Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-07-18
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he current WOrm-ThC CankCr worm.
Steel traps for flies are the latest nov
city.
Savannah, Ga, opens its theatres on
Sunday.
An international pigeon shoot 10
Gently came off in London.
The photographic cost of Mrs. Clems
trial was about $1,047.
Three hundred Danish Mormons are
en- route for this country.
Georgia girls use none but religious
papers for Sunday bustles.
Croquet players have struck for eight
hours at the summer resorts.
The Michigan State prisoners make
eleven thousand cigars daily.
Sea serpent stories are wriggling their
way through the newspapers again.
1t is reckoned that there are still about
1000, 600 cannibals in the world.
At a Michigan logging bee thirty acres
of forest were cleared in one day
Men armed with nets cntrap unwary
dogs in the streets Of Lynchbur@, Va.
The new cXccutioner Of Paris has ii
van to his guillotine, and eats and sleeps
there.
At recent London dinner peaches
costing one guinea apiece were among
the dessert.
Chicago's Fourth Of July balloon col
lapsed and let the man drop into the
lake. He got out.
A colored member of the Columbia,
S. c.. City Council, won 1927, 900 at faro
the other day.
An eleven months baby at Blooming
ton, ILL.,, rolled down two flights Of stairs
without serious injury.
\ recent law of Pennsylvania allows
women to buy sewing machines without
their husbands consent.
During the past four years the Erie
railway has carried $4,000, 900, 900 gal
Ions Of milk to New York city.
New Haven is mad because the ia
panese embassy didn't stop to see Yale
college, as they said they would.
Berangcrs poems have, nowadays,
hardly any sale in France In 1910
three hundred thousand copies were
sold.
To make your servants tell lies for
you, and afterwards be angry because
they tell lies for themselves is absurd
indeed.
\ Michigan dog recently followed a
railroad train thirteen miles and over
took it at last. His master was on the
train.
During the thunder storm on the 4th,
a well-dressed lady was seen to stop in
a back street, and pull off her hoop skirt,
not caring to risk herself inside that
kind of lightning rod.
There is more than one million dollars
invested in the manufacture of lamps in
this country. OF chimneys, about one
million dozen are annually sold, at an
average of fifty cents per dozen.
The tropical heat Of the last few days
has infused new life into the alli@ators
of Central park, the largest OF which
snaps its jaws with great JUNCTION when
ever a fat baby looms in view.
Paragraphs about Lord Lytton are
once more rife. He is very old; eats a
great deal of opium: IS very deaf: and
wheezes and draws IN his talk, and he
looks like an elegant, fragile automa-
ton.
\ prisoner in jail at Lafayette: Ind.
battered down his cell door with a crow
bar and made his escape Sunday morn
ing. A crowbar is handy thing for a
prisoner when left in reach.
A Scotch diver at work on a sunkcn
ship was recently compelled to suspend
operations on account of the fierce at
tack of the Holsters and crabs that had
taken possession of the vessel.
: Solomon City, Kansas, does not seem
to he very healthy place for married
men. One day last week five wives de-
serted their respective husbands and
went back East Ito live with mamma"
Minnesota boasts a girl of eighteen
that, with the help of two boys. runs
farm of 200 acres, and last year put
$500 in the bank. We should like to
see those two boys receive little more
credit.
Fort Wayne rejoices in a citizen who
quenches his thirst with thirty-seven
cocktails between seven o'clock in the
forenoon and three in the afternoon. and
keeps IS sober as the average of Fort
Wayneftes.
Gen. Hancock writes that he will sup
port any one for the presidency who
may receive two-thirds of the support
of the Baltimore convention.
the poison of a copper musket ball that
he had carried around in him since the
battle of Buena Vista.
Mary Bumfrey, a famous old crazy
woman of Springfield, whose father
fought in the Revolution, died recently
at the age of seventY-five.
A Michigan village celebrated the 18th
with leap year festival, in which the
president, orator, marshal, and all the
other officers were women.
There was a balloon ascension at
Kalamazoo, Mich, on the Fourth, but
Mr.. Colfax did not take part. He went
up at Philadelphia few weeks ago.
Capt. Isaiah Folgers funeral in Nan
tucket was attended by FIVE brothers Of
the deceased whose ages united with his
own, amounted to AGA years
A little girl in Troy has won silver
medal and laid broad foundation for
future imbecility by committing to men,
DRY three thousand verses of the scrip
lures.
The city of Lafayette, Ind, voted five
dollars to provide decorations for the
fire department on the Fourth. 1t gets
its patriotism from its name, probably.
A recently issued piece of sentimental
music is sheet me at the Post Office. =