Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-11-24
NO. AZ.



Forbear to Judge, for we are all sim
ners.
"Life is made up ov sunshine and
shaddo," says Josh Billings" about
five shaddos to one sunshine.
More than 100, 900, 0O0lemons, oranges,
and citrons are consumed or exported by
the inhabitants of various parts of Asia
Minor.
Professor" Ia one evening counted
twenty-seven meteors sitting on my
piazza" Glass expresses great aston
ishment at the sociable character of the
heavenly bodies.
In Cincinnati, on a recent Sunday
evening, four public balls, three musical
entertainments, three variety theatres,
and Sardanapalus in the Grand
Opera House, were all numerously at
tended.
The ancestry of Senator Voorhees,, of
Indiana, on his fathers side, was Dutch;
on his mothers side, Irish. He bad
Indian fighters and Revolutionary SOL
diers for his grandfathers and great
grandfathers, and he is fifty years old.
A young man who left home in Con-
necticut some years ago to seek his for
tune, recently wrote from Texas, saying:
Give settled here" 1t has since trans
pired that he was right. He had settled
at twenty cents on the dollar.
Zone of the Kentucky minstrels is sit
ting for his picture in character. y
Operator: "Now, sir, look pleasant
smile little" minstrel smiles "Oh!
that will never do. It's too wide for the
| instrument"
The Anti-Horsc Thief Association is
an institution in northwestern Missouri,
southeastern Iowa and northwestern
Illinois, whose object is pretty clearly
indicated in its name.
The less of human life during the
great food in Bengal, following the cy-
clone OF 1875, has lately been ascertained
to have amounted to 10000. 1t was
estimated at the time at near 300, 600.
Bucks county, Pa, has smoker who
claims to have averaged seven cigars per
day during the last fiftyseven years,
which would aggregate 10000 cigars,
worth, at five cents each, 81, $50
In Breslau, Germany, successful at
tempt has been made to erect paper
chimney about fifty feet high. By
chemical preparation the paper is rem
dered impervious to the action of fire
or water.
The 366 members of the two houses OF
Congress include 239 lawyers, nineteen
bankers, seventeen merchants, fifteen
editors, twelve farmers and planters,
twenty physicians, seven manufacturers,
five officers of railroads and five school
teachers.
An important though little known
business in Westfeld, Mass, is the
manufacture of piano legs. Some 800
carved legs per month are turned out.
They are made CT white wood, and carved
mostly by hand. They are sent un-
stained and unfinished to the piano
manufacturers, who color and polish
them to suit the instrument for which
they are designed.
Last month Paris butcher was bitten
by pet cat and did not go to doctor,
but contented himself with cauterizing
the wound. Next morning the cat was
found dead, but veterinary surgeon
gave it as his opinion that it had not
died mad. Notwithstanding this the
poor butcher was seized with the
direst apprehenslons. In the night he
was subject to terrible pains, and two
days later died in horrible pain.
Men are generally more honest in
their private than in their public capac-
ity, and will go greater length to serve a
party than when their own private inter-
est is alone concerned. Honor is a great
check upon mankind, but where con-
siderable body of men act together this
check is in q great measure removed,
since man is sure to be approved Of by
his own party for what promotes the
common interest, and he soon learns to
despise the clamors of adversaries.
A little fve-year-old fellow came up to
his mother the other morning, and with
great earnestness said Mother, l saw
something run across the kitchen floor
this morning, and it hadn't any legs
either; what do you suppose it was p
The mothers curiosity was excited at
the apparent strangeness of the supposed
animal, and, not knowing what else to
say, she said she supposed it was a
worm, or something of that sort, she did
not know what. Having for some time
enjoyed his mothers inability to solve
the problem, he said: cit was some
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