Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-02-28
GLEANINg.S.

The snow Is so deep in Minnesota that the
washerw0men hang their clothes on the tele-
graph wires. finding them just about the
right height. In one place where the lines
cross the road, the level of the latter has
been 50 much raised that the wires bar the
passage, and the town talks Of proceeding
against the telegraph company for obstruct-
ing the highway. The lawyers have some
difficulty in finding precedents for the case
An old woodman was observed in Clarks-
burg. Mass, last fall, cutting away brush
for roads through his wood lots, and being
asked what he was doing the job for, re
piled, d" If we don't get six feet of snow in
the woods next winter, | ain t no democrat
His neighbOrs, since the immense fall Of
snow, have concluded that the old gentle
man belongs to that party.
Phrenology ~ an exact science has jGst
received rather a severe blow ut Topeka,
Kansas. 4 lecturer Of some pretentions
was holding forth in that place the other
night, when NJ. ". Reynolds, editor Of the
Parsons sur, a strict teet0taller, and one
Of the most aIpiable gentlemen of the state,
was introduced as Col. Jennison, the dis
tinguished layhawker and gambler of Leay-
enworth. whereupon the bump feeler pro-
ceeded to give him the following character
Dangerous man; keep pistols, bowie
knives and whiskey away from this man
will shoot as quick as cat under .favorlng
conditions would be a very desperate char
acter," etc Col. ,IennisOn himself was
next introduced ~ Elder Davis. well
known local preacher, and received the fol-
lowing clean bill " Is a man of extreme
mOdesty, large eonscientiousness, very SEN
sitiye, full Of sympathy and ready to die for
the right" The lecturer did not draw very
well the next night.
\ Detroit tenant harrows the soul Of his
landlord by posting a small pox sign on his
door, and then, when the former calls for
the rent, inviting him TO come into the
house and get it. The landlord has appeal
ed to the police TO clear out the house. but
.hey declined the service.
Steam engines and paid fire department
are slow death to iiremen's balls. For "A
years there has been one every winter in
New York, the profits going to the wioo
and orphans of the fremen /; but the public
interest and the proceeds have alike been
falling away for some years.-and now, with
the ball few weeks since, the series Is
given up.
Professor Alboni, of Naples, recently re-
suscitated a dying woman by the blood of a
lamb, the reviyifying blood being forced
thr0ugha tube into the arteries by the pull
satiOns OF the animal's heart.
Zuzoni. the famous Corsican brigand, re-
Gently killed in fight with gens-d armes,
was the ahlest of the brigands of that IS
land. lie had four times been sentenced TO
| death, yet his favor am ing the poor people,
and his daring courage, bafled the attempts
of the gens-d 'armes te catch him for five
years.
\ convict in the Statt Prison at Auburn,
\. Y, last week, deli berately chopped off
his right hand to escape work. Another in
the insane asylum, ran a knife into his eye
and cut it in pieces Il is answer tc ques-
tion why he did so W, IS g If thy right
eye offend thee. pluck II. out" Pious young
man
There is said tc be - floating Island in
Flagstaff Pond, Solnef set county, Me-,
which, from its appearance, must contain
several acres. The drivers of lumber are
obliged to hitch to it prevent its floating
down and obstructing the free outlet of the
pond when the logs arr driven past the vii
lage of Flagstaff into .he Dead river. Trees
of considerable size al growing upon the
island, and it IS really quite a curiosity. 1t
is supposed to have roken off of large
bog that extends aero s. the upper end of
Flagstaff Pond.
terribly fatal disc ase is reported to be
raging in Crawford ounty, illinois. In
Robinson, n town of { 90 inhabitants, the
deaths averaging two a. day, and thus far
no one once attacked as been saved. In
town of 200 inhabit ant near Robinson
fifteen deaths have @ ccur red, and on the
Goth ult. four corps, = w re lying in one
house. The disease is ca lied the black
cholera.
A single mad dog las done great deal of
having bitten larg e number of sheep and
cattle. These in II rn went IN, ID, and the
farmers, who, not u understanding the nature
of the malady, att empted TO do ctor them,
have themselves, it. is found, in Sc me cases,
received the poiso'i into their systei Us.