Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-08-21
Items of Interest.

The Shah cost Victoria 4o0, OUU.
WiIkie Collins practices elocution in a
London theater.
Iowa ladies write ''priyate" in the cor
ners of their postal cares.
The State Convention of the New
| York Prohibitionists meets at Saratoga
on the 9Th.
A Rochester girl, of uncommon love
illness has had 5000 photographs of her
self taken for sale.
1t is said that Z. S. Senator J.P Jones,
! of Nevada, has an income from his min
1 ing property of $500, 900.
A school teacher at Oxford, n. Y.
has worked in the hay and harvest field
| Saturdays to pay her board. F..
Lieut.. Governor Robinson, of Prince
Edward Island, has resigned, and will
leave next month for England. ~
There is a quarrel among the Spiritu-
! alists at New York, which threatens
to entirely break up the organization in
that city. ...
A Peoria woman threw brick at a
/ doc recently, striking herself on the back
of the head with such force as to knock
! her down.
Johannes Schelkughwankilati and
Miss PrzbylowieZ were married at Leay-
enworth the other day. and the town
clerk, who made out the license, has had
cramps ever since.
Eighty-eight young ladies are on tina
| lists of the Michigan University at Ann
Arbor. FOrty-two Of them are for the
literary course, thirty seven for the med
zeal and four in the law school.
A rich old farmer in Steubcn county,
n. Y, made his daughter pay for two
pounds of white sugar. which she used
in the wedding cake, and tried to get the
preacher to take a 0ne-handlcd pillow
and a broken-down tanning mill for his
pay.
An advertisement in a Charleston, s
c., paper calls for all kinds of Confed-
crate stamps, bills and bonds. One dol
lar each and upward will be paid for the
s 900 bills. Those who invested in
that paper have now an opportunity of
recovering a portion Of their investment.
The Hon. William NJ Meredith, of
Philadelphia, died on the 18th, aged sew
enty-sevcn years. He was very prom
inent lawyer. Secretary of the Treasury
under Taylor, and president of the pres
cnt and lastconStitutional conventions of
Pennsylvania. ,... ..>-s. g..
Punch has o pathetic picture of a mar
riCd couple on a calling trip AS they
wait at the door where they have rung
the bell, Augustus is thus cautioned
Augustus, love, let me beg of you?
Do not give way to any insane demon
STATIONS of delight before the servant,
is she says they're not at home H.
Ia an editorial on the horse disease the.
Congregntt0ndlst suggested that it might
be well to sit at the feet of horse and
learn humility. ''Just so, says the Cal
ifornia N6US Letter, '"sit down at the
hind feet of mule. and if he don't
humiliate you, pull his tail and tickle
the inside of his legs with stable fork"
4 Detroit woman was consulting the
police, the other day, to see if she had
good grounds for a divorce suit. She
alleges that her husband is drunk about
tWenty-seYen days out of every month;
that he cut her hair off while she slept;
that he wakens her at daylight by throw
ing a pail of water over the bed :; that
he has tried to force kerosene oil down
her throat, and that he puts hot potatoes
in her hands and then mashes them by
squeezing her fingers. The police
thought she didn't need any better
grounds. .-'- ...-.e-.-., 49,.
A Memphis paper has this to say of
an Arkansas woman who 'fsculps" in
butter: Great numbers of people Wis
tied the office of Mr. Littleton, on Madi-
son street, to see the wonderful work of
the sculptor's art wrought in frozen but
ter. There was never anything like it,
An Arkansas housewife absolutely takes
a spoon and knife, and conforms the
shape of butter to that of ones face and
features, even preserving the expression,
as well as perfect accuracy of outline
Powers never surpassed this artist in
butter, though he used Parian and Pen
tilican marble, in defining with perfect
accuracy the outlines of human forms
and faces. p" -l.- =. (. =. r: H.