Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-06-30
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IN GENERAL.
AN OLD PRovKRB WITH NEw TURN.
Not always when tho poor are helped
True charity is meant;
Loud talk expects its dollar back,
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AN OLD PRovKRB WITH NEW TURN.
Not always when tho poor are helped
True charity is meant
Loud talk expects Its dollar back,
But Silence gites accent.
Indians ride free on the Central Pacific,
and Camp Halleck boarding house keeper
took advantage of this to save freight
Whenever she wanted supplies Captain
Jacinto, bright Indian brave, would mus
ter his boys and squaws, jump aboard the
train for Elko, and ret I'm laden with goods,
wares and merchanGse for the boarding
house. The thing OF having the platforms of
of the cars so frequently occupied by Shos-
homes and Chemuck got little monotonous
so few days ago some Of the Wells-Fargo
BOYS got the lady order-book from the cap
tain, tore out the order, and substituted one
therefor. On the return trip the following
personal baggage was brought: Four hand
hay-rakes, one shovel-plough, one keg of
whiskey, three picks, four shoyels, two crow
bars, one gross of playing-cards, one keg of
nails, band-saw and jack-screw.
1t was Lord Houghton who, when lady,
more beautiful in her own eyes than those
of the world, was boasting that she had
in an undertone, "Chiropodists."
A widow in Detroit owns and occupies
cottage under the shadow OF church which
is supposed to be in danger of falling when
high wind blows. At midnight, a few
nights ago when the wind blew fcrcely, she
got up and dressed, called the children up,
and then dressed them, and folded her arms
the remark Now then, if that steeple falls
and kills US. people will know that we were
respectable family anyhow. George, you
brush your hair little more, and Sarah,
you take your feet off the stove-hearth, and
pin your collar to the left ~
Lapland mothers are not in the habit of
staying at home with their babies. The
Laps are very religious people, and take
long journeys to hear their pastors. As
soon as the family arrive at the little wooden
church, and the reindeer are secured, the
father shoyels snug little bed in the snow
and the mother wraps the baby in skigs and
the dog is set on guard. while the parents
go decorously into the church. Often as
MANY as thirty babies may be seen laid away
in the snow about the church.
A member of the Connecticut legislature
opposed an adjournment of that body from
Saturday to Wednesday because of Decora-
tion Day, in a speech in which he feelingly
said IL do not want myself on this day to
have brought up the memory of my brother
my ryes brother-who went to the war
and was shot down"
An intelligent foreigner, passing through
the streets of Philadelphia, took out his
note book at the end of a walk and made a
hot ssaiy
nine per centum of the population Of Phila
delphia are members Of the powerful family
of Roomstolet
As the dew falls noiselessly upon the ten
der herbage, as the present passes silently
into the past, as the perfume of kindly act
rises heavenwsrd unseen, so the hired girls
slips ont of the backway nights with a little
tea and sugar for her relatives.-Norrici
Bulletin.
A gentleman. dining with friend, was
asked what part of the fowl he preferred.
"Oi, only bone This request was liter
ally taken, and bone, well scraped, was
sent to him. Half of that, if you please
said he, sending back his plate.
They are playing baseball now in every
other vacant lot within two miles Of the
State house Small boys predominate, and
the one named Iii seems to be in every
nine. The rest are continually calling to
him. m.-Harttord Conranf.
Intelligent housemaid "Oh please, miss,
there was young gentleman called when
you was out. He didn't leave no card, miss,
but | can show you who he Is, cause there's
three of his photographs in your album. -
v. YsWorid.
1t is said that the revenge which man
most desires he never brings about himself
This is evident 1t would be absurd, Of
course, for every man to try to be gas
company and supply the present organiza-
tion.-Noricich Bulletin.
cannot marry you she said al do not
love YOU as a wife should, but could al
ways love dearly as brother" And then he
said, II do not come from the city Of Broth
erly Love" and left her to repent But he
went there, and is now q member of the
Centennial Guards, while she Is pining at
home because she cannot go to the Exhibi-
ton. Thus every day are mistakes of life
time made.
\ west-side man who saw load of coal
left at house, and arranged to 90 over and
borrow part of it after the other man was
in bed, got around that night, and found
that it had all been put into the cellar and
carefully locked up before nighttall. lie re-
marked the next day that it was shocking 10
think how little trustfulness people seemed
10 have in human nature re.-Noririch Buile-
I'M.
They were returning from a moonlight
excurs ion to Rockaway. The sea was quite
rough, and the little steamer rose and fell,
with every palsntion of the great deep. like
the hustle OF stormy woman. After study
ing the sky and ocean for about one hour in
silence, he turned to her and said Dear
Georgiana. YOU will be mine? You will give
me your hand and heart p "Oh, Alfred.
she answered, turning deadly pale. I'D
rather give you my stomach. "-Brookiyr
Argus.
Montreal burglars have added chemistry
to their curriculum. They apply test to
silverware, and leave plated articles with a
note to ''Shiey thes yere at cats.
In Philadelphia they have handkerchiel-
with the Declaration Of Independence print
ed on them in French, German, and English,
so that one can now blow his nose in three
languages in the Quaker City.-BrooklyH
Eagle.
A correspondent out in the suburbs wants
to know ''the best way to make hot bed. D."
If YOU are married man crawl into bed
with your boots on.-!S. Louis Times.
If we had enough sympathy to 60 around
we would extend it to Mrs. ex-Sultan of
Turkey There are about 500 of her, and,
since the overthrow and suicide of her hus-
band, the prospect of 500 new summer bon
nets is very gloomy indeed.-Norristown
Herald
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