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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-01-18

JANUARY AND MAY.-The newspapers are
collecting precedents for the action of the
aged Mr.. Lord in marrying Mrs. Hicks.
The Philadelphia Bulletin cites the case of
a physician in Worcester, so years old, who
married a woman Of 2S, and still continued
to drug and drench the sick people Of the
town. blacks mith. 80 years old, IN the
same place, took for bride a girl of Is.
and escaped the madhOuse. Ii is related OF
a man in Berkshire that he married when
at the age of rs a girl " HON his third wife
had brought up. Another case is that OF a
soldier who had served in the wars, and at
the age OF 80 still carried q bullet in his
nose, taking as his wife girl of 10. In
Scotland in l749 ". Hamilton. who was so
years old, and whose legs were drawn up
to his ears and his arms twisted backward.
married a woman of 20, and was carried to
church on mems shoulders on the happy
day. At another almost equally remark
able wedding in Berkshire the groom was
s5, the bride SO. and each of the brides
maids was more than 20. Six granddaugh-
ters of the groom strewed flowers IN the
path of the bridal party. instead OF sus-
pecting him OF insanity. Old Thomas Parr
is still more remarkable instance OF con-
nubisl felicity IN old age. lie was so when
came the father OF two children At l05
he Is said to have had love intrigue-at
least he was punished for one. At 40 he
married the second time. That's record
to trag OF.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-01-18

Why is lamp-chimney like Chicago
savings bank; No one appears able to an
swer this. bU,LTy Ne,rs. That's mere
snare. It's too easy. |. Because they're
surc to break. H. BecrIse SCOT is apt to
grow out of them. i'll. Because they burn
your fingers ". Because they can't stand
ii strong draft. V. Because there is some
thing wick at the bottom of them. VI.
Because they're hollow. VII Because they've
benzine TO TO bust. VIII. But there there !
we're weary, we're a-weary. we are sad and
sore perplexed let our answer your query
be continued in our next Philadelphia B,d-
Lii,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-01-18
SENATOR EDMUNDs's RELIGIOUS AMEND
NgSr Senator Edmunds's constitutional
amendment is as follows:

ARTICLE l2. No State shall make any
law respecting the establishment of religion
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. and
no religious test shall ever be required as a
qualification to Office or public trust under
any State. No public property and no pub
lie revenue of, nor any loan of credit by or
under the authority OF the United States, or
any state, territory. district or municipal
corporation shall be appropriated to or made
or used for the support OF any school, edu-
cational OF other institution under the con-
troll of any religious or anti-religiOus sect,
organization or denomination. or wherein
the particular creed or tenets of any reli-
giOus or anti-religious sect, organization or
denomination shall be taught, and no such
particular creed or tenets shall be read or
taught in any school or institution support
ed in whole or in part by such revenue or
loan of credit. and no such appropriation or
loan of credit shall be made to any religious
or anti-religiouS sect, organic alton or de-
nomination, OF to promote its interests or
tenets. This article shall not be construed
to prohibit the reading of the Bible in any
school or institution. and it snail not have
the effect to impair the rights OF property
already vested.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-01-18
My Mother.

by A. A. EARLE.
She sleeps where winds the Chateaugay,
Whose wsnton waters roll
Where rocks Titanic. old and gray,
Its msndeued floods control
It's fitting thus that she should sleep
Where winds and waves are free,
Aud tendrils Of the ivy creep
To WOO the bird and bee.
When stars their anxious vigils keep
To guard the lowly mound,
And arching skies bend low to weep
Ana kiss the holy ground
Twas then the Shining ones came forth
To sweep the fragrant sod,
AM set a gem Of peerless worth
In coronet Of God.
Lite apple blossoms fragrant, shed
Upon the trembling air,
Her path through wales of sorrow led,
And up the hills Of tare.
And though life's thorns were thlckly strewn
s'ill p'odded she along;
Her WAYS were like holy hymn
Or ripple OF song.
Tn. whlte rose blooms beside her grave,
The grass grows green above,
Ana honeysuckie blossoms wave
Where rests q buried love.
The jeweled eyes Of Hesven looked down
Acriss Nights vaulted sea;
And angels be5k 'nIng hold a crown
They becsoa you and me.
Silent and mute tho old church hell.
That IN its steeple hung,
Vexed uOt the air with solemn knell,
No heat with iron tongue.
n, grand cathe 1raps liite dome
Echoed the mourner's treac,
But iron lowly cottage home
The poor procession led.
Yes, rests she where the Chateaugay
Its crystal waters roll,
Wher- summer sunshine loves to play
And WOO the zsphyr's soul,
All dresmless there shall be her sleep,
Where Natures pu Sc is free,
And ivy tendrils climbing creep
To WOO the bird and bee.
Dec. 1877.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-01-18

