Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-10-31
NO. "A.
Items of Interest

Where to go when short of money
go to work. ... q.
Pickpockets are persons who take
things easy. ..........
Patience is a great virtue. but oh,
how few of us possess it.
worcester spells Wooster, why
doesn't r chester spell RoosterP
Batter down as the goat remarked
to himself as he saw the farmers wife
crossing the field.
China has streets paved with granite
blocks laid over 300 years ago, as good
as new. The contractors are dead.
It is a curious and significant fact
that to-day old Babylon and Nineveh
are lighted with American petroleum.
Cotton factories in the South, in
almost every instance, where well man
aged, pay from twenty to twenty five
per cent.
DR.. Ayers, of Lowell, will leave his
handsome daughter 81, ,OOO, 600 In green.
backs. There's sugar coated pill
worth taking.
The daughter of Gen. Sherman will
begin her career as housekeeper with
the outfit of twenty-three dozens of
silver spoons"
OF fifteen joint owners of lot OF
land in a town IN Indiana, who recently
united in transferring it by deed, not
one could sign his or her name.
Mississippi is singularly blessed in
aome resnects. A traveller there says
some of the land in that State is sopoor
that a disturance could not be raised
on it.
Lady" Before / engage you,
should like to know what your religion
is" Cook" Oh, ma'am l always
feel it my duty to be of the same relig-
ion as the family I'm in. ..
Chow old are you? asked the coun-
sci of a lady in an Aberdeen court.
"Weel. Ina no q married woman, an
I dinna think it recht to answer the
question" was the reply.
Walter, five year-old, was surprised
at breakfast by the presence OF a di-
minutlve egg, served for his special
delectation. He thus accounted Tor the
eggs smallness Mamma, / think
the chicken was learning to lay"
Machinery has reached great state
of perfection. We saw some burht
peas put into the hopper of a Coffee
mill the other day, and in less than two
minutes it was occupying place in
grocery window, labeled "Fine Old
Mocha"
The Santa Cruz Enterprise says that
Conrad Slafdet, the man who died so
suddenly at Aptos recently, is said to
have died of over Joy, brought on by
the exceedingly generous gilt by CLAUS
Spreckles to the deceased of fifty acres
of land.
The last fraud in the way of adultera-
tion is the putting of salt into ale, IN
order to create thirst for more. A fine
of 932 was recently imposed upon
beerseller in London for putting two
hundred and fifty grains of salt in every
gallon of beer.
Wives of candidates for sheriff in
Chicago complain that their husbands
keep them awake nights talking in their
sleep. and saying, "What'll you takeP
Step up, boys. Come Dan, Jim, Ed,
Mac, Fitz, Buf, Pat, the whole OF ye.
Gimme some whisky" L.. ..a.
Many persons have recently been
poisoned in different parts of France by
lead used in lining or coating cooking
utensils. Instead of tin which was
formerly used, an amalgam of three
parts lead and one part of tin is now
employed for lining gheet iron or copper
pans and vessels.
At the Methodist Conference in Ba-
tavia, N. Y, one of the Elders said he
was once settled over weak church,
and appointed committee OF young
ladies to collect subscriptions for IFS
support. One of them was so success,
full that he thought she would be goodi
overseer and helpmate in family, and
so he married her.