The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-07-10
Items Of Interest.

DONn 10 the tuu Vi Nuc AouLAttutu
century no mention has been found of
wood engraving. "H
There are five surviving journalists Of
the State ofNew York who were actively
in service fifty or more years ago.
"Doctor, doctor, painted amessenger;
"come down the street, quick /; there's
man dropped in fit. In an
apoplectic ?" questioned the doctor.
"No, sir he's in a duster, " answered
the messenger.
A French scientific authority states
that the ordinary rate of mans walk
ing is four feet per second; of a good
horse in harness, twelve; Of reindeer
to sledge on the ice, twenty-six; of an
English race-horse, forty three, of
hare, eighty-eight; of good sailing
ship, fourteen, and of the wind eighty
two.
An extremely simple method of tr
ing the genuineness Of diamonds is given
in letter to the London 7Fmcs3 If the
specimen is immersed in water, should
it be diamond it will sparkle with al
most undiminished light aud brilliancy
of color; but if it be spurious, whether
it be paste or rock crystal, the q" fire
of the jewel will be completely quenched.
At Rateltoutein, Fraserberg, South
Africa, where water is precious, wool
washing mill is 80 arranged that the
water, after passing through a fine wire
gauze screen and falling over the water
wheel of corn mill, goes to the lands
lying in the valley, and thus IS used
for wool washing, corn grinding,
manuring by carrying down the grease
from the work, and irrigation.
How doth the busy fly
Improve each day that passes
" thout, however, lettering
The butter and molasses!
How clinging are his feet
At morn when we're reposing
How well his mission he fulfills
By keeping us from doSing
Satan's emisssry he,
And Jealous past comparing;
While others merely tempt us, he
Insists upon our swearing.
-Bredkfdst Table.
AS train was approaching Cleveland
it parted in the middle, and the bell
rope snapped off like a thread, the end
of it striking an old lady on her bonnet.
"What's the matterf" she exclaimed.
"Oh, the trains broke in two, replied
gentleman who sat in the next seat.
"I should say So" said the old lady,
looking at the broken bell-cord. "Did
they s'pose trifing little string like
that would hold the train together?'
A young lady in Vassar College, at an
evening party, found it apropos to use
the expression, Jordan is a hard road
to travel" and thinking that too vulgar,
substituted the following: Perambu
lating progression in ped ,strain excur-
sions along the far-famed thoroughfare
of fortune cast up by the banks of the
sparkling river of Palestine, is, indeed,
attended with heterogeneous conglo~
meration of unforeseen difficulties"
Such is the astonishing assiduity of
the natives of the Sandwich Islands, and
such their ea9erness to improve their
condition by initiating the tradesi and
occupations of Europeans, that it is not
unusual to see one of them exercising
the trade of a country blacksmith, having
for an anvil pig of iron kentlage OBJ
tanned from some ship; pair of goat
skin bellows, made by himself or some
of his countrymen; and, with his char
coal fire making articles suited to the
wants of his countrymen, or repairing
and altering such as stand in need of it,
with an ingenuity surprising what might
be expected under the circumstances.