Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-09-16
Items of Interest.

A patent has been granted to a Balti-
more man for "an improvement in oys-
ters."
The Japanese have arranged for an
international exposition, to take place
shortly after that of France has closed.
England has waged forty-nine wars
since 1900; France, thirty-eight; Rus
sia. twenty two; Austria, twelve; and
Prussia eight
A Western man moves that the
hickory tree be made an emblem of the
United States, as the oak is of England
and the laurel of Greece,
Jessie Cleveland, a girl seventeen
years of age, of San Francisco, Cal, was
sent to the county Jail for seventy-fve
days as common drunkard.
"Did you see wolf and dog go by
here ?" asked hunter of u woodchop-
per. "Yaas, did" "Well, how was
they-about nip and tuck2" "Not
quite, mister; the dog was about six
lengths ahead"
A farmer the other day wrote to a
New York merchant, asking how the
formers son was getting along, and
where he slept nights. The merchant
replied A.: He sleeps in the store in the
daytime. don't know where he sleeps
nights"
There is a cavern near Decorah, Iowa,
called the ice cave. 1t is two hundred
feet deep, and in the summer the water
which drips from the rocks freezes it
falls. The strange thing is that in win
ter no ice forms in the cave, even that
of summer disappearing.
In Arkansas man was sentenced to
be hanged, but all the carpenters in the
neighborhood refused to build the scat
fold. AS the condemned man was him
self carpenter by trade, the sheriff
tried to induce him to put up gallows,
but he steadfastly declared that he'd be
hanged if he would.
The biggest corn story of the season
comes from Mount Carmel, Ill, where,
it is asserted, on the farm of VIM. John
son is stock of corn the top of which
is forty feet from the ground. There
are two ears of corn growing upon it at
the distance of thirty odd feet from the
level OF the surrounding country.
A Maine minister, advertising for
lost pocketbook containing IS, said 4:
The person who has it knows whose it
is, because my name is in it, and if
honest will return it. If not, he will, of
course, keep it, and accept my advice to
use the money for the purchase of
a stool OF repentance that is charged
with ignitible birthstone.
When Mrs. Patience Remington, of
North Smithfeld, Conn, celebrated her
ninety fifth birthday recently, her three
Observation-Disclosures years old, were
present When they were born their
father was offered $10O to name them
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, but his pa
triotism was greater than his avarice,
and he named them Washington, Jeffer-
son end Monroe.
Wood pavements have better name
for durability in London than in this
country. The city engineer reports that
after being treated with asphalt. which
keeps out the surface water, wood is one
of the most durable pavements. 1t is
cheaply laid, noiseless, smooth and elas-
tic. Before a horse falls he may be ex
pected to travel on granite 1872 miles, on
asphalt 19l miles, on wood 446 miles.
|. A convict who escaped from a North
Carolina jail stopped at farmhouse and
told the inmates that he was an officer Ill
pursuit of fugitive. and had put on
the prison dress in order to deceive him.
He asked for a revolver and got it. At
another place, by telling the same lie, he
borrowed horse. Several bloodhounds
overlook him, but he shot them. Yet,
after all his good luck, he was captured.
A Chattanooga farmers house was
robbed. Next morning stranger called
and said that he was one of the robbers,
and he showed locket. The farmer
said that he valued the locket because it
mad been worn by dear child. " Here
it is" said the robber, seemingly affect
ed. "Let me make restitution. Here
are 800 for your little son." He handed
the farmer counterfeit $50 bill and re-
ceived $50 change.
The English court of chancery budget
for 1S74-75 is an exceedingly interesting
document. The enormous sums admin
istered by the court are annually increas-
ing. The assets in cash and securities
were e37, 900, 900, mostly in three per
cent. securities and bank STOCKS. The
American securities amounted to $780,
600. Among the curious accounts is a
long array of boxes with jewelry, etc,
lodged for greater security in the vaults
of the Bank of England.
During his recent stay at Ischl the
emperor of Austria saved the child of q
poor woman from a violent death. AS
he was passing through the Rettenbach
gorges, boy of four years old fell over
precipice, and his clothes having
caught on projecting branch, was sus-
pended over torrent some fifty feet
below, The emperor, whose proficiency
in all athletic sports is well known,
jumped across the precipice, freed the
boy from his perilous position, and
took him back to his mother.
The Virginia way to cook chicken is
The fowl to be killed, plucked and evils
cerated in the shortest possible time; on
no account is it to be washed, but 1t
must be wiped dry with clean napkin
and cut into six parts-the breast, the
two wings, ,he back and the two legs.
The whole is then to be thrown into a
fryingpan with butter, cream, mush
(small cakes of Indian meal dough-; the
whole to be done before the flesh loses
its natural heat, and the fryingpan and
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