Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-08-24
I'm General.
Maid of money-A spinster heiress.

Maid OF money-A splnster helreF9.
William H Stewards life is insured for
100000.
Seymour, Indiana, has a melou-patch
occupying 1,7O0 acres.
The sale of newspapers has been begun
in the streets of Berlin.
There are now sixty, eight colleges for
women in the United States.
Great Britain consumes four times AS
much tea as the United States,
The story that White Mountain spur
has been ohristened Mount Hoffman is
undoubtedly spurious.
+ ,rl Russell is about to publish an his
torical essay on The Foreign policy Of
England from 1870 TO 1870"
Lydia Thompson asks if it will pay to
come here with her troupe; and the News
papers respond "B4rely."
Why nre free sittings in church very i'm
proper? Because there is a chance that
they may make you good for nothing.
In the postal, railroad and telegraph
service Of SwitZerl4ud, women ar" I'm
ployed ap cashiers, hook keepers, clerks
and operators.
Utah territory is now shipping 5000
tons of ore Md 600 tons Of bullion per
month. TIE former is u-'l lily worth
from $3.50 to 5000 per ton, Of which pr
haps on1 half j. profit
L. vuk4, Ov Lau, Of tn, ri " W.. tx
ports 5000 bales Of cotton of III" best -,.4
island quality-brt.er, il il said, vi II thpt.
of South Cnolin ct yrnr.
Two industries new to Australia. have
just been transplanted there, ostrich f"ath
ers and silk culture. The ostriche. were
imported from South Africa, and the egg
of the silk worm from Japan.
In 1860 We exported but one and a half
million gallons OF petroleum In 1868 IL
had reached ninety mine millions, atd last
wear il WIS one hundred md forty one
millions. The increase in the flow If oil
in Pennsylvania siuce 1867 has been urar
" fifty per cent.
P. T. Barnum md General Schofeld
and brother have purchased 10000 acres
of land on the Huerford, Colorado, inclnd-
ing II miles on each side Of the river, for
SlO,OUO. lucy Will = t'th II WIN ,pNV
head of fine flooded cattle and Young
stock, and if these prove profitable, follow
with larger investments. /
At Heidelberg, in Germany, there i
not a language, ancient or modern, with
out its competent professor to teach it to
comers A japanese student, unable toI
speak a word of German, fund ther" on
his arrival teacher able tn c"rver-" with
him and give him lessons thr 'u1h the
medium # his own langut&e.
The He then Chinee has new Al i K
cellent recDmmc ndhtion K00pm lnrh ,p.
the we'll known importer of Chinese, went
to Tuscaloosa, Fla, lately, to see how the
$50 Celestials, working on railway there,
were getting on without any pay H.
found them living on crawfsh and black
berries, and quite contented.
Mrs. Cady Stanton says: at is strange
that material things should be preverse
when one is in hurry; but in such emer-
gencies breast-pins invariably hide, cuff
pins fall under the bed, buttons fall off by
their own weight, the fan is caught in the
net, and the new kid-glove splits down
the back. At such time my faith is strong
in the devil"
Chulalongkom, the young King of Siam,
who is the first monarch of that country
who has ever been ont of his own domin-
ions, intends to visit Calcutta in Norem-
Der. During his trip in April to Siuga-
pore, he was accompanied by small fleet
of sea-going gunboats and two corvettes,
carrying an S0-pounder amidships and
two so Founders fore and aft, ull En- 4lish
built. His ships and gunboats are com
manaed by English sailing -mssters, who
take the rank of commanders in the
Siamese service.
A few weeks ago baby WAS taken into
a church to be baptized, and his little
brother was present during that rite. On
the following Sunday, when baby was
undergoing his additions ard dr. s<ng,
the little brother asked mamma if she in
tended to carry Willie to be ohristensd.
"Why, no." replied hi. mother; "don't
YOU know, my son, that people are not
b,ptizsd twice p What" return, d the
young rensouer, with the utmost astonish-
ment in his earnest face, mot il it don't
take the first timer
The Battle of Dorking' has stirred up
the English to experiment with torpe-
does, and they are nov "going it, at
fearful rate. They try their torpedoes on
the first vessel that comes near, and but
for the fact that they are not charged,
there would doubtless be quite thin
ming out of the British marine. They
have met with great success in attaching
them to vessels, and have also succeeded in
shaking the nerves OF peacsable Sc ,,caD-
tains by the explosions of the decorating
powder which would fire the charge if
there were any.