Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-07-06

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impossible to make boys smart"
Copperhead snakes are said to smell
like fresh cucumbers, and Western snake
hunters are said to follow and despatch
them by the scent.
Brigham Young has recently had lit.
tie steamer built in New York and shipped
west. She is to sail on Salt Lake, and is
called the Lady of the Lake"
That ancient marine, Captain Maury
has ceased permanently going down to
the sea, and has cast anchor as president
of the University of Alabama.
Speaking of the condition of patient
doctor remarked to his legal friend that
"his constitution was nearly gone
"Then let him fall back on his bylaws
was the cruel reply.
They call the big gun in England the
Woolwich infant, and load it with picric
glyoxiline, lithofracteur or some such
compound, whose discharge is fatal to
iron-clads at distance of one thousand
yards.
Kentucky has ten daily newspapers,
five semi-weeklies, seventy-six weeklies
and twelve monthlies. Of the dailies
seven are in Louisville, two of which are
German, one in Lexington, one in Padu'
cab and one in Frankfort.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston is said to be
looking in better health and younger by
ten years than he did seven years ago
His constitution has not been affected by
the operations of any of the obnoxious
amendments made by "tyrannical gov
eminent"
The appointment of the Rev Mr.. Miles
as secretary of the American Peach So
cisty has given the chance for a funny
man to say that he Thought Miles was a
soldier" The Miles be was thinking Of
belongs to the Latin race, and was by nc
means reverend.
The Greeley colonists recently refused
to allow a circus company to pitch their
tent in the corporation limits. The circus
fellows consequently pitched it one foot
beyond the limits. While the circus re
manned the town of Greeley was deserted
and the circus was crowded.
For the benefit of German invalid sol
diers about 800 artists of Germany have
gratuitously contributed works of art tC
the value of 10000 IL gold They will
be exhibited for some time in Munich,
and disposed of by lottery there on the
1st Of July.
The dream of an ocean pier at Long
Branch ia about to be realized. Engi
neers are now upon the ground selecting
location. The pier will be of iron, 200
feet long, and throughout the first one
Ia Io Ja
The last two hundred feet will have g
width of one hundred feet, and on it viii
be pavilion and parlors having accom-
modations for 2,O00 persons.
1t is said that Gen. Grant has wrath
who plays fantastic tricks upo. the water
ing place communities just now. Al
Newport, the other day, the presidential
double rode the streets in great state
personating the General and receiving
bows and courtesies from friends who
were deceived by the strange resemblance
He is said to be a merchant of New
York.
An ingenious German has gained 9
great reputation in New York by his sue.
cess in training coach horses to a grand
gait. He uses no burr bit or other cruel
contrivances, and people couldn't see how
be did it, until it was found that he put
magnifying goggles upon his horses
which made oobble stones look like bould
ers, and they acquired a. grand tread by
trying to step over them.
There were 670 marriages celebrated
during the existence of the commune il
Paris and the happy couples are not YET
certain that their unions will be legslized
In the registration of births and deaths
these must be accepted mem. con. The
police during the last signs of the com
mune found SO children who had strayed
from their homes. No one has yet come
forward to claim them.
There is an ice cave in DEBORAH, Ia
which is about one hundred feet deep
and in winter it is entirely free from ice
AS warm weather comes on, however, con
collation. commences, and when hottest
the cave is most abundantly filled with
ice.
Gardiner Mclean of st. Croix ate over
five hundred turtles eggs and the greater
wager. He then took as a dessert a box
pliiS uOre Uudu Iu0 LeTuS uSAduuEuj
and never felt better in his life.
A movement is on foot, originating in
New Jersey, to get a meeting of all the
male descendants of the signers of the
declaration of Independence, to arrange
for taking part in the national celebration
of the centennial of our Independence.
A lad only IA years old, sedueed Mrs.
Toueey at Warrensburg, Md, recently,
and then fatally shot her husband because
he ordered him out of his house. On &C.
count of his youth he has not been arrest
ed, as he has just begun to SOW his wild
oats. Oh .--..-... ...f -...
An old gentleman having had passed
him by a waiter at dinner the bill of fare,
and evidently laboring under the idea
that somebody was passing circus bills,
told the waiter that he would read it after
dinner. He had hard time selecting
his dishes. 1t
New York will have to organize spec.
ial force whose duty it shall be to arrest
policemen. Forty-one were before their
own court, for brutal assaults and various
other crimes perpetrated under the Ii
cense of their commission.
Chicago has had high life Grim. con-
case, and kept it out of the papers. The
husband did not shoot the aggressor, but,
in the most quiet manner possible, sent
his erring wife back to her parents in
Boston, where she formerly moved in
fashionable circles. And that is all We
know about it.
A company has gone to Rome for the
purpose OF building iron houses there
The city council has given them permits
sion and locality has been assigned fol-
experiments with this architecture so nov
81 to Italians.