Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-02-03
Items of Interest.

Every day of your life is page in
your history.
The best portrait of happiness is
laughing child
California shipped. 100000 pounds
of wool last year.
Many man blows the bellows of the
organ that sounds his praise.
A young lady may dine in an ivory
cashmere, trimmed with pink silk.
Happiness can be made quite as wen
of cheap materials as of dear ones.
GA" is easy enough, but the last
letter of the alphabet lizard. Do you
lit?
Over seventy members of the Vermont
LEGISLATURE attend prayer meeting
every morning.
Remember that one square meal is
better than all the "Heaven pity the
poor poems ever written.
The Lowell Courier says when man
is elected mayor he naturally thinks he
is getting Hon. in the world.
1t is estimated that not less than TO-
100000 trees have been set out i'll
Minnesota during the past year.
The Los Angeles Herald says that
southern California needs farmers and
money, and not helpless clerks.
Sweet are the uses of adversely. A
cross eyed schoolmarm can keep twice the
usual number of children i'll order at
once.
A fashion paper says that damasses
will be popular with the ladies this win
ter and society men have taken fresh
hold Of life.
A mother remarked: ''Yes, want
my daughter to study rhetoric, for she
can't fly pancakes now without smok-
: ing all the house up.
7 A philosopher who went TO church
: where the people came in late said 1t
, was 9" the fashion there for nobody to
, go till everybody got there. "
Frank Walworth is still in the State
lunatic asylum in Auburn, Ny, and Su-
perintendent Gray believes that he was
insane when he killed his father.
A Nashville man answered a Chicago
advertisement, "How to win at poker,
and received for his two dollars the fol-
lowing: Hold four aces or don't
poke"
The Bashi-Bazouks have been de-
5 scribed as " irregular Tartar troops who
. are quartered on the inhabitants in time
of peace, and quarter them in time OF
disturbance.
5 The State of Maine pays 50 bounty
2 for every bear killed within its limits.
I Last year was apparently good, or rather
t bad year for bears, for $40 were killed,
$ costing the State 81, 745.
A postal clerk in Dubuque opened
letter Just to see if a certain girl was
very sweet on a certain fellow. She
was, and the government is also very
sweet on the postal clerk.
! They do business with dispatch in
Texas. A man in certain nelghbor-
hood who had lost valuable mare, re-
ceived the following by telegraph: "Mare
: here. Come get her. Thief hung.
, The time is at hand when a fellow
; buys for his chum's sister highly orna-
mental valentine, the great center of at
traction of which is picture of the
s tabled boy who has decidedly more
/ wings than overcoat.
How st. Louis bankrupt got rid of
Sc. 900 in three weeks was explained to
s the satisfaction of the creditors by o wit
t ness, who explained that he was
e "genial" fellow, that he played poker
: and bought lottery tickets.
{ Norristown Herald Love makes
1913 pounds of girl feel no heavier than
$ o feather ON fellows knee. Fulton
= Times And the same fellow would
I have his leg cramped all out of shape by
u seventy-five pounds of wife.
: "Is that friend of yours ?" asked o
!. New York gentleman, pointing to a
:, party who was sailing rapidly down the
. street. Cant tell you till next Satur-
: day." returned the individual addressed.
. . eve just lent him five dollars. "
n In the following there is good deal
l. of truth There are plenty of good but
Il weak women in every community who'll
work, and starve, and scrimp, in order to
S furnish their parlors, and then won't sit
Q in 'em fo1sfear of iniuring the furniture.
o The correspondent of a Western news
:. paper says that Claude Burroughs, on
l. being sent from the Union Square Thea
l. ter to act in the Brooklyn Theater wrote
is note to the.young woman to whom he
It was engaged, saying that he wished the
= Brooklyn establishment would burn
), down.
IL This is dreadful winter for the poor
IS icemsn. Every time says the Burling-
a ton Ho@keye, they have raised ale
@ piteous wall that there will be an
other ice famine next season, the ther-
mometer goes down to bed rock, and the
il Mississippi freezes from top to bottom
n and half way back.
l. Mr.. Holly, the engineer, will attempt
IS to heat the entire city of Lockport, n.
1t Y. by steam. The city is divided into
II districts, and each district is to have its
y separate boiler. Mains from each boiler
t, are run to the different houses, and all
of the occupant has to do is to turn n faucet
and obtain all the heat he wants.
The newsboys Of Washington are uni.
formed. This is departure from the
! ancient and accepted Uniform OF the
re- newsboys, which usually consists OF
k mans coat, one suspender and cigar
/. stump. Sometimes, under stress of very
4. irving aud destitute circumstances, the
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