Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-09-07
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hash-miii boss.
| A breastpin in the eimilitude of mos.
| quito Is the latest fashion.
poultice for bee stings.
A Georgia editor offers to publish orig
in u poetry at SO line.
An acrr Of land in L,ndon WAS rec~n,ly
sol7 for 50 100000
| An $500 sea lion in New York talks of
going into the circus business.
A lady at Saratoga boasts that she
drinks forty glasses of water daily.
New Hampshire has 81 couples who
have been married over so years.
Jim Fisk has a scrap book containing
1900 notices of a personal nature.
John G. Wbittier's forthcoming new
book will be entitled "Child Life"
The Ohis River is going into decline.
1t keeps its bed, and is quite low.
A glass If soda water, with syrup, costs
the manufacturers cent and quarter.
Dexter is 13 years old, Lady Thorn Is,
Ethan Allen %, and Flora Temple 90.
The scab is Staying Missouri sheep. One
man has lost 1000 sheep valued at 81, 900.
A boulevard around Utica ia proposed.
1t will make a drive a trifle over eight
miles in length.
There ia smallpox panic in Trenton,
are preparing to leave town.
The Washington Star thinks that a
city which cannot boast Of modern Bor-
gia evinces fearful lack of enterprise.
A Western postmaster demands that
his salary be increased just about 43 fold.
Last year it was $14, and he wants 5000.
The women of Portland, Oregon, are
making themselves offensive to their fas-
tidious brothers by smoking in the streets.
The largest strawberry bed in the
country is in Iowa, where whole town
ship is taken up with the large and lusci-
Gus fruit.
Many of the new houses being built in
New York have the window-panes of deli
cate rose.colored glass instead of plain
white.
A man in Danbury, Conn, recently
offered two cents pound for dead cats,
and now quietness reigns o nights in that
locality.
Amsn up in Port.mouth, N. H, named
his two children Ebenezer and Flora, and
always spoke of them as "Eb" and "Flo."
The late Empress of France used often,
when child at Granada, as Eugene Mon
tito, to be danced upon the knee of Wash
ington Irving.
The title of Coughs new lecture is
"Will it Psy?' AS he gets 5000 night
for it for 200 nights next season, it is fair
to presume that it tSiH.
A San Francisco doctor advertised for a
"good Office cat" He has already re-
oeived 243 felines with the southern coun
ties yet to hear from.
Mr.. John S. Vancleve, who is complete
ly blind, was graduated from the Ohio
| Wesleyan University recently, with an
excellent standing in his class.
Iceberas are very plenty in the North
Atlantic. Two of them, each estimated
to be half mile in length, recently pass
ed near St. Johns, newfoundland.
Charles Fenno Hoffman, the poet and
novelist of the last generation, il still an
inmate of an insane asylum in Pennsyl-
vania, and will probably never recover
his reason.
Texas papers report that five human
skeletons were found hanging from the
limb of a tree in Hunt county recently.
Horse thieves are treated with severity
down there.
! Iowa Falls, for its size, is porkopolis
| not to be sneezed at. The Sentinel says
there are 5000 worth of Poland China
pigs now growing into hogs in the pens
of that place.
Pittsfeld, Mass, Is moving d school
house weighing 5000 tons, aud proposes
to take it across the bridge of the Albany
& Boston railroad. the bridge builder
having consented
The clptaiu of the Wcetfrld said that
if sho had been out in the stream when
the explosion occurred, 1.-The calamity
must have been truly appalling 1t was
rather shocking the way it was.
The announcement il made that 1907
600 copies of the household penny edition
of Oliver Twist have been sold in London,
aud that the publishers have put to press
another $4,000 copies.
A party of travellers parsed through
Balm bridge, Ga, o, Tuesday, mounted on
four wheeled velocipedes- They were go
ing TO Columbia, Ala. at AN average speed
OF 40 miles a day.
The daily travel in and out of New
York TO suburban places is immense, and
rivals that Of London. A million people
week is the record so far, while
from Newark alone there are eightyeight
traine daily to the city.
Nothing will induce the dry goods king
of New York, A T. Stewart, to sit for
picture. John Bright made ii personal
reque4t nf him for his picture, which VAS
firmly REUSED.
A pondent Of an axri nl'nral
paper asks: where can wool b. profit,
ably grown We are OF the opinion
that there is no place where ii can more
proftablv be grown than on tie back Of
sheep -LoujS0iUe Journal.
A man who was driving COW ,hr' ~ h
the streets of Waupun, Wis. was 70 much
frustrated by sudden bow from n lady,
that, Ia returs, he made bow to the cow
and threw a stone at the lady. Imagine
his feelings
The Emperor and Empress OF Brazil
are going to spend the winter until Feb
ruary in Rome. Slavery is to be abolished
in Brazil, and the instrument of abolition
will be executed in Rome, and will be
signed by the Pope.
A set of furniture just sent from Europe
for private house, is of black ebony, GOV.
cred with the brightest shade of rose col
ored satin, with the monogram embroid
cred in white on the back Of each chair
and center of the sofa.
Rev. William Morley Punshon pub.
fishes a letter to the effect that he married
his deceased wife's sister, not because he
liked her, but from a "prayeriul convic-
ton Of duty" Which makes it pleasant
for the present Mrs. Punshon.