Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-02-05
Items Of Interest.

note causes most anxiety.
Ouchallatta, chief of the Cherokees, is
an ordained Baptist preacher.
Office holders do not object to hand
some turnout; that is, if it is not a turn
out of Office.
Gen. Joseph r. Hawley has been
elected President of the Connecticut
State rife association.
Orange culture in Georgia has been
tried with success, and the fruit is said
to rival that of Florida.
Teacher What is the definition of
firtation3" Intelligent young pupil
" It isattentien without intention"
A Chicago justice wouldn't believe a
woman who ascribed her staggering to
the effect of very tight pull-back skirt.
A bill has been introduced into the
Legislature of Mississippi to make edu-
cation compulsory throughout the State.
From Ohio comes the news that there
will be no decrease in the raising of
hogs this year. Of this favorite West
ern fruit there were 5,500,0O0 plucked
last year.
"Your Dress" said husband to his
fashionable wife, "will never please
the men. "I don't dress to please
mon," was the reply, "but to worry
other women"
The reign of false hair is over, and it
is said that Parisians are already ar
ranging their own locks, either IN
plaits or twisted curls around the head,
or in artistic curls at the back of the
neck.
The London Court Circular says that
funeral card recently sent out to
friends on the occasion of death of an
individual near Oxford, bore the follow
ing inscription "The Lord hath need of
him."
The Idaho authorities have decided to
prosecute polygamous Mormons in the
Territory, some of whom have four Oh,
five wives each, and eighteen indict-
ments have already been found in one
county.
The Detroit Free Press says: The
weekly sheets devoted to the Centennial
show are either dying off or else there
has been carelessnessin some post-office.
Only thirteen different ones reached this
Office last week.
A photographer says that at eighteen
girl will sit twelve times for photo
graph, and then be dissatisfied. At
forty, the same person will sit once and
take the picture, even if the artist points
out three or four defects.
The cold Guard of New York city
expect to charter steamer and go to
Charleston, s. c., to escort the members
of the Washington Light Infantry to
Philadelphia on the occasion of the
gathering of the Centennial legion.
In the State of New York there are ex-
pended annually more than $100, 900, 600
by consumers of liquor, or two-thirds of all
wages paid to laborers in agriculture
and manufacture, and twice as much as
the receipts of all the railroads of the
State.
The proprietor of hotel at Dunkirk
fell dead the other morning just after
charging traveller So for two meals and
lodging. If the Centennial hotel keep
ers don't profit by this warning, the I'M
dertaking business is going to be good
in Philadelphia next year.
1t was mentioned one day to Presi-
dent Lincoln that two young ladies of
his acquaintance had quarreled and
loaded each other with abuse. " Have
they called each other ugly9" asked tho
President "No, sir" Very good;
then I will undertake to reconcile
them"
Francis l., being desirous to raise one
of the most learned men of the time to
the highest dignities of the church,
asked him if he was of noble descent.
Your majesty" answered the abbot,
"there were three brothers in Noan's
ark, but 1 cannot tell positively from
which am descended" He obtained
the post.
In the Milan cemetery pavilion has
been put up for the cremation of bodies,
which, being placed on an altar, are sub
jected to the action of two hundred gas
burners giving heat of 1000 degrees.
Thus body is consumed to ashes in
one hour. On January Is Chevalier
Albert Keller was burnt, the prepara-
tions having been made by direction of
his will.
A retriever dog in Chicago lately
killed favorite cat. Having committed
this unprovoked murder, the dog de-
liberately took the cat in his mouth,
carried it some distance, dug deep
hole behind some bushes, and, after de-
posting the cat therein, carefully re-
placed the earth, and had he not been
observed there would have been no evi-
dence of the crime.
A recent visitor to the Dismal swamp
describes it, in Forest and Stream, as
having lost none of the characteristics
which gave it its name. Bears are not
so plenty there as when the region was