Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-01-25
Items of Interest.


"Im getting fat" as the thief said
when he was stealing lard.
The country population of California
is only equal to the population of San
Francisco.
The mayor of Jackson, Miss, gives
tramps situations on the chain gang
cleaning the streets.
Twas ever thus from childhood's hour
We've seen our fondest hopes decay
The fire went out, the batter sour
We can't have buckwheat cakes to-day.
The figure of Liberty was first intro
duced on dimes and half dimes in 1886,
but the circle Of stars did not appear till
1888.
A man in Ohio is having house hewn
out of solid rock, the material being cut
away SO as to leave the walls, roof and
floor all of the one piece.
Captain James B. Fades is the most
successful dentist in the business. He
has received half million dollars for
clearing the mouth of the Mississippi.
Last year a Chicago dealer failed,
among his assets being 5000 worth of
ice. The marshal kept watch over tho
estate till it melted away and then
brought in bill for 1914 for doing so.
There is some foundation for the vam-
pire legends after all. Crooks, an Eng
iish engineer, while surveying the 18th
mus of Darien, had his blood sucked
during sleep by vampire bat, and died
from the consequent exhaustion.
In store at Mendoza, ILL.,, town of
six thousand inhabitants, there met by
accident the other day six men over six
feet four inches high, the average height
being within hardly'appreciable fraction
of six feet five and the average weight
1861 pounds.
1t is noted that probably the Oldest
settler in California is Peter Storm, who
arrived in the Golden State in '33. He
was the maker of the famous bear
flag" of Sonoma, when 1864, the citi-
zens of that place declared that Califor-
MIA should be an independent State.
A man was recently convicted in
southern Germany of numbering one OF
family and attempting to poison four
others. The Judge naturally thought
that such heinous crime should be
punished with more than usual severity,
and SO sentenced the murderer to death
and fifteen years imprisonment.
Mr. Marshall, the first discoverer of
gold in California, still lives in Coloma,
in that State. In this place he made his
great discovery thirty years ago, and has
remained there ever since. He made
fortune in mining, but has spent nearly
all of it. and is now a comfortable culti-
vator of grapes.
''Ill bet make him break i'll week,
said a Troy IN. Y. youth when COM
panion, urged by his betrothed, took the
pledge at public temperance meeting.
The effort was successful, and when the
Young man came to his senses he was
SO much mortified that he went upon
spree which ended with his death in
few days.
Laughter 'tis the potr mans plaster,
Covering up each sad disaster.
Laughing, he fcrge:s bis troubles,
Which, though real, seem hut bubbles.
Laughter It's seal of nature
Stamped upon the human creature.
Laughter, whe' her loud or mute,
Tells the humsn kind from brute.
Laughter ii, Hopes living voice
Bidding us to make our choice,
And to Gull from thorny bowers,
Leaving thorns and taking flowers.
Captain Lunginers, of the Danish
vessel Lutterfeld, communicates to Il
Copenhagen paper an interesting ac-
count of novel experience which oc-
Cured on December 10, 1876, while on
a voyage to Valparaiso. The vessel was
at this time in the neighborhood of
Terra del Fuego, about 140 miles from
Magellan's straits, when early in the
morning it narrowly escaped collision
with an island where no trace of land
appeared on the charts. The vessel
hove to until daylight, when the cap
proceeded with boats crew to the new
island, which had gradually diminished
in size since the first observation.
Around the conical rocky mass the
water was kissing, and although no
smoke appeared, it was found to be too
highly heated to permit of landing. The
sinking continued slowly, until at eight
o 't!ock fhe island was completely sub
merged, and an hour later the vessel
passed over the spot whore it had dlsap-
peared. This volcanic island is proba-
bly, due to the same causes which have
produced the recent severe earthquakes
on the west coast of South America.