Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-04-14
Items of Interest.

Inc Marqu1Se de OauX is In her
thirty-seventh year.
Some people can't endure a ringing
sensation in the ear, while most ladies
take very naturally to ear rings.
A woman was caught with five smug-
gled violins under her pullback skirts, in
Philadelphia, as she was disembarking
from steamer.
The Buenos Ayres Herald says: Young
men with small salaries can find comfort
able board and lodgings at 178 Corri-
entes street at $3.50 per month.
In the year 1758 Lord Give, then goy-
ernor-general of India. pToR66ld supply
quer Ching. 5jfc9 of Is, 900 men. But It
Wouldn't.
The Senate of Connecticut has passed
a bill giving married women 3 Held ii before
property rights yhbiieGhit eGhit;nn 10 husband % and
marriage, L~.S pronDlulnS uuSpulIu anu
wife wife from conveying property to each
other.
All the male members Of the Swedish
colony at Houlton, Me-, were recently
naturalized. There are now about six
hundred Swedes in the colony, which is
reported to be in very prosperous con-
dition.
Rumor says that Miss Elizabeth En-
rety, of Minnesota, has fallen heir to
million-dollar estate in Europe. Young
men, however, should await contirma-
ton of the news before they make "a
bold stroke for Lib-Errety."
"All the worlds STAGE" he rumi-
mated. "and all the men and women are
merely players, and most of the plays
are from Shakespeare, too !! Before we
were married, Julia and [ played
Romeo and Juliet, and now its mostly
Tempest. ;"
When man in Nevada receives o
notice, signed "601,. telling him that he
must quit that section, he understands
that if he disobeys he will be punished
by vigilance men, Seven thieving
gamblers have just needed such COM
mand in Reno.
Lady (to servant, who has given notice
three days after her arrival But if you
didn't mean to stay why did you take
the place? Sewant-Well, m, when [
see you at the registry Office you looked
SO tired and tagged I took your situation
out of charity like.
A Spaniard and an American were re-
Gently dining together in New Orleans.
The former in passing dish of brains
to the latter said : "What you lack |"
The American offering the Spaniard a
plate of tongue answered "What you
have surplus of.
BY the new liquor law recently passed
by the Maine Legislature, hotels are not
allowed to publish wine lists on their
bills of fare In consequence of this act,
the bills of fare of Portland hotels have
gone into mourning, being heavily bor-
dered with black.
Scene in an Iowa court - Judge ::
"That point has been decided against
you by every court in Christendom, sir,
and there is no use of further argu-
ment." Lawyer every true, but your
honor frequently decides against every
court in Christendom. l."
The Norristown Herald says: The
men who have honesty enough to resist
the temptation of removing an uncan-
celed postage stamp from a secondhand
envelope, and using it the second time,
are the kind of statesmen we want at the
head of our government.
A milk dealer in Chicago has retired
with handsome fortune. When a boy
asks him how to get on in the world, he
SAYS: "Don't be discouraged; you
can't get rich all to wunst. Look at me
All the capital had to begin with was a
milk can and . water pail.
A Rondout chap, having heard of the
wonderful effects of blue glass, has had
inserted in his room two panes of violet
hue, beneath which he has placed di-
lapidated wallet containing 81 note,
and now he is watching to learn whether
it will bloom forth as a new Russia leath-
er one containing $1,000 greenback or
ten $100 notes.
An Individual who sold CLANS on the
Lords day defended himself with the
plea that he cleared the CLAIMS would not
keep till Monday, and it would be better
to pay the costs of court and enjoy free
conscience than to palm off dead CLAIMS
on an unsuspecting people, and suffer
the pangs of remorse p
George Macdonald, the novelist, has
family of eleven children. Girls ano
DOyS nave SuCc6eueu Sdcu ouHOA III oi-
? ternate order, and the usual regularity
: in the Macdonald family has been util
\ lied by giving to each girl the sole charge
of the brother next in age, and expecting
her to exercise over him maternal care
Count z. de z. married an opera stal
of remarkable beauty. His friends con
graduated him, but gruff old cousin
, who was the husband of an ugly old cat
, observed that he should scarcely care tc
have wife whom couple of thousand
r men had right to lorgnette to every eve
ming. "Well, I don't know, said th'
count, "I think it's preferable to having
p a wife whom couple of thousand mel
! wouldn't look at if they could. :"
Y An old pioneer, who believed tina
/, "what was to be would be, lived in {
e region infested with Indians. He Away
took his gun with him, and once, finding
e that some one of his family had borrowed
f it, he would not go without it. Hi
e friends rallied him, saying that there wa
t no danger of the Indians, as, anyhow, HI
r would not die before his time came
- s'Yes," said old Leatherstocking, "bu
suppose / was to meetan Indian, and hi
a time was come, it wouldn't do not to hay'
my gun