The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-05-15
Items OF Interest
Morning rappers-Milkmen.

Morning rappers-Milkmen.
Photography was invented in 1916.
The latest official census gives Italy a
population of 26, ,sO9, 154 souls.
Why should new levies go to war early
in the year2 Because all green things
begin to shoot in spring.
What woman's ghost is it that goes
about doing iucalculable mischief in the
world. The spirit of Ann Tagonism.
The difference between the suburban
citizen and his COW is that he mows
in the lawn, and the cows lows in the
morn.
"There are people who live behind
the hill," is an old German proverb,
which means that there are other folks
in the world beside yourself, although
you may not see them. ...
At Union Mills, N. B., as a six-year-
old child was running across the floor
with pair of scissors in its hand it
tripped aud fell, and driving the points
of the scissors into its heart, died in
stantly.
A girl being bantered one day by
some of her famale friends in regard to
her lover, who had the misfortune to
have but one leg, replied-"Pooh, I
wouldn't have a man with two legs
they're too common"
Laura with novel;" oh, if this
tale were only true, and / were the he
roine |" Kate" What ! with all her
prosecutions, her misery ?" Laura
"Ah but then, dear, remember she
does get husband after all p
Blanqui, the old communist, who is
lying in Clairvaux prison, where he has
been confined these seven years, has
passed thirty-four of his seventy-one
years of life under lock and key. He
has been an inmate of seventeen prisons.
The Hartford Conn. Times estimates
that not less than 1000 persons ninety
years old and upward, have died in Con-
necticut during the last dozen years,
and reasons that the longevity of human
life in that part of the country is grad
ually increasing.
The British Newspaper Press Direc-
tory for 1878 exhibits LIZA newspapers
published in the United Kingdom. In
the United States in 1877 there were
8,079 newspapers and periodicals. OF
British newspapers 1853 are daily, while
of the American 709 are daily.
This is the way one of the ladies who
belongs to the AtIantic's Contributor
Club remembers things: General
Forrest was buried the day my new hat
came home. Hayes was inaugurated the
spring made over my old silk. Dick
ems died when Jenny was baby. Lin
coin was killed when Mary was creeping.
The civil war broke out when Sallie was
cutting her teeth. The King of Spain
was born theyear I was married"
An extraordinary romance recently
transpired ct the Liberty (Ind.) poor
house. For some time woman of sew
enty years has been kept as pauper,
while employed as farm hand was
young man of twenty-six years. A few
days ago the keeper was informed by
the young man that he wished to marry
the old woman, and Notwithstanding all
opposition and advice the affair was con-
summated and the parties are living to-
gether, apparently in all happiness.
Jerry Huckstep, an elderly colored
man living near Liberty Mills, Va, re-
Gently met singular and terrible death.
The show of John Robinson was moving
from Orange Court House to Madison
Court House in Virginia, headed by
several elephants. The old man was
attracted by the procession, and ap-
preaching the caravan was attacked by
one of the elephants and crushed to
death. His body was shockingly mutt
lated, and death was almost instantane-
ous. When overtaken by the vicious
beast the old man was on his way to
work and had his dinner in his pocket.
It is supposed that the elephant shifted
the lunch and attacked and killed the
man to get it, as no provocation was Of
| fered.