Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-05-09
Notes of the Day.

Half mourning is popularity known in
Pennsylvania as ''Pittsburg sunshine.
A gambler at Eureka corrected his
luck by shooting the faro dealer.
One of Missions farewell presents was
a gold banjo worth $500.
These are truly moving" days, at
Cincinnati and elsewhere.
Miss Ann Perkins, of Dalton, n. H.,
has been appointed liquor agent of that
town.
Galveston has a shark-skin tannery on
large ''scale."
England has acquired Sumatra by
some peaceable arrangement with the
! Dutch.
Victor Emanuel has subscribed largely
| for the erection of a monument to Sa-
yOnarola.
Tea punch" soothes the New York
feminine palate.
A Southern paper of recent date
chronicles the invention of the yelOci-
pede.
A Utica correspondent discovers a
close resemblance resemblance between
Wendell Phillips and VOltaire.
The Womans Medical College of
Pennsylvania has siXty-fOur matriculants
this year
An Illinois paper speaks of three men
who have gone crazy recently-One for
love, ono for religion, and one on gener-
al principles.
Mrs Kerney Of New York, showed
the warmth of her affection by thrust
red hot poker down her husbands
throat.
The New York Herald rakrs up the
alarming filth" of that city with'a three
column vehemence.
DR.. Thoms lectures on the claw of
storms" this evening, We presume he is
married. Y. STAR
A Detroit coroner's jury left a corpse
exposed in the street while they adj
journed to a saloon for drinks.
The New York Egening Post highly
commends Governor Hoffman's veto of
the n. Y. City charter.
The parents of certain thievish Wiscon-
sin lads are prosecuting a grocer for
putting strychnine on his prunes.
Two mugderOus viragOs are on trial
at Southwark, England, charged with
garroting and gouging out the right eye
Of a young woman.
Amodest and unprotected young man
in Chicago had two girls arrested for in
sulting him on the street.
In Rome a movable steam kitchen
provides dinner at sou a plate, for tif-
teen hundred poor persons in less than
an hour and a half.
A Cuban correspondent. after witness
the manufacture of cigars at Havana.
writes that he is glad that he early
formed the habit of cutting off the tip
of his cigar Instead of biting it.
A Milwaukee misanthrOpe has invent
ed machine which talks in several diff
ferent languages simultaneously. 1t af-
fords the listener 'unspeakable anguish
The New York Mail states that the
flesh colorcd stockings are all the 90,
and that old styled carriers have been SUI
perseded by the stocking suspenders.
The Mail is supposed to know.
The London Telegraph has an edtori-
al on the Peace Jubilee, in which the
enterprise is highly commended. 1t says:
Let us by all means see how it goes,
and acknowledge with a friendly inter
est the prodigious spirit of Boston.
A New York bachelor recently gave
a very gorgeous banquet to seyenty-fve
ladies and gentlemen, in Delmonico's big
oval room. The immense table was
timed over, filled up with moss, and
stuck full of flowers. Scollups in the
flower bed admitted the necessary plates
and in.front of each plate was a little
silvered column trimmed with flowers,
and a festoon Of the same reaching to
the next pillar. The decorations fur
nshed by the florist alone cost two thou
sand dollars