Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-02-14
CTRRENT NOTES.

The English papers publish, with great salts
faction, Feuian riddle that has just been con-
coctei. The problem is My first, when he
makes my second, calls himself my whole, and
the solution is-Patriot,
The number Of bones in a man, includ-
ing 81 teeth, is 30, as follows, viz; Of the
head 90, trunk G8, upper limbs Ga, and lower
limbs 60 There is said to be the same number
in woman, with the addition Of 49, pins
Punch has caricature which is making
sensation. Louis Napoleon Is holding the Pope
over an abyss by a slender cord. Al around
are red shirts (Garibaldians), believing: 8. Let
him fall r' NO" replies Napoleon, that
would make too much noise; I'll let him slide
Everything goes farther than it used to in old
times Even the velocity Of the Gulf Stream is
reported by the nayigators to have recently been
greatly increased, and the currents along the
Florida coast are said to be so strong as to draw
steam vessel upon the reefs. This is supposed
TO be the result Of the recent commissions Of the
earth.
There is often a good deal Of humor hidden IN
der plain and unpromising exteriors. A very
grave divine Of Boston being invited to read one
of his peculiar productions before his people. at
an evenings entertainment, appeared at the ap-
pointed time and place last week behind little
E5rl- fsf1 1rsgtl eF,l Il
button hole He makes no response to the in
quiry Of his friends, what the dickens hewas
up to on that occasion
One Babcock, postmaster and renegade, and
follower of Andrew johnson, etc, was called
upon unexpectedly in the Democratic State Con-
rention in Connecticut, the other day, to make
speech. In referring to Presidential candidates.
he said he was for the best man-whether he be
English OF Connecticut, or Hancock, Pendeton.
or Seymour, or Sheridan, whose bugle blast YOU |
have just heard [great sensation -ah what
did say, Sheridan No; mean Gen. STAN
berry" Here he subsidized
The telegraph informed US lately Of most ex
traordinarY steamboat accident on the lIississi,-
pi. 1t appears that a steamboat carving 4 Va
liable cargo of sugar and molasses and several
passengers careened while turning a Bend. and
her cabin slid off into the rushing current with
its living freight Of ladies, four of whom were
drowned, while the boat itself, minus the cabin.
rightel, and was lost moment aftewari by
striking on a snag. What sort of cabins must
these boats have that can slide off like loose lum
her when boat careens to one side?
An appendix to webster's Unabridge! Die
tionary will speedily be necessary New words
are being coined every day. g Fightist' is the
latest cut. 1t is fresh from the Western mint.
In Detroit, divorce is termed "uahitchmeat"
What is the vernacular in Chicago for the same
process we don't know but at a recent trial
here the jury rerdicted not guilty. A new
PAPER was recently announced in New York as
: the mouth-piece of the female sufrageites. -
As If any woman ever needed any other
mouth-piece - than her own y "Dicken-
ssque is applied to particular style of reading
7 writing. And the little girl who, on ap-
reaching crowd, when walking in the streets
18th her father, said, Papa, now look out that \
gu don't get pick-pOcketed, - has made valua-
e contribution to our language