Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-06-17
IN ADVANCE.
NO. 25.
Items of Interest,

Items Oh interest.
The paying admissions to the Centen-
NAL on Decoration day numbered A.
Ill.
There are 10000 children living on
boats in England, who receive no edu-
cation.
President Grant, it is said, expects to
make tour of the world at the close of
his term of Office. rf
Tennessee has forty cotton mills, en-
ploying 56.358 spindles, and consuming
IA, 443 bales of cotton.
The woman of work sweeps everything
before her; the woman of fashion sweeps
everything behind her. ....
During the recent drought in Jamaica
water was so scarce that it fetched eight
cen shillings puncheon.
According to the new directory, San
Francisco has now population of 272,-
345 souls, gain of $4,000 during the
last year.
In the second week of March there
were sc, ,808 paupers in London, of whom
36, 915 were in warehouses;, and As, 1893
received outdoor relief. ........+.
A bill has been introduced into the
Texas Legislature declaring drunkenness
to be misconduct, and making it pun
ishable by fine of $100.
The Benedictine monks are to estab
lish a monastery at Fort Augustus, In
verness-shire, Scotland, after an absence
of three hundred years. 1'.'
The exports of France to England in
the first three months of the current
year amounted to $4,000, 900; those of
Great Britain to France, SIS, 100000.
In Egypt three out of five children die
before reaching the age of two years.
This is about the rate of mortality among
Presidential candidates in the United
States this year.
The governor of Texas has issued
proclamation revoking all immigration
agencies heretofore established, as the
new constitution does not recognize any
bureau of that kind.
In Connecticut, last year, there were
1866 divorces to 1886 marriages, with an
average of about $50 divorces year for
the last fifteen years, the prevailing
cause being "general misconduct"
In Exeter, England, a policeman
wanted to arrest girl, but she prefer
red the canal to her misery, and jump
ed. He leaped after to save her, but
she clung fast to him, and both were
drowned.
eff there is anybody under the canis-
ter of heaven that have in utter excre-
scence," says Mrs. Partington, SIT is the
slanderer, going about like boy con-
structor, circulating his colonel upon
honest folks"
Intelligent housemaid-"Oh, please
miss, there was a young gentleman call
ed when you was out. He didn't leave
no card, miss, but [ can show you who he
is, because there's three of his photo
graphs in your album"
A bar of gold, valued at 81, 900, was
| carelessly thrown away with the ashes of
the San Francisco mint, and the "fnd
was picked up by seven-year- old boy,
from whom the officials of the coin shop
have been endeavoring to reclaim it
without making the circumstance OF the
loss known to the police.
A clergyman created hearty sensa-
tion while speaking in behalf of most
worthy object. Several people quietly
folded their tents and decamped. The
minister paused long enough to say
"We are not going to take up collec-
tion; don't be in hurry" It is need
less to add that no others went out be-
fore the close of the service.
Nothing" said a recent writer, "can
form more delightful study for the
physiognomist than the light of hope
and expectancy on the countenance of a
maiden awaiting the coming of her be-
loved. Pshaw The man who wrote
that should just see the expression on a
New Jersey potato bugs visage as he
sits on clump of dirt watching for
the first sign of the new crop to come
up.
The carpenter may look with pride
upon the technology of his trade, for it
is used everywhere. To say nothing
of old saws, we have heard of case
where a lawyer split hair, shaved a
note, got up case, made an entry,
framed an Indictment, challenged the
jury panel, put twelve of them in a
box, bailed witness, hammered the
Judge and bored the whole court. And
what adze to his offense he chissled his
client, and turned carpenter himself.
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