Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-02-12
Facts and Fancies.

There is said to be movement on
foot for the revival of the Whig party.
A Montreal medical student helped to
dissect his grandmother before he knew
who it was.
The four hundredth anniversary of
the discovery of America will be here in
fifteen years.
Grace was said in fourteen different
languages at recent dinner of London
missionaries.
The New York Sun is sure that James
Gordon Bemet, Jr., is going to be mar
ried this time.
Candidates for the Presidency have
but five months in which to work up
their "claims."
The English volunteer force now con-
sists of 23S, ,251 rank and file, of whom
1853, 700 are efficient.
The new Senator from Iowa first won
distinction by wearing red flannel
shirt at dinner party.
A woman dictates before marriage, in
order that she may have an appetite for
submission afterwards.
The London Lancet says that the
habit of secret drunkenness is becoming
very common among the boys at the
English public schools.
A Tallahassee monkey displaced as a
household pet by baby, savagely at
tackled the child in its cradle, and in
iured it dangerously by biting and
scratching.
John Childs failed inan attempt to rob
the Galveston bank in which he was en-
ployed. Then he failed in an attempt
to kill himself. His attempt to get into
the State prison will end in success.
For city of over one hundred thou
sand inhabitants, Milwaukee certainly
has right to congratulate itself that
there was not single case on the crimi-
nal calendar of the municipal court for
the January term.
The public baths and washhouses,
which have for years been established in
some of the most populous parishes of
London, ha, e proved such great boon
to poor families, especially in winter,
that they are being introduced by the
Yestries in most of the other parishes.
Gen. George W. Cole, who made him
self widely known by killing L. H. His
cock in Albany in 1867, is dead. After
his acquittal he enlisted in the army,
serving until year ago, when he began
practice as physician in New Mexico.
The insanity which the jury decided was
the cause of his crime never showed it.
self afterward.
Signs whereby you may know an
army veteran He prefers a tin cup to
a china one; he drinks out of the spout
of the water pitcher when nobody is
looking; he will smoke in bed despite
his mothers warnings; he never hears
band play without Strengthening himself
up; and he has a fine eye for the soft
side OF corn field.
Turkey has fifteen immense ships Of
war, which cost nearly 80, ,000,0 900 apiece.
They lie idle in the Bosphorus all sum
mer, their only use being to fire salutes
every Friday when the sultan goes to
mosque. They never go to sea, and if
they did they would be likely tofounder
in the first gale, for they are very I'M
wieldly, and the Turks are miserable
sailors.
The Pail Mall Gazette, in alluding to
the recent destruction of property by
hurricane in the island of Manila, re-
minds its readers that London cannot
claim immunity from similar disasters,
having in November, 1773, been visited
by storm which caused damage of
92, 900, 900 to the metropolis, and tore
up II, 900 trees by the roots in the county
of Kent.
Two little children, boy and girl,
were playing on bridge in Danville,
Ky. The girl fell into the stream, and
the boy, running to the other side of the
low bridge, caught her by the hair as
she foated along and pulled her out.
"Gol ding YER" she said, after getting
the water out of her mouth and catch
ing breath, "what'd yer pull my hair
forp Yer alters running on me, yer
big lubber."