Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-09-30
NO. 40.
Items OF Interest.


ioned women with wide mouths.
A San Francisco man died of heart
disease at the wedding of his daughter.
There is law in Wisconsin that when
man dies without heirs his property
goes to the State school fund.
Speaking of politician, an exchange
says that his mouth was put on warm
and all ran over the lower part of his face
before it set.
An epitaph in the old churchyard at
Bedlington, reads:
Poems and epitaphs are but stuff
Here lies Robert Barass that's enough.
The man whosent his to New YORK
to become clerk now writes asking the
merchant whether there is anything
in the boy" "Yes," replies the mer-
chant, "iust after he has been to a
saloon"
An Arkansas man thoughtlessly set
some spring guns in his poultry yard,
and the next morning in the rising sun
he rubbed his spectacles and stared in
speechless amazement at eighteen candi-
dates sitting on the front fence picking
bird shot out of their thirty-six legs.
Coachman," said an outside passen-
ger to one who was driving at furious
rate over one of the most mountainous
roads in the north of Scotland, have
you no consideration for our lives and
limbs ?" "What are your lives and
limbs to me ?" was the reply. "I'm be-
hind time !''
A crazy man was tied fast in wagon
for transportation to Blountville, Ky.
He yelled so loudly that the frightened
horses ran away, throwing out the two
keepers and breaking an arm of each.
Then the lunatic seized the reins, con-
trolled the horses, drove alone to the
asylum, and delivered himself up.
A London woman with babe in her
arms provoked her husband so much
that he SHE'D knife at her. It killed
the baby, entering two inches deep into
the head. The jury acquitted the
father by rendering a verdict Of "Acci-
dental death, and severely repremand-
ed the mother for having aggravated her
husband.
A boy said to his mother the other
morning: " Ma, I had the beautifulest
dream last nioht you ever saw. L dreamT
that l wouldn't go to school, and that
you went out into the yard and cut
good long switch but just as You were
going to give me an awful dressin' the
world came to an end Didn't l get off
easy, though"
A northern Iowa farmer offered
tramp his daughter and half his farm
for three days work in the harvest field.
The tramp wavered little at first, but
then the color of the girls eyes didn't
suit, and he thought the farm laid a
little too low, SO he declined the propo-
sition, stole hame strap and went on
his workless way.
The number of entries in the dog show
at the Centennial is as follows A.: Ameri-
can, $751; Canadian, Is; English and
Irish exhibitors, 26 ; making total of
722. The large majority of these are
imported, or domestic English and Irish
settlers bred out of celebrated kennels,
Gordon settlers, and pointers over and
under fifty pounds weight.
It was evening. Three of them were
killing q cat. One of them held Ian
tern, another held the cat, and the third
iammed the pistol into the cats ear and
fired, shooting the man in the hand who
held the cat, and the one with the Ian
tern was wounded in the arm, The cat
left when it saw how matters stood, and
that ill-feeling was engendered.
"And I further agree that will re-
sign my position and withdraw from said
schools whenever requested by said
board of education or the superinten-
dent of said schools, and will ask for no
reason why such request was made"
Such an agreement is signed by every
teacher in the public schools of Cairo,
ILL.,, the idea being to help discipline.
During recent improvements of a jail
at New Haven, Conn, there was found
between the rear walls of two tiers of
cells wire, firmly secured, one hundred
and fifty feet long. Attached to 1t was
a pan, which was evidently used for car
rying articles from cell to cell, or else as
a kind of gong to convey warnings of
the approach Of the iailer or his assist
ants.
"I always did love to gaze on the
children in their sports" said Potter,
as he pensively contemplated crowd OF
urchins 81 am carried back to =
Just then the baseball came ever his
way and tried to get into his vest pocket
and doubled him up. When his breath
came back he shouted You young
ragamuffin, you, if / catch you playing
ball on the street again I'll get the police
after you"
An old gentleman went out to shoot
partridges, accompanied by his son.
The gun was charged halfway up to the
muzzle, and when at last the old gentle
man started some birds, he took rest
and blazed away, expecting to see some
fall, of course but not so did it hap
pen, for the gun recoiled with SO much
force as to "kick" him over. The old
man got up, and while rubbing the
sparks out of his eyes, inquired of his
son Dick, did I point the right end
of the gun to the birds ?"