Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-12-11
IN ADVANCE.
NO. so.
Facts aud Fancies.

The colored Methodist Episcopal
church in America has now four bishops
and a membership of 100000 IN the
Southern and Western States.
Misery is on the increase in Prussia,
owing chiefly to the military footing on
which that country persists in standing.
Living is higher and wages lower.
The French mercantile navy is now
composed of 1892 vessels, of which
455 are steamers. The coast fishery
employs $3.50 vessels manned by 4O,-
600 sailors.
The centennial of the battle of Fort
Moultrie, fought on the twenty-eighth
of June, 1776, is to to be celebrated by
the Palmetto Guard of South Carolina
by erecting $12, 900 monument.
Some people won't let well enough
alone. Take, for instance, the man who,
having been sentenced to fine OF 50
and costs, applied for reconsideration
of the case, and got three months in the
penitentiary.
"Was the crowd tumultuous3" in
quired one man of another who had just
come from a mass meeting. "Too
multuous," replied the other. ooh,
no, just about multuous enough to COM
fortably fill the hail."
It's proposed by the provincial legis-
lature of Buenos Ayres to portion out in
small farm plots some $4,000 square
leagues OF government lands in the South
and West, and to sell them at cheap
rates to agricultural immigrants.
A little seven-year- old boy was recent
ly told by his mother that she would
start him to school this session. Look
ing up in great surprise, and shaking
his h cad ominously, he replied: 81
can't go to school l don't spell well
enough"
A Missouri gentleman has passed the
last forty-four years in the endeavor to
count two billions before he dies, and is
! encouraged to hope that if it pleases
Providence to spare his life for another
half century Che is only sixty fve) he
: will be able to complete his task.
In Russia the winter appears to have
set in with unwontei severity. AS early
as October 20, the street traffic was con-
Quoted almost entirely on runners, the
snow being deep enough and hard
enough for sleighing, and travelby tram
. way had become well-nigh impossible.
Employer" Good morning, William,
:. how are you' and how's your poor old
! mother2" William" Well, sir, l don't
know I don't live with the old woman
. now; I've got lodgings of my own.
Pause.) But 1 won't see her want!
, Employer-"Ah, perhaps that why you
moved away"
? A Kentucky paper claims that Fayette
: county has brought more money into the
State from her stock, has exported to
@ breeders more blooded stock, and i'm
0 ported more of the first and purest
n blooded stock than has any other county
o in America, or than has any territory oi
l. the same size in the known world.
d Not one man in thousand now folds
newspaper when he is done with it,
and he is considered no statesmen who
doesn't leave it spread out ten or fifteer
feet from the place where he picked i
" up. The less right man has to paper
|, the more he is expected to misplace ant
is rumple it, or lay it on the edge of some
d thing from which it may fall to thu
n floor.
o Mr.. Henry Alers Hankey, of London
n had an observatory on the top of hi
+ house which he used as a smoking room
s, in the evening, and had always
a brougham ready at his door to start OF
20 when he saw the glare of fire from hi
Q. watch tower. For many years he wen
1t to every fire in the city unless prevente
IS by invincible obstacles. Lately hi
Il own house burned down.
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