Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-12-22
Items Of Interest.
A fireside tail-the cats.


A sweet thing in combs-Honey.
There are over three thousand stitches
in kid glove. -
How TO make a catfish-Leave her
alone in a room with an aquarium.
A western editor returned tailor's
bill, endorsed, Declined handwriting
illegible." H ~'-
Ohio has 81, 900 acres of apple Or
chards. and raised this year IL, 5,000, 900
bushels of apples.
They have dime savings banks in Chi
cago-banks that save for depositors q
dime out of every dollar.
The Troy butcher who hanged himself
in his ice box has furnished the coolest
case of suicide on record.
Ten dollars line, or about one dollar
word, was ! aid to Longfellow for his
poem "Keramos," in Harper's Maga-
zine.
Professor Agassiz estimates that a
mans finger nails will grow to be three
thousand feet long if he leaves them
uncut for thousand years.
/. The annual report of the board of re-
vision OF taxes in Philadelphia shows
total depreciation of $50, 900, 600 in taxa
BILE property as compared with last
year.
The farmers in Scotland have suffered
severe loss this year by bad weather,
and their aggregate revenue will fall
short of that received in good years by
an estimated amount of $40, 600, 600.
A band of Portuguese amateurs have
started out from Lisbon to explore
Central Africa in Stanley's tracks, and
to negotiate, if possible, treaties of COM
merce with the natives along the route.
A farmer residing near York, Pa.,
has kept o record of the number OF
tramps visiting his premises in quest OF
food. The number flom April !, 1877,
to November 18, was 545, or an average
Of about sixteen per week.
Says the Phoebe (Nev.,) Record. The
latest curiosity or freak of nature is
apples without seeds in them. They
come from Utah along with the regular
seed apples, and cannot be told by thc
outside appearance from them, but on
the inside they present no appearance of
ever having contained any seed.
Notwithstanding famine and rewards,
noxious animals multiply in India from
the religious dislike of Hindoos to kill
ing anything. Cobras, lucky reptiles,
are held by them especially sacred, and,
with other snakes, managed in 1875 TO
kill 1000 persons but 270, 185 snakes
were killed. The loss of cattle from the
| same cause was very heavy. @
What's in name2 A Chinaman in
San Francisco found there were thirty
days. He stole q Frisco mans door
plate and fastened it on his own door as
an ornament. He didn't know that the
name would betray him as he thought
that was merely carved on for the beauty
of the thing. The Chinaman now Ian
guishes in prison, another victim to the
mysteries of English photography.
Harry Mainioy, a colored man, OF
Exeter, N. H., who died recently in the
| eighty-first wear of his age, had a re-
| markable history. He was born in
Africa, about a weeks Journey on foot
from Senegal, and was stolen from his
home by slave traders in 1906, who took
him to Senegal and sold him for 800 to
Emery, of Exeter, who brought him
home, taught him the English language,
and gave him good school privileges
until he was twenty-one years old. He
was an industrious and useful man, and
brought up family of children, who
survive him.
Commander George p. RYAN is the
second of the class of 1861 of the
United States Naval Academy who has
lost his life by shipwreck Lieutenant
Commander William F. Stewart, OF
Pennsylvania, who was executive officer
of the United States sloop Oneida,
being the other who perished in the
collision of that vessel with the British
steamer Bombay, in the bay of Yeddo,
Japan, in 1870, when only two officers
and fifty-seven men out of twenty-four
officers and one hundred and 6fty-two
men were saved from watery grave. 1t
is singular fact that all of the unfortu-
nate national ships lost within the last
decade were named after the Indian
tribes, as follows: Saranac, Saginaw,
Idaho, and Huron, in all of which there
was fearful loss of life.
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