Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-01-30
Miscellany.

Ill hr prnits ui the Hebrew Charity
Fair in New York were $4,000,
There are ten thousand Italians aud
six thousand Spaniaris in New York.
There is a r,lmor that the Rrst-class
restaurants have reduced their prices Is
per cent,
The Iowa Insane Hospital has had
forty.seven hundred patients since its
founding.
some one calls the time Of squeezing
girls hands the palmy season Of life,
The 1asses candy wedding Is when
the first baby gets big enough TO lick.
One Of the National Banks in Hart.
ford, Conn last week declared stock div
idend of thirty per cent.
-Twenty-four grains make one PEN
uyweight. One dram makes fifteen PEN
mics gn.
some one talks of writing the 6nan-
cial history Of John c. Fremont, and e.
pects TO make it substantial volume
Bobby, why don't your mother sew
up your trowsers = "'Cant she's at the
ve~try sewing for the heathcn."
The worlds greatest want at the prss-
ent time is men and women who shall
quietly do their whole duty and not tell
anybody of it,
Great distress is reported among the
working classes of Quebec. The Montreal
Board of Trade is devising means of re-
lief
"A man who had a scolding wife be-
ing asked what he did for living replied
that he kept a hot house.
Miss Annie +. Dickinson recently
came near Yerishing with cold, in Min.
nesota. She took 30 mile sleigh ride ON
! fhc ice
The cattle plague has appeared at
Antwerp, and the Dutch Government is
taking very vigorous precautions on ths
! frontier,
! -tumtcTmen on the Saginaw are IN
high glce, and have already cut an extra
ordinary amount of timber
--Stc"l rails have been laid on the Hud-
son River Railroad as far North as Sing
Sing, and the laying of them is to be re-
sumed in the Spring.
The Massachusetts,, Eclectic Medical
Society hes decided that no medical sub
stitute for alchohol can be found.
Mrs. Marsh, wife of our Minister at
Florence, Italy, is daily active in works of
relief for the wounded Garibaldians.
"A lady's nose-protector, lined with
fur, is the latest importation from Paris
Did the last cold snap in that city cause
its invention
The famine in Finland is dreadful,
and the peasants think themselves fortu-
nate if they can get bread made Of equal
proportions of coarse rye -four, moss and
s1w-dust.
The Rev. Lyman Whiting, of Du-
buque, celebrated his silver wedding on
the 9th inst. His people hung tree with
silver quarters, gave him $l75 in silver
half dollars. and increased his salary
$500
Horace Greeley says the wealthy
men of New York endeavor to earn
reputation for meanness, TO protect them
selves from bepgars. Whatever their, mo-
tive the effect of our Crnsuses have been
crowned with most brilliant success
----Ex-rebel ex-Gen. Magruder volunta-
rily took the oath of allegiance in New
York ON Friday last He has abandoned
his intention of filling that famous "last
ditch.
-Four brothers named Curtis, in Orange
Centre, Vermont, assaulted and beat their
They were arrested and
fined from s. to SEQ each, and are put
under bonds to answer for private dam
ages
The oldest inhabitant of Quebec as
serts this to be the coldest winter in his
not so much from the occasion
al state of the thermometer as the steady
average degree of cold.
1t is said 0f a fashionable lady who
went to party not long since that she
arrived there about the first of the even
rive until after - o'clock.
st. Patrick's Day in the Morning
will be celebrated in New York with
procession. in which viii march twenty
light thousand rishmen.
New York is hundred years older
han st. Petershurgh but the imperial
Library is three times "a large as the As
or, our largest.
The st. Paul Pioneer says that the
apital invested in newspapers in Minnes-
ia amounts to 100000, and st. Paul rep
esents $4,000 of this.
Six hundred negroes arrived in No
,ile in one day lately from the interior OF
Alabama. Not being able to get employ
1cnt the poor creatures are focking to
Iobile to escape starvation, and wander
bout the streets destitute and shelter
,ss.
A little daughter Of Ansel Mayberry
Windham, Me, aged about two and
half years, accidentally set her clothes
a fire on Monday last, and was so terri
" burned that after lingering if intense
ltfering for nearly twenty hours, she ex-
ired.
AT the meeting of the New York Ty-
ograpieal Society, Friday evening, to eel
brate the l62d anniversary Of Benjamin
ranklin's birthday, the original press
ulled by him as journeyman printer,
nd now owned by the Society, was eIhib-
ed
Huge icicles and mountains Of solid
c have formed at the foot Of Niagara
alls from the constant accretions Of spray,
,rming a beautiful sight. An ice bridge
as also formed below the falls, and hun
reds of people have passed over.
The New York House Of Assembly
as twenty-eight assistant clerks. seven