Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1875-01-15
TEA-TABLE TALK.
Here is a child's conceit very pTettily
woven into a nursery rhyme

TIE NEW MOON.
Dear mother, how pretty
! The moons looks tonight,
! She was never so cunning before
Her two little horns
/ Are 80 sharp and so bright.
! hope she'll not grow any more.
III were up there
With you and my friends,
I'd rock in II nicely, you see;
I'd sit in the middle
And hold by both ends
| y, what a bright cradle 'tNould DC.
would call to the stars
To get out OF the way,
Lest We should rock over their ties
And there | would rock
Till the dawn OF the day,
And sec where the pretty moon goes
4 very mean trick was played upon
wealthy and h0spitable gentleman and lady,
and sOme fOnr hundred Of their friends. IN
! San Francisco, lately. The gentleman and
lady referred to had issued invitations to
an evening party, and great preparations
were made for the event, when, a ttw hours
before the time for the festivities, nearly
all the invited guests received notes an
nouncing that their expectant hostess had
been suddenly Frustrated by illness and
could not, therefore, receive them. The
CONSERVATION ofthe party giyers when they
saw their spacious apartments almost empty
but fortunately information came to them
of the forged notes before it was altogether
too late, and contradiction Of the false
hood was circulated with partial success.
The party came off, but it was not a great
| a Joy as 1t would have been had no mali
cious hand interpOsed to mar its complete
ness. Ii is difficult to understand how any
one can derive satisfaction from pranks
which merely result in destroying the plea
sure of others, while at the same time the
perpetrator receives no benefit.
d" Death is sad thing" remarked
Schenectady woman, as she stood beside an
| open grave. " Yes. poor thing, remark
cd another how he did like to set down
to good billed dinner, wne2 the pork was
Just right"
The duties of a schoolmaster in 1901 were
as follows 10 act as a court messenger,
to serve summonses, to conduct services in
the church, to lead the choir on Sundays, to
ring the bell for public worship, to dig the
graves, to take charge of the school, and to
| perform other occasional duties" Hence
the compound word. oyer-worked.
"Only woman hair. " remarked Spiyens
musingly. as he gazed down into his plate
"a red-headei woman at that it may be very
sentimental, but il somehow gets away with
my appetite.
he editor q: the Bastrop (rexes) Adcer-
| fiSer having been absent from that lovely
town for short time, informs us that a
! glow of satisfaction permeatcd his heart a.
! he once more trOd the hagstOneS Of Bt>-
trop." His return seems to have called
/ forth the tenderest emotions OF the human
heart as it beats in Ba-trop. for he was pre-
sented with " 10 pound beet. two large
| heads OF white cabbage. middling Of dried
! fish. and whole wedding cake No Won
| der glow OF satisfaction permCated his
| heart under the circumstances. Ii must
| have been drier than one o! the dried fish
! otherwise.
Well, it wasn., after all, such an IN
/ Well, 1t wasn't, after all, such an IN
natural mistake for the dear young woman
/ to make 1t was in the Utica Advanced
! School. The happy man who guides the
/ educational Ge>tlnle< Of these Utica dam
/ sels had given out for a blackboard exercise:
- Write the name of five bays, and describe
one Of them. She thought he meant boys,
/ and 50 Inscribed the appellations of five
! lucky young fellows, with the " description
/ of one of them - lie Is short OF stature
so she recorded him. with red curly
/ hair. large head plump hands, and g0od.y-
! sized feet" The Bay Of FGndy and Bota-
ny Bay, and other celebrated sheets of wa
ter, missed it but We hope that boy who
was described appreciated hi good fortune.
she had evidently been looking at him.
\ curious case indeed is that of John
Forsythe. New Yorker, and mineral
explorer by occupation. who j. in Jail in
" ebster county. West Virginia. charged
with the murder Of Phineas Barton, of |
Philadelphia. in whose company he visited !
1 Webster county over a month ago. Mr.. |
FOrSYihe : version i. that on the 18Th of
November last they both ascendci Terr0rs |
Peak, high, dreary-looking knob, eight /
or ten miles east OF Addison, West Virginia, /
Tor the purpose Of examining some curious I
meteJric stones which were said to abound I
near and upon the summit, and that while .
IN they were oyertaken by a violent meteor I
ic shower, composed Of fiery missiles Of vari- /
Gus sizes, some of which exploded ike a Z
bomb-shell in their fall, and that Mr. Bar
ton was killed By blow on the temple. /
causing wound not unlike that made By a
pistol ball. Night intervening Mr.. ForsytEc .
watched over the corpse OF his friend until /
morning, when he returned to Addison Tor |
assistance. There the people, suspecting
foul play from certain contradictory state
ments, and the TACT that Mr. Barton yalu-
ables were found on tOrsythe's person, ar
rested Forsythe, whO' was 50 excited ami
distracted by all that had happened to him
within the last twenty-lOdr hours, that he
could not find the place where he had abaIi-
d0ned the remains. which were accidentally
discovered by u hunter on the following
day. Mr. FOrsythe appeals t. the sc entitc
men of the country 10 extricate h,E from
the suspicion OF a henious crime by thor
Ough Investigation OF the catastrophe. and
feels perfectly confident in the yindication
of his innocence This Is undoubtedly a
most singular and mysterious case OF death,
ami efforts will be made to ascertlin the
precise facts.
There is only one man in Boston who
hasn't written a translation of Dies ire and
he was born without arms.
Recently the local paper at Grass Valley
said d" The prettiest girl in Grass Valley
doeSn I carry herself straight enough when
promenading." For a week after all the
Grass Valley girls stelked about like so
many rAmr0ds and every girl said, at
horrid paper! Ma, don't walk straight?'
1t turns out after all that the dreadful
grassh0pper Of the West does not hop. That
leaves them grass-pers. They cat and fy.-
Worcester GG-eie.
- can AFFORD to be a little ex;rayagant :
nov, as my husbands been elected to the
Legislature" SAID an Indiana woman IS she
ordered SIX bars Of soap to be sent up.
SHARP LE-TEr FROM GEN. CUsrER.-Gen- {
eral Custer, under date of Fort Abraham
Lincoln. Dakota, Dee. Is, s2ys the annual ,
report Of the Commissioner Of indian 7
Affairs. SO far As it denies the statements c
.ilIt there are indications OF mineral wealth }
in the Back Hills. i false. General Gus
ter says the official dispatches forwarded c
from time IL time while the expedition was a
in progress. and describing the country OF ,
The Black Hills a. rich and inviting and
well adapted to white settle q
ncnts were IN strict accordance with the
q ct- and were in some substance repeated :
n lis preliminary report, made alter the ~
'cturo of the expedition, and these statc- d.
GentS have never been contradictod by any .
person or persons competent to do 50 or v
having knO. ledge to the contrary. Il
Lieut.-Gen. Sheridan, in his annual re-
,ort, also asserts that gold was found in the ia
Black Hills Gen. Custer further says the Il
pdian Agents are generally men entirely
NIT FOR their positions. and says the Chiefs
re constantly applying to him iof prOtec ri
ion against these Agents. re
Gen. Custer comments upon the Indian /
calling in question the cor 10
ectaess of ihe Official reports of other De- ~
artments. and says that the Commissioner
as perverted the truth, and that If the
Commissioner attends faithfully to his own So
Experiment he will have 20 time to inter 49,
,TG with Others. 1t
ANOTHER STORY OF GEN. SEDGwIcK.-- p,
-ho fought in the federal army, and who i n
nellcd enough of burning powder to make
lem true soldiers, do not ask any apology -