Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-08-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

In Michigan they name their tornadoes
after eminent politicians.
A citizen of Michigan has beard
seven and half feet long.
The tax on armorial bearings in Eng
land realizes S500,000 annually.
Prince Louis Napoleon was insured in
an English insurance company for
SI50,000. .... -.r'.
Should we call banana skin pride
simply because it goes before fallP-
Bradford Era.
Scraping hogs by machinery is one of
the nearly perfect devices in the packing
houses in Chicago. ~.
Won't some of those people who "iust
drop into poetry" oblige us by dropping
clean through? Modern Argo.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fallon, keepers of a b@-
room at Liberty, Ind, died of delirium
tremens within an hour of each other.
"Your time has come!n remarked
Mrs. Nobbs, as the jewelers. boy brought
in her husbands watch.-NeoO York
Nea0S. Al
The same man who finds the weather
too warm for church sits under the
blazing canvass of a circus without a
murmur.
During the last ten years 81 900 per-
sons in the United States have died from
yellow fever. Of this number 1000
died in 1878. r..... .......- .
What" asks an exchange, " is pref
tier than a pretty old womanPn A
pretty young one. Ask us another
Salem Sunbeam. gJ E.tE-.
A man in New York city gains live
lihood by making all kinds of grotesque
figures out of lobster shells and selling
them to saloon-keepers and others.
The applications for patents in th
United States now number over 20, 900 a
year, of which about two-thirds are
granted, against only 5000 OF, 1000 ap-
plications twenty years ago. -....
The nan who gets the maddest at
newspaper joke on himself is the same
party who goes round showing the paper
to everybody he meets when the Joke is
on some other ow.-,SteatbenUille Her.
aid.
Town Treasurer Wilson, of Month
cello, Ind, brought libel suit against
the local newspaper that said he was
dishonest, but before the case came to
trial he fled with $4,000 of publ
money.
Among the passengers from Sitka,
Alaska, in the steamer California on
recent trip to Portland, Oregon, was
Miss Sallie Ball, who is probably the
youngest government officer in the United
States. Although but twelve years of
age, she is the postmistress of Sitka.
Sitting Bull plays upon the super
stitions of the Sioux tribes, according to
the Chicago Iribuaae'S correspondent,
making them believe that he possesses
superhuman power. His dreams are in
terpreted by his brother-in-Jaw, and are
treated as revelations from the Great
Spirit. His influence over the Indians
of Dakota is almost absolute. r-5--
THOSE TWO. f
He lay in the gutter, ragged and drunk,
Asleep in the filth of the street;
Even the wickedest away from him shrunk,
AS if fearful of soiling their feet.
Away in the farm house. far from the town,
A sad mother sat in the evening light,
And she thought as her tears came trickling
down,
ooh, where is my darling to night"
W. J. hampton, in Saturday Might
Count Eugene Kinsky, of the old
Czechian nobility, is noted in Austria as
an ath etc and runner A friend of his
in Pesth was the other day singing the
praises of the "Orloff" trotters which
lately did such excellent work in the
trotting races in Vienna. The count
made large bet that he could beat this
pair on foot at short distance race,
viz, half length of the Pesth Rondeau,
some two hundred yards. The race came
off promptly, the count getting well
away at starting and coming in some tif-
teen feet before the horses, much to the
disgust of their owners.