Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-11-04
Items Of Interest.


Two Englishman recently made a
journey Of 750 miles on bicycles in about
fortnight.
During its 140 years of existence, the
Presbyterian church at Cranberry, N. j.,
has had but six ministers.
Up to the first of last March, England
had expended no less than $4,000, 900
on her new coast defenses.
A mothers pretty saying: (Which
of your two children do you love most9"
4" always the one that is absent" i"
A late Charleston circular puts the
present rice crop Of Georgia and South
Carolina at rs, 500 tierces, or about five
per cent. more than any crop since the
war.
A woman's hand. How beautifully
nodded, how faultless in symmetry, how
soft and white and yielding, and, oh,
how much of gentle memory its pressure
conveys Yet we don't like it in our
hair.
An unchronicled event OF the season
at Newport was a christening party at
which the baby wore a white lace robe
valued at So, ,000 1t also wore $1,000
worth of diamonds belonging to it's
mamma.
A lady, who was at the Centennial Ex-
hibion on Pennsylvania day, remarked
to friend that she saw all sorts of peo-
pie, among whom was woman with one
eye, who thought she ought to be admit
ted for half price.
A gaoler in Western State had re-
ceived strict orders not to keep his pris-
oners in solitary confinement. Once,
when he had two in charge, one escaped,
and he was obliged to kick the other out
of the door to comply with the regula-
ton.
Scene in a New York police conrt.-
Judge: " Prisoner, find you are guilty
of intoxication in the public streets.
The punishment is ten dollars or ten
days. Which will you take2" Prisoner:
81 will takethe ten dollars, your honor"
Judge: " You are too brightto be locked
up try and remain so you may CO."
Prisoner: "Thank your honor"
A student after passing three years in
the " Latin quarter" wrote to his father
as follows: 81 have made up my mind
to set to work, dear father therefore, l
should like to know whether it was law
or medicine that I came to Paris to
study"
We've suspected for some time past
that measures would have to be taken to
check the alarmingly rapid growth of the
Smith family. And here, now, sure
enough, Pennsylvania man exhibits at
the Centennial a "Smith roller and
crusher."
People may beabsent minded in every
thing else, even forget the dinner hour,
but you can't find man or woman
who overlooks the necessity of getting
that ten cent bill changed on the way to
church to get nickel out of. it for the
contribution plate.
In Algeria there is a river formed by
the union of two streams, one coming
from region of ferruginous soil and
the other draining a peat swamp. The
acid in the latter acting upon the iron
in the former makes true ink, and the
river is actually stream of good writing
fluid.
Two Englishtown IN. J.) boys, fred
with the spirit of many sensational tales,
stole an oyster boat at Keyport and put
out to sea in search of an island whereon
to play Crusoe and Friday. Two or three
days later an inward bound vessel picked
them up. nearly dead from exposure
and hunger.
A well dressed man ate, with apparent
relish, an elaborate dinner in Paris
restaurant, and then cut his throat. He
was taken to hospital, where the wound
was dressed. Upon reviving to con-
sciousness he exclaimed: what, alive
yet !" and completed the suicide by
tearing off the bandages.
A new industry, that of drying eggs,
has been set on foot at Passau, on the
Danube, and the Prussian military
authorities are about to give the product
a trial for soldiers rations. The Lon
don NeaOs says several German chemists
are very sanguine as to the success of
the experiment, and they pronounce
dried eggs to have lost none of their
valuable properties by the gradual evap-
Grafton of the water contained by them
in their original state.
Emperor William has addressed the
following words to the citizens of Wis
sembourg, in Alsace, where the French
first felt the shock of the advancing
German host: "I know you come to me
with bleeding hearts. 1t is only natural,
my friends but myself have known
vicissitudes, but bore up against them.
Believe me as an old man, time sets all
things right. Time reconciles us to the
greatest changes, and time, 1 am sure,
will make you satisfied"