Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-08-05
IN ADVANCE.
NO. 32.
Items of Interest.


Grasshoppers threaten to become a
greater pest in Alabama this year than
last.
Sunfowers and calamus neutralize
the effects of marshes in chills and fever
districts.
A Detroit man whipped his wife be-
cause the baby did not take first prize at
baby show.
Two hundred tons of ice are manufac-
tured daily in New Orleans by the aqua
ammonia process.
Before attempting to pour oil on the
troubled waters be sure that you uhave the
right kind of oil.
Salt Lake papers say that 10, 600 miners
have left Utah this season to assist in the
San Juan excitement.
How cool and nice it would be to fall
down well i Provided you are careful
not to kick the bucket
George Eliot says that "what we see
exclusively we are apt to see with some
mistake of proportions"
+ A modern essayist defines "gossip"
to be the "putting of two and two TO-
gether and making five of them"
Two San Francisco butchers own 700,-
900 acres of land and employ 1000 men.
Both these capitalists are Germans.
An Indiana lady sent letter to her
brother in California, telling him that
the family had smallpox, and in few
days he had it, too.
In 1907, while Lewis and Clark we're
crossing the Rocky mountains, a number
of Indians followed them for several
days in order to restore some articles
that they had lost.
A wife in San Jose, CAL, became wild
ly jealous of her husband, and killed her.
self, which left the husband free to mar
ry the woman who caused the jealousy,
and he did it within three months.
Troy papers say that the firing of
cannon on the night of July Sd deafened
the horses of Trojan hook and ladder
company, and when the alarm sounds
the horses have to be led to their places.
The number of visitors to the Cenien-
NAL Exhibition since the opening to July
18th, aggregates 1854, ,074. and the cash
receipts $743, ,576.50. The number of
deadhead " or non-paying visitors is,
therefore, 766,921.
One of the fruits of the Centennial
Exhibition will be that you can buy a
dozen different makes of sewing ma
chimes next year, and each one will have
received the first premium for excel
lence, light running, and such.
In this matter of preserving health by
eating at regular hours, it is interesting
to note that vigorous old Iowa tramp
of ninety years has lived for the past
thirty-five years of his time entirely on
catch meals.
A gentleman of Jersey City, N. j.,
has taken the fourth of July decorations
from his house and sealed them in
packet, which is to be opened by his de-
scendants in order that the same decora-
tions may be used by them in 1916.
A couple of thieves entered the house
of Mrs Wright, q poor widow, near
Knoxville, and finding nothing of value
there, went into the yard, killed her only
COW, stripped it of its skin, and eursing
the woman for being poor, took the hide
to Knoxville and sold it to tanner.
At the closing of concert, while a
young man was struggling with his cane,
overcoat, opera glass, and his young
lady's fan, all of which he was trying to
retain on his lap, suspicious looking
black bottle fell on the floor with thud.
"There," he exclaimed to his compan-
ion, shall lose my cough medicine" "
That was presence of mind for you.
The we'll known French earthenware
manufacturer, Emile Collinot, has just
discovered new mode of decoration for
private dwellings and public buildings.
Instead of applying the decorated faience
to the wall he proposes enameling the
stone itself by putting up a light scaifold
and using the blowpipe instead of tho
oven. The advantages of the scheme
are principally cheapness and durability,
A new grape fungus, which first ap-
pears on the leaves of the grapevine IN
the form of minute yellow spot, was
described by DR.. Engelmann at recent
meeting of the st. Louis Academy OF
Science. 1t makes its appearance just
before and during the towering period,
as far asknown attacking only the leaves,
or rarely the petioles and peduncles. 1t
kills the leaves and thus cripples the
plant, and attacks all varieties lndls-
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