Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-02-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The February with five Sundays
in it will be in 1920.
Did you ever see dog bark his shinsP
Philadelphia Item.
IIondoners are to have sea-water pipes
connected with their houses.
Beaconsield says: "When l want
to read a novel l write one."
A poor relation-The crude effort of
story-writer. american Punch.
The Indians in the school at Carlisle.
Pa, are taught military tactics.
The English laws compel the veloci-
pede riders to carry headlight and
bell.
Words are cheap, except when they
are sent over the Atlantic cable.-Ci,s-
ctnnati Saturday Night.
The aggregate salaries of the New
York city school teachers for 1879
amounted to $1,009.207.
tits better to give than to receive,
but the plan will never be very popular
in this country. York Express.
The Sultan of Turkey spends $l2,-
10000 year on himself, the eunuichs,
sultana and courtiers that reside in his
palace.
An exchange wishes to know if sugar
is extracted from dead beats. No, sir;
dead beats have no 'sugar. " Waterloo
Observer.
A man can buy hat for one dollar.
1t takes from ten to fifteen ftra woman
10 60 comparatively barcI .'ird.-Kal-
LEGO Chronicle.
Henry Smith, the famous razor strop
man, of New York, was heavy specuc
lator. and lost in one day, few year.
ago, $50, 600 by the fall in stocks.
An Albany merchant recently shipped
some goods by way of New York TO
London. The freight to New York was
800. 80, and from New York to London
1924. The distances are $50 miles and
about 3, 900 miles.
If the theorist who AYERS that animals
can resist temptation will experiment
by poking his neighbours big bulldog
in the ribs, he'll find that his theory,
together with his trowsers, will be torn
in shreds .-Hackemsact Republican.
A victim of domestic infelicity, who
is in the habit of dreaming, should
never go to sleep in church. A con-
gregation near Quincy was somewhat
startled last Sabbath when venerable
member excitedly yelled. Here. now,
drop that skillet, old woman!"- Quincy
Modern Ayg0.
A French lad, aged ten years, recently
ran away from his school in the village
of Savelot, and went to neighbor's
house where wedding was being cele-
brated. The nuptial party made him
drunk on wine, and told him to beware
of his masters rod next day. This so
frightened the youngster that he got
rope and hanged himself in the garden,
where his body was found frozen the
next morning
Old Nickelpinch's grandson called his
attention to a bird the other day. That's
no bird" began the old man. "Why,
yes, it is, grandpa, J" interrupted the boy,
don't you see it pick up the crumbs at
the door, "That's no bird" repeated
Nickelpinch, when the youngest again
yelled, 81 say it is bird, an I'll leave
it to gran'ma if it amt" "That snow
Bird" calmly remarked grandpa, "is
the first one have seen this season."
Yale has graduated 4 signers of the
Declaration of Independence; lao men,
bers of the United States House of Rep
resentatives; A United States Senators;
Is ambassadors to foreign courts; l6
cabinet officers, including Mr.. Evarts;
is lieutenant governors and 80 governors
of States; the photographers Webster
and Worcester; A presidents of theo-
logical seminaries; 65 presidents of col
leges, and $50 professors in colleges and
professional schools.
The comparative force of gunpowder
and dynamite was discussed by two
miners at Tunka, Cal. They agreed, as
a test, to explode certain quantities of
the substances under two planks, the
friend of gunpowder to stand on the
dynamite plank and the friend of dyna-
mite on the other. The trial was made
in the presence of an interested crowd
of spectators. 1t resulted in a broken
leg for the man who was lifted ten feet
into the air by the dynamite, and uR-
counted bruises for the one whom the
gunpowder threw against the trunk of a
tree.
In deepening a river in the neighbor-
hood of Norrkoping, says the Timber
Trades Journal, in order to make it ac-
cessible for ships of heavier draught,
among several objects of interest
brought up from the bottom, eight oak
trees were found at a depth of seven feet
under the old bottom, The bark was
} almost decayed, and when it was taken
off the wood was found to be hard and
black, resembling ebony. The trees are
supposed to have been lying in the
: earth 900 years. The trees have been
sold to firm of ioiners, who intend
using them for cabinet work.