Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-05-19
Good Qresa Ress

ROYAL HloG8AAHY FLysEp.
g4aeu Elizabeth is dead It doosu't
uase any matter how We eot the in
formation. This is none u our fight
this quarrel between the Associated Press
and i-s Iiva. We've received the uevs and
tlst's enough. She dieI two hundred and six
ty-al-It wears $40 the twenty fourth Of last
month. She survived until the vital -Ears hsd
fled. and then she saw IL wss no use resisting
the ilserutihie decree oi .lte, ami zo her unieJ-
tered sou, took jcs agAt into ,he mysterious
void, and settled down iu that bourne from
Th Cd ul Traveller returns unless be -as iais-
sion 10 j-r., cha.r- arour. and rap on tables for
the teleit of uelIuus and other icug-lsirei,
Uil-eyel 'uuaacs.
Queen I -lbetl wasa virgin vTgiu' on
seventy snd yet the fire CLEANED IS brightly as
ever 10 her cream-co.orei eye. aid the delicate
sheen 0f her uue.r tinted maroon nose contrast
"a IS lorciby as IA her youth with the aiaJsster
Of her brow AMI the plugs ~ her teeth were
lust az valuable as when gold was at 1856.
She had no small vices. She did Let smoke
or chew or teloag 70 the society for promotion
Of cruelty 10 animals And when she sF0re, she
never descended 20 the vulgarity of Horace
Gresly-Quaen Elisabeth didn't When she
used profanity, she gave it with finish e.e-
gance, delicate airy grace, and infused into it
"a luxurious absni.n. and rounded it off care
fully at the corners, and dressed il up with well
selected poeical adiecuves, 30 that It sounded
ike q s.r3n from some sweet singer, like some
singer strsining himself in fact. and she bsd
red hair.
Her cnignon vas burglar proof And ol.en. in
the dim twilight O! evening, whea the sun had
sull. to rest, when tle Western sky was flied
with tender radiance and ltmbeat lisht,and the
H....f. n-..af sr las nrH Ia
would play q few notes upon her harps,horl OF
write a Latin hymn cr an essay upon the 9sr.i-
son boiler. She wss supposed TO be the author
Of " Rock Ne TO Sleep Mother. - AMI " Beau;i-
ful SaoT, ard " Five O'Clock in the Morning"
But nevertheless she WAS very estimsble wo-
r1su, and with all her faults we love her still
better, indeed, than if she were still fooling
around.
Queen Elzlbeth was not proud. she always
insisted upon cleaning her own teeth, even If
she vas q queen end she always did it once q
week. every sunday morning, With heg own
tooth hr,zh. What lesson does il teach 70 those
who are naughty sud vain, and belong 70 the
bon-ton She never forgot that she was mere
rarisbgbie dust, sni that the sheep and the silk
worm wore her fine clothes long before she got
rbela. She read every sunday School book taat
taught these facts snd she once trod on Sir
Walter Raleieh's cloak to remind hin q them,
because ne was so set up with his new fancy
osssimeres. She said upon her death bed that
Lydia Thompson need net learn this lesson be
csuse it had 10 moral for those who oroWsed
round in Natures simple gar6
Queen Elizabeth was not sorry 70 die. Sac
foresaw that George F. Train was coming to
England. and she said to her physicians that
she would prefer the enduring peace Of i5e
cold and silent grave 10 three weeks ct George
aud the Alsbama claims controversy and the
Sehleswig- -Holstein question all a. the same