Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-03-17

sed into this dainty little poem by Jesl In
gelow
sweet j. .chilihood-ch.ldhJod ever,
h :. and part.
Sweet Is youth but youth T5Fer
Sos my heart.
Sweet 5 rest but al BY showing
Toll IS Ugh.
We raust 60. Alas the gong,
Fay, GOOD bye
If YOU have any relatives living IL Phil
/ ladelphia be wise and keep it to yourself.
| One Young lady up town, who indiscreetly
admitted that she had third cousin over
there. with large house and plenty OF spare
room in 1t, has been invited by no less than
twen ty other Young ladies to help make up
q partv 10 10 over and spend a week at the
| Centennial next summer y. }. Com.
Ado
Why should the beehive be taken a a
symbol OF industry Not bee is to be seen
| all the winter long, while the cOckroach Is
| up al ) clock in the morning, and never
/ goes 10 bed till midnight Let's change this
thing.
There are some curious things contained
/ in Diplomatic instructions, sometimes, but
/ about the most curious that could be imagl-
ned were those to Colonel Duncan, an ing
| lish commissioner, telling him not to take on
his boots in the presence Of the hing OF
Burmah.
practical ioke was once attempted TO be
PLAYED on Mr.. Erskine as he went one day
| to Westminster Hall with his ample bag
cIammed full Of briefs Some waggish bar
rister hired Jew bog 10 go and ask him
he had 'any old clos to sell. - mo, YOU
little Hebrew imp" exclaimed the indig-
nant counsellor, They are all new suits.
b. F. Henry of Mortified, MINI, has
been spending large part of his valuable
| life chOpping up with his scissors piece OF
white paper measuring seven by ten inches.
| He has produced a representation OF tree
with finely proportional trunk and branches
and containing 1870 leayes, and sixty birds
sitting in the branches Every branch, leaf
and bird is perfect, with its proper proportions
/ and perfect in its most minute details. Men
who produce such things to benefit mankind
/ DO not live in vain
Such thoughts as this overcome the su--
ceptible mind of the editor of the Livingston
| (Ky.) Era How often have we seen the
| blooming maiden upon whose face SMILES
danced ike sunbeams upon the bosom OF the
sea, and whose life gave promise OF hap
piness unalloyed and hope unrequited, sit
ting with huge wad of gum in her mouth,
ana her beautiful chin rising and falling ike
a wave upon the ocean, while the meek pas
tor eudeayored to point her to the New der
usalem.
A Young American lady who has enjoyed
the rare privilege of taking stroll with the
poet Tennyson, incidentally mentions in a
letter 10 a friend that ''it seriously affected
the romance of the situation when he paused
during the walk to scratch his back against a
gate post.
A profane young person, describing the
looks of newly arrived NJ. c. from the far
West as he appeared at the Washington
depot, says ''lIe looked as if be had como
all the way across the continent on the hur-
ricane deck of a mule.
There is man living in Taunton, Mass.
who has had rather checkered career. lie
has been twice shipwrecked was nearly
baked in a railroad accident; has been run
away with times without number ; was shot
in the neck at Gettysburg was a prisoner
in Libby prison; fell overheard from a
whaler and had two fingers bitten off by a
shark was drafted twice had his right arm
broken in two places in the first New York
riot stood on barrel with rope around
his neck from sunrise to sunset in an Aiaba-
ma town at the outbreak of the rebellion /;
was crushed by falling building during al
earthquake in California, and was without
food or drink nearly fifty hours and when
going home from the White Pine mines mar
rowly escape lynching Still he doesn't com
plain.
Chinese physicians treat hydrophobis in q
highly original manner. Two sandstone
bottles bali filled with wine or spirits are
placed upon fire until the liquid boils
The contents are then emptied, and the red
hot mouth of the bottle is applied to the bite
and held there until it is filed with blood
when the same course is pursued Nth the
other bottle decoction of rice, in whict
cantharides have been boiled for an hour ant
then removed, is also given the patient, wh(
Is required to keep perfectly quiet for eigh
or ten DAYS.