Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1870-04-29
NUMBER A.
PERSONAL GOSSIP.
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al Cannes, at the villa Of Paul Feval.
Prince Alfred will publish a record of his
voyage to Australia, China, Japan and India.
Garibsldi uses ''alas" 500 times in 100 pages
Of his novel
Eight hundred and seven buildings are at
present in progress Of erection in New York city.
The number Of corsets imported into the Unit
ell States in 1868 was about one million dozen
The experiment Of running street cars with
condensed air works well in New Orleans
Olive Logan began a lecturing tour at Tren-
ton, New Jersey, Monday evening and will con-
tnue 1t to Denver. Salt Lake and California.
Rev. Newman Hall writes from Jerusalem
that his health has improved beyond his expec-
ta.ions.
There is q heavy freshe, in Kennebec river,
and it is feared that the dam at Augusta will re-
ceive still further serious injury.
Figrro -ays that legal popularity Of the
West Is that all the lawyers are judges, and
none Of the judges are lawyers.
Wyoming ballad runs -
Nice little baby. dol't get In a fury,
cause mamma gone 70 set on the jury.
Wisconsin gentleman celebrated his par
doning out Of penitentiary by robbing bank
the same night
Mark Iwains "lnnocents Abroad and Nav
erick' Life Of Raymond are to be reprinted
in England.
james Lewis, a c0mpositOr in a London print
ing office, has fallen into a chancery estate Of
. Slj,0OO.O0O.
An uncle Of Riel, the Rel River leader, was
arrested IN Montreal last Sunday evening on the
charge Of being drunk.
Splrgeon says he has 1900 members on his
church books, and If one Of them should get
drunk, he would know il in a week.
The Messrs. Schmidt, owners Of extensive
vineyards near Davenport, Ia, have imported
ot OF spsrrows 10 protect the vines from insects.
The Commercial Bulletin has discovered
that a barrel Of -four WILL make 3l4 rolls, which
sell at five cents apiece.
The Mississippi river pirates are making
trouble, and barges now leave St. Louis armed
and prepared for attack.
The burning Of all in Gouge-eye Gulch.
Nevada, recently compelled the removal Of the
prisoners to B0btailed Grizzly.
A Virginia girl who nursei wounded Con-
Tolerate officer back TO life. has Just forwarded
to bis new bride the bullet cut from his leg.
A Connecticut editor wants revenue cutters
r0ughs bound for prize-hght.
A Boston lady was recently observed trying
TO regulate her timepece By marine compass
IN the window Of a nautical instrument store.
Over eight hundred thousand dollars have
been invested in residences at Newport, R. l.,
by strangers since last sumner.
The father ofthe Welsh fasting girl has been
committed for mauslaughter, and the medical
men concerned in the aTair have been acquitted.
Gen. VIM. S. HHlyer, former member of
Gen. Grants staff, Is said to be engaged in Eri-
ting the life Of the late Secretary RaSlins.
The grandson Of Gen. Berthier, who arrested
the Holy Father under the first Napoleon, has
enlisted in the army Of tie present Pope.
Miss Elizabeth Garrett has been appointed
one Of the visiting physicians Of the East Lon
don Childreu's Hospital, England.
Lluis Nuhlbach is highly incensei at the
rspi decline Of her popularity a novelist in
the United States. In her salon she always
speaks Of the reading public in America 10 dis
Paraging terms.
Mrs. General Gaiues has applied to the Leg
stature u Louisiana % pass act enabling
her to settle the New Orleans claims which the
courts have already decided in her favor
Mos. Of the buildings erected on the burned
district in Portland Ne, don't begin to pay fair
interest on the outlay, and the city must be in 8
bai couiitiin financially for years to come.
Young ladies are eugsge1 as assistants in
the museum os comparative Zoology, at Cam
bridge, and they are most attractive additions
TO the collection.
Nir Hamilton the rev Senator from Texss,
is said never 10 have smoked cigar, taken
drink or kissed q woman. The lobby think him
a delightful curiosity.
