Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-12-31

covered in full career urging on TIE traui-
tional reindeer 10 where Il light carl OF sGGhc
bctlays Il coi.age half buried i'll SNOW In
vet another, is lifc-lihe scene OF little autnhl
atoms discovering the treasures left by Tie
saint. Ever changing crowds are attracted
by these devices The main streets are lined
with vendors each with 4 biskctful oi some
one toy each more attractive than the last
seen, and all So cheap that nickcls and quar-
tiers are irrcslstibly impeled to part company
with their uuondan owners in exchange for
them.
Nor is charity forgotten. The great fairs
of churches are thronged, and purses melt
like ices before the destinations OF the lar
sales ladies with their winning ways. AT
one Hebrew bazaar not less than so, 900 was
realized in a single night. And the hospitals
are TO have two hospital days this year,
when the casual penny may find its wav
into boxes set up everywhere. One day
brought sec, 900 last gear, when the idea
was new and little understood. 1t wouldn'.
surprise me if 800, 900 should be gathered
in in the two days this time.
The staid Puritans OF New England, and
their kin from Ohio, have got the start OF Nmas
with Forcfaihers' Day, and this year they
had two Forcfathers Days, the new Brook
lyn New England Association claiming that,
by some newly discovered evidence, Fly
mouth Rock was picked up day earlier than
has generally been held SO they led of
with au immense affair in the Brooklyn
Academy, with Grant, Hayes, Sherman,
Sheridan, Beecher, and pretty nearly every
body else and all his relations, when speech
and song and story kept the rafters ringing
with mirih till almost daybrcak. The next
evening Vas the New York celebration, and
Grant made speeches which very much sur
! prised and delighted those who thought of
! the old-time reticcnce OF that once
very silent man. President Hayes,
too, had previously put in good
days work, flirting with the girls at
Packer Institute, and then metaphorcally
patting several hundred boys on the head at
the Polytechnic, winding up his educational
iaunt with a confab with the mixed classes
at the Central Grammar School, and then re-
frcshing the inner man, in company with a
select crowd of stupcndous bigwigs, at a
comfortable little spread given by A. n.
Low, the China merchant, whose board
groancd under a royal service of pure gold,
while q band played, and Illuminated CON
servatories threw their tropical fragrance on
the brilliant scene, and the priceless wines
which were brought forth in honor of the
occasion 1t was indeed a notable feast.
Diphtheria doesn't abate, and there's new
theory about ii that it is brought from Rus
sin, where it is endemic, and kills thousands
to one it does where not so established for
aces-iust as cholera is bred among the pill
grims to IIindoo shrincs in India and the
plague among the unwashcd hordcs Of Cen
trail Asia; and it is proposed to quarantine
and diSlnfect all Russian immigrants with
chlorine gas before suffering them to land.
One immigrant steamer, the Italia, with
over thousand passengers with small poX
on board. has been in the lower bay over
a week, undergoing purifying rites and cerc-
monies.
We have new park board, with fresh
commissioner, Salem ii. Wales, one Of our
scientific sagcs. He was for many years
editor of the Scientific american, and now
edits and owns a formidable rival to it. lie
votes for himself as president of the board,
claiming he was put into the office TO cleanse
the Augcan stable and as the others don't
see the point they haven't been able TO or
Canize yet The commissioners have cheer
full hours casting innumerable ballots They
all draw large salaries.
Fulton market isn't pulled down yet, nor
apparently will it be but il gets new roof
and new foundation and new something
else every now and again, when the author
tiles see little money in harassing the stand
holders Just now, several companies Of
fircmen under protection of strong bodies OF
police, nave been tearing down the awnings,
to the dismay of the people whose holiday
stock was rudely exposed 10 wintry blasts
and snow and possible rain.