Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-10-17
BREVTTIES.

THE Cornish mines have been worked
for over 1000 years, and are entirely
exhausted.
MARRIAGE" observes somebody, ais
no uneven game. It's tie" A beau
knot, of course.
The officers of the five degrees of the
Legion of Honor receive respectively
$50, 800, 5000, 5000 and 81 200 year.
The population of Holland is fully a
million less than that within radius Of
ten miles of the General Postofice, Lon
don.
THEODORE TnToN, now en- route for
Europe, has volume of poems ready
or publication, which will be brought
out in the fall.
The custom of saddling districts in
which disturbances occur with the cost
Of an additional police force has worked
very successfully in Ireland.
THE new constitution of California
provides that no Judge shall draw a
salary who has on his hands a case to
be decided which is 80 days old.
Two BOYS of 8 years went on the wa
ter in boat, at Senickley, Pa. One
fell overheard, the other plunged in to
rescue him, and both were drowned.
GEN. WALKER, who is to superintend
the United States census of 1880, esti-
mates that the population will be be-
tween forty-six and forty-seven millions.
AS THE storm goes and the stars
come so will trouble go and Joy come,
if we but live for the within, but not in
selfshness. Days will look all the
brighter for the clouds across the sun
shine.
The Land Office in Washington is kept
busy night and day with the increasing
demand for public lands. In the four
months ending with April as much land
was taken up as during any year here
tofore.
THE Bank of France had an invisible
Photographic studio behind the CASH
ier's desk, whence ikenesses can, at q
signal from the latter, be taken. The
camera is much used, too, in the exam
ination of documents. An erasure is
often obvious in the photograph of a
document which is not seen in the doc
ument ITSELF
THERE is a religious movement
against tobacco in the Oneida Com
munity, where the weed has been freely
used. The reformers do not take any
pledge, nor abstain whenever they de.
sire to smoke or chew, but pray fol
God to remove the appetite for tobacco
and many declare that they have thus
been entirely cured.
The gallery of the Paris Louvre
seems to be school of morals as well as
of art. A mother, in showing her little
boy the Venus of Milo, was asked by
him, "What did they cut her arms of
for?" Because she put her fingers in
6he sugar bowl" was tho roply. Little
Jacky secretly resolves to be no longer
liable to such terrible infiction.
VICTOR HUGO was talking about age
and confessed, in a charming humor
that the most disagreeable advance tc
him was that from 80 to 40. ooh, that
terrible 40l" he said. "But," remarked
some one, "I should think it a great
deal better to be 40 than So" "Not al
all," replied Hugo; $40 years is the old
age of youth, while 30 years is the youth
of old age"
AT sale of portion of the Firmin
Didot Library, few days ago, in Paris
missal bequeathed to Queen Gather.
inc, wife of Henry Y. of England, by
her father, Charles VI, and afterward
the property of Henry VI, Henry VII
and Henry VIII, was bought by Paris
bookseller for $15,200. A manuscript
which belonged to Mary, Queen Of
Scots, fetched $4,000. The five days
sales realized $126,600.