Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-05-01
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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: 1852 ,OO5; secondary instruction, Sj15 $50
Libraries, S319,Oll; museums of natura
history, Sl3l $50 deaf and dumb, 81 1000
blind, $4,000; Peabody fund, Sl35, $40
miscellaneous, ST. 900. In 1871 the amour
given was IS 1000, 900, and in 1872 it wa
50 ,9j0,000.
When Napoleon the Great died at St
: Helena, an English physician took charg,
of his heart, depositing it in n silver BASH
filed with water. Two tapers burned neal
it. but the custodian felt nervously anxiou:
while watching it through the night, and
did not sleep. In the silence of midnight h,
heard rustling sound, then plunge int
the water, aud n rebound on the hoor-al
occurring with the rapidity of thought. Ht
sprang from his bed to see an enormous raj
dragging the precious relic to his hole \
moment more and the heart which had beer
too vast in its ambition to be satisfied with
the sovereignty of continental Europe, would
have been more degraded than the dust of
Imperial Caesar
\ Chicago paper has Published an article
headed d" Eternal Punishment Conhrued.'
How?
The new city directory of St. Louis, just
published, puts the present population of
that town at 413, $50 souls.
That was sensible old chap in Delaware,
who, dying the other day, said don't
write any poetry about me. and don't fool
around about a monument"
Carl Hermann, of Madison, Wis, has fall
en- heir to $500 900 in Austria
The mediums are hearing from Judge
EdmondS, and we observe, from a specimen
communication in the New York Sun, that
his literary style has undergone the custom
airy deterioration.
The Grangers of Minnesota have got into
trouble with regard to Catholic Patrons.
Some of the Catholic clergy have dissuaded
their flocks from joining the Grangers. he
cause they are a secret organization.
\ young lady who had recently given an
order to millner for a bonnet, said. ''You
are to make it plain, but at the same time
smart. as | sit in conspicuous place in
church.
The Chicago Ti7jlme prints poem in
which the writer wishes that She had "a
heart full of sweet yearling,." The author
cs7 says the printer who set it up Isl calf.
There's nothing like persiStency. John
Couch was married in Philadelphia the 9th
er day to a girl who had refused him eigh-
| teen times She wanted 10 see If be really
| loved her.
The Sacramento BE- says IN old
friend tells Us that out of 2,703 sheep on
| his winter range near Oroyille, he has but
| 60 left 1t is estimated that 81 ,0O0, 600
will not cover the losses in horses, cattle
and sheep in California during the past win
ter.
The California insane asylum at Stock
ton Is filling up with irightlnl apldity.
Already during last month iorty-six pa
tients have been added To the Institution,
twcnty-threc of whom were sent from san
Francisco.
Il is singular fact that when the funeral
OF the late Senator Sumner was passing
through the streets of Boston. some oh
Structon in the way compelled the hearse to
remain standing for about ten minutes. di-
rectlv in front of the residence of the lady
who had once been the dead man wife.
One feature of the farmers movement
deserves special notice \ certain number
of the officers in the oranges must be wo-
men, and no grange can be organized with
ont the attendance Of women. The sexes
meet in them on a perfect equality, unless
the men are willing to pay double fees for
the privilege OF a state of single bleSsedneSS.
The women learn parliamentary rules and
practice. and become familiar with the de
tails OF business and the rudimental prin
oipleS Of economy. The grange l. sort Of
training school to prepare women for
political life.
People ask me why don't attend to my
business Of preaching the gospel, and not %
off talking about politics and Temperance, etc.
Well it Is this am a free man and in
free country. I ask nobody for my rights Il
take them. | am perfectly willing that God
should tax ne for virtue hut the devil
Shan't tax me Tor vice without hearing Of it.
When men have become 50 religious that
they can't touch the ground they ought to
20 up; and one Of the great evils Of society
Is a religious man whose duties to God are
50 many that he has no time for his duties
to his lellowmen-H Hwg Ward Beecir.
Bishop Simpson has returned to Washing
ton from the city of Mexico. where he has
been establishing and organizing missions for
the Methodist Episcopal Church lie was re
ceiyed by all the republican authorities with
hearty welcome, and he represents that it l.
the policy of the Republicans, without ac-
tive participation. TO encourage the rights of
other Christian sects in Mexico. with the
aim of neutmlizing the power which the old
state church has heretofore brought to bear
against the popular cause.
Y slab above a grave in Arkansas, bears
the following legend. evidently the legend
Of devoted but discriminating husband
she washed the children.
Fed the fowls,
And made her home
Resound with howls.'
Jones fell from his horse recently and
struck square on the back Of a strange dog
The animal, thinking perhaps he would ney-
er have another such an opportunity,
closed on Jones's leg and left.
pr. Cuvler wants all the young ladies to
band together and say, 'No lips shall touch
my lips that have touched bottle Rather
rough this on the fellows that were brought
up by hand.-N Y. Telegram.
\ gentleman of jackson. Tenn, has, pre-
served in alcohol. bed-bug which was
caught in bed that General jackson slept
in
1t seems that horSe-car manners have ex-
tended to the churches. The Easter services
naturally thronged the Episcopal churches
in this city, and as a consequence great
numbers Of ladies were compelled to stand
throughout the services while men occupied
the seats. At st Thomas's Church the
writer saw at least a couple of hundred Ia
dies standing in the aisles. and probably hye
times that number of men seated in the pewS
beside them. The women's rights move
ment is teaching class. from laborer to ma
bob. to let the women take care of them
selves. They cannot have the cake and eat
it too. But certainly the American of iii-
teen or twenty years ago would not have
sat still comfortably in his cushioned pew
and allowed well-drcSsed ladies to stand in
the ia-lc+ during a whole service. -
Graphic
4 relic Of the Inflated steamship Atlantic
in the shape ola passengers ticket printed
in German and English, has been taken
from the stomach Of preserved salmon at
ST. Johns, n. Il.
"All ask heroically remarks the ire
pressible Dio, lis to he put where ] can do
the most good" The Brooklyn Argus says
his attention is respectfully directed to the
advertisement of Mobile hotel proprietor
for a man to smell peas.
An exchange notes the rumor that Don
att, the great astronomer, died from excite
ment consequent upon discovering that the
earth is approaching the sun 81 rapidly that
in ten years it viii be drawn into the sun
and shriveled up. The paragraphiSt then
adds the decidedly American comment
This will be diseouraging news to the in
surance companies"
Advice from Danbnry: If a stick of
wood is too long for the stove. kick it a few
times with your heel. Then take it ont and
saw it off.
4 little negro girl near Auburn, Ala,
was covered by thousands of ants, while
sleeping in doorway, recently. and their
bites brought on a fever, of which she died |