CAsADAGA, in Chsutauqus Co, N. Y,
has or had Postmaster Fisher who leaped
into lame from an ode upon drowning ac-
cident. which immortsliEsd the escape of one
young woman, as follows:
"She filed with water, rack,d with pain.
Was emptied and revived again,
And sale unto her friends restored;
Oh, may she liysto serve the Lord -
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-01-18

Strange effect OF a-air Mrs. Jones
Dear me, Mr.. Brown, thought you were at
the sea. side with Mrs Brown and the child
rem How are they Brown (who had evi-
IDENTIFY been unching at his cluD) Fam'lysh
well, bur all durro wharitish, theresh some
thin i the she air doshilt sheen to shut me-
allays feel out ashortsh at er dinner-p'Iaps
this time discovered his condition, and makes
of hastily.l II
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-01-18

There were only seventy cats at Philadel-
phias recent cat show. The other I, 900. 5i7
adds the Norristown HrulD were sitting on
back fences and sheds o nights growing vt
the small amount OF the premiums offered
and discussing methods to avert the dangers
threatened by the lively sausage season.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-01-18

The fire reporter of the Post says, con-
cerning the confiagration Of the North Point
dock warehouse The pig iron is of course
uniniured." This quieted mucn public ap-
prehension, for It was considered certain that
if the pig-iron had caught fire nothing could
have saved the city.-S9n francisco Mil
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-01-18

Our this way, if society doesn't mend its
ways, young men will have to give presents
on the following basis Eliza Jane, my
afianced, receives this gold chain with the
understanding that it is TO be returned to
me in case Of a separation. Signed Eliza
Jane "-Detroh Free Press.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-01-18

We observe that well known corset man
ufacturer places his monogram conspicuous
ly on the front Of each article. This method
of advertising is about as unobtrusive as an
advertisement in our evening contemporary
would e. Worcester Press.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-01-18


The SKY IN JAsUARY.-Venus is now very
conspicuous, and will be at her brightest on
the 10Th so bright. indeed. tnat she may
be seen with the naked eye in broad day
light. She crosses the meridian. or is exact
ly south, at 2;0l p. m. on the 30th. Venus
will be in Aqusrius all through January,
setting at the beginning of the month about
$50 p. m. Jupiter was in conjunction with
the sun on the 5th, and so is invisible.
Mercury, too. visited that great luminary on
the 10th. ard is. therefore. not at home to
the young star-gazer. who probably will
wonder what important work the sun has
on hand that he should summon to his
council-chamber Jupiter and Mercury in
January, Venus in February. and Saturn
and Mercury again in March. Saturn is in
Aquarius. some distance east of Venus,
setting early in January few minutes
before 10 p. m. Mars is in Pisces, and,
though gradually going away from the
earth. is still prominent in the evening skv.
particularly as he happens to be in a part
not rich in first class stars. At the begin
ming OF the month he crosses the meridian
about 9 p. m, and sets near midnight.
On January 81 he souths at Sill p. m.
The moon passed Venus on tho 7th. Saturn
on tue Sth and Mars on the llth. On the
l4th she visits the Pleiades. and on the 18th
and 18th is with the Twins. On the Goth
she is near Regulus, and is approaching
Spica on the morning of the Gath. She
passes Antares on the evening of the 9th,
and finally disappears in Ssgittarius before
the month closes, preparatory to her eclipse
Of the sun on February 2, which is not
viaIhla hnUevar N fhta
Looking out at the beginning Of the
month, about p. m, one eannet but be
struck with the stars and consultations Wis
ible in the east and north east. Low down
and newly risen is the brilliant Sirius, of the
Great Dog, chief of stars and champion
twinkler. Above him is the majestic Orion,
half recumbent still. but awakening like a
giant refreshed with wine. perpendicu-
lar line from SIRIUS passes through the Three
Kings, with Betelguese en- the left and Rigel
on the right, and extends upwards through
the Hyades-the V-shsped group OF which
Aldebaran is ehief-till it reaches Alcyone
and her sisters. glittering, as Tennyson de-
scribes them. ''like a swarm of fre-hies
tangled in a silver braid" To the lett of
Sirius and little higher is ProcyOn, of the
Little Dog Above are the Twins, Castor
end Pollux. Still higher is the brilliant
Capella. Following the Milky way. we
come to Perseus, to Cassinpeia. to the sink
ing Northern Cross. to Vega. hanging her
harp on the western willows. But the
southern sky is barren. Venus sparkles in
the southwest, and line slanting upward
to the left from her will pass through the
dull-hued Saturn and the rudy Mars. Not
far from Venus, Fomalhaut may be caught
flashing near the horizon, and nearly in a
direct line below Mars. is Diphds. in the
tail of the Whale. But how uninviting all
this region is after the jewelled arch OF the
Galaxy spanning the northern heavens and
resting on Sirius and Vega i-New YOrk
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-01-18

