Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-05-27
Items of Interest.

The first "trick horse on record
the wooden one in which the Greeks
entered Troy.
Think all you can of the good quail
ties of others forget and keep silent
concerning their bad qualities.
In Kentucky it is not capital ofense
to disbelieve the numerous stories that
are in circulation relative to centena-
rians.
A Boston firm is said to be doing an
immense business in buying damaged
and refuse butter at five cents pound,
working it over and coloring it, and then
putting it on the market as fresh country
butter.
The Washington Republican, with
tears in its eyes, says &: One of the sad
dest things to contemplate just now is
the large number Of persons in this
country who have no relations in Phila-
delphia.
Now subscribe for the newspaper An
eminent physician says: One of the
cheapest and most efficient chest protec-
tors, when unexpectedly exposed to cold,
raw winds, is folded newspaper inside
the vest.
A Harrisburg man who boasted he'd
never seen the horse that could throw
him, was landed in a druggist show
window five minutes afterward, amid
chorus of "Theres light in the win
dow for thee"
In Nevada, when building falls and
kills two or three people, the Jury first
hunt up the contractor and hang him,
and then bring in verdict that nobody
is to blame but the contractor, who can
not be found.
An Irishman, noticing lady pass
along, espied two strips depending from
under the lady's cloak. Not knowing
| that these were styled sashes and in the
right place, he exclaimed: "Faith,
ma'am, your gallusses are united"
A quarrelsome husband and wife in
Iowa decided to separate and divide
their property evenly. The land was
measured off into two farms, and the
house and barn were cut in halves, and
each half removed a short distance.
"You have a considerable floating
population in this village, haven't you9"
asked stranger of one of the citizens of
villageron the Mississippi. well,
yes-rather," was the reply; "about hall
the year the water is up to the second
story windows"
A company has been organized at
California to manufacture sugar from
melons, which are to be raised on
tract of reclaimed land in the delta of
the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers.
A correspondent of the Baltimore San
says the melons make much better sugar
than beets, and can be raised much
cheaper.
A Chicago man handed in an adver-
vortisement offering So for the return of
bull terrier, but it was printed 1926.
He then sent in another notice offering
$500, and it was published $500, the
consequence of which was that his
residence was besieged by owners of
"dorgs" leading countless host of
bull terriers. The reward was not paid.
A blind boy, who was taken into an
elevator for the first time in Cleveland
hotel, set up the most terrific screaming
when the cab began to rise, and would
not be pacified until it was stopped.
He explained that he supposed that he
had been misled, and was being taken
down into the dissecting room of
medical college to be used as a subject.
The Canadian minister o; the interior
reports that there are 81, 910 Indians in
the Dominion, of which number 10000,
belonging to untreatied tribes, are set
tied between Peace river and the United
States boundary. In the five older
provinces, they have personal property
worth $489, ,234 real estate worth ST.
633, 708, and in invested capital the sum
of $2,844,972.
A strange custom has been preserved
in Nottingham, England, from remote
times. One Of the heads of the family,
previous to locking the street door for
the last time in the year, carefully de-
posits gold coin in close proximity to
the door, where it is allowed to remain
until the new year has been ushered in.
This is believed to insure the supply of
money for the years necessities.