Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-05-30
NO. 81.
Items OF Interest,

Each day is a new life regard it
therefore as an epitome of the whole.
This country has sown terrible
amount of wild flowers since its father
died. .r.s.la rsa
A Nashville man broke his leg the
other day while trying to put on a
tight boot. ' fs
One Of the students suspended at
Michigan University recently for rhazing
was girl. sar
A gentleman in Pottsville, Pa, has
named his dog Penny" because it
was one cent to him. 4#-.a
A ST. Louis lawyer has been debar-
red from practiclng for three years for
appropriating the funds of his client.
Advertisements printed in Chinese
characters, such as are seen on tea
chests, are beginning to appear numer-
ously in the California papers.
A disappointed Hibernian, in relating
his griefs, said =" tould him had he
any sthrong beer what was good. He
axed me yes, but it was sour and all
gone."
1t cost Baron Porcari sixty-three
thousand francs to get away from the
Sicilian brigands recently. He spent
eleven days in cave, and then parted
with his ducats.
A building in San Francisco that has
SEQ rooms, is to have a clock with 500
dials, dial for each room, to be oper-
ated with compressed air, conducted
in pipes all over the building.
Take a company of boys, chasing
butterflies, says cynical writer, put
long tailed coats on the boys, and turn
the butterflies into dollars, and you
have the panorama of the world.
A New England paper advises its
readers:
If your neighbor's hens are troublesome
And steal across the way,
Don't let your angry passions RISE
But fix place for them to lay.
The present year being generally ac-
cepted as the four hundredth anniver-
sary of the introduction of the art of
printing into England, grand printers
celebration is to take place in London
next month.
A Georgia paper says Every vii
lage and borough in the State is pro-
curing the erection of factories of vari-
GUS kinds. We never knew period in
the history of Georgia when so much .
money was put into manufacturing
business as at present.
1t costs a hundred dollars to lower
the dignity of the journalistic profess
sion in Chicago. At least, that is the
amount judge told bogus news
paper man in that city he would have
to pay if he again represented himself
as a man who wrote pieces for the
papers.
A company have purchased 1000
acres of land near Butte des Morris, in
the State of Wisconsin, which is to be
devoted exclusively to the raising of
muskrats. Last year about 1000 rats
were captured on this territory, and it
is estimated that 5000 will be taken
this year.
A Canadian writer complains that the
United States are drawing away their
most gifted ministers by the potent
magnet of money. He thinks that Ca
madam churches are as rule as large
and wealthy as those of the United
States, and as well able to pay. But
they don't pay.
DIR. Livingstone says that Schele,
famous African chief, observed to him
on the occasion of his preaching to the
tribe, "Do you imagine that these
people ever believe by your talking to
them? I can make them do nothing
except by thrashing them and, if you
like, 1 will call my head man with our
whips of rhinoceros hide, and will
soon make them all believe together"