Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-02-21
GENERAL NEWS

\ Chica 20 man has invented a trunk which
can be converted into a iie-boat or a coffin.
4 new feature of photography i a back
ground that can be taken separately and
used with any negative
Some one wrote in hotel visitors book
his initials, " \. ;" wag wrote under
meath, '' Two thirds of the truth '
Lois BoiS. Canadian farmer, has Just
baptized his thirtieth child, Twenty -sixare
living. and all ' Bois."
\ man upset the Chattanooga gasometer,
the other day, under the impression that it
was sugar hogshead, and left the city in
total darkness.
\ Massachusetts Young man has been
fined $500 for telling the town clerk that
the young lady he wanted to marry was l6
years old, when She was only II.
John Graham. of Virginia City, rayed be-
cause his wife Mary hadn' washed his shirt
She Molly-fed him with rollingpin, and
he now has no need of shirts.
By the absorption of fifteen outlying and
and now respectable towns. villages and
cities, Boston desires to become the third
city in the Union. Her population will
then be f5O 900.
1t is said that but one article that attract
ed any attention ever appeared in the col
umns of the Chicago journal, and that the
proprietor of the concern was 6ned 800
FOR publishing that.
4 man named Charles Boyd undertook to
swndle Mr. Christian Ak. Baltimore mer-
chant, recently, but found him 50 " sharp
a subject that he has since - cut his ac-
| quaintance.
A noted horseman, while on the witness
stand at a recent case tried at Dedham when
an assertion of his was Slightly questioned,
offered to bet the Judge $50 that he was
right.
\ monkey that had seen good society
lately got into the bar-room of the steamer
Orient, and after getting savagely drunk
| drove all the inmates out by hurling empty
bottles at them. He was merely - ape ing
| his master.
A cow owned by blacksmith in Alfred,
! n. Y. was recently butchered and her
| stom ach was found To contain four pounds
of horseshoe nails and large quantity of
old iron. Iron being good for the blood, of
course she was healthy cow
The late Emperor of Austria, when List
| had PLAYED before him, went up to compli-
ment him - have heard List and Thai
berg and Chopin, he said, gravely g but
| have never any one perSpire like you"
\ lady who is not thoroughly posted in
natural history asked friend who was going
TO Utah to bring her a couple of Mo rmons
for her aquarium. She thinks they are some
kind of an oyster.
A young man attending Christmas party
at Southampton, Eng, was i" sentenced to
walk down the main street dressed in wo-
man 5 clothes, as a forfeit lie did it, and
the vigilant police gave him free lodgings
for several days in the station house.
An American found himself brought face
o face at Rome last month with an old
{, ,hoolfellow whom he hadnot seen for years.
- You here - - Yes. my dear fellow.
ha -e Just been married and am come to pass
the honeymoon in Italy" ." And your
wife ~ :" My wife? oh, / LEFT her IN Nep
York.
The Rev Alexander Burrows of Bingham
ton. is the interesting divine who ma rried
during the holidays a schoolgirl of fifteen.
The rev erend gentleman has lately amused
himself % assiduously in dragging his girl
wife arou nd the floor by her back hair, and
in thrown lg plates at her, that she has had
him arrest ID for cruelty.
Gift conc. Tts, gift enterprises, &c, are
to be supprt ysed in Detroit.
John wills III is brakeman on Minneso-
ia railway. 7'he other day he heard of a
train showed IN seven miles distant, and not
being on duty. procured large quantity OF
crackers and h, ,ese, enveloped himself in n
cloak with a hoo d and with the wind blow
ing gale and the thermometer twenty
seven degrees belo W zero, started out afoot
to relieve the hung ry passengers. Although
he felt his face and ars freezing, he trudged
on until he cached the train almost ex-
hausted and unable to speak distinctly
The grateful passenge, thawed him out as
well as they were able, and one OF them
j John Lawlor, Esq, of Prairie du Chen