Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-11-24
New England Items.

New England Items.
Engineers are surveying new rail-
road route from Pittsfeld to New Leba-
non Springs, N. Y.
There was skating On Round Hill
pond, Northampton, Mass, Monday morn
ing.
There are 351 firms in the boot and
shoe and leather trade on Pearl street,
Boston.
Edward B. Kittredge was crushed to
death, Saturday, and John Dixon, Sun
day, both at Boston and both while shack
ling cars.
Two hundred feet of the Mansfield
and birmingham railroad sunk nearly
out of sight, the other day, blockading
travel on the road, and requiring three
days of filing before the bottom was
touched and the break repaired.
-Baldwin's store in New Marlboro,
Mass, was destroyed by fire, on Friday
night, and from certain indications, it is
apparent it was first robbed, and then
DuInSl ~ SONbi VIC ApDbCA
R. P. Crafts, whose valuable block at
Holyoke was burned, several months ago,
has completed better one in its stead,
and has also built $4,000 barn near the
public park, where, next spring, he will
put up fine residence.
The Boston, Clinton and Fitchburgh
Railroad Company have just put on ten
new freight cars, labeled New York and
Winchendon," designed to run between
these two places in eighteen hours.
"A fine golden eagle, captured on Ber-
lin mountain and measuring eight feet
and a half from tip to tip, was brought to
Williamstown, Mass, on Thursday. Ru-
fus Moon. the owner, has been unusually
fortunate this fall, this being the second
"bird O. freedom" which he has caught
within few months. The first measured
nine feet from tip to tip, and was sent to
the museum of natural history at the New
York Central Park.
One of the Nilsson concerts at Bos-
ton, last week, was dampened by tho ar
rest of Max Maretzek, just as it was to
begin, for debt. The amount was paid
after the audience had waited impatient
ly for half an hour, and the concert pro,
ceeded. No sheriff could be found who
would serve the writ at that hour, but a
city constable was willing to DO it.
The first invoice of the proposed
Yankee colony in Bolivia has left Boston
in the Bolivian schooner Enterprise.
Nineteen persons went, comprising six
miners. sig -fasznor1, three merchants, two
physicians and two ladies, including
Piper, President of the company, and his
wife.
THE ARITHMETICAL QUEsTION.-We
have received a communication from Mr..
Mr.. A. L. Hulett of South Wallingford,
in reference to the "Arithmetical Cues
ton" published in the HERALD some
days since, in explanation of his PROPOSE
tion, which we herewith publish:
To my aatthnaetjcaJ friends
My question was first published in the
Daily HERALD, and soon received a So
luton by the aid of algebra. then sent
the editor note, requesting him TO insert
it in the Weekly, with the explanation
that 1 wished it solved by analysis, that
is, without the aid Of an equation or pro-
portion, but it did not reach him in time
to have the altera ton Effected.
have since received solutions from
different persons, obtained with the aid
of rule called position.
declined giving the turkey to the one
sending the solution by algebra as the
question was an arithmetical one, and l
could not very well give it to any but the
first who solved it in that way.
Now, in view of this muddle, and the
mixed condition of the thing generally, I
have concluded to rub out and commence
,ew. And as some persons have COM
planned of the blind sort of way in which |
he question was put, and declined to
puzzle their brains with ii, and as the
,nly really difficult thing about it is to
,btain the dimensions of the box, I will
,ut it in this comparatively mild form:
The length width and height of seven
,ushel box are to each other as 12 1918,
1 11-12 and 10 1011, respectively what
re they?
Now wish it to be distinctly under
TODD that to win the turkey this must be
olved by analysis, that is, without the
id of an equation, proportion, or pro-
'ess called position, in which the dimen-
ions are assumed to be something which
hey are not.
And hereby solemnly pledge myself
o send the bird to the first person from
vAom receive a solution obtained in the
sbSve mentioned manner.