TuE only female preacher in the State
with settled psstorate, we believe. is the
Rev. Mrs. S. NJ. Perkins, who is psstoress
of the uniyersslist church at West Concord.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-01-18
NUMBER 30.

KING HuxBERr. the new King Of Italy. is
33 years old. On taking the throne he is
sued the following proclamation
Italians: The greatest misfortune has
suddenly befsllen us. Victor Enapuel, the
founder of the kingdom Of Italy and its
unity, has been taken from Us. | received
his last sigh, which was for the nation his
last wishes. which were for the happiness
of his people. His voice, which will always
resound in my heart. bids me yanquish sor-.
row. and indicates my duty at this moment.
There is only one consolation possible,
namely to show ourselves worthy of him
by following in his footsteps, and you. By
remaining devoted to those civic virtues. BY
the aid of which he accomplished the di Il
cult task of rendering Italy great and
united. shall be mindful of his grand ex-
ample OF devotion to the country. love OF
progress and faith in liberal institutions,
which are the pride of my house. My sole
ambition will be to deserve the love Of my
people. Italians. your first King is dead.
His successor will prove to yor that institu-
tions do not die. Let Us unite in this hour
OF great sorrow. Let US strengthen that
Concord which has always been the saliva
tion of Italy"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-01-18
HERE AND THERE
THE PREYISG NAN.

returns home at night and kisses his wife
with more than ordinary tenderness, she
may be pretty certain that he has been in
mischief
Never hold religious conference in On
opera building. Lord Radstock went to take
his seat on the platform at Clifton Conference
and Immediately disappeared down the trap.
-E.
Municipal reform has gone TO roost in
Iowa. The Mayor of Des Moines rendered
his resignation last Monday, with the under
standing that it should take effect the next
time he got drunk.
Saratoga is charming retreat among the
Californian foothills and they never lack
there for something to interest. A few weeks
ago rewly married man in town invited
every male in town to feast in celebrate IN
of his nuptials. and informed his guests that
they would not be expected to bring their
wives. That made talk, and when the en-
tire male population assembled and found
the supper to consist of corned beef and
cabbage and bologna sausage that made
more talk. Then rumor gained circula-
ton that pot of gold was hidden in lonely
grave in tie cemetery. and before the week
was out every inhabtant of the graveyard
had been resurrected. but no pot of gold
came to hand. At last accounts the current
excitement was ghost which was circulating
about a neighboring town.
young Kentuckian recently broke an en-
pagement to get married in order to 60 coon
hunting. and another postponed his marriage
on account of the low price of mules.
1t wasn't so. the school teacher says. He
never threatened to kiss his lady assistant if
she were dllatory. "Such charge bears on
its face the persuasive odor of its own i'm
probability"
The old maxim, 'Be chaste and you'll be
happy" is contradcted point blank by a
Black Hills man, who was chased ten miles
recently by party Of redskins.
A Nebraska judge decided to give horse
thief one more chance to reform. As the
fellow left the neighborhood to begin newer
and better life he took along The judges horse
to help him.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-01-18

