Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-11-17
MATTERS AND THINGS.

London Bride is not broken down, but a
wider roadway Is demanded, and II, 2O5, 900
il the estimated cost of doing the job a
call for c,3s O0U fot nGw streets in the me-
tropolis is also made.
The number of emisrants arrived at New
York, this year, will be simply marvellous
1t bids fair to be at leas. 100000. Next
year it viii probably reach Que million, and
that, too, without any contribution from
China.
Disabled horses rs well as disabled soldiers
are commended to the English authorities as
which have actually been under fire, it is
suggested, ought to he allowed iii their old
age the range OF the public parks Animals
which have sCrvci the country are too dcserv-
ing 10 merit the common fate Of broken
down horses which are sold to he worked
to death
| The adulteralion Of milk goes on bravcly
| in England. III II recent trial the dealer con-
fcsscd that he put a quart OF water in each
can. A witness told of tie cans being put
under the pump judiciuusly before the milk
was sent to Manchester. One of the men
engaged in this business Of dilu,ion said to
another eMpnyo, the pump is the COW that
| gives the most milk.
The New York TifJune fresh air fund.-
collected aud expended this year, amount
ed to over sci 900; 5000 persons were
made he benchciarts of the enterprise
at I'm average cost Of less than four dollars
for iotnshrg vacation in the country
where, it is hoped, they not only gathered
health, but at lrbtd moral impressions not
possible amid their miserable surroundings
in the slums Of New York.
A man in Duluth, Mimi. says lhat he has
just witnessed Il successful experiment with
q flying machine, the power used being the reg
uar insertion into steel reservoir of slow burn
| ing explOsives. The preGauliOn was made to tic
! the machine with aropc, 50 that it would not
run away, and, when nj a elevation of fifty
feet, great difficulty was experienced in pull
| Ing il back. A hoy WAS next sent up $40
feet aud descended safely. 1t is noticeable
that the inventor himself did not try to as
cend, but he may do so at the trial trip,
which is advertised TO take place publicly
within n month.
|, was lately decided to build mortuary
chapel at GalIipoli, where thousands of
French soldiers were buried during the
Crimcan war, and to transfer TO that place
the bones of those who were buried at
Abydos. Accordingly detachment of sol
diers have been employed IN exhuming and
collecting the remains at Abydos, but their
operations were suddenly stopped fortnight
mo by the discovery that they were at work
in the British Instead of the French Gene
terry, over the graves of British and not of
French soldiers. This led to further inquiry
when it was asctrtained that for the last
fifteen years the able attached TO the French
consulate has been saying mass in the British
cemetery at Abydos under the impression
flat it was the French cemetery.
The mprovised railway corps sent with
the English forces to Egypt did such good
work, even with the disadvantages against
which they commended, that a permanent
organization is to be formed, The men are
to have constant practice in railway traffic
and maintenance, with the cooperation with
the railway corporations of England The
recognition of the deficiencies of the existing
service, rs tested by the brief war just
ended, is one token that the English authori-
ties are determined not to indulge In the