Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-10-16
IN ADVANCE.
Items Of Interest.


An advertisement ran thus: Two
ters want washing.
All goats love tobacco; but all crea-
lures that love tobacco are not goats.
The Lake Superior mines since 1856
have yielded nearly 100000 tons of
iron.
It is said there is all the difference in
the world between the north and south
poles.
Here must have been strange sight:
He rode to town, and drove twelve cows
on horseback.
Why don't Sweden have to send
abroad for cattle2 Because she keeps
her Stockholm.
Feebleness, either in plants or animals,
invites parasitic disease, whether of ami
NAL or vegetable origin.
Thirty-five tribes contribute stock and
specimens of industry to the Indian ex-
position at Musgokee, 1. T.
Parisians are introducing the Oriental
fashion of stufing furniture with aroma
tic herbs, which fill the air with agree
able perfume.
1t costs fifty dollars to slap Cleve-
land man on the mouth. That's good
deal of money, but there's also a good
deal of mouth.
A spendthrift says that he has lived
beyond his means so long that now he
hasn't the means to live, and yet he
means to live somehow.
When man goes to quilting party
about teatime and sits down on ball of
wicking with long darning-needle init,
he will think of more things connected
with darning in a minute than he can
mention in two hours.
An honest reputation is within the
reach of all men; they obtain it by 80
cial virtues and by doing their duty.
This kind of reputation, it is true, is
neither brilliant nor startling, but it is
often the most useful for happiness.
There is no better tonic than cheerful
ness. The man who sings at his work is
generally set down as honest, contented,
and happy. Twig the gentle mosquito,
whose song is heard most while your
blood is being diligently and maliciously
sucked.
A lady leaving one of the summer re-
sort hotels, was charged for an entire
china toilet set, only one piece of which
she had broken. She paid the blu, and,
pleading the excuse of having forgotten
something, returned to the room and
broke each and every article of the set
for which she had paid.
On the subject of matrimony French
philosopher advises: Fathers and mo-
theirs, if you should choose to take the
trouble to see through your future sons
in-law, just look out of the window at
them as they ring the door bell. Daugh-
ters needn't look; maidens in love have
but one eye, and most of the time not
even that.
A fve-year-old son of Waterbury
(Conn. deacon amuses himself by imi-
tating a train of cars with his mouth and
shutting his feet. While indulging in
this pastime, one Sunday, he was told
that it was wrong to do so on the Sab
bath. "Oh, but this is the milk train"
was his rejoinder, that being the only
train through the town on that day.
One of the remarkable men of the
Alabama constitutional convention is
Col. Bethea. He is lawyer, but has
had only one case in his life. 1t was his
first and last. The case involved large
amount of property, and his fee de-
pended upon bis success. He won; his
fee was 100000 and with this he grace
fully retired from the bar. A legal
career SO brief and so brilliant has pro-
badly been the lot of no other man since
litigation began.