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

Des Moines has but one billiard hall.
They say that Illinois is drying up.
the surface water having fallen several
feet.
Four years in the penitentiary appears
to be the penalty for parrcide in Min
nesOta.
Oregon wives claim divorces because
their husbands will not wash the dishes.
Weddings are the popular amusc-
ments in the Empire city at present Is
Gunsmiths are offering "thundcrb0lt
rifles and shot-guns' for sale. He who
invented them must have been an cleo
trio spark.
By the constant use of tar-soap an
eminent baseball player finds that he
has immensely improved his hand for
pitching.
To make a boy deceitful, parent has
only torequire him, whenever he re-
turns home, to give an accurate account
of his dOingS during his absence.
There's nothing half so sad in life a.
to reflect how many mothers took their
daughters to the springs, the sea-shOrc
and the mountains for nothing this sum
mcr The tOrturcs suffered by these
unsuccessful parents, while they muse
upon the bills for the sea-shore, are eX-
Crutiating.
1t was expected that method of har-
Messing oxen would be brought out at
the late New England Fair, but the old
yoke remains unchanged. In Nova SEQ
tia the farmers and lumbermen yoke
their oxen by the horns, and they say
they can pull larger loads than oxen
yoked in the manner prevalent in this
country.
\ Detroit boOtblack who lay doing
among his boxes and brushes the other
day, was thus accosted by a professional
brother: Here, you Abe Thomas,
you'd better be a-gittin. Yourold dads
house has been on fire and eyerything's
bout clean gone :" ''Shos" yelled Abe
in reply; "'then I'm doggOned if | amt
out twenty cents, paid for two dime
novels only last night
There is rule OF society" common
to the European continent, which for
bids unmarried ladies wearing jewelry.
The popular superstition that over
turning the salt is unlucky. originated
in picture of 1.-THE Last Supper" by
Leonardo de Vinci in which Judas Is
CARROT is represented as Overtuning the
salt.
A Bangor lover writes to local pa
per to complain while walking home
with the darling of his heart. she an
swered his apOstrOphe to the full moon
by asking him what his income was.
An Illinois farmer, who does not
know much about farming. but raises q
few things for his own use, has a crop
of 500,0 900 bushels of corn, a part of
which he wants to sell, as he keeps but
one pig.
A review of the amount of gold and
silver yielded in California shows that
there is slow but steady decline in the
product. Numerous claims that have
been worked by sluicing and the hv-
draulic processes ere exhausted every
year, and very few are opened,
The Port Austin News thinks the
government should construct a harbOr of |
refuge at that place for the protection of |
vessels caught out in a storm. The ex-
pense of such an Improvement is esti- |
mated at 100000.
An aggressive alligator that ginhabits a |
Florida lake, walks off with COWS,
hogs, or any animal THAT may step into |
his element for business or pleasure, |
and cares as much for buckshot as he |
does for the summer rain.
A patent has recently been taken out |
for the preparation of an improved |
safety writing ink, which consists in
the addition, to any ink, of solution |
of yellow prussiate of potash, Any at |
tempt to remove this ink by means of |
OXoliC acid or other substance, changes |
it to a Berlin blue.
Since the lamentable self-murder of |
Alice Blanche Oswald, who at first was
to be an American, but who
probably was an Australian, no less
than four young women have thrown
themselves from Waterloo bridge,
whence Miss Oswald threw herself. A
suicidal mania seems to have attacked
young persons, which perhaps it will be
difficult to quhdue,
Mr., G. II. Booth, late of the firm of
Firth, Booth g. Co., merchants, of Brad.
ford, who is about to retire to America,
his native country, has expressed his
intention to present to Bradford full
length statue of the late Richard Cob
den. The figure will be produced from
the best white Carrara marble, and will
be placed in conspicuous position in the
Bradford Exchange. The cost of the
statue will be about $1,000. Mr.. Booth
has also given more than $1,000 for dis
tribution among the local charities.