Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-10-09
odds and Ends.

The Daily HerGtd is new penny
evening paper at Chicago.
The national iron company at Dan
vile, Pa, have sold their works at auc-
ton, for $3.50. 600.
1t is said that the peculiar and disagree
able odor of onions may be destroyed by
eating raw parsley leaves.
The San Francisco mint will turn out
81. 900, 900 in gold coin every month
hereafter, commencing with October
The valuation of Milwaukee has in
creased 100000 during the past year,
while the increase of business done was
100000.
A deer was shot a few days ago on
Beaver hill in New York, that had three
rifle balls in him, besides having a hole
in each ear through which a ball had
gone.
The Emperor William of Germany
has formally recognized Bishop Rien-
kins, the lately elected Bishop of the
Old Catholics, as Bishop of the Catho-
lie church.
The clothes of Catherine Milford, of
Petersburg, n. Y, took fire as she was
sewing by the light of a burning rag
dipped in a saucer of grease, recently.
and burned her so badly that she died
the same night.
Monday was the first day of the He
brew year, 4. NJ. 1894. During the
coming month occur the days of repent
ance and atonement, the Feast of the
Tabernacle and the Feast of Rejoicing
over the law given to Moses.
The steamboat Little Flcta, while
ascending the Rio Grande with army
stores for the Ringgold barracks, got
away from the river on account of the
high water, and grounded, and it is re-
ported she has broken in two.
Columbus, Ca, boasts of a young man
who is said to receive a salary Of 81 200,
and saves 81, 100 per annum, and has
saved since the war some $1,000. He
boards at the free lunch counter and
sleeps on the lee side Of fence.
Frederick Charrington, of London.
England. has supplemented his recent
retirement from a firm of brewers, on
the ground of the evil caused by drink,
by becoming a missionary. TO the poor
of East London He has bought 8
chapel in Bethnal Green in which to
carry on his labors.
The Sun IN. 4. claims that it is al
ways ahead with its news. The reason
is simply because a lie always travels 50
much faster than the truth.
Harvey Birch, the hero of Coopers
novel Of THE Spy. really moved, lived
and had his being in what isnow known
as the village of MamarOneck.
\ New Orleans juryman was asked
by the judge il he ever read the papers.
He replied, y ess.. your honor: but ii
you'll let me 60 this time III never do
50 any more.
Mr. jenkins. the author Of '.Ginx's
Baby, thinks he can make himself a
great statesman if given chance by the
borough of Dundee, in which he is now
contesting with another writer, Mr..
Fitzjames Stephens.
a Western railroad conductor. after
twenty years of experience, concludes
that he had rather carry twenty thou
sand men passengers than 10 have one
lone, lorn female board his train.
Haverstraw, New York, has a female
barber, and its curious how suddenly the
honest old citizens, fifty and sixty years
old, have put by their razors and fallen
in love with BARRIERS chair.
For a good head of hair a French
peasant girl can get forty francs eight
dollars from the chignon makers /;
bright golden viii bring more, and a
woman of over sixty got one hundred
and twenty-five francs for her stock of
silver-white locks.
Mrs. Francis Willard has got her
rights handsomely, having been appoint
ed professor of mathematics in the We
mems College of the Northwestern Uni
versity, Evanston, H., at a salary Of
81. 800, which is to be increased to 81.
600 in 1874, $4,000 in 1875, and 50, 400
| in 1876.
The editor of a Bangor (Me.) paper
was, recently shown 1000 buttons,
on a cord little over four feet long and
no two being alike. They ranged from
the tiniest pearl TO the largest brass II.
/ S." The procuring and arranging OF
this choice collection occupied a young
lady three years.