Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-02-23
miscellaneous ItcrHis.
Paris has over 81, 900 houses.

Oaneda.
Josh Billings's alminaK melted hin
$4,000.
The north coast of Sitka Is reported as
swarming with fur scale
Women's rights are to have hearing
in South Carolina.
The price of admission to Bilse's ia
nous concerts in Berlin Is 10 cents.
The harvest of indigo. cotton and sugar.
has been abundant in Venesaele.
The Germans now declare that "Stras-
bourg is 10 remain externally German"
A ST. Louis paper spesk- of one of Its
contemporaries a. having woodbined.'
Out of 677 churches in London Only l0i
have paid cboirs and 242 volunteer choirs.
Philadelphia contains more houses than
New York, Brook yn aud Jersey City COM
bined
Ninety-six out of every hundred Prus-
-ian soldiers upon the average are able TO
read and write.
The Comte de Paris il called one of The
hest pistol shots and billiard players of
the amateur sort in France.
That Western editpr who is 81 near
| sighted that hi nose rub. out his writing,
is on bis travels again.
A barbecue, near Cubs. Tennessee, re-
shifted in one Schof-Id being hung for
rohbing a grocery store. HIS lynchers
are now on trial.
Mis- D,llsr. nf Detroit. tried TO break
Miss Gr,ffin'- head. Shes having nice
dime in the wnrkhouse.
One K-ntucky editor wants another
kicked out of rhe party for i fling bis
-aerilegions voice against one of Its bright
| luminarie-."
| Green Brown and another heightened
Kentnckian shot five time- apiece at each
other few d.ys since, and didn't hit
thing.
A new and splendid monument "a to be
raised over the gravs If Beethoven at
Vienna, the movement having bern be-
gun by distinguished Austrian noble
man.
The younger Dumas Che elder, too,
since his fathers death, and several othrr
| literary Parisians, talk of living In Irsly
until their country's troubles are settled.
| Crude carbolic acid ia now credited
with embalming the late Mr.. Pharaoh and
other talented mummies.
A Mississippian, Disguised with bis
sboemaker's repeated failures tn have
boots done when promised, inst blew the
roof of his head off.
A renewed attempt at the combined
Turkish and French commercial paper is
| is to be started at Cnnstantinopie, under
the title of IakOin-i- Z igaret or Gazette Of
\ Commerce.
| Dinah Marian MULCH is said to have
written more than one Thousand poems
she has never printed. as they failed on
due consideration TO please her fastidious
taste.
A Polish Jew died a few weeks since
in Warsaw, who distinctly remembered
Frederick the Great, and had frequently
seen the monarch at Potsdam. He was
| 100 years old at the time of bis death. |.
A small St. Louis boy wac sent with
| S12 TO pay his fathers gas bill. Instead
he went off and got drunk with some
other little boys, and they went through
him for the rest of the $l2.
Measrs johnson and Davegs of Georgia,
lately left home, accompanied by rif-s,
seconds and surgeons. As they have not
been heard from, il is feared some scci-
dent has occurred.
A Galesburg farmer, whose pew rent
was raised TO $23, exclaimed :-''Great
Cezar, here's q nice state of sff4irs-the
gospel going up and pork going down.
What's to become of US y
A New Hampshire youth let a dentist
pull all his sound teeth and insert srtif.
eial ones. He said be had the money 10
spare, and be knew the darped things
would ache and have TO be pulled, some
time.
Bishop Clsrkson of Nebraska reports
that of the $4,000 Indians in the bounds
of his diocese, $1,000 attend religious ser.
vices. he thinks the Effort for their civil
izstion has been grand success.
Ricord. the celebrated Partisan physi-
clan, is said to one of the most earnest of
the Red Republicans, and to believe that
Gsmbetta has more force aud brain than
any of the public men in France.
The house in Rotterdam in which Etss-
mus was born has, for some years, been
used as gin shop. Though the character
of the building has declined. it il still ami
mated by the spirit of old Holland.
In Mobile, Alabama, man married re-
Gently bis seventh wife, Me1icsn, hsv-
ing previously been united respectively
TO German, French, EDglish. Dutch,
Irish and American woman, all Of whom
died.
Walt Whitman i. reported 10 hsve said
that, before he went TO WASHINGTON. he
was never the pos-essor OF mole thsn six
dollars at any one time, and Yet he hss al.
ways been one of the most contented OF
mortals.
North Carolina has "an old man OF the
mountains" who lives about % milee
from GreenvilIe. and has reached the rge
of 143 years. At the time of Br-ddoek's
defeat be wa 90 years cid and hnd wife
and three children. ...
Three or four months sgo an Itslisn
fisherman clired ve,uviur and threw
himself into the burning crster. Stpee
| then five or six Nespoliraus have commit
Ted suicide in this wav, end the Vesuviru
mode OF obrsiDIpg ''crater comforts"
| tbrea,ens TO become fashionable.
Field-Marshal Men.dnrf. who has jast
died 1T Prague. Was the i-sder OF the Aus.
ran conservatives and most hitter aud
determined opponent OF Won Is. u.rr poll
oy in everything the minister undertook.
Won Beust's friends claim that be will
now have more freedom ~ enact measures
for the good # the empire.
4 young Spapinrd in Salamanca, IF a
| deeply pious fnrn, wished "a n biurejf
for the high flee If husband before mar
rying the lady Ia wham be- vs. rryso~d-
| Accordingly he read S-nch. z'- Dtputa-
TONES de Sancto Mat7fn,onu Sacramento
uutil be conceived that aI maIrinse must
ne sjufuI. and in bis struggle between
love and opseiencs cut bis throat.
An old fellow who took part 10 the late
rebellion was one day blowing ia The VII
lsge tavern. to n Grow of armirips Iirt.