Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-06-23
Items of Interest.

The British National Penny Bank announces
50 900, 900 of deposits.
What kind of robbery is not dangerous =?
A safe robbery, of course. 10
cross dog will make the top of hemlock
board fence feel soft as downy pillows are.
The printing of one and two dollar notes by
the United States government has ceased.
The English Quakers have become reduced
to about II, 900 persons, from 60,OO0a century
ago.
The days on top of Mount Washington are
about forty minutes longer than on the sea
level.
A California boy, fed exclusively upon
grapes, gained forty-three pounds in twenty
seven days.
So long as the mud remains foot deep in
Roumania, there's no danger of any Cossacks
biting the dust.
Between Kherson and Schwerin, there's
vast amount of profanity going on all over
Europe just at present
Three hundred and ninety-fve American loco
motives, representing @5,490, $40, have been ex-
ported in seven years.
Muley Hassan, emperor Of Morocco, is be.
hind hand in sending troops to Turkey. The
Mulcy family in this country is more noted for
its behind foot.
with Turkey" And Hungry tramp sympa-
thizes with the same kind of bird-but the
cable doesn't say so.
While Nr. Adam Miller was plowing his farm
in Undertook, he brought to the surface
large turtle, which was alive, 'and had marked
on its SHELF MAY 30, 1881, H. A. D."
A thiewng man who was taken from his house
by his neighbors and tarred and feathered, re-
marked, on again reaching home, that he didn't
like those target parties where he got all the
! tar.
Thirty years ago Sheboygan school teacher
struck boy on the head with ruler. One
day recently the boy, now man of forty, met
that teacher and pounded him. The wheel of
time never stops.
They tell us of Kentucky schoolmaster who
had his wife for pupil, and foundit necessary
to chasuse her one day. Next day notice ap-
peared Oh the door, saying: "School closed for
one week schoolmaster is i'll"
To-day Berlin is covered with the wrecks of
speculative credulity. Many of the millionaires
! of few years ago are in a state verging on ab-
solute poverty Over production and over
speculation have caused the crisis.
| Glass bottles were first made in England
! about 1863. The art of making bottles and
| drinking glasses was known to the Romans
| eighteen hundred years ago. rs they have been
! found among the ruins of Pompei.
Irascible old party" Conductor, why didn't
! you wake me ~ as 1 asked you?" Conductor
:" did try, but all could get out of you
was: IAN right, Maria; get the children their
breakfast, and I'll be down i'll a minute. '"
Summer time here, and once more the poeti-
cal young man wanders by the river side and
tries to get into a row-boat by reaching for
| it with his hands, and having it gently glide
off from the shore with all of him but his
! feet.
The little town of Salem N c., with two
| thousand inhabitants, has gathered and sent to
market during the past three years more than
! three million pounds of blackberries for which
the gatherers received nearly half million
dollars.
A Russian printer charges SIS to print 100
visiting cards. This is about ten times asmuch
as the American printers charge for similar
job. But then it takes the former ten times as
long to set up Russian name, and although
the card is two feet long heis sometimes obliged
to run few syllables of the jaw-breaker on
| the other side.