Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-06-28
Items OF Interest.
Herds of seals keep sentinels.

Herds of seals keep sentinels.
A prickly pair-A couple of needles.
A rude lead pencil was used as early
as 565.
Sheer noonsence-Trying to cut your
own hair.
Cincinnati will sell twenty thousand
mules this year. ..
What most resembles the half of the
moon 2-The other half.
What does person usually see on the
face of Bill P-His nose.
There are about a dozen Turkish
bazars in the Paris exposition grounds.
A dog is the first to greet John China
man when he lands in San Francisco.
He bites the new conner. .s..- .
Whether old age is to be respected
depends. much whether it applies to men
and women or to poultry.
The height of politeness is passing
round upon the opposite side of lady,
while walking with her, in order not to
step upon her shadow.
"-This is meat and drink" said the
sailor, who sat on the gunwale slipping
his grog-following his remark by tum-
bling back into the water. cay, and
there's washing and lodging" said his
messmate.
The see1less orange of Brazil is said
to be the best in the world; but it cannot
be tasted without trip to Dom Pedro's
domains, as it cannot be shipped on ac-
count of its thinness of skin, and it is
not grown elsewhere.
Tt was simply an informal affair"
wrote the editor, of little strawberry
party at a neighbors house. "It was
simply an Internal affair" read the COM
positor, and that editor will never get
any more invitations from that quarter.
The Piute tribe of Indians in Neva-
da was excited over the election of
chief. One Indian thus expressed his
objections to one of the candidates for
the position: Cali same too schmart for
be Injin; heep too much fool for be
white man.
The funeral of William Campbell, the
Scotch giant. who died in Newcastle at
tracted an immense crowd of spectators.
The coffin was seven feet long, three
feet six inches wide, and two feet ten
inches deep. The window and the brick
work to the level of the floor had to be
taken out, and the coffin was lowered by
means of block and tackle to roller
from the third story of the Duke of
Wellington Inn. The coffin with the
body, fifty-two stone, weighed about a
| on.
"Minerva" sends us poem in which
the following lines occur: 81 am sad
and sick and weary, My life is ebbing
a she dh3safaa faaQe vt se9 se9R0gF 0F TBS g9Sm TO-
Her liver needs repairing. All of our
lives are ebbing away, but there is not
particle of use of getting sad and sick
and weary about it-especially at this
season of the year, when there is such
numerousness of strawberries, and pic
MICS and ice cream, and excursions,
and other refreshments. s.-NorrSSto'On
Herald.
PICTURES.
The sunbeams dance long on the clover,
And kiss the red lips of the rose,
But man dances wildly all over,
When hammer drops on his toes.
-Hackensdck Republican,
The peach bushes red in the sunlight,
Which brightens the bloom on the rosei
But It's not the sunbeam imparteth
Such bloom TO the topers red nose.
--Merideu Recorder.
The cherries in clusters hang dropping,
While gooseberries ripen amain;
But both will account for your stopping
With that torturing abdominal pain.
Etratic Enrique.
The clouds are heavy and damp and gray,
The mist and drizZle all pleasures mar;
And man, seized with fever chistened "Hay.
Sadly plays on his nasal catarrh.
--NorriStOlUn Herald.
The bears in Kamschatka have re-
course to q singular stratagem in order
to catch the bareins, which are much
too swift of foot for them. These ami
mails keep together in large herds; they
frequent mostly the low grounds, and
love to browse at the feet of rocks and
precipices. The bear hunts them by
scent till he comes in sight, when
he advances warily, keeping above them,
and concealing himself among the rocks,
as he makes his approaches, till he gets
Immediately over them, and near enough
for his purpose. He then begins to push
down with his paws pieces OF rock
among the herd below. This ma
newer is not followed by any attempt
to pursue, until he finds he has manned
one of the flock, upon which chase
Immediately ensues, that proves success
full or otherwise, according to the hurt
the barein has received.