Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-07-29
IN ADVANCE.
NO. 81.
Items of Interest.

Moving for a new trial-Courting
a second wife.
Dignity is expensive, and without
other good qualities is not particularly
profitable.
The true gentleman needs no placard
to announce his breeding, the ll-bred
man still less.
There we're $50 Piutes and ShoshOnes
in the procession in Austin, New, on
the fourth of July.
Niagara Falls has been recommended
by Archbishop Lynch of Toronto as a
place of religious pilgrimage.
Very few men can be wholly wrong.
The clock that does not go at all Is right
twice every twenty-four hours.
The present number of churches in
London is 802, an increase of sixteen the
past year. The clergy have increased
from 1875 to LAS.
Several Baltimore physicians say that
many diseases are caused by soap, the
grease for which is obtained from un-
healthy animals.
To feed sparingly and irregulally is to
lose all you give to fowls but to study
into their wants and anticipate them Is
to render them very profitable.
"Marie! what's that strange noise at
the front gate }" Goats, sir" Seats
Well, when 1 was young cats didn't
wear stovepipe hats and smoke cigars.
"Times arc changed, sir."
Rice culture in Louisiana employs
10000 people, on 1900 plantations;
produces q crop worth So, 3,O00,0 900, and
develops business to the extent OF $lO,-
900, 900.
Grasshoppers in Minnesota are said to
be numerously assailed by parasites that
affix eggs to their bodies, and from tho
eggs come grubs that bore into them
with fatal effect.
On Governors island there is the grave
of soldier who served his country forty
years in the hope of achieving a lieu
tenancy, and died with his moderate
ambition unappeased.
In Java fruit tree is planted on the
birth of each child; in Biscay land
owner is obliged to put down two plants
for every tree he fells; in Japan every
tree cut down must bo replaced by an
other.
Thank Heaven, said the San Francisco
NeaUS Letter on the morning OF the
fourth, there is no one i'll our city SO
poor or humble but that he can help
hold down O Chinaman while cannon
cracker is set off in his mouth.
A motion in the British House of
Commons to abolish fogging III the
navy has been negatived by 12O against
sixty-t In 1874, only eight out OF
30, 600 seamen were punished with the
cat, which is now only used III extreme
misconduct.
In the PyreEees the following notice
is posted in a hotel: "All travellers will
be entitled, gratis, to bath with trlc-
tion and special lotions. These lotions
will guarantee the traveller perfect I'M
munity from the numerous insects which
infest the hotel"
Deacon Parkinson remarked IN
prayer meeting in Carson, New, that he
! knew young boys who went to saloons
| where their fathers had credit, got bot
ties filed with whisky, ostensibly for
theparents, and got drunk on the liquor
themselves. He suggested earnest
prayers for those boys.
Three boys, the eldest nine years old,
went strawberrying near Plattsburgh,
NY. Not returning at night, a search
was begun, and their dead bodies were
found completely buried in a sandbank'
A half filled dish of strawberries gave
the clew to their whereabouts. 1t IS sup
posed they were hunting swallows nests
when the bank gave way.