Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-04-07
Items of Interest.

The New York Medical Journal
claims that bruises do much better when
treated with hot than with cold water.
Corn in Georgia is said to be as high
as mans head. Corn is apt to rise to
q mans head, especially in a fluid state.
One barber's shop in Springfield,
Mass, contains the notice 1" No talk
ing with a customer, unless he begins
the conversation.
There are said to be only twenty ex-
Confederates s-including Jefferson Davis
and Robert Toombs-whose disabilities
have not been removed.
The pasting of printed slips on the
back of postal card obliges the recipi-
ent to pay additional postage. This fact
is not generally known.
Abraham Lincoln, in his attack of
smallpox, said "Now l am willing to
see the office seekers, for at last have
something I can give 'em all.
1t was a stranger with red hair who
opened the spring season at Niagara Falls.
After seeing that he had red hair, no one
questioned his right to go over.
The enormous quantity of 400, 100000
pounds of rosin was produced in the
United States for the year 1876; about
800, 900 casks of spirits of turpentine.
The richest copper mine~-the Calmut
and Hecla-near Portage Lake, Mich, it
is stated, was discovered by the roofing
of pig in an ancient pit some ten years
ago.
"Women," remarked the contemplative
man, care as deep as the blue waters OF
Won bay" "Aye, sir" reioined the
contemplative man, "and as full OF
craft"
At the station house in Waterbury,
Ct, they have a "Welcome motto
over the entrance to the cells, thus max
ing it pleasant and homelike for the oc-
cupants.
"Can animals communicate ideas Z"
askcs an exchange. If they cannot there
is a vast amount of wasted conversation
O moonlight nights around fences and
back sheds.
In Chicago about $J,000,000 worth of
leather is produced annually, furnishing
employment to about $500 workmen
The sale of hides last year, it is thought,
amounted to $9, 900, 900.
A Marlborough young man promised
to take the affirmative side of discus
sion before the lyceum if he could choose
the question. This was agreed to, and
he decided on: "Will gunpowdcr ex-
plode?"
Secretary Fish, on a salary of $1,000
wear. lived in house in Washington
the rent of which was $4,000. His total
expenses were about $4,000 a year,
which his large fortune made it easy for
him to sustain.
A New England antiquary found this
entry in a grocers book of the last CEN
tury L" B. B. B. B. b." He traced up
the cipher with great zeal, until the ex-
planation was reached that Bill Beebe
Borrowed Bushel Basket.
Some one declares that twenty minutes
in the smoke of wool or woolen cloth
will take the pain out of the worst case
of inflammation arising from any wound,
and that no one need die from lockjaw II
this simple remedy is resorted to.
A party who recently lectured in Den
yer appeared to be somewhat dissatisfied
with his reception. "Did you have a
large audience?" asked sympathetic
friend. "No; the authorities having
neglected to close the saloons, there was
not much of an attendance.
An imaginative Irishman has i'm.
proved upon Ossian. 4" I returned,
said he, "to the halls of my father by
night, and found them in ruins. L
cried aloud: MY fathers, where are
they? And echo responded &: Is that
you, Patrick M'Clathery :?
The settled expression of determine
ton that mantles the face of a man who
is Just starting out to have tooth pulled
is only equaled by the subdued look
that creeps over his features rs he pauses
with his hand on the knob of the dental
room door, turns quietly around, and tip
toes back through the hallway, out doors
again.
In China it is said to be no uncommon
occurrence for a man to kill himself at
his enemy's door, and to leave him thus
saddled with the moral aud legal conse-
quences of the death. This proceeding
is, it is asserted, the most terrible form
of revenge man can take, and ii is much
dreaded by those who are cons fious OF
having done anything to provoke it.
Dean Ramsay relates that at certain
dinner party the hostess observed that
one of the guests, an Hon. Mrs. Murray,
had no spoon for her soup, and called
the attention of the servant 20 the fact.
Tne man servant, who was an eccentric
old character, replied to his mistress, in
voice which was heard all over the room
Mum, the last time Mrs. Murray was
here we lost spoon!
A bill has been reported in the Connec-
ticut Legislature giving woman who
pays taxes and owns over $500 worth Of
property the same right to vote as any
tramp who sleeps under the hedges and
robs the roosts for living, and wears
the same shirt thirtS-s months. There
is something indescribnbly grand and
impressing in the mighty development