Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-10-17

Springfield has the Texas beef scare.
Pedestrian Weston proposes to settle.
England has begun to use French

L. STANLEY
in America in January.
Chicago teamsters and eXcavators
have struck for back pay.
Dwelling houses will form part of the
Vienna Exposition.
In Pennsylvania they call half-mourn-
ing pittsburgh sunshine
Why is a screw in tight like a screw
in loose? Because it is insecure.
Capt. Jove, of the British army, is in
Chicago, Mrs. Jove isn't with him.
School for scandal-A Presidential
canvass. N. J. Com.
Thirty-two thousand seed were once
counted in the head of a poppy.
A pretty ''bonnet' for the opera is
now made Of one feather and a black
lace veil
Some of the fashionable women of
New York wear stockings that cost ten
dollars pair.
An umbrella deserves no credit for
It's services, for it never does any good
until it is put up to it.
A petrifed log, eight feet long and
two feet in diameter, is the wonder of
Russell county, Kansas.
The Indians who recently visited the
| Treasury Department pokcd fun at Gen.
Spinner's bald head,
Barnard Echardt, of Kalamazoo, fired
six shots into a man who refused TO let
him take away his own GOg. The man
didn't NEEDLE further.
The gentleman who formerly acted in
the capacity of King of Dude is organ
izng a snake show He expects 10000
serpents under one pavilion.
A candidate of the Laura Fair jury
said he hadn't formed any opinion on
the matter but had expressed one. He
had no idea what that opinion was, but
he still held to it.
A woman of pronounced enterprise
and morality went through the only sa-
loon at Annapolis, Ind, with her hatch
ct, and left it in an unfit condition for
further injury.
A model bill, made out by an old far
mer against his neighbOr, reads as fol-
lows, '.NcighbOr A. Dr. to B. to horse
and wagon goin' to mill once since and
twice before, one dollar
An Illinois boy has been bitten six
times by rattlesnakess with no resultant /
injuries, and now deties the Fates, I'M
less they can punctTe him with some .
thing 'sharper than serpent's tooth"
A lady went into ahardware store, in |.
which there were a couple of clerks, and |
called for pair of shutters. "Suppose
you take rs" said one of the clerks. /
''we both snuff" The lady didn't /.
buy.
One of Hartford's dry goods mcr- /
chants was asked the other day how he /.
spent his evenings. His reply was, AT .
night | store my mind, and during the
day mind my store. He was alive at |
last accounts.
MY dear Mrs. Miffkins. your darling
Emma is a perfect seraph. She has |.
| see," said the derling Emma, Its be- |,
wear a wig"
The New Orleans lady who is the /
champion swimmer at Mississippi City, |
succeeded a few days since, in swim /
ming 1000 feet without stopping. She |
thinks she could have made 1000 feet |
by little more eXertiOn.
AS one of the leading male singers in
a New Haven church was running up to /
a very high amen last Sunday, a tempo |
rary set of teeth he was enjoying fell out |
of his mouth. This 'false-set-to" spoil |
ed the service.
A Sunday night prayer-mceting at the /
steamboat wharf in Fall River was great ,
ly disturbed by the antics of some swim /
mers, one of whom pretended to be /
drowning, and dispersed the whole .
meeting to rescue him.
An aggressive alligator that inhabits a
Florida lake walks off with COWS, hogs, |
dogs, or any animal that may step into
his element for business or pleasure, and .
cares as much for buck-shOt as he does |
for summer rain.
A Boston musical critic lately remar-
ked of a professionals organ playing,
that he not only could Handel Beach,
but actually Beethoven.
Insults, said a modern philosopher,
- are like counterfeit money, we cannot
hinder their being offered, but we are
not compelled to take them"
Sansons "Mystcries Of the Scaffold,
commonly supposed to have been writ
ten by Alexander Dumas, has sold to
the amount of 400 900 copies in France,
The most prosperous city in the South
appears to be Charleston. Her exports
for the year ending August 81 were
$37, 275, 900, four or five times as much
as in 1866.
Texas papers boast that the oysters off
their coast are, without exception, the
finest in the whole world, and predict
that the trade in Texas bivalves will
soon become one of the most important
in the State.
Two lines of steamships will soon be
running between England and Liberia,
one despatching two and the other three
vessels monthly They will carry the
British mails, and will stop at Madeira,
Teneriff and other places.
During a recent examination of the
harbOr Of Louisberg, Cape Breten island,
two cannon and sixty balls were raised,
relics of the siege of that place by the
New Englanders in 1745. W. P. Tyler,
a Boston man, bought them and gave
them to the provisional museum.
A tradesman in Bristol, England, has
just made a monster umbrella for an
African chief. 1t is IS feet in circum-
ference, the Lakewood ribs being feet
long, and there are 140 yards of materi-
al in it. 1t is covered with red, blue
and white chintz, and takes two men to
expand it.
A resident of Gilroy, Cal, has discov-
cred a process by which the nicotine
may be extracted from tobacco, giving
good native qualities the fine flavor of
prime Havana brands. 1t has been
found that the soil of California is adj
mirably adopted for the culture of the
weed.
Madame Peschka-Leutner has arrived
at her home in Leipsic \ very pretty
surprise was prepared for her on her
first temperance after her return from
America. Friendly hands changed her
dressing room into an arbor of flowers.
Magnificent boquets with congratulate