Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-08-29
Miscellaneous items.

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/ An IOwh man traded his wife for a
/ shuck mattress and a bottle of mucilagc
/ The statistician Of an Eastern paper
AYERS that the flies are 50 good-natured
/ this season that a well organized one will
allow himself to be brushed off ones
nose cighty-seEcn times and not show
any temper.
After three years practice in elocution
for the stag. an indianapolis young
/ man has secured a permanent position as
crier for a side show.
/ Dan Godfrey, the famous English band
master, writes that he will surelsr come
to America in the spring.
The Worcester G.v-etts heads an item
''Prohabla .atal deathby shooting" fatal
ac4th IS good.
The Kansas City young man who
thought he could kick off a friends hat
without touching his face was buried
/ from one of the fashionable churches,
Sunday. They have relaxed the prison
discipline in his friend ease on account
Of the sad cqAGitlon Of the place where
! lis nase used to be.
I Nearly S15,0OO.O0O worth of silks
went through Council Bluffs few days
ago.
If the Poles Of Duluth all 20 10 the
polls this fall therell be 300 Of them.
The Ieipsic students are a gay set. and
/ their sprees often bring them into the
police courts.
7 The word caucus" is now said TO be
derived from the word cG1rcdzC. used by
the Virginia Indians for adviser or cOun-
selIor: the verb from which it comes
meaning to harangue, advise. counsel,
encourage. The same word, differently
pronounced. is said TO be found in all
Algonquin dialects.
An Illinois youngster who wanted to
build fire to roast potatoes, succeeded
admirably. He went into the barn and
built it in.the hay loft.
John c. Calhoun married his cousin.
and their children, fortunately. were
neither diseased nor idiOtic, but they do
not eyince the talent OF the great state
rights advocate.
The London bootblacks wear ii regular
uniform, and, under the direction Of the
police authorities, are posted at con
yenient points throughout the city.
4 Pennsylvania country editor, deter
mined 10 improve his paper. has started
the good work by purchasing copy Of
Browns grammar.
One Of the Paris hotels anxious to So
cure American patronage, advertised
fish balls and buckwhcat cakes at all
hours"
The mattress upon which Nilsson
once sept at a Charleston hotel brought
twice as much at a recent auction sale as
any other of intrinsic value
When the chestnut trees are in bloom.
Bushey Park, near London. attracts
large crowd of visitors. There Is prob
ably the finest aycnue Of chestnut trees
in the world 10 be found there.
South Bend. Ind, has Il spring so
bottOmless that 1t won't reflect even
smile.
'.Daoud Fillasteen7 is the approved
African pronunciation Of DR.. Living
stones name.
\ sharp woman in Cairo pays rent to
the amount Of one dollar a month, and
sublets part Of the building at four
dollars a month.
The great African traveller has a son
who writes his name W. Osweli LIVING
stone.
4 New York friend has "A handsome
row boat which ho mgeniOusly protects
from the boys by christening it Anna
Mills, This places It under the protec-
tioA Or Bergh, md the boys are afraid
of Bergh.
Some women have no memory when
they want to remember a thing they
should write it down and stick il on the
looking glass.
Out West, where they ought to know
about hogs, they call their flesh ''squeal
meat.
MasSel the Western gymnast,i is about
q. marry dumb belle.
Mr. Forsiedenhogenstiefel has estab-
lished a foundry at Terre Haute.
In Peru the longest ears are considered
the handsOmest, and great mark of
beauty in the females.
Fan him with your boots, is said by
those familiar with the subject to be the
latest thing in slang.
The oldest aFsesfan well in Europe Is
4
and from its mouth water has flowed IN
interruptedly for seven hundred and
forty-six years.
Miss Fannie Darson, of Iowa, played
Maud Muller, one day recently. to some
purpose. Instead Of fooling around with
a rheumatic old Judge, she rakea up
forty tons Of hay.
4 Hudson coroner sends word 20 the /
local newspaper that he has cucumbcr |
twenty inches long. Probably be thinks /
Ii he can get somebody to eat it he viii |
be sure of a job.
A rather singular group was observed |
riding in one vehicle in the streets of 4
Ballston, n. T., one day recently. 1t /
a physician, a coroner, an I'M |
dertaker, and marble cutter.
Who would not go to the whitho Sui /
phur Springs? There is a hotel there
that has five bureaux, and cOTrcspon- /
dent says that he has one of them in his /
room it is brown, and to match he has
q yellow washstand, red bedstead, and /
Two green wooden chairs.
Miss Edith Challis, well-known ac-
tress in London, while travelling some
months since, was very attentive to an
Did lady who fell i'll on the journey and
died. Last week Miss
Challis was greatly astonished on learn
ng that the old lady had remembered
ler in her will to the extent of two
thousand pounds year for life. In
of this she retires from the