Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-10-28
Items of Interest.

A California Indian went away from
home with the avowed intention of get
ting a new wife. His old wife thereupon
killed herself and four children.
A Wisconsin editor having written of
O deceased gentleman that "sickness
had impaired his health" rival re-
joined: "Yes; it often has that effect"
"Ho, all ye dyspeptics !" says q
patent medicine advertisement. II all
the dyspepties would only hoe regularly
their number would be reduced amaz-
ingly.
Three boys in London were sentenced
to three days imprisonment and to re-
ceive seven stripes each with birch rod
for having thrown stones at trains on
the Midland railway.
The largest shoe manufactory on the
Pacific coast has lately discharged all it's
Chinese help and employed three hun
dred men, women and boys, finding
them more profitable.
Now, then, has every lady got her
sealskin9 Joyful cries of "we have"
"of course we have" etc. Well, then,
put them right away, for they have
gone out of fashion entirely. Such is
life.
1t is said to be satisfactorily demon
strated that every time wife scolds her
husband she adds wrinkle to her face,
But every time wife smiles on her hus-
band it will remove one of the old
wrinkles.
The Louisville Courier Journal says.
Mrs. Sally Beers, of Clinton county,
Mich, works farm of one hundred
acres and has nine children. If there
were few thousand such persons in the
world as Sally, more of us might escape
work.
A Binghampton IN. " man is suing
for divorce from his wife on the plea
that she has glass eye that is always
open nights, and the "aspect makes
him nervous" He coaxed her to close
it with red sealing wax, but that only
increased his terror.
The latest, simplest and most effectual
mouse trap yet thought of is an earthen
washbowl nearly half filed with water,
covered over with meal and placed on
the pantry shelf. A Pulaski IN. W
woman recently caught several of the
mischief makers in one night by this
method.
A traveller in Egypt in 1866 visited
number of Arabian schools, in almost
all of which he noticed they kept silk
cap. Upon asking why this was done
he was told that it was the severest pun
ishment that could be inflicted upon
any of the children to be compelled to
wear it.
1t was Pope who used to swear "God
mend me-" and, swearing his favorite
oath one day in the presence of little
boy, the boy looked at the diminished
and misshapen form of the great poet,
and said: "Good mend you, indeed
I think it would be good deal easier to
make new one"
It has been proposed to establish
penny banks in connection with the
public schools of New York. The candy
shops and chewing gum venders might
suffer, but good results would be OBJ
tanned. The experiment has been tried
ia London, where, in few months,
5,266 children had deposited no less
than S., 500.
Visitors to the Centennial art gallery
will be sorry to learn that the little sta
tue of "Playing Oats Cradle" was
broken by the point of parasol one
day recently, and the tiny bars of mar
BILE replaced by threads. But the lady
who unwisely nleddled with it feels
probably more sorry, as report says she
had to pay $500
General Fadeeff, a Russian, is OF
opinion that Germany will not willingly
expose her flank to Russia when she
could protect it by raising up a Polish
state between herself and her great
enemy on the north and east. 1t would
suit Germany marvelously, moreover,
to have an independent Poland, which,
in its movement toward the east, it
might colonize with it's superfuous
population.
A mercantile agency in Toronto pro-
fessed to make, through it's system OF
espionage, correct statement OF the
status of o retail dealer. The presumed
knowledge was sold to wholesale deal
er, who sold to the retailer on the pur-
chased hypothesis that he would receive
the money for his goods. The retailer
abscopded, and the wholesaler recover
ed 1924 at law from the mercantile
agency, and higher court has affirmed
the Judgment.
Boroda Bewa, Bengalee woman,
finding it more easy to run away than
to pay her arrears of rent, concealed
herself in the house of friend. Her
retreat being discovered, she was seized
by her creditor, who dragged her un-
questioned through the streets of the
suburb to his own house. He applied
red-hot brass ladle to her cheeks, shoul-
ders, knees, back and thighs This
was done in the presence of four wit
nesses, also his tenants, who made no
| affort tn interfere