The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-06-12
Items Of Interest.

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much to live.
can echo bottled up" is the latest
description of the phonograph.
The train is like a naughty boy, be-
cause the switch will change its course.
Charles Dickens vacant chair was
sold recently for $50. Its original
price was about 81.
Louisville has secret society called
The Elephant. They keep all of their
documents in a trunk.
AS many as 1000 salmon are often
taken at one haul of the seine in Alaska,
some of them weighing 45 to 100 pounds
each,
A Columbus man says he started
thirty years ago to make 81, 400, 900.
He has got the fourteen, but the ciphers
bother him.
81 go through my work." as the
needle said to the little boy. "But not
till you're hard pushed, as the boy said
to the needle.
Red is used for danger signals on
railroads, and always means ''stop."
On a mans noise it ought to give the
same warning.
1t is believed by some that iron was
first discovered in America by some
boys who wanted to raise twenty-five
centa IN on tn the nircus
Now digs the boy the garden plot
With energy intense,
Until he bags the tribe of worms,
And then he skips the fence.
The minais a small green parrot, very
common in India, and great many of
them are taught to say the first verse of
the Mohammedan prayer or creed.
A curious sign has been adopted at
Cupar by a native baker proud of his
knowledge of English, European loaf
er" being printed in large letters over
his door. ,.
In Alaska, they say fish grows which
is so fat that the inhabitants touch
match to its tail and burn the whole fish
up for candle. We should think that
would spoil the fish. .-NOrriStotOn Her
aid.
A beautiful widow of Newport, r. l.,
having let her chalet for the season, was
asked what induced her to desert such
charming retreat "Too much bal
cony and too little Romeo" was her re-
ply. .-. .......
De big sunhower may rise above
De modest 'tater vine,
An brag about its Sunday clothes,
An put on airs so fine
But when de winter howls around,
An de snow lies at de doah,
De big sunfower, oh whar am hep
De tater hez de floah
George Parsons, prominent agricul.
turist near Bloomington, Iowa, has on
his farm turkey gobbler which not
only takes to water like duck, but will
stay under water for minutes at time,
and after emerging, vainly tries to in
duce other fowls to enter the water with
him.
A goslin was Matched in Kingston,
Canada, whose hindquarters were de-
nuded of feathers and were continued
for length of three inches, having the
appearance of the tail of snake, and
squirming when touched just like one.
The goslin did not live to become q
goose. .ti-,.r
The author of the "Youth's Health
Book" does not explain how it is that
the boy of the present age can play
base ball all day and feel all the fresher
for it, but cannot walk half a mile to
and from school without being utterly
used up and getting coddled for it by
his mamma.
The Japanese have record of all
earthquakes in the larger cities of the
empire for the last 1900 years. The
number of slight shocks is very large,
and there have been 140 destructive
earthquakes during that period. There
were twenty-eight of these latter in the
ninth century, and sixteen have occurred
in the present century.