Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-12-08

Two Pcnnsylvanians have applied for
patent ON II mummy making process. The,
suppose this TO be the long-lost Egyptian
art.
Another "cX-priest,' one O'Connor has
| broken loose on an inollensivc communi,,
with the story of "Why left the Catholic
church." Toledo o., is the lltcst sufferer,
aud 50 great II sufferer that forty officers
and five local military companies had TO be
held in readiness 10 keep the peace when Ii,
undertook TO lecture there.
Mr.. c. W. Couldock, who plays Dunstor
Krkc in "lIazcl Kirkc,' is seventy three
years of age, and has been upon the stage
half a century. lie requires NJ wig seldom
uses colors for his face, and his voice n.
heard Gin the play, is natural. Miss Ellie
Ellsl,r, who has been identified with tho
play almost from its beginning, comes from
Cleveland, o., where her parents are still
living, universally esteemed. When bust
ness misioriunes bcicll her father, Miss
Ellslcr went upon the stage. She is married
and her relations are very happy.
A Harlem small boy, whose soul was filled
with visions of future greatness, and whose
ihtlh'iN WIS StpltAlf VIII StCIltS III WHltll
dogs had gone mad from the addition OF
artificial eXlGstions to their tails, tried the
experiment of tying lin can to the most
subsequent department of goat. The
animal looked gratefully upon the eager lad :,
and then slowly and solemnly devoured tn
can. The boy will henccforth lead a blighted
life. ". Y. Tribune.
The latest oddity in the insurance business
is scheme conducted in Nashville, Tenn,
called the Mutual Guarantee Association.
The plan is Ia soothc II fellows feelings in
the event Of this girls going back on him"
In the case of n person 50 afflicted the mol-
iier is gift of SIS day from the time of
insnring TO that of jiltine.
An Arabic manuscript, dating from the
latter half of the fourteenth century 13G5),
conveys the curious information that the
merchant vessels trading at that tiinc in the
Indian ocean carried four divers, whose
duties were solely TO discover and stop leaks
in the hull of the craft below the water lire.
Sound of Che trickling water indicated the
points of danger.
1t behooves man who expects to enter
the competitive examinations in China TO
beware of his physical condition as well as
of his intellectual attainments. The annual
provincial examinations were held this fall
in llangChow, whose streets are described
AS having literally swarmcd with students
of every age, from 10 to so, and of all con
ditions. The examination 'hall" was an
enclosure of about eight acres, containing
10, 900 cells for the competitors, each cell
being three feet wide, five feet long and
seven feet high The candidatesrwenl in on
the eighth day of the eighth moon, and re-
NAMED in two nights and one day. They
returned on the eleventh and went through
tho same ordeal, which was repeated again
from the fourteenth to the sixteenth. A
Candidate is occasionally found dead in his
cell.
A man is living at Simmons Gap, Va,
with his ninth wife, The patriarch is eighty
years old, has fiity-throe children. ard at
recent reunion over three hundred of his
descendants were present. II is claimedI
that he does not know all OF his own chill
dren, and makes no effort to keep up with
his grandchildren