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

play the ''last cigar" so often that they
are not popular with the gentlemen.
Twenty-Five hundred dollars and some
cents, the proceeds of corn, received
from a conscience stricken individual in
Hamburg, Germany, have been credited
to the conscience fund by the Treasurer
of the U. S.
A locomotive in pursuit of a moose
was the sensation in Nova Scotia the
Othor day. The moose found the ma
chine too fast for him and turned aside
from the track into the woods, the loco
motive declining to follow.
The cast-o-ne yields the best music
to the fisherman.
Kansas City has increased to the eX-
tent of /, ,240 houses in two years.
A bad style of arithmetic-diyision
among families.
A part of Claysville, KY, goes by the
name of "Hell's Five Acres.
Acorn coffee is much used in Europe
4 loving swain in Maine dedicated a
napkin ring ''tO my almost wife"
King Amandeus of Spain has his faith
ers prediction for botanical and entO-
mological studies.
Mummies do not look as though they
were in hurry, yet it is certain that at
first they must have been pressed for
time
The Kansans, having seen a flock of
three hundred swans flying high, pre-
dicted a beautiful Autumn and a short
winter.
The japanese charge, Mori, is a near
relative of Memento.-W WorM.
Will editors continue to complain of
wOman's extravaganza now that she
wears her dress long
Miss Anna Dickinson's new lecture is
entitled, "What shall hinder" Quien
! Sabe
Chicago fines loafer $50 for follow
ing young lady half a mile.
Sylvanus Cobb, jr., after some ninety
/ odd novels. now expresses great disgust
at blood and thunder fiction.
A Live Oak, Fla, genius stole nine
watches from a white man and a suit of
clothes from a negro the other day. No
class prejudice there.
Every new article that makes its ap-
/ pearance is named after the new prima
donna. We have already Lucca hats
and LucCa opera clOaks.
The old rage for parrots as pets has
I revived. pretty Poll is rapidly sue
ceeding to the place which our friend.
Herr Spitz, has long occupied in good
society.
A canal to connect the Tennessee
River with the Atlantic Ocean. Mt Sa-
wanna, Ga, is proposed. in furthcrancc
| of which the projectors desire govern
ment aid to the extent of $1,000, 600.
The boys at a Buffalo public school
/ having adopted hat with a gilt band.
/ the pupils of rival institution of learn
/ ing appeared with chappeauX. decorated
/ with two gilt circles. There are thirty
/ seven public schools in Buffalo, and the
/ papas Of that city look forward to the
! future with terror, while the hatters re-
| joice.
4 Maryland murderer has been four
/ times on trial for his life. resulting once
! in conviction with an appeal, twice in a
/ disagreement and once in no judgment
rendered He is still at it. but enter
/ tains strong hopes that the infrmitics of
/ old age will relieve the eNecutioner of
/ his responsibility.
The tidal phenomena ON Lake Onta-
| rio, which was noticed last June has
again appeared. The greatest change
4 in the depth of the water observed is
| twenty-five inches The lake is very
| quiet, and there is nothing visible in the
/ surroundings to create the unusual phe-
/ nOmcnOn.
The st. Louis papers cram their sun
/ day issues with jokes that were current
in 1851, and devote the rest of their cdi-
/ tions to quarreling over the question Of
/ Sunday circulation.
| GarlaUd Massey IS on a new work
entitled Myth, Miracle and Mystery"
People who are always wishing for
something new should try neuralgia
| once
The name of Old Orchard Beach arose
| from growth of apple trees formerly
near the beach, planted at very early
/ period: some of them remained as late
as 1870.
Monograms embroidered in the cor
ners of tulle wells. is the latest frivolity
in that line.
An ungallant editor calls "Ouida" a
''dreadful inksplasher" One cannot
always be truthful and civil, you know.
Molly Strong, of Newton, Mich, dug
a well forty feet deep, last summer, and
received $3.50 from her father therefor.
She received numerous offers of mar
riage from young farmers Just after her
job was COmpletsd, but refused them
all, declaring she would marry no man
who wanted her just because she could
work like horse.
NT,o1,s,o,,
stone mandatory was recently caught
in the betting and drawn into the revOlv-
ing shaft, which, after taking him
around few times, deposited him unin-
jured in sitting posture on the floor,
denuded of every stitch of clothing.
In spite of the pious prefix Deacon
which Dick Smith of the Cincinnati Ga
zette wears, Hon. Fred. Hassereuk re-
fers to him as "'that man. Dick Smith,
who has got the mark of a liar and a
scoundrel branded in his face"
A murderer, who has been confined in
an Illinois jail for thirteen months under
sentence of death, when asked if he
hoped for a Communication of his SEN
tence, replied that che was not given to
building castles in the air."
The chief signal officer in Washing
ton is engaged in perfecting an appara-
tus by which the appearance and forms
of the clouds at sunset may be recorded.
Anton Rubinstein, the great pianist,
was at one time so poor in Vienna that
he had to give music lessons at half a
florin each.
On the 9th of July, a suit was called
IN the Vlce-chancellor's court, in London,
which was begun in the year 1725-one
hundred and forty-seven years ago!
Efforts are making to secure a re
peal of the ursury laws by the present
Legislature.