Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-01-02
TEMININE PERSONALS.

\ Wisconsin paper draws picture OF q
heavy, soggy schoolma am weighing one
hundred and fifty pounds bringing the ruler
down upon the shrinking flesh Of 4 child OF
seven years.
\ daughter of General Ro-ecran- has GA
tered 4 convent
An Iowa school mistress had her toe torn
off by lightning the other day. She merely
remarked that it was an untoeard perform
anee on the part of the lightning, and kept
on with hetspelling class.
The widow Of the late Samuel kimhall, q
former resident Of jackson, Mich. has. in
| connection with her brOther-in-law, a Lon
don architect, taken contract to do build
| ing for the Turkish Government amounting
| to 500, 900.
\ Wisconsin paper warns the public
/ against a plnnp-cheeked blonde with bright
eyes and ruby lips. who falsely represents
herself as a collecting agent for charitable
society. 1t is always well TO look out for
such people, especially if You are charitably
susceptible, or have 4 weakness for bright
eyes and ruby lips.
Mrs. S NJ Parker has been appointed
deputy collector of internal revenue for the
4th district of the State of Indiana being the
first woman who has ever held revenue
collectorship.
: The woman who died in Cheuango Fork
and portions Of adjacent recently,
weighed over three hundred pounds.
Fourteen schoolmarms all in row told
the Leavenworth treasurer he must pay up.
or furnish food and lodging for the crowd.
The Omaha BE-. SAYS that the revival
laborS Of Mrs. Van Cott have 50 purified the
city that not more than fifty additional men
will be required for the police force
Mrs Helen W Webster. Of New Bedford
has been appointed professor of anatomy and
hygiene at Nassar College She is diSsecting
the proposition and will render her diagnosis
shortly.
The evidence shows that he sot up witt
her night after night, and they Squoze hands
and talked soft. and think she ought tc
have about S23 damages . was the charge o
a Kansas judge to jury ina breach o
promise case.
fair young creature, with penchani
for cards, thus addresses an epistle 10 hen
masculine friend Come and play youcur
with me this evening" And he got mad
and said "graduate' who had such spell,
as that was no right bower for him
The panic column of the Chicago Pos
finds that ''the SadieSt result of the panic i.
that thousands of the shop girls are out Of
employment with long, hard winter in
prospect, and they will starve, poor things
rather than wash dishes and do house
work
The Courier Journal has heard OF young
man in Bay City, Mich, who says he shall
marry Anna Dickinson next month, and say
that If this Young mans declaration be
true, and if there be 4 lunatic asylum any
where in the State, why the dickens, w
should like to know. isn't he in il ~
There was Il wedding, and baby which
they didn't see on the bed where they piled
their things" and it was asleep. and il
didn't wake up, and when they were going
home they found it lying peacefully in the
slumber that knows no waking. And this
occurred in Appomattox County. Va.
Pennsylvania lady softened the shell Of
an egg in vinegar, inserted the egg in five
gallon demijohn, placed it in Matching
oven, and 10! she possesses a half-growr
chicken in this curious coop. She propose
to raise an American eagle next, in a similar
manner, for the centennial exhibition.
Every one who is proposing to have hi.
house burglarized should secure her services
She is an old woman, and lives in Opelousas
La. When the two masked men said they
wanted her money, she brought them 50 ,O0t
with commendable promptitude and shi