Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1890-08-15
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Explorer Stanley has sixteen relatives
in this country.
al sell cigars ir seven languages" is .
sign in Philadelphia.
Finger nails grow at an average rate OF
half an inch in four months.
There is almost solid mountain Of iron
in Tulare County, California.
In Thibet man who desires to salute
another puts out his tongue and scratches
bis left ear.
The natives pronounce Newfoundland
''Nuffonlon" the accent hard on
the last syllable.
Walla Walls, Washington, has three
native born Cinnamon who will vote at
the next election.
Vestals, virgin priestesses, took care
of the perpetual fire consecrated to Vesta
in ancient Rome.
Burglars seldom receive more than
fifth OF the value of their booty from
those who purchase it.
The famous bridge at Natural Bridge,
Va, is illuminated every Saturday even
ing by an elaborate pyrotechnic display.
The fact that the herring dies almost
the instant that it leaves the water Is the
origin Of the saying, "dead as her
ring"
American clans are to be planted at
various points on the English coast, in the
hope that they may be propagated for
the market.
In the beginning OF the Franco-Prus.
sian war France had AIT 900 men, be.
sides reserve of 100000; Germany had
954, 500 men.
They have on Lake Geneva, Switzer-
land, this season floating hotel, which
moves from place to place, to the enjoy.
ment of the boarders.
The French parish church or Cathedral
of Notre Dame, in Montreal, Canada,
capable of seating 10, 900 people, is be-
lieved to be the largest church in Ameri-
ca.
The art of making matches has been so
perfected that 10000, 900 of the tiny
sticks can be cut into shape, all ready for
dipping, by one machine in a single
day.
Some one has tried to take the census
of the habitual opium eaters of the United
States. He figures the number up to be
600, 900, more than half Of them being
women.
Oil Oh muskmelon is the very latest fad
of the rapidly increasing army of silly
| people who seek to become notorious
even by their diet. OF course, the oil
ruins the melon.
A fat car costs $3.50, box car $3.50,
refrigerator car $500 to $1,000, passenger
car $4,000 to $4,000, drawing room and
sleeping cars S12, 900 to $40, 900 each,
street car $500 to $1,000.
A single pair of herrings, If allowed to
reproduce undisturbed and multiply for
twenty years, would, at the end OF that
time, not only supply the whole world
with abundance of food, but have become
inconveniently numerous.
Sam De Graw is Lansing Mich man
with SantaClaus whiskers, who hunts spar
COWS six days a week and makes a COM
Portable income therefrom. He furnished
large per cent. Of the 10, 900 sparrow
scalps paid for by Ingham County during
June.
A carpenter at Augusta, Me-, who had
a warehouse to build and good deal of
measuring to do with ten-foot pole,
cuffed boys ears, and the boy retaliated
by cutting half an inch off the pole. The
result was a shortage on rafters, beams
and joists, and loss of $500 to the cuff.
fer.
The best time to get fitted to shoes is
in the latter part of the day. The feet
then are at their maximum of size aud
sensitiveness. Activity measurably en-
larges them. When the muscles are in
play the flow of blood in the arteries is
increased, and the joints also; conse-
luently they are more tender.