Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-10-13
MATTERS AND THINGS,

| The comet has brought thousands OF North
Carolina negro sinners to repentance. They
regard il is forerunner of the worlds end,
and are making their preparations accord
ingly.
| The National dress society Of Great Brit
ain offers a prize of $50 for "thc design of Il
female garment combining ease, elegance,
comfort and health" The ''dvidcd skirt
has been condemned.
The trustees of the University of Pcnnsyl-
vania have been debating the question of nd
hitting women to the full privileges of that
institution. The faculty are said to favor
the step.
81 do" said a young man ut n Colorado
body knew any reason why the couple should
not be united The objector explained that
the bride had promised TO marry him. But
that was not considered a sufficient reason
for stopping the ceremony, which wns con-
cluded amid the tittering OF the asscmblagc.
The American Board of Foreign Missions
has just closed its annual meeting at Port
land, Me. The secretary said the missions
demanded for the coming year 100000
more than the president saw any prospect of
receiving. Over 1000 persons in the audi
ence agreed to double their subscriptions and
half of the required increase was soon
pledged. The next meeting will be held at
Detroit The old board of officers was IT..
elected with one exception,
The public schools of New York city are
to cost next year, by an estimate just made,
the total amount of "a, 900, 800. Salaries of
teachers and janitors aggregate 80, 7G2, 900.
The employees of the board OF education will
be paid .S37, 900. The city superintendent
of schools and his assistants will receive
$40 The truant agents will have Sl2,-
100. The supply of books, maps, etc, will
cost Slj5,000. For warming and venliating
apparatus $500, COG is needed.
They dance by steam and at railroad speed
out west. A happy party of st. Louis Ia
dies and gentlemen made an excursion over
the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Louis road,
and danced the racquet with the train NOV
ing al forty miles an hour. The ball room
was in large baggage car, sixty tee, long hy
fifteen feet wide The floor vas elegantly
carpc;ed, the walls beautifully painted, hung
VIII utIbidlcu WIN
cvergrecns and garlands Of roses. There
was an orchestra of eight pieces, and refresh
ments were passed around every hour.
Mrs. Stow, San Francisco dress reform
err has Informed the police that on January
LIST she will begin to wear trousers in public,
and she demands protection in case street
crowds insult Ler. But the chief of police
seems to think that il will be his duty 10 ar
rest her, on the ground that her conduct
would be dsorderly AS to the form of the
proposed garment, Mrs Stow says: My
trousers are made with plat, and descend
just to the line of beauty in the calf Of the
leg, just where the dresses of Young girls
come and if young girls wear their dresses
there, why should not old girls adopt the
same fashion," She is advised by lawyer
that California has No law under which she
can he prevented from dressing in that fash
ion.
The Nevada papers are calling the atten-
ton of Pacific coast scientists to tracks of
prehistoric animals and traces of the ancient
world that are TO be found at Dayton, near
Ell Dorado canyon There are mastodon
footprints in the solid rock. and many evil
dences that all the country round about was
once the bed of lake. The region abounds
in petrifaclions, some of which are pine and
fir tree logs thirty feet long and eighteen
inches in diameter. There are no traces of
man in this vast wilderness.