Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-10-02
IN ADVANCE.
no. 40.
Items Of Interest.

The Kentucky Legislature will be
urged to prohibit lotteries.
England and Wales have two hundred
young mems Christian associations.
Pittsburgh is again talking of sending
refined oil to the Delaware through a
pipe two hundred miles long that will
cost 100000.
1t is said that Flood & O'Brien had
10000, 900 in gold locked up when their
great opponent, Ralston, found his bank
hopelessly embarrassed.
The grasshoppers visited twenty eight
counties and two hundred and four
towns in Minnesota, and destroyed or
damaged 240, AIT acres of wheat.
A man may occasionally kiss the wrong
woman by mistake, but when he makes
practice of it, the right woman finds it
out, and that's what bothers him.
Hans Christian Andersen left the bulk
of his property to the Collin family, in
recognition of aid extended to him when
a poor boy by one of its members.
Turkish tailors are never reproached
for misfts. They have only to cut out
two bags, hitch them together, and the
customerhas a first class pair of trowsers.
A young manufacturer of our ac-
quaintance is making money fast on this
motto, parodied from "Poor Richard :"
" Early to bed, and early to rise never
get tight, and advertise"
The losses by fire in the Russian en-
pire last year are said to have reached
the enormous amount of $45,000,000.
The railway locomotives are one of the
greatest causes of fire.
You can family imagine the feelings
of the Michigan man who cut big piece
of meat from his leg thinking a rattle
snake had bitten him, and then found
out that it was bee sting.
st. Louis is 429 feet above tide Gin
cinnati, 440 feet Pittsburgh, 500 feet !;
Omaha, LOGO feet; Atlanta, 1,0S4 feet
Denver, 5,196 feet Cheyenne, 6,075
feet, and Pixies Peak, IA, 148 feet.
The census takers of Winchendon,
Mass, have come across the case of
woman twenty years old, married at
twelve years of age, who has had ten
children, the oldest being now thirteen
years old.
1t is suggeste! by lady that instead
Of discoloring the flesh of peaches by
pairing them with a knife, the way to do
it is to dip the fruit into hot water, when
it may be peeled the same as in the case
of tomatoes.
Since that New York editor was rob
bed, the Providence Press wants to
know when newspaper men will learn to
employ three or four savings banks, in
stead of carrying around fortunes in
their vest pockets.
Put both of your lower limbs into one
leg of your pantaloons take the other
leg, roll it into bunch and tie it behind
you then try to walk. That will teach
you how nice and comfortable an ultra
pull-back dress is.
An army of one hundred and fifty
tramps lighted down, the other evening,
dirty and penniless, on a central Iowa
town, and demanded food and quarters
in the public square. The demand had
to be complied with.
A humane physician at Plymouth,
Mass, summoned to attend patient
few nights ago, walked the entire dis
tance-twelve miles-rather than de-
prive his horse of tie rest the animal re-
quired after hard days drive.
In the corrected version of Rip Van
Winkle," Schneider, the dog, is chained
to bush when the hero lies down to
sleep his twenty years and when Rip
wakes up, to his great surprise he finds
poor Schneider's skeleton up a tree,
still chained.
An old woman in Bridgeport, Conn,
who has pasted nearly five thousand
medical recipes in book during the
past forty years, has never been sick a
day in her life, and she is growing dis
couraged. Some people are born to i'll
luck, she says.
A Chinese dentist has discovered an
infallible cure for general complaint ;
he says that as long as you keep bit of
ignited charcoal applied to the sole of
your foot you will cease to feel the pain
of toothache. But what whole-soled
fellow would want to do this
The paper on which Bank of England
notes are printed has been made since
1719 at place called Law verstock. 1t is
made of new linen or cotton, and note
will support thirty-six pounds before
being sized, while if it is of the right
size it will support man for years.
The st. Louis Republican has been
investigating the city directory, and de-
clares that in every hundred males there
are twenty Johns, ten Williams, ten
Jameses, eight Thomases, six Patricks
five Michaels, four Charleses, four Ed
wards, three Georges, three Josephf
and three Henries.
She was languishing upon sofa
watching him affectionately as he skip
ped brislly about the room putting
things in order. Finally she said in {
low sweet tone of voice " George, dar