Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1875-03-12


In costumes rich and manifold.
And in return what did my wife,
Of all the meanest tricks that he.
She spent tho gold cutie otherwise,
And gave her bills unpaid to me.
clve NY wife a word Of wrath
word Of wrath to DO her good
Because she had not spent my gold
The way | told her that she should.
And IN return what did my wife,
OF all the dreadful things that be
No gold 0 word Of wrath gave back,
But she divorced herself from me
LONDON Fsn.
/ Talking Of salaries in the learned profes-
sions, it Is estimated that the receipts of
great actors in our day will about equal those
Of great lawyers. Edwin Booth has made as
high as $4,000 month jefferson has
made even more. This year, in season Of
forty weeks, Clara Morris will net about
| SO 600 Charlotte Thompson about half as
much. Boucicault, combining his royalty
as dramatIst and his percentage as star actor,
is making two thousand dollars = week at
| Wallack's 5 theatre in New York Great ply
sicians, but only few even Of these, make
incomes comparable 10 those made by great
lawyers and great actors. Mott, Parker,
and Clarke, have made as high as one hun
dred thousand dollars each in the course of
one year. In comparison with those probes
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compensation Ten thousand dollars wear
Is a salary paid bat to ahout four employed
editors in the country, while Messrs Beech
er and Chaplin are the only diyines whose in
! come reaches beyond twenty thousand dollars
OF lecturers, John B. Cough makes the larg-
est income. His average price is two hun
dred and fifty dollars lecture Of these he
Will in year deliver about one hundred, net
ting about twenty-fv thousand dollars
year. The great lawyer, the great physician
and the great actor are said 10 be the lc>t
paid brain workers in America.
The Paris correspondent of tie London
DAILY Telegraph writes to that journal Nov
elists in search of a story might do well to
work up a most novel and romantic case
which has ilst come before the Petition Com
mttee Of the Assembly. lhe facts are brief
ly these Jean Thierry, the son Of cobbler,
ran away from his parents in search Of ad-
venture at the age OF fourteen After going
round the world in various characters. he met
I with a rich friend, who left him his fortune.
with which he finally settled down in Venice,
where he died and bequeatheI all he had,
amounting to %. 600 600 francs. to bis fami-
ly. This was in 1916 As soon rs the fact
became known, Thierrys from al parts Of
France rushed to Venice, but the bank, after
paving large sums to persons who were sub
se4uently found to have no legitimate claim.
stopped short, and put the matter in the
bands OF the law, where it appears to have
sleUt till 1877. In that year B,uaparte lie
stroyed the Republic Of Venice, and seized
the public treasury, together with the Iherry
succession. Since then no less than 500 per
sons have laid claim u II unslccessfaily.
The last alleged heir is Nine Cotton. who
sweaTS she is the only descendant in direct
line The Petition Committee Iut aside her
claim On the ground that tie matter ! before
the tribunal. Such appears, in iac;, 70 be
the case but a. It has already been there
since 1869, it is likely TO remain there a few
years longer. The succession is -ail %
amount now to 100000. 600 francs.
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a drug store, and being asked J. there was
nothing else, 50 lie laid several packages on
the counter, held mp hand with several
strings tied on the fingers, and said Lets
see That red string i, for the bIr soap
that rag Is for broom that blue cord is fox
a calico dress that braid mclu- four pounds
Of sugar, and this other string Is for sweet
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