Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1890-08-29
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Banana sandwiches are now popular.
The buffalo moth is q native Of Eu.
rope.
The Car of Russia drinks Ave quartz
of champagne every day.
The American locomotive becomes en-,
CINE and the conductor is Q guard In
England.
Heligoland has q national debt Of t5v.
The revenue is between $40, 900 and
Sis, 900.
Nearly all the handsome dinners given
In Philadelphia are photographed by
fash light.
France is boasting OF man who eau
raise and hold up, for twenty seconds,
500 pounds, dead weight.
The census enumerator of Palmyra,
Mo-, offers 81 for every person that he
failed to get on his list.
One Of the Ithaca On. ~ saumezstors,
found family of ten persons, each mem
Der of which was born in a different
State.
The American druggist is called .
chemist in England, many Of the older
practitioners retaining the old spelling
''chymist. t."
The thickness of the human hair varies
from the 250th to the 600th part of an
inch. Blonde hair is the finest and red
the coasrest.
George Washington had big hands
and feet. He wore number eleven
boot, and his gloves had to be specially
made for him.
What Americans call stewiug Culinary
term the British call simmcring. Tho
American lunch is a luncheon in England
and baggage becomes luggage.
woodford Sanders, Virginia artist,
has been creating q stir at Natchez,
Miss, by painting portraits of people he
never saw. All he needs is verbal de.
'cription.
John Wesley Haslett, Of Kansas City,
claims the championship belt in novel
branch of industry. He is the ''sticker"
Tor packing company, and claims that
n fourteen years service he has slain
3, 400, 900 hogs.
The schooner Polly, which was built
1t Amesbury, Mass, in 1904, is said TO
be the Oldest American built merchant
craft afioat She is in good condition
sc. and delivered a load of coal at Nam
tucket only few days ago. Two men
constitute her crew.
There has Just been finished and placed
In the Cathedral of Charkoy, Russia, q
J clock of solid silvor- weighing 800
pounds. 1t is in memory OF the Cars
escape from death in the railroad acci-
, dent at BorkI, and it is so arranged that
,, upon October II in each year-the ami
yersary of that eyent-it will ring q peal
/ nf bells.
Numbers of Hindoos were to be seen
: recently wandering about the Lahore ba-
zaars carrying bones of their deceased
relatives round their necks. They were
,, pilgrims going to Hurdwar. Most OF
!. them left the train at Jhelum to wash
!, the bones in the sacaed waters OF Hydas-
: mes, and then repurchased tickets for
|. their onward journey.
q The shore of Lake Ontario Is literally
:: covered with potato bugs. They live
q on the "moon eyes," species Of fish
Il which are constantly being cast ashore
! by the waves. These fish are dying in
2 large numbers, and the potato bug seemi
2 to like them as an article Of diet. A
!, many as twenty potato bugs were counted
u feeding upon the carcass OF defunc
"moon eye"
One OF the most brilliantly colored
snakes that exist has Just been added Il
n the reptile house of the Geological Gar
l, dens, Philadelphia. 1t has black color
is with regularly arranged rings OF yellow
m and red, the texture and colors to
1t gether producing an effect much like tina
ls of strip Of freshly cleaned oilcloth
Is The snake is one of the most venomous
O. and its bright hues are regarded a.
'r warning of its dangerous qualities.
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