The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-08-01
Facts ana Eanctcs.

\ rem of purest raise serene is st. Louis
journal parlancc for going few better at
druwpokcr.
The fame of "Oll Prob reaches to the
land Of the pyramids, and Egypt meditatcs
u system of signal service.
\ New York paper calls the new post
Office and the 1ri6uae building a par of
architectural spcctaclcs.
It. Pauls cathedral, in London, though
forty years in building. was carried to com
plcton by one architect, one contractor
and one bishop.
\ male Indian, dressed as squaw, is
frequently seen in Virginia city. He is
compelled to wear female attire us a pun
ishmcnt for cowaidcc
The witty wife Of II noted practising
physician advised her husband to keep
away from the funerals of his patients, as
it looked too much like tailor carrying
home his own work.
Some men take too much money out of
their business to eXpcnd in household cX-
penscs and lavish display, and speedily
bring themselves to the verge Of bank
rnptcy.
The Chicago lnter-Ocean has been an
nOuncing that Elder Knapp was on his
way 10 Silver City, Idaho, but it is rever-
emily reminded by its exchanges that he has
already reached the Golden City, and is not
likely to remove,
The first photographer has opened his
saloon in Truckee, New, and has been shot
bya miner, who insisted on having his pic
tulc taken by lamp-light, as he was going
away carly in the morning.
\ cadaycrous. melancholy looking man,
in a suit of threadbare black clothes and
battered silk hat, excited considerable in
terest by rising in a ladies' cabin of a
Brooklyn ferry boat and solcmnly obscrv-
ing there are very few red-eyed widows
nowadays y
As indicating the dcplorablc condition of
public sentiment in the west, it may be
stated that two Chicago loafcrs, arrested in
a drunken fight, gave their names as II. w.
Beecher and +. Tilton, and that the Judge
fined the former ten dollars, and the latter
only five.
''What should man do, asked a gentle
man of lady, "when he has an opportun-
ity to correspond with a charming woman,
but, being bachelor, is little afraid of
such business?' 81 should. say to him, do
write" answered the lady.
The JIOrM thinks that il was hardly ne
cessary for an investigating committee of
Congress to go to Little Rock to discover
that, in certain instances, the friends of
Brooks have maltreatcd the friends of
Baxter, and that, in other instances the
friends of baxter have maltreated the
friends of Brooks.
William Penn and Thomas Story, travel
ing together in Virginia, being caught in a
shower of rain, unceremoniously sheltered
themselves from 1t in tobacco barn, the
owner of which happened to be in, thus
accosted them, You have great deal Of
impudenCe to tresspass upon my premises
you enter without leave. Do you know
who | am = To which was answered,
mo 'Why, then, would have you
know that | am a justice of the peace :"
Thomas Story replied, "My friend here
makes such things as thou art he is gov
ernor of Pennsylvania" The would-be
great man quickly abatcd his haughtiness.
As usual, the Chicago Times had to get
up stunning head for its account of the
last fire there. Its predecessor, on the 14th,
had, however, drawn heavily upon the SEN
sationalist who ''heads" such articles. Still,
this is what he produced "Satans Work.
The Old Fellow Trying to Demolsh Chi
cago." "a Clear Case of Incendiarism De
veloped Yesterday" "Destructon of Two
Business Houses in the Centre of the City
mo Doubt in the Minds of Insurance Men
that the Building was Fired The losses
Foot Up to about $500, 600; Fully Cover
ed by the Insurance" 1T is Suddenly
Discovered that the Late Fire Ordinance is
Null and Void" ''Also that Norton's Op-
inon on the Removal of the Santes is
Worthless. Insurance Companies Threat
en- TO Withdraw from Chicago" ''Incen-
diarism. Loss of the Dodge Block"
Recent legislation in Mississippi has
created numerous new counties These
changes have proved confusing to some of
the old residents, and one, Sandy Brown.
who appears to have suffered more than
his share of the bewilderment resulting
from this cause, finding himself suddenly
in the new county of Sumner, has sent the
following plaintive protest to the Winona
Adr0Hce. "Betsey an me has been Twin
in this house an ON this creek for fifteen
year, an we have had now three pair twins.
which is purity hand besides the others
what's not twins and altho haInt never
moved, six of the children has been born in
Choctaw, four in Montgomery, and the
rest in Sumner An as the county lines is
lying about luse and no body don't seem to
know how the land lies nor how the letter
reads, and sometimes Betsey an me is won
side OF the line and then tother, want to
adyerts my land for sail as Betsey an me
never nc. which side the line the children
may be born on