The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-02-09
MORNING. FEBRUARY g. 1877.

ton thus giving 1t at first thought the APP
pearance as If the prayer were addressed
to the pupils, not to the Deity and recalling
the newspaper correspondents comment
upon the prayer of Edward Everett when
an Unitarian clergyman, that 1t was "the
most eloquent prayer ever addressed to a
Boston audience" 1t Is claimed that the
collegiate education received here equals
that of the average colleges of the nation.
One evening this school was startled by
the announcement that Dom Pedro would
be there the next morning at seven o'clock.
Seven o'clock in Washington to most Of
the people except the poor is almost fab
ulous business hour, but breakfast was
hurried up and all were agog to see If they
could not hear the swift, travelling emperor;
the teachers began to ask the questions of
the pupils--that was what Dom wanted to
do; the teachers said the scholars had not
studied in the back part of the book that
was the very part from which Dom wanted
to ask the questions the lupils wrote an
swers on the black board 80 quickly and so
well that Dom was gratided. Some men,
bers Of congress present said half congress
could not have done as well. Dom ques-
lions very small girl, gives her his
photograph and plants a tree as memorial
of his visit. How wildly all the incidents
of that visit of the Brazilian will remain
in the memories of those deaf mutes.
North of the city, on Meridian Hlll, is
Wayland Seminary, for the education of
colored preachers and teachers, some
ninety pupils are there, some are married,
one OF them is forty-five years old they
are of all colors from Ethiopian black to
the blue eye and brown hair; some of them
are table-waiters for their board some are
hanAanFno, tbn cohnO1 IL 80
established in the south by the Baptists
principal, Rev. G. M. p. King OF Maine
exercises in defamation, reading aud sing
ing, interesting; girls read burlesque
| darkle sermon and gossip; men declaim
| speeches for the Union; singing rousing /;
but the way the disclaimers exercised them
selves trying to pronounce correctly Cha
| rydis, exploits, sincerely, ETC., illustrated
| the peculiarities of the African mouth and
| good nature. King said that some who
| felt sure they had had a call to preach, he
told undoubtedly they had heard call, but
| the call was meant for some body else.
Che darkie pupil had heard his Episcopal
ian friends eulogize the liturgy, he came to
| King and wanted to know what a lettdTqy
was.
| The treasury building, chiefly of Maine
| granite, OF the Grecan-Ionic order of ar
chitecture, twenty-eight rods long, with
some 200 rooms, costing $G,000,000, ex-
cites admiration externally by its vastness,
solidity and simplicity; in the interior, you
easily handle $30,000,000 in $780,
600 bills you can see an old
continental congress bond for $500,
dated 9th Of February, 1777; yon can
see photograph fac simile of $15,500, ZOO
bill signed by the register like any bill, fol
| ha rnnaixaI 60, l.,
Alabama claims; in one small room are al
bonds pledged by all the banks of the ma
ton, some $409, 600, 600, among them those
pledged by the Rutland banks; in one large
room you see all employed printing the face
of bank bills-the backs are printed IL
New York-in another room the number
ing is done with a machine that by an auto
matte process cannot number two alike
this department has employed 900 clerks
a week ago 1t had 1900 or 1900.
1t was pleasant last winter-no, thi
winter, which lie it2 1t is SO spring-like /
seems as if winter had passed, for the bud
are starting ready almost to burst-to g,
} into the botanic garden and see banana
growing and tropical plants so thrifty ant
bright ; red blossoms 30 brilliant; outdoor
ivys so vigorous, indoor plants and flower
from Australia and the tropics so summer
: like A negress was washing the aloes
banana leaves six feet long, two and a hal
wide; tree ferns, fau palm two feet il
diameter at the base, and three feet iron
the ground only one foot in diameter, it
entire height ten feet, stems shooting GU
and up Six feet, then come the fan-lik
:, leaves. A sage palm only three feet hig
y yet two feet in diameter at the base on
t tree thirty feet high, yet its green, vegets
: BILE looking trunk only two inches in d
ameter; hat palm with its coarse hal
u, covering; such queer names, the fern tree
u the wool tree, the cotton tree, the drago
r tree and the "God tree" The conservl
: tories are heated chiefly with water in pipei
Some plants thrive with no artificial heat
simply under glass covering.
1t is told that guest called at Delmon
(; cos waiter brought him one of these II
r significant dots of butter; the guest recall
the waiter, he wants a clean plate waite
, says, you have one; no, the guest say
B there is q grease spot on it. This stor
@ was told to distinguished man here thre
l. times, then he clapped his hands, ha-ha-e
and said, see it now. II. II.