Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-03-31
Gleanings and Gossip.

Indiana has Hen Peck post-ofice.
Miss Nilsson has joined skating
club.
Blind Tom is giving concerts in Hi.
nois.
The King of Saxony is translating
Tennyson.
--"Tennessee's Partner" - Commodore
Vanderbilt.
"A snail has been trained by Geor-
gia man to go seventy inches in sixty
minutes.
| Prof. Unzer, distinguished Austrian
naturalist, was found murdered in his bed
recently.
Minnesota has ice 33 inches thick, so
clear that the newspaper print can be read
through it.
-Agapius Honcharenko edits the Alas.
ka Times, the annual subscription price OF
which is three raxostchki.
The oldest theater in this country is
supposed to be the Walnut of Philadel-
phia, which was built in 1900.
1T is waste of salt in catching bird
to put the same on its tail. Save alike
the salt and the birds feelings.-Boston
Post.
Nellie Cooley, an Iowa girl, has a
button string, five yards long, with no
two buttons alike, and some over 200
years old.
The crown princess of Prussia says
"My dear sir, if my innermost wishes
were fulfilled, / should never be called
upon to sit upon the throne" -..
-Dibble. recently appointed district
Judge by Gov. Yarmouth of Louisiana,
was private in a New York regiment,
and lost a leg at Port Hudson.
The editor of the Clark county Wis.,
Republican says he is willing to give the
fair one who sent him a valentine "a prac-
tical illustration of locking up form"
An cold settlers society" has been
formed at Racine, Wis. The constitution
provides that any person who has lived
in the State thirty years, and is of good
moral character, may become member.
The Southern States are going into
the ice manufacture extensively, and
nearly every city is making arrangements
to cool itself with home products. 1t is a
hopeful sign, for the great trouble with
the South has been her inability to "keep
cool"
Lewis Cass, who died worth $2,000,-
900, made most of his fortune by an in
vestment in farm of swo hundred acres
in the then village of Detroit, which he
bought for $4,000. The ''farm" became
rko Af tha ait
of Detroit.
The "Great European and American
land emigration company" is in trouble
with its Norwegians at st. Croix Falls,
Wis. In starving condition, the labor
ers made an assault upon the company's
office, last week, and forced the agent to
pay over the arrearages of pay.
The admirer of an actress in Savan-
nah tossed a nice set of furs upon the
stage, the other evening, instead of bo-
quet. We may look to see all manner of
dry goods, breadstufs and provisions
hurled upon the stage in the midst of the
most awful tragedy, if this thing goes on.
A conversation with Beethoven, pre-
served in Sehindler's life of him, reveals
the fact that he was applied to to write
an oratorio for Boston, but declined "be-
cause for the present he must write, not
what he would, but, for the sake of money,
what he must" But no one now knows
who made the proposition or by what au-
thority.
Protection has found new field on
the Pacific coast, bill being introduced
into the California House offering a
bounty of $4,000 for the first 5000 bar
rels of prime mess pork put up in the
State from Observation-Disclosures hogs, and
exported by sea, and bounty of $4,000
for the first 100000 pounds of lard manu-
featured there and exported.
The New York Sorosis lives and yet
bears on its roll the names of 80 news
paper and magazine writer's, six editors,
! 12 poets, SIX musical artists, % authors,
two physicians, four professors, two art
lists in painting, nine workers in art, nine
teachers, ten lecturers, one historian, one
compiler of scientific works, and three
well-known philanthropists.
The British Admiral Ramsay says
that on the coast of Africa he once saw a
regiment of rifle women and, black as
they were, he never saw a finer regiment.
All the officers were women, there not
being single man in the whole regiment.
They were most courageous; in fact,
when they went into action they fought
like 30 many tigresses.
The Spanish authorities in Cuba have
placed high tariff ON imported cattle.
Consequently the men in Florida who I'M
til recently shipped cattle to Havana find
their occupation gone for the time being,
and every one of them is now an avowed
enemy of the Spaniards, and proportion
ately friend of the cause which will
make Cuba free country.
'Mr Speaker" said Sir Boyle Roche,
II smell a rat. | see him floating in the
air But, mark me, I shall nip him in
the bud" This. as "mixed metaphor" is
almost equalled by the fight of Mr.
Bayne in the Illinois convention The
gentleman from Peoria is mistaken. ]
see the handwriting on the wall. Ichabod
is being written. The glory is departing
from the supreme bench, and the time
will come round that every man will
worship God according to his own opin.
ions, when he will sit under his own vine
and under his own fig tree, and there will
be no lawyer or Judge to make him afraid
/ "A bachelor thus impeaches woman
II impeach her in the name of the great
whale of the ocean, whose bones are torn
asunder to enable her to keep straight. ]
impeach her in the name of the peacock
i whose strut without his permission she
has stealthily and without honor assumed
/ impeach her in the name of the horse
whose tail she has perverted from its use
to the making of wavy tresses to decorate
the back of the head and neck I i'm
peach her in the name of the kangaroo
whose beautiful figure she, in taking upor
herself the Grecian bend, has brongh
into ill-favor and disrepute."
Paris produces masks, but the for
eigner buys them. South America, New
Orleans, New York, and especially Bneno
) Ayres and Brazil, are among the princi
pal customers-the carnival being OBJ
served there with great enthusiasm
Partisan makers also receive orders from
America for masks representing the type