The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-03-06
Items Of Interest.
Dynamite looks like brown sugar.


All the gold in the world could be
welded into twenty-three foot cube.
The timber of the oak is not of much
value until the tree is a hundred years
old.
Ten persons at or over 100 years o
age died in New York last year, the old
est being Ill.
Last year there were published in
England 3,049 new books, and ., DAG new
editions, and 4S1 American publications
were imported. Asusual, theology leads,
vEsh 485 books brought out-fction,
with 446, being second.
Michael Reese was once taking a tif-
teen-cent dinner at the Miners restau-
rant, when he called loudly 10 the wal
ter: "Do You consider this good beef ?"
"Certainly; cattle came all the way from
Texas. II they hadn't been good beef
they couldn't have stood the trip"
"Ten dimes make one dollar" said
the schoolmaster. "Now go on, sir.
Ten dollars make one-what p "They
make one mighty glad, these times" re-
piled the boy, and the teacher, who
hadn't got his last months salary yet,
concluded the boy was about right.
At the close of the sitting of the Illi-
nois House'of Representatives the clerk
read the following I" l am requested to
announce that the Rev. DR.. Mcfarland
will deliver lecture this evening in the
hall on Education Of Idiots. Mem
bers of the Legislature are invited to
attend" r....,. ......
A correspondent writes from Helena
City, Montana, that there is no city in
the country more quiet and .well-govern-
ed, and adds: "We have an active vigi-
lance committee, plenty of rope, and
convenient pine tree always on hand.
There have been seventeen men hung
on that tree." .-t. ''s -ii..'..
Among the Indian defendants in a
land suit lately brought in San Francis
co, were Ellen Green, Mary Black, Jack
White, Lucy Red, Flora Pink, Simon
Tight, Bartholomew Loose, One Cheats,
Two Cheats, Square Pill, Round Pill,
Sour Pill, Soft Pill, Hard Pill, Tough
Pill and Slow Pill. .r a.-a'.r
1t appears that there is better sys
tenn of cremation in Madras than in any
other part of India. In Bengal, dead
bodies are placed .on an open funeral
pyre, which speedily gives forth an un-
pleasant odor, while vultures and dogs
hover round. But in Madrass the body
is put in sort of mud pie, and baked
until nothing remains but the calcined
bones, which are duly cast into the
Cauvery.
An old poet said ga low, soft voice was
an excellent thing in woman" Yes, it
probably is, but of what account is it
when she suddenly has occasion to call
heroldest son off the top Of the house,
shout after the departing milkman, shoe
COW out of the garden, shrek down
the cellar that the baby had fallen into
the cistern, and howl "fire for her
neighbours blazing barn, all at the same
time.-Haaokeye. OIL .7Ft
A French paper says that in COM
mune, near Avranches, an owl has taken
terrible vengence for the loss of her
young which had been killed by farm
er's lad, For four days the owl was on
the watch for the destroyer, and on the
fifth, upon the boy leaving the farm
house, the injured bird, which had been
perched upon tree, pounced down
upon him, and with one stroke OF its
claws tore out his left eye. .1r
| A magnificent pair of fossil elephant
iaw-bones has been received at the
Smithsonian Institute in Washington,
from the Black Hills. The preservation
Of the specimen is unusually fine, being
less broken than any others now in the
collection, and larger. The indications
presented by this animal are OF new
species of those, gigantic pachyderms
peculiar to prehistoric times, and, pend
ing this decision, lively time among
| the Psychologists may be anticipated,
! J THE COCK AND THE SUN. $500
cock sees the sun as he climbs up the east,
I" Good-morning, Sir Sum- it's high time you
appear
I've been calling you up for an hour at least
I'm ashamed of your slowness at this time
Of year. r'
The sun, as he quietly rose into view,
Looked down on the cock with show Of
faslu fine scorn :30I d had gEd ~
"You may not be aware, my young friend,
but it it is true, ..,;l.-r s,w
That rose once or vice before you, sir
{ were born ~ "' A74 90 'A oA@
'll3 & os. 9r8 ak7T& Nicholas.
4 Twenty-seven years ago, lady now
living in this city, deposited 300 in a
Philadelphia bank, and had the amount
regularly entered in bank pass-book.
She subsequently lost the pass-book,
and believing that she could not draw
the money in consequence Of the absence
of this evidence of her deposit, never
again went to the bank. In looking over
some old papers in Philadelphia, not
long since, the book was found, and
efforts were made to find out whether
any of her kinspeople were yet living,
but this proved unsuccessful. At last
she was traced to Nashville. Letters