Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-12-09
Items OF Interest.

A boy who claims to have been over
worked in the st. Louis house of refuge
has sued for $50, 900 damages.
A popular actress who died recently
left an unprotected husband without
any visible means of support.
The entire coffee crop of the world in
1876 was 900, COO, 900 pounds, of which
the United States imported full third
part.
"The pet of wealthy parents" has
| Just been sent to the Missouri peni.
tentiary for ten years. They left him
$1,000,
A true picture of despair-a pig
reaching through hole in the fence to
get cabbage that lies a few inches be-
yond his reach.
Something to look forward to.-Every
plain girl has one consolation-though
not pretty young lady, she will (if she
lives) be pretty old one.
You can never tell what boy will do
within an hour after you lose sight of
him, but you can safely bet he will not
do what you want him to do.
An arithmetic man estina ates that in
case of general European war the
powers likely to take part will have an
aggregate of nearly 100000 of troops
at their disposal.
The news of the drowning of notori-
ously dirty man on one of the Western
lakes was doubted by his friends be-
cause the dispatch stated that he was
"washed overheard"
At bedtime now, otter the little Phia-
delphia boy has said his " Now I lay
me-" he adds in truly thankful spirit:
"Ma, amt I glad don't have to sleep
out in the shed any more"
"Every heart knows it's own misery"
she said, as she looked into the nest
and saw that those Cochin China eggs
that had cost her So per dozen Lad
Matched out Muscovy ducks.
A paradise for tramps-Bolton, Mass,
where the inmates of the almshouse are
allowed to sweeten their own tea with
sugar, butter their own bread with good
butter and have meat or fish three times
a day.
Says our Dan: eff I had $40, 600
that would give me an income of 81, 900.
1 would live up to it, you bet; but I
wouldn't touch the capital till the last
year, and then you'd see me spread my
self, just t"
NJ. Colombies, merchant of Paris,
recently deceased, has left $4,000 to
q lady of Rouen for having, twenty
years ago, refused to marry him,
"through which," says the writer, "I
Was enabled to live Independently and
happily as bachelor"
We have been requested, a Washing
ton paper says, to suppress five different
items, and out of consideration for
strangers we have done so. But the
next time member of Congress blows
out his gas instead of turning ii off we
shall certainly tell all about it.
An awful warning is offered to those
little boys who use their mouths as pen
wipers by what happened to a small
French boy, who nearly died from the
salts of copper in the ink he took, and
only recovered through the doctors
guessing what was amiss, and promptly
! applying the right antidote.
A seedy looking Chinaman, with two
companions, waltzed into Denver bank
and inquired How muchee sallee
goldG" Gone nine," was the answer.
"Alle light, me takee eight thousand
dollar" The bank didn't have enough
on hand to supply the seedy looking
Celestial, who was going back to father
land.
An athletic specimen OF the Emerald
Isle called ON a whartinger for q job.
"The top O. the mornin' to ye, Muster
P; I've been told that you're in want of
help" I've but little to do" replied
P, with mercantile gravity. "I'm the
very boy for yeesl It's but little [ care
about doing-it's the money I'm afther,
sure p'
A gentleman recently had occasion to
consult his halter, but was unable to find
in the shop the precise article that he
needed. "Come tomorrow" said the
halter, finally; "I know to t. what
you require. You want a tranquil hat
with moderated and not unseemly gay
ETY. in the brim. I'll fix it for you to-
morrow, sure"
A funny little ornament for a bureau
is square piece of silver cardboard,
ABOUT SIX 1ncheS eacn way, emDfolueIeu
on the edge with some fanciful design
in worsted, and having in the center the
words "Scratch my back" 1t is hung
on the gas fixtures by cord. You turn
it around and discover the back to be a
piece of sandpaper to scratch matches
on.
OF the many diseases which afflict
mankind the following fifteen causes of
death take the lead in England, accord
ing to the registrar generals returns !:
Bronchitis carried off the largest num-
bers, then comes phthitis, next debility,
then old age, then heart disease (mostly
striking down the adults), then pneu-
monia, scarlet fever, diarrhea, apoplexy
and paralysis, measles, cancer, prema-
ture birth and whooping cough.
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