Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-08-12
Items Of Interest.

A man never really understands the
doctrine of total depravity till he has
worn pair of white pantaloons to pic.
mic, and sat down on plate of custard
pie.
A treatment for lung and blood dis
eases, practiced in Milan, Italy, con-
sists in putting the patient into an
apartment containing compressed, medi.
Gated air.
Lieut.. Craycroft, the only surviving
member of one of the companies exter-
minated with Custer, happened to be in
Kentucky at the time of the massacre
purchasing horses for the regiment.
What ails this nation is want of conf
dence; and it suggests a train of painful
reflections to see mother of family of
religious boys so scrupulously particular
in locking the pantry door after her.
"Dia she not return your loveP" in
quired sympathizing friend of young
man who intimated that he had had
some difficulty with his sweetheart.
Yes, she returned it, and that is ex-
actIy what the trouble is. She said she
didn't want it. )"
Hermann, the magician, was natural
lied in Boston the other day. While
taking out his papers he pleaded pow
erty, and then drew out SIS note from
the city clerk vest and presented it in
payment of his fee, much to that Off
GERS Amusement.
A subterranean forest bed has been
discovered iu London, consisting of
peat, with trunks of trees, most of them
standing. All are of species still found
in Britain, the oak, alder and willow be-
ing abundant In the peat are found
bones of the great fossil OK.
"Ugh! I'll tell you what it is, Jones,
if there were burglars in my house, and
I knew it, by jirgo, I'd " Well,
Smith, what would you do9" "Id do
whatever they required of me. I never
had my own way in that house yet, and
it's too late to commence now-yes, too
late!" .......,-
Only woman's hair Who has not
some time in his life picked such a
golden thread from his best coat collar
and felt his heart beat quicker for it ?
Or gazed upon tress laid away in some
nook and not felt the influence of tender
memories Only q woman's hair
And yet we do not like it in the butter.
A mother of four children in New Or
leans has been convicted of regularly
sending them out to steal. By practice
they became very expert, and the profit
of their thieving enabled the woman to
buy house and live comfortably. She
devoted herself to the sale of the stolen
articles and the general direction of the
children.
A young clergyman, modest almost to
bashfulness, was once asked by coun-
try apothecary, of contrary character,
in public and crowded assembly, and
in tone of voice sufficient to catch the
attention of the whole company: How
happened it that the patriarchs lived to
such extreme old age9" To which ques-
tion the clergyman replied perhaps
they took no physic. "
A Michigan paper says that o Detroit
man has a piece of bark from tree
that grew on the farm of an uncle whose
grandfather's brother-in-law started with
Gen. Jackson to the battle OF New Or
leans, but was detained by an attack of
cholera morbus, and he would send that
to the Centennial Exposition If he had
any adequate assurance that he would
ever get it back again. ...
Benin & Wagner, in their annual re-
view of the population of the globe,
state that Europe has an areaof 2, 700, 900
square miles, and population of 3O3,-
600, 900. Asia, 100000 square miles;
population, 799, 100000. Africa, 8,70O,-
600 square miles; population, 2O6, ,0CO,-
600. America, IL, 100000 square miles;
population, S4,00O,00O. Australia and
Polynesia, $500, 900 square miles; popu'
lation, 100000.