Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-12-13
Items Of Interest.
Sweet meats-Sugar cured hams.

Sweet meats-Sugar cured hams.
A feeting show-A naval review.
A home stretch-Over a mothers
knee.
A country seat-A split bottom chair
n the front yard.
Why is the sun like good loafp Be-
cause it is light when it rises.
Travellers tell some pretty tall stories,
and house-builders erect others.
If the women of Portugal are Portu-
guese, are the men Portuganders e?
Adam Faluere, of Frankfort, Ky.,
weighs 400 pounds. A heavy Faluere.
Considerable arsenic is used in the
manufacture of gentlemen's underwear.
Laramie county, wy, employs men
at 800 month to hunt down road
agents.
A new town in Idaho has been named
Onegirlia, because there is only one
girl there.
There is no better anti-fat remedy than
whisky. It will make a man lean in a
short time.
Isn't it queer how all the smoke in
stove will find its way to one little crack
and come out2
If man could live by the sweat Of
his brow, his living would come much
easier in hot weather.
"Be a philanthropist, shrieks New
York paragrapher, "even if you can do
skins from the sidewalk"
The borrowing fiend, who is always
little short of change, is an enemy, to
whom no quarter should be shown.
The saddest time, we think, in young
mans life is when his girl writes to him
that she wants her old letters, and that
he can have his fifty-cent diamond upon
application.
SIS your master up? ?" asked an early
visitor of a nobleman's valet. "Yes,
sir" answered the valet with great inno-
cence "the butler and I carried him
up about three o'clock"
"Why are those flags fyingP" asked
man of cute chap, pointing to the
stars and stripes as they tapped and
futtered in the air. "The breeze causes
them to do So" replied the C. C.
A schoolboy upon being asked by his
teacher how he should fog him, replied:
"If you please, sir, I should like to
have it on the style of penmanship-the
heavy strokes upward and the downward
ones light"
Some of our exchanges are printing
long articles about wax. producing trees.
But, strangely enough, they omit to
mention the birch, which has produced
more whacks than any other variety
Boston Transcript
A musician, George Sharp, had his
name on the door thus: sc. Sharp"
A wag of a painter, who knew something
of music, early one morning made the
following undeniable and significant
addition: "Is fat"
Who can explain why collar button
and shirt always sever their connec-
tions when the wearer is away from
home As long as a man stays in the
house, he might wear shirt ten years
and never loose button.
The temple of Ypsambul, in Nubia, is
cut out of solid rock, and is of vast di-
mensions. In it are four colossal figures
sixty-fve feet high, twenty-fv feet
across the shoulders, with faces seven
feet high, and ears about yard long
"How are you ?" said one Keokukian
to another as they met on the street.
"Pretty dun'd we'll, replied the party
addressed. How are you ?" Pretty
we'll dunned." Broad grins from both
parties. .-Keotuk Constitution.
All writer's, who have given attention
to the matter, are agreed that Nathaniel
Buffers Weekly NeaOS, which first ap-
peared in 1922, fulfills all the conditions
of a newspaper, and that publication
has been accepted as the first English
newspaper.
The Catholic Review gives the Ro-
man Catholic population in the United
States in 1878 as 6,408, 900, against 81
600, 900 in 1850. Churches in 1850 we're
1,073; in 1873 there are 5,248. Priests
in 1850, 1900; in 1878 there are 1894.