NOVEL SHOOTING MATCH-FIvE THOUSAND
SHOTS IN FIVE HUNDRED MINUTES
TROUBLE IN THE "HOuSE OF LORDS y
THE NEW LITERARY ALLIANCE-MRs.
AsToR's RAIL-.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-01-18

Bits of copper muzzles and leather collars
were foshd IN Milwaukee mince pie the
other day, and the Ha,eteys says the discov-
cry cast profound gloom over the entire
community.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-01-18

Geographically considered the vast bulk of
the municipal debts is located in the Eastern
States, and the State debts in the Southern
States. of the municipal debts, New York,
Massachusetts,, Pennsylvania, New jersey
and Maine carry, probably. about S4l7 ,0O0,-
900. leaving by far the lightest proportion to
the great Western States. The State debts IN
the East tare very heavy as compared with those
in the West. Eight Western State, California,
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri,
Ohio and Wisconsin, with an aggregate pop
ulation of nearly 5000 900, havea total
State debt Of only S37 900 900, or about 50 80
ps: capita, while the great Etstern States,
connecticut. Massachusetts,, Pennsylvania,
New York, Rhode Island, New Hampshire,
Maine and New Jersey, with a population
of ii ,96S ,l79, beside carrying the great
burden of the municipal debts, have an ag-
gregate State debt of rearly S95 900 900 or
very nearly IS per capita. The State debts OF
the South are even worse Alabama, Geor-
gia, Louisiana, MARYLAND, North Carolina,
Virginia, West Virginia, South Caro- lima
and Tennessee, with population Of little
over 5000, 900, have an aggregate State
debt of Sl79, AS ,207. or over so per capita
to say nothing of the great municipal debts
of Baltimore, New Orleans, and other cities
State debts then are distributed ABOUT as
follows
Western States. 8. 81 per capita
Eastern ---.-----...- sW
southern ---.--..-- - "
Mr. Porter thinks the only remedy is dis
franchisement of the non-tax-pay populs-
ton, or the election of a second holy uf men
by the heavy taxpayers Of city to repre-
sent property interests and cartail the reck-
less disbursements of the public funds.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-01-18

There is place in California where oys-
sters grow on trees, and the woods are made
musical by the clatter of the shells as they
are shut together to keep the sun out This
California story is repeated from memory,
and we are not sure but We have slightly en-
larged upon it Worcester Press
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1878-04-10

TRYING TO LIVE WITHOUT WoRK.-The
following is from the pen of Horace Greedy,
and is true and applicable to this day: "Our
people are to widely inclined to shun the quiet
ways of producing labor, and try to live and
thrive in the crooked paths Depreciation and
needless traffic. We have deplorably few
boys learning trades, with ten times to many
anxious to get in to business that is to de-
wise some scheme whereby they can live with
out work. OF the journeyman mechanics
now at work in this city we judge that two
thirds were born in Europe, and disparity is
steadily augmenting. One million families
are trying to live by selling liquors, tobacco,
candy, ETC., in our cities, who could be spared
therefrom without the slightest detriment
and if these were transferred to the soil, and
set to growing grain, meats, wool, etc, or
weaving the fabrics for which we are running
in debt to Europe, our country would increase
its wealth at least twice as fast as now, and
there would be far less complaint of dull
trade and hard times"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1878-04-10

IT WAS YoU.-Mr. Moody told his SPRING
field audience the other night that he can tell
on looking over a congregation the believers
by the expression of their faces. Then he
told them story about poor woman, who,
hearing rap, thought it was the landlord
come to demand the rent. She refused to
answer, and thus turned away friend who
wished to give her money. The audience
laughed at this, but Moody stopped them abb
ruptly by crying You laugh at that woman,
but it was you, YOURSELF sinner"
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Sydney Smith, on entering drawing room
in a West End mansion, found it lined with
mirrors on all sides. Finding himself reflect
ed in every direction, he said that he suppos-
ed that he was at a meeting the clergy, and
there seemed to be very respectable attend
ance.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1878-04-10

