Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-04-06

Ml~SOurl mas passed. rat Dlll, CIV
ing five cents Tor the hide of every rat
caught.
| The British revenue will. for the first
| time for many years. fall below the budget
| estimates.
Mrs. Hayes. it appears, does not dress ex-
pensively enough to please the fashiona BILE
ladies OF Washington.
Albany boasts of man who is so cold
| blOoded that dog who bit him in the leg
had all his front teeth frozen
A Virginia bridegroom over seven feet
high is announced. Ii is believed she only
married him to go chestnutting with.
Miss Cary has just placed on exhibition.
| in Portland shop window, the gold break
fast service presented to her in Russia.
Robert Bonner has issued a catalogue of
| the horses in his stables. showing one hun
dred trotters worth half a million. None
are for sale.
Nellie Grant Sartoris's boy. born on St.
| Patrick day, has been named Jules, which
is an adaptation of his grandmother's name
| OF Julia.
The latest thing in funerals is at Alton.
H.. where a young lady recently buried,
was attended by pall-bearers of her own sex
and age.
Austin Sheldon. hermit. living in
cave near Milford, Penn, for 40 years past,
was found frozen to death in the cave, We'd
nesday, aged 20.
JerOthmul B. Barnaby is the full name of
| the Democratic candidate for governor of
Rhode Island, but wherever he got it
nobody can imagine.
The Salt Lake Tribune estimates that
since the settlement of Utah over 600
murders have been committed by the order
of the Mormon priesthood.
A Vermonter. in Utah. writes that sines
he went there. in 1859. the average depth
of the water in Salt lake has increased
about IL feet. and the salt has lessened
80 per cent.
The Grecian knot at the back of the head
is seldom seen now. The hair is rolled in
many puffs high on the head. The Greeian
made pretty girls look plain and plain
ones ugly.
The DR.. Reynolds temperance reform
work in Michigan continues with surpris-
ing results. He has organized 40 clubs
in Ia weeks, having a membership of 30,
| 600
Mrs. Gormon, indicted as one of the
volunteer spectators of a prize fight, was
discharged at Burlington, ky., the judge
remarking that woman's strong, natural
curiosity was sufficient excuse for her going
anywhere to sec anything.
A citizen of Albany wants 81 900 for
breaking his collar bone on the street. and
this when whole skeletons are selling at
S35 each in New York.
Six girl babies were born in one house in
Emanuel county, Ga, the other night, and
all of them turned their faces to the wall
and walled.
OF London coal dealer who has Just
failed for a million, it Is said that his mis-
fortune, like his fortune, all came in a
lump.
A few minutes before being shot the
Mormon Lee was requested by the photo
grapher to ''please assume n pleasant
look, ~ and was told to wink when he was
a-mind to-" Business is business.
A Frenchman said of Shakespeare. "Ven
you find any zing you no understan' 1t is
always somezing tne.'
The bay mare Princess. foaled in 1918
and bred in New Hampshire, died at Robert
Boomers stock farm in Tarrytown, New
York, a few days ago. Princess trotted
two ten-mile races to wagon in 29:l0} and
29I6S.
A despatch from Rome says: Gen.
0arette presented to Cardinal Simeoni on
Friday, an album containing the signatures
OF over 30,O 900 volunteers prepared to shed
their blood for the temporal power of the
Pope.
A boy, in Cincinnati, came to his death
the other day by cutting his throat with
tin trumpet. He was running at the top
of his speed. and falling to the pavement,
the mouth-piece of the trumpet was driven
into his neck. severing the jugular vein
Capt. BOgardus, in shooting his great
match at 6ilmore's Garden, New York,
Friday evening. broke 200 glass balls. one
at time. in the mir. in II minutes and 46
seconds. He used two double barrelled
guns, and only missed rs balls out OF OPS.
William Campbell. New York paper
manufacturer, who had brought suit for
divorce against his wife, was horsewhipped
by her in Central Park on Saturday, where
they were driving fast horses in separate
vehicles. She gave bond in $500 to keep
the peace.
Ann Arbor, Mich, is excited over the
pluck of one of its young ladies' Miss Mary
Wheeler was engaged to Mr.. Lilly, who is
stationed IN Yokohama, Japan. translatlng
the Bible lie could not leave his work
long enough to come after her all the way,
50 she has gone to meet and marry him ut
San Francisco.
Two State banks, one at llarrisburgh, Pa,
and the other at New Brunswick, New Jer-
sey, suspended operations last week, the
cause assigned in one instance being the
- unprOttableness OF the banking business,
and in the otner the "dullness OF the
times"
The cat" says the GrGphjr. " is not
in the Bible, though the word
roof occurs eleven times 'tougs' five times
md 'hurl' three times. The h0Otjack had
rot then been discovered The word 'piety'
appears IN the Bible only once, and the
words moral and morality not at all. A
ferryboat,' however, is mentioned onee,and
engines twice"
John Templeton, who died at Delta. o.,
ately. had for the past 10 years, weighed
'etween 400 and 500 pounds.
The New Orleans PicQyune notes the Gu
IOus fact that the two banks OF the Missis-
ippl river have different climates. A frost
n one side rarely travels across the river:
'hIle the tight bank enjoys y rain the left
nay be suffering from drouth.
Capt. Burnabv. the Asiatic traveller. finds
he Garden of Eden very cold. On Febru-
ry Sth, he wrote from ErzerOum, which is
lose to it The thermometer is about
ero. Ii the weather was like this at the
reation, Adam and Eve must have found il
neommon cold in fig leaves
Alice Wren, the young American actress,
eported murdered by savaees at The Cane
Good Hope, proves to have been straugl-
i by Nine Cora, the chief of the troupe,
a tit OF jealousy. Miss Wren belonged in