Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-01-11
miscellaneous Items.

miscellaneous Items.
Eighty thousand dollars worth Oh
mutilated currency is destroyed daily,
and only $4,000 worth is manufacl
tured.
The penalty of greatness : The
Presidents arm was swollen and almost
disabled from shaking hands with so
many on New Years.
The latest novelty in hair dressing
is called the zebra" 1t consists in
twining among ones own locks tresses
of false hair of variety of colors.
Go to Japan. You can buy first
class house there for $50, and live COM
! fortably in it for two cents day. Ser
wants charge ffty cehts month, and
horse and groom may be nad fer the
same time for one dollar and fifty cents.
Daniel Purcell, the famous punster,
was desired tn make pun extemp0Ie.
"Upon what subject? :" said Daniel. "The
| king" answered the other. "O sir, SAID
he, 1.-THE king is no subject"
"A small red worm is killing thou
sands of acres of timber in central llli-
nois, and does its work in ten days
"A man, who was noticed to be dri-
wing quite slowly, near Boonesboro, Ia,
the other night, was found, though
tightly grasping his lines, to be frozen
dead.
II ia believed that the defalcation Of
DIR. Bradford, Public Administrator in
J the CITY of New York, will reach Sl00,
, 900. Most of this will come out of the
pockets of widows and orphans. a
, Secretary Stanton and Judge Holt
E both decline to deliver eulogy on the
= life and character of the late President
u Lincoln, and the committee find it diff
cult to procure proper person.
Tom Thumb is in comfortable Cir
cumstances. His income is reported at
- 100000. So much for being dwarf.
\ 1t is stated that the Falls of st.
~ Anthony are rapidly undergoing a
u change; that during the spring Of 1859
ut thew receded about $50 feet to the mid
Id die of the river, and nearly l40 feet fur
O. ther the next spring. 1t Is not improb
ba able that in a few years they will be de-
" stroyed altogether, leaving nothing be
hind but long reach of rolling, tum
e bling rapids.
oA The total amount of naval capture
Ii. reaches So, ,000, 900 in value; one-half 0
Ut this goes to Government, and the othe
es- is divided among officers and seamen
ice in the proportions .sready puollsneo
in The average per man is about SlZl
=, whereas, in the matter Of bountles =
VI soldiers, the average has been neari
ne 81 900 per man. and about 7O0,ooo,oo
ev- have been expended in bounties alone.
M "A clergyman, writing from Texa
ng to the Post Office Department. concern
ing a contract for carrying the mail
saws he contributed in no way to tn
row Confederate cause, except to pray for II
.e success. and is in doubt whether on this
lon account he can conscientiously take tt
'rs- test.oath; "but," he adds, ''as m
cen prayers were not answered think the
should not be considered IS laid an
Lth- comfort given to the enemy"
at "A publisher of q newspaper o1
,as. West in the first issue of his journt
nou returns thanks to those who loaned hi
80, the pecuniary means and gratitude
ioii heaven that there Is no law in that Sta
ana enforcing Imprisonment for debt.
'an- Here is the pithiest sermon ev
Is preached "Our ingress in life Is max
lnt- ana bare our eSrcss outoi ~ VIC nav
noe not where; but doing well here,
ike- shall do well there"
and Recently Queen Victoria became hi
Re. to g., 500 OO0-quite lift for the pc
a.,. woman, who receives only aboot two
e"s three milli. ls annually -om other sol
iinS ces.
.Aes' During the late cold snap, Won
doo- named Jones, in Marengo, Wayne col
urel ~, N. Y, left her child a ne in
RI house for two entire days, without fo
the or nourishment. When she return
It,, ehe found the little creature frozen st
all dead. Coroner Weed held an
hoie quest, and portion Of the jury decit
k Is to hold The unnatural mother for m
der.
A vote was taken on an imports
tices measure in the Indiana Senate the otl
day. Mr.. -, a grave and revere
rNr. Senator, had not been attending to
velye ssbiz" and didn't know what the gu
cked ton was. His name was called by
, eve Secretary. He looked puzzled for Z
a the ment, and thea rapping on the desk "
ably. his knuckles, sser the manner Of G.
yery playing, said: Il passl" An audi
from litter ran through the hall. and
rting President of the Senate "took 1t up"