Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1875-11-19

ntailuE, anu llal tne atmosphere uad no
effects on the lungs-asa rule. These men,
owing to the severe nature Of the labor,
work short hours.
BOYS AND GIRLS.
A Boston schoolgirl of tender years thus
writes to her bosom-friend: Dear Susie
| shan't attend school agin until Get some
new cuffs, colla-s and Jewelry-dear Mama
agrees with me tina. it is my dooty to take
the shine ont of that Upstart Many Jones.
and III do it If never learn nothing
Pleasant all round Master Willie (who
has Just been described to visitor as ''such
an intelligent young fellow Papa, has
the gen 4um brought my new hoOts?" Pa
pa twho does not see what is coming)-
Boots, Willie? Why what makes you
ask p Master Willie-"Cause when he
came fore, you said he was snOb ; and |
asked Jane what 'snob' was, and she said
shoemaker" (Sensation)
My son wouldn't steal peaches from Mr..
Cannon 5 orchard, | hope?" NO, ma,
wasn't in that crowd the other night"
That's right, my boy. Keep out of bad
company, and You will never do wrong.
Let your conscience be your guide in all
things and the fond mother patted her
T
about her duties with light heart. Left
to himself, tie noble boy thus soiloquized
"fou don't catch me foOlin' around old
Gammon's. My conscience can guide me
to lots OF better orchards than his. where
there ain't 10 dog. nuther. Missouri
BrUnsUickel'.
The recuperatiye forces of childhood are
ut times extraordinary. The boy who left
school sick at ten O'Clock in the morning,
Will 90 to the circus at : p. IN. the same
day, fall off a scat sixteen or eighteen feet
high, and never hurt himself more than to
miss four or five seconds Of the performance.
-Bl0okfyr Argus.
Ilurrylng down Jefferson avenue yester-
dry to the depot. man struck a heap of
peach-skins, and fell on his beam-ends and
relied over twice before he stopped. boy
standing in the centre Of the street, anx-
iou-ly inquired "Be you hunting for any
thing, Mister p "Come here. SIR said
the man as he sat up come and get ten
cents, some candy, and figs, andplums, and
jnba-pas;e : That's good boy, come AID
see me" Your intentions may be good, -
replied the boy as he backed off. "but l
guess I'll wait till the other bootng gets
over aching before get any nearer.-De-
troH FIRE. Press.
When boy has been off all day, con-
trarY to the express wishes of his mother,
and on approaching the homestead at night.
wiki an anxious and cautious tread, finds
company at tea, the expression OF confidence
aud rectitude which suddenly lights up
his face cannot be reproduced on canvas.
Having frequently appealed to his father
to buy him ck-knife, and receiving for
. final answer, 'lfyou speak to me again
on that subject. II whale you he went
straightway to his mother. crying as if his
heart would break. and said, Il can't never
be good like George Washington with such
q dad as I've got"
\ ragged. forlorn looking boy was stroll
4 ling around the Southern Depot Yesterday.
smoking the stub O! a cigar, when phil
anthropist in waiting ioG train handed
I ont 10 cents and remarked Take it, bub
] feel sorry for you.' No yer don't e1-
claimed the boy drawing back Why,
its a free giit-I don't ask anything Tor
il. replied the man. IL know you. con-
tinuGd the boy, his eye winking you
want ne to grow up and become President,
and amt going to tie myself up for any
man ; 10 cents ,''-Dltr0t Free Press.
"Eafant Terrible" (after contemplating
visitor for some time) 20. Mr. Brown,
lets have game We've got a whacking
/ big sponge upstairs wish you'd sponge
/ on pa now it'd be such fun He says
you always 90 AT the club--li' Tableau >
Punch
Won't you Gu; open penny for NE.
father. said e little girl, when She came
home from school one day Cut open q
penny What DO you want me to do that
tor - ask.l the father. Cause. said the
/ httle glrl. Our teacher says that in every
penny there are i0ur ilrthlngS, and want
TO -ee them.
Pa, gues, our man Ralph Is good
I Christian" How so. my boy - Why. 9.
Pa. read in the Bible that the wicked
shall not live out half his days and Ralph
says he has lived on; ever since he was a
iittie boy"
Equestrian precocity j. encouraged in Kan
sas. At the LeayenwOrth County Fair the
premium @, saddle and bride was be-
slowed upon the best boy rider under
seven years Of age The young Alexander
thus bestrding the Kansas Bucephalus will
grow to be a contour in time without the
use of iiniment.
The small 10y shsrpenod his pencil and
wrote the adventures of the day. The
dairy was passed around, and we admired
the graphic description of sea lite couched
in sentences like these June 18th,
Very kuT June 18th, Ruii5r to-day June
10th, To-day we went 81 nots. 1t is still very
ruff June Eth. There are not many at
dinner to-day. and like the pluns. june
18Th. didn't keep a dairy yesterday. Ma
sad it was the plums. 81 nOts to-day -
Correspondence Jagish Messenger
boy surprised his father. the other day
by asking Father do you like mother?'
"Why. yes. Of course And she like;
You ," "Of course she does Did she
ever say SOP MANY a time, my son.
Did She mary you because she loved
you - Certainly she did The boy
; looked the old man over, and after long
{ pause asked We'll, was she as near
: sighted then a she Is now ?'-Dsiron Ere,
Press.
The other day, enc Of the union school
girls called out to q companion Say
Nellie, did you know that Kitty Harper
pa has bought house ?" mo; is tina
: so? Is it II nice house p Great biz
5 brick house, with the awluiest bigges
{ panes of glass you ever saw ~ And bay
t windows ~ No: Just straight windows ,
We'll. that settles 1t. SAID No. As She
$ turned away. I'VE have two bay window
' on our house, and, though Kitty is nic'
i girl, she can't belong to our set
=; Bah. is your mother in ?' asked Vicks
=, burg lady. the other evening. of lad o
. 10 who was lounging over his Widowed
= mothers gate. No, she's out" he an
: swertd Gone out to yi-; your dea
- fathers grave p she continued. mo
=. exactly" be smiled "she's gone aite
= ice cream with chap who has got thre
:, inches OF fat on his ribs, and I'll bet ten t
= one she'll halter him less'n month"
n A very small school by was asked tn
le other day by his teacher. what WAS the sur
Al of FIVE and six Thirteen" was the rt
plv. You are Ounce. said the teacher
''Mr Birchwielder." ;" said the young nati
ematician, Il am not u Ounce | am sim
ply heterophemist The 'blunder' in que,
ton is an example OF "a peculiar mental al
/ ton that - worthy OF more attentio
lr than it has received, If indeed, 1t has rt
or ceiyed any; of which. excepting a magaZin
,f article hy Richard Grant White, in the la'
Galarv. | am not aware. 1t is an exampl
= of what physiological psychologist call III
~ conscious cercbration' The schoolmaste
l.. let it go.
- An incident, showing the present unse
10 lied condition Of insurance rates, occurrs
&c in this city few days ago, when firm
Y having over quarter of a million dollars il
"a Suranee. effected nine months since at the
o. current rates. cancelled their insurance pa,
ng long rates for the nine months, and then r.
81 insuring at a lower rate, 80 that the who