Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-04-14
All Sorts.
-"Benedict's Time"-The honeymoon

-"Benedlcts lime e-Ihe honeymoon
--Forney quotes Demosthenes and Sum-
ner on the Amendment-by way of con-
trast.
-Parepa Rosa leaves for European
pleasure tour in June.
"A st. Louis girl is sued for SCI worth
of perfumery.
Grant means TO fight out the Domin-
60 treaty on that line if it takes all Sum-
mer.
Homeopathic cure for bydrOphObia
Bark
"A Cincinnati incendiary barricaded
the doors of a dwelling-house before he
set fire TO it.
-"Japanese rabbit" is a San Francisco
dainty. 1t is baked rat.
George Sand, not content with be-
coming an editress, sspires TO become an
Academician.
One hundred dollars apiece is offered
for illegal voters in Cincinnati.
The fashionable bridal tour with Bal
timore negroes is on the horse-cars.
Cincinnati and st. Louis are getting
up buffalo parties for summer sport,
-Apropos of Dana's suit against the
Republican, the Times of that city is re-
minded of the Saying, "Sue beggar and
catch a-parasite."
"A nephew of Chief Justice Marshall
is said to be begging in the streets of
Macon, Ga. 1t only remains to be added
that he begs well.
Canton, O., claims the oldest journal-
ist. He has edited the Canton Reposi-
tory for fifty-five years, and is still at it,
-"Who's got the measles ?' was the
insulting remark howled at the Prince of
Wales from the gallery Of the Globe
Theatre the other night.
The plan of establishing Russian
university in Siberia Is again considered
Enough students have already been sent
to stock one.
The Chinese officials at Formoss ofTer
5000 reward for the head OF an English
camphor merchant Cheap enough
What costume ought to remind a
lady of her washerwoman Why, her
lawn dress, to be sure.
"A prisoner in Dubuque spoiled So
necktie in hanging himself, when there
was plenty of rope in his bedstead.
An English estate that has been in
chancery ninety-eight years has at length
been awarded to lucky type-setter.
California is to have a centennial in
June. Father Junipero Sierra settled
there just one hundred years ago.
Ought a raw recruit who has never
learned to use pen be ordered to fright
face" by his superior officer before the
sergeant has taught him to form a linsS'
Mr.. Bergh stopped Broadway stage
the other day because one of its horses was
afflicted with acute laminitis and navicu-
lar thitis. But the horse was worth only
five dollars.
Father Hyacinthe stuck the posters
advertising his own paper on the pillars
of the various chapels in Paris, privilege
accorded only to the Emperor's speeches
and the Bishops pastorals.
"A wonderful exhibition at Vermont
fair was frying-pan that came over in
the Mayfower. That is nothing to what
we shall have here in few days-Msy-
flowers themselves.
William ID. Potts was successful in
poisoning four of his wives before he was
detected. He will spend the rest OF his
life in the Wisconsin penitentisry, Ia
menting the single failure of sn industri-
Gus life.
"A Dubuque husband went to Indiana
to secure a divorce froTu his trusting wife,
but the chills and fever shook him into his
II H. lurl-
to ask forgiveness.
Keep it, nv good fellow" was what
the Prince of Wales said to a railway
porter who told him he had left his watch
on the seat of the carriage He thought it
was April /.
An octogenarian of Chicago tried to
poison his daughter and two grandchildren
by putting deadly-nightsha into the
potatoes. They call this dreadful at
tempt at notoriety" in Chicago.
"A brave little boy near Altoona,
Penn, saved the Pacific express train the
other day by waving his hat in front Of If.
A mass of rock had fallen upon the track,
which is cut into the face of the preeipice,
and he had discovered it.
A Cincinnati lady created an excite
ment the other morning, by claiming to
have been robbed of $4,000 by two men
who came up into her room in balloon.
She proved to be slightly balloonatic.
Hunting Parson-"Wen. George,
how dye like the new master ?" Old
fashioned huutsman-"Oh, hs'll du, sir
Seems a very pleasant sort o Renl'man-
the very fust time we was ont he swear'd
at me so comfortabl as If ed a-know'd
me all his days p
"A York State parsons wife aud their
eldest son, 26 years old, are pestering the
old fellow by getting him tried for big
amy. He had two wives before her, one
of whom be traded off to a tin-peddler,
and has another one now but they never
have interfered with his serene conscious
ness of integrity.
An indianapolis paper tells how one
Mr.. Fox, the lie der of an orchestra in
that city, "shot two or three times 10 q
light and playful way" at eolored por-
ter. Bat the darkey, so runs the story
"being of a sensitive disposition, became
nervous, and asserted that he had some
trouble in dodging the shots"
How SMALL EXPENDITURES COUNT