Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-04-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Missing men-Bad marksmen.

Missing men-Bad marksmen.
A Ahome-stretch-Ov mothers knee.
Lawyers are out in their new spring
suits.
Suicides are still buried in England at
midnight.
Ofall natural men, Audubon was the
naturalist.
Lake county, Oregon, is troubled with
Indian beggars.
The pansy has some pet name in near
ly every country,
Aim high; but not so high as not to be
able to hit anything.
Appearances are sometimes deceitful.
So are disappearances.
Chimney sweeping must be a good
business; it scots everybody who tries
| it.
Was Boreas ever married? Shakes
peare writes of the merry wives of wind
Sill.
1t is singular thing that no railroad
man has ever applied for patent on the
day-break.
A contemporary says: For spring
pests in our issue of yesterday, read
spring poets.
Byron, the dramatist, says that the
/ best way to make an army fly is to break
both its wings.
When you wake up at night and hear
the baby crying, look out for danger
for there.is rock ahead.
People who fish for compliments do
not need long lines. They will get their
best bites in shallow water.
A correspondent wishes to know
whether a circulating library ought to
be kept in stationery store.
A little boy, when reproved for break
ing new rocking-horse, said Whats
the good of horse till its brOke?"
The soldiers on the plains dig holes
in the ground at their barracks, and
sleep in these subterranean nests during
cold weather.
1t is proposed to buy the site of the
cottage at Sandgate, Kent, in which
John B. Cough was born, and to erect
on it coffee tavern.
1t is not until the flower has fallen off
that the fruit begins to ripen. So in
life, it is when the romance is past that
the practical usefulness begins.
The product of honey in California has
grown from a single hive of bees, i'm
ported into that country thirty years
ago, to 100000 pounds a year.
During the first three months of this
year 8,49S emigrants arrived in New
York-an increase of 1850 over last
years returns for the same time.
"Why does dog chew bone after it
i =, #
change asks. That is easy to answer;
you've often heard of dread in the
bone," and it's the bread the dogs after.
If you think no one cares for you in
this cold world, just tell your neighbors
that you propose to keep hens. You will
be surprised to see what an immediate
interest they will manifest in you.-
SStltlCdter Lua1bG1nldn.
The sneezes fall on ears of all,
| And handkerchiefs are kept a-going;
Full many head feels full of lead,
Full many nose is sore with blowing.
Blow, bugles, blow, and set the wild echoes
And answer, optics, answer, crying, crying,
crying.
One of the best investments ever made
by large sign-painting firm in this city
many years ago, was to pay mani
Jersey City 5000 for his secret prepare
ton, by which he applied gold leaf in
some kind of gliding. The man receiv-
ed the 5000, took up piece of glass.
licked it with his tongue, and the gold
leaf adhered beautifully. Saliva was
his secret, and it proved to be worth the
sum to the Others to know it.-Amertcaro
AgrtcultartSt.
There are in New York city 1851 sala-
ried and fee officers employed by the
municipal government, not including
police officers, school teachers and Off
cials, or firemen The salaries, fees not
included, they receive amount to SO, 1922
1855 per annum. The votes polled in
New York in 1878 amounted to l42, 1853.
which sum, divided by the number of
officeholders, shows that there is one
city official to every twenty-one voters,
| leaving out the officers and teachers of
the board of education.
In the spring the young eds fancies who the
piQuant pencils WELD
Lightly turn to versifying, light '1nny Il
jingle yield,
And ten thousand variations on taose lines
from Locksley Hall"
Like TO this somewhat in meter on the strick-
en- country fall.
Mr. T. B. Reads portrait group of Mr..
Longfellow's daughters, it will be re-
membered, was SO arranged that the arms
of one of the young girls were concealed
by those of her sisters, and this gave rise
to an absurd story that she had no arms
at all. Mr.. Longfellq3wv reintes that his
friend Lowell, while riding past his house
one day, heard lady Informing friends
in the car that Longfellow's second
| daughter had no arms" He at once
said, = beg pardon, madam, but l am
well acquainted with the family, and
your pardon, sir" said the lady, loftily.
"but l live in Boston, and have it op
tha hast authority -