Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-04-05
Items Of Interest.

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The more suits at law the less suits 20
on your back.
A Kansas newspaper offers premium
for the best poem on mud.
France smoked $50, 900, 900 cigars last
year, and 182 tons of cigarettes.
In 1872 there were thirty-two circus
shows on the road. This year there are
but thirteen.
This is a world of secondhand goods.
Every pretty girl has been some other
fellows sweetheart.
sumed as human toOd Jnan any OGner
cereal. 1t is said to be the main food of
one-third of the human race.
Chicago has $500 liquor saloons for
her 10000 inhabitants, giving one sa-
loon for every 178 people, or one to
every thirty five adult males.
The number of children lost daily in
the city of New York is very large. Over
thirty found temporary quarters at the
police central station one day recently.
1t costs Just six cents to paste q
printed slip on postal card and send
it through the mails. The sender con-
tributes one cent and the receiver the
other five.
Josh Billings says lasting reputa-
shuns are q slow growth. The man
who wakes up famus sum morning IL
quite apt to go to bed sum night and
sleep it all off.
In New York druggists window
placard announces Ladies afflicted
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them tattooed black, brown, or dark
blue with India ink.
In Kentucky vagrancy is punished
with involuntary servitude, and colored
offender was sold on the block at auction
for six months t. the highest bidder at
Hickman, in that State, the other day.
1t is when a man is carrying pound
of honey on one arm, and bag of eggs
on the other, and leading bulldog by
string, and attempts to brush fly off
his ear, that he feels no man can be an
expert in all things.
Queen Victoria has seven palaces.
Three in London--Buckingham, st.
James, and Kensington. Her out-of-
town palaces are at Windsor, at Osborne,
Isle of Wight, and at Balmoral, in the
Scottish Highlands.
There is no grove on earth's broad chart
But has some bird to cheer it,
So Hope sings on in every heart,
Although we may not hear it.
And if to day the heavy wing
OF sorrow is expressing,
Ferchance to-morrow's sun will bring
The weary heart some blessing.
Dr. G. B. Eddy of Finchville, KY,
who has recently imported from Canada
drove of Berkshire hogs, has erected
for them the finest pen in the country.
1t is made of heavy stone, and through
it runs hallway six hundred feet long,
traversed by stream of water. Per-
feet light and ventilation have been Sc
cured, and the entire cost has been
$4,000.
A fanatic Mussulman at CONSTANT
nople attributes the Sultans disasters to
the fact that Baron Tecco, a former min
lister of Italy in that capital, fraudulent
ly purchased for a mere song the
Prophets sacred flag and sent it to
Turin. The flag certainly is in the pos
session of the Royal Museum of that
city, but its sacred character and magic
al value are entirely ignored by its pres
ent owners.
A popular doctor OF Utica while escort
ing a ladv home the other evening, at
tempted to relieve her cough and sore
throat by giving her a troche. He told
her to allow it to dissolve gradually in
her mouth. No relief was experienced
and the doctor felt quite chagrined the
next day when the lady sent him pan
taloon button with note saying he must
have given her the wrong kind of troche,
and might need this one.
A fearful catastrophe occurred at Par
ma, Italy. An artillery officer and six
men we've trying to uproot an old horse
chestnut tree by the use of dynamite in
the public promenade when, owing to
the officers carelessness, an explosion
occurred, killing the officer, two soldiers,
two children and another person, and
wounding sixty-three. Among the seri-
ously wounded were four noblemen and
several gentlemen who were out for an
afternoon walk, and were attracted to
the spot from curiosity to see the
experiment.
OF FLOWERS.
There we're no roses till the first child died,
No violets, nor balmy-breathei Eeart's-easo,
No heliotrope, rOr, buds so GEAR to bees
The honey-hcarted suckle, no gold-eyed
And lowly dandeon, nor, stretching wide,
Glover and cowslip-cups, like rival seas,
Meeting and parting, as the young spring
breeze
Runs giday races playing seek and hide.
Fo: all flowers died when Eve left Paradise,
And all the world was fowerless awhile,
Until little child was laid in earth
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And from its lips rose-peta!s for its smiles,
And so all flowers from that chifd's death
took birth.
Maurice F. Egan in Scri5ncr.
The ancients had neither pen, ink,
pencil, nor paper; but their needs were
small and their necessities of publication
slight, so that their primitive methods
sufficed. They cut upon stone, and
sometimes blackened the letters after
cutting; more generally and longest,
the stylus" For materials, they had
bronze, brass, leaden sheets, palm-leaves,
skins, bark of trees, tablets covered with
q thin sheet of wax, and rs convenient as
the modern slate for erasure, and the
layers of the stalk of the papyrus. The
brittle papyrus would not endure fold
ing, and so the book was a continuous
roll.
There is no nationality on the face of
the globe that can compare with the
Chinese as vegetable gardeners, with the
exception of the Italians. The gardens
of the latter sonth of this city are mar
wells of order and economy. This nation
ality is spreading its gardens over the
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