The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-03-15
Miscellany.

curious accident occurred in st. Louis
distillery. A warming tub, twenty -four
feet high by thirteen feet in diameter, filed
with water, burst with loud crash through
one of the hoops giving way, and the i'm
mense flood was loosened. A stationary
engine standing near by was lifted up bodily
| by the water and carried distance or
twenty feet. A thick stone wall was de-
molished as though it were paper, and light
err weights were thrown around like chaff.
Several workmen we're near by at the time
of the accident, and one of them was caught
and tumbled around very uncomfortably,
but suffered no injuries other than a thor
ough drenching.
Cold weather, it has been commonly be-
lieved, has an invigorating effect upon the
system, and, according to this theory, it
would seem that the present winter should
be unusually healthy. The contrary ap-
pears to be the fact, however. Colds, diph-
iberia and pneumonia have prevailed ex-
tCnsively. Such "long spell" of cold
weather ms we have had this winter seems
to be too great a strain upon the people of
this generation, however well it might have
agreed with our grandfathers and grand
mothers. Perhaps we are a degenerate
race but milder winters seem to agree with
us better than such severe ones as this is
Mr.. Leland Stanford, of the Central Pa
cific railroad, is about to build house in
San Francisco which will eclipse in splen-
dor the magnificent residence lately erected
by Mr.. Sharon, the newly elected senator
from Nevada, who, by the by, actually re-
sides with his family in San Francisco. Mr..
Stanford's house will be one hundred and
twenty-five feet square on the ground, and
the largest private residence in California,
and will be furnished inside and outside in
the most elaborate and expensive manner.
In the meantime the people of the whole
country are annually taxed to pay the inter-
est on the bonds Of Mr.. Stanfords rail.
road.
A young ten year old, who lives on Mid
die street, in the absence of his mother
from the house one day this week, improved
the time by inviting a neighbours boy in and
going through jar of doughnuts and can
Of California honey, after which he melted
quantity of lard and made sliding place
on the kitchen floor, winding up the per.
formance by singing all the hair off the cats
tail, just as his mother popped in the door
and the neighbours boy popped out, while
old Thomas making circuit or two around
the room made q break for the window 60
ing through large pane of glass and has
not been heard from since. That boy stands
up to eat his meals now, and the probable
ity is that he will not wear out the seat of
his pants this year by sitting on hard or
rough place. Waterford Advertiser.
A peculiar disease prevails among the In
dams in Humboldt, Nevada, and the medi-
cine men of the tribe do not understand it.
1t is something like paralysis, as those who
have been stricken with it are unable to
move their limbs, which are stiff and at times
painful. In some cases the eyes of those af-
flicted become fixed and seem to protrude
from the sockets, giving the sufferers a
frightful appearance.
The captain of a steamer which arrived in
Baltimore few days ago reports having
seen an arctic fur seal, weighing, at best
calculation, about one hundred pounds,
basking in the sunshine on cake of ice off
the mouth of the Rrppahannock river. An
effort was made to capture the animal, but
it eluded pursuit by plunging into the
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