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H. tnoukn the atuatloh IL AEa!thf AlId tAo pGtr
there is \ prejudice ~ kuow," said tho
gentleman, In 3 rolee broken with subs 'but
ihe fact is that laya Just hurled my wife, to
whuul was loudly attached, and ~ sl.o had
fus TOW Ut conversation thought that per
hapal wouldn't inns heE 90 much or feel 10
lonely II could gct desk.roon III your estab-
l!saDent" ~ zee, said tho proprietor, wiring
lug h!s haud warmly; II am ! married man luy-
sclf. You sltall have all the lesk-ruu yUu
want md We shaa't quarrel about the tcrniis.'
bltan~h3!e tho bookkecper, Younx ulan who
u engaged to 10 married na1t mouth, turued
psas anti wondered II such things could really
be-.
lferc Is beautiful little eundsy-seh story,
With moral that IL obvious to tho meancst "a
Pscltf. lew days &1o, u ! number of syhooI-
boys were Walking Af,lntw ards, they were STOP.
ped W stedy aud lis1eputab looking
nan, who, producing a board covered with
"Now, then, young gentlemen, here's chancu
or you 10 Iuake money enough to xtyu your
tatlers and IuotbeEs ste1u- -wlndibK watches aud
teAl4kin sets. One cent throw with this hero
lAtle st1tnR And rtng, and II yuu hook 1t On 10 =
heek, yeg xes = n!sksl: three hooaa IN aucces-
s!ou aud pay YOU quafttr. Now, then, my
Sons. II you want to roll in rtches un ~ your
neckA md ride IN yuux own carriages beh!nl
four-inhand tcans vi Goldslaith Maids.', A
little boy gosged the gl!ttetiue bait. paid I've
:enss for i've th!oHa, aud fetched hook
lhs proprietor Of the establishment. "thc4e you
put doyu dya cents and yCu take up Is Moth
Enx vsntuls, nothing hare. ueIe's your mooey.''
5uat a the boy va4 making hurrtad mental
calculation Of sxohaAdea pocket kntto into
overt" rosund and benesolcnt-laokiux Old
gentleman stspped Up to Al1n aud sud, "put It
down, ny sou, put It down. It blteth ike Aiua-
4pfsis aAd stinzeth Ike ~ sdueE, - tbs Gapd
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-02

James Ii. Prior. of st. Louis. according to
the Globe Democrat, has an adopted daugh-
ter Of l3 years who performs wonderful
gymnastic feats in her sleep. Finding her
room vacant one night, Mr.. Prior began a
search, which resulted in discovering her
walking along a narrow iron railing which
protected a gallery running the entire width
Of the house. When she reached the end
of the railing she deliberately turned and
walked back. This feat she performed sew
eral times with grace and apparent careless
ness In the meantime Mr.. Prior came to
himself, but fearing that if he moved it
would startle the girl, and she would fall to
the paved yard below, he remained quiet
while she continued he- perilous walk. In
few minutes she seemed satisfied, and,
carefully stepping to chair. reached the
floor and gided by Mr.. Prior, down the
hallway, into her apartment and bed, where
she was soon sleeping sweetly. At another
time Mr.. and Mrs. Prior found that the
girl had crawled through the skylight and
was. promenading the length Of the roof
ridge. She was walking with her arms
hanging listlessly by her side, and her head
inclined forward, as If she was looking i'm
mediately in front of her feet. The moon
was shining brightly, and the white, 1.-the
form of the sleeping girl could have been seen
block distant. There was chimney half
way to the ridge, and sometimes she made
detuurs to the right or left. going complete
around the obstruction. regaining the ridge,
and traversing the entire length. Once she
leaned on the chimney and seemed absorbed
in deep meditation. Each time she reached
the end of the roof it appeared to be her de-
liberate purpose to walk off, but she always
checked herself when within about foot Of
the edge, and slowly turning, carefully re-
traced her steps. Twice she descended on
the incline OF the roof, each time returning
to the ridge very rapidly. as if she had met
with something that excited her fears. Sew
eral times she looked up as if gazing at the
stars or listening to some distant sound.
Suddenly, while at the point of the ridge
which She had first reached, she began to des-
cend 10 the direction of the skylght, taking
each step with great caution, and making
slow progress. When she had nearly reach
cd the opening Mr.. Prior quietly withdrew.
In few minutes Laura followed, proceed
ing at once to the garret stairs and disap-
pearlng down the dark passage. Mr.. and
Mrs. Prior followed, keeping behind her as
closely as possible, but before they could
reach her she was in her own room und com
posing herself in bed
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-02

