Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-09-18
odds and Ends.

Chicago divorces two couples per day.
A honeymoon car" is run on the
Pacific railway for the accommodation
of bridal parties.
4 Peoria servant girl has used kero-
sene $50 times to start the 1reand never
had an accident.
By unceasing industry and attention
to business, a New Jersey boy has gath
cred a library of 600 dime novels
Some one asserts that five hundred
daily papers headed their reports of the
Worcester convention Butler Bottled.
A young man wearing an Alaska dia-
mond pin can ''go home" with any girl
IN Dubuque from prayer-meeting with
out an introduction.
The Chicago Times calls the late
Democratic party THAT ancient and
its mildest epithets.
Brigham Young came near being fatal
" injured by the explosion of a lamp in
Salt Lake recently. Ann Eliza never
thought of kerosene.
Plagiarism has been so common that
editors of popular magazines are sorely
tried lest old stories and articles be
palmed off upon them for new.
Mark Twain modestly denies that he
is the man alluded to in the line, .'1lark.
the perfect man"
A gentleman reading a newspaper a
day or two ago asked friend, ''Nhat
| is tie meaning of the Bohemian Diet
about which we hear so much of late
Gree lunches, was the reply.
a spelling match, open TO the world.
| is a feature of the Knox county, lndi-
ana, agricultural fair.
One of the candidates for governor of
! Iowa, keeps an artist at work printing
| his photographs, which he distributes
among the ladies' We think this as an
electioneering dodge somewhat cheeky.
/ A PHILADELPHIA lawyer was making a
/ high-fiown speech, the other day, telling
about angels tears, weeping willows,
and silent tombstones, when His Honor
said = "Confine yourself to the dog
fight.
A poor family in Fond du Lac, Wis,
| consisting of a man, his wife and elev-
en- children, recently had hundred dol
lars left to them, and the poor, over
| worked woman has bought a seventy
dollar silk dress and has gone to taking
music lessons.
1t is proposed to get up a cemetery
near New York, of about one hundred
acres in extent. for the burial of people
who have been talked TO death. The
idea is a good one, but the cemetery
should be larger.
Mrs Liverrnore's time is occupied in
answering letters containing anxious in
ouiries about her health; she emphati-
cally declares that she has not broken
her leg, and does not intend to break
any of her engagements for the winter.
A dress association has been formed
among the ladies of Springfield, Yer
mont. the members of which are pledg-
ed to wear "a neat, sensible style of cos
! tune" and mot to change the fashion
except when improvement is made.
A calf was sold in Oneida county, n
Y, the other day, for S27,000i i
7 Massachusetts should sell her calves a
this rate she could pay the nationa
debt, and without disturbing the ANIMAL
=, in Office.
= The committee chosen by Judge Rich
ardson to select lock for Customs usi
e have reported in favor of the Miller loci
! of Philadelphia, and of discarding tn
y seal lock of the American Lock Com
a pany, now in use. The Miller lock is :
! KEY hole lock, without glass seal. !
. is understood that Judge Richardson
0 will abide by this report.
The officers of an English regiment
:, now in British Burmah, before leayinl
8 England spent $500, saved out of th
= canteen fund, in equipping newspape
= Office which was carried with the req
u ment. They publish very good paper
Is devoted to general news, literature, an
: especially to the history and interests o
the regiment. 1t is having good inf1u
ence upon both officers and men.
= y Edward S. Stokes declares emphatic
IL ally that he did not see Mrs Benton
ne the Grand Central Hotel on the day {
ct his meeting with James Fisk, Jr. II
ne was glad to hear that his trial had bee
set downfor October 1st. What he hope
\ for was speedy trial. The officials
" the District Attorneys Office are niue
u chagrined at the notoriety given TO Il
In arrest of Mrs. Benton, and blame u
b, police for making it public.