Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-01-13
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bors to subdue himself.
To confide too much is TO put your
lemons in another mans squeezer.
There are IA, ,OO7, ,522 school going chill
dren in the United States and Terri
tories.
The latest slang is "He's a good fell
low, but he's bit off more than he can
chew"
"Man proposes"- but there are still
13, 900 more women than men in Massa-
chusetts.
A man at church fair the other night
cried out: "Ive got the oyster. Gimme
the prize"
The art Of living easily as to money is
to pitch your scale OF living one degree
below your means.
"Tite boots" says Josh Billings, is
a luxury, in that they make man forget
all his other miseries."
1t was scurvy that prevented the Eng
lsh expedition from reaching the north
pole. A scurvy excuse is better than
none.
Among the resolves for the new year,
resolve that if you write anything for the
newspapers you will close when you have
said what You have to say.
For the next ten days headless wooden
soldier, legless tin horses and three
wheeled express wagons will block the
way through the front hall.
Scoop the core out of baked apple,
fill the hole with milk and sugar, and set
out doors to freeze. Then go out after
coal, step ON the apple, and take a slide
down the step and over three old knots
and two ashpans.
After the sham battle at Princeton, n.
j., the troops partook of an elegant col
lation and had good time. If the shade
of any old Continental viewed the pro-
ceedings after the battle he must have
longed to come back and re-enlist.
"a woman, =" remarked q Norwich Off
cial, " first loves fast man, then good
man, and finally any man." Then his
wife appeared in the doorway, and he
went back into the cellar and began to
split up kindlings in an abiect manner.
1t seems there never was so dull
time among the theaters. Whether the
Brooklyn fire has anything to do with it
or not, the attendance at theaters is
pretty good test of how flush the
community feels, and the general feeling
of hard times is doubtless the main ele-
ment in the situation.
If any good resolutions respecting the
conduct of life during the new year have
been floating through any young mans
head, this is the time to enter upon the
determination to keep them and to begin
to carry them out. Put them down on
paper, if that will strengthen the minds
purpose in regard to them.
1t is now ascertained beyond doubt
that two young ladies of ROndout, n.
Y, sisters, named Charlotte and Martha
Smith, who left intending to visit their
uncle at Bloomington, H., were among
the victims of the Ashtabula railroad
disaster. They were the daughters of a
widow recently reduced from affiuence to
poverty, and the blows falls upon her
with crushing weight.
A sad example of the fatal nature of
diphtheria has just occurred in Paris. A
whole family, consisting of father and
mother and two children, were attacked
With it, and carried off in q short time.
Dr. Regnault, who attended them,
caught the malady, and in spite of the
care of one of his colleagues, DR.. Biset,
died also in twenty-four hours. DR..
Biset was then attacked in his turn, and
hycxpired.
A man and his wife were found in
their dwelling in San Francisco, both
with bullet wounds, from which they
have probably since died. The husband
said, rs his dying testimony, that his
wife shot him, and then accidentally shot
herself. The wife said, as her dying
testimony, that her husband shot her,
and th9n accidentally shot himself. Each
gave jealousy as the melting cause of
the others crime. Nobody else saw the
shooting, and the police had no means
of reaching the truth.
Several instances have lately been
noted of mistaken identiications of
bodies, and the subsequent return of the
supposed dead men. Martin Monohan's
case is exceptionally odd. He disap-
peared from Louisville, and a few days
afterward the remains of q murdered man
were identified and buried as his His
love affairs were overhauled by the
police, and theory as to why he had
been killed was worked out. Recently
lie returned alive, and was so elated In
finding that he had not been murdered,
that he went on spree and nearly killed
himself with whisky.