Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-03-25
Items Of Interest.

Wisconsin refuses to tax church pro-
perty.
In 1872, at the Presidential election,
Grant received 3,597,09 votes and
Greeley 1884, ,079.
There is a man in New Hampshire
who sends fourteen of his children to
the same school. The rest are too small
to go.
A fashionable young lady of Chicago
was heard to remark that she hadn't got
anything new this winter, and didn't ex-
pect to get much "until after father
fails"
J. ". Hiff has a cattle ranch in
northern Colorado 156 miles long, upon
which &c, 1000 head are maintained. He
will this year stock to the amount OF
$4,000
The physician who learned next day
that the medicines he prescribed had not
been taken and that the patient was i'm
proved, upbraided the latter as "un-
worthy Of being an invalid"
The abbey and palace of Holyrood,
with its precincts, affords sanctuary to
the poor debtor of Scotland. There he
is secure from the bailiff and beyond the
reach of any process of law.
An Indiana farmer don'tpay any tolls.
He shoots the gatekeeper, and jogs right
along. They have tried him twice, but
he gets clear, since one OF his auntS
cousins used to act "highty-ike."
That was dreadful threat of an ex-
cited pugilist "I'll twist you around
your own throat until there's nothing
left of you but the ends of your shirt
collar sticking out of your eyes !"
Speaking of the debt of the Uni ed
States gentleman remarks that few
but persons realize the vastness of a
billion of dollars. There have not been
billion of minutes since Christ's time.
A Philadelphia firm estimates its
sales of flags on the twenty-frst of
February at $500 an hour and it was
also estimated that 100000 worth of
stars and stripes foated in the city on
Washington's birthday.
I once asked that scholarly Indian,
DR.. Peter Wilson, what the Indians, un-
educated and without knowledge of
reading, did with themselves in the eve
ming. "Oh," said he, "they stay
around the fire and tell stories"
Liverpool is the most densely popu,
lated town in Great Britain, having 99.1
inhabitants to an acre; Glasgow comes
next, with 88.1; then follow Manches-
ter, with 831; Edinburgh, with sos;
Nottingham, with 465; and London,
with 45.7.
Chief Justice Ryan, of Wisconsin, de-
cides that women cannot become law
yers in that State, and he says that he is
glad of it, because "the bar is not the
place for the exercise of woman's Pc
culiar qualities or for the preservation
of her purity"
The other day noted belle rushed ex-
citedly into the house of a friend to
exhibit $175 silk dress she had just
purchased; and incidentally mentioned,
Just before her departure, that her
father had failed the day previous and
shut up his store.
Behind every troe, box, barrel and
post in village is located either boy
or man, and when wheel comes off
wagon, or horse breaks strap, or
pane of glass is broken, or a man takes
crowbar to fix broken hayging, this
vast army is precipitated upon the scene
at once.
The father of all newspapers is the
venerable Pekin Gazette, which is over
200 years old. 1t is ten-page paper,
with a yellow cover has no stories, no
"ads.," no marriage or death notices,
no editorials, no subscribers. 1t simply
contains the official notices of the gov
ernment.
The independence was the first steam
boat to make voyage from Cincinnati
to New Orleans, consuming eight
months in her downward and upward
trips. She was furnished with rudeIy
constructed engine, and was pressed
into service by Gen. Jackson, COM
mander of the American forces, to assist
in the battle of New Orleans.
Frank and Willie were discussing
which were the most economical, men
or women, and Frank seemed to be get
ting the best of the argument, when
Willie suddenly brought the debate to a
close by saying: Zone thing know,
my father can make piece of butter go
over more'n twice as large piece of
bread for me as my mother can.
Parton was not first man who married
his wifes daughter. Some fifty years
since, "Elder Anderson" we'll known
Baptist preacher in Connecticut, married
widow named Douglass, with two chill
dren--a boy and girl. When she died
he married the daughter, by whom he
had son, whose father was his grand
father and whose mother was his sister.
A salesman of large wholesale house
was spending o night at hotel. Having
passed a sleepless night from causes
which are not unfrequent in some hotels,
he appeared at the Office early in the
morning, and ordered horse and har-
ness. On being asked by the polite
clerk if he did not desirea wagon, he re-
piled: "No; on getting up this morn
ing / found my bed was little buggy,
and thought would like to take ride
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