Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-04-21
HERE AND THERE.


HAND IN HAND
Two doves np0n the self-same branch,
Two lilies On siRgle stem,
Two butterflies upon one flower
happy they who look on them
Who look upon them hand in hand.
Flushed IN the summer rosy 4 -ht,
Who look upon them hand in hand
And never give thought 20 night
Ctrisf,ie q. Ross IN
\ man who contracted debt OF Sllis
promised to pay it in two installments. Las
week he forwarded 81 and promised to seuC
the other Si3 a. soon as the times got bet
ter.-Norristorn Herald.
"No stree - said an Old gentleman YES
terday as he finished reading the terms o
the Surepop Insurance Company, and ten
DERBY waited his bandana over the steel
bowed telescopes that adorned hls nose. 81
don't want any in my. 1t i miserab.y
disguised imitation of betting. For example
| take risk that is, man bets me ;j0t
that my house will not he burned. liz
doesn't nut up a cent but have 10 keep
putting up, and if the place doesn't happen
10 20, II Gusts me a good deal more thar
that sum. On the contrary. if fire does hit
me, then he comes round and saws the state
ment Of the bet was not understood. and
what I've already sunk Is gone. No, sir
YOU don't convince me. -IGulf9H Ga
-effe
Ancient Mariner Ito his youngest) -
We'll, it YOU likes the girl why don Won
90 and tell her 80, Emery. | mind tlt
time-Id married your mother-ah. and
done my six months for woppin her, too
long afore | was your age; but, lor' there
amt no speret in youth nowadays FIN
\ rural female beauty alighted from the stage
coach in front of the American Hotel, Glens
Falls, n Y, the other day, when piece Of
ribbon detached itself from her bonnet, and
tell into the bottom of the carriage. You
have left you bow behind" said lady pas
senger mo amt; he's gone a-hshIng.
innocently replied rustic.
Some genius has invented an instrument
to determine the distance of armies from
each other by the sound of their guns. Thl-
is most valuable invention. By its use
armies hereafter VIII, be able TO avoid AL risk
of accidentally getting within range of eIch
Others fire. What blessing it would have
been during the late Spanish war.
A Butcher was lamenting to his Irish land
lord that the people of his village were sc
few and so poor that he was unable, Is form
erly. to find customers for whole bullock
xiii halfsa one at time, replied the
squire.
\ San Antoio, Texas butchers direction
to a man who was to deliver some hogs at hi
house "You choost goes pehind de MengeI
and turns to de right till you comes to q
fence nit hole in it, den you turns VI
to de right for while till you see hous'
NIT big hog in de yard. Dots me.
Colored BARRIERS are an institution of grea
antiquity. Hamlet refers to parry wh'
was "a niger, andia-nippin hair -''-Phiia
delphia Bulletin.
A New Orleans merchant was induced by
a woman who told pitiful story of poverty
to give her $l4 with which TO bury hel
dead husband. Before giving the money
he went to the house and saw a discoloreC
corpse that be thought ought to have beer
buried days before. In his hurry to get away
from the place, he forgot his umbrella
When he returned for it, he found the corps
sitting up and counting the Sl4.
81 dou't like that hair butter" growleC
troublesome border from the country at q
tn street boarding house. The mex
time he sat down he found the obllgin.
landlady had laid fine tooth comb will
his knife and fork
A prominent clergyman of Brooklyn, las
week, while taking one Of course Of box
ing lessons for exercise, received what thu
boys call a "jolly black eye" On Sunday
he chose his text from Timothy iv., I: 81
have fought good fight, have finished n,
course "-BostoR Iraueiier.
The Philadelphia Bulletin says Of the CIR
who recites four thousands verses of Scrip
ture every Sunday that she nearly reaches thu
Democratic standard as a repeater.
Ii was Worcester minister who said tina
one OF his deacons was nearly ruined by th'
dam disaster r.-LOtceH Courier.
A popular poem mas been thus transform
ed on the Pacific slope:
Lunch, brothers lunch with care.
Lunch in the presence Of the barkeepare,
And help yourself to the sassenjaire.
And touch very light on the strong huttaire
And pay your bill on the mans countaire.
They call it ''an act to promote pedestrian
ism among students" when the Californi,
legislature DEGREES that no liquor shall b
sold within four miles of the State univer
| sity.-Hartford Iimes.