Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-12-04
IN ADVANCE.
Facts and Fancies.

In this dim world Of clouding cares
We rarely know, till viii llered eyes
See white wings less'ning up the skies,
The angels with us unawares.
To know man, observe how he wins
his object, rather than how he loses 1t ;
for when we fail our pride supports us;
when we succeed, it betrays us.
A New York rabbi states that he has
recently admitted thirty-eight Christian
male adults to membership in the Israel
itish church. There was marriage
ceremony Immediately after each case.
A few more years of war in Cuba, and
the island will only need whitewashed
fence around it, and few tombstones,
to proclaim it to the passers-by the
largest and best filed cemetery on the
globe.
Many good-minded mother has inno-
Gently warped her sons character by
arguing that gray patches could be in
serted into his black pantaloons without
the other boys being able to detect the
difference.
The county treasurer at Indianapolis
has received in payment of taxes 81
bill with the following Endorsement ::
"Wm. @. Creveling, St. Louis, Mo.
the last of $20,OO This tells the
whole story.
"What arrangements have you for
extipguishing fres9" aid Mr.. Timidity
to the landlord of a hotel out West where
he proposed to spend the night.
"Theres pitcher of water in every
room, sir" responded Boniface.
One of the illusions is that the present
hour is not the critical, decisive hour.
Write it on your heart that every day is
the best day in the year. No man
has learned anything rigidly until he.
knows that every day is doomsday.
A Boston collector of autographs has
an autograph letter of the late Horace
Greeley. No person to whom this letter
has been shown was ever able to read it,
nor could the owner, if he had not known
what the answer to his own letter must
necessarily have been.
The 9th r day, when Detroit grocer
spelled sugar IS h-u-g-e-r," friend
pointed out the word and remarked:
"That word isn't spelled quite right"
Ha / see," laughed the grocer, lone
would think had no education" And
he crossed it out and wrote s-h-u-g-o-r.
A little girl in. Washington cut her
finger few days since and her fond
mother ordered John to run quickly and
bring doctor. 4" If one amt in" were
the orders, "leave word and go to the
next , John obeyed orders, and twenty
one doctors called in course of an hour.
A farmer in Seymour, Ind, while ex-
aiming his corn crib the other day, came
across a small jug, whose mouth was
stopped by the body of rat which had
tried to get in but had stuck fast. On
breaking the jug, he found four other
rats inside, all alive. The latter had
evidently crawled in, eaten till their
sides we're stuffed out, and then found
it impossible to crawl out again.
The inhabitants of Ross, in Hereford
shire, England, having presented
memorial to the home secretary, pray
ing for the release of Emily Davies,
aged thirteen years, who was condemned
by the magistrate of the place about a
month ago to fortnight imprisonment,
and at the expiration of that time to four
years in a reformatory, for stealing five
shillings' worth of apples, have been in
formed that the secretary declines to in
ferfere with the sentence.
Oregon has new cereal which looks
like wheat, rye, and barley, and is either
of them; and the g leading agricul-
turists . of the State are puzzling them
selves about it. Its history is strange.
About four years ago farmer living in
Tilamook county, Oregon, killed wild
goose, in whose crop he found peculiar
looking grain. He planted it it null
tiplied wonderfully, and he subsequent
ly raised forty bushels on half an acre
of land. Its growth is peculiar, from
seven to ten stalks springing from one
root. The kernel is very thin and COM
pact, of q bright straw color, and ex-
tremely hard.
In the last ten years 214 criminals have
been sentenced to death in England and
Wales, but only 103, or less than half
the number, were in fact executed. In
the year 1874 as many as twentysix were
sentenced to death, and sixteen of them
were executed. In the thirty nine years,
1S36-74, there have bC en- 432 criminals
executed in England and Wales, or
eleven year upon an average. The
largest number in that period was
twenty-five in 1868; the smallest was
four in 1871. There were Ill execu-
tions in the first ten years, and there
were 103 in the last ten. If we go
further back than 1886, we find very
different figures; in the three years
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