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

The 1Iichiganders are sleigh-ridlng.
Judge Curtis gets an So, 600 fee for
defending Mrs. Fair.
4 rowing club of New South Wales
has challenged the world.
A child weighing twenty-four pounds
was born lately at Minneapolis.
The latest spelling novelty received at
the Greenfield post Office is uuciX
tunil.
The sccptrc of Mary Stewart has just
been added to the curiOsiIies in the HO-
tel de Vile at Paris.
Joseph Goode and his wife, of Lin
coin, Ky, have 1874 great-grandchildren
living. Good enough.
Wedding invitations in London are
now written on parchment by the pro-
spoctiye brides mother.
Bash-Bish Falls is the soul-distracting
name Of a wild and beautiful locality in
Berkshire county, Mass.
\ Chicago zephyr blew a horse
against a street car, SCATTERING the vehi-
Gle and causing the ladies therein to
faint.
A negro boy in Kentucky lately shot
his father fatally, and local paper says
that his family concur in justitying
the act"
The Washington clergymen are pro-
testing against Sunday funerals, and
doctors are requested to regulate demises
accordingly.
4 Frenchman has invcntedan electric
machine which he says will stop running
horses. 1t will ne more likely to give
them the blind staggers.
4 black ape, owned by A. NJ Dumas,
of MoOtrOgue, France, was recently the
death of his master by mixing poison in
his tOddy.
Had it not been for an accident Prof
Julius SeeIve of Amherst College. would
have been on board the steamer America
when she burned at Yokohama.
Or. Stillman, who testified to Mrs
Fairs insanity, was asked if he ever
read Stobel on Insanity. He said he
had, and was then told that there was
no such author.
The New Orleans papers complain
that seyen-eights of the communications
sent them and signed taxpayer" are
by persons who possess not the " fee
simple to a yaller dog"
Oshkosh, Wis, has an Enoch Arden,
who, instead of going away quietly like
his original, fingers about the premises,
and declares his intention to make it
hot for EN-.
Ancient manuscripts were written
without accents, stops or separation be-
tween the words: nor was it until after
the ninth century that copyists began to
leave spaces between the words.
"a part of your business win be to
answer the door," said lady to a new
girl just from Old Virginia. Deed
mist'ess, an does your door speak," eX-
claimed the astonished quadroon.
For the first time in the court annals
of Maryland, a man has sued a woman
for refusing to marry him. He lays his
damages at So, 1000 and the woman should
now Keep her promise just to punish
such a fool.
A little boy appeared at one of the
public libraries near the city, and return
ing a book, said: Mother thinks she
won't take any more books out just now
as we've got the small pox at our house"
Boston paper.
The father of Writ Skies died in Wa
tertown, New York, the other day, in
the chamber he had slept in every night
for forty-one years-a sad warning of
the danger of sleeping too long in one
place. He was II years old.
Rev. DR.. Crawford calls Prof. Tyn.
dali '.an intruder" because of his "test
of prayer With great respect for
clerical gentlemen, some of them never
theless build their white neck-cloths so
high that they can't see over them.
The diameter of this globe is 1926
miles, or 1880, 760 yards; the coal
raised in 1870 would make a solid bar
more than eight yards wide and one ward
thick, which would pass from east to
west through the earth at the equator.
Chicago's last wonder of smartness is