Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-02-10
IN ADVANCE.
NO. 6.
Items of Interest.

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men under arms.
Dairymen are getting richer than any
body else in Wisconsin.
"What would you do, madam, if you
were gentleman ?'' Sir, what would
you do if you were one ?"
The man with an ulster, a pair of
boots and O shirt collar can wear other
clothes, but they are not absolutely nee
essary.
The present is the youngest legisla
/ ture ever assembled in Georgia, there.
being six members under twenty-six
years of age.
Every young man needs to learn how
to drive a horse with one hand. If he
can't do this, he might as well give up
sleighriding with the girls.
An eccentric Englishman, some time
ago, left his daughters by will their
weight in one pound bank notes. The
eldest received $256, 900, the youngest
1896, 720.
A paper thinks that when Republican
woman refuses to use Democratic Jour-
nal for curl paper, it is time for the
country to pause in its mad career of
pOlltlcal u1ScuSSlOn.
The Minnesota farmers have taken
hold of the business of planting trees in
earnest. Over ten millions Of cuttings
were set out during the past year, most
of which are doing well.
A sign in a neighboring city reads
" Hickre nuts for sails /" An intelligent
old gentleman says he doesn't see any
Joke in it, except that the fellow has
spelt "nuts with one t.
A female preacher is said to be writing
" Commentary on the Life of Joshua.
1t is reported that she will observe that
Joshua was successful with the sun, but
he never commanded the daughter to be
still.
Eternity, past and future flashed be-
fore my eyes" he said, "and saw
where the crack of doom began and end
ed" This was his experience the first
time base ball struck him in the
stomach.
! An Alabama paper says the well-to-do
privates of the late war tate great COM
, fort in seeing fiery generals, colonels
; and majors of other days now selling
, peanuts, drawing beer or in other ways
making humble living.
t "My son." said X, kindly, to his
l youthful heir, accustom yourself to
be polite to the porter, the servant girl,
/ the coachman, to all the servants thus
you will come in time to be courteous to
2 all people, even to your parents.
Horace Greeley said that of the thou
sands he lent the most he ever received
back was five dollar note inclosed in a
letter, and upon tracing out the writer OF
the letter he found it came from lunatic
in the Utica asylum who never owed him
cent.
Scene from the schoolroom. Teacher:
"Now, who was the Oldest man mention
ed in the Scriptures" Young scholar: "I
dunno. Who was the cove?" Teacher:
"Why, Methuselah he was over nine
: hundred years old" Scholar: "Golly,
what lot of centennial shows he must
have seen !"
Thanks and a thousand of them to
that unknown genius who intrusted
! trunk, with hive of bees in it, to the
! tender mercies OF Syracuse baggage
! master, the other day. The company
= will pay for the bees, and the doctor
{ thinks his patient will be around again
in fortnight or SO.
THAT story is salty" said Browns
q eldest son, as Brown read the latest
: news on the Eastern question at the
/ breakfast table the other morning.
8 "How So my son ?" inquired Brown,
, cit came by cable. "Well, hasn't it
+ passed through the oceans brine % an
swered the hopeful. Brown left at once
for his Office down town.
: 1t is said of the Rev. Phillips Brooks,
t one of the most popular Episcopal clergy
men of Boston, that on one Christmas
day he received twenty-six pairs of slip
pers and that he is the one of whom it
is said he has two barrels i'll his studio,
t and when ladies bring him their offerings
l of slippers, he says Lefts in that bar
f rel, madam rights in this.
t A man named John G.. Dawes left
e Kern River, CAL, recently with 1000
i sheep for the north. While crossing the
e alkali lands lands near Tulare lake he
. camped for the night, and in the morning
when he awoke he saw his sheep all lying
, down but one, and on examination found
e that there was but that one alive. They
had all quietly died in the night.
:, A Connecticut beau sent telegram to
! his girl, who was in New York, wishing
u her merry Christmas" but omitted
= to pay the charge. 1t cost her twenty
: five cents to find that she was remember
u ed, and in her gratitude she expressed
. him a package containing several coal
!, chunks, which cost him fifty-tive cents
9 to get. He is carrying his confectionery
? to a new place now.
The evidence is accommodating that the
Q Ashtabula horror was caused by train
f wreckers for plumber. The body of
one man was certainly robbed of $1,000
in money, and other bodies were de-
spoiled of watches and jewelry. One
wounded man, in climbing the bank,
was knocked senseless by two rufians,
who robbed him of watch and money.
g Other similar cases are reported by sur
% vivors.
/, An advocate went to visit his client,
h who was in prison, waiting to be tried ON
i u charge of robbery. The prisoner, in
# describing his case and protesting his en-
tire innocence, was overcome with eme1
g ton, and wept piteously. At the end of
o the interview, as the advocate was leav1
v ing the cell, he turned round and, holdi
s ing the handle of the door, remarked
k naively, to the prisoner: "Above all |
n don't forget to cry like that when YOU
g appear before the jury"
t. Plunket was once engaged in CASE
, when, toward the end of the afternoon
is it became a question whether the cour
o should proceed or adjourn till the mex
d day. Plunket expressed his willingness
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