Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-08-03
An Insurance AGENTS NIishap.

Saws a Vermont correspondent: Among
the drollest things in travelling, are the
scraps of conversation one catches una
voidably. just listen with me to the fol-
lowing. between two stylish looking girls
who sat just opposite me while we were
waiting tor the train at White River juno
ton Yes, I'll admit he's nice looking,
but he wears false teeth 2 smiling and
ehowing her her own mouth full of natur-
al pearls Well, what if he has False
teeth are better than none, that is, if they
keep in the place they are destined to
fill. HA ha F-laughing musically.-
That reminds me, did l ever tell you,
cousin Kate's adventure when she was
staying with ~, when papa kept the N
hotel? There was an insurance agent
boarding at the hOuse-a very lippant,
voluble kind of a fellow, tremendous
firt, although he had wife and half doz
en- children down country, and tromen-
dous bore, as all agents are, trying to
make themselves so familiar end agree
able that they are positive nuisance.
Kate, you know, is very handsome, and
he got sight Of Der as we went out and
in, and was determined to make her ac-
quaiutance but it wBs never quite con-
venient for papa to bring him in and in.
troduce him. But at last he managed to
find out our breakfast hour, and used to
come in at the same time for his own, in
stead of eating with the rest of the board
ers. We were terribly annoyed, but could
not very we'll help ourselves, and so laid
it all to Kate, and had what fun out of it
we could. One morning he came in and
took seat by Kate, as usual, and COM
+,1l I1Ce, bny hoI
could talk All he had to do was to open
his mouth, and be opened it a little wider
than usual as he said, Good morning-ah !!
How do you find yourself this lovely
morning, Miss Kate-ah ? And out went
his full upper set sof false teeth, plump
into Hates coffee. Can you imagine it
1t took me 70 entirely by surprise that l
didn't think of the proprieties at all. but
screamed with laughter. Kate tried to
be her own proper dignifed self, but my
merriment was contagious. Mamma had
an errand to the china closet, and papa
business in the cffiae Immediately. You
never saw any one so crest-fallen. He
took spoon and fished out his property,
awkwardly enough, and left the room.
We were never troubled with his COM
pany agaip,-9prjnGfeEd Republican.
BECOMING BETTER ACQUAINTED-1t
is an almost universally acknowledged
truth, that the better men become ac-
quainted with each other, the greater be-
comes their reciprocal respect. Some
thing analogous to this exists even in our
relations to inanimate nature. The dis
tant and the strange strike us with mis-
It. with awe, and it may be with fear.
rus vhatever tends to promote the in
Hence ). e nations with each other,
ercourse & way of commerce or of
whether in the reckoned among the
ravel, must be ,aucing right I'M
agents for good in pro, .r. and mutual
]erstanding of each 9th, no class of
good will. But, perhaps, o, >hatically
visitors can this be said so emp with
az Of those "Press Associations hit
whom Of late wears it has become ma =,
RI make a sort of grand tour into theii
paigbhorino territories, enlarging their
knowledee of them, receiving hospitality
and interchauging courtesies. lhese
Journalistic travelling parties return NOME
and afterward each member, In the COZ
umns of his own paper, communicates
a LARGE circle of readers his experience o.
the enthusiastically perhaps, 1eit u
be foreigner any longer; and, wnlie oo'
ing so. imbues them with some OF the re-
spect and kindly feeling which he mas
himself acquired in his peregrlnatiohs
Suoh. we believe, has been ths ehect
rouqh former excursionists OF the press
and sueh it will be doubtless, IN conneo,
tion with the party which has just visited
ma from the New England States. New
England, though now nearly sta'lonary
in population, is still in the van OF pro-
gressive thought, and the energy snrewu
ness and love of civil and religious ,ree.
dom once SO Characteristic OF the fatn n1,
reappears in the children.-lNo'''rea1 W.
ness.