Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-09-26
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The home of the Cesars-The Custom
House.
The late Sir Rowland Hill had col
lection of postage stamps worth $4,000.
An Augusta (Ga.) man is training a
pack of hounds to take to the North and
give exhibitions.
The number of reed and blackbirds
shipped from Salem, N. j.. alone during
one week was A, III dozen, or so, 1913 birds.
There has been grown at Pulaski, KY,
a ripe watermelon three inches long, an
inch and half in diameter and contain
ing FIVE seeds.
81 am astonished, my dear young lady,
at your sentiments-you make me startr'
"Well, sir, I've been waiting for you to
start for the last hour"
The harbor of Melbourne, Australia,
is to be improved at cost of Sc, 900, 900,
so as to admit of ships of any burden
coming right up to the city.
When some one with bad taste raised
laugh against Foote on account of his
halt step, he turned fercelv on his tor
mentor and squelched him with the curt
query: why attack my weakest partP
Did ever ridicule your headP"
A bald-headed professor, removing a
youth for the exercise of his fists, said,
I'VE fight with our heads in this col
lege." The young man reflected mo-
ment, and then replied, "Ah, see; and
you have butted all your hair off"
A young American, the son of Mrs.
Gen Viele, of New York, has distin-
guished himselfat the College Stanislaus,
in Paris, having taken the grand prize
for the COncours at the SorbOnne, and
thirteen others, including first Greek and
Latin.
1t seems to make no difference how
great man is; he may even be Sena-
tor or Governor, but if his wife don't
like the way he is doing, she will tell
him of it just about as sure as she would
if he was only a coachman or fisher
man. And this is what they call human
nature. e.-M0derp Arg0.
The tenacity with which toads cling to
life is well exemplified in the case of one
which was resurrected from a catch-
basin on Chapel street, in New Haven.
After seven years Imprisonment in
solid cement this toad, whsn relieved
from his surroundings, hoped off just
as if nothing unusual had happened.
A Kansas genius. representing himself
as q practical farmer, visited the fairs in
that State with a prize pumpkin, and he
took the premiums every time. The
pumpkin measured seven feet in circum-
ference and weighed $50 pounds. A
farmer attempted to tap the pumpkin in
the absence of its owner, to get some of
the seeds, and discovered that it was
made of wood.
A half dozen drugs seems to be suffi
During the last Turko-R Russian war the
dered 39 900 pounds of quinine, 10000
pounds of chloroform, 10000 pounds of
castor oil, and several thousand pounds
of opium, gum arabic, camphor and car
bolic acid. With these they felt prepared
for all emergencies.
Swiss colonies at Greenville, S. c., and
on CUMBERLAND mountain, Tenn, have
had wonderful success. The latter set
tied in 1873 and consists OF lis families
and about seven hundred souls who
purchased 10000 acres of land at 81 per
acre. Each family finds itself now in
comfortable home with good income.
They have dairy and cheese f"ctories in
successful operation, their products find
ing ready sale at fancy prices.
"How much for pear?" he asked.
and with chuckle paid the three cents
demanded. Then came the joke. Il
only took pair" exhibiting two Of the
articles. And what satisfied grin that
punster started away with! "All right"
shouted the huckster after him, "pears
is only a cent apiece, but | knowed
you'd be UP to some dodge. You keep
the Joke, old buster, and I'll keep the
extra cent. ."-SyracstSe Times.