Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-06-26
GOSSIP OF THE DAY.

san Francisco PAPER in enumersting
the probable expenses of trip to the YOse-
| mite Valley, says I'VE have heard of
stag party who visited the valley on an ex-
penditure of twenty dollars each. They
hired an express wagon for seventeen dol
lars, camped out, shot game, had ham or
salt salmon and SHIPS biscuit when jackass
rabbits were unprUcurable. smoked great
deal of tobacco, and exhausted their whis-
key. They returned in five weeks. and not
Il man of the party has spoken to another
since that time. Some of the party were of
romantic turn. and preferred to moon
around lazily whilst Others secured a sauce
pan or rubbed down the horses, and the
contentious that made lively the camp were
such As to remain wildly in the memory of
all who survived the expedition
The other day an aged couple drove into
Indiana City Just m undertaking firm was
moving into an old church. which had been
purchased for shop. The old gentleman
stood up IN his wagon, his mouth and eve.
di~tendel, as the men silently carried coffin
after coffin into the church. At last he
turned to his awe-stricken half and gasped
-'Sary, by golly. it the cholerl let git ~
and they gifted.
Slang words are not always slang. Take
the word ''Jolly." In John Traps Com
mentary On the Old and New Testamenrs,"
| published in London two hundred years
ago, i to be read, ''all was Jolly quiet at
Ephe>us before st. Paul came thither"
On dit. that the Prince of Wales is Il. o.
- to the extent Of 60,000, which he
wishes his mother to pay, on the ground
that he spent it holding levees as her proxy.
| The roval dame doesn't "see it," and
large-Sized family jar disturbs the house
hold.
Rome. Ga, according to its Courier, i-
''destined to become famous in the history
| of printing" In point of fact, it Is one Of
| those places where l press Is being perfect
el To print both sides Of sheet at once,
and where a type-setting and distributing
machine is being constructed
When George Francis Train was a can
didate for dictator of America he used to
tell Us of S5.OOO,0 900 worth of lots that he
owned in the city Of Omaha, and now the
sheriff of Douglas county, Neb.. offers for
| sale 20 acres of these splendid lots to raise
money to pay an execution for $500 taxes
and interest.
The proposition to keep the Erie canal
free of ice in the winter by heating the
water with steam has been improved upon
in a suggestion To utilize the products of the
sls wells for this purpose. According to
Prof. Henry Wurtz, there are at least three
belts of Gas wells running across the State of
New York from east to west.
Two leading elergymen of Manchester,
Iowa. were arrested few dass ago for vi,-
latlng the fish laws. They ought to be con-
tent with being fishers Of men during the
close season.
In Fond du Lac, Wis, two Young ladies'
packed IL 600 and l3 900 shingles respec-
lively in one day. Go West. Young man;
there's a chance for two of yuu to get smart
wives
\ man named Sherman intends to plant
5000 acie> Of land near Winnehago, Milan,
with beans, this season.
The Swedish navy, by new arrangements
Just made, will include the whole male nau-
teal population. who will be liable for
twelve years of service after attaining the
age Of twcnty-one.
Benjamin Franklin'S autograph has reach
ed Michigan, and it makes one feel lonesome
to see tears trickling down the cheeks of
aged ladies as they gaze upon the venerable
relic, written on paper made in 1863.
\ Hartford man keeps spade close to
hiS kitchen door and whenever 4 tramp
comes along and begs for dinner, he is
requested to earn it by digging four feet
square in the garden. but the tramp invari-
ably refuses To pay this price.
There never lived man who was lion
ize1. says an exchange. that it did not
spoil. That editor evidently forgot the
prophet Daniel.