Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-07-21
Items of Interest.

A good many men are IN the best of
health when they are out of spirit.
Everything in name. The small
paths in Fairmount park are called foot
paths, while the very large path on the
other side of the river is called tow
path. Fsl a
"How many children have you ?"
asked one friend of an old acquaintance.
well, l have five, but they were eating
cucumbers when l left home and they
may be all doubled up now"
"Do those bells sound on alarm of
fire ?" said a stranger, the other Sunday
as the church belle -rvro calling together
IL ~oIonIpers. eyes, was the reply,
"but the fire is in the next world"
A sudden draught of hot air passed
through O cotton field and peach orchard
in Western Texas few days ago, scorch-
ing and killing every green thing it
touched for a space of one hundred yards
long.
Another day has come and gone, leav-
ing us all older and wiser, but as yet no
communications have been received in
dicating that any one has discovered a
man who can drink out of spring with
out getting the end of his nose wet
A little boy entered fish market the
other day, and seeing for the first time
pile of Holsters lying on the counter,
looked inteptly at them'for some time,
when he exclaimed: By gracious
thems the biggest grass-hoppers I've
ever seen.
Sellers of liquor in Oregon are not re-
quired, under new law, to be licensed
but every drinker must pay $5 year
for license, and whoever sells to an un-
licensed person may be imprisoned. The
names of procurers of licenses are to be
published every six months.
The small boy has two prime objects
in view in getting "fghting cut" to his
hair in warm weather. One is to show
his vigilant father that he hasn't been in
swimming; and the other, because he
can lie in bed five minutes longer in the
morning; he doesn't have to comb his
hair.
Men have been somewhat cynically
defined as contrivance of wise men to
keep fools at a distance. Fashion is
shrewd to detect those who do not belong
to her train, and seldom wastes her at
tentions. Society is very swift in its
instincts, and if you do not belong to it,
resists and sneers at YOU, or quietly
drops you.
This is what is Just killing enterprise
in the Black Hills: A paragraph i'll the
telegraphic columns of daily paper
assures us that one ten stamp mill has
just cleared up $1,000 worth of gold, !"
and the paragraph following tells us
how the "road agents have just cleaned
out stage, robbing all the'passengers
and asking $1,000 from the treasure
box" At this rate it is very evident it
would take about four or five ten stamp
mills to keep even with the road agents.
It is related that the late General
John G. Breckenridge had son (CabeD
upon his staff, and at the terrible charge
of the Kentucky Brigade at Murfrees-
boro', chose him to carry an order to a
distant part of the line, saying in reply
to remonstrance that he would not
direct any officer to face q danger from
which he would spare member OF his
own family. The boy galloped safely
through a storm of bullets, delivered
the order and returned unhurt. 1t is
now announced that he is to marry next
month the daughter of Lloyd Tevis,
now reputed the richest man in Cali
! foTnia