Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-01-11
Notes of the Day.

$1,000 1900
CALIFORNIA; lead mines pay.
Dixie has been visiting Paris
Fortune-tellers still thrive in England
Wisconsin has mastodon.
Eufaula, Ala, ladies go fox-hunting.
Water costs 10 cents a glass in Madrid.
Clara Schumann can't come, after all.
The Roman excavations progress slow
ly
Persimmon beer gratities the Georgia
palate.
Costa Rica boasts of its advance in
civilization
This Young affair is getting rather
stale
The Roman Campagna is to be drained
soon.
Twelve Cleyelanders count over S32,-
900, 900.
They are BURNING corn instead of coal
at Maysyille, KY.
The "general-order" business is rep
Leet with frauds.
A Michigan baby bit his tongue and
bled to death
Verdi received an ovation on his re-
turn to Bologna from Egypt.
Cannibals inhabit the Swallow" Is
lands.
Baker is out of bread in Central Africa.
There are 1000 vacant dwellings in
Paris now.
Kruger is dead. He was a German
tenor.
Italy and Greece are having a little
tiff.
Tennessee is infested by gentlemanly
burglars
Vanderbilt is about to sell Mountain
Boy and buy American Girl.
Bergh ought to take Alexis in hand
for shooting pigeons.
Joselly, an Italian photographer, has
succeeded in taking submarine views.
Kerosene is a favorite condiment for
raw oysters in Marinette, Wis.
London Flora McFlimseys promenade
the streets in $1,000 dresses,
Shall Newton become a city? That
is the question around the corner
Victor Emanuel doesn't allow all bores
to hunt him, He prcferes to hunt the
bOars,
The Italian Minister of Fancr is be
coming Sella-hrat"d toy his hopeful
ness.
An Engli>hwoman, lately deceased
had lived over 100 years without sick
day.
The War in France" has been already
dramatizcd and produced on the Berlin
stage.
Now that the doctors are disagreeing
over the Wharton case; who shall de-
eide?
A passenger on one of the New York
ferry boats lately sneezed himself over
board.
Miss Nellie Wharton disclaims the
beauty attributed to her NY susceptible
correspondents.
Two Connecticut girls anointed their
chapped lips with croton oil, by mistake
for glycerine.
Washington has a ghost that haunts
the roof of the Capitol, and scares the
police out of their wits.
Michigan Indians do a lively business
in carrying packages of nitro-glycerine
on their backs
Bartlett, the Connecticut sculptor, has
returned from Rome
+ The English South Sea colonists have
been caught kidnapping,
Hon. J. P Hale, of New Hampshire,
has almost entirely recovered from his
| recent accident.
Upper Michigan is again clamoring
for the new State of Superior.
De Large Indignantly denies that he
has compromised with Bowen.
Toledo has an obstinate freight block
ade on her hands
The owner of the Florida is evidently
Darling fellow.
A Wisconsinian has actually made
whistle out of pigs tail
The gentlemen who was filled with |
emotion" has been Corked to save his /
sentiment.
A st. Louis inebriate tried to cut his /
throat with tin plate,
\ New Jersey woman tried to buy
drink OF whisky with crucifix.
A goose aged 70 is agitating the quills I
OF Missouri local editors.
A Natchez woman embroiders beauti- /
fully with straw
WILSON'S Lucia" has had the fright
ful effect Of setting one of the audience
to writing sonnets about her.
A Nebraskan thought he would under
take to charm snake, but soon resigned
in favor of professional undertaken.