Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-03-31
To be Continued


Phil She-idan's baby is girl.
Que IN Victoria sends five of her owu pic
lures to the Centennial
New York city's Centennial population is
pnt at LOGO, ,000-an increase of only
10000 in hundred years.
An exchange thinks that if Lyon isn't the
greatest of all possible liars, there are many
great persons lying terribly about him.
More than million dollars worth of fine
paintings have been shipped from England
TO the Centennial Exhibition
Potato planting began in Nantucket ten
DAYS since That island has a milder
climate than the mainland
The House of Commons defeated BY vote
of 305 to 200 the motion to confer on the
Queen the additional title of Empress of
India.
That was quite a brilliant little victory
which tie Khedive of Egypt won over the
Abyssinians, the other dav.
Montana has taken an immense number
of buffalo skins, this season. The buffalo
will soon become as extinct as the dodo.
Tale and Harvard are to have their eight
cared four-mile contest on the 10Th of June,
on the Connecticut at Springfield.
There : cattle plague in Colorado, that
kills without warning.
Bismarck's project for getting the rail-
roads Of Germany under Government control
is not progressing satisfactorily.
No Republican defends Belknap no Dem
ocrat condemns Pendle.on.
The losses by the floods in Austria and
Hungary are estimated at over Sll ,000,-
600
Scotch sportsmen pay So 900, 600 annually
for license. to shoot game.
The Sultan has made the physician who
cured him OF his carbuncle,a general of
division. and paid him fee of $4,000 in
gold.
They are already making sandwiches to
be sold at the Centennial restaurants. They
will be kept in the sawdust until May 10th.
There is in New York city lady who for
ten wears has devoted nearly all her time to
alternating the condition OF cats.
The Supreme Court of the United States
has decided all head-money taxes on immi-
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Fashion papers say that there is more
than the usual variety this spring in the cut
OF gentlemen's garments
Snow flakes and apple blossoms" is what
they call Christiancy and his young wife.
A Connecticut woman was wearing q
calico dress, the other day, only seven hours
after the process of printing the cloth began
The boy bowling in major. the girl in
minor. two singing nurses, and between wei
diapers and milk bottles sit as loving
father" is the way Bismarck describes hi
married life
Judge Lowell, of the United States Dis
trct Court, of Massachusetts, has decided
that United States license is required fol
sales of liquors by the treasurer of a socia
club TO its members.
The Michigan state prison at jackson ha
been selt-supporting since 1869.
The grasshopper blossoms sweetly on th'
edge of the Minnesota snOwdrltt.
There was good sleighing in Rome, Italy
on Monday.
Mexico is on the eve Of another revolution
and it is likely strong effort will he made
to overthrow the government Of Presiden
Lerdo.
Omaha latest sensation is the marriage
of Chinaman and an American glrl.
The great revival" as it is now fre
quently termed, has spread into Canada.
Old lace is the object of the latest fashion
able mania, and the factories are rum in
double time to supply the demand.
Thirteen Indians and one white man kill
ed was the result Of the last fight betwee
the miners and Indians in the Black Hills
Bayard TAYLOR takes Mr.. Longfellow
place as Centennial poet. Mr.. Esarts accept
the orstorship, and the Virginia Lee read
the Declaration.
Victor Hugo has been offered the pres
dency of new society in Paris Th
General Association for the Study an
Practice Of Cremation"
When the case was announced in court
8. The State of Iowa uerSus Samson Caesar,
the aged African exclaimed, What d.
whole State of Iowa sgin this chile De
| surrenders."
Anne Brewster writes from Rome tha
the Pope is in good health, and no moi
likely to make room tor successor than h
was five years ago, when he completed th
% years Of ST. Peter.