Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-10-23
Items Of Interest.

No city is known TO travellers Whlch
has not the prettiest girls in the world.
A Milwaukee lady who paid $50 to
have a wart removed from her nose, now
wants to know what's become of the
nose. -....
A colored labor union at Camden,
Ark, fixed the price of picking cotton at
dollar hundred and board, and severe
ly thrashed several members for working
cheaper.
"Ma," observed a little child, refec-
lively. the other night, as the stars came
out, "don't you think that when those
stars twinkle that way they must tickle
the angels feet 2"
They have just caught full grown
Jessie Pomeroy in France. He was tax
en- in the act of killing a little girl, and
the remains of three missing children
were found in his house.
The value of lemons, oranges, pine
apples, bananas, lines, mangoes, and
cocoanuts entered at New York in Sep
tember was 1852, 1916, upon which the
duty amounted to $A, ,316.
A California butcher, while dissecting
q beef's liver, recently found an Indian
arrowhead in well preserved state, that
had to all appearances been imbedded
in the liver for long time.
At Brightwood, Mass, there is dog
which goes every morning to the rail
road, receives copy of a paper (thrown
to him by the newsboy on the train,
and takes it home to his master.
The collecting of monograms is the
latest wrinkle among the young ladies.
When a large number are obtained
the young ladies paste them on their
fans, and the one who has the most and
finest holds her head in lofty scorn at
everybody else.
; A curious epidemic is prevailing
, among the chickens at Providence, r.
l., which sometimes results fatally in
less than an hour. One man has lost
eighty-three out of flock of eighty
seven, and another has lost thirty nine
} out of flock of forty. ..
: 1t is coming election time, when the
weary, waiting wife sits before the
smouldering fire at one o'clock in the
morning, and sobs and thinks of the
sunny days of her childhood, and chalks
, the handle of the poker as soon as she
: hears the click of her husbands night
key. .r. t..
Free morals are on the increase IL
; Berlin. In 1857 the pumber of womer
placed under the supervision of the po
lice was II, ,379; in 1869 this number
> had risen to %, 1866, and in 1870 to 49,,
709-shame, poverty, misery, and fin
ally death being the fate of these unfor
tunates. -
The Butte (Cal) Mercury tells of a
q band of sheep brought down from the
o mountains and turned into wheat
q field. Over one hundred head died In
: one night from eating wheat and drink
q ing water. The wheat swelled to such
an extent that the stomach was com
n pletely torn apart. ....-.
n When boy has been off all day, con
= trary to the expressed wish of his mother
and on approaching the homestead a
night, with an anxious and cautious
tread, finds company at tea, the expires
sion of confidence and recitude which
y suddenly lights up his face cannot b'
reproduced on canvas.
h Won't you cut open penny for me
l. father ?" said little girl, when sh'
k came home from school one day, Gu
open penny What do you want me tt
is do that for ?" asked her father
|, Cause" said the little girl, sou
If teacher says that in every penny ther
are four farthings, and I want to Sc
A. them"
rs Many years ago French general Oh
d duty at Turin started with his wife to
court ball. The lady had just throw
= off her outer cloak when she was takel
! i'll. A doctor and few ladies attende'
" her, and the general was soon seel
= wrapping lively boy in his coat an
:, hurrying homeward. The boy SO bor
~ is the Admiral de Ia Ronciere le Noury
= :. who was recently removed from tn
:. . command of the Mediterranean squad
ron for displaying too much Bonapartis
1ool