In speech delivered by the Right Hon.
John Bright before the " "Rochdale Working
mems Club and Chamber of Industry" at
Rochdale, on January 3 he gave utterance to
the following words of wisdom !:
"Whatever is good we owe D great deal of
to those among whom We associate"
Public opinion has put down duelling."
at would be better if nobody drank or got
drunk"
81 am not in favor of law which shall
say that no man shall partake of intoIica-
ting drink"
There is good deal of patronizing still
practiced when men address the laboring
classes"
Mr.. Ruskin is great critic. who has
said many things worth being remembered
and many things that ought to be forgotten" :"
MANY people think that because other
countries don't allow us to send our goods
free into their markets We should not allow
them to send their goods free into ours that
two bad things are better than one. They
remind me OF a man who, having had one
box on the ear, complained that none would
strike him on the other side of the head"
"The farmers who were always complain
ing when the corn law was in force have
never been heard to complain since it was
abolished"
''Our laws must be based on freedom and
justice, which bless alike him who gives and
him who takes"
The West India planter stole the labor
with which grew their crops
The abolition of the duty on sugar has
caused the quantity imported to be enor-
mously increased and the price to be in an
extraordinary degree diminished"
Sugar has not yet been as cheap as tur-
nips, but is as cheap as -four andits cheap
ness has added greatly to the comfort of
families"
when there are two men running after one
master wages are inclined to 60 down but
when two masters are running after one man
wages go up.
I'm the present day everybody has a news
paper il he chooses to possess himself Of 1t !;
and newspaper now contains an accu-
rate account OF all that is going on in the
world"
1.-The English, with nobody likely to at
lack them, are making 10O-ton guns"
'lt will be for the parents of this genera
tion TO decide whether the next generation
shall not be in advance of this us far as edu-
cation is concerned"
Glass distinctions in every branch of our
social life are icing day by day abolish
ed
AT this moment there are no conspiracies.
Your workInens club Is not u club TO get up
some movement against the law or the mon
archy."
There were times since Queen Victoria
came to the throne when there was a great
deal less of honest and true loyalty than is
TO be found in the country at the present
moment"
The influence of property, so far as it is
n Just influence, exists now, and is exercised
now and any exercise of it before the bal
lot was conferred was an exercise which
was a tyranny upon whom it was exercised"
The grand, noiseless triumphs of peace
find but scanty memorial at tho hands of
history blood shines more upon her
pages
1.-The workman o; England is now no long
er a human machine he is n ruler of men
and joint ruler of many nations"
depend upon it, ifyou support the school
the school will compensate YOU"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-02

Rev. DR.. Deems. Vanderbilt's minister
Is preparing a biography OF his patron.
The reports of the insanity of Frank
Waworth. the parricide, which have bSen
extensively circulated, are authoritatiyely
denied.
Mr.. Robert T. Lincoln. snr of President
Lincoln. has a claim tor 81 1000 Hsairst the
Washington Chronicle which recently sus-
pended publication.
The employees at the government printing
Office, Washington, have raised sufficient
sum by subscription to enable them TO dis
tribute 100 loaves of bread dav among the
needy for the next twenty-tour days.
Mr.. Hem. the conductor who was in
charge Of the trein wrecked at AshiAbula
returned to his duty last week. As his
train neared the new bridge hu grew 40
agitsted that he grasped seat nervOusly
for support, and as it passed eff the bridge
said Thank God I'm over, aud now I'm
not afraid to 40 over it u thousand times. y
Mr.. David Dudley Field has been describ-
ed by Mrs. Ciemmer, wha grayely declares
that all the Fields, with one exception.
have noses that exhaust the rest OF their
faces. You see hat f,int uu.llue oi tue
remaining features.
Senator Norton health j. said 10 be pre-
carious. lie walks with the utmost difficult
ty, using two canes. and IL unable 20 % up
or down stairs without the help of two
strong men.
The annual report OF the Bank of Italy
shows that the Pope has So coo .OUO IN
that institution.
The Ohio House OF Representative has
passed a bill providing icr compulsory edu-
cation. |. Is now before the Senate, with
gGnd prospect of success.
Subscriptions amounting II s,mo $30.-
900 have been made Tor the children OF Mr..
p. p. Bliss. the hymn writer. who wa- lost
IN the Ashtabula disaster.
Gen Diaz has sent $500. 600 10 pay our
Government the in-tai,urnt now overdue.
and thinks the acceptance pt thg money
will Involve Virtual recognition ut his
revolutionary authority.
The San Francisco Grand Opera House
still excludes colored people.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-02

