Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-10-02

OourSeiior JesSica appeared for tie defence
III tte well-known case of ShylOck y. An
tonic, reported in 9Th Shakespeare. Mrs
Attorney lockwood represents the heirs of
the late Judge Watrous. She. Yesterday
made probate of the will and transacted
seeh business at the District Court as the
case required. The officers of the court are
delighted with her knowledge of the practice
anu easy way Of transactins business We
plead guilty to a feeling Of novelty at the
appearance Of lady LAWYER in our coprts
Il feeling which will disappear when the &C.
currence ceases to be novel As II will in
time, ior there l. no good reason why a lecs
head should not wear fashionable bonnet.
nor any why ladys mantle should not en-.
cl"Ne '.S much learning as an academic gown.
MiS- Lockwood heard, before she left the
North, some terrible stories of Texas and the
le4hnS. She came, perhaps expecting that
each man she met would have reyolyers
strapped To his waist, like fashionable lady
carries her parasol, fan and other kniek-
knackS Without doubt, she was told that
each lawyer wore a bowie-knile in his boot.
and bottle of O-be-joyful in side-pockei.
But she took her life in her hands, and she
has come among as without an escort-an
eneumbranee with which she need not be
troubled, no matter in what part of Texas
she may travel; for We can assure her that
the cowboy on the frontier has Ne much gal
lantry aud great deal more manly courage
than the dilletanti beaux that dance the
Redowa in the saloons of Washington
young widow in New Orleans being
asked after her husbands health, answered.
with a soft quiet smile, " He's dead. | thank
you"
The Governor Of Alabama has been re-
quested by constituent 10 find a missing
wife, who is eomprehensively described as
- Il medIum-sized woman in u calico dress
y married pair were recently divorced BY
decree oi the Supreme Judicial Court of the
State OF Maine ON the ground of cruelty The
true reason was that he loved flowers, books,
poetry, pets, and all the beauties of nature,
while she confined her thoughts solely to
= billed yictuals' and the interests Of the
children.
She saw him on his bright blue steed
busting Wn the road.
And pit-a-pat. and pt-a pat,
Her little heartfelt coed
Ana sv;t she subbered to herself
ThOagh swift his PAGES be,
lie cam kite 50 fast but what
Ny heart Keeps up with he"
Ii i asserted perhaps IN quarters too san
guine To he trustworthy, that ladies are seri-
ou>ly thin ling OF wearing dresses which they
can walk in. For the last year the prone
made has been d torture to any woman who
respects herselia little Her dress drags all
the way around, and the train thereof follows
her foot nr 80. She must either make it
l1athesome by dragging 1t through the filth
or She must hold it up with both hands. II
she attempts this delicate and fatiguing
office with one, tired nature soon asserts it.
self, and somewhere or other fold of the idi-
otic garment drops into the mud. 1t is gem
eraily known that the female human has but
two hands, and if both of these are filed
with superfuous raiment, the management
Of the parasOl, the portemOnnaie, the half
dozen bundles of dry goods and pounds of
confectionery, without which street cos
tune is incomplete, becomes matter Of some
difficulty. The unassisted male intellect can
see no way Of this trouble except the short
ening of the peccant skirt. But we do not
envy the fate OF the rash man who should sug-
ge>t it. He will be told he has no taste, no
perception Of style, no regard for the pure in
tuitions OF woman. II he shall say that
few years ego women wore lovely short
dresses and looked like angels in them, he
will be met with the crushing reply that
- lew years ago" i not to-day. None of
these severe vutarics of Fashion, however,
seem 10 see that they are eyading her de
cIees, in holding up their dresses. The mil
liners compel them To wear these long robes.
50 they may get muddy and wear out soon
er, and it i di>loyal to try and save them
from this fate.-T'ribuHe.
\ story is told of San Francisco woman
who was in the habit of receiving frequent
csistigatiUns al the hands of her husband, and
who one day read the Bible story of Samson
and Deiilah When next her consort was
prone in sleep she sheared him 50 complete
" that ever spear Of hair disappeared from
face and heal. Rousing from his slumber
like giant refreshed, he speedily compre-
hended the situation, and reached for her
Such caresSing as she then received she
never dreamed Of before She did not even
have the usual grip on hin. He wa fined,
but She declared her utter disbelief in those
| Bible yarns.
] Effect or llEMP CIcARETrEs. use of
cigarettes made of hemp is very common
among the soldiers Of Western Mexico, ant
thew say that when one is under its indu
ense he " can see whatever he wants to see."
| ItS use is prohibited by their officers, be-
cause its effects are similar to those pro-
| duced by drinking to excess, and the men
cannot be aroused until the sleep brought on
bv the drug is over. A young Mexican
officer told the writer that on one occasion
when he was suffering intensely with the
toothache, an old Sergeant suggested t''at
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put him to sleeu and relieve his pain. His
suffering was so intense that he was at last
induced to try the remedy, and the cigarette
was brought and he laid down and began To
smoke it. The effect at first was very sooth
ing and pleasant, but presently strange and
wild fancies began to run through his brain,
and he was suddenly stricken with unc III
trollable fear, and sprang from his bed and
rushed out into the courtyard Of the hou-e.
There be thought he received tremendous
blow on the back of his head, which sent
| it spinning thousand feet into the air like
a shell from mortar. lie said he stood
there and watched it until it disappeared.
He wis sure there was no mistake about it,
for he saw plainly and distinctly. lie then
started of in search of his head, and he says
that he thought he was away for days and
days in the search. At last, to his mex
pressible relief, after having been over hun
dred of leagues of desert and mountain. he
found himself in the court yard OF his house,
with his head safe on his shoulders.
The Sergeant told him that he had been
walking up and down the courtyard with
| him for about an hour only. The toothache
was GONE. but he saws he suffered more in his
headless search for his head than he would
from a thousand toothaehes. lie never
smoked hemp again.
The famous dog-catchers Of Morrisania are
of no account at all beside the members of
their eminent profession in Mobile These
southern persons possess passionate con-
tempt for the trammels Of ordinary spell
ling rules that would last at least three
spurning" and l." corning" congressman
whole session. Their list of unprotected and