Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-06-27
NEWS ITEMS.

| once called" said Theodore Hook.
- on an old lady. who pressed me so ur-
gently to stay and dine with her, that. as
had no engagement, | could not refuse On
sitting down the servant uncovered dish ,
which contained two mutton chops. and my
friend said, Mr.. Hook, you see your din
ner.' Thank you, a'm,' said /, bat
where 5 yours?
A fire at Columbus, Ga, was recently
stopped by the aid of champagne, the corks
from the bottle of five baskets of which
were blown out by the heat. allowing the
wine to flow out and dampen the straw. and
thus delay the flames until the arrival of
outside help.
Mrs Fawcett, wife of the distinguished
writer on political economy, was recently
requested to leave a free public reading room
in England, on the ground that it was not
meant for woman. Whereupon the plucky
lady carried the case to the public library
commissioners, and was informed that wo-
men have free right to use free reading
rooms and public Libraries.
An English school board in Banfishire re-
Gently settled prayer difficulty rather ad-
roitly. 1t is strong Catholic district, and
on the board are two f. scopalian clergy
men, one dissenting minister, the parish
priest and the factor. Prayer was proposed
The priest objected. The ministers agreed
to take it in turn, and to listen to the priest
if the priest would listen to them. The
priest, Modified, agreed to listen, but not
TO pray.
Bayard Taylor thinks the art exhibition
at the Vienna fair a very poor show and ac-
tually longs for American landscapes.
found no landscape" he says, g worthy to
be placed anywhere near Clifford and Ne
Entee, and Eastman Johnson's would shine
like gem in the !midst of it," Really, We
must think better of the American art.
Jersey cider will probably advance in
price this season, a. the grape crop in the
champagne country Of France is said to be
the next thing to an entire failure. The
English Winc Trade Rcrielr says that the
frost that scourgcd all the vineyards in
France in the latter part of April, when
snow and hail fell in abundance, has proved
almost fatal in Champagne.
The wife of Samuel Smith in Iroquois
county, Ind. recently presented he- hus-
band with four children at ore birth. All
are doing well. 1t has been proposed that
Congree be memoralized to present to each
of the babies a section of land, but a better
suggestion is that each member of the Smith
family throughout the Union send dona-
tion of dime or dollar, according TO the
financial condition of the sender, imme-
diately to the distressed parents, thus put
ting them in easy circumstances at once.
STOKES IN His CELL.-Those who saw
Mr.. Stokes when he was first arrested
would not know him to-day. He was then
slim, genteel In appearance, daintily
dressed, with hair black as a coal, and
nobby and natty in look as could be imag
ined. His long incarceration has told upon
him, but exactly in the opposite direction
has grown stout and rugged, and looks
more like man who has been yachting for
six months than he does like man who has
been in narrow prison cell a year and
half, and been twice tried for his life. His
hair has become decidedly gray. His face
is full and bronzed. He seems rugged and
hearty, and dresses in substantial garments,
such as are worn by young men in business.
lie has more liberty than his keepers. lie
spends several hours in the morning in a
promenade around the prison yard, which
is handsomely laid out with flowers. In
what is known as the Counsel's Room he
spends much of his time, receiving his
friends, and watching through his grated
doors the throng rushing in and out of the
prison. He has very large circle of
friends, ladies and gentlemen, and there is
scarcely an hour in the day when he does
not entertain some visitor. Many go into
his room. Most of the company talk 70
him through the grated doors. lie is in ex-
cellent spirits, and feels very certain that
after the next trial he will be at liberty.
His father, a gray-haired but energetic
man, is daily in attendance at the Tombs.
His mother, into whose soul the iron has
entered, comes down often, dressed in deep
mourning, and seems bowed with grief.
Ladies come up to the grating and have
merry chat, and seem to have no idea that
Stokes has committed great crime.-N
Y, Cor. Boston Journal.