The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-09-30
Gossip.

RUSSlp.
The Natchez Miss Democrat tells this
"reminiscences of our present attorney gen.
eral: 4
In 1889 or 1910 Mr.. Perrepont came to
this county as private tutor in the family
of the late John Gillespie, and spent some
time in his household. Mr.. Gillespie at
that early period of his life predicted for
him brilliant future. At the period of
his residence here Mississippi initiation was
at its very hight. Shinplasters, as they
were called, were in circulation, issued,
not only by every corporation in the coun-
try, but even by merchants, hotel keepers
and cross-road groceries. When the young
teacher was ready to leave the state, had
he received his wages in the currency of
the state, he would have found difficulty In
paying his way. But Mr.. Gillespie drew
upon small deposit of gold which he kept
in reserve, and Mr. Pierrepont was sent off
with hi, wages paid in glittering coin.
Now, young man, listen while we tell
you how to pop the question. Get your
June bug well cornered where no one can
overhear you, and then poke this conun-
drum at her "When will there be only 25,
letters in the alphabet ~ aAnswer-"When
you and l are made one" After that it isl
plain sailing. 900 =
The head of New York mercantile
house was Dragging rathersiargely of the
amount of businesses done by his "frm 2,
"You may judge of its extent" said he,
''when tell you that the quilts of our cor
respondence cost SO 900 year" "Pooh"
said the clerk of another, who was sitting
by, "what is that to our correspondence,
when l save $4,000 in ink from merely
emitting to dot the i's?"-$sss
gentleman who has thrifty pear tree
in an insecure place, put a capital imita-
ton of dog under it to vfrighten off the
boys. The other morning he went out to
find the legs and tail broken off the image,
and the body sticking in the ground and
labelled, "This ere dog feels sick"
A woman dressed in mems clothing Wis
tied variety show in Washington, and was
arrested. The policeman who made the
arrest is married man with several daugh-
tiers, and the moment he saw that woman
draw her foot up under her and sit on it,
he penetrated her disguise., Y.
How will this do for an elegiac =
While smoking on powder.keg,
He dropped a cinder down; Isl
Then rose he like a meteor,
To wear the golden crown,
Gone to meet the fellow who struck glycer1ne
can with sledge-hammer. Oh"
The governor of Arkansas has named
his son Poland Scudder Sayles Garland,
after the late congressional committee
whose decision kept him in office. Such a
wreath of names was never woven into one
garlaud before. 10
There is no life more exhs listing and de-
structive to beauty than that of belle In
society. 1t is not pleasant to say so, yet-it
is true, that the faces of many of the young
ladies in our large cities are ugly before
their time. Months of incessant dissipa-
ton, round dances, late suppers, nights
turned into day, all tell-their story in the
havoc they make in thesfresh tints and
rounded outlines of youth. There are
young women under 26,zthe daughters Of
parents in high position-young ladies who
flourish in every society column as bellies,
of course-elegant, accomplished and beau
tiful, who walk the streets roughed to their
eye-lashes. with close mask wells, through
which no one can trace the ravages made
not by timely life of exhausting and
unhealthy excitement. t.
The rage for fancy clicked and striped
hosiery is on the increase in New York.
Even gentlemen are now frequently seer
with socks clicked in lines extending
lengthwise from point above the toes
over the instep, to point above the ankle
Noticeable are some ofzblack silk embroi
dered in this manner, with lines of scarlet
blue, gold color and white; and the Sur
learns that a prominenta clergyman, wht
does not wear the scarlet cap, does wea
these scarlet-striped stockings, and they
are greatly admired by his fair parishis ner,
and pewholders. His0white hands are al
ways perfumed with ylang ylang, and hi
worshipers devoutly believe, when the,
approach the altar raiL where he cficiates
that they are inhaling the very odor o
sanctity. ~~ b.,
In the window of a store exclusively de
voted to ladies' fnery has recently appear
ed an article labelled the "New Dsgge
Fam" 1t is an ornamental bit sufficient.
formidable-lo looking dagger. sheathed 10 vel
vet, and with silver chain to attach it t
the waist-belt of the wearer. The fan
ineligible, but the dagger is puzzling
unless it may be intended for the prbtec
ton In travelling. A lady's toilet can b
made very expressive of her tone of mind
There was a certain style of head-d ores
much in vogue few years ago which wen
by the name of 'Follow me. my lad y an
why should not dagger worn as ap ior
HhtucHt 5uy Juob 40 ~f fJNs
distance, Sir; or your blood be upon you
own head, Sir9"
The Princess Domenica Ciarelli was LEI
widow, with two sons, and the elderidied
Almost crazy with sorrow, the prince| wa
ready to fight the men who brought tn
coffin, and protested they should not carr
away the boy. In an interval of cal1 tn
younger brother, left alone with the bod
and the coffin, resolved to cheat the me-
and help his mother to keep Domenico
lie hid the corpse in the closet and got i
the coffin himself. He was carried 10 tn
church without discovery; but at the churc
nearly sufiocated, he groaned, and the cof
flo was opened, but he died in little While
Nowthe mother is dead. All this in ParI
only the other day. ~
Rev. DR.. Cuyler says that the history
the song which Mr.. Sankey sings SO oifen
"The Ninety and Nine" is curious. ]
originally appeared in the corner of a
American newspaper, from the pen of Mis-
ETC. Clephane. When Mr.. Sankey wa
...~.~~fsbn Qaott;sh H;onlanJa t,o .L~IA