The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-07-28
Facts and Fancies.

An affecting sight--Barrels in tiers.
When is a bullet like an OK? When it
grazes.
What is that which, though black, en-
lighteneth the world? Ink.
Men never believe others can do what
they cannot do themselves.
Why is peacock like the figure 0 1t
is nothing without its tail.
Why was there never an honest red
breast? Because he is always robin.
What nation is the surest of success in a
difficult enterprise? Determination
An Iowa saloon has for its sign the sim
pie and appropriate word, "Nose-paint.
Chicago has sixty fortune tellers, but not
one said, ''Git them engines ready.
The Commercial Bulletin says, The
Harvard boys are probably believers in the
provcrb, ''God sends meat and the devil
sends Cooks"
The Chicago Times remarks that 1.-The
cradle of liberty is about to receive some
new Stats Boston has appropriated $4,000
fol- the repair of Fanuel Hall"
And now that the book publishers have
effected a systematic organization, the OBJ
iects of their trade will be more binding,
says the New York Commercial.
Judging from the number of drowning
accidents this year, says the New York
Commercial, there are fewer people born to
be hanged than we had supposed
ale is so large" said Marseilaise,
speaking of big fellow" SO large that
when he happens to have cold feet it takes
fortnight for the cold to show itself in
his head.
Why will Americas emblem outlve
those of England, France, Ireland and
Scotland? Because the rose must fade,
the lily droop, the shamrock die and the
thistle wither, but the stars are eternal.
They are investigating their arms in
France, and have had "a special committee
sitting on the sword bayonet." \ special
committee sitting on the sword bayonet is
an impressive spectacle.
An old lady in Lancaster county, Pa,
recently refused the gift of load of wood
from tree struck by lightning, through
fear that some of the 'Huid' might remain
IN the wood and cause disaster to her stove
An Oswego paper describes fire by say
ing that ''thc red flames danced in the
heavens, and flung their fiery arms about
like a black funeral pail, until sam Jones
got upon the roof and dashed them out
with pail of water"
whats your business = said the magis-
trate of police court the other morning,
to prisoner. I'm an observationist,
YOUR worship" IAN observationst what
is that?" lone who looks around in the
daytime to see what he can steal at night,
if it pleases your worship"
The proyerb that "God helps those who
help themselves" was well paraphrized by
a little fellow who tumbled into fountain
and was nearly drowned, Pale and drip
ping he was put TO bed, and when his
mother requested the young man to thank
God for saving him, Young America an
swered, Il s'pose God did save me, but
then held on to the gwass, too"
A promising youth of nine summers, in
western Massachusetts, at school recently
relieved his overburdened mind as follows
':Lord of love look down from above,
Upon us little scholars;
| We have fool To teach our school,
And pay her twenty dollars"
A further effuson of talent was suddenly
stopped, as this precocious lad conformet
to semi-circle over the teachers knee
which position he occupied for five min
utes, to his great discomfort, viewing tn,
cracks in the floor,