The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-03-05
Gn General.

Salvini is at Havana.
Brothers-in- law Judges.
March ''camc in like lamb.
Chicago claims 430, 900 people.
Engaged for the next set-IIens.
The ''hog crop in Minnesota is good.
The legal price of a kiss in Milwaukee is
twenty dollars.
Patrons of IIusbandry- Young ladies'
boarding schools.
IIumbird, Wisconsin, has had a meeting
of 'old settlers"
The Duluth free reading room is opened
on Sunday afternoons.
Down east lumbcrman don't consider it a
compliment to be called poor fellers. "
A sure sign of an early spring is cat
watching hole in the wall with lie: back
up.
The death rate ON English railways
during 1872 was equal to the slain in battle
during the Crmean war.
A Kansas newspaper thinks Illinois legls-
lators have their brains at the wrong end,
inasmuch ms they wear No. hats and No.
II boots.
| The st. Louis Globe heads its columns of
| local news ''St. Louis in Spllnters," which
/ leads Chicago journal wickedly to re-
mark, THAT has always been the trouble
with that village.
An English paper asks why ladies should
not be admitted to Parliament, for "A miss
is as good as Mall any time, and the great
| opponent of the church and state holds his
seat without opposition.
After reading the account of the Duchess
of Edingburgh's wedding trousseau we may
safely assume that, though she may not be
able to speak English fluenty, at any rate
she cannot want address.
New Orleans is excited over treasure bur
! led in the business part of the city, and at
| night small gangs OF men may be seen dig
| ing up the sidewalks and eXGayating at the
street corners.
A question from Punch Minnie I'm
quisitive shild)-"M Mamma, you told me
that ladies should always be first. didn't
you p Mamlna-"Ios, my darling, GER
tainly." Minnie-"Then. if you please,
why wasn't born before Willie ?"
The Milwaukee brewers have raised the
price OF beer to twelve dollars per barrel.
The saloon-keepers say ''it makes holdings
out" and will continue to sell their lager at
five cents glass, big schnit, little schnit,
root hog or die.
Don't tell child You will do anything
for it unless you intend to keep your prom
Use. A strict observance of this rule may
save you the agony of seeing your child be-
come a liar If you say, ''Ill skin you
alive? goand skin it though it brings tears
to your eyes.
1t is said that IA vein of gold bearing
quartz has been found on Butte Island, in
the Firth of Clyde This is the first known
case of gold occurring IN SiW in Great Bril-
TAIN although placer gold was known to
the ancient Britons, the localities being eN-
hausted long ago.
a Nevada Judge, after the jury had been
empanellcd and counsel ready to proceed,
pulled out revolver and judiciously re-
marked, II any man goes frolicking around
the courtroom during the trial of this case
| shall interrupt him in his career The
strictest decorum prevailed.
A Nebraska Judge, not long since, con
viCte1 and fined man In the following
MANNER There being no evidence against
the prisoner the Judge declared he knew
something of the case himself Where
upon he solemnly administered the oath Il
himself gave his testimony, and convicted
the prisoner thereon,
A selfish Pennsylvania who loves the
smell of cigars, but whose stomach wont
let him do his own smoking, keeps on hant
a machine which pulls away on cigar ol
pipe, and puifs out the fragrant flavor II
fine fashion This, too, when he might
make lots Of loafers happy by inviting
them to do the same thing in the conyen
ti0nal way
The authorship of the poem, "CurfeN
Shall Not Ring Tonight" which was pub
lished in the daily Adcertiser some weeks
since, is ascribed TO Mrs. Rosa Thorpe
now of Fremont, Ind Hsr maiden nam'
was Rosa Hartwick, and at the time o
writing the poem-1S67- she resided a
Litchfeld, Mich correspondent, how
{ ever, AYERS that it had become popular il
England before the date at which Mrs
ThOrp claims to have written it.
Texarkana, Texas, is about seventy-fiy
DAYS old, built in dense forest. 1t is 10
Gated nineteen and half miles from Full
ton, Ark. 1t now numbers over 200
bona fide citizens, and there are 200 build
ings going up. There is general ticks
Office; two railroads, two express comp II
les, two telegraph lines, and forty saloons
a 1t is called the Enchanted Village of til
Lone Star state, and bids fair to outshn
its older neighbors.