Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-12-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Pleasant quarters Twenty-fve-oent
pieces.
The Utah delegate in Congress, Mr.
Cannon, has six wives.
Truth lies-When it is crushed to
earth. -NeU York NetCS.
g | like your impudence," as a pretty
! girl said when her beau kissed her.
A single property in California is half
the size of Rhode Island.
Five children of Charles Dickens sur
vive him-three sons and two daugh-
| ters.
! To take out patent in the United
| States, costs about $50, of which about
S25 goes to the solicitor.
Mr.. Mori, who was once Japanese
minister at Washington, has been sent
a Al ~u-t e Ca J---~--
A salmon caught near Vancouver
| island, on the Pacific coast, weighed
ninety. eight pounds.
1t is indeed brave man who has
courage enough to peer into the future
as fer as spring house-cleaning time.
Thirty-eight thousand five hundred
and forty one persons by the name of
Smith draw pensions from the United
| States government.
Day-After- -To-M Morrow " is the name
of Cherokee Indian chief. He is the
| brother of PrOcrastination.- - Waterloo
| Observer.
Every kind of leather of oak and
sumac tannage is produced in Cincin-
natl, there being thirty tanning estab-
lishments there.
As many women learn to know their
husbands, they wish they had learned
to "No" "them when they were only
sweethearts.- .-&eubenUiLle Herald.
The Cane Growers association fin
ished its deliberations at st. Louis yes
| terday. The other association for rails
ing Cain is still in session at Washing
ton. Chicago Journal.
The roses of pleasure seldom last
long enough to adOrn the brow of him
that plucks them, and they are the only
roses which do not retain their sweet
ness after they have lost their beauty.
He that embarks in the voyage of
life will always wish to advance rather
by the impulse of the mind than the
strokes of the oar, and maIy founder in
the passage while they lie waiting for
the gale.
Turning for the moment from affairs OF
State TO sporting matters, we note that
a Cincinnati gentleman yesterday broke
99S glass balls out of possible 1000,
with the but end of an army musket.-
Cincinnati Enquirer.
A fashion letter says "pinched waists
are now thought vulgar" Fashion let
ters may say what they please, but as
long as the owners of the waists don't
make fuss about it, young men will
continue TO pinch 'em-N0TriStOUB Her.
aid.
A walnut timber boom is going on in
Tennessee. Every water-mill and
saw-mill is saving it fast. Already
$4,000 worth has been shipped from
Lewisburg. There is large demand
forit in London, and Tennessee people
expect great things of the European
market.
A man fell through one of the win
dows of his boarding house on West
hili the other day, and his distracted
landlady speaks of him as "a paneful
roomer.n But then she hardly knew
what she was saying, poor thing. Bur-
kngtOn HdDkeye.
The Norristown Herald regards ap-
provingly the maintenance of the old
custom of finging an old slipper after
bride, but holds the practice of flinging
after would-be son-in-law a heavy
boot containing the foot of girls
father as despicabe.
There are over $4,000 carriage manu-
facturers in the United States, who en-
ploy upward of 100000 hands, pay
out from $2S,O00,OO0 to $3I,OOO,O0O for
labor annually, and produced during
the past twelve months upward of
l,200,0 carriages, amounting in
value to Sl25, 100000.
The number Cf paper mills in the
United States have increased to 8l2 en-
ploying $4,000 hands, and their aver
age annual product is estimated at
81, 1897 tons of paper, valued at S67,-
600, 900, and the capital invested in
them is placed at Si3, 100000
The position of the Chinese in Brazil
is peculiar one. The government en-
cou ages their introduction with the
view of more extensive tea and silk
culture, while the people oppose Mon
gols on the ground that their immigra-
ton will prevent that of the more de-
sirable Europeans.
,Juries sometimes give very curious
verdicts. One of the most remarkable
was found by a Washoe jury in case
of milk-stealing. The prisoner was
tried on charge of stealing milk from
another mans COW. 1t was proved that
he had frequently MIXED the cow at
night, thereby causing his neighbor
great vexatiJn and annoyance. The
jury desired to express in their verdict
their sense of the aggravated nature of
the offense. They therefore found the
prisoner /" guilty of milking the COW in
the. first degree. Waco (1eraS) 1sIe-
nhnne.