Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-11-30
AMOUNT AND KIND OF CLOUDS.
Minor items.

hutiand on his way to Montreal.
| Already the windows on Merchants
Row and Center street begin to be gay
with holiday wares.
Thanksgiving day falling this year
upon the Feast of st. Andrews, the ser.
vices in the Episcopal and Roman Catho.
lie churches will be unusually interest.
ing.
The Teachers Institute fer the coun.
ty of Rutland is to be held at Pittsford.
We are informed tast Loyal O. Kel.
logg fitted for college at the old academy
at West Rutland.
The Barnabee Concert takes place at
the Opera Heuse December 18th.
The carpenters are busy at work on
the new Town Hall. 1t will be complet-
ed early in the Spring.
Henry s. Hyde, one of the best rep
resentatives of its younger business men,
and nephew of the Messrs. Hyde of
C.stletop, is named in connection with
the nomination for the may orally of
Springfield, Mass.
DIR. J. Y. Dewey, of Montpelier, still
continues very low with heart disease and
can live but few days.
MIRA. O'Leary's COW, that didn't set
Chicago on fire, has been bought on
speculation by two Louisville, Ky boys.
Where is Sutherland and Gains tooth
While the jsiler of the prison at Lam
easter, N. h, was in the cell of a convict
named Horn, the other day, the latter
quietly slipped out, locked in bis keeper,
and walked out unmolested. The jailer
remained in prison several hours before
he could make himself heard and gain a
release, and meantime Horn made coed
his escape.
Smoking is very much on the decline
in England. At the universities not one
man in five now smokes, whereas few
years ago at least four in five did.
The annual profits of this country.
arising from all it's industries, are esti-
mated at one thousand millions of dollars.
An exchange pithily remarks "Men
eat toe much, fret too much, exercise too
little, and then drink whisky. Let them
turn themselves into the fresh air, eat
simple food. sleep enough, and they will
be more health" Says DR.. Guthrie: eff
you want to keep dead man, put him in
whisky if you want to kill living man,
put the whisky into him"
"A reverend gentlemen addressing
school concert recently, was trying 10 en-
force the idea that the hearts of the little
ones were sinful and needed regulating.
Taking bis watch and holding it up be
said Now here is my watch; suppose
it don't keep good time, now goes too
fast and now too slow; what shall do
with it ?" "sell it |" shouted young
ster.
The boys just now seem to have
great propensity to stand on their heads,
and at any hour of the day they may be
seen in the streets endeavoring to elevate
their heels where their heads should be.
This practice has resulted in a fatal case
at Salem, Mass, where Edison Lewis, aged
thirteen, while reversing himself in this
absurd way, fell senseless, and three days
after died of congestion of the brain.
Thomas Cummings of Brattleboro,
took an overdose of morphine last week,
and Immediately crossed the Stygian fer
~.
Every cat in Paris is to be taxed
three francs year. From which it may
be surmised that there will be fewer cats
in the houses and more rabbits in the res
taursnts.
The trouble with Gen. Schenck, the
American Minister in England, grows
out of bis being director in Gen. Baxter
and 7. W. Park, Emma Silver Mining
Company.
Arrangements are being made for
holding session of the Vermont Dairy
mems Association in Rutland in January.
This will be a profitable and interesting
occasion for the business of Rutland
county.
What stride the Vermont Central
has, one foot In Long Island Sound at New
London, and the other in Puget Sound,
some three thousand miles away.
Some foppish young men, with more
means than brains, affect three-buttoned
gloves, point lace neck ties and rnfhsd
shirt bosoms in full dress.
Among the best reforms for the peo-
pie now taking place is the reduction of
railway fares by the leading railroads OF
the country, in New England especially.
The managers of the Cheshire railroad,
on the first Of November, reduced the
passenger fare over their road to three
cents per mile for through. and three and
half cents for local travel. All honor
to the Cheshire who appreciate their own
interests and those of the people.
AT the funeral of Mr.. Brown in
Whitehall on Scndsy last, young lady
from Green Island lost her curls, and 8
young man from Saratoga Springs picked
them up. When asked to return them he
refused, and taking of bis coat wanted to
Aght. Just then the cars started from
Whitehall, and the belligerent youth
escaped with his booty. II We knew the
name Of the young man, we should pub
lish II to tho world.
| The Addison County railroad is ex.
peoted to be In full operation in about