Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-07-23
SHADY-CORNER READING.

Bulls must be kept tied up this sum-
mer, otherwise the country will be dan
gerous for people who carry the Turkey
red calico parasols now SO much ai-
fected.
Several Harvard students are serving
as walters this summer at the mountains,
and the way the young ladies ascertain
whether the waiter is Harvard man,
and therefore eligible to flirt with, is to
ask him which he likes best, Soldene or
Thompson? If he has an opinion he's a
Harvard man.
The province of Buenos Ayres counts
54,OOO,OO sheep, of which $4,000, 900 be-
long to Irish settlers, within a days ride
of the city. These fiocks will suffice, if
necessary, to feed the national govern
ment army for many years, without
counting 100000 COWS, which belong
mostly to natives.
Cheap pamphlet editions of novels are
running the book trade. They are under
mining the perpetuity Of the library and
cheapening literary taste, because as
soon as they are read they are thrown
away. Publishers judge of manuscript
novel by its first page-that is, they
know whether to read any further or
not
Col. Bodine, in answer to the congrat-
ulations on the American rifemen's vic
tory, said that in spite of his pleasure
over American success, he regretted the
result, feeling that the Irishmen richly
deserved the victory, on account of their
exertions, and that he only expressed the
generous sentiments of the American
people.
It is not laziness, it is wisdom, to light
en- summer work rs much as possible, to
do what must be done early or late, but
not, when it can be avoided, at midday,
to saunter where we are prone to rush,
and to rest whenever we can. With
fruit, bath-tub, an umbrella, a fan, and
Judgment, life may be made endurable
in the summer sOlstice.
The English people are giving up their
long-entertained idea that the only good
coffee comes from the East Indies, and
are recognizing the excellence of cOffees
grown in Central America. These Cen
tral American brands have long since
gained the favor of the California mer-
chants. who have dealt in them largely,
and their recognition and commendation
bv Britishers will still further encourage
the producers, who intend to make their
coffees second not even to those from far
famed Mocha.-BoSt0n Post.
A good novel is rest to the tired, health
to the sick, and wings to the feeble, and
in it is the fountain of eternal youth for
the old. If one reflects on the multipli-
city of novels in the last hundred years,
and the paucity of them before, one can
not but think it an addition to the lau-
rels of the great age that in achievingsO
much as it has for the comfort and pleas
ure OF mankind, it has not forgotten this
sorcery, and has heaped new services
: upon the old in taking the novel out OF
the medieval and chivalric, and bring
: ing it down into the ranks of the people
of the life of to-day.-HG4per'S Bazar.
We are equally enterprising in the
construction of railways and canals fol
transporting the results.of our industries
to tide-water And having done that
we stop, like a helpless infant, as if afraio
to brave the perils of the sea. We dunn
;, at the shore line our 200, 100000 bushels
! of surplus wheat, our vast product o
petroleum, and other exports in proper
ton. The ships of our old commercial
: rival, England, take up our freigh
: where we drop it, and tax us 100000,
600 year, while we have no status Oh
the ocean to compare with some of tn
third-rate powers of Europe. Washing
h ton Post
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re come a soldier. He joined a regiment
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Sc equipments. None but gentlemen's son
as were permitted to become members
IN the regiment, which was known as til
n "Garde d'Honneur," having been chose
le to protect the emperor in person. M
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In Leipsic, in Dresden, and in all the diffe
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ne took part. When Napoleon was dcomC
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