Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-04-11
Items OF Interest.

There is a great lack OF laborers IN
New Zealand.
The basest men have the lowest
estimate of women.
Strawberries are in the New York
market at 81 a quart.
Isle Royal, in Lake Superior, is the
most northerly territory of the United
States.
Some of the wholesale liquor houses
in Cincinnati have had to call IN their
drummers. ......
The Eastern oyster refuses to spawn
in the Bay of San Francisco. He grows
very fat and then dies. -t fa -f
A German professor has undertaken
the task of counting the hairs on a
buffalo robe one by one.
A young lady in New York, as a mat
ter of penance, has contributed her gold
earrings to the charity fund. Go, sin
no more, earring child.
A San Francisco theatre netted it's
proprietor eleven cents profit In eight
months, and he wants to sell out to
some one who loves the drama for itself
alone.
A gentleman friend has two canaries,
and has named them "Wheeler" and
Wilson," His reason tor these appel
lations is that neither of them is
"Singer."
That was very singular mistake
made by Digg at a wedding, who, when
introduced to the bride, wished that she
might enjoy many returns of the present
happy occasion.
Temperance Gent Ito intoxicated
barber) "Bad thing for shaving,
whisky" Barber =" Yes, sab. 1t
makes the skin kind of tender; but L
will take great care, sah."
Experiments made upon a healthy
soldier i'll London go to show that
alcohol is useless in a state of health,
and absolutely injurious in larger guam
titles than two ounces daily.
81 s'pose," remarked a gentleman
last night, pausing to rest against
convenient lamp-post, 81 s'pose I'm an
animated g-gas-bill-I ne never was SO
hic-high be-before in my Life"
Gen. Garibaldi has twenty-one swords
of honor, eleven of which have been
sent him from abroad. He derives the
modest income of $500 from the Island
of Caprera, on which he resides.
1t is vain to put your finger in the
water, and, pulling it out, look for q
hole; and equally vain to suppose that,
however large space you occupy, the
world will miss you when you die. l
The more people do, the more they
can do. He that does nothing renders
himself incapable of doing anything.
While we are executing one work we
are preparing ourselves to undertake
another.
The journalists will have their fun, as
witness the following from Cincinnati
paper: GA favorite amusement at
Laramie is slashing of strangers ears.
One blow isenough for all exceptLou
vile ears"
Patience is always crowned with sue
cess. This rule is without an except
tion. 1t may not be splendid success,
but patience never takes anything IN
hand that it does not succeed with IN
some form. ... r...... ....4.
The Richmond Enquirer acknowl-
edges the superabundance of handsome
young ladies there, and thinks they hate
good-looking Yankees just enough to
marry them for revenge, If they ever
have an opportunity. ~ 3'#
At an auction sale in Baltimore two
wealthy men got angry at each other
and bid on $40 bureau until they run
the price to 5000, when the successful
party paid the money and walked OF
with O smile of triumph. ......
DR.. Riggs, of Connecticut, thinks
the best fertilizer for tobacco is green
crops ploughed in. His practiceisto SOW
rye after the tobacco crop is harvested,
and plough it under about the first OF
the succeeding June when it has attain
cd nearly full growth. .F .... ri.
The Waterloo Qowa) Reporter
launches upon the world this conun-
drum lis it any better taste for lady
to wear three story hat surmounted
by tall plume, to public entertain
ment, than it would be for gentleman
to wear plug hat? 'a aol.
DR.. Samuel Johnson, to whose opinion
years of observation carried weight,
once said "I never take up news
paper without finding something which
I should have considered it loss not to
have seen never without deriving from
it instruction and amusement" at
Anderson, the late magician, has left
will totally excluding the members of
his family from participation in his
money or effects, bequeathing all he
possessed to his agents and other per.
sons about him at his death. The
testament will probably be contested.
GA Boston man was cursing an editor
the other day, when he fell dead, says
an exchange. 1t would help us some,
says the Register, if we knew which one
it was that fell dead. If the editor,
then he is not the first one who has been
talked to death if the man he was
served just right. ''' #
At the Assize Court of the Charente
Inferieure during the speech of coun-
sell for prisoner accused of theft, one
of the jury exclaimed, 81 see a ghost"
and gave such evident signs of raving
madness that the presiding Judge de-
clared the case could not go on, and the
jury were discharged. $50 aeW71