Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-06-27
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A column article-A monument.
There are 1000 miles of streets in the
city of London.
The fattest dog has the most win
ming weigh.
There are 300 brandy distilleries in
Middle Tennessee.
A Kentucky farmer. found six Of his
cattle dead in heap, killed by light
ming.
Rents are enormous in this town. as
the little boy remarked when he looked
at the knees of his pantaloons.
Some of the towns and villages OF
Cashmere, India, have become depopu-
lated by the famine which prevails
there. .-..
Massachusetts, has $3.50 schools, with
10000 pupils and $500 teachers; on
these schools she spends every year
$4,000, 900.
The Baron Bigi, who just died in
Italy, was SO inveterate gambler
that from 1880 to 1870 he never missed
night at cards.
1t is sad fact that the elk and ante
lope, the noblest game OF all, and ID eoiSS
orado's attraction and pride, are oelns
rapidly exterminated.
Some gossipy women's mouths nhG
drug stores, are open at all houTs, any ii
contain more poison and venom tlian an
the asps which bask in the sunshine on
the shores of the Nile.
What is more deserving of our sym
pathy than n young man with hloeeh i,
cents in his pocket, glrl on ehti1 ht9
arm, and seven ice-cream signs lnslsh''
-Middlet0lCn Transcript
A warm, sunny day; shirt "waxsn
and white rs lily;" corpulent' pun
ING man. These three things combined
are what throw into Mecca of delight
and heatitude the Mongolian knight OF
the washtub.
Prof. Mayer, lecturing in Paris on
suicidal impulse, declared that every
one of his hearers had, at some time,
thought favorably of committing sui
eide. He challenged contradiction, and
nobody responded.
Such is the formidable antagonism of
the sexes that a chance to give Roland
for an Oliver is never lost. Don't you
think that good likeness of meP" said
a pretty wife to small fraction of her.
self called her husband every good, -
was the reply, Except that there is a
The ruins of Roman villa-date
supposed to be 10 b. C.-have been
discovered near Dueren in Germany.
The apartments for bathing are already
laid bare; and one sees the tepidarium,
where the ancient owner took his tepld
bath, the caldarium, where he took his
warm or hot bath, and the frigidarium.
or cooling-off room.
After all, some temporary consolation
may be derived from calm philosophy.
A poor, but contented individual, whose
store faced the sunny side of the street,
and upon which the sun shone with a
torrid heat, was asked why he did not
put up an awning. He replied that he
could not afford it, but nevertheless felt
perfectly contented, because, even though
he had no awning, he had an excellent
place to put one.
Only boy; but he CHANGED to crawl
! Through a little rent of the circus wall,
| And, taking breath, he stood bravely up
Till the clown came in with skip and hop.
Only boot; but it chanced that day
That that there boot bore down that way,
And the power that through that boot was
sent,
Lifted the boy out of that circus tent.
Concerning William Gilmore Slmms
facility in composition, the late James
Harper is quoted as telling this anecdote:
The Harpers were preparing the :. Par
tisan" for the press, when Mr.. Simms
came in one day to say that he was
about to leave the city for week. The
publishers told him that the "copy"
was exhausted, and unless he could
give them more before he left they
would be forced to pause in their work
until he returned. "That won't do, he
said. "Give me pen, ink and paper;
I'll go up stairs and find a place to
write" OFF he went, and in less than
an hour came down with more manu-
script than they required during his alb,
! Sence