Ii is said that ut Wilhrmshsicn harbOl
there are worm. that eat INTO iron. and 81
powerful are they that the destruction oI
German irnn-clad+ IL threatened. A cnrre-
spoudcnt ct the London Times says ''lt is
we'll known that Wilhenshafen. one VI
the most valuable ports existing, was
long useless on account Of q wood worm
which destroyed every ship that entered It's
waters"
"Tne latest" is the use OF coffee leaves ss
the leaves Of tea are used. Sui another !,
that, No matter how carefully writing has
been obliterared, enough traces of the iron
oxide ui the ink will remain to appear IN a
photograph at the paper written upon. It
IL claimed that the genulneness of dOcu-
menis cih b. proved by photography, since
the light reflected from virgin paper acts
differently upon Photographic materials
from that r,htctCd from parts that have
been Lormerly covered with ink, even
lhuus the cSe iail to detect the difference.
The total disappearance of vessels on the
Atlantic has given rise to considerable spec
ulatIOn ami thought from time to time. An
experienced sra captain Captain Furnell {,
superiutendent ot the Mercantile Marine
ofict) writIug tn tho London Times, ex-
pTC~-CS tnt tplhlhu ~ " tuc
cause of these disasters: Il think many
losses in tho Atlantic may bo caused by
pieces Of ii ,atiug ur.ck and logs of timber,
which. having been in the water some
length OF umc. are saturated and full OF
barnacles; to sirisc them end On would be
fatal TO any ship.
Professor Biih, vt meeting Of the Milan
Qtuiy) Institute. presented the heart OF Il
luuaIIc who mad d,ed of gangrene OF the
tongue. from bite he had inflicted during
Il mrniacal paruxysm. At the autopsy
needle six centlmeteTs in length was found
IN the lett ysutrIcc, Its point, after perior-
atlng the valve, pcnttrating TO the extent
of Que c,niimrttr aud Il hall i'll the lett au-
riclr. lhr luuarIc, twenty-five months
prior to hi. death. announced to his rela-
tiyr- that he had forced n needle into his
heart but httle attention was paid to his
stst,meLr, especially as no symptoms OF
any disorder III the chest manifested them
selves, the pul>e during all this time, too,
being quite regular IN Its beats.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-02

ey. What's s2o,OBswell, welt. yo5
does things so cunhIHg: that must eblig'
YOU. will take ~ tn legal interest iOl
That won't do, Mr.. Astor. If you have
so much money, other people have not. Say
two and halt per cent and tomorrow morn
ing will pay the amount
my boy," said Mr.. Astor, "you beat mt
down all around. See here it Is q bargain
You are sharper than your ladder. Now
tell you. have given you good bargain to-
day tell me in confidence what Gou do with
those skins
Il will ask you to take two and half per
cent. more off the cost of the goods for the
information"
dat would be paying too much. Good
bye; you come see me In the morning-and
my supper, dat must be cold"
Early In the morning sold my bills on
London at good rate, and in order to con-
ceal the whole transaction, carried round
the money to Eessey street.
Presently Mr.. Astor came in. "You are
cunning; buy your bill myself on the
Rothschilds. A bargain is bargain. The
Liverpool packet came in last night. OF
tiers is worth pound in London. on rising
market. It's all right. If YOU hadn't
worked with my men, examing the skins
yourself. never would have trusted you
maybe never have sold them offers at your
figures. How you got the news first. l
don't know. Come and sec me again. Buy
feeders for your wife. and give parties. l
treat you frst-rate about them ctters but,
young man, John jacob make good thing
out of them skins himself, even if he sells
them at two dollars"
had many a transaction afterward with
Astor, and had an unlimited credit which,
however, | never abused. Whenever l
went into his store to do any business with
Mr.. Astor, he would say. Cash, or credit
this time How your wiie's fedders? Any
more babies"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-02

