Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-03-03
Items of Interest.
The great senses-taker-rum.

The great senses-taker-rum.
Don't get short" if you want to get
long.
A Philadelphia woman swore that her
husbands conduct was enough to lrrl-
gate an angel"
1t is said that the Western gopher has
made its appearance in New Jersey ard
other Atlantic States.
Jones always remains silent to az
peals of charity, and then fatters him.
self that he is observation-disclosures gives
ascent.
The New Orleans Republican le-
marks that "the soul of Sergeant Bates
is marching on, but his body is saving
wood in Illinois"
A Detroit restaurateur hangs out a
sign of "free chops" and when the old
! loafers come around he, shows them an
AK and woodpile.
Work is progressing rapidly on the
building for the Paris Exposition OF
| 1878, and April l Of that year is an
nounced as opening day.
There were 1O,626 births in Boston
/ ldSb yGuI, O,OJI ludlildoCSg OJ-OV
! deaths: q decrease of 394 births, 597
marriages, and 758 deaths over 1875.
Rhode Island passed law legalizing
the marriage of blacks and whites; then
they repealed the law, and finally they
reconsidered the repeal and re-enacted
the law.
A Detroit tramp gets his beer for
nothing by touching the bartender's
heart with the remark: "Why, thought
for an instant that Daniel Webster had
returned to life"
Remember whom you are talking to,
sir, said an indignant parent to re-
fractory boy; 81 am your father.
"Well, who's tc blame for that p said
the young impertinence; taint me-"
Llt@o GIRLS disturbed an old man in
San francisco ~ playing on a balcony
close to his room, wlnSl was in n fourth
story. He ran out, caught On, If them
and threw her over the railing. She 80
killed. 1
The golden fleece. AS the gold yield
of Australia decreases the wool crop
grows more valuable. Last year the wool
product of that country was $40, 600, 900,
/
product
The mikado, or emperor, Of Japan,
has just celebrated his twenty-seventh
year. He is the one hundred and twenty
third representative of dynasty OF rulers
who can boast of an unbroken succession
for twenty-five centuries.
A New England man has invented
, process for disinfecting onions, but the
regenerated fruit does not meet with any
, favor. An onion without its flavor is as
much like an onion as an oyster without
its slipperishness would be like raw
, oyster.
John Stevens ran away from his wife
in Elmira thirty-four years ago. Re
Gently she discovered him in California,
where he had accumulated $780, 600 and
another wife. She is willing he should
retain the second wife, but she demands
q third of his fortune, and is likely to
get it.
A daring Brooklyn man who ventured
! to kiss Boston girl thus tersely depicts
S the resulting phenomena She rose IN
r sections-rigid, awful, sublime--towered,
3 Medusa like-fxed her stony stare mo-
/ ment on nothingness, then telescoped,
collapsed, scooted, and 1 saw her no
3 more.
: An apple woman in New York, who
} recently died, requested three hundred
] and fifty dollar funeral, and left the
| money to pay for it, besides distributing
I three thousand dollars among her rela-
g tives, and yet there are people who COM
s plain that nobody is making money
l nowaday.
The cattle disease has shown itself In
several sections in Silesia in Germany,
l and also among the cattle driven to Ber-
lin for slaughter The disease is as
cribed to the influence of foreign cattle,
imported in disregard of government
, regulations. These are to be more strict
: ly enforced in future.
0 A glazier was putting a pane OF glass
f into window, when groom who was
o standing by began joking him, telling
J., him to mind and put in plenty of putty.
. The man bore the banter for some time,
t but at last silenced his tormentor with ::
: "Arrah, now, be off wild ye, or I'll put
y pain in yer head without any putty.
y A tramp in the last stages of looped
9 and windowed raggedness was heard to
. mutter to companion in New York a
. few days since, as poodle in sealskln
;, sack trotted proudly by them on Broad
! way "Well, I'm blowed if they won't
g put a point lace collar on that pup next,
= and hang stone cameo locket on his
= gold neck chain.
The effect of border drama on the
boys in the gallery of q theater is de-
a scribed in the Philadelphia Times :
If When at last the curtain drops on a
e scene brilliant with red fire and sitting
il with saltpeter, the hero standing amid
|. the ruins of the Sioux nation with his
II "gurrul' on his breast and the Ameri-
/, can flag waving over their heads, they
q don't care if the whole world were to
Is black their own shoes and stop buying
1T the daily papers.
(, John Clerk, the Edinburgh lawyer,
q and Raeburn, the painter, were great
d cronies in their younger days, both be-
% ing poor as church MICE One
q day Clerk asked Raeburn to dine. On
1t arriving the latter found the landlady
IS spreading the cloth and setting on the
). table two dishes, one containing three
n herrings, the other three potatoes.
"And is this all ?" said Clerk. CAL, y
!, said the dame. CAL Did [ not tell
X ye woman" he cried, "that a gentle
X man was to dine with me, and that ye
It were to get six herrings and six pota-
Of toes?"
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