Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-03-15
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Items OF Interest.

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The mourning color of the Turks is
blue.
A Lecture Field that no man has yet
taken-Kate Field.
Motto for the Crispins-" Strike till
the last armed foe expires u
Thieves in Quebec steal the fur caps
from the heads of the passers-by.
The man who takes the most interest
in his business-the money lender.
The great difficulty in skating is to
maintain unanimity among your feet.
The rats in an Ohio barn rose in their
might and killed the dog that had been
sent in to exterminate them.
There arc now 851 manufacturing es.
Establishments in San Frsncisco, whose
aggregate products amount to $62, 1885,
900.
Great Britain has 154, ,584 acres in or
chards, 38, 957 acres in market gardens,
IL, 042 acres i'll nurseries, and 2, 1877, ,078
acres in forest.
The Ashtabula accident cost the Lake
Shore and Michigan Southern railway
company $483, $40, and all the claims
on account of the accident have been
,ttled.
The worst we ever heard-What is the
difference between q man struck with
amazement and leopard's tail? One is
rooted to the spot, and the other is
spotted to the root.
He-"By Jove, you know-upon my
word--if l were to see ghost, you
know, would be chattering idiot for
the rest of my life" She" Haven't
you seen a ghost?"
The British government has entered
into a contract for the supply of large
number of telephones, and the introduc-
ton of the new invention into the postal
service promises to become general.
John Rhodes, an English miser, living
at Hounslow, died recently at the age Of
eighty, leaving $500,000 to various
London charities. He dressed like
tramp and systematically starved him
self.
Bad luck is simply man with his
hands in his pockets, and his pipe in his
mouth, looking on to see how it is COM
ing ont. Good luck is man of pluck,
with his sleeves rolled mp, and working
to make it come out right.
Reduced to 81, remarked Jones, as
he passed a fashionable tailOr's store
and read the above statement promi-
nently displayed on an overcoat.
"That's nothing; I am reduced to
much smaller sum than that myself"
You can sell your cat for ten dollars
in the Black Hills. 1t will cost You
eighty-five dollars to get out there with
the cat, and get home again, but then
you will be rid of the cat, and that is
worth one hundred and twenty dollars
to any one.
THE POTATO.
I'm a careless potato and care not pin
How into existence l came;
II they planted me drill-wise or dibbled me
To me It's exactly the same.
The bean and the pea may more lOftily tower
But care not a button for them;
Defiance l nod with beautiful flower
When the earth is hOed up to my stem.
Thomas Moore.
The banyan tree of India is sometimes
found to spread out 80 as to show with
one parent trunk three hundred and
fifty stems descending, and again taking
root in the ground, each stem equallng a
large oak tree, while there are thousands
of smaller ones. This tree is so expanded
as to form small forest of itself, where
in 1000 persons could stand.
An Arkansas shotgun is sometimes
more merciful than an Arkansas hus-
band. The other day ruffian, deem
ing his longtime bed-ridden wife an
incumbrance, undertook to shoot her,
but the weapon refused to explode.
Then seizing it by the muzzle he was
stock struck on the head-board of the
bed and the contents of both barrels
were lodged in the brute's body.
A singular discovery has been made
on board the Irvine, q full rugged vessel,
recently in dry dock at Rotherbithe,
, London. The ship had recently arrived
from Peru, at which place the body of a
woman was found imbedded in the cargo,
which consisted of soda. The body is
in good state of preservation, and is
supposed to be that of victim Of an
6drGnQuak6 WHICH OCCuTI6u IuduJ uuu-
dred years ago in Peru. Rings are in
serted in the ears.
, The Louisville, (Ky.) Argus recalls
this about the stalwart new justice Of
the United States supreme court {:
"The success which has attended the
practice of General John M. Harlem is
largely due to his physique and endur'
ance. In the great Pullman palace car
case he was employed on short notice as
one of the counsel. He had but a day
to post himself and study up the author
tiles, but he undertook the task. Lock
ing himself up in his Office with Judge
Z Lochrane, of Georgia, and Mr.. George
M. Pullman, he examined them thor
oughly upon it, grasping all the points,
, and collecting ano arranging his cita-
tions. For twenty-four hours, during
which time his companions alternated
between sleeping and dispensing infor-
nation, he studied the case, and at the
end of that time he had every point at
his finoers' ends. and WAS IA fresh as a