DEATH by SNAKE, E,BIfEs IN INrn-In
January, 1870, DIR. Fayrer addressed let
ter to the secretaries OF political agents of
the principal governments of India, solicit
ing Information rs To loss Of lie by snake
bites. Replies were received containing
reports from many districts of these
governments of the numbtr Of deaths
from this cause IN 1869; but from
Others no return vas made, 50 that
the information obtained was very incom-
pletP. In iorry-eight districts OF Bengal
6.2l9 deaths were reported a. having taken
place: ard IN other parts the LOSSES TOunt
ed to s. .l91 making Il total of II ,il6 fatal
accidents OF this kird. But it is to no OBJ
served that from large part of India the
Doctor neither applied Tor nor received IN
formation, and that even from the govern
ments to which the circular was sent tho
returns received were very incomplete, the
area represented by them being less than
half OF tho peninsula OF lhndOOstan
besides which there - reason to think that
even in the districts from which returns
were obtained many Deaths by snake bites
must have occurred besides those which
were reported, such an accident being too
ordinary an event to attract much atton-
ton and Dr. Fayrer does not hesitate t.
express HIS belief that, il full information
could be obtained from the " hole OF Him
doostnn, at would be found that more than
from snako-bite - ChdmJtrS Journal.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-02

Ga, mother, what do they mean by blue,
And what do they mean BY siayf"
Mas heard from the lips Of 1.-THE child
AS she bounced in from blay.
The mothe s ey es hlled up with tears
eh- turned tU her darling lair,
And smo"tned away from Ihe suury brow
Its treasures Of golden hair.
- Why, mothers eyes are blue, my sweet.
Ana grandps's hair Is grayJ
Ana the iovs We bear our dsrliug child
Grows stronger every day "
" But What did they mean :" persisted the child /;
" f. T saw two sripples to day,
And one Of them ss q he fought for the blue
Ihs other, lie fought for The gray.
" Now, he of the blue had lost leg,
AID the her hsa but one arm,
And boih seemed worn and weary and sad,
Yet heir greeting was kind and warm.
Thev tod Of battles in DAY Q gone by,
1lil It made my young blood thrill;
The leg Was lost in the Wilderness lght,
and the aim Oh nralyern HUI.
" They sat on the stone by the farm-yard gate,
And talsed ior an hour or more.
III! thelr eyes grew sht AID their hearts seemed
wuh lighting their battles Ger
And parting at last with 3 friendly grasp,
ID kindly, brUtherly way,
Each Calling on 6od 10 speed the tine
Uniting the blue and gray"
Then the mother thought Of other days
Two stalwart boys from her riven
Row they kneIt ~ her side and. lisping, prayed
Our Father which art in Heaven;
How ne wore the gray and the other the blue;
How they passed away from sight.
And had gone TO the land where xray and blue
Are merged in colors Of light.
And she answered her darling with golden hair,
While her heart Was sadly wrang
With the thoughts awakened in that sad hour
BY her innOc Mt, pratting tongue
" The blue and the srSy are the cOlors OF God
They are seen In the sky At even,
Ard many a noble. gallant soul
has iUund them Passports 10 Heaven"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-02

