Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-10-05
Notes Of the Day.

They all took their heels down from the
mantle piece, brought the legs of their chairs
to the floor. and turned round to look ut the
remarkable object which entered the door of
the National House. Terre IIaute Indiana.
1t was u woman, and her costume not OF II
kind generally publicly exhibited. II was an
''Aminia" doing her sleep-walk. She was
awakened ard taken home, and next day re-
turned thanks to her discoveries through the
newspapers. suggesting Mt the same time thar
they he II little lighter in the grip next time.
She thought 1t was unnecessary to "bounce
II woman round that way"
The colored people of Midway, kentucky,
had II Methodist Conference. 1t was big
affair. and when the clipper man went to de
scribe 1t, the Intelligent compositor got II
take. with this result The assembly, as II
whale. would have done credit to any COM
munity.
lie is a farmer man. and came into Cincin-
natl 10 get IL new bride for his horse With
the horse and the wagon he stopped Mt the
harness store, and having got the article he
wanted took of the old head gear to try on
the new The ungrateful animal at this crit
ical moment concluded on II hit of exercise,
and started oil for run. The farmer grab
bed him by the Ears. and accompanied the
procession yelling like demon and his legs
making swimming motions i'll the air. The
horse put across the street and into beer
saloon ms far rs he could 20, the wagon catch
ing i'll the door, the beer man not having it
large enough for the entrance of such GUS
toners Hans was drawing schooner ut
the moment, which he, of course, dropped
and all the fellows got up and went out to
make suggestions. They forgot to come
back, and Hans had to put whole lot of
things on his slate.
People wandering along II certain portion
of the Short Line Railroad, which runs from
Cincinnati O., to Louisville, n.y.. as people
will wander along railroads, principally be
cause they ought not to. were surprised and
delighted at observing numberless mules i'll
various states OF decentralization. There
were mules with nmc legs. and mules with
bloody noses, mules utterly powerless to
kick, and therefore capable Of examination,
and there were dead mules. There had not
been II rain ut mules no long -suilerlng man
had nj last arisen III his anger, determined To
wrcak Vengeance On the whole mce Of mules.
These miscellaneous mules had with others
been in IL ear, and while the train was run
ming managed 10 open the door aud start II
circus on their own account.
\ toddhng chap of seven years was picked
M hy IA st Luuis police officer, and as he
couldn't, or wouldn't. tell where he lived,
was taken to the statIon-house. lie was
Willie and Clark, and his father was John and
Clark but thnt was all. He mndc himself ut
home. lie was well dressed. and II restnu-
rant man. when told that, sent HIM PIE.
The turnkey put the PIE down md went form
knit. To- cut It When he came hnck the boy
was putting 1t down tno. with much rapIdIty,
aud no knife. jerks. the largest eater on
the police force said hr never knew such an
appetite before N u person 50 young. His
father found HIM III two days. which shows
that the st. Louis police system IL wonderful
IN its operation. But he did not care to go
nwny lie liked the station-housc When
he gets older he will change his opinion in
that particular.
''Dut vas %" asked the Gothrm Dutch
barber "Spichn MY mnnchrr,' he SAID IA
gam IL" sad il four or five times more no
smiled ut the barber. hut the barber only
looked ut him with puzzled solcmnity. He
tried it standing on une loot. then with one
hand hrhind his hnci... hut the Dutchmmn
couldn't make 1t out Then he slammed the
door. and Disappeared, rcnarking very in
trlhgillc and v,ry wicked things Il no
know vat dot means | know not French
That man was trying to talk German. said
the nthered fellow IN the chair. Mime