Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-03-17
GIeanings and Gossip.


The San Franciscans talk of making
their jubilee an annual.
Hudson, n. Y, boasts more baker
shops than any other town of its size in
the country.
Rev. W. W. Eyerts of Chicago has
left his Baptist pulpit and transferred his
to the Roman Catholic church.
DIR. Goodman, Comtist, proposes to
positivist journal in New York
the coming summer, to be called the Mod
ern Thinker.
Rome Bonaparte, cousin of the en-
peror, is registered at New York hotel
as /" Major Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte of
the French army"
The clerk of the Missouri House at
one point in calling the roll rapidly voci-
ferates, " Howe, Huffman, Hurt, Ittnerw
much to the delight of the facetious.
AS Thurlow Weed proposes to tell
" what became Of Morgan" an exchange
suggests that, while he is in that line, he
also informs us /" who struck Billy Patter-
SON."
Another of Darwin's missing link
between animal species has been found In
Iowa, in the shape of dog-wolf, with
VOLTS head and ears and dogs body and
long silken fur.
Marshall f. Moore, Ex-Governor OF
Washington Territory, died at bis resi-
dence in Olympia, recently, from the
effects of wound in one of his lungs re-
ceived during the war.
The following question belongs to the
mixed mathematics, and great many
people have got mixed up trying to solve
it /: If three cats kill three rats In three
minutes, how many cats will 1t take to
kill 100 rats in 80 minutes
AT recent meeting of the I: nj. q.
A. of Chicago, an amendment to the con-
stitution admitting women was proposed.
One speaker said that only 100 out of the
500 members performed the duties de-
volving upon them as such.
Thomas Carlyle pays only S125 rent
for his house AID does not know who his
landlord is. He is periodically directed
by an attorney to pay rent at such place
and suspects that the cheapness OF his
tenement is brought about by the con-
nivance of his friends.
Most Uniyersalists will deny that the
Tennessee constitution, forbidding an
oath by any person who denies the future
state of rewards and punishments, ex-
cludes them from the witness box, as the
length of future state of punishment
is not specified and therein lies their dis
tinctive tenet.
-Ledru-Rollin's father was a physi-
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ventriloquist and conjuror. When the
present Ledru was admitted to the bar
there was also a Charles Ledru, and the
former added to his own name that OF his
grandfather Rollins, to distinguish him
from his brother attorney.
"A miner in Michigan met an untime-
ly death not long ago, and one of his
friends interested himself in obtaining
for the bereaVed widow.
He collected some 5000, and then, think
ing to marry the three-days' widow, pro-
posed, was accepted, and they were made
one that same evening.
An honest old darkey, whose ex-
pectations of getting forty-acre planta-
ton and domestic iackass, for voting
the radical ticket, were entirely sincere,
INV kOGs DaSh Od Lis III WIS
wise: "Dem carpet-baggetin' scalawag
fellers, da tell US dar war provisions in
the constitution for we cellad folks, bui
Hat was a he-dem provisions didh't
come. Fore God, massa, / amt aeen &c
fust mou'ful"
The Chicago papers for some time
have been filed with defiant challenges
n advertisements between the rival lock
inventors, Sargent and Hall. Sargent,
being ''stumped" to unlock one of Halls
;afes, at length attempted for some hours
% pick the lock, but failed, and challenged
Hall to unlock it himself At last ac-
counts, Hall was engaged in futile en-
leavors to unlock his own lock. ...
One of the members of the Illinois
made speech recently on the
chool question, in which he showed that
he towns for some years had in the sg-
yregate lost million dollars annually in
ways " unaccounted for" The average
mount of schooling has been only 81 days,
when the law requires six months, and
he number Of scholars is steadily falling
IF, there being in 1868 716,7S0 scholars,
,3,244 more than in 1869.
Cleveland is troubled with what Chi
ago calls barnacles. A citizens commit
ee has published statement that the
municipal taxes have increased from
;166, 1888 in 1860, to $1,029, 534 in 1869,
of special assessments, and that
he debt of the city now amounts to ST.
10000. The valuation of the taxable
property is SEC, 462, 967, and the rate of
ak, 10 IA mills. The total tax is equal
o $16 per head for each man, woman and
hid in the city.
An old German lady in the ducby of
who depended upon the
abor of her son tailor, for her subsist-
nee, heard that her son had been con-
cripted. She determined to go to the
rand duke, and ask for her sons release.
The duke, after listening to her request,
sked, "Why should he not serve, old
adv? I am also soldier" The old lady
."Ja, that is all very well for
lis highness, for he has never learned any,
hing but my son is tailor~
The Paris Figaro announces the de-
arturo of Adelina Patti Caux for this
ountry. The singer is greatly delighted
y the presentation to her of the order Of
crit by the Gar, and writes to her
81 am so overjoyed that /
o not know what to say, and am sure
on will be, and all your family the same.
can see you so plainly saying to Amelia,
Let us drink bottle of champagne to-
ay to the health of Adelina.' Is it not
o2 Do not forget to give my best love
. Amelia" etc.
"A Chicago boy, who had injured his
rm by fall, was treated by the physician
5 though the arm had been broken. The
octor on his second visit however, dis
overed that the arm was not broken, and
fteward made two visits, charging $40
u the four visits. The boys father OBJ
,cted TO the price, paid him $40, and was
ned for the remaining $50. The defend
ut brought physician to testify that the
rst and only needed visit was worth 81,
nd the plaintiff not only lost his case,
ut was adjudged to pay back rs OF the =
10 already received and the costs.
AZ say, sheriff." said . culprit con-
,mned 70 be hung, sat what hour does
ia little affair of mine come OH r.