Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-05-07
GENERAL NOTES.

"Oh, dear l feel SO tired, sighed Mrs.
Hickenlooper, as she sank into chair.
well, | should think you would be,
growled Mr.. Hickenlooper, as he put on
his coat to go out 'you tramped around
more'n seven miles this afternoon making
your silly calls. l shouldn't call myself
half bright if 1 did such a thing" And
then he went down street, and walked
nine miles around billiard table pokine
ivory mar les with stick, at % cents m
hour, and she thought how hard he had
to work Mt his business, poor man, when
he came home at midnight and dragged
his enfeebled limbs into bed.
Young ladies who wish to have small
mouths are advised to repeat this at FIRE.
quent intervals during the day: Fanny
Finch fried five houndering frogs fol
Francis Fowler's father "-4ndretcs
Queen.
The first move toward making garden
is to hire somebody to take away your
ash pile; then borrow hoe. And in
this connection it may be stated as an
agricultural truth that those people who
generally make garden the most are those
who never own their own tools. JUS. buy
spnding fork and see how quick the
neighbors will find it out-BostOa Globe.
AT nrst the chicken stuffed and roasted brown,
With apple sauce and nxlngs all complete
And then the trlcassee, all cover'd Ger
Mih ,h,.t on Lutte, r9nroh WITH VIII lavish nan
Is done up into pies. with pasty tops
just lifted 10 the dish Last course of all
or this eventful bird Is chicken SOUP
The general leavIngs and the scrapings-up
OF wings, legs, tails necks bones and everything.
When the Prince of Wales's son is or
remarks This Is my grandmother's
ship, and it makes my back ache to climb
that pole, and | amt going to do it only
this once.
A Missouri newspaper having nomina-
ted 1.-The Honorable Adolph Pantz" for
the presidency, the Washington Capital
suggests Schurz for vice president Pantz
and Schurz, it thinks would work well
together.
When old Mr. Higginsworth was asked
If he took a newspaper, he replied that
''since our member of Congress has stop
ped sending me the Congressional Rec
ord, don't take any, but | guess | kin
get along without it, never give much
news anyhow"
''Yes," said a witness, Il remember the
defendants mother crying on the occa-
sion referred to- She was weeping with
her left eye-the only one she has-and
the tears were running down her right
check. What, exclaimed the Judge,
'how could that bc?' please Your
honor, said the witness, ''she was aw-
fully crosscyed"
The New York Ercaing Post objects to
preiixing 'the Rev" to the names of
clergymen. But there are some of them
who have nothing else to Indicate their
profession .-But,tlo Express.
Bidwell L. Stevens writes from North
Vernon, Ind. what is the Monroe
loctrine?' The Monroe doctrine, Bid
we'll, simply and explicitly declares that
No foreign nation shall come over here
and slide down our cellar door that
England and France shall not hang ON
our front gate to do their counting that 4
they can't bring over their own syrup /
pots and elder sprouts and make sugar III
,ur maple grove; that Germany and
Austria can't spot no bee tree III our
woods that Italy can't cut her tirewood /
nut of our hedge rows ; that Russia can't
'pank her neighbors children with our
utter paddle. The Monroe doctrine
imply means that We are the bull Of tho