Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-02-21
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The Cecil Del, Hhig says The rich man
with a whip, and the poor man with hoe, is the
Democratic idea Of the millennium -
Emerson describes Plato thus 50 He was all
Europe he was one he was two, and not other
wise This lucid description is fully worthy Of
the author Of ''Brahma''
Hot water springs ale common, but there is
but one hot water river, (the Gulf stream, and
that runs through the ocean. If it did not run
regularly or if its water were to get cold, the
green island of Erin would change its nature
even more than its name, and become a Green
land in title and a barren one in fact
a genius in Newark, New Jersey, has invent
cd a steam man, about seven feet high, which
stumps about like live Yankee The inventor
gets many letters. Some Of the writers wish to
hire the man on a speculation. 4 Chicagoan
thinks the most profitable work to which the
thing can be put viii be farming on Illinois
prairies, and proposes that it walk 70 Chicago on
wager \ Pennsylvania orders pair, pro-
posing to repopulate his place Five women
write, ordering cast-iron husbands, and one gen.
toman sends for a steam wife, provided the ma
chine does not talk.
The Saturday Rerielo asserts that in all lite
rlry and social record there is no instance Of a
humorous woman. 1t says: Women are witty,
caustic, cynical, but never humorous. For hui
NOR is as often its own butt as otherwise but
who can conceive of a woman laughing at her
self, much less melting others to that entertain
ment, The nearest approach to humorous
writing by women has been perpetrated by Mrs
Stove in some Of her essays, and by Miss Evans
in her novel, ''The Mil on the Floss"
Louis Napoleon has never, during a single
year Of his administration, made a satisfactory
report Of the state Of the treasury. a large an
nual deficiency, TO be supplied hynew loans, has
been the uniform statement Of his Minister Of
Finance. The years Of peace have been scarcely
less disastrous than the years Of war. Theyears
Of general business prosperity in the empire
have produced no change in the national ezche-
quer. The disease has become chronic, and not
even the financial genius Of VI. Fould was ade-
,Iuate To it, cure OF course no country can be
called prosperous, whose expenditures constantly
outrun its revenues
Hon. 7. F. Plunkett, representative from Pitts
6e to the Massachusetts, legislation, is the orig
ip,l Z the Senator in the Dodge Club Pa
pers In Haryer'4 .NagG-iae. The Watch
man nm. tRgfector tells bow he was nominated.
His rival u the caucus WAS John Merrill, and as
a nominate was equivalent 70 election, the
contest WAS dent The first ballot showed a
tie vote Who v.Ipon Charley R, said, in
his usual of-ba. IS manner, Boys, there's no
use in going thro, On all this fuss again. Let's
toss I'D a cent and lnas decide who shall he the
e,ndidate.'' The ncus accepted the PROPOSE
ton, and Charley, r'oducing cent, tossed it,
CRYING, 8. Heads for Iunkett, tails for Merrill
The head was up, and f1unkett was nominated
and elected After the election one Of the
knowing ones said to a Merrill man, Char
hey played sharp trick .on you fellows that
was an old cent which he Away uses at the club
it has a head on both sides
His Holiness the Pope, has made 4 venture IN
10 he question Of female dress in the Eterna
rit. He has ordered the Cardinal Vicar 10 IS
snc 10. rec in which he complains that the Ro
mans soon, , forget that church is the housed
God and saw. that 50 probably the cause Of thi
i.+o r.o f,,,,.,' In the conduct of the women
who when they 20 to church, dress as if for
theatre or a fashionable promenade " The Car
dinal Vicar, in publishing the decree announce
that women with extray agant headdres'''S
shall in future not be admitte' to the commune
table
The London Saturday Rerielr decLares Rita
alism to be - the great modern result Of lhe Par
sons wife" 1t says g Ritualists hois, tn
standard of clerical celibacy, Woman has lol
since made her parson now las of Old with he
doll her pleasure is to dress him. \ new religi
Gus atUaosphere surrounds her life when the yer
work of her hands becomes halowei in its pu
poses. The old crochet and insertion--we u
words to Us more mysterious than intelligible
become fat, stale and Improbable by the SIDE
the book-inarker and the eolored stole; and
futter of excitement stirs even the stiffness OF
life which is sometimes Extensively still at
sight of the new chasuble with ''aunts n
lace. you know, DEAR sewn about it. HoWe'
grey an existence may be, and the tones Of J
like this are naturally subdued, it stiA cherisl
within a warmth and poetry Of lis own; and
poetry Of the parsons wife breaks out in We
nents and decorations
\ TING CASE IN RHODE IsLAND.-ln W
aerly, Z. l., Sunday, the Rev. Frederic De
son, Pastor of the Baptist Church, and
Rev j ?. Hubbard, Rector of the Protests
Episcopal Church, made an exchange IN
cordance with previous announcement, e.
occupying the pulpit Of the other. Both h
ses were very full. Rev. Mr.. Hubbard
been admOnished by his Bishop not 70 ad