Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-03-19
NOTES AND NOTES.


tombstone" said Bloggs NO epitaffy for
me-"
Never cry over split milk. Ten to one
there's water enough in it already.
WHAT'S in a name ? Considerable. Butter
by any other ELECTROMAGNETIC for IN
stance docs not smell as sweet
At Boston, man who attended concert
at which selection from Mozart's Twelfth
Mass was performed, remarked that the best
thing of the evening was " that piece from
Mozart's Twelfth Massachusetts,.
Russia cannot avoid confronting the prob
lem of popular education and reform Inc
Gar must face the moujik. World.
Vennor requests that newspapers be care
full in getting his dates right. The trouble
| is that he seldom seems TO get them right
| himself
Thomas Carlyle appears to share the pre-
| vailing taste for local coloring.' lie IS re-
| ported TO have said that he should not be
satisfied with Margaret Fuller's biography
unless he could ascertain what colored stock
ings she wore.
"A place for everything and everything III
its place" A man at Yale nails his slippers
on The wall four feet up, and then all he has
to do of an evening is TO wheel up his easy
chair in front of them and pull out his nicer
schaum.-1mherst Student.
In Frisco: "See here. mc'IChnce Hay.
thun, I'm wan of the Committee of National
Safety; and bringing to me molnd the words
of George OWashington and Danl OWeb
ster in regard to Furrin Inflooince, ye mus
go. Dye understand? Ye must go. y
Harper's Weekly.
Before Fanny Fern married James Parton
she wrote in description of Broadway
..TIere comes James Parton, who doesn't be
lieye in the devil" George ID. Prentice, Of
the Louisville Journal, copied it subsequent
", and added: "Ah. Fanny, that was be
fore he was married"
"What so soft as Mabcrs eyes?" inquiries
poet in the opening line OF madrlgai- W.
beg to ask our poet if he ever took particular
notice of the lower crust of the pie of thu
period that is offered at the railway station!
of our beloved country.-1ldny journal.
The Car wears coat of mail. and We
threatening letters get through the mail n
him.
| The shadow of the baseball bat has begun
to cast its length across the land.
| There is craze for old furniture in New
York, and an old sideboard is almost as val
liable as an g old master"
A bank share of stock was transferred il
| Providence on Saturday which had remain
| ed in one name since 1913.
The best way to prevent third, fourth
fifth and sixth term is to permit no Presiden
| to have first term.
The London Truth speaks of our 'Ameri
can girls of self-reliant and Independent
in their lives-as pretty young bachelor
in petticoats."
| A good prescription for the internal dis
tress of Ireland might be little corn ant
potatoes applied as stomach pad.
Every woman can have fashion of he
own in millinery, this spring; round hat
being wired and shaped to suit the face ant
fancy.
The most thoughtful journalists now allow
contributors to the massachusetts 10 write oil
both sides of the sheet.
A Japanese student Of English has pre-
duced the following treatise, on the sub jec
of domestic animals. 1.-The cat is a small
cattle When he sees rat he Eliminates hi
eyes
The Richmond (Va) State does not thinl
that the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth
amendments are right" 1t can't be i
would have them thirteen, fifteen, fourteen
Kate Fields Cooperative Dress Associ
! alton" has come to grief" One hundred AM
sixty of her followers declined to he ''bossed
by her to the extent proposed by her
Epitaph for the Adam monument: 4
No. l.
| Ill fares the land of fastening ills the scene.
| When wealth accumuates and men play Is
A Leadvile wedding paragraph says: eth
bride was logged out in white gauze."
Uneasy lies the head that wears crown.
But perhaps the Gar takes of his crow
when he goes to bed
James G. Bennett has bought the race
"I.atchKey." lie is first-ratc horse to com
home late with, as he proved in his frs
| race.
The New York Sun declares the forty
sixth Congress to be the greatest do-nothing
but-talk Congress since the war.
NJ. Ernest Renan has been the subject of
topographic outrage The subject of hi
lecture, THE Influence of Rome on tn
Formation of Christianity" appeared in a
English paper as The Influence of Rum o
the Digestion of Humanity
You are an ojus, hidius idit. my. dear;
| said spirited lady TO her female friend In
other day. ''Oh. my dear Mrs. -" sghe
one of her neighbors, ''what wouldn't Civ
to have your knowledge of Latin"
The Empress of Austria is said to be
reckless rider If she'd come to this countr
Congress might attach her TO an appropria
ton bill
That was fair hit which is ascribed t
DR.. James Freeman Clarke, at the tendenc,,
of some good people to impose their owl
observances upon others. a friend wrote t
him, dating his letter ''Candlemas Day.
Dr. Clarkc's reply bore the date, "Washin
Day"
The reason why Theodore Thomas LEI
Cincinnati is variously stated rs that he wa
unable to make whistle out Of pigs tail
and that he declined TO best time with
ham.
The person who retires with the sun mus
have a warm d-fellow.-Rochester Express
The 'polyscope" is the name of All inver
ton which, says despatch. will render o
examination of every part of the human bod
feasible" Good. Now we shall kno,
which has the whittier liver, Garcelon or Ii
den.-ADany Journal
Ogdensburg reports kleptomaniacal ca
which steals things and conceals them. Og
densburgers consider this remarkable, but
Massachusetts farmer says he has often see
bis cowliide boots.-B0ston Post.