LONDON lines IScoxE.-The advertising
space in the "old Thunderer," what amount
Of money it brings, how the paper is "made
up" and other interesting details, are set
forth by London correspondent Of the
Graphic lie dates June l8, saying The
Inns to-day consists of 100 colums of solid
matter. There are 20 pages, each, as you
know, Just the size Of the pages Of the New
York Tribune. But there is no display in
the Times every page IS packed solid, and
there is not a vacant line. There is no lead
ed matter, except the leading articles, the
special telegraphic dispatches, and one of
the loreign letters. The type is small it is
BREWER, minIon, and nonIareil. If the
amount of matter in this number Of the
Times were given to any Of the New York
morning paper to print in their usual style.
all of them, except the Sun, would fill not
less than 40 of their pages with it. There
are G7 columns of advertisements. Ii is
easy enough to calculate what these adver-
tisements paid, for the terms of the Times
can be ascertained, and there ~ never any
abatement or discount from them. The e.
columns IN to-day's issue. according to my
calculation, brought in 81, l,765, and am
sure that am not $50 out of the way. II
the Times had this amount of advertising
every day, irs income from this source would
be 1852 445 a year. But generally the
Times contains but lG pages, and all the
year round it has about 50 columns of adver-
tisemcnrs day. At this rate its income
from advertisements would be about f430,
600 year and it is from this source that
it must wholly, or chiefly, pay all its ex-
penses other than those Of its paper makers,
its compJsitors, and its press work. AT
threepence a copy, the Times probably has
the cost Of its actual mechanical production
but no more. Out Of the $3.50 900 received
for advertisements. all its other expenses
must be betrayed. The expenses are vast
but with G430 600, one may pay all Of them
and probably have clear balance Of fl00,.
900 El20 900 profit.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-02
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N~oG certain occasion Paul Dentop,s 1
1Iethodist preacher in Texas, .advertised !
barbecue, with better liquor than is usually
furnished. When. the people assembled, .
desperate in the crowd cried out. " Mr.
Paul Denton, your reverence has lied. You
promised not only good barbecue, but the
best of liquor. Where's the liquor z
There, answered the missionary, Ill tones
OF .hunder, and pointing his long bony fin
ger ut the matchless double spring, gushing
up in two strong columns with q sound like u
shout of JOY from the bosom of the earth.
There" he repeated, ''is the liquor which
God, the Eternal, bIews for all His children
Not in the simmering still. over smoky fires,
choked with poisonous gases, and surround
ed with the stencil of sickening odors and
corruption, doth your Father in heaven pre-
pare the precious essence of life-pure cold
water. But in the green glade and grassy
dell, where the red deer wanders and the
child loves to play, there God brews it, and
Jwn. low down. in the deepest valleys,
where the fountain murmurs and the nils
sing. and high up on the mountain tops,
where the naked granite glitters like golSiin
the sun, where storm-clouds brood and the
thunder-storms crash, and out ON the wild,
wide sea. where the hurricane howls music,
and the big waves roar the chorus. sweeping
the march of God-there he brews it-bev-
erage of life, health-giving wafer. And every
where it is thing Of beauty cleaning In
the dew-drop, singing in the summer rain,
shining in the icicles, till they seem Turn
ed TO living gems spreading golden vail
over the setting sun, or white gauze around
the midnight moon /; sporting In the catar-
act sleeping in the glacier, dancing i'll the
hail shower folding Its bright curtains soft
ly around the wintry world, and weaving the
many colored bow. that seraph's zone OF the
ar, whose warp is the rain-drops OF the earth,
and whose woOf is the sunbeams of heaven,
all checkered over with the celestial flowers
OF the mystic hand of refraction blessed
hfe-water. No poison bubbles on its brink !;
its foam brings not madness and murder no
blood stains its liquid glass /; pale widows
and starving children weep not burning tears
in its depths Speak out. my friends :;
would you exchange it for the demon drink,
alcohol ~ A shout like the roar OF the tenn
pest answered. mo -
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-02

TuK natives of Louisiana will not be de-
lighted with the criticism of their habits of
lie which Col. Joyce, of Vermont. a mem
Der of the Louisiana Investigating Com
mittee of the House of Representatives
makes in a recent letter. lie says: 1t has
been extremely cold. and these people live
in houses which Vermont farmer would
hardly use AZ sheep shed. consequently
have been chilled to a pucker night and
day Again. they seem to be entirely de-
VOID Of the sense of smell and taste. and
know no more of the art of cooking than
they do of the spirit OF Christ's Sermon on
the Mount"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-02

A Lucky REsoLvE.-in 1863 a party Of
Minnesotians, among whom were few
old California miners, were Uurneying
across the northern part of Montana, pros
pectIng here and there, and finally camp.d
ut the present site Of Helena, rather dis
gusted with their luck, and cursng the
country generally. They had pruspccted ut
several points IN the gulch, where the
town now stands. and, though finding
colorS almost everywhere. were no. satisfied
with their luck. They determined to 20 ON
south oi the new Bannack diggings, about
$50 mics further up toward the head of the
Missouri, and were preparing for the start,
when one OF tho Ca!Iiornisns, who had tax
en- fancy to the locality. and thought,
from general Appearances, that it ought to
be rich concluded to try at one more spot,
and, taking the shovel. pick, and pan, +,
selected spot apparently favorable, and
remarked: well, boys. we'!l try little
here hero's Tor the last chance" They
dug lew feet, and struck it rich, and
Within three years the gulch had yielded
SS,oOO, ,OOO in gold Mining Revic0