Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-09-05
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Daniel Drew is worth $25, 100000
The French cable is being repaired

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The French cable is being repaired.
t Topeka. Kan, has fined a barber five
cents for shaving customer on Sun
day.
Bayard Taylor is at Berlin, and is de-
voting his time to a literary work of
great magnitude.
A water privilege-attending a tenn
perance picnic.-Dan5H7y Neaos.
Mr.. Jones being asked by Mrs. Jones
to buy a Thermometer, said he would
wait until they were lower.
Premiums amounting to sixty dollars
are offered by the Rhode Island Society
for the Encouragement of Domestic In
dustry for the best white and brown
bread made by a Rhode Island lady not
over twenty years OF age.
A Canadian railroad company en-
ployed a woman to have an eye to the
rack..nearshershouse when the express
trains were coming, but, with the usual
impetuosity of her sex, she rushed before
an engine to drive away some cattle and
the company now employ a man.
A witness under crOss-eXaminatiOn,
who had been retained by a lawyer sew
eral hours. at last asked for a glass of
water. There" said the judge, Il
think you'd better let that witness go
now, as You have pumped him dry"
The prices are higher than ever at the
fashionable resorts.
Mr.. Emerson will build new house
in Concord upon the site of the one de-
stroved last week. The new mansion
will be nearly an exact copy of the
former structure, and will cost about
$4,000.
English servants are tempted to steal
bv the circulation of handbills thrown
into the areas giving the place Of bust
ness Of purchasers Of ''Old iron ware, "
ACCOMPANIED by the information in large
type, that all purchases are melted down
on the premises.
Mr.. Barnum is eminently affable, but
Yesterday gave a flat refusal to the lady
who attacked him with pencil and a
palm leaf fan. and asked him for his
autogiraffe. Missouri Democrat.
A colorcd reverend of Philadelphia is
LAYING I'D treasure on earth by acting as
hotel waiter at Cape May during his
vacation.
! Missouri journalist having asserted
that Louisville scribe had just discov-
cred that he could wag his left ear, the
latter retorts that the Missouri man has
his aural appendices under such con-
troll as to be able to fan himself with
them.
A Goldfish, eight feet long, and twenty
four years old, was taken at Albany, not
LONG since-from the steeple of an old
church.
The acacia tree, which was brought
from America two hundred and thirty
seven wears ago. and placed in the Jardin
DIES Plantes in Paris, is dead, but shoot
has sprung from it, much to the JOY of
the children, who made a procession in
its honor.
Brigham Young has ordered thirty
sofas in one lot. 1t requires a good deal
of sofa to accommodate the whole OF
Mrs. Brigham at one time.
Two fierce Georgia lawyers recently
cross-cXamined a col0red witness until
he tainted.
The funny man Of the Lowell Co17jer
wants Rev W. II. II. Murray, OF Bos-
ton, to become 3 c0ckpcy long enough
to drop one of his HIS.
BUN ko'' is the new swindIe in Chi
cago.
A travelling life insurance agent APP
piled to a Texan to take out q policy,
but the Texan replied: "A fellows
life is so confounded uncertain in this
community it amt worth insuring.
The Grand Duke Of Mecklenburg-
Schwerin has ordered some copies of