Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-06-10
II ADVANCE.
NO "a.
Items of Interest.

The best tea for weak person is
charity.
Rheumatism is always a Joint affair
and yet there is only Que party to it.
He who blames others the most is
usually the most to be blamed himself.
There are many minds which appear
to have been cut bias and made up that
way.
We often hate for one little reason,
when there are thousand why we
should love.
Not always when the poor are helped
True charity is meant
Loud talk expects its dollar back
But silence gives cent.
A Belgian army officer has invented
an instrument which, by recording the
time between the flash and the sound,
measures the distance of a discharged
cannon.
A lady was asked to join one of the
divisions of the Daughters of Temper.
ance. She replied: "This is unneces-
sary, as it is my intention to join one of
the sons in few weeks"
Sixteen hundred young women in
Cleveland are pledged not to associate
with men of tippling habits. Other
cities have large numbers of women who
have made the same vow.
There is q tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on TO fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage Of their life
Is bound in shadows and III miseries.
1t was a New Jersey wife who said
"My dear, if you can't really drink bad
coffee without abusing me, how is it that
you can always drink bad whisky with
out abusing the barkeeper ?"
A Kemper's Bluff CTexas) young
man named Thomas acquired the habit
of tossing a cooked and loaded pistol in
the air, and catching it as it fell. The
last time he caught it was just before he
died.
All the men on the school committee
of Watertown, Mass, resigned because
woman was elected a member, and
their action has been rebuked by the
election of two women on the new com
mittee.
A Cincinnati scientist, who allowed
himself to be stung once a day for three
weeks by bees, to ascertain the effect of
the bites, says that after about the tenth
time the pain and swelling were slight,
the body seeming to become inoculated
with the poison.
According to q French statistician,
more than thousand people have per
ished by fires in theaters from the be-
ginning of the nineteenth century up to
the present date, while the pecuniary
loss by the same class of confagration
amounts to about sixty million dollars.
The State central committee of the
Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Associ-
alton resolved that no political party will
be entitled to the future support of
women in State affairs unless it makes
the establishment of woman suffrage one
of its avowed objects, and also admit
women to full membership III its organi-
zation.
Seven o'clock A. M.-Boy has terri
BILE toothache can't go to school. Half
past nine A. MA solitary figure may be
seen skulking through the streets lead
ing to the creek /; perch and chubs bite.
Half past six P. M.-Scene, woodshed I;
dr1mdtjS personn, the old man, one
trunk strap, one boy. Let's draw the
curtain.
An extraordinary suicide is related by
a French journal, A well-to-do farmer
got up at two in the morning, went to
the bakehouse, filled one side of the oven
with wood, lit it, and laid himself down
lengthwise on the right side facing the
wall. When discovered the upper part
of his body was roasted the lower limbs
were uninjured, being outside of the
oven.
A wealthy Boston woman and her
daughter are in Indianapolis in search OF
young German to whom the daughter
became greatly attached. while spending
a few months in Europe with her
parents, some two years ago, and was
last heard from in Indianapolis. Ii he
is found, wedding will doubtless end
the romantic affair.
The Norwich Bulletin says: The
crowning of the May queen passed eff
very pleasantly in Killingly. We do not
remember, just now, any record of a
queen mounting her throne dressed in
waterproof and pair of rubbers, with
slice of pork done up in red flannel
around her throat; but these old histori-
cal costumes always strike one strangely
at first.
Mary X. Dallas writes: "The moment
girl has secret from her mother, or
has received letter she dare not let her
mother read, or has friend Of whom
L. at Ch in
danger. The fewer secrets that lie in
the hearts of women at any age the bet
ter. 1t is almost a test of purity. In
girlhood do nothing that, if discovered
by your father, would make you blush
A Canadian senator of French extrac-
tion has resigned his seat for peculiar
reason. He has never been willing to
trust himself on railload train, and
last winter travelled from Quebec to
Ottawa in his own sleigh to attend the
session of Parliament. The fatigucs and
hardships of the trip were SO great that
he will not encounter them again, and
so has determined to retire from public
life.
The latest nuisance in the shape of a
juvenile toy consists of leaden ball. of
the size of an English walnut, with nip
pie on its surface, on which purcussion
cap may be placed. The ball is held by
string so attached that when the ball
is dropped upon the pavement the cap
explodes. 1t is an admirable contriv
ance for frightening women and child
ren, and is becoming quite popular with
the youth of the country.