Professor Morse, the teegraphic inventor, Is
now nearly eighty years old, ami it Is proposed
20 present him with national testimonial.
The telegraphic operators are At the heal Of the
scheme.
The corners investigation Of the suicide Of
farmer in England showed that his fields had
been 50 overruu by the game rabbits Of his lord
" neiEhbor that his crops were entirely destroy
el year after year.
The Warden Of the View Jersey State Prison
has sll lady visitors take down their back hair
in bis wife's bedroom, in order to prevent them
smuggling tobacco in the chignons to the
prisoners.
Roman Catholic church at Wilmington,
m recently raised $1,000 by a lottery, at
which Presbyterian elder and Sabbath school
superintendent acted as judges, a Methodist
superintendent drawing the prize.
Mr. Beecher is not getting along very rapidly
with his Life Of Christ. He Is bestowing great
care upon 1t. however. and those who have seen
portions Of the manuscript declare that it Will be
much the finest snd most important Of the
authors works.
O'Reiny Dease, member FOL county L0uih,
brought down the House Of Commons, the other
evening by warning toe government to "a look
the uuclean thing in the face and boldly apply
the axe TO its rot
! Canton. Ohio, has the oldest editor in the
United States, probably in the world. His name
is John Saxton. and he has edited and published
the Canton Repository for ffty-fye consecutive
years. He is now eighty years Of age, and has
never been s day absent from his sAnctum dur
ing his long editorial life.
The New York Herald says Col Jim Fisk,
Jr., evidently means to make the militia regi-
ment he has just been elected commander Of "a a
mere body-guard foI the corporation he con-
trolls" Two hundred Of his railroad employees
are TO join at once for this purpose The super
cilious and dictatOrisl way he treated the off,
cers gives force to this suspicion.
Miss Vienna Demorset, young lsdy Of New
York who is said to have developed remarkable
talent for musical composition, is now engaged
upon the score Of an opers, the hbretto for which
has been written by two noted critics Of the
New York press. 1t is based upon Tennyson's
- Princess
Pollard, the Southern historian, since recsnt-
ing his views on the colored question, has been
made the recipient o endless abuse by the press
Of the South. He is denounced as "unf4ith-
ful to all chivalric Instincts - panderer to
Northern praises" - conceited popinjay in
search Of profit from Radical publishers"
- base coiner Of lies Sc.
The London Lancet. the highest authority in
its line in England, speaks with much sdmira-
ton Of the Massachusetts Board Of Health,
quotes at length from the opening address Of its
chairman, remarks the comprehensive views of
American legislatures shown in the found
ing Of such board, and c)mmends several Of
the features and plans Of the organization to the
imitation Of English sanitarians.
The Queen Of Holland having stated to Mr..
Motley that she should like to meet those Of the
literary men Of England whose acquaintance
she was not likely to make in Cour; and fash
ionable circles, the latter gentleman hsstened
to comply with her request hv inviting them all
tn dine Al h;s house With Her Majesty. The
Queen is one Of the most learned women Of Eu-
rope. and 4 great f4vorite in the intellectual
cety OF Paris. There WAS peculiar propriety
in the Queen Of the Netherlands meeting the
litsl afi Of England al the house OF The histOria
Of her country.
The schools Of New York offer course Of
study to their pupils Of both sexes which a.
n)st equals the curriculum Of some Of our
Universities open only to male students. For
instance. girls Who have been graduated al the
grammar department Of these schools may pur-
sue a supplementary course Of study That in
cludes analysis ant composition. rhetoric. an
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literature, algebrS. thorough quAdratic squa
tons, geometry. natural philosophy, ani astro-
nomy In some instances, free haud and ,inesl
drawing, music. and the modern languages sre
sdded TO the studies ordered FOR the higher gram
and supplementary grades
A melancholy and medicinal letter from Paris
informs the world thar the immortal family has