Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-08-15
GIeanfngs.

Peanut oil is now used for packing
sardines.
The postal cards will be three by five
inches.
Africa exports peanuts to France very
argely.
Over 900 steamers ruffle the Missis-
sippi and her tributaries.
1t cost Chicago half a million to re-
store her fire department.
Gift jewelry traps are again set for
the unwary in New York.
Poor Wisccnsin-la year it was fire,
this year it is drought.
The new Chicago directory has 20, 900
more names than that of last year.
Stanley's little African adventure is
called the romance of the nineteenth
century.
There are !, ZOO manageable young
ladies on the island of Nantucket, and
only 100 young men.
DR.. Houard proposes to tell the tale Of
his sufferings to the American people.
Over 20 lecture committees have already
solicited the privilege of introducing
him.
A Cincinnati wife left her husbands
board but took the bed with her. He is
puzzled to know how to word legal no.
tice of warning to the prospective cred
TORS
An exchange states that a Mrs. Wood
of Millsburg, Ohio, has received $4,000
from saloon keepers who sold whisky to
her husband. Now let Mr.. Wood drink
up the money, and then another set of
suits would probably foot up to 5000, 900
or more.
japan is turning to useful and rapid
account the lessons she receives from
Europe and the United States. Every
week sees some reform established or
some new public work started.
The Kansas City Times learns, by pri-
vate letter, that a daughter of w. G.
Brownlow attempted to elope with a
Knoxville stOneCutter, and has been i'm
INJURED in a convent.
The Commissioner of Agriculture re-
ports that a good quality of brandy can
be made from the immense quantities
of sawdust thrown away at the lumber
mills.
Out in Ohio they ask you to believe
that pig can live nine months under
straw stack without food or water.
The largest State in the Union now is
shown by the recent census to be the
State of Sin and Misery.
idaho will come into the Union as the
Beaver State
1t would appear to be the rule this
season that the smaller the college the
greater the number Of honorary degrees
conferred.
Iowa was written at first Aioues, and
was applied to a tribe of Indians, and
would seem to be simply Ajawa-across,
beyond, as if to say ''the tribe beyond
the river.
To Jump into the bins of grain eleva-
tors and be sucked down the spout is
style of suicide developing out West
which laughs at probes and stomach
pumps.
A letter from Maine says: Farm
help is very scarce and wages high.
Were it not for the improved impli-
ments, no farm could pay its running eX-
penses and support family.
A young man went to a livery stable
keeper the other day to hire an open
buggy, but was compelled to take one
witfa top. He soon arranged the thing
to suit him, however, by running under
a sign which took off the top very neat
". The livery stable man was not quite
satisfied with the job, however.
Little five year old Annie, who was
suffering from bad cold. went to pay a
visit to Auntie. During the day she re-
of
ended by declaring that that she could
read a great deal better than Sabina,
who was eight years old. 'Well," ques-
toned Auntic, ''wOnldnt it sound better
if some one else said 2" Yes" an
swered Annie, with a sober counter
ance, Il think it would. ! have such
bad cold, | can't say it very well.
Michigan is NTichi. great. and gami,
luke, in Algonquin, and is given in an
early French dictionary. As earliest
given it is AIichigami.
A bald eagle. at Wabash, Ind. had
captured about sixty pigs in four weeks,
when he was finally ushered out Of the
pork business by burying his talons in
too big a lift for him, and being held I'M
til taken prisoner.
at is a sin for stealing pin. =" a
man in Philadelphia has been arrested
for that very Offense. The pin had
diamond attached to it.
What with the political campaign and
the agricultural fairs, the Fall is to be a
busy season for newspaper men.
Knot blue vail about your straw hat
if you wish to be considered a 'nObby'
man at the seaside.
A pie plant bed was nicely roasted at
Holly, Mich, Iy flash of lightning, re-
Gently.
A Chicago woman soliciting aims
pleads ten of her children were burned
to death.
Joe Cobum lost so much on Bassett
that Jem Mace had to buy him Il return
ticket.
A Kansas City widow rejected sutton
the other day. The forlorn lover re-
venged himself by getting the widows
little son dead drunk i
Death has separated very aged coup
lie of Pcpperell, Mass. Mrs. Benjamin
Williams having died, aged SO, leaving
her husband, aged "a, after a married
cOmpanionship of % years.
Appomattox, Va, boasts that there is
not now, and has not been for eighteen
months, single prisoner confined in her
Jail.
srzurs