being en-
ployed to drown their cries. .. -s..
Smart Woman" Doctor, what do
you think of women for doctors :"
Doctor. "They are invaluable, madam,
to our profession. We derive two
thirds of our income from them"
A Pennsylvania topper swore off six
wears ago, and has put penny into a
box for every drink he would have
taken. He counted his hoard the other
day, and found he had missed l,2o7
drinks.
Minstrel trsupes now dispense with
"middle men," while performing IN
the country, in Difference to tne
Changers. This is as reasonable as to
dispense with bones," in Difference
to cremationists. rr 50.
Advertising has created many new
business, enlarged many an old busl-
ness, revived many dull BUSINESS,
rescued many failing business, and
preserved many large business, and
it insures success in any business.
An aeronaut writes to the London
Times, complaining that his balloon
was deliberately shot at no less than
three times during recent ascent frem
London, and offers reward of gl0O
for the apprehension of the person who
fired the shots. Hra-
The Kansas Farmer reports the case
of q wheat grower of that State who
had manured portion of field Of
good, rich, prairie soil which he had
sown to wheat. The manured portion
bore large and heavy crop; the un-
manured portion was too light to pay
for cutting. This wheat grower de-
clares that in future he will SOW wheat
only 80 far as he can manure the land.
Among the captains of the numerous
canal boats that go to Alexandria, Va,
are some four or five who are females.
Their sex, though, does not initiate
against their efficiency, for they can
blow as shrill a blast upon horn,
steer as clear of passing boat, and
keep their crews as well in hand as any
male captain on the canal, and, what is
still better, in the inevitable disputes
that result from their vocation, always
come off victorious. ... -. 49,.
The following incident occurred to
M. Recurt, Minister of the Interior,
who was surgeon during the insurrec-
tion in Paris. He passed behind one
of the barricades with the captors, and
found forty men lying on the gromd in
the blood and mire. "Ah !! said ne,
"this is in my line )" and he very com
posedly took out case of instruments.
The effect of this action was electrical
the whole of the forty prostrate lnslr'
gents rose up as one man and took to
their heels. 10 24 z