Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-06-07
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items OF Interest.

The average age of circus joke is one
hundred years.
The Queen Of Belgium paints; that
is to say, she paints pictures.
The English refuse white horses for
Army purposes because they ore too
conspicuous.
A four-year-old child in Kennebunk
Me-, has head weighing fifteen pound1
and body weighing nine.
1t is time to sit on the front stoop
with girl and Japanese fan, and listen
to the street musician and the mosquito.
The hen cholera is prevalent in parts
of Minnesota. 1t takes chickens off
about as fast as the oid-fashioned mid
night plan.
A western statisticiaif has found that
Washington Territory has 10000 votcrs,
], 400 bars, and $4,000 bears. BS actual
count, of course.
In the Gasconade river, Miss, the
fish have been dying by thousands, from
eating the worms that drop from the
overhanging maple trees.
Tea made from the leaves OF young
tea plants growing in the conservatory
of the Department of Agriculture at
Washington was recently served to some
visitors.
A man may face death with compo"
sure, and adversity with smiles, but ths
chances are that he will hop and swear
when he discovers that twenty-cent
silver piece has been palmed off on him
for quarter.
Statistics show that the annual con-
sumption of eggs in the United States is
about 10, 600, 600 barrels. The poultry
marked or consumed in 1877 is esti-
mated at $50, O,000,0G pounds of the
value of $68, 100000.
The phonograph may bottle mp the
voice and pass 1t down to future ages,
but the smile that twists the face OF the
man as he seeks solitude aud gazes upon
his name in print for the frst tjmo will
have to be guessed ct.
On the new steamship City of RIO de
Janerio, Which recently sailed on her
first trip to South Americn, there is
machine by which daily supply OF one
thousand pounds of ice can be manutac-
tured, in addition to furnishing a supply
of cold air for the store-rooms.
A very singular murder was recently
committed at Callian, in the Bombay
Presidency. A respectable Bunnya
drove out in his bullock Gait to collect
debts in neighboring villages. In the
afternoon the cart and bullocks returned
and stopped at the Bunnya's house. The
Bunnya was seated in front with the
reins in his hands. His wife and family
saw him arrive, and after waiting some
time wondered why he did not enter the
house. They went out to speak to him
and found his dead body tied and the
reins fastened to his hands. There
we're marks of violence on the body
which leave no doubt that he was muir
dered.
In a rural district of Forfarshire q
young ploughman once went courtlng
on Saturday night. In vain he racked
his brain for some interesting topic; he
could call up no subject at all suitable
for the occasion-not one sentence could
he utter, and for two long hours he sat
on in silent despair. The girl herself
was equally silent; she no doubt re-
membered the teaching of the old Scotch
song, "Men maun be the first to speak, |"
and she sat patiently regarding him
with demure surprise. At last John
suddenly exclaimed, "Jenny, there's a
feather on yer apron!" 81 widna haze
wondered if there had been twa. replied
Jenny, "for I've been sittin' aside a
goose a. NIGHT.