Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-10-24
Miscellaneous Reading.

Miscellaneous Reading.
Subjects of the Dey-Algerians.
Rhode Island has 130 cotton factories.
A Kentucky man has wasted eleven
years hunting mammoth caves.
Every time Russian army cook spoils
a dinner, he loses a months pay.
An exchange says that the Kansas
Kiowas would scalp seal skin trunk.
Russia leather umbrella covers are the
latest expensive weakness.
A dog projected from a fourth story
window was what spOilt a Detroit wO-
, mans bonnet.
The students in western agricultu-
raj college cut twelve acres of corn for a
widow the other day, by way of being
philantheopic.
Milan keeps pace with civilization. A
clerk in the post Office there has de
campcd with 100000 francs.
Allentown, Penn, has a society call
ed the Knights of the Mystic Chain, who
parade the streets, arrayed in black and
white robes and carrying torches.
A San Francisco journal states that a
wealthy miner has fallen in love with
Mrs. Fair and will marry her.
An entirely white lion has been cap
tured and is exhibited in BuenOs Ayres,
where $4,000 was offered for it by an
English merchant for the geological gar
dens in London.
Martha Dean Briggs commands the
Conquest, a schooner that has made five
trips between Dublin and Glasgow this
season.
The change wrought in the character
of business structures throughout New
York city during the last five or six
years is very remarkable. Scores of low,
old fashioned brick buildings have been
superseded by lofty marble, granite and
iron edifices of unsurpassed convenience
and architectural beauty. The work
still continues with Increasing actiy
ity.
The wholesale grOcers Of Philadelphia
have organized themselves into an assO-
citation to promote a more friendly inter
course between them to diffuse reliable
commercial intelligence; to reform
abuses, and generally to advance the in
terests of the trade in that city.
A gentleman in Middle Georgia has
purchased twenty-one buggies in Au-
gusta,' for the benefit of his colored ten
ants.
Dewitt c. Hough is a boy medium
performing wonders about Springfield
and Hartford, and the query among the
old 'uns is, How does he Dewitt?
Cooper's Leather Stocking Tales"
are exceedingly popular. in Russia. Four
or five rival TRANSACTIONS of them have
been published in that country during
the past two years, and all have sold
well.
The eagerness with which the Hindoo
devotee prOstrates himself before the car
of Juggernaut is nothing to the anxiety
which the average American boy dis
plays to have himself run over by a
heavy wagon.
There is a difficulty in finding jury
when an Indian comes before an Omaha
court One of the panel being asked
if he had any prejudice, replied No,
only I've been chased by 'em, becHsin
several battles with EN-, and would
hang every devil of 'em at sight.
The Chicago papers indulge them
selves in huge supplements on the ami
versary of the fire, recOunting the Won
derful recuperation and growth of that
city. The new buildings represent
value of $46,000,000.
A SO season ticket to the Albany
'YOung Mems Course, entities its
holder to hear the Patti-MariO concert
lectures by Mrs. Stowe, Bret Harte,
Edward Yates, Laura Keene, John B.
Cough, and Daniel DOugherty, and
readings by Geo. Vandenhoff.
The printers devil who first put in
type the words of the Star SpangIed
Banner" having passed off the stage,
the man who composed the music now
makes his bow and claims to attention,
or rather q prominent theatrical mana
ger does for him. According to this
gentleman, the music is the production
Of one Ferd Duray, an actor, who for
the first time heard the words while
visiting a soldiers camp in the war Of
1912.
A lame girl, who.h had not for fourteen
years once left the third-stOry back room
in which she lived, was among those
who participated in the late children's
excursions in Philadelphia. When car
ried to the park she asked what the grass
and trees were, and had to be told the
names of the most common Objects
She lay on the grass all day, drinking
in the air and sunshine, and was seen to
weep softly every little while from pure
joy,
There must be something done to pre-
vent those horrible mistakes of drug
gists' clerks. One of these careless fell
lows lately gave young man i'll Louis
vile a bottle of muCilage instead of CO.
logne. The youth went to church, and
after applying the contents of the bottle
to his handkerchief and applying the
handkerchief freely to his nose, he was
in no condition for devout worship.
A'Lowell man has sealed proposals of
marriage sent him by a Canadian to be
given to any lady whom the former may
select. He is a widOwer of forty-tiye
years old, with no children, and forty
seven acres of land, and he wants a
Christian lady between twenty-five and
thirty-fve for a wife. AS there are no
unmarried ladies in Lowell who are
more than twenty years old, the Cana
dian will probably go down the vale of
years wifeless and sOrrOwing.
Some naughty boys in New Haven
went chestnutting on Sunday. We
know of a boy who once went after
chestnuts on Sunday, and three months
afterward had typhoid fever so severely
that for number of days he couldn't
eat anything but grapes, pears, canned
peaches and wine jelly. Boys, be warn
ed.-Ep.
Between EastOn and Leavenworth the
stage from Oskaloosa crosses the track
of the Kansas Central Railway. The
driver considers it dangerous for the
narrow gauge cars, and to prevent their
being run down is going to put up
warning for the engineers, like this
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