Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-08-04
Recent Readings.
Iowa is quarrying marble

India is to have her Prince of Wales at
last.
Printing Loosely lousy was an imputa-
ton.
Lynchburg has been having a tourna-
ment.
London receives shoo-Fly with rosrs of
laughter nightly.
The clergymen of Norwich are seeking
martial honors, and getting pstrimoniaL
1t is believed that coal will be high the
coming winter.
An Illinois boy lost most of his toes by
chasing quail in front of moving ma
chine.
Drawing and quartering for treason Is
Just abolished in England.
An Oshkosh lady has been stung into
eternity by wasps.
Virginia boasts colored couple of 81
and 90 years respectively. The man Is
grave-digger.
The Imperial" are massing on the
Rhine and in California.
They saw it is much easier for an army
to move than for New York TO do it.
Poughkeepsie is being touched up by
horse thieves.
The healthy tone of the New York
nress is due to those page advertisements
of Buchu.
Real estate in Philadelphia, like Phils-
delphia, is dull.
Iazzari Condemnatorie, of New York,
we grieve to say, has been committed as a
vagrant.
The huckleberry crop of Connecticut is
not success.
Grant waves off Office seekers with
Long Branch.
Philadelphia grumbles at the high price
of peaches.
1t is the fashion in Philadelphia to steal
ice from a neighbours doorway.
Milwaukee has an outbreak of Mexican
Buchanan.
New Orleans never enjoyed so good,
cheap and plentiful meat as now.
Don Juan has turned up again in the
New York police department
Suicide, In such hot weather, is the
worst side OF the question.
l1ey are LASo1 bni0 III ~NC" AOA0
TO save the life OF criminal
A "fat mems" baseball match is an In
diana idea of sport.
The cable dispatches report having
sighted Wales in Danish wat-rs, but the
whole thing sounds very much like a fish
story.
/ A Memphis cook carelessly emptied a
match safe In a teapot, and the family of
seven sleep with their fathers.
Stockings, they say, are going out Of
fashion in Paris. They have long been
out of style at Fort Wayne, Ind.
That old lady, 95 years, who has knit
over twenty pairs of stockings SINCE
/ October, has got round to New Hamp-
shire.
i With the appearance of green apples
and peaches the doctors bank accounts are
fattening up.
A mere child of 102, near Richmond,
has a good appetite and can get around
well, but her memory is gone up.
The Mormon Ladies' Retrenehment
Society nc nahiug a brown bread and
bean soup diet one of its articles of faith.
A man has been arrested in Cincinnati
for pulling up wooden pump aad carry
ing it off. He was very dry.
New Hampshire's foxes are having their
Thanksgiving now, and the young turkeys
are growing scarce.
Il A ruralist at Newport seeing a lady
driving, and her groom with folded arms
behind, thought "that niger must pay
that nice-looking girl pile to drive his
carriage for him"
I A Yankee who listened TO a German
debate over the Hohenzollerns and much
lager thought shat Dutch fellow, Prince
Hollering- Hollering, deserved his name
} Mr. Gladstone has vouchssfed the III
formation that the Alabama claims are
I still standing where they stood a year
, ago. He could give US no better assur-
ance of the strength of their legs.
Horace Greeley is said to be preparing
series of articles on What / know
about running saw mill" The allusion
to dams will be frequent.
A Syracuse waiter attended church on
a recent evening and fell asleep. He wa
kened himself by bawling, "Ham and
eggs for twow and soon left the sacred
edifee.
Two colored BARRIERS at Penn Yam
fought duel with the weapons Of their
trade and race. Ones hair was cut 30 re-
markedly close that he was called hence
rapidly.
A young fellow who saw the tiger in
New York last winter, has been initiating
his Pittsburgh friends into the hosts Of
Faro. 1t cost one of them $500 to learn
the game.
The news from Washington is that the
! United States will remain neutral. New
Jersey will probably be influenced by this
to adopt a similar policy, though the mos
quito corps is getting ready for bloody
campaign.
The Richmond negroes had an old YOU
dou doctor at work one day last week
breaking the spell over a conjured dar-
keys house. He performed variety of
fetch rites, to the awe of his sable reti-
nue..
A dashy Colonel" of fifty years has
been cutting a swell among wealthy
Kansas widows, lately, and his wife has
just sent for him and forced him to shell
out $1,000 which he borrowed of her be-
fore he started out
A suicidal chap in New Hampshire set
/ fire to some hay in the barn, and then
tied himself up by the neck to beam.
J His friends wouldn't let him smother
comfortably, but cut him down and put
out the fire.
The Milwaukee water works are greatly
needed. A day or two ago, pretty nj
lady-like women tottered by the North
western Insurance Company office IN
state of decided in+briation. followed by
gentlemanly-lo male similarly
situated.
| A Buffalo fodder-cutter tried the ex-
pertinent of sliding down the inside OF
trough, q distance of fifty feet, and thinks
he will visit the Adirondack, Tor his
health his digestion has not been good