Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-11-27
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The biggest bore in Nevada is tr5os
feet long.
Boston is discussing anew the servant
question. /, -. ~ : -.
"A fashionable virtue for the winter is
economy. 7. 4. =. :.
There are now eight wooden mills in
California. .s.-.-.l.. ,..-.......
Out of 2. e79 QGakers in Kansas, only
324 use tobacco. :. :. <.
They consider il fair trade at Fagun-
das, Pa, when they can swap a barrel
of oil for a bushel of potatoes.
A Brooklyn detective is no man at all
unless he can wear diamons, drive fast
horses and keep wine in his cellar
There is not a single grange in Rhode
Island. The state isn't large enough to
get up an argument between six men.
The eagle recently shot in Peru, Me-,
was a golden eagle. Mr.. Audubon re
ports having shot only two such in his
life. :.
The Memphis police have so far re-
covered that they can knock old gray
haired men down and kick them in the
ribs.
A western inoraiist thinks it is easier
to. run a needle through the eye of q
camel than to hang rich man in New
York ~. $50 ...,r
The Plattsburgh Neles Item would be
pleased If hard times could only be
postponed Until no scarcity of money
exists.
There Is no considerable excitement
IL. of
San Juan, near the southwestern corner
of Colorado.
A discussion as to whether it is posi-
bic to live on 81, 200 a year las been
raging for some weeks in the New York
San. .-.-..
California papers predict that iron
manufacture will before very long be
one of the leading industries of that
state.
Nashville advises unemployed work
ing men in New England to emigrate to
southern plantations, where help is
needed.
A wealthy man in Titusyille, Pa,
gave his wife a terrible beating for con-
tracing bills at stores for the necessaries
of life.
About half the population of AshVille,
n. c., is in jail for counterfeiting, and
the other half Will be indicted for pass
ing the money.
Amherst College has Just received a
valuable collection Of elastic models IL
Illustrating both human and comparative
anatomy.
There is intense excitement regarding
the ncwly-discovered placer mines in the
mountains northwest Of San Rafael,
Lower California.
Mount Vernon. o., contributed over
500 for the relief of the Memphis suf-
ferers. No town Of its size in the coun-
try has equaled this.
When Susan B. Anthony attempted to
vote in Rochester she wouldn't own she
was a female, but persistently declared
she was citizen.
Red Cloud wants hundred white
squaws for his braves. Here isa chance
for young women to 90 West and grow
up with the country.
'Death lurked in every corner Of that
darkened room-Satan howled at every
cFeyice," is the way they report the
death of saloon-keeper in Omaha.
An enthusiastic electioneerist who fell
early in the battle at Peoria was seen
about noon trying to coax the Indian
in trent of a cigar store to come up and
vote.
Most of the mustard sold by grocers is
not genuine. 1t may contain some mus
tard, but is composed mainly of wheat
flour, tumeric and sometimes capsi-
cum.
"What was you brought mp on z ask
ed a rough western judge OF q lean and
Tank eulprit. Brought up on a charge
Of vsgrancy, believe, your Honor.
Israel Brown, Georgia negro who is
to be hung next month, has sold his
body TO a doctor for SO, and is invest
ing the money In hair-oil, cuffs and fine
shirts.
Some of the New York aristocrats
have had to come down and practice &c
onomy, and they growl over a dinner of
''soup, fish, roast, birds, dessert and
two kinds of wine only"
One effect of the hard times is to
knock down the price of collins 20 per
cent. Any one who wants to die for his
country now can be stored away at rea-
sonable figures,
The young man whose funds enable
him to buy tin-foil tobacco, smoke ten
cent cigars and wear an African diamond
pin in these times, neesin't be ashamed
if he is $40 behind on his board.
E. D. Mason, President of the Yer
mont Dairymen's Association. is vain
glorious over the prize which his cheese
won at Vienna over the puffed-uP chees-
cries of Holland and England