The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-09
Notes and Comments.

Buildings, it is said, can be erected in
New York this year at twenty-five per cent
less cost Than last year.
Young ladies who wish to be fashionable
must put court plaster spots on their faces.
You might rs well he out of the world as
10 be out OF fashion,
Somebody sent TO a lady in London an
Easter egg which contained an African
scorpion, by which interesting insect the
lady was bitten so tiat she will probably
die.
"'You may talk" SAYS an xchange,
'about marrying an heiress, delicate hui
man blossom, fairy, an angel; but give
me girl like Nancy Terwilliger, who ran
out of doors the other night, and straddling
horse, yelled out: good night, old man;
I'm off for the spellin match"
In England there is serious apprehension
that the crops and forage will prove a fail
ure on account of the late frosts and gen.
eral backwardness of the season. In France
the same complaint is made. and in Russia
snow has taken the place of corn plant
ing.
The total bill for the entertainment of
the president and his cabinet at the Revere
House on the occasion of the late centen-
NAL was 5000 40. The banquet for forty
persons cost $1,000, and the bill for wines,
cigars, etc., was $43G So.
Count Enzenberg, formerly resident min
lister of Hcsse at Paris, is collector of au-
tographs, and has in his album three of I'M
usual interest. The first is of NJ. Guzot,
who writes, SIN the course of my long life
have learned two wise things-onc Is to
forgive much, the other is never TO forget
M Theirs wrote underneath. ga little for
getfulnese does not injure the sincerity of
the forgiveness" Prince Bismarck wrote
below these two sentences the following:
Il have learned in my life to forget much,
and to make myself much forgiven"
1t is said of the venerable Charles Tap.
pan of Boston, who died lately at Wash
ington, that when little boy in Northamp-
ton he was playing one day in the street
with a neighbours son, and six-penny
piece was found in the dust. The boys
quarrelled about the ownership of the coin
but young Tappan held it, and the other
boy gave in. Seventy, years afterward he
encountered his playmate, old and poor, in
Pittsfield, and paid him the. sixpence with
the accrued interest.
Mary Z. Aborns was advertised by her
husband in San Jose, CAL, as having left
his bed and board without just cause, and
so forth. Mrs. Aborns retorted in card,
In which she said that she had been mar
ried ten years, and in that time had cooked
about 10000 meals, spent $4,000 hours
over hot stove, borne six children, MIXED
cows over 10000 times, and performed 9th
er housewifely duties in proportion. She
add; 81 have drawn the picture very mild
ly. have made allowance for my sick
LESS, when have had help, something af-
ter the way that farmer would hire q
horse il his own was sick and unable to
work. / had nothing when | went there,
and nothing at the end of those ten years of
seryitude."
The late Mr.. Bateman had resided so
much in London as to have thorough lik-
ing for London living, dinners, hours, and
ways, but he always asserted his Ameri-
canism ''to the backbone" His theatre was
the first in London arranged as to seats "on
the American plan" Nothing pleased him
better than to import IN season crate of
canvas-backs, prairie chickens, and other
game, and then give jolly dinner to some
of his journalistic friends in London to show
what sort of superior meat the American
Caesars feed upon. In this particular re-
gard ne have bad no better American rep
resentative abroad since the death of George
Peabody.
Misfortune makes strange bedfellows.
The municipal auctioneer of Paris has scat
tered to the four corners of the world the
carriages of Napoleon ILL.,, and his house
linen the jupons of the empress, and the
toys of the prince imperial. 1t dispersed
similarly the bibci0ts of Rochefort soon
after was sold the portraits of Madame
Marrast, wife of the president of the con-
stituent assembly. One day group of
children were playing in the park of st.
Cloud. when carriage containing Louis
XVIII drove past rapidly-French mon
archs have weakness for furious driving
and injured little girl the king de-
scended, placed her beside him. took her to
the castle, dried her tears, stuffed her with
lolypops, and IN the evening placed in her
bib sixty thousand francs. Only think the
wicked creature, when she grew up to wo-
mans estate actually married the famous
republican, Armand Marrast, bringing him
for fortune the royal donation. Love is no
respecter of politics.