Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-08-18
Items Of Interest.

The pawn-broker is loan-some man
To keep house-Don't put a mortgage
thereon.
Not very useful in the long run,A fat
The best muzzle for bad dog is q
gun muzzle.
The poor mans summer rescrt-a
palm leaf fan.
They have swimming matches for
ladies in San Francisco.
The farmers had four majority in the
last Mississippi legislature.
Peach cobblers is the name Of a
favorite tipple in Kentucky.
The hop crop-Seen when a young
man has his hair cut short for ball.
A base ball player is said to be like
railroad employee when he's out on
strike.
The latest and apparently most en-
crossing fancy work for young ladies is
carving in wood.
At some of the bathing establishments
in New York men are employed to teach
women how to swim.
The American people are said to re-
semble the French In capacity for
hard work without respite.
Miss BERTHE LeFranc has walked
forty-two miles inside of ten hours.
Nice girl for a long stroll in the country.
The word calico, fabric from which
so many dresses are made, is derived
from Calicut, a city on the Malabar
coast.
Acoquette may be compared to tinder,
which lays itself out to catch sparks, but
does not always succeed in lighting up
match.
A man in Chambersburg, ILL.,, has
been sued for destroying property by
splitting tobacco juice on the floor OF
church.
The boy who does not know when a
gun is loaded has just sense enough to
point it at another boy, who finds out the
fact for him.
Mr.. Barnum is telling the English
people that mans riches consist not In
the extent of his possessions but in the
fewness of bis wants.
Inventors are industriously engaged
on electric lights, and it is affirmed that
in due time the use of electricity will
supersede all other methods of illumina-
ton.
Gen. Tom Thumbs house has lately
been raided by thieves, who took away
all his shirts under the impression that
they were making haul of handker-
chiefs.
When you see piece of ice lying OH
the walk after ten o'clock A. NJ, you may
know that the husband is determined
and the wife obstinate, and that they are
waiting to see who will give in.
"A Mobile paper says that there is
goat in that city which stands on a board
fence and eats peaches off tree. Pooh
There's rooster in Detroit who stands
on his dignity and wouldn't eat peaches
unless they were sliced up and covered
with sugar.
In the United States in 1776 there
were only nine public libraries, with
45, ,623 volumes; in 1875 there were 1852
public libraries, containing 12,076, ,964
volumes and 1900, 1000 pamphlets. Of
these libraries, nearly 5000 have been
organized since 1850.
A very strange proposition was made
last month to the Vienna museum. A
Hungarian family of Macy Mihaly offered
to sell it an eleven-year-old female baby
with head as big as mans fist and
face covered with beard; she doesn't
talk, but eats, jumps and generally be-
haves like a.monkey.
Two little girls are better than one,
Two little boys can double the fun,
Two little birds can build a fine nest,
Two little arms can love mother best,
Two little ponies must go to span,
Two little pockets has my little man,
Two little eyes to open and close,
Two little ears and one little nose,
Two little elbows dimpled and sweet,
Two little shoes on two little feet,
Two little lips and one little chin,
Two little cheeks with rose set in,
Two little shoulders, chubby and strong,
Two little legs running all day long,
Two little prayers does my darling say,
Twice does he kneel by my side each day,
Two little folded hands, soft and brown,
Two little eyelids cast meekly down,
And two little angels guard him in bed,
One at the foot and one at the head.