The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-22
Bric-a-Brac.

Every couple is not pair.
Borrowed clothes never fit.
Idle folks have the least leisure.
The Parisienne is a slave on throne.
Hope is good breakfast but bad sup.
per.
A nod from lord is breakfast for a
fool.
For men, love is a story; for women it
is history.
/ Loves masquerade has caught more
women than love itself.
If one swallow does not make spring,
take two swallows.
Mrabeau said: Modesty has its sins and
a kiss its innocence.
An ounce of mother wit is worth a pound
of book learning.
Napoleon said Kings and husbands be-
trayed are the last to know 1t.
For genuine photographed gem CON-
mend us to the man who wanted to hear
from his friend ga keshanly."
A little man observed that he had two
negative qualities; he never lay long in
bed and he never wanted great coat.
The love of eccentric women is deadly
but some men get used to it as Mithridates
did to poisons. = Arsene Houssaye.
Why are the fond glances mother casts
upon her baby like Turkish cavalry? Be-
cause they are mammy-looks (Mamelukes).
A reason for calling-Visitor, (naively),
swell certainly never dreamt of finding
you at home on such lovely afternoon as
this"
A man may forget his business, his fami-
lxr nj al la oh Of h,,f
he always remembers where he got that
counterfeit bill.
A lady, on separating from her husband,
changed her religion; beng determined,
she said, to avoid his company in this
world and the next
Lord North declared of the generals sent
out to America by the horse guards of his
day, 81 don't know what the enemy will
think of them but know they make me
tremble."
A little three ycar-old woke up the other
morning, and, seeing the full moon from
the window, innocently remarked: 81
should think it about time for bod to take
that moon in
$50 way from the stove" said his faith
er, ''the weather is not cold" The little
fellow. looking up at his stern parent, de-
murely replied, 81 amt heating the wealth
err; I'm warming my hands"
A gentleman advertises his willingness to
exchange a cork leg for revolver. This
is the nearest approach to the old law of
retaliation we have seen for long time. 1t
isn't an eye for an eye-but it's leg for an
arm.
A man found four boys playing cards on
| the hay-mow, and was going to give them
Sits" when one spoke up: 1--WE want
playing keerds. Tom Testers mother is
dead, and we were up here showing him
the pictures on the keerds so he wouldn't
feel lonesome
Aunt Emily (who thinks that two is COM
pany and threes none)-"I thought man.
| ma told you before she went out to 90
down stairs for the present, Mabel" Ma
bel (who thinks three better than one)--
"Well and so did, but | didn't find the
present, so here am again
Orfila, the chemist, was asked at trial
if he could state the quantity OF arsenic re-
quisite to kill fly. Certainly" replied
the expert, Shut l must know beforehand
the age of the fly, its sex, its temperament,
its condition and habits of body, whether
married or SINGLE widow or maiden, wild
over or bachelor.
A Nevada woman recently knocked
down seven burglars, one after another.
Her husband watched her from the top of
| the stairs, and felt so brlmful of battle that
he couldn't cool off until he jerked his
eight-year-old boy out of bed and "whaled'
him soundly for not getting up and helping
his mother.
How is your church getting on 7" asked
a friend of religious Scotchman, who had
separated in turn from the KIRK, the Free
church, the United Presbyterian and sew
eral lesser bodies. Pretty weel, pretty
weel. There's nobody belongs to it now
but my brother and myself, and I'm nae
cure OF Sandys soundness.
When disheveled actor rushes across
the stage with his hands clutching his vest,
and bowls, "Me ha-a-a.r-t is bairsting," 1t
is then that an unappreciative audience be-
| gins to think that the price of admission is
twenty five cents to high. 1t knows that he
will ring in something about "the wynd''
before his paroxysm subsidies.
Friday, in one of the front boxes of the
opera, great lady, all the more decolletee
that she was Illuminated with diamonds, was
vexed ut the persistent staring of man in
the stalls. ''Don't blush" | said she S
probably diamond merchant" at is
that which makes me bush," she replied.
II hate to be esteemed at my true value. "
Il Arsene HoussaYe. .re mls
In a Third avenue car, yesterday, boy
made sudden grab among the straw,
caught something, and, as he Strengthened