Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-07-25
IN GENERAL.

a Peoria man, whose daughter insisted on
going out evenings rather oftener than he
with his old-fogy notions thought advisable,
put gentle Opiate in her tea and when
slumber's chain had bound her, shaved her
head as smooth as billiard ball. She will
now tarry at home till her hair be grown.
The suicide of Thomas Orr, one of the
pioneers of Cincinnati, aged seyenty-eight.
who recently blew off half his head, on ac-
count OF an estrangement from his young
wife, had no very notable feature in itself,
but the remarkable intervals between the
ages OF two of his boys, one being sixty and
the ether three, is something rather unusual
in the fraternal relation.
Judge Fuller of Monroe county, n. Y,
has decided that husband who is under the
age OF twenty-one years, whose father did
not consent to his marriage, cannot be COM
PEELED to support his wife In the part Gu
lar case under consideration a boy of seven
teen who had seduccd girl was compelled
by her father to marry her
A secondhand furniture dealer on Michi-
gan avenue, Detroit, hung out n card, last
Thursday, inscribed buggy For Sale -
and inadvertently hung it upon a second
hand bedstead on the sidewalk, where it at
tracted much attention.
During the debate in the Massachusetts,
Legislature last winter, on the Sumner resO-
lutiOns, a member called for the reading, by
the Clerk of the House, of certain passage
Of scripture. There was perfect silence
while the solons waited for the Clerk to pro-
duce the Bible. The latter gentleman seem
ed to be embarrassed. lie searched every
where, but was finally forced to declare that
there was no Bible there For moment a
tinge Of sadness seemed to overcome the as
sembly; but this gave way to merriment,
when further search revealed the fact that
there was not a copy of the inspired volume
in the State House. \ page was sent to
borrow one, and when he returned the pas
sage was read, and business proceeded.
What would the Puritan fathers have
thought of such an occurrence As this?
An absent minded man in Tennessee used
roll Of greenbacks as a stopper to his
demijohn.
A lumberman up the Alleghany has a
trunk made of half-inch boiler iron, and in
scribed upon it are the following touching
lines to the haggage-smasher - Throw
and be damned"
\ British ofhcer who recently visited Sc
| hastopol says the town Is almost deserted
and in ruins. Shot-holes and dents are to
be seen in anything that remains standing
| very little at apt has been made at rebuild
ing the place reminds one of Pompeii
nothing bat stone walls and rooiess wrecks
Of houses.
Oshkosh has no very old living citizens,
/ hut when Chicago drummer gets TO blow
ing around about the centenarians he knows.
they lead him out into the village cemetery,
| by the ear, and silently point toa tombstone
ON which he reads, Jeremiah Madden,
/ aged l07 years, ) months.
\ New York Central railroad conductor
seized nobility dressed yonng fellow who
had dropped an insulting note in lady
l lap on his train. the other day, dragged him
1 from his seat and led him by the ear through
the train to the smoking car, where he bade
him remain. The passengers hugely enjoy
ed the young reprobate's discontinue
But few students are 50 fortunate a. not
to learn by experience that not many cir
! cumstances will avail in obtaining excuse FOL
neglected college exercises and, as a natural
/ consequence. a few conventional forms are
stereotyped, to be drawn on for all emergen-
cies. One youth recently, however, IN
/ huenced either by an unusual fit Of yirtuou'
honesty, or led astray by disregard for long
/ established usage, was 50 temerous as tC
send in rs an excuse for certain delinquen-
cies the unyarnished truth, "Staid away tC
90 to Circus - Of course, and very proper
( ly, the sip WAS returned, and IL tooiisf
/ sender unexcused Immediately he set t.
work to repair, if possible, the error, and OF
/ the principle. " better late than never.
sent in as follows - perceive the trutl
don't take Circus business Is played out
was sick. Respectfully" &c.-Ddrf
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