Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-09-11
Items of Interest.


are healthy. Glad he told us.
What are they which, though always
drunk, are never intoxicated l-Toasts.
The boy who loves castor oil lives in
Iowa. He drinks it by the pint as a
beverage.
A Havana paper says that 5000 Ameri-
can women could find husbands there
within month. ..E.r
Wanted-the name of racehorse
which hasn't " made the quickest time
on record" this summer. .....
A man has been arrested in Camden,
N. j., for angling with hook and line
for his neighbours chickens.
Marine frauds, custom house flauds,
whisky frauds, Indian frauds and dis
trict frauds. That is all at present.
All the furnaces in Lonton, Ohio, are
named after celebrated volcanoes, as
Etna, Vesuvius, Hecla and the like.
The Western printers want to make q
compact not to print line about the
new trial of the Beecher-Tilton suit.
A Louisiana farmer has succeeded in
growing a crop of tea. The hearts OF
Louisiana spinsters are greatly hgntened.
They sold three tramps at auction the
other day in Missouri. Their pur-
chasers will probably use them for scare
crows. Nue .r... s..
A Russian proverb says: Before going
to war, pray once; before going to sea,
pray twice; before going to be married,
pray three times. #.,.
A new post office has been established
fourteen miles from Coldwater, Midland
county, Michigan. Its name is " Head
ache" probably on account of its great
distance from Coldwater.
A Fiiian is never happy except when
he has on his one garment, which is
necklace of hogs teeth. He looks very
ridiculous to us, but then just think how
ridiculous we look to him.
An Oregon man named his girl baby
after Queen Victoria, and wrote to the
queen to that effect She didn't seem
to care cent, and he changed the child's
name to Sal, and went out and pound
ed the first Enghshman he met. ar
While some farmers in Onondago
county we're drawing in hay last week
they were somewhat surprised to find
that they had been carrying as pas
senger a large black snake. 1t was
killed, and was found to measure ten
feet in length.
In an agricultural convention at Dal-
ton, Ga, few days ago, gentleman
called upon all present who owned sheep
and no dogs to rise, and thirteen rose
up. He then called upon all who owned
dogs and no sheep to arise, and sixty or
seventy responded. aF'a ...n9
A schoolmistress once asked pupil to tell
What words the letters S double E spell.
The child was but dull, and so mistress cries
scWhat is it, you Ounce, I do with my eyes?"
seoh, yes !" says the child, quickly taking the
sE hint airga1Eq 7d5o 5us
81 know the word now, ma'am--S double E,
squintF' ..5 &. $50 -.
An animal which had been frightening
the people about Norwich, Conn, was
killed last week and was found to be a
large dog, which had probably lived in
the woods so long as to become almost
wild. A farmer saw the animal near
his house with a chicken in its mouth,
and shot it. 1' .'..
"Thunder, said man, rushing into
a railroad telegraph station the other
day. "The express trains gone eli the
big bridget" "Many killed, many kill
ed!" screamed the bystanders. Mot
one," replied the other. "She Just
went on at one end and went off at the
other, just as usual. "
A body of an Indian was found In an
excellent state of preservation by some
workmen who were digging on plank
road at Shaler, Pa, the other day. The
shroud was perfect, and what remains Of
the coffin shows that it was made of birch
bark. Excavations will be begun soon
near the spot where the body was un-
earthed, in the hope of finding traces of
an aboriginal burying ground.
Give been through that wicket, Char
lie." 81 don't think you have, sweet
meats" "Indeed, have" "No, you
haven't" "I did," " You didn't, -
and then mallet sails over the fence,
and pull-back twitches furiously over
the green sward and disappears into the
house, and everythingis as quiet with
out as though peace were the sovereign
power on earth.
A Wisconsin DR.. White volunteers
!. the following information: The Cincin-
, natl Enquirer and Times are disputlng
|. about tho use of the word "learn" as
synonymous with to "teach." If they
look at Webster's dictionary, they will
find the words were formerly both used
in the same sense, and so appear In
, Shakespeare, Spencer and other early
writer's. But, Webster says, "this usage
! has now passed away"
A stylish colored gentleman Of unusual
literary proclivities walked into book
store recently and inquired Of the oblig
ing clerk if he had copy OF Shakes
| peare., The clerk assured him that he
} had, and produced the desired copy,