Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-02-20
Random Reading.
IL. O." drinks tea |

Hog aud hominy i, .uee in Dixie
this winter,
-Diekrus was pleased with the Presi.
dent
A wiseacrr-solemon with the tooth.
ache
-Sfu-yrHtttz ety--ttt III rampant at New
orleana
Cape Cod has a superhuity Of ioxes
thi, winter
Russia iswide awake, and is building
new railways
Tho best way tn make persons love You
love them
The Boston soup houses began opera.
tion- on Friday.
Council Bluiis Iowa, i having tenn
penncc fever,
E, p, Whipple is leeturing on Loaf.
ing ana Iaboring."
knapp The Tvyiyattst has crowded
houses in California
-Rocklnnd, Ne. shipped million
casks Of lime last year
Dickens was fity-six years old few
days ago,
For wonder, Virginia is actually
shipping corn to Boston.
--Farragut has been made citizen OF
Cindadcla, Minoriea,
-Boston companies lose s35,750 by the
Chicago FIRE
The tallest Mason in. Europe is said
TO be eight feet high.
--Fatern Florida is said to have an ex.
cclcnt crop Of sugar cane,
| Rev Van Meter is picking up hun
trea- of dollars in Connecticut.
The Maine Senate and House are pre-.
sided over by own cousins,
A Boston lady has furnished homes
fhr seven thousand foundlings
Mexico and the United States are to
be connected by system of railroads,
The first gold in California was dis
covered just twenty years ago.
Hay is now an important article Of
export from kittery, York and Eliot, Ne,
The Prince of Wales will be the last
king of England, 50 republicans say.
told is steadily going up. end the
prediction is that 1t will soon touch $50
Tennessee is considering the advisa.
bility OF repeating the obsolete "usury
laws"
! Florida promises TO send to the North
all the tropical fruits and choice early
vegetables il requires.
--Carlotte said, when told that Maxi
milan was dead, that she had suspected
it for some time.
The "sugar wedding" occurring thr-
ty days after marriage, is the latest mat
rimonial novelty.
The Boston and Albany Railroad has
reduced its rates of freight since its con-
solidation.
A new branch Of business at Charles
ton, Mass, is the manufacture of heels for
shoes by machinery.
| Grand Haven is said to have shipped
over sixty-three million feet of lumber
the past season.
The statement of the public debt
shows an increase of nearly twenty mil
lions for the month of january.
--Forty-fve hundred and two liquor
cases We're put in suit last year before the
. Superior Court of Massachusetts,
Maine boasts of over Gfteon hundred
lakes. For its area, it beats all the other
States for its water power.
Texas is Disguised with cotton rais-
/ ing, and has taken to raising castor beans,
broom corn and sorghum instead.
One evening Of last week, there were
nearly two hundred parties, receptions,
Germans, etc, in Fifth Avenue, n. Y.
The vicinity of the Nevada Falls, in
California, is thiekly dotted with the ruins
OF Aztec or Totec cities and Notifications.
Nobel, OF nitro-glycerine fame, has in
vented a new gunpowder, with which he
expects to blow the world to pieces.
Gov Pckerirg, OF Washington Ter
ritory, says that 100000 feet of lum-
Der are annually sawed in Puget's Sound.
On the Goth ult., one hundred car
loads OF railroad iron and ties left Omaha
for the end OF the Union Pacific Railroad
Mrs H. w Smith, of La Fayette, Ind,
undertook to read in bed with lighted
candle, and was burned to death.
A Connecticut man at San Francisco
filed his pockets with stones, and walking
ont into the bay, drowned himself.
In Boston, this winter, many ladies
carry their knitting work to the lectures
That Is like the good old times
One hundred and twenty million
acres Of land has been granted to railways
I by the [ nited States Government.
The world may owe every man liv-
/ ing, but he must dun it theoretically and
persistenily before it will make payment
London issued three thousand five
hundred and sixteen new works last year,
and fourteen hundred and twenty-five re-
prints.
The poor Nova Scotia fishermen are
actually eating dog-fsh for food and the
number of sufferers is estimated at fif-
teen thousand.
On Friday the sidewalks in Spring
field, Mass, were sanded by the city au-
thorities. A good pla.. tor some other
places to initiate
The Detroit Tribune says: "A lean
horse and small boy have organized an
express company. in Hartford, Ind, and
deliver packages for five cents
FouR 1EAR-oLD VICTIMS. = Nearly
three thousand children under four years
Of age attended school in Wisconsin last
year-lust three thousand too many. Not
child should 90 to school before il is