The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-11-20
Items OF Interest,
Eugene Field.


Does it hurt joke to crack it?
Kidnapping-Infancy in slumber.
The question of the hour-What time
is it?
Patient waiters-Physicians without
practice.
Farmers clubs-Broken pitchfork
handles.
Is not detective in the United States
coinage bureau minis spy?
Chess clubs are again being revived
as fashionable organizations.
Deer horns increase in size each year
until old age, and then diminish.
Penciled eyebrows are coming into
vogue, a fact which we are sorry to re-
cord.
When man goes out of the poultry
business he tears the tattered hen sign
down.
Oyerskirts are worn long.
Item. Yes, all winter long.-N Y.
NeaOS.
Gloves with buttons and opening at
the sides seem to grow in favor with the
ladies'.
Seven hundred million postage stamps
are annually defaced in the American
post offices.
A Missouri editor has abandoned his
sacred calling and joined the ministry
Galveston Nea0s. ...
A correspondent asks, "What did
William Tell ?" So far as we remem-
Der he said, "0h, shoot the apple, any
wayp
Among the latest styles in suits is
plum -colored silk princess dress, hav-
ing y square train trimmed with plating
of damasse silk.
Lady" How much is this yard ?"
Clerk" Three dollars and half. l
is an elegant material-double; it can
be worn on both sides. If you tear one
side you've only to turn it on the other. "
What is more aggravating than, when
starting out in heavy rain storm, to
attempt to button your overcoat up to
your neck, and ascertain that the only
button on the coat is located down at its
equator?
A striking popularity of the cater
pillars of Patagonia is their cannibalism.
They prey universally upon their own
kind. Vegetation is frequently dried
up in that region, and hence this canni-
balism.
If you desire tangible evidence of
the impurity of air that has been once
breathed, hang up canary bird in a
cage at the top Of closely.curtained
bedstead, and if the bed is occupied, the
bird will be dead in the morning.
Paris consumes 300, 200 quarts of milk
per day. One man nets $1,000 every
year by selling 480 quarts per day to a
select circle of customers at fourteen
cents per quart. He keeps sixty COWS
on farm Of 300 acres, and expects each
COW to give him eight quarts OF milk per
day.
The expression "halcyon days." 80
frequently employed to denote season
of special security and joyousness, is
derived from an old fable that the hal
cyon, OF king-fsher, made it's nest on
the surface of the seas, and possessed
some innate power of charming the
waves and winds to rest during the time
of it's incubation.
The game Of chess, it has been de.
cided, is of purely Oriental origin.
The Hindoos claim TO have originated il
or rather, say that silva, the third
person OF their trinity (Siva, the de,
stroyer-alas Of time), gave it to them
Professor Forbes has shown that it has
been among them five thousand years
but words tell no myths, and the Benga
lee name for chess, shathorunch, casts
its ballot for Persia and Shatrenschar--
though India may almost claim it, OIL
account OF the greater perfection tt
which it has brought the game, and the
, lead it has always taken in chess-cul
) ture. India reioices in a fourishinf
chess-school. The Indian problem j
known as the perfection of enigmati'
chess.