Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1869-11-05

Horace Greeley has been appointed Professor
/ Of Penmanship in Union College
/ Isabella does what she can to occupy si1t,
rooms in a great hotel at Trouvile, and payi
/ so 900 a month rent
This is Theodore Tilton's last: / lady asked ,
gentleman how old he was He replied, What
you 10 in everything" Whist was his age? NJ
The Delaware Indian word for love il =" schim-
elendEmowitchewagan This will account for
the remarkable prevalence Of lockjaw in tina.
tribe
Forrest boasts thst he has lived down his de-
tractors Any man can live down his detractors
if he has the patience to wait until he has died
out Of the public interest.
Simmons. late of the Harvard crew, ha, gone
to Heidelberg to pursue his studies, having gone
as far as American colleges can take him. He
got as far as the English colleges could take him,
but lid not arrive strictly on time.
The Empress Eugene, it is said, is going to
take on board two hundred barrels at Jaifa, to
be iled with jordan water subsequently and c!is-
trituled among the cathedrals Of France. In
her innocence is this woman going to try to 60
to the Jordan River by sea-
The war between the Patti-tes and Nilssonit.s
Is raging as extensively as ever in Paris, Some
Of the latter are now advertising in the papers
that marble bus;s and portraits Of Adelina NAV
be purchased at exceedingly low prices at GER
tain places. The Patti-ites have begun TO retail
ate in the same manner.
Srnc people seem naturally born 10 good luck.
Persons resembling the Napoleous can hear Of
somo-hing to their advantage by applying at the
1uile-ies Eugenie has developed decided
kindness for parties purporting to be Legitimate
children Of the Bonapartes, and puts them on
her pension list with fond and trusting alacrity.
The famous duel between Paul de C.ss.cuac
and Gustsye Flourens is to have an epilogue.
Belgian fencing master, who is an ardent De-
mo,rSt, has challenge the reactionary Cassagnac
to fight duel mort with him In his letter
TO tsssagnac, be says he believes that the latter
has IT length met with man who knows how to
fence. Casssgnac has not yet replied
4 contribution was recently taken in one Of
the churches in Northampton, Mass. and on the
day following man. who counts his property
by hundreds of thousands, called on one Of the
elders and said - | made a mistake yesterday. /
and put into the box ten cents, when / meant 10 |
put N five cents - There is an individual WHOSE 1
soul will be overlooked at the Last Day, if the /
weather is cloudy.
Mrs. Scal6eld. Of Chicago, has pearl, inherit |
Il from her German ancestors, which is SO large
hat that jewellers tell her its value is above the
means of any one in this country, and she is 60
ng to exhibit it. Can people who can afford such
property as tnat, afford to 70 into the cheap
how businessl Could not she prop up her natl se
lightly by selling ii for a couple of hundred
housand dollars or SO and dragging out the re-
nslnder Of her days in transformations poverty,
The little Princess Felicia, said to be the small
st girl Of her age on the Continent, is still the
-reat senFation in Paris. She is only fifty cen
meters high. On her arrival in Paris she was
taken to the Impress. who put her
nto her workbasket aud carried her to the Eupe-
or's room, The girl was placed on Napoleon's
on which she promenaded and dane
I'm While, and closed the performance, to The