Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-09-12
CURRENT NOTES.

4 Montgomery. Ala. paper says TINS has
been the coolest and most pleasant summer
ever known in Alabama. The thermometer
since the first of June ahas stood at an aver
age not higher than elghty-elght degrees,
and not a dozen times.above,that figure.
remarkable incident that happened
rbi, summer to the Indian cable, three
hundred miles long. between kurrachee and
Gwadur. proves that after all very strange
things happen in the depth OF the sea The
cable broke. and ships were sent TO repair
IL. They grappled it. but on winding IN
the cable unusual resistance was experience
ed a. if it were foul Of rocks. but after
persevering for some time the body OF an
immense whale. entangled IN the cable, was
brenrbt to the surface. when it was found
To be firmly secured by two and half turns
of the cable Immediately above the tan
sharks and other fish had partly eaten the
body. which was rapidly decOmpOsng. the
laws falling away on reaching the surface.
The tail. which measured fully twelve feet
across. was perfect. and covered with barna-
cles at the extremities. Apparently, the
whale was at the time OF entang lement
using the cable to free itself from parasites
such As barnaces, which annoy these anu
mals in that sea very much, and the caole
hanging in a loop over q submarine preci-
pice. he probably with a flip Of his tan
| twisted il round him, and thus came 10 an
untimely end.
The new printing press, which Hoe Co..
| have perfected at their works in London. j.
| described a. far superior 10 the buloeA
| (American) press OF q. the Nalterl English
| pres. and j. capable of printing -, 600
| sheets on both sides per hour. The London
| Dahl Tclegr0ph. which has the largest CIR
! culafion Of any daily paper in the world, /
! SupDlvinr itself with this machine. which
| costs about 500 900. Only two men and a
| boy are necessary Tor running IL; II lays on
| little sheets perfectly. and there l. none oil
| that .over-setting. a. the printer calls Il
| that j. the great objection to both the al
] ter and the Bullock presses. As With thoee
| presses. however the new Hoe pres can pc
worked only with stereotyped forms, is
cylinders being 50 small that the type can
not stand upon them
Anders0nviLe. Texas. was visited uy q
| preacher the other day for the hrst time
and the Inhabitants would have got up q
| horse race for his entertainment II he had
not'stopped them.
a philosophical Kentuckian who had but
one shirt, and was lying in bed while Tie
| garment was drying on the clotheS-line IL
| the ward. was startled by an exclamation
from his wife TO the effect that the calf had
eaten it," ''Weu, P" said the kentuckian,
with a spirit worthy OF better cause
well. them who has must lose.
In an action brought against the rccuptor
| for twentv-nlne hens and two ro0sters in
! Nerrimaek county. y H.. the attorney for
| the plaintiff in his printed brief uses the
| following language That the fountains
of Justice may properly filter the contamin--
| ating influence - lnadequateiy tolerated
| in the present practice HE court look
the fltering process under AMUSEMENT
| Chicago thinks - it lucky for St. Louis
| that her directory was finished before the
| cholera set in. Her cemetery l. growing
in proportion a her population j. de-
creasing.
Restored Chicago has now PIP churches
| in operation. s3 benevolent and other pub
lie societies. 80 Masonic and 10 other Sc
cret societies, not including industrial
unions. II newspapers, 81 railroad COM
panies. and 100 public streets.
| A Western paper says that along the
sidewalk the watermelon and the under
| taker 90 hand IN hand; typhoid fever sails IN
an invisible shallop on the lake OF the green
scum, and cholera morbus familiarity swings
upon the front gate"
\ Young German Of noble birth, whose
uncles and brothers distinguished themsel
yes in the Franco-Prussian war, in which
they were officers Of high rank. has been
sent TO the penitentiary Of Texas, at Hun
tersville. for stealing two watches from the
! clearinghouse in which he was employed
as a sculliOn.
A gallant son Of the Emerald Isle recently
married the beautiful daughter Of White
Cloud on the Missouri shore. The trous-
seau of the bride was very simple, consist
ing Of a faded calico gown which hung
loosely over her graceful form. The gallant
| Pat was robed in the same garment he had
been accustomed TO wear on duty on the
| gravel train.
At the approaching assembly of German
| journalists, to be held at Hamburg, Ger
man newspaper about 10 he started at II.
| Louis viii be represented through a negro
| gentleman. it, proprietor. He viii be
iay0rably known a. the only black journal
ist who has Yet appeared on the continent Of
| Europe. 1t l. sand that he visits Germany
in search of contributors.