Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-01-18

Men who follow the sea are peculiarly
tide to business. q
A friend in need-one who asks 4fou
to lend him ten dollars.
Would it be proper to call spanish
money CASTLE soap =?
A wag being asked to ''say a good
thing" responded "oysters."
An Ambassadors lament-''Little Enc
ma,' thou art no longer mime '"
A Kentucky girl 'don't low no fellS
ers round her that hain't rid on the G
keers." O
Full dress means now that it is fuller
neck.
Song of the poor car horse in stormy
weight of whoa"
How to obtain the gift to give US the
power ''to see ourselves as others see
us'-Run for Office.
prevention is better than 6Slre. -
Therefore would it be bette2to prevent
a ha1e than to cure it ?"
1t is at the approach Of dinn@ time9
that we feel most sensibly the .sempti-
ness of things below.5 a
a Tennessee editor Wrote of ssS557etty @
aged minister" and it appearedgin tho
paper, ''putty-eyed monsters @
y Georgia tinted v&8er 9oss fearful
revenge on a mule that threw him, by
calling him a darned old deRocrat. a
When Adaal and Eve were in the gar
deniag business what time did they COM
mence picking apples? In theSsall. q
1t fadifficult to understand why Sme
people concern themselves about their
lungs, when their lungs take air of
themselves. "a
A boy named his dog Paste. ''yhy
do you give him such a name z" he tas g
asked. Because I want him to stick to
me" he replied.
A brilliant genius, in speaking of the
much sought for Northwes3 Passage,
says the idea is a grand onqs very grand
one. But the best way would be to tun-
nelit.
This item is fi5m valuable agricultu-
raj journal: .Don't let your eattle
stray; they wander to the most mystic
rious places. We once saw 4 cow hide
in a shoemaker's shop" a
An old edition of Morse's geography
says, ALBANY has four hundred dwell
ing houses, and two thousand and four
hundred inhabitants, all standing with
their gable ends to the street.
A victim of Greeley's handwriting
says: IF Horace had written that in
scripti6n on the Sall in Babylon, Bel
shazzar would have been good deal
more scared than he was"
Lorenzo Bow once said of a grasping,
ayaricious fellowg that if he had the
Whole world IL a single field, he would
not be content without patch of ground
on the outside, for potatoes.
The following notice is stuck up on
bridge. at Denver, Colorado mo yehi-
Gle drawn by more than one animal is al
lowed to cross this brige ! in opposite di-
rections at the same time"
s'1f the party who plays the ACCORDION
in this vicinity at night, viii only change
his tune occasionally, or sit where we
can scald him when the engine has steam
on, he viii hear of something to bis adj
vantage"
One of the best things said by Josh
Billings, in his last 'tAlminax," is this:
Eight won't 90 into six and have any
thing left over. Many a young fellow
has found this out by trying to get
number six boot on.
An article in the fast number of a pro-
gressive magazine bears the title of
.'Men as Husbands" Well there al
ways has been prejudice in their favor,
and it is safe to prophesy that their
supersedure in that capacity viii be no
easy matter.
Rev. Robert Hall, the great Baptist
minister, of England, when asked how
many sermons preacher could conven-
iently prepare in week, replied: If he
is man of pre-eminent ability, ons; If
he is man of ordinary ability, two; il
he is an ass, six"
A bright-eyed little fellow, in one of
the Brooklyn private schools, having
spelt word, was asked by mis- teacher:
s.Are you willing to bet you are right,
Bennie?" The boy looked up with an
air of establishment, and said: Il know
am right, Miss ", but never bet"