The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-09-18
In General.

Kentucky is going to abolish lotteries.
Victor Hugo's pen has Melted him $780,
900. = i
A Louisiana farmer has succeeded in
growing crop of tea.
They have barbe-curious way Of get
ting up mass meanings in Mississippi. ~.
A Wisconsin chap who eloped with his
mother-in.law has hanged himself.
The vegetable diet is the best to give
strength, if confined exclusively to onions.
1t is now believed that Donaldson's body
went down with the wreck of the balloon.
An Indian infant coughed upa brass pad
are still in its chest. 9Ia1a.
Boyle & Job is the name of a firm at
Hazelton, Penn. One partner tries the
patience of the other. .,..
India must be the opium eaters para
disc. Seven hundred and fifty thousand
acres of the drug are cultivated there. o. o
An indianapolis man had his brains beat
en- out with wrench the other day. lie
must have suffered ex-screw- ciatingly. q
The minister who divides his discourses
into too many heads will find it difficult to
procure attentive ears for all of them.
Turnips seven inches across, pulled thir-
teen days from the time the seed was sown,
are what the Kansas farmers are showing
A Florida alligator which swallowed q
corset lately isn't expected to live, and
there wasn't any woman in the corset,
either.
Carriers worth fifty dollars pair are said
to be much in vogue now, but as yet none
have been seen in our streets.-Richmond
Eng. ,o.,.o,
Last years reports (S74) show the dead.
letter office at Washington, handled G01,-
773 of the S00,000,000 letters carried in
the mails.
Old y-long-legs has a mission. He
has been observed to devour the Larvae of
the terrible potato beetle, and there are
prayers for his health. .......
A gentleman who hated cold weather
said SIT is one of the many inducements
to lead bad life that the dreadful place is
so comfortably heated"
A scientist has discovered a new name
for very old disease. He calls it ''emo-
tional aphasia." Those troubled with il
never open their mouth except TO eat OF
speak nonsense. $50 af
When Canada girl loves, she loves like
hand-engine going to FIRE. In breach
of promise suit the other day. it was shown
that a young ladylwrote to her lover eight
times per day.
When man wants to be mean and show
his littleness, he builds his garden fence st
high that no neighbours COW can more thar
look over it and feel her mouth water a
sight of the cabbages.
A little girl and boy, 8 or years old
were playing together, when sis fell dowi
and commenced to cry. Bub ran up ant
soothingly lisped: "Don't cwy! Thwear
Thwear! Thay damn"
At the funeral of q woman in Shawson
the other day, neighbor in attendance
feeling it necessary to say something sym
pathetic to the afflicted husband, kind!
observed: you've got a splendid day 70
the funeral"
The Boston Independent Chronicle TO
March ~, 1898, contained the following
marriage notice; CAT Bedford on the Sd
inst. Mr. Jas Wilson to the amiable Mis-
Dolly Glason both of that place, after
long and tedious courtship.
In the corrected version of Grip Val
Winkle," Schneider. the dog, is chained t.
a bush when the hero lies down to sleep hi
twenty years; and when Rip wakes up t.
his great surprise he finds poor Schneider
skeleton up tree, still chained. e...