Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-11-03
Varieties

Omnipo.cace furnishes strength.
Wiz and humor belong to genius alone.
Shark bones are exhumed in Minnesota.
hundred miles away from any water.
Some one recently tried to set fire to the
Governor house at Sacramento
\ new waterproof cloak, of boiled silk,
lined withub5er has been Invented.
Cincinnati is excited over the discovery cf
a female deek-hand on "a steamer.
Papas viii look black when the bills for
Jet ornaments are presented this winter.
DR.. Greeley went to sleep in church at
Rochester, Minn.
An indianna boy lived TWO days after frlc-
turing his skull 80 badly that large quan-
tity OF the brain escaped.
The Mayor of Macon, Ca, offers a silver
service to the prottis. girl who Will appear at
the state Fair in homespun.
Several independent females in Early
county. Ga, are reported to have lett their
husbands 10 order to avoid starvation
Mr.. Thomas Mast. the well known carica-
turis; is a resident of Elizabeth, and a COM
muter on the New jersey Railway.
Riches ought to be used as a means to some
end ami no. to be lavished On every oeca-
sion.
We may judge ofmen by their conyorsa-
ton toward God, but never by Gods dlspen-
sations toward them
\ private sorrow may overcome a man,
who could brave hundred battles, or bear
accutest physical pain VIII iout murmur.
Virtue will catch as well as vice by con-
facts; and the public stock; Of honest, manly
principle will daily accumulate.
When once iniidelity can persuade men
that they shall die like beasts, they will soon
be brought to live like beasts also.
If fhapTiness means absence of care and in
experience of painful emotion. the best secu-
rites Of it are a hard heart and good diges-
ton.
After having been run over by a long
train Of ears, an lrishman deyOutly crossed
himself and remarked that he !" wouldn t
run another risk ike that for tin dollars"
An exchange says:-The extraordinary
person who took the Florida census put the
number Of Indians down at two. He lacked
only two hundred and seventy-eight Of being
correct
A fellow feeling Old LADY
"Guard, DO you allow smoking in tins com
partment?" Obliging Glard-'@ law ,weel
if name O the gentlemen object, ye can tax
bit draw O. the pipe"
Mr.. Unwin, farmer ~ De Kalb County,
Ohio, resisted the servin 2 Of a process with a
pitchiork lately, and We = fatally shot by the
constable. Unwin was an Englishman, and
had lived III De kalb C,ounty several years.
lie had the reputation of bruiser.
Almost everywhere we see an alarming
tendency in the chur n to coalesee with the
world iu its haste to be rich. to see K popular
ity, to engage in its light and airv amuse-
ments, TO substitute outward ceremo. " for
heart work, to ignore the injunction OF the
great apostle Of the Gentiles.
The great difference between men-b =
tween the feeble and -pOweriul-the prea,
and insignificant, is energy, invineibe deter
minatiOn-a purpose once fixed upon, and
then death or victory. That quality will
compass anything that is possible in lie, and
no talent, no circumstance, no opportunities,
will make man without it.
A man has not risen very high, who ex-
pends his energy only in scoIning and con-
tempt for the evil. That OK will not grow
very fat and strong which spends its hours in
the pasture field horning ard seraping up the
thissles, to the neglect of filing his stomach
with the sweet and nutritious grass. And
SO in the church, the men who boast they
can scent Oat heresy in the very hair Of II
mans head or in the cut of his clothes, are
very lean and miserable saints for the most
part.