The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-02-20
Items Of Interest.

100, 900, 900.
Every cloud, and every prosperous
pockei-bOOk has a silver lining.
Great Britain has expended 9,OOO,-
900 in twelve years in building ships OF
war. .
Tue imports OF France during 1877
amounted to s75l, ,273, 600, and the ex-
ports to $685., S64, 600 -.
The boy who grows mp with an over
whelmipg fear of dogs will not develop
into book agent in after life.
Eighteen hundred revolutionary ladies'
have been fogged in Russia, and whole
cities of the province of Kowono have
been banibhed to Siberia.
It was at the battle of Edge Hill that
Sir Jacob Ashley made his remarkable
prayer: oh, Lord Thou knowest
how busy I must be this day; if l forget
Thee, do not Thou forget me. March
on, boys"
Scientists say that the age Of iron is
approaching its close, and that steel
will eventually take its place. The
scientific gentlemen are little slow
we have been in the midst of the age OF
steal for some time.
A woman will face a frowning world
and cling to the man she loves through
the most bitter adversely, but she
wouldn't wear hat three weeks behind
the style to save the government.- GIN
cinnah breakfast Table.
The incomes of the leading surgeons
in London, are enormous. Sir Henry
Thompson performs the operation OF
lithotomy ninety times a year, on al
average. His fees range from 81, 600 to
80, 500, and amount to about $l5O,OOO
per annum.
The Times Paris correspondent writes
that the French government will allow
American rihemen to shoot in France
during the international exhibition. The
French law against the introduction OF
weapons is very strict, but the American
rifemen will only be called upon on
landing to justify their nationality.
A Kentucky youth sent to New York
for some visiting cards, and received
some of transparent kind which, when
held up to the light, reveal the outlines
of donkey. Unaware of this peculiar
ity the young man gave his sweetheart
one, and was astonished to hear her say
that she didn't want his photograh.
Joseph Collins started from Morris
town for Clayton, on the st. Lawrence
river, on an ice boat. After he had
passed Wells island he lost control OF
the rudder and the boat, caught by the
gale that just then sprung up, shot
along Ut the rate of mile minute.
On it went for two miles as straight as
an arrow, and at that terrible rate OF
speed struck the wharf back OF the Clay
ton post-ofice. Collins body was alb
solutely split open, and he died soon
afterward.
Perhaps in no portion OF the world IS
honey consumed to the extent that 1t is
in Paris. We are indebted to that city
for styles of dress and to its educated
cooks, the best authority in the world
for concocting dishes that crafty the
palate. With the French, too, parsley
enters into nearly every kind of food.
Immense quantities of this herb are
consequently cultivated in that country,
while the annual consumption OF honey
in Paris alone is estimated at 2O,0OO
tons. AS many as twenty houses are
engaged in the trade.
SOWING THE SNOW.
In the red of the sunset glow,
Ger the cold
Bleak void,
Moves the good angel whom none may
know.
Sowing the snow.
Deadens and dies tue sunset gioW'
And the white
Pure night
presence is filing to overflow,
Sowing snow.
Strange such seeds to the wind to throw
Yet the spring
Would bring
Little Of bloom, did no spirit go
Sowing the snow.,