Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-02-24
Items Of Interest.

When a man takes bull by the horns
his chance of getting over the fence is a
toss up.
He-Whooze sweet ? She-Boaf of
us. He-Whooze plum pudding is 90 ?
She-Ooze.
Success don't consist in never making
blunders, but in never making the same
one the second time.
One of the subalterns Of the Grand
Duke Alexis ship staggers under the
uneuphonious name of Boulkowsky.
The bishop of Lonsdale's directions for
the way to heaven: "You have only to
turn to the right and go straight for
ward.
The California friends of DR.. W. H.
Jones. who went thence to Australia,
have received letters saying that he had
been eaten by New Guinea cannibals.
The Athenians erected large statue
of Esop and placed him, though aslave,
on lasting pedestal, to show that the
way to honor lies open indifferently to
ALL
kno ov people so fond ov contradik-
shun that it would not surprise me at all
to hear them disputing with glide
board about the distance to the next
town.
Women have often successfully hid
valuable in their hair, and a young
French lady lately found a thousand
franc note in her deceased mothers
chignon.
Monsieur reads the paper to madam /:
Another crime a woman cut pieces"
Madam Quickly 'EBy her husband ?"
Monsieur Gnnocently)-" Who else
would you expect?'
The Grand Duke Nicholas threatened
to shoot number of Russian officers who
asked either for the opening Of the cam
paign or that they should be sent into
proper winter quarters.
"What are you fencing in that lot for,
Pat? A herd Of cattle would starve to
death on that land" "And sure, your
honor, wasn't fencin it in to kape the
poor bastes out ov it p
In dilemma-The bachelor who re-
marked that "he never would marry
ary woman he didn't respect, and he
certainly couldn't respect any woman
who was willing to marry him"
A lady who assumes to know how boys
ought to be trained, writes as follows
"Oh, mothers hunt out the SOFT tender,
genial side of your boys nature. y
Mothers often do with an old shoe.
General Newton has just finished plans
for erecting new bridge which IS to
cross the Hudson at Peekskill 1t will
be one magnificent span of 1880 feet,
and the floor will be 165 feet above the
water.
Worcester Press: "Young people
who bet kisses on the result of the elec'
ton needn't necessarily wait till March.
They can have them now and the one
who loses can pay when the matter is de
cided.
The Doylestown Pennsylvania) Intel
iqence1. says that "after all there is NJ
heat like that from hickory wood fire.
You wait awhile, adds the Detroit Fres'
Press, hickory wood is nothing to it, an6
the Bible says SO.
hTS. lJOlt1SH hCSdll, VI SdltOH, OulO
has been chosen director of the bank o.
which her late husband was president
and is the second female national banl
director ever chosen, Mrs. J. M. Brad
ley, of Peoria, ILL.,, chosen two years
ago, being the first
Grandma, do you know why cal
see up in the sky 50 far ?" asked Charlie
little four-year-old, of the venerable
lady who sat on the garden seat, knitting
"No, my dear why is it ?" "Becaus
there is nothing in the way" replied tn
young philosopher, resuming his astron
omical search, and grandma her knitting
Courbet, the man who has been con
demned for numbering woman in th'
Rue Taitbout, in Paris, to twenty years
imprisonment, has addressed letter b
the president Of the court, implorint
that the sentence should be changed Il
one of death. He declares that persol
guilty of such crime as his is not worth,
to live.
The cunning that seems to be q par
of insanity is illustrated in the killing O
Erskine Barrett, keeper in the insan
saylum at Northampton, Mass. H
was found with his throat cut in th
ward of which he had charge, and en-
or more of eight maniacs did it; yet
il impossible to ascertain the facts. Sew
eral had blood marks on their hands O
'o.hing, but all deny the deed, q
course there Is no rners Responsibility