Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-08-18
MATTERS AND THINGS.

'ouut Vi tne Wneat harvest IN michigan. IL
avs millions Of bushels have been either
wholly ruined or seriously injured by the
continuous rains Of the past ten days.
The English Lords have succunbed to the
demands Of the House Of Com.
mons. They concede everything Gladstone
las demanded both in regard to Egypt and
Ireland.
Considerable attention is paid in Louisiana
just now, TO the cultivation of the sun1ower.
The stems, when dried, are used for kindling
wood, the seeds are given to poultry and
sick horses and the flowers are put about
peoples houses to ward of malaria The
sunflower seems to be commonplace as we'll
rs aesthetic.
Texas, which is said to have 5000 acres
of school land, rapidly approaching in value,
and worth probably 300 200, 600, is expect
ed to have in the not distant future school
fund Of quarter of billion dollars, sum
greater than the combined school fund of all
The States.
The Oldest stove probably in the United
States is the one that warns the hall of Vir-
ginia's capitol in Richmond, 1t was made
in England and sent to Richmond in ITO,
and warmed the House Of Burgesses for
sixty years before it was removed to Its pres
nnt location, where it has remained for
thirty years.
The rev station of the signal service on
Pixies Peak is to be Of stone, A by 90 feet
in size. The work of construction will not
be easy, for everything which goes into the
building except the stone must be packed
vi ~. ,;an 10 Snnn COO, TL ,n,;e, co 10y,
ooa, h,ho,,, snoo W. A' ''"'''' wiz
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An English agricultural journal announces
that the annie crop there is comnara,ivelv n
f,;,,,.a III, ,oar :. -. .o,s
'a"o'o inns 'e", !" ',an.e pun HAL
crop is calculated upon 10 Germany, one
third crop only in Holland only half
prospects are, therefore, very favorable for
shipments from America to England.
The manager of the Boston and ALBANY
railroad has bcen giving tio,rea IN n renor,er
g. A.. d., y..'. -, ~,
io' 'no Do''oN !1"""'tW. Iic sa9s Tue
fastest express in England, the Leeds, on the
Great Northern road, goes AZ miles an hour,
while the afternoon express from Boston to
New York via Boston and Albany railroad,
goes 40 miles an hour. The Pennsylvania
and Jersey Central roads both run trains
from Jersey City to Philadelphia in an hour
and fifty minutes, with four or five stops
which necessitates a speed of nearly fifty
miles an hour
u,,.,.
"'nin 'he last t"eiVe years tue pophia'
ton of Russia has increased very rapidly.
The total amount il said To lie IA 200 600
n A., IT.,
following are the present returns Russia
IN IN Europe, 20, o6a, 1913 Poland, ',2l9,Ol' ;
Asia ~ ,sG AZ Or q ,o,oi "f 1 inn oSs ai a.
Twelve wears ago the total was $3.50 GAG.
Poland. during the last sixty. five years has
increased from 2,7l7,2S7. to her present TO-
tai, 7,219,O77.
The Pittsburg Despatch relates strange
story that comes from across the Bedford
m.
county ine' Inc iah''iy physician Is author
ity for the authenticity of the tale, Some 10
or ~ years ago husband and wife living in
Giarreied and did NOT sneak to each So oths,
for almost one year. About eight or ten
months afterward child was born to them,
ana from inc date oil It's 6irth until the pres
ehl tlme II mas never spoken asingle word to
a ms la.n, e, ,Ie emu when has now grown
almost 10 MANHOOD WORKS daily with his
iather yet never addresses him in any way.
ity, the boy invariably answers that he bears
no i'll will toward his parent, but that he has
s nue' ' ho "us ,ha, W h spIaA " mn ne
sa.s, va. onVu,u ne eNei NC
plo"'p'eu ~ 'p'"A W MS ia'ne' Ut VIII NO
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The social scientists meet a. Saratoga in
the first week of September. The meeting vii,
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oe opeheu 'ion'ia' e'en'ns' september 4uh'
Francis Wavland ~ New Haven and ,he