Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-03-18
Items of Interest.

Lisbon, N. H., raises 100000 bushels
of potatoes year, which are converted
into starch.
Daniel Murphy, of Tulare, Cal, has
bought 5000 square miles of land in
Mexico at two cents an acre.
French sardine packers are now put
ting up sprats, mackerel, and even more
common species, for the American mar
ket.
The question is asked, why news
papers will persist in abbreviating a son
of temperance and making S. o. t. of
him.
"Why don't you congressman stop
talking and pass law giving American
citizens 800 apiece2" wrote somebody
to Senator Thurman.
A survey of all the large merchant
steamships has been made by the British
government, with the view to their use
as part of the royal navy in case of
foreign war.
A Portsmouth baby which recently
died was mourned by father and mother,
two grandfathers, and two grapdmothers,
three great grandfathers, and three great
grandmothers.
During the reign of the present czar
Russia has gained 35,347 square miles of
territory and %, 2,546,000 souls in popu-
lation, and reduced the national debt by
100000 roubles.
A purchaser of riverside property
asked the real estate agent if the river
didn't sometimes overflow its banks.
"Well," responded he, "it isr't one of
those sickly streams that are always con-
fined to beds"
Bad luck is man with his hands in
his pockets and his pipe in his mouth.
looking on to see how it will come out.
Good luck is man of pluck with his
sleeves rolled up and workingto make it
come out right.
The Farmers club of the.American In
stitute have asked Congress to make the
subject of tree culture and economy
standing branch of study in agricultural
colleges receiving aid or support from
the government.
A Middletown compositor has calcu-
lated that in the course Of years type
up more than 1000, 900 separate pieces,
which, with their distribution, requires
Is, 900, 900 motions of the hand.
BY the German census, taken Dec. 1,
it appears that the population of Berlin
has increased since 1871 about 1877 per
cent; Breslau, fifteen per cent. Ham
burg, 1888 per cent; Frankfort, thir
teen per cent; aud Leipsic, eighteen
per cent.
A young woman looking for situa.
tion was attracted by an advertisement
for some one 70 do g. light housework."
She called at the address given, and in
quired where the light house was and If
there was any way of getting on shore
on Sundays.
Thirty-thr mines in Colorado have
been opened to depth of from one hun
dred to nine hundred feet since 1859.
Five of them were idle last year, but the
rest produced ore valued at nearly $2,-
600, 900. Since their discovery they have
yielded $26, $4,000
Pennsylvania court stenographers
have to take this oath " You solemnly
swear that the testimony that you take in
this case shall be the truth, the whole
truth, and nothing but the truth" This
would seem to do away entirely with the
necessity of swearing witnesses.
When the wind storm that recently
devastated TETON pass began there were
100000 sheep feeding on the plains,
thousands of which were blown into the
gulches and buried by the driving sand.
Over 10000 sheep were lost. On the
San Emido, cattle which took refuge in
beds of streams were in some places
buried out of sight.