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

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San Francisco drank 140,700 barrels
of beer last year.
Green and purple are the fashionable
new dyes for hair at Paris.
Initials are sometimes prophetic, e. e.,
George Augusta Sala-G. A. S.
Colorado offers $1,000 reward for the
| first artesian well sunk in the territory.
Shocks of earthquake have recently
occurred in France, Scotland and other
parts of Europe.
"A nine year old boy has Just been
sent to Brussels penitentiary for attempt
ing to kill his mother.
An Indian preacher, lecturing in In
diana, closes his evenings feast with
war-whoop and scalp dance.
"A Michigan sot earns his tod by
swallowing ten-penny nails. Safe enough
Michigan whisky will will eat up any
thing.
During the present year no less than
five murders or attempts to murder have
been the daily record in the city of New
York rE
Rev. James Lemen, last survivor of
the convention which framed the eonsti-
titution of Illinois, in 1918, recently died
at Belleville.
Among the bills presented to the
Sandusky. o., council for payment, wac
one of $3.50 'for preaching funeral SER
mon for darkey, died with smallpox"
"A new bituminous coal mine has been
opened at Dsnville, Ill. The coal is free
from slate, sulphurets or other minerals,
and 250 tons are daily sent to Chicago.
The number of school children in
South Carolina, between the ages of 5 and
Is, is 16S,S19. OF these, 100,71 are blacks.
Of the 47S teachers, 73 are from the North
ern states.
The French academy of sciences has
elected Prof Mayor of HeilbroDn, to the
place vacant by the death of Matteuci.
Mayor obtained 80 votes, Kirchoff 8,
Augstron 1, and Sir William Thompson 1.
"A heretical German Catholic is puzzled
thus: If the pope is really infallible, be
cannot be fallible in declaring himself in
and Plus TX ought not TO hesitate
to declare as truth what Innocent III de-
nounced as heresy.
The Toledo board of trade roem con-
tains the largest specimen of coal ever
taken from mine in Ohio. 1t is col
umn twelve to fourteen inches square, and
twelve feet high, and exhibits the depth
of coal vein near New Lexington. Perry
county.
The governor of Montana has nominate
ed twelve persons for auditor, thirteen for
treasurer, and eight for superintendent
of public instruction, and all have been
rejected. He is patiently and placidly
sending in other names, and the Council
maintains its reflective mood.
An Irish night-editer, being unable to
for publication the mass of intel
igence that poured in on him during the
night, inserted in his paper the following
notice: "Owing to a most
unusual pressure of matter, we are com
PEELED to leave several of our columns
blank"
The matinee system, now so much is
vogue, is far more profitable TO managers
than to actors, as the latter never get ex-
ira pay for the extra work. If actors
are dull and Ineffective on Saturday
nights, audiences should remember that
they are fatigued by extra unpaid labor
during the day. E
Some difficulties having been thrown
in the way of women studying anatomy
IN Edinburgh, two professors (Sruthers of
Aberdeen, and Bell of st. Andrews) have
offered them the instruction elsewhere
denied them. The professor of anatomy
IN one of the London schools has also ex-
pressed his readiness to instruct them in
this branch of science.
Rev. DIR. Van Dyck of Brooklyn, who
was violently southern in his sentiments
furing the war, enters heartily into the
lnion of the two Presbyterian bodies, and
iesires bygones to be bygones. Said he,
.ecently, "Let disunion be buried with its
ace downward, the tomb be locked AID
he key be given to the Sadducees who
lid not believe in the resurrection"
An inscription commonly used by
Germans, "Here rests in God" was re-
,ently placed on the tombstone of Ger.
nan who died at Rome. This came to
he ears of the authorities, and great was
heir indignation that any one should
nave had the audacity to suppose that
Protestant could be said to "rest in God"
n spite of the protests of the German
therefore, the offending stone
vas actually removed from the grave.
1t has been proved beyond dispute
hat pain can be felt for twenty minutes
,fter decapitation, By the following ex-
,eriments, made by Paris surgeon Two
,uman heads were placed in the rave of
he sun, and the eyelids which had been
'pened were Immediately shut and the
lead of an assassin named Terrier, which
vas experimented upon more than
uarter Of an hour after having been