Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-03-06
MISCELLANEOUS.

too often Will soon use up NA0
in Iceland there are no prisons ana
NO nolice. Only two thefts IN l'OOo
years.
There is sure to be something serious
on foot when a man goes to the chiro-
nodist's.-Boston Courier.
soda water is not conducive to
health. 1t is likely to lead TO nzzicio
ailments. Merchant Traveller.
The English-speaking people num-
ber one-tenth of the human race. Inc
wealth Of the world is largely in the
hands of Christian nations.
An eighteen-year-o girl who could
sneak little English was recently sent
from Texas to New York, with card
PINNED to her dress giving her destina-
ton.
"A swailowtail coat may be just the
proper thing for the bridegroom az
fashionable wedding, but for an elope-
ment there is nothing like a cut-away.
Puck. =,
"A fearful widow at Charleston, w.
Va. obtained an order for 81 worth OF
groceries from the poor commissioners.
Next day the provisions were spread as
the refreshments at her wedding BAN
quet.
The crews Of the United States war
vessels composing the squadron OF evo-
luton we're attacked by the influenza
in midocean and forty-eight men were
Frustrated. This experience indicates
that atmospheric causes produce the
disease.
They say that the girls in the more
esoteric circles of Boston are discussing
the question whether the dative or the
ablative is the more oblique case. We
hope the dear creatures will finally set
tie this momentous question, so that the
car of progress may move on.-N' I.
Tribune.
There has been placed in the Man
chester, Mass. public library copy OF
the Bible published in 1899. 1t is the
gift of Miss Ella Lee, daughter OF the
late Charles Lee, to the Manchester
Historical Society. This rare and yalua-
BILE publication is known as the Bishops
Bible, and was first printed in 1868.
Java is the most fertile, the most
productive and the most populous tropi-
cal island in the world. The Dutch
have had possession of it many years,
and have derived great revenues, espec-
tally from the coffee plantations, but
have done little for the religious eleva-
ton of the people, who are Mohamedans.
An indulgent downtown father
bought for his nineteen-months-old boy
a hobby horse. cart, stuffed monkey,
etc. On Christmas morning the little
toddler looked at his toys in matter
of-fact sort Of way and then picked two
chicken-claws from table and played
with them all the morning. Kingston
Freeman.
"A writer in talk with Business
Boys" says: "The boy who will succeed
in the world is he who is content for a
time to do 81 worth of work for 81. !"
This is so. The boy who performs 81
worth of work at circus for twenty
fve-eent pass to the show may be found
a few years later driving four horses at
tached to the lion ge.-Norristown
Herald.
The grizzly must go; Old hunters
of the West estimate that not more than
100 grizzly bears, large and small, are
left alive in this country, and it is evil
dent that "old Reuben" has to step
down and out before many moons have
passed. Probably all will go in bunch
next summer, when the store clerks Of
Detroit get a vacation. Detroit Free
( Press.
The Detroit Journal has undertaken
to create fund for the purpose of pre-
senting to France fitting token of re-
membrance and gratitude for the assist
ance rendered this country in her strug-
gle for independence. The amount is to
be as large as possible and is to be raised
by one dollar subscriptions, the descend
ants OF Revolutionary officers and SOL
diers to take the lead. The names of
subscribers are to be bound in book
form and accompany the testimonial.
Justice, London paper, has been
/ giving the results of some curious cal
| culations, which, If correct, will make a
fellow little cautious about guessing
on the size of crowd. and Offering to
bet his last dollar that he is right. Ac-
cording to the calculator on the staff of
Justice, all the people in the world,
about /, 4O0, 600, 900, could stand in held
ten miles square, and, by the aid of tele-
phones, could be addressed by single
! speaker.
A largo class OF applicants for
teachers positions assembled in the
rooms of the Santa Clara, Cal, school
superintendent last week. They were
set to work on the examination papers,
and everything went smoothly until
the question cropped up in the history
division: what was the name of the
head steward of Stanley's exploring
party, and was he any relation to the
ameer of Swat?" The whole class ST.
lently left the room and walked out in
the drizling rain to cool off.
The original post-office box used in
the town of Pomfret, Conn, 100 years
ago, is now owned in that town, being
the property of Benjamin Grosvenor,
one of whose ancestors Iemuel eros