Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-05-13
IN ADVANCE.
NO. 20.
Items of Interest.

for it.
The estimated income of the parochial
clergy of England and Wales is
$23, 100000.
The latest thing from the Black Hills
the man who had money enough to
get back again.
A shipment of twenty-five boxes of
Chinamen's bones was recently made at
San Francisco for China.
The sheriff of Perquimans county, N.
c., weighs 40 pounds. When pris-
oner is refractory he sits down on him.
How many thousand parents ought to
be whipped every day for doing exactly
what they would whip their children for1
This is the season of the year when
man wonders whether he will have his
hair cut or wait till he won't catch cold.
The man who feels the meanest is he
who with the new hat on his head tries
to keep the old one out of sight under
his coat.
John Murray sat in a window in Balti-
more, to cut his toe nails, fell out, stuck
the knife blade into his side, and bled to
death.
A man who never has more than dol
lar about his person at one time com
plains that silver coin substituted for
currency will be too bulky.
A fashion journal says "waists are to
be longer this year )" but as long
as they are not broader, young men with
short arms will manage to get around
them.
Marshal MacMahon has consented to
pardon those Communists condemned
for their political course who have ex-
hibited good behavior in the penal
colonies.
London refuses to name one of her
streets after Washington, but who cares9
America has sixty towns, $50 parks, 200
streets, and LOO hotels and saloons
named after him.
A fair took place at Munich in which
636 different species of fowl, 337 of
marked down. Carrier pigeons were
held at from SO to $40.
A San Francisco millionaire has car
peted the stalls in his stable, and would
like it if his horses would sleep on $50
bedsteads. There's only step between
the horse and the mule.
A good many hard feelings would per-
haps be avoided if you could conquer
yourself sufficiently to step inside the
door when you see your neighbor go
down on banana peel.
A Tennessee widow had an old mule
which was likely to die. She cut his
throat, laid the sin to unknown enemies,
and public subscription purchased her
the incest, sleekest mule in town.
The king of Burmah has ordered the
courts and public offices to be closed for
forty days, during which time the cere-
mony of boring holes in the ears of the
princesses will be performed.
Habey, a candidate for senator in
Paris, was nominated as a representative
of poor workingmen; but, much to the
annoyance of his supporters, the dis
covery has been made that he owns prop
erty worth $50, 900 francs.
A woman near Bolton, England, sold
some impure milk from her farm, and
the result was violent outbreak of
typhoid and milk poisoning, from which
twenty people died, the woman who
owned the farm among the number.
At Yen>ping, China, placards melting
the populace against foreigners are post
ed on the walls of the city, and flags
bearing this inscription, "expel and de-
stroy the foreign barbarians," are flying
in prominent localities.
Because a man in Portland, Oregon,
deemed it necessary for the preservation
of his authority at home to fog his wife,
all the women in the vicinity met III
council, passed resolutions, and then
going to his house, whaled him until he
became insensible.
In China, where labor is cheap, a
Chinaman will sit all day long clinking
gold pieces in leather bag. BY con-
stant process of attrition the leather be-
comes filed with gold dust, which,
when collected, affords him fair remu-
neration for his days work.
A young lady at Newark, Ia, has re-
covered damages from tie estate OF a
suitor who committed suicide upon
being called upon to fulfill his promise
to marry her. The court held that the
suicidal act under the circumstances was
q deliberate breach of promise for
which his estate might be held liable.
There was no plea of insanity.
A traveller overtaking an old Presby-
terian minister, whose nag was much
fatigued, quizzed the old gentleman
upon his "turn out" GA nice horse
yours, doctor, very valuable beast that
but what makes him wag his tail so,
doctor9" d" Why, as YOU have asked
me I will tell you. 1t is for the same
reason that your tongue wags so-a sort
of natural weakness"
A writer in an agricultural paper
claims that there is death in dishcloth.
Perhaps they don't know how to cook
them at his house. We never ate
dishcloth, but we should think that if
they were soaked twenty-four hours be-
fore boiling, and carefully scraped and
drawn with butter before placing on the
table, they would be every bit as healthy
and palatable as tripe.
A French farmer, near Bordeaux, to
protect his crops from the frost, recent
ly placed four large heaps of wood and
dried leaves, saturated with oil, in four
acre lot and set fire to them. They pro-
duced a thick, black smoke, which hung
over the ground like mist, and the
| temperature became two or three degrees
higher than adjoining fields. The cost
was estimated at seven cents an hour for
each acre.
The restaurant charges in the Centen
NAL grounds will not be allowed to be
exorbitant, and man will be able to get
| 90 rood q dinnar for S1 aa Ia can get