Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-11-06
Items Of Interest.

A Baltimore oyster eater found pearl
worth S40O on half shell at an oyster
stand lately.
The Michigan fish-hatctiDg establish
ment has received, in good condition,
800, 900 California salmon eggs from the
Pacific coast. .........a
Pennsylvania has TOT newspapers and
periodicals, seventy eight being daihes.
The aggregate yearly circulation OF these
publications is stated 8,738, $40.
A large lake has been discovered about
forty miles west of Laramie, w. T., IN
the bottom of which is thick layer of
magnesia or Epson salts in almostapure
state. ..1 E
You appear in new role, don't you,
old fellow 2" was what the impertinent
young man remarked as be dug cock
roach out of his fresh bread at the break
fast table. .." .s...-
"There, John" said an irate mother,
'thats twice yon'ye come home and for
gotten the lard (" " La, mother" said
young dutiful, 1T was so greasy that
1t slipped my mind.
When the Canadian government made
grant in favor OF the veterans of 1872
it had no idea that the number would be
more than about 800 or 900, but the list
hoe foo+ad ~, ovar 9 h00
Miss Mary E. CLANCY, ayoung daugh-
ter of a rich citizen of Sedalia, Mo-,
ran away with and married blind
music teacher, thirty years old, and the
leader of the Sedaha brass band. r.
All, that eager grasp of the hand that
anxious inquiry about your wife and the
babies that kindly solicitude concern
ing your financial welfare; yes, there's
no mistaking it. He's a candidate.
A Dane has invented an arrangement
to take the place of crutches, by which
the cripple can go fast or slow up or
down stairs without touching his feet to
the ground Or working but one arm.
A Cherokee Indian is student in the
agricultural department at Dartmouth
college, Japanese is in the scientific
department, and a retired clergyman,
fifty years old, is in the academic depart
ment.
The question as to whether it is spell
ed whisky or whiskey is still debated.
The Chicago Times virtually decides the
question by remarking that nine men
out of ten who drink take their whisky
with "e-ase."
Germany, witha population of AZ, O0O,-
600, last year graduated six hundred and
sixty physicians, rejecting one hundred
and eight applications. The United
States, with population of 10000, 900,
graduated three thousand physicians.
One of the jury" Your honor, I
must ask to be dismissed. F." Judge
Why 2" One of the jury" Because
have been looking at the prisoner, and
have thoroughly made up my mind
that he is a guilty man, SO that | feel
preiudiced." i" 7fo.E5 gi1s4 od5
The immense advantage which the
screw gives to the Arctic navigator is
shown by the fact that the Pandora oc-
cupied scarcely three months in reach
ing and returning from a point that it
took Franklin with his sailing ships
nearly two years to reach. .r
A most determined attempt at escape
was recently made by prisoner at Tor
onto, who rather than serve three days
sprang from wall twenty feet high,
drove in a buggy to the lake, took q
boat and rowed seven miles, then leaped
overheard and swan only to be captured
after all. r. +t 1. aTg8
The brilliant celors of autumn leaves
may by preserved by dipping the stems
in melted yellow beeswax. The leaves
should be well dried. By piercing the
leaf near the stem with double thread
wire, they can be woven on coarser
wire, or on large cord, in any deserlp-
ton of garlands.
Dickens and Thackeray were walking
in Covent market one day, when they
came to place where there were two
piles of oysters in window, one pile
being marked ninepencea dozen and the
other sixpence a dozen. Thackeray
stood with his hands behind him and
said to Dickens: Chow they must hate
each other. dian
A bunch of grapes weighing twenty
six and quarter pounds was shown re-
Gently at the great fruit show at Edm-
burgh, Scotland, by Mr.. Carror, garden
Ell at Esk Bank. Another, over twenty
five pounds, was shown by Mr.. Jardine,
gardener at Arkleton Dumfries. These
are believed to be the largest punches oi
grapes ever grown in Britain, and pro
bably the largest ever grown.
A Connecticut girl baby came into
the world the other day to find her re-
lations so mixed up that she will never
get them straight as long as she lives
Her great-grandmother is first cousin te
her great grandfather; her step grand
father is first cousin to her mother, hel
uncles and her aunts are her seconc
cousins, and her mother is her thirc