The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-02-24
Gleanings and Gossip.

mackenzie VILLAGES book on Russia,
whose third edition has chased closely af-
ter it's first in England, is published here
by Henry Holt & Co., this month, in octa-
70 with TWO maps for 81.
A new style of earrings has small bell
attached as the pendant. These bells tinkle
at the slightest touch, and are not popular
with young ladies who are engaged.
Frederick Sullivan, brother of Arthur
Sullivan, the composer, and neat actor in
humorous musical parts, has died as Jules
Perkins died, from sleeping between damp
sheets at an English provincial hotel.
In ancient story we are told
That Midas, touch turned anything 10 gold.
But we, to-day, stranger thing behold
Men turn TO anything when touched with gold!
-ScTibnfr for March.
"What does your mother do for living,
little boy?" Justice Otterbourg of New
York inquired of an eight year old urchin
who had been arrested for begging in the
streets. "She gets drunk and has the rheu-
matiz, was the culprits answer.
Nine Janausckek has declared that she
will never appear in classical character
in the west again. When she played Me-
dea at st. Louis, the audience seemed to
consider the play in the light of comedy,
and laughed during the most tragic passa-
ges.
An old fellow of GO who called on his
young sweetheart at San Francisco, recent
ly, was bounced upon by the girls land
lady and locked into room and guarded
for hours by the poker armed family, till
the girl paid up her overdue board bill.
Robert Bowles will have TO remove his
American exchange in London from its
old quarters after March. The lease il ex-
piring, aud the landlord not only raises the
rent, but asks $4,000 premium for a re-
ncwal of the lease. But Mr.. Bowles will
doubtless relocate somewhere near Charing
Cross.
If one believed in the transmigration OF
souls, one might easily credit the idea that
the immortal part Of deceased peacock
had taken up its residence in Fanny Daven-
PORTS "comely FORM" "Comcly form
there is the whole thing in a nut SHE'LL
4 IV0men'S Letter in tile Neio HGUen
Register.
Alexis has been struck by the simplicity
of American manners. He went to the
theater, the other evening, previously en-
g8ging a negro hackmRn to take himself
and suite to the wharf. At the conclusion
of the entertainment, he was approached
by the darkey, who said, SIS you dc iuke?"
On being answered in the affirmative, the
| sable Jehu remarked, "Well, sir, de car
| rage am waitin."
An eminent New York physician, who
has attended many cases Of the peculiar
fever resulting from visiting the centennial
| believes that the disease was caused by the
presence of formites in certain articles on
| exhibition, which had been brought from
some Of the worst plague spots on earth.
and says he has fears that other types OF
| fevers, hitherto unknown 10 us, may fol-
| low as result of the exhibition.
Miss Ann Oliver, the first girl graduate
of the Boston theological school, does not
find the ministerial air of Passaic, N. j.,
over copgenial The other pastors ignored
her Methodist charge In the Thanksgiving
and week of prayer union meetiDgs, but
she has her revenge, for she engaged
| Amanda Smith, well known colored evan
| gelist, and the two are carrying on a re-
vival that is the envy of the ungallant
parsons.
They tell story of a man at Chicago
hotel, whose room was on the top floor, the
bell in which was out OF order. After
wrestling with it half an hour, he went TO
the window and collected crowd on the
street below by waving "A pillow-case.
When multitude of fellow citizens had
collected he shouted loud enough to be
heard in Omaha "Some of you fellows
60 to that Office and tell them to send up a
cocktail to me !"