Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-07-04
GIeanings.

/ Pennsylvania tavern.
A New Londoner advertises one cent
reward for his lost, strayed, or stolen
wife.
The sweetening of ones coffee is
generally the first stirring event OF the
day
Concord n. H., has the tallest of
mayors, his hight being six feet five.
A mandatory of foreign postage
stamps has lately been started in Phil
adelphia.
San Francisco sends most letters to
the dead letter office.
Amsterdam, Con the Mohawk, is said
to be haunted by the ghost of Brandt,
the Indian chief, whose temperance is
made every year about the harvesting
time.
North Carolina has new entomolog
ical mystery, consisting of countless
thousands of worms that march in sim
Gle file and seem just to be looking
around, as they do no damage.
Somebody cursed with that crusher of
enthusiasm and sentiment, a memory,
saws that what is now called beautiful
blonde, would, few years ago, have
been styled an insipid tow head.
/ The first visitors the residents of Mt
Washington, n. H., received this season
were party of Portland school boys
who waded through many snow drifts to
reach the summit.
4 A Newfoundland dog in Florida killed
a rattlesnake seven feet long last week,
1t is due to the snake to say that the dog
also persisted.
A Kentucky paper mentions among
its locals that "Abner Moss, highly re-
/ spectacle and well known lunatic was
in town yesterday"
In Petersburg the temperature is in
Dictated by its effects upon paper collars.
1t is now reported at ''three paper collar
heat"
Stephan, the Postmaster General of
Germany, was, in his youth, sopOor that
he had to earn a preCariOuS living by
copying lawyers briefs.
A Georgia paper wants A. II. Ste
phens for Governor of the State. What
messages, though,
The T'ragellcr has the worst-Why
can the people of Boston say the Jubilee
is like Boston milk? Because it s-ours
An editor commenting upon the i'm
portance of small things, says he does
llOU even Sll9UJ II STRAW. II IL mas Il Sil0r-
ry cobbler at the end of it.
Mr.. Bryant's suggestion that Shakes
peare would have made p good keeper
of a lunatic asylum is not relished by
many Of the great bard's admirers. They
think nothing could have pardOned it
short Of the understanding that his pa
tients should at least be lunatics of Mr..
Bryant's poetic calibre.
An old "Revolutioner," says that of
all the solemn hours he ever saw, that
occupied in going home one dark night
from the widow Beams, after being told
by her daughter Sally that he needn't
come again, was the most solemn.
A Fort Warren farmer who disap-
peared from his home, 81 years ago, has
lately returned, having, in the meantime
wandered nearly over the habitable
globe as tramp printer
The film of a soap bubble about to
burst, is only about three-fOurths of the
millionth of an inch III thickness.
There is more than one hundred per
cent, profit on every glass of soda water
sold at five cents.
A party of one hundred and twenty
eight emigrants sailed recently from
Liverpool, England, for Brazil. They
are all agricultural laborers, and the eX-
penses of their journey were paid by
the Brazilian government.
The story is told of Ben Buffers ear
lier days, that Yankee obtained his le-
gal opinion how to recover the value of
a ham which a neighbours dog came
along and ate. He was advised to pros
ecute and recover damages. but the
dog was yourn, said the sharp Yankee
Butler opened his eyes little, asked him
what the ham was worth, was told five
dollars, paid the money, and then de-
manded ten dollar fee of the asUonished
native for legal advice.
The annual openings in the earth, TAX
ing in men, horses wagons and .newspa-
per readers, are now transporting in diff
ferent localities.
Buffalo had two explosions in one
day recently-a locomotive and a SEN
sation.
mo COWS, no cream, was the way
an intelligent compOsitOr set up the
words, mo cross, no crown"
The old settler who served under Blu
cher at Waterloo has made his appear
ance in Iowa. We were under the inn
preston that we heard of bis death some
time since, but that doesn't signify.
A live fish has been discovered in one
Of the boiling springs in California,
which died as soon as transferred to cold
water Under what conditions might
that fish be cooked?
A lover of jealous temperament broke
off his engagement the other day, be-
cause the dearest girl in the world would
persist in kissing her cousin, gentle
man of the mature age of thirteen.
A man in Boston returning to con-
seriousness from dose of chloroform,
asked where he was, and was told that
he was in jail for the murder of his
wife, whereupon he answered that it
what he always expected.
The younger Dumas has written a
/ play 50 thoroughly immoral that even a
Partisan audience, who are not over scru-
pulous in such matters, openly condemn
! it.
Rev Samuel Scoyill. Mr. Beecher's
son-in-law, was recently elected foreman
| of the Rescue Hook and Ladder Com
pany, of Norwich
A Newfoundland dog in Florida killed
q rattlesnake seven feet long last week
1t is due to the snake to say that the dog
also persisted.
A Kentucky paper mentions among
its locals that ''Abner Moss, a highly-re-
spectacle and well-known lunatic was in
town last week.
If pair of stockings are hose, is not
a single stocking a hoe ?-If a pair OF
! glasses are spectacles, is one spectacle?
And if not why not?
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