Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-08-26
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II every man would only take tho ad-
vice he gives to other people he would
be happy.
A Chicago liveryman secures the pat
ronsge of lovers by having the seats of
his vehicles made rather small for two
persons.
An Oakland lunatie carried butcher
knife around for two hours, offering to
kill any one who said he wasn't Moses.
Every one said he looked just like
Moses.
San Francisco has a strong man who,
with 400 pounds on his back, 400 on his
breast, 200 pound bar on his neck, and
man on each end of the bar, dances,
wearing shoes that weigh seventy-fve
pounds.
Whaleboneis no bone at all nor does
it possess any properties of bone. 1t is
substance attached to the lower jaw of
the whale, and seems to strain the water
which the creature takes up in large
mouthfuls.
A one armed switchman, in Nashua,
n. H., named Thomas Brown, is con-
tented. His brother died in Massachu-
setts and left him money; but he mt
back word: 81 don't want the money.
I've got all I need"
Sealing wax is no wax at all nor does
it contains single particle of wax. 1t is
made OF shellac, Venice turpentine and
cinnabar. Cinnabar gives it the deep
red color, and turpentine renders the
shellac soft and less brittle.
When a Delaware indian woman's
house near Cana river, Indian Territory,
was surrounded by the late food, she
tied two children to her body, and from
her housetop mounted tree. When
ont of reach of the water she tied her
babies to the limbs and saved them.
A circus wagon containing sea lions
was backed into Lake Winnebago, Wis,
to give the animals water, when sudden
ly the doors flew open and the lions es-
capped. AS one of them has by this
time litter of young ones, it is likely
that colony of the animals will grow
up in the lake.
A man in Boone county, Iowa, grew
weary of his wife's absence on visit to
her mother-in-law, and hurried her to
return by having q photograph of his
house taken with himself and neigh
boris wife standing on the porch. This
he sent to his better half, and she re-
turned by the first train.
A lady who had been teaching her
little four-year-old the elements of arith-
metic was astonished by his running
and propounding the following problem:
4" Mamma, if you had three butterflies,
and each butterfly had bug in his ear,
how many butterflies would you have 2"
The mother is still at work on the
problem. .. .r
A correspondent wants to know the
best way to preserve cherries. Around
Norwich, the Bulletin says, one way is to
climb the trees with shotgun, at dark,
and stay there till morning. Another
way is to carry the tree into the house
every night at sunset. The only sure
way, however, is to eat the cherries be-
fore they are ripe.
This is how Elder Pike tries to de-
fine chronic rheumatism: Swallow two
quarts of carpet tacks, take running
jump bare legged into bs rrel of broken
| beer bottles, let swarm OF enfaSeu nor
nets roost on your head, and then roll
out into bed of fishhooks, and you'll
get faint idea of the nature and sensa-
ton of first class rheumatism when i t
gets hold of you and means business.
The New England and Middle States
yearly pay profit of over a million and
half of dollars to the United States
Post Office department In 1875 they
paid in as an excess of receipts over ex-
penditures 81, ,665, 1892. The single
State of New York showed q surplus of
earnings of 1882, ,022, SO, and Pennsyl-
vania cleared $379, ,527.82 for the govern
meut. Alaska cleared $64.41, and that
was the only instance outside of the
New England and Middle States where
the running expenses of the postal SER
vice were not ill excess of its receipts.