Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-04-24
GLEANINGS.

Nearly two hundred years ago, in SER
mon preached in Boston, the Rev Increase
Mather deplOres the introduction and use of
rum. at is common thing that in latter
years kind Of strong drink called rum has
been common with us, which the poorer
sort of people, in town and country, can
make themselves drunk with. Those that
are poor and wicked can make themselves
drunk for penny. wish to the Lord some
remedy coald be thought of for the preven-
ton of this evil :" \ long time has elapsed
and the remedy has not yet been found.
\ Georgia paper temptS subscribers with
a promise Of a thrilling cereal
\ darkey gives the following reason why
the colored race is superior to the white
"All men are made Of clay, and like the
meerschaum pipe, they are more valuable
when highly colorel." "
1t was not only Mary Stuart or Marie
Antoinette whose hair turned white in
single night. for the hair of a California
youth named Weston, turned from black to
white on seeing Joe Booth fall between the
ears and break his legs.
Douhle-bolied people are getting plenti
lul, and will create social difficulties. The
latest We hear of Is Blanche Dumas, beau
tiiul girl Of fourteen years, who has been
sent by DR.. Bale, to the Paris Faculty of
Medicine for examination. She has a
double body from the waist downwards,
having only one head and two arms. She i
Is very well. but she i not double-head
er.
\ diamond IS now on exhibition in Boston,
not as large a hazel nut. which repre-
sents in value nearly six hundred tons Of
railroad iron. or three hundred tons of sugar,
or five thousand barrels of flour Pile up
in Imagination the iron, sugar. or -four, and
then take in the palm of the hand The little
pebble stone, and contrast the two objects
representing equal value.
BY vigorous enforcement Of the liquor
law, Boston has managed to redu ce the
nnmoer of it, bar-rooms to a little over
> 900.
There was a strange, pathetic scene IT the
Milwaukee depot, u little while ago. \
work in brewery had saved enough mon ey
to make 4 home, was waiting for his he
trOthed. who was to arrive from Germany.
She came, all radiant, to his arms, there wa.s
4 close embrace, but when the Young man
tried 10 disengage himself, the girls hands
We're firmly clasped about his neck, she
moved not, spoke not,-she had literally
broken her heart with joy.
Saratoga Springs contains 81 licenced
places for the sale Of liquor, or one for every
l23 inhabitants. men. women and children.
in the town. The town received for such
licenses the sum of $500. or more than
enough to meet the demands upon the poor
fund for the past year, TO which fund it is
by law applied. The yearly liquor traffic of
Saratoga i estimated to be over $3.50 900.
Some people IN Illinois, who have eyi-
IDENTIFY known what it Is to pay ten dollars /
for iiye-cent pen-wipers, have petitionel the |
legislature to abolish church fairs.
When the Milwaukee Snfind was On |
picket duty, it discovered journal whose
editor could put an enemy into his mouth /
without fear of its stealing anything.
Temperance has been triumphant in 4
Lockp0rt, y. Y, formerly profitable local /
ity for rum sellers. The people have not |
only stopped drinking, but voted that there
shall he no more licenses.
Miss Couzins tells n St Louis reporter
that the way to put down the saloons is for
all Young ladies to resolve never 10 receive |
attentions from any young man whose
breath i stained with alcoholic perfumes.