The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-08-17
Gleanings and Gossip.

A Maryland horse was scared to death
by the noise of a railroad trai2 few days
ago.
A western paper heads its police court
report BLASTED by Blade" Blake being
the ZANE Of his honor.
This is the way p. T. Barnum puts it
81 hadn't the remotest idea of lecturing
when l came over, but have a wife who
can spend a hundred pounds as fast as | can
make, so thought | might as well"
Cardinal Antonelli seems to have been a
kind, or at least an indulgent father. He
spent upon his daughter more than two
millions of francs, and now be is dead she
wants something moro to remember him
by.
Recently, while the president was at the
Washington schutzenfest, a factorum, wish
ing to do the handsome thing, said MIR.
President, | vos glat you komed. We
yoost vas keepin' some water on ice for
you-eh :"
The San Francisco Cinnamon do not pro-
pose to allow themselves to be Slaughtered
like lambs by the city hoodlums. Since
the recent crusade against them, "China-
town" has become complete arsenal, pro-
vided with every description of weapon,
from Henry rifles down, aud the spirit of
indignation is rife among the bland Mon
golians. Several hundred of the more tim
id celestials hurried blck to China by the
first steamer during the recent iiotous de-
nomstrations against their race
The Kelly motor, the greatest invention
of the age, the most absolute secret of
modern times, comes before the public
again. The recently collapsed circus firm
in Georgia, that was hiring and travelling
on Barnum's name, has among its assets
40 shares of Keely-motor stock, "valued
nothing" 1t will be remembered that the
same stories that told the vastness of the
motor dropped incidentally the fact that
the stock had all been picked up in rich of
fees by fellows inside. This menagcre
association gives it.a rather wild cat air.
Towing on the ocean ought to be pay
ing business at the rate of compensation
awarded the National company for taking
the Inman steamship City of Berlin into
port. On her voyage TO Liverpool in June
it will be remembered the Berlin broke her
shaft when 600 miles from Queenstown.
The Spain took the disabled vessel in tow,
by request, and safely reached port. The
Inmens offered $4,000 salvage for the serv-
ice. The owners of the Spain thought the
sum was not sufficient and applied to the
courts, which have awarded them $50, 0C0
English people are devoted horsemen,
and the ladies' as well as the men take the
highest pleasure in galloping after the
hounds. Recently an English lady, who
enjoys what is considered an envlable
fame for skill and daring in riding close to
the hounds, and who is also pattern wife
and mother, has announced that she will
risk her life no more riding on a side-sad-
die, but in the next season will ride Ia
clothes pin. Her announcement has set
the whole fashionable world to talking,
since she is woman of spirit, and i. ia be-
lieved she will do as she says.
A boy, while fishing in Wisconsin lake
the other day, felt nisble, and, drawing
his hook toward tho shore observed half
gallon fruit can trailing on the bottom.
Having secured the vessel, he was greatly
surprised to find that large catfish had
taken up his abode therein and remained
until his increased Dimensions did not adj
nit of egTess. He had evidently Topped
around in his Tin parlor until q hole was
made in the rust-eaten bottom through
which his tail protruded. In this condition
the catfish had power to navigate from one
place to another, and must have been re-
garded by his aquatic neighbors as kind
of iron-clad monitor.