Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-01-10
NEWS ITEMS.

An Arab surgeon, who has restored the
mother Of the Khedive ofEgypt to health, has
been given fee of 81 900 and created n
pacha
\ young physician of Michigan came east
few weeks since to marry young lady in
Dutchess county. Unfortunately he first
visited New York where he got on IA spree, -
and died of delirium tremens Thursday
His brother and affanced were with him
when he died
\ Kentucky paper tells fsh-story about
a weasel, in this wise A party of men
found under large rock a nest containing
four young weasels, which they captured
and put to one side. Upon the return of
the old weasel. She became very angry, and
at once set off, but soon returned, and going
straight to the little pail containing the
drinking water for the men, she spit some
thing in it, and was about to 90 off n sec
ond time. when she discovered her nest and
her young, all alive and unharmed She
Immediately returned to the pail and con-
tinued jumping and pushing at it until it
was overturned, thus saving the lives Of the
men She evidently meant to pnnish for the
destruction of her offspring.
\ man has Just been arrested in Oil City
Pa. on the curious charge of stealing one
hundred and twenty-six pounds of nitro
glycerine. \ search Of his premises result
ed in the discovery of the dangerous com
pound in the cellar. with his seven little
children playing close by, liable at any mo-
nent to explode it. The explosive force of
the amount found was sufficient To have
blown the whole neighborhood to atoms
The man seems to have had mania for
this kind of larceny as number of articles
from other magazines were found on the
premises. An uncomfortable neighbor,
surely.
The coolest man yet discovered is he who
stopped train ON Pennsylvania railroad,
the other night, and, handed the engineer
some currency, requesting him to bring lin
down quarter of a pound of fine cut.
Some medical students at Cleveland, o.
recently made a nocturnal excursion TO
grave yard. and returned in triumph, bring
ing fine subject. but Just now they don't
think It Is very good joke, or one that
paid. for the corpse was that Of smallpox
patient, and several of the students have
contracted Ne disease
\ Apumpkin pie ten feet in diameter and
four feet deep was the chief feature Of
California dinner recently. The enjoyment
of the guests was marred somewhat by a
child falling into the pie and drowning be-
fore their ewes.
The Delaware Indians live in frame
houses. wear cut-away coats and st,nd-up
collars, fail in business and compromise at
fifty cents ON the dollar. and are getting
quite civilized.
The coal production Is 4,l24.632 tons
ahead of the amount at this time last year,
which doesn't look much a. if the price
could % higher
Georgia chickens grow 50 large that they
are run down and laSSoed by men on horse
back. after the style Of hunting ostriches.
4 man in youngstown, Ohio, bet $50 one
bitter cold day last week that he could walk
to Warren. He spoileda S4j suit ofclothes,
a Sl4 pair Of boots, paid doctor $40 to
thaw ont his ears, and was arrested at War
rem as a suspicious character and locked up
two days in Jail He won his bet
4 boy three years old was left alone with
his sister the other night in St. Louis for a
few moments while their mother went upon
an errand. The sister was one month Of
age and clad in -waddling clothes The lit
tle boy secured kerosene lamp and emp
tied it upon her. The mother returned in
time TO discover the boy in a state of Fourth
Of July eeStacy. while the girl was dead.
The little fellow has been promised as an ap-
prentice to a frework- maker
At recent wedding in Killingly, Ct, the
bride wore the beautiful pink silk stockings
which her mother wore at her own wedding
thirty-hye years ago and the bridegroom
wearing the fine white ones worn by his
father upon his wedding day, ffty-one years
ago.
An agricultural paper says strawberry
beds may be protected from birds By run
ming wire along the walk, to which the
eat Is chained Her movements up and
down the wire viii keep the birds away.
Where there is no chain, the wire can be
run through the eat. and heated TO a tenn
perature that Will fiji the cat with longing
to keep moving