The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-06-26
Items Of Interest.

"The warm season"-Pepper.
Bellies are generally high-toned.
Desperate game-A stag at bay.
japan cultivates 100000 acres, one
fourth of her fertile area.
In love, as in letters, engagements al
ways begins with a-vowel.
How may a man always become
four hnndedi By doubling his fists.
The American furniture trade is very
large as compared with other countries,
The woman who makes a god pud
ding in silence is better than she ".
makes tart reply.
William Cullen Bryant was q preco-
cious youth and at ten years Of age
translated Latin poems.
The Oldest book in prose is "Herod-
otus." The oldest printed book with a
date is a psalter, printed at Mayence,
I5t7.
A mode in household fnery quite
new is the introduction of tiny buttons
for sofas, chairs and ottomans. They
keep in place the tides.
Over thirteen thousand telephones
are now in operation in the United
States, to say nothing of talking ma
chimes and regular speech makers.
"Have you dincdp" said lounger to
his friend. 81 have upon my honor"
replied he. "Then, rejoined the first,
81 fear you have made but slight re-
past"
When the royal baby of Brazil cries,
his nurse remarks, pure Castilian,
''Now, you Luiz Marir Philippe de AL
cantera Gasiao Miguel Gabriel Gonzaga-
you just keep quiet"
Benny" said his maiden aunt, "you
should eat the barley in your soup, or
you will never get a man." Benny,
looking up, naively inquired: "Is that
what you eat it for, aunty?"
People snore because they lie with
their heads thrown back, and there is
consequently dropping of the lower
jaw. To break the habit, sleep with the
mouth closed and the chin low.
The postmaster at Lebanon recently
presented four thousand three cent
pieces at the Philadelphia Mint for re-
demption, and about half pint of them
were returned, the smallest hole being
sufficient cause for their rejection.
A cunning iuryman addressed the
clerk of the court when administering
the oath, saying, "Speak up; cannot
hear what you say" "Stop; are you
deaf ?" askelt the Judge. "Yes, of one
ear" "Then you may leave the box,
for it is necessary that iurymen should
hear both Sides"
1t is curious fact that Shakespeare's
illusions to fish are most numerous in
the various parts of "Henry w." In
his other plays he mentions herring
seven times, eel four, luce twice, pike
once, salmon, cod, trout, minnow, twice
each; mackerel, gurnard, ,dace, gudgeon.
loach, tench, and shark once each.
Near Sprinfgeld is remarkable nat
ural curiosity. Two sizeable and healthy
trees of quite distinct families, a U aple
and white oak, are growing from the
same trunk three or four feet above the
ground. To all appearances they start
out in life as one and the same tree, and
only after long period of strange union
assert their separate individualities.
The ancient Egyptians possessed the
art of cutting canoes to degree of
nicely which we are utterly unable to
approximate. They knew the relative
diameters of the earth and moon. They
possessed the art of tempering copper
SO as to cut the hardest granite. This
is lost art to us. Nero, the Egyptian
engineer, is said to have made steam
engine. .
We meet with extravagances IN the
world, which we must endure, and in
deed, adopt, while they last. Their alb
surdity does not completely appear till
after they are over. During the reign
of Henry III there was time when it
was thought impossible to exist without
sugar plums. Every one carried his
box of ugar.plums in his pocket, as he
does now his snuff-box. 1t is related in
the history of the Duke de Guise, that
when he was killed at Blois, he had Ills
comft-box in his hand.