Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-05-02
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A monarch of the seize-The sheriff. ,g.
A corn on the foot is a little grain
irritating. ....- ....,........ .., ;
Good name for steamboat stewardess
Bertha. 'N'
A suit in the Tennessee courts ran from
1882 to 1875. .0.E
The earth is round like milk wagon
once a day.
The commercial editor reports cheese
"fairly active"
Approaching a crisis-W alking toward
a restless girl baby.
The length of lady's train should
never be under a foot.
1t takes prima donna with ruby lips
to sing in precious tones.
The cucumber is getting ready to take
twist at the inner American.
The first piano ever made in the United
States was manufactured in Philadel-
phia. ....
The fat boarder called the mold on
the pie an oasis-a green spot on the
dessert.
There are people in New York whose
sole business is arranging goods in shop
windows. E-.
There are ninety three societies for the
prevention of cruelty 20 animals IN the
United States. -.....
Jones was helping his fellow boarders
to finish spring chicken. Another
centenarian gone, " said he. --
The barefoot boy WHO earns an honest
living is greater hero than the bully
who dies with his boots on. ... ra
Congressman Newberry, of Michigan,
is said to be the wealthiest man in Con-
gress. His income last year was $780,
600. '.t-
The world averages an annual product
of 69l 100000 pounds of tea, China pro-
ducing 600000,000, Japan 40,000,000,
India $4,000, 900, and Java 100000.
Somebody once called disappointment
"medicine for the soul" It's good
deal like castor oil-it may be whole
some; it certainly is disagreeable.-
"How dare you say damn before
mepn severely inquired a clergyman of
loafer. "How did | know you wanted
to say damn first" retofted this bad
man. atGH iti i;alF ..Il -.sl.H ..t .. ..5
Someidea of the extent to which busi-
ness is increasing in the Black Hills re-
gion may be had from the statement
| that over 200 teams are now constantly
employed in the transportation business
between Bismarck and DeadWood. - ..
| Very few of the shot which Modelling
fired into the head of the Emperor of
| Germany have been extracted by cutting,
as physicians have feared fever might
result. They, however, gradually. ap-
proach the surface of the skin, and are
then easily withdrawn with nippers.
They had all been fiattened against the
skull. t Ha.r .-.,.s.
A canvass of the departments show
that there are sixty-one graduates of
Yale, thirty-fve of Princeton and thirty
of Dartmouth Colleges occupying clerk
ships and other positions in the govern
ment service at Washington. There is
an equally strong representation from
the other leading colleges of the coun-
try The clerks get 5 200, 81 400, $1,000
and $l,600 year.
Just think OF it, said Jones to Brown, -
| A cobbler's bill in hand
| "Three dollars for a pair of boots
| Why, in the Fatherland
They'll sell brace of wooden shoes
| For just ftp or two,
Why don't they introduce 'em here?
I'd like it, wooden shoe I"
-Yonkers Gazette.
Grass widow" or, rather, Grace
widow" is the term for one who be-
comes a widow by grace or favor, not of
necessity, as by death, and originated in
the earlier ages of European civilization,
when divorces were granted but seldom,
and wholly by authority of the Romish
church. When such a decree was grant
ed to woman, the Papal rcscript stated
"gidaca de sraciG, " which, interpreted,
is " widow of grace" In French law it
would read, "veuve de grace" which in
English gives widow of grace" OF
"grace widow"