Horsefiesh eating, far from declining, has
so increased in Paris that last year 10, 1850
horses, asses and mules were cut up for food.
In the capital there are upward of sixty horse
meat shops, besides many in provincial
French cities. A comparison of the 10,160
equine animals eaten in 1877, with the 2,192
of 1867, illustrates the steady progress of hip
pophagy.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1878-04-10

"Give me some cold rice, said guest at a
hotel to black waiter. "Dere amt none,
sah." "Why, what's that on the sideboard,
in that dish there ?" "Dat, sab, am cold
billed rice. You asked simply for cold rice,
sah Please to be exact in your language,
sah Shall glib you some OBJ de cold billed
rice, sab ?''
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1878-04-10

A poor woman coming from wretched
garnet in an inland manufacturing town for
the first time to see the sea-shore, gazing at
the ocean, said she was glad for once in her
life to see something which there was enough
of
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1878-04-10

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills
which alarm travellers upon their road-they
both appear great at distance, but when we
approach them we find that they are far less
them.
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ty of the blood, 1t is constitutional well local
diseased The symptoms are partial or complete OBJ
sructon of the nasal cavity heavy loaded disagreea-
Bile feeling in the head coggng up of the throat in the
night with thick obnoxious matter having when ex-
PEELED scnbby appearance occasionally streaked with
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MISCELLANY.

DUELs.-Many interesting stories are told
concerning duels. The world has been ever
full of men to fight for fancied grievance at
the drop of hat or, if they had no cause,
then to make one. The nobleman who fought
fourteen duels to prove that Dante was great
Ell poes than Ariosto, and on his death bed
admitted that he had never read either, was
no more q cracked brain than one of Wash
ington's aids, who fought general second in
rank in the revolutionary war, to prove that
Washington was equal to the official position
he held, and that, as private gentleman, he
was entitled to consideration and respect
La Fontaine once fought duel with cap
tain whom he suspected of having designs
upon his wife. The officer disarmed the poet,
and, assuring him of the Righteousness and
falsehood of the rumors, said if he was the
cause of so much trouble he woald come to
his house no more. The officers conduct so
pleased La Fontaine that come he must, and
if he did not he would surely fight him. A
French count and a naval captain once fought
under peculiar circumstances. The latter in
sisted on naval duel, and proposed that they
should seize each other and jump into the
water. The count said he could not swim ;
the captain charged him with cowardice, and
rudely seizing him jumped into the sea. Both
We're rescued but the captains injuries were
SO severe that he died few days after. Per-
haps the most ridiculous story is that told of
General Putnam, of Revolutionary wolf fame,
known as "Old Put. " During the French
war he was challenged by an English officer.
He proposed that each sit on a keg of powder,
into the bung of which was a lighted fuse. AT
ter the fuse got we'll under way, and the
same was uncomfortably near the hole, the
officer ran. e Hold on, my friend ; it's only
onion seed :" cried the General IT'S to be
hoped that honor was satisfied.
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Rev. Joseph Cook says that sDarwin's by
pothesis of pangenesis involves several unten
able Subsidiary hypothesis"
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Hygiene of the Nervous System.
Progressive Medic Electric Science.
Franklin Experiment.
Bathing as a Hygienic Measure.
Sir Henry Holland, Portrait and Biography.
Sir William Ferguson, Portrait and Biogra-
ply.
Facimile of Diploma of Award Granted by
the Centennial Commission at Philadel-
phia.
Paracelsus, the Prince of Empires.
Slandering Doctors.
Galvanism: its Origin, Perfection, and Abuse.
Sleep.
Advice to Consumptive Invalids.
Climate.
Health and Pleasure Observation-Disclosures
Scenery.
Marriage Guides, Bogus Medical Institutes,
Etc.
Humbugs.
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There is a merchant in Burlington who
does not take trade dollars. He doesn't adj
vertise and nobody offers him any.--Hasch-
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