Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-02-03
General Items

t Cooperation fourishes in New You
| Senator Sherman frankly defer3
: Thanking.
"A London magazine is called Il.
"Chatter Box"
Victoria goes to Germany on 5isi,
this spring.
They are making "Shoo Fly" ha,,ia
Danbury.
Great Britain pays taxes On cyz
100000 dogs.
The State of West Virginia has Z.
public debt. How sad.
Wife murder is called the oulmius
ton of wife beating.
The cigar-makers' strike in Gothar
ended in smoke.
The London directory for 1870 make,
volumes of 1890 pages.
-Hasty pudding festivals are now il
fashion in Minnesota.
The area of timbered land in Kanss
is estimated at 9, 10000 acres.
The Chicago Law university b..
three young lady students.
Mayor Hall calls the New York cit7
government homogeneous.
-Kossuth is so roor that he lives d,
Turin on bread and coffee.
Prayer meetings are to be resumed il
i Water street, New York.
-Dandelions, it is said, were in bloom
in Branford, Conn, on the 23d inst.
There were S31 deaths in Worcestsr
last year-males 424, females 407
/ Villages have been burnt and liFeo
lost by volcanic eruption IN Java
I'm New York the fat men are said t.
be feeding up for another ball.
"A great demand is springing up il
Hungary for Protestant bibles and tracts-
The Sandwich Gazette states thst
May flowers are in bloom in the woods q
that town.
Another shock of earthquake has oc,
Cured in California.
They have boy spotted like leop.
ard on exhibition in Augusta, Ga.
"A clergyman in Ohio has sued his
congregation for S95 back salary.
Three times as much money is spent
The Belknap Mills at Laconia and
ations.
Every man, woman and child in
America uses on an average 500 matches
year.
The King of Sweden has written 500
poems, and nobody ever heard of it till
now.
1t is said that there are from one
hundred and fifty 70 two hundred cssss
of measles in Westboro.
Chicago Museum has two-legged
colt. He can't trot a mile inside of two
minutes.
The last words uttered by Tramp
mann, the Kinck murderer, were, l have
accomplices."
Napoleon promises liberty and four
hundred thousand bayonets to the French
people
The present style of dressing hair
for the ladies is fat to the head. Cute1i.
hard says style and calibre are for once
united.
The San Francisco board of educa-
tion declined to allow the school children
to take part in Camilla Urso's musical
festival, because of the expense their clean
dresses would be to their parents.
That was pithy reply sent by
Hoboken editor to a man who had cbal-
lenged him to fight a duel. "When,"
said the challenged editor, "when want
to die / can shoot myself"
"A Connecticut deacon, in a NEE inc.
on Sunday, spoke of the uncertain X az
life, and exhorted his hearers to p lamar
for death, as, ''if nobody dies wit the
year, the new undertaken will be r7s,oyed
from the village"
In a rattle for some charitable, pur-
pose the Queen of Prussia took one hmm
dred tickets. Her prizes wszs: a concert
piano, chrome, a brass ascast-pin, and a
box of wooden soldiers
Pretty teacher eSlSoS, Johnny Wells
can You tell me whas is meant by a mira
Gle" Eyes, teaches. Mother SAYS if VOL
don't marry our new parson, twill be a
murracle -
An old maid who was over-nice in
regard TO cleanliness about her house,
once scrubbed her sitting room floor until
she fell through into the cellar.
"A little three-year old girl in New
Orleans recently astonished her mother,
who attempted to correct her, by motion
ing her away with chubby little hand
and scornfnlly saying, 'shoo, fly. dom
bodder me y
The London papers tell how a street
crowd was greatly amused when the
carriages of wedding party were blockes Il
in a narrow street by two loads of eressas
and baby wagons.
A minister at Pittsheld, NJ
ont hymn, and tells the ass, gives
sing it well they can a'- choir if they
but if mot, two .ng the whole OF il,
are generally = .erses will do. They
Sou .noked off in the middle.
inv ..e of the Western railroads are
.nting new methods Of killing passen'
gers A man was recently most besuu-
fully killed while in sleeping car, by
having the spout at water-station CONF
down through the roof of the car.
"A young lady in Indiana, was frozen
to death, while out sleigh-riding with
young man. A man who can't Keep
woman from freezing, should be punlshe'
to the full extent of the law.
The "oldest inhabitant" has been
looking the thing up, and comes to .he
conclusion that old Boreas is operating iOt
/ a "corner" in the matter of next sun'
mer's ice.
-"Now, sposin you was to be fnrn9aa
into an animal eaid Jim, "what woui1
you like to be, Billr 20, I'd be- nOn,
replied Bill, "because he's So.
don't be lion, Bill" interrupted I.1
Tom, who had some recent Painiui
perience at school, "be wasp, ana 'ne1
You can sting the schoolmaster