The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-25
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Russia appears TO have more Of Turkey
than she can easily digest.
II Vanderbilt's sixty millions had been in
gold it would have weighed only l2O tons.
A child has been born to the mayor OF
Montreal, Can, and the aldermen are pro-
viding a silver cradle.
The largest swing bridge in New Eng
land has Just been finished at Newcastle.
1t is $50 feet long, and the center pier
weighs 1900 tons.
Why is it that a man cannot eat a quail a
day for thirty days2 There are bets on it,
and attempts with failures and successes
under difficulties.
An Irishman, on being told to grease
the wagon, returned an hour afterwards
and said, 1--WE creased every part of the
wagon but them sticks the wheels hang
on
There have been up to the present time
thirty-ore reliable accounts, by as many
eye witnesses, of the Bennett-Mlay duel,
and all different. Thus we are slowly get
ting at the facts.
'Lqd'es and gentlemen said an Irish
manager to his audience of three, ''as there
is nobody here, I'll dismiss you all the
performance of this night will be repeated
tomorrow evening.
The only thing a woman can never for
give her husband is for giving her moth
ING to rcproach him with.
can laugh at the man who follows wo-
men, but wnen he n to following his
own wife it is no laughing matter.
Polite census onlciAli u Paris-Any child
rcn, madame2 Lady queslloned-I have
never been married. =. G. O.-EXcuse me
but that is not answering my question.
The court, severely-Prisoner, this is
not the fret time you have been here. You
nave been convicted six times Of vagrancy,
twice Of theft, once of--The prisoner
Your honor, let's omit all these irrelevant
details aud {. me to business.
A gentleman in a stage coach asked the
driver what building that WIS. The driver
replied "ItI' the Unitarian church" I'm
itarian - said the genllemsni "and what
is that 2" 81 don't know" said Jehu; "but
| believe 1t Is the opposition line"
Lady-'Well Tibhitts, and how is your
son John getting on 2 Nurse-"Oh, he be
getting on first-class, thank'ce, mum. He
told US yesterday as how he'd been and
Joined one o those ere burial societies.
30 he's provided for all right."-London
FNn.
When Nine de Sevigne heard of her hus-
bands infdelities, il was through the inter
ested malice Of her cousin, Bussy-R abutin,
who was in love with her. He proposed
thai she should seek to be revenged 81
will go halves in your revenge, for, after
all, your Interests are as dear to me as my
own She quietly replied; 81 am not so ex-
asperated as you think"
Bayard Taylor spoke OF the face of the
Greeley statue in Greenwood as being
TUNED toward the city which Greeley so
much loved. Iii is turned in the direction
81 Coney islaRd, q city chiefly inhabited by
clans. These bivalves Mr.. Greeley hated,
and once when a dish of them was brought
him for lunch he arose and calmly remark
cd 81 could kill the man who put those
ella ms there ~
"Why, laws. honey, Il you here yet !;
amt done gone for and died p ono, ma'am,
Tee here fur sure, but Use had an orful
time Odd yer hab de ycllum fever? p
NO, wuss dan dat" "Nhat dat Wuss
dan dc yellum fever? Wat did you hab 2"
''Why, | hab de %carobolics, - said the other,
with a luGubrious look and a sniff of the
nose. She he'd been disinfected out of her
house .-SagaHOh Nocs.
Seniorcss translatlng-"Wir sind Won
beincm Munnesherzen sichcr.' ave are
sure Of every mans heart" Professor
'Not correct. Try AGAIN Seniorcss--
"We are cafe in every mans heart Pro-
fess~or-"Hardly, Senioress (blushinq)-
''Ne are sure Of no mans heart PrOtes-
sol. -"Corrcct.'
At the recent examination for teachers
certificates by our county board, one Of the
exercises was 'Dettne hyperbole, and
give an example To which one Of tine
lady applicants responded az follows "a
hyIcrbolc is an eXaggeration OF the truth,
used 10 illustrate wit or humor. Example:
The train running between Single Springs
and Latrobe goes with such speed that the
kiss left on the hand of Mr.. Watkins by his
Placerville girl was not dry before it was
shaken by his girlat Latrobe. -" PL9cerriHe
(Cal) Dcmocrat.
Mr.. Spurgeon relates the following story
Of Billy Dawson One one occasion Billy
was preaching about David's encounter with
Goliath; ard after piCturing wildly the
challenge of the Philistines and the def.
ancc Of David, he took out a pocket hand
kerchief, and having made a sling of it, he
put IN an Imaginary stone, and flung it with
such apparent reality and force that Just as
the stone LEFT the sling, Sammy Hick, the
village blacksmith, foirly carried away by
ms feelings, shouted, "Ihat's right, Billy;
now hoff with ia ed %
The latest thing out in mothers-in. law /:
She had succeeded in marrying her son, and
naturally undertook the management of his
household, Presently the son died, but abe
continued to advise, direct and worry gen
orally her daughter-in-law Then the
daughter-in'iaw married again, but still the
old lady insisted on bossinr things' a
friend essayed to convince her that eho
could have no possible right to interfere
That the new husband was nothing 10 her
"Nothlog7' she cried; che nothing to me ?
Why, am | not his stepmother-in-law on
his Wife's side2"