The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-16
miscellaneous Items

No French play will hereafter, dating
from Jan. /, 1875, be allowed to be acted
in Alsace or Lorraine.
1t is proposed to send out expeditions
from INDIA to Bentinck island and the An
kaman islands 10 ObsuiNo the eclipse of tho
sun III April next.
NJ. Emile Oliver, the ex-Minis.cr of Ma
poleon ILL.,, is studying art in Rome, where
it is understood that he is preparing a work
on the Sistine chapel
One of IIogarth's masterpieces, represent
ing "Strolling actresses dressing in barn, "
was destroyed by fire the other day at Lit
Teton house, near Staihes, in England.
1t was recently noted that a Massachusetts
town sent off nearly twice ms many letters
on Monday morning as on any other day,
showing how people employed themselves
durilg Sunday.
A favorte article offood with the Chinese
is the dried sea-slug, which is collected in
abundance. among the reefs, islands, and
bays ofthe east coast of the SOoloo seas and
of Palaw an.
In New Zealand the Office seeks the man,
and not the man the office. Witness n re-
cent advertisement in a local paper calling
for man to fill public Office, the salary
of which is 3 800 gold per annum.
The festival of st. Januarius was cele.
brated, according to custom at Naples on
Dec. l6. but this year, the Italian news
papers inform us, the blood remained firm
in its phial and showed no signs Of lique-
faction.
Mr.. II. f. Durant has spent $1,000, 900
on building, near Natick, Mass, a college
exclusively for the female sex, "every Of
ficer and teacher in the building, from the
president and professors downward, is to be
woman.
DR.. Glass, NOTED physician at the Oregon
state penitentiary, was attending TO one of
the patients when the man conceived the
idea that the doctor was trying to kill him,
and he inserted knife into the ''family
ply sician's" abdomen. At last accounts
DIR. Glass was lying in a dangerous condi-
ton.
The Sacramento Bee has this cheerful
item: "All persons contemplating suicide
during the next spell of gloomy weather will
bear in mind that the yarc locomotives
"Tulare" and "Gov. Stanford" are not
adorned with -catchers, and that by
patronizing these engines off destruction
success will attend their suicidal efforts"
A Roman telegram says that very i'm
portant discovery has been made on the
Esquiline Hill, con sisting of seven staues
In fine preservation. There is a remark
able bust of Commodus, several heads, and
many fragments. All these have been found
in one room not yet entirely excavated.
There are indications of the presence of
other objects.
ooh your nose is as cold as ice,' Bos-
ton father thought he heard his daughter
exclaim the other evening, as he was read
ing in the next room. He walked in for an
explanation, but the young fellow was at
one end of the sofa and the girl at the 9TH
er, while both looked so innocent and UNI
conscious that the old gentleman concluded
that his ears had deceived him, and so re-
tired from the scene without word.
The Inhabitants of Lappmark are COM
prising bitterly of the ravages made upon
the reindeer by the wolves. A flock of
wolves, moreover, has invaded Norway
from the Swedish side, and is at present
bunting the woods OF Gudbrandsdal. The
Lapps complain also that the reindeer are
making terrible havoc among the haysticks.
1t appears that in certain years, and often
when moss is most abundant, the reindeer
take fancy to hay, and show the most
mschieyous ingenuity in smelling it out,