Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-07-16
LAWN TOPICS.

According to the London Truth, the
fashionable age just now is from twenty
four to thirty. Sweet seventeen is out
of the running.
With the thermometer In the nineties,
paragraph like this is pleasant read
ing: Capt. Stephen, of steamer Mes
torian, reports at Halifax, that he passed
large quantities of ice off the Banks of
Newfoundland"
They are hunting over the old genealo-
gies and family trees in England now
for names; and the Florences, Graces,
Lilies, and Bessies are giving way to
Gwendolines, Adelgithas, Isolts, and
Ethelfridas Of Saxon ancestry.
Mrs. Kate Sprague. who has grown
stouter with her years, retains her beauty
in great degree, and is still noted for the
stag-like carriage of a lovely head,
whose golden hair contrasts with the
brown eyes like those Of startled fawn.
A Polish woman in New Jersey cuts
the Gordian knot of the divorce laws by
issuing this notice in a newspaper
"To John Twardouska: Notice is hereby
! given to my husband, John Twardouska, who
left his home, ITO South Orange avenue, New
ark, n. j., on the 2Sth of March, 1880, that
unless he returns within three days l will
marry again. AUGUSTA TwARDoUsKA."
Popular music, according to the ideas
of band conductors, means selections
from Suppe, Rossini, Strauss, Flotow,
and Won Weber, but, for pleasurable
music, the general public like something
less classical. Old yankee Doodle"
''Hail Columbia" etc., had a slim show
on independence Day. Letus have more
of a selection of American tunes.
With all its defects the New England
college gives young men the best meas
ure of themselves with other men that
they are likely to obtain anywhere. The
associations and the competitions of a
four years. course in such an institution,
leave impressions for good on any young
man who is honest and earnest. 1t is
his own fault if the opportunities do not
prove profitable to him.
Just as the body of the Empress Of
Russia was being lifted into the coffin,
the Emperor and his five sons standing
by were startled by loud clap of thun.
der that shook the palace. The storm
t ragged necessarily until the funeral pro
, cession reached the chapel, when it sud
: denly ceased. The Emperor was deeply
affected by the omen, although just villa
it was omen of, nobody knows.
Fishes can be so tanned as to come a
a signal to be fed, and to distinguish be
tween stranger and the hand of tn
: person who regularly pets and feed
4 them. This is frequently demonstrated
in several show places in Europe, t.
curious travellers, two of which occur t.
. us, one being at the Palace Fontaine
. bleu, the other in the environs of Genoa
: Italy.
To cure one of his monks who wa
u pining with love, Buddha told him how
4 he Buddha), in former existence, hat
e been a cock, and how certain she cat
intent on making meal Of him, wooeC
t him with fair speeches to take her tt
: wife. ''In like manner" said he to tn
monk, eff man tails into the hands o
: a woman, his life will be in danger; bu
n if he escapes the fascination of woman
: like the cock who got rid of puss, hi
fate will be happy"
It The summer magazines are upon us
and the fashion departments give a vas
: quantity of patterns and designs, man.
$ of them colored, together with direction
q for making articles which a man would
It have no use for anyway, and it is there
fore just as well that he wouldn't be abb
o to comprehend these patterns and direc
tions. But the ladies will, and by tn
q aid of them get up things which the,
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