Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-09-02
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In Tennessee villages spring Chickens
are eight cents apiece.
Don't attempt to punish all your
enemies at once. You can't do large
business with a small capital.
The st. Lawrence is the only river in
the world which enjoys the symmetry of
having a head larger than its mouth.
Rockport, Mass, appropriates the
proceeds Of her tax on dogs to the pur-
chase Of books for her public library.
"Biddy, did you put an egg in the
coffee to settle it2" Yes, mum; put in
four. They were so bad had to use
four of them"
A movement is on foot to have q gen.
eral review of Scotch volunteers in Ed
inburgh. A muster of from 10000 to
10000 is expected.
The young man who gets up early
these cool, delicious mornings to prac-
tice on the organ has large circle of
acquaintances but no friends.
A law has been passed in Germany
forbidding the construction of school
rooms with windows on opposite sides
of the room. 1t is said to be proven
that rooms so lighted are injurious to
the eyes.
The Council Bluffs Qowa) NOnpareI
has won the prize for cat stories. 1t
tells of one that entered an apothecarys
store, selected the box containing cat
nip, tore the paper of it open and com
menced eating.
In the presence of Col. Benton, U. s.
A., Gen. Franklin, DR.. Gatling, and others,
one of the improved rapid firing Gatling
guns was recently fired at the rate of
forty shots a second, or 2, 400 per minute.
The gun is ton barrel, forty-ive caliber.
The Southern economical problem is
concerning the reduction of acreage in
planting cotton. BY a general assent
this year fewer acres were planted than
usual, but the use of guano has, in many
places, made the crop as heavy as it was
before.
1t is difficult to explain the workings of
the youthful mind. A boy who will lis
ten indifferently to the sublimest truths
of theology will be reused to the aeutest
interest by the progress of caterpillar
over the collar of the bald headed man
in the pew in front of him.
"May I leave few tracts ?" asked a
travelling quack doctor of lady who
responded to his knock. "Leave some
tracks? Certainly you may" said she;
looking at him bonignly over her spec
tacles; "loave them with the heel to-
ward the door, if you please"
Tho spectacle of man with his fifth
bride listening to the funeral sermon
of his fourth wife was witnessed at
Bangor recently. Number four died of
malignant disease, and there were no
funeral services. He Immediately ly got
another wife, aud invited her to attend
the funeral sermon of the dear departed.
A rural female beauty alighted from
the stage coach in front of a hotel tho
other day, when piece of ribbon de-
tached itself from her bonnet and fell
into the bottom of the carriage. "You
have left your bow behind" said a lady
passenger. "No, amt; he's gone a.
:fshing," innocently replied the rustic
William B. Hunt, of Iowa, is the
champion rascal. He has wife and
child in nearly every considerable town
in the United States east of Kansas. His
latest are at Portland, Me. He marries
girl. remains with her for two days,
and leaves. His principal occupation is
that of hotel clerk, and he is very
handsome.
A hint for summer hotel keepers. A
gentleman comes down stairs i'll the
morning after battle with the bugs, in
which he comes off second best. This
is terrible-that bed was full of bugs.
Certainly" replies the clerk, suavely.
"What do you mean?' 1T will be
fifty cents a dqy extra for chambers
without bugs"
The Swedes have an ingenious way of
teaching geography in their schools
It consists of an outline map of Sweden,
drawn upon o large blackboard. At the
location of each city and town is a hole
in the board, and little blocks with pins
attached, each containing the name of a
city, are stuck in rows on the side of
the board. The pupil reconstructs the
map by putting each block in its appro-
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