Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-12-19
1T Will Never Occur Again.


Il boy OF IL years, at Calhoun, NY. ne
was leaning on the muzzle OF gun,
| watching base ball match, when ball
from foul tip struck the hammer and
discharged the gun, sending the lead
I through his head.
/ A PENNSYLVANIA threw himself into q
river, intending to commit suicide. When
he was hauled ashore bottle of whisky
was found in his pocket. Being asked
what he took ii with him for, he replied
that his rescuers might want something
to revive him with.
Hawesville, Ky, brags Of q man who
doesn't care for dogs at all when he's So
Der, but when he's DRINK has mania to
own all the dogs in the country. He will
ask neighbor to give him his dog II
he won't give it, the man tries to buy il
if the other won't sellit, the first steals it.
He has thus been known to collect lis
dogs IN weeks spree, and feed them
we'll till he got sober.
A long timea ago, in Mason county, Ky,
an old topper agreed to fight ferocious
ram, the prize being quart of whisky.
The whole village collected to see the
fight. Both man and ram charged at the
same time, but the man quickly righted.
and. planting his foot upon the lifeless
carcass of his foe, demanded and drank
the whisky. Just at the moment of col
llsion the man had dropped his head, and
the nose of the ram coming in contact
with his elevated shoulders, the animals
neck was broken.
laVlsent i'll Baker City which was of an ex-
asperating nature to at least one of the
parties involved. A divorce suit is pend
ing between couple i'll that place, and
the husband, on the lookout for another
helpmate, sought to ingrstiate himself
with the fair sex by offering handsome
prize to the lady who should be voted the
most worthy by the largest number of
respectable citizens To his consterna-
ton the ballots showed that his wife
separated from him, but not divorced
was the favorite, by large majority.
While resident of Anaheim, Cal, was
walking in one of the orange groves OF
Los Angeles the other day he saw on the
limbs Of one of the trees what looked like
a ripe orange. He plucked it, but found
that instead of an orange it was nine yell
low bats clinging together, heads down
ward. They were i'll semi-dormant
state, and the spherical form into which
they had crowded themselves and their
color made them look exactly like ripe
orange to careless observer.
N. B. Rion, Jr., Ky, was hunting on
the Red river few days ago. He had
around his chest cartridge belt with 80
loaded charges in it. When he fell from
his canoe, which he accidentally did, the
weight of the cartridges held him head
foremost down. His boots stuck up
above the surface, for the water was
about five feet in depth. Parties in the
rescue. Rion was apparently dead when
taken out, having been under water for
fully three minutes, but he was restored
by tn use of proper remedies.
1t has always been thought that ears of
corn have an even number of rows, and in
slavery times the question was discussed
in Ric .mond, Ky, when a negro claimed
that he had seen ears with an odd num-
Der o. rows. His master promised him
his fir .edom if he would find such an ear,
and in the fall, when the corn was har-
vested, the darkey appeared with sound
ear of ID rows, and got his free papers.
Recently the negro confessed that in
roasting ear time he cut one row of grains
in an ear with sharp knife bound the
ear together again, and in gathering time
knew Just where to find it.
A remarkable tragedy occurred at Reno
Nevada, a few nights ago. A man was
suddenly aroused in the night to GO for
the doctor, and when he reached the ply
sicians residence no one was ut home but
the latter's wife. On hearing knock at
the door she inquired who was there but
the man, being very deaf, did not hear
the question. He then tried the front
door, and afterward the rear door and
windows, whereupon the woman, thor
oughly frightened, raised a pistol and
fired, the ball passing through the door
and killing the visitor almost instantly.
1t ID upon the solemn observation of
the Kalamazoo Gazette that the people of
Michigan are obliged to swallow the fol-
lowing cow story On the farm of E. D.
Humphrey, Sust euss of Kalamazoo, is an
unused well, the depth of which is IS
feet. On Sunday of last week one of Mr..
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Tuesday following some ono was attract
ed to the old well by the sound of splash
ing water Thereat the bottom stood the
COW, looking wistfully up. An armful of
hay was thrown down to the animal,
which ate ravenously. All the people in
the surrounding country gathered at the
well and, rigging pully arrangement,
soon drew the cow up. She walked with
difficulty at first, but in an hour or so
limbered up enough to trot OFF to the
pasture.
The young Prince OF Servia has such
intense curiosity to see man hanged that
he ought to try it himself and find out
how well it works. While passing re-
Gently through town on the road from
Trieste to Belgrade, he learned that the
prison contained a man sentenced to
death, whose offence consisted in having
refused to betray certain individuals ac-
cused of high treason and conspiracy
against the sovereign. Prince Milan, on
becoming acquainted with the facts, not
only ratified the sentence, but had it I'M
mediately carried out in his presence. He
is said to have witness the hanging of the
unfortunate wretch with great apparent
interest, even going so far as to borrow a
pair of strong feld-glasses in order to
take in the minutest details.
Before the war a law was enacted in
Tennessee which made it punishable by
fine and imprisonment for a black man
and n white man to play cards together.
This law was not disturbed during the
war and survived the era of reconstruc-
ton In fact, it was about forgotten that
such law was among the statutes of the
State. Some time ago witnesses went be-
fore the grand jury and gave testimony
which resulted in the indictment of ne
gro and white man, who were charged
with having played together a game of
euchre. The law had not been repealed,
and as the evidence was clear the men
were convicted They took an appeal,
and the supreme court of the State lately
decided that tho results Of war" and the
constitutional amendments had, in effect,
repealed the law. Tho offenders were
therefore discharged and the State as
sumed the payment of the costs.
THE INDIAN AND TILE MAIDEN. Max
Lyman, a prairie scout, who lived at the
White River Agency year and half,
and knew the Meekers intimately, tells
this story to a reporter of the Dubuque
Times: "Ouray was in love with the
Oldest daughter of Agent Meeker, and |
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