Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-09-29
Varieties.


Counter Observation-Disclosures clerks
The evening post-The lamp post
Fancy dress-The mantle Of night.
An alarming felture-A cannon e mouth.
Wit does no, take the place og knowledge.
Charity is an eternal debt, and without
limit
All the prisoners in tine Salem IN. j. Jail es-
capped recently
The Northwestern woman's suffrage congen-
ton will be hell at IuliSnapolis November 10
and lG
The Freshman class a Bowloin numbers forty
two. SIX students have been added TO the soph-
omore class.
Why il sn old maid the most incorrigible Of
sinners Because she hiss always lived q mss.
If a man gets up whea day breaks, can he be
said to have the whole day before him
new style of bracelet is Of tortoise shell
made very wide and ornamental in front with a
large monogram in gold.
The inmates Of Deaf Mute Asylums ought to
be well developed musoularly, if familiarity
with dumb bellies really tend to that result
" Figures csu't lie says the arithmericisu
Bat this does no. apply 20 the figures Of some
lsdes nowadays.
Itis Of no advantage TO have lively mimi. if
We are not just. The perfection Of tle peulU-
Inn is nor TO 90 fast, but TO be regular.
An lows doctor amrses himself with a tosl
two inches long by one and half broad, with
tail ike an alligator, and with 1900 small
horns all over bic body.
Though ten thousand tongues should chant
our praises, they would sound unhsrmouious 10
our ears, If conscience join not in the choir
Why DO men not wesr corseta Because
joins sh, having surrounded himfe. by whale
bone .or three days, found that be could not
stay.
" Gently tAs devs ar, DER me stealing, as
the msh said when be hal five due bills p-e-eut-
eI 20 HIN at one tine
The d" youth OF the period" las discovered
tbs; it is impossible 20 make brick without straw
if slerry-ca55lers are 90 Be used @ m5.s,ea ones
clay.
Conscience is a sleeping siAn; We may iuli
Eim into a longer or shorter slumber hut h.s
starts are frightiul, au1 terrible is tue hour
when he awskes
An unjust sci lieitioa is like a barbcl a-r5w
which must be irswn backward with horrible
anguish. or else will be your destruction.
There is no funeral s1 sal 70 f3.,oR a. the
funeral oi our oEu youth. when we have heea
pampe,ing with fond desires, ambitious hopes,
and sl the bright berries ths- hsug i1 poison
Gus clusters over the path Of lite
An inquistiye chap asked soldier with sn
empty sleeve. " how be lost his arm 90. " Ina
thrashiug machine,' answered the soldier.
'' Nere you running the machine s' Sc Well.
No ; General Grant bed charge
When We are young. We are ssyish'y employ
81 in procuring something whereby We may live
comfortably when We crow Oh and when We
are ola, we perceive i- is TOO late 20 1--we ss Ws
proPosel
Anna Dickinson anl Olive Logan Will be their
own agents this yea When v1usn gets 70
that she can talk Ike g mag, it Is proper thai
she should also act as gent.
4 remarkably dirty man, soliciting his friends
slyce how be should dress himself for 3 mas
q-eraic, received the following answer d" Only
jas- wash your tsuds and put on p clean shirt,
aud TIL be hanged if suy one will know you
The story Of The Jsmare ty the recent hurri-
cane al s.. Thomas vas grossly exaggerated
Hardly any Of the houses were hurt. and blsi-
ness was not suspended antigua AMI 81. John
suffered s0ue.
In Chicago. iuri1g August, there were ity-
nine free, causing an estimated loss of S4a,-
55s insursnc5s, 735,033. Nine Of these dres
were purp0sely set, ami two others sre supposed
20 have been So. Two wee due o. explosive
burning aui3s.
A family, ia Northern New YORK, consisting
Of father, mother, thee boys snd dog, hal
SET TO the other dsy, one Of the boys pommcl-
ins the father, brothers ani dog AMI the moth
er pommeiur him.
Rings were employed by our ancestors for
currency, prior 20 the invasion Of Julius Cesar
Sometimes taey we're used singiy bIt ofereI in
chains
An attscae Of Gen Crooks command. which
is noE hunting Indians in Arizona, speaking Of
the hitherto almost unknown regions where it is
operating. ssys that the country there is beauti-
ful, stocked with abundance OF pines and oaks,
plenty Of grass snd streams Of clear water with
enough fish Cor even Oh Izaak Walton.
" You hsye tenderness" wrote Pope 20 Lady
Mary Nortiey Mouague-anl nothing wss ever
more beautifully said" you must have II it is
the yeremanation Of rooi fsIse and virtue ;
the finest m'nl-, lie the finest; metals, dissolve
the easiest"
4 method of Distinguishing genuine red wine
from the false, according TO Cotteni, consists in
mixing fifty pl-ts of the liquor to be tested with
six parts Of nitric acid Of LAO specific gravity,
ami heating the mixture to 1909 or 200 :.
Under these circumstances natural wine ezpe-
] iences no change after the lapse Of al hour.
while ths which has been srufcislly colored
loses its tint in FIVE minutes