Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-02-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


A thermometer gains notoriety by
degrees.
The California Chinese have two
newspapers.
The best known time made by skater
is a mile in 1.56.
When a stag takes to the water he
swims for deer life.
Nothing has 80 many ties binding it
to earth as a railroad.
OF course the horse marines are
mounted ON feet horses.
Professional beggars look upon every
dwelling as an almshouse.
The dentist will make more money per
acher than any farmer we ever saw.
"I can beat you all hollow" as the
machinist's hammer said to the boiler.
One-fourth of the United States ma.
t1onal debt has been paid since the war.
A cemetery called Happy Valley, in
Hong Kong, China, is said to be the
finest in the world.
The French government has issued a
decree that "La Marseillaise" shall be
the national anthem,
Last year the United States produced
$50, 900, 900 pounds of cheese and ], $780,.
900 pounds of butter.
It cannot be that call flesh is grass"
Grass gets its dew-about the only
thing that does in this world.
Alabama pays thirty cents day for
feeding prisoners. The total thus paid
out last year was $58, ,810.92.
Bouquets for parties and balls are
now made fiat in New York, which pre-
vents their being handed round.
No man ever regretted that he was
virtuous and honest in his youth, and
kept aloof from idle companions.
There is a very suggestive proverb
which declares that "There are great
many asses with short ears"
A correspondent of the London Times
says that celery cooked in milk and
thickened with -four will cure the rheu-
matism.
An exchange thinks the time will GER
talnly come when the men will go flying
through the air. Well, that's matter
O. pinion.
"Mary, have you given the goldfish
fresh waterP" "No, ma'am. What's
the use? They haven't drunk up what's
in there yet"
The Baltimore Gazette says that the
first "play house" lighted by gas in the
United States was the "Mud Theater "
in that city, in 1922 or '23.
There is a small community in Paris,
France, calling themselves Mormons,
who conform to the practices of the fol-
lowers of the late Brigham Young.
One who knows says you may talk OF
your water cures, your movement cures,
and your blue. glass cures, but there is
nothing like the sinecure, after all.
Such is the universally charitable
nature OF women that when she finds a
man who has no mind of his own she is
always willing to give him a piece of
hers.
The Chinese encyclopedia meets a
long-felt want. No family should be
without it. It is published in Pekin,
and has only 5000 volumes; price,
81, 800.
A tea dealer in London, who gives
away large number of novels to his
poorer purchasers, says that Dickens
works have q demand far ahead of any
other stories.
A cowhide horseshoe has been intro
luced which promises to prove very
1seful. It is composed OF three thick
nesses of cowhide, compressed into a
steel mold, and then submitted to q
chemical preparation.
In Germany man who wishes to be-
come medical practitioner has to pass,
some time in the course of his third
years study, an examination in chemis-
Try aud physics, botany, zoology, anat-
omy aud physiology, and at the close of
lis studies he has to spend sometimes
rs much as a five months session IN
passing final examination in the prac-
;ical departments.
If you wish to touch the feelings of
others by the means of music, your heart
must first have been touched by its
thrilling power. If you wish to exas-
oerate the other editor in the village,
you must first listen to the organ. grind
or for twenty minutes before giving him
,wo dollars to play the balance of The
afternoon for your contemporary
Utica Observer.
"They tell me Leadville is pretty
high up" remarked q Denverite to
visitor from the carbonate field. "High
up p calculated the other, "well,. l
should say. The air is so thin that
you've got to fan it to corner to get
square breath. Why, live sorter in
valley, but many time when I went
nome at night had to push cloud
rom the front door to get in. Denver
Tribune.