Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1890-08-01
SELECT SIFTINGS.

Ancient anchors were made of stone.
More people die in spring than in any
of the other seasons.
Charles Fairbanks, of Adrian, Mich,
Ipeaks twenty languages.
Cincinnati manufactures Co.,
pounds Of shot every day.
The number of blind people in the
world is set down at one million.
Tea is said to be the only unadulter-
,ted beverage to be found in England.
The Indians ut the Indian school in
Lawrence, Kan, have organized a brass
band.
A bounty of twenty cents a dozen is
paid in Ohio for the heads of English
'parrows.
The japanese word for farewell means
"If it must be so;" and the Chinese say
"Go away slowly"
1t is calculated that there is property
valued at $50, 900, 900 at the bottom Of
the Atlantic Ocean.
There are only seven absolute mon
lrchics left China, Madagascar, Morocco,
Persia, Russia, Siam and Turkey.
The Argentine Republic has an area as
great as all Central and Western Europe
combined; about / 1,620, 900 square miles.
The cultivation of sugar cane in this
country began in 1851 near New Or
leans. The first sugar mill was erected
in 1853.
Sheet iron is rolled so thin at Pitts
burg, Penn, that the light of day
,hines through a single sheet as through
piece Of glass.
There is a dog in Philadelphia that
1as mania for tearing off door. knobs and
plates and wrecklng the woodwork Of
the doors generally.
1t is estimated that the number OF
passengers carried by all the railroads In
the world averages six million five hun.
dred thousand day.
A new cannon just made by Krupp i.
torty-two feet long, can be fired twice
minute, and throws two thousand
pound shot twelve miles.
"The tallest schoolgirl in the world"
lives at Riednaun, near Sterling, in the
swiss Tyrol. She is in her eleventh
year, and is about six feet high.
An ordinary elephant produces 120
pounds of ivory, worth $500. England
CONSUMES $50 tons, for which it is neces-
sary to kill IL, 900 elephants year.
An Indiana cow, five years old, has
given birth to eight calves. At three
years of age she gave birth to quadru-
plets and the two following years to
twins.
"Old Chabert," one of the best known
socialist speakers in Paris, died recently.
lie spent his days denouncing capital
lists, and always appeared in public
wearing blood-red scarf.
A traveller in Japan writes that the
Japanese pay more attention to personal
cleanliness than any other people in tbs
world. High and low bathc at least
once day and sometimes oftener.
Instead of paying the clergyman a cash
lee bridegroom the other day present
ed to the divine who officiated q set o.
vestments and an ecclesiastical ring en-.
graved on the inside to commemorate
the occasion.
A queer thing happened to q Greek
peddler in New York city the other day.
He got new suit, clean shave and o
shine, and when he went home, the dog
who had been his pet for years failed to
recognize him and bit piece out of hh
leg.
A statistical enthusiast has calculated
that pianist, in playing a certain presto,
played 5595 notes in four minutes. The
striking of each note involved two move.
ments of the finger and one movement
each of the elbow, wrist and arm. From
this it is calculated that seventy-two
voluntary movements were made per sec.
ond.