Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-12-01

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i An Illinois man, five years married
told the census.taker he didn't know hi
wife,s first name-never asked because b
didn't think it worth while to bottle
!. sout it till he got ready for divorce.
}, Mr.. Fullwiller of Columbia, wouldn'
have known that he was shot If docto
hadn't dug q pistol ball out OF his head
He is full willing to thrash the man tina
shot him now that he has found It out.
Four citizens OF Chillicothe, O., hav
never stopped shaking long enough to die
though they are over hundred years old
THE pressure of fever and ague is 81
pounds to the square inch there.
Robert Jackson Of Philadelphia, though
his watch would never be of any more us
to him, so he broke it up, loaded his re
volver with the fragments, fired then
into his head and passed from time int,
eternity.
Many parts Of the country are still suf
fering for want of rain. On Tuesday thu
Bergen meadows in New Jersey were OF
fire for many hours, and the fire depart
ment of the district had to be called on
to quench the flames.
The daughter of an ex.collector of New
York received $4,000 worth of gifts a
her wedding, last week, among them be
ing a country-seat on the Hudson, thor
oughly furnished, a check for $4,000 anG
coffee pot of solid gold, costing $4,000.
A young Scottish lord is devoting him
self to astronomy, and is now erecting in
the vicinity of Dunecht castle, Aberdeen
number of valuable aud costly astronomi
cal instruments have already been sen,
from London.
The custom officers have been ordered
to admit free of duty ore from the newly
discovered silver ledge on Silver islet in
Lake Superior. Edward Lernard of Pitts.
field is said to be one of the largest own.
ers in the mine, which is represented to
be of remarkable richness.
John Bull.-'Got all the arms you
want 2-all the ammunition PAIL the
coal ?" Franoe.-'Yes, ALL" J. B.
Sand you don't want anything more from
me?' France.-"No." J. B.-"Then
think it is time for me to interfere
Punehinello.
5cotchman who had put up at an iun
was asked in the morning how he slept
"Ah, mon," replied Donald, enae vera
we'll either, but I was muckle better off
than the bugs, for dell one o them
closed an e'e the hale NIGHT"
The ladies in Nashville hotel caught
a popular young man asleep on the sofa.
They labelled him Sleeping Beauty
and placing large doll in his arms
awoke him with merry peals of laughter.
His feelings may be imagined,
An old woman of Connecticut, who lost
her purse short time since at New Ha-
ven, declared on it's being restored to
her that she would not attempt TO inter-
fere with the reward which was stored
up in heaven for the finder, by Offering
him money.
Should King William hold review of
his soldiers on the Champ de Mars, in
Paris it will not be the first in which he
taken part on that renowned parade
ground. More than half century ago
he was promoted there to field rank, and
took command of battalion of the LIST
ON srds, as Prussians major, under his
fathe. eyea.
Oliver ~. Bradford, alloy inthe Boston
Atlas office n Richard Houghton's day,
and for many years now, one of the best
of the associated press reporters of tele-
orapbic news at New York, has been dis
placed from the agency of The Western
nress there, and his valuable services have
been secured by the rival organization,
the American press association,
Petroleum is now successfully employed
as fuel in Phiiadelphia factory and, it is
hoped. will soon come into extensive USE
Although costing only about one half as
much as coal, it generates steam much
more rapidly, while its substitution for
coal on ocean steamers would materially
increase their capacity for freight, on &C.
count of its much smaller bulk.
Zion's Herald is the funniest paper we
know of. It divides its obituary list into
dead and righteous dead" and now it
begs it's friends not to send in notices of
marriage for publication, except in ex-
circumstances, "--as though
there ever was marriage that was not
considered to be an extraordinary circum-
stance by the parties interested.
LAMENT FOR PARIS.
What's the world without Paris!
What are all its Joys to me,
When the lovely town no longer
Lures me from beyond the sea
Every journal brings new anguish
Bur sting sobs our grief reveal,
When dream of days of shopping,
And Jack murmurs, "Ah, Mabnle"
The Louisville Courier-Journal, having
made German named Ohnmacht murder
ais wife and bury her on his premises
without pleasant formality of funeral
8 in for libel suit, with damages set at
100000 The wife didn't stay buried and
wasn't even so much az murdered, while |
Ter husband not being suited with the
rominenoe given to his name brought the
bove suit.
A fashionable young lady, of rather at
figure, while in the handle of her
became alarmed at the spa
iousness apportioned to her bodice, and
eclarsd that she never could wear it and
be silk had been wrongly cut. pardon
ne Mademoiselie," replied the modesto
the design is quite correct: the fitting is
xactly as it should be. I have made
our dress, and now / must bring you up
0 it."
A San Francisco Chinaman thus ex-
resses his opinion of the late lottery in
hat city: "Me no sabbee lottely: too
,uchee cheat--too muchee lie. China
nan be catohee too littee monee. He bly,
ckets-nine tousand four hundred dol
If; three Cinnamon catchee back one
undred dollar piece. My fiendee he hap
ne ticket; two clockee he see ticket,
atchee four tousend dollar. He showee
cked five times; all litee. Newspaper
Q come out--no hap got; white man
atchee. Chinaman no more gamble
Melican way--too muehee loosee. Too
auah cheat. Pleacher man he say no
God. He sabbee-he inslide."
All Sorts.
An Indiana Judge declares parrots not
roperty.
Chicago now has Globe theatre.