Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-09-15
Notes and Notes.
Foot-Tads-corn plssters

Foot-Tads-coIn plssters.
The Saratoga droop Is the latest.
Oregon boasts Of an iron mountain.
Virginia has a doube-healed make.
white fawn hiss been slain at Shasta.
lows Falls has three thousand hog pens.
Italy trembles all over with earthquakes.
\ Detroit dog was killed by drove Of rats
Tea1esseeans are busy taking viii cat soslps
Several Communists have arrived in Saa
Francisco.
A Tennessee hymn, popular at camp meetings,
has 81 verses.
It is 20 dusty in Detroit that birds choke 60
death if they tty to sing.
A St. Louis man sWo7e vigorously The while
he WAS drowning
Areoeaily deceased Confederate carried bulle.
in his brain six years.
fyoa break Jour arm, don't use gin sling.
Lake County, CAL is becoming famed for it's
- mud baths"
Sheridan ami Mcdowell have been trying New
London CLANS.
The Chicago Post calls James Fisk, Jr, the
" Jem % the Seiza.''
OmshA people fish il & canon with 5000 feet
perpendicular walls.
Ignorance is the night Of the mind. but a
night without moon or star.
"Ifsll the world were blind, said an Irish
clergyman, - what a melancholy sight it would
be"
When has a msn the right to scold his wife
about his coffee When he has sufficient
grounds.
1t Is asserted that person, shaking with the
fever and sgue, can read first rate in railroad
car. The two shakes neutraize each other, and
the body is perfectly still
miser having heard 2 very eloquent charity
sermon, exclaimed-" This sermon so strongly
proves the duty Of aims, thu; ! have almost
mind to beg"
A young woman who arrived in this country
recently from Shetland, tried to smugee in
thirty bundles Of human hair. worth s. 600
but she wSs caugh in this neglec, Of duty.
A Cincinnati wife left her husband and join
ed travelling show The latter busted snd left
her 200 miles from home with no money She
had to walk back, snd now she can't ind her
husband. Text Tor Mrs. Stanton, on the Tyreu-
ny Of Man.
The delegation Of indignant Louisisnians now
ttNAUE lAt AltelAcilI al Long DrAECn. Is
called the " Warmoth' - delegation. Il is a
good name, for two reasons fret, because their
purpose is - war - and second, because like
the " moth - that fes a; the gss-light, they are
pretty apt to 20 away with their wings singed.
Eleven great men fifteen celebrated women
twenty-;hree extraordinary children thirty
two fine pictures a neE manner of cooking
oysters the best wsy Of making coffee grea;
improvement in the cultivation Of grapes ten
fashionable bcnnets and the substance of
bundled books, may be expressed by liquid IN
common use and of only one syllable
Marriages are occurring at the average rate of
one hundaed a week in New York about these
times. As the fall advances, the matrimonial
market will become still more lively. The cler-
gymen are reaping rich harvest, and the di-
vorce lawyers are rejoicing in the prospect of
unlimited business
My James is very good boy" said sn old
lady. but he has little failibgs, for none of us
are perfect; he put the cat in the FIRE, flung his
grandmother's wig down the cstern, nut his
daddy's powder-horn in the stove, tied the cof
fee.pot to JoSler's tail. set eff fre-crackers in
the barn. took my cap bohbin for fishing lines.
and tried to stick fork in his sisters eyes. but
these are only childish follies, and scarcely
worth mentioning"