Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-09-08
MATTERS AND THINGS,


1t will close about one hundred drinking
places
Kansas papers say that within the past
three years % 600 acres of trees have been
planted in that State.
American compositors are not the only
ones who make mis,akcA The London TEL
egrdph reports Mr.. Gladstone as saying that
he had sat at the feet of the Game bird Of
birmingham" instead Of the Galnalicl Of
Birmingham.
1t is announced definitely that the great
Amalgamacd Association iron strike, in and
around pttsblrg, is over. The mills have
succeeded in working with nOn-union men,
and will soon all be running on the basis of
last years wages
The telegraph operators cannot be very fa-
miliar with their Bibles or with the history
of the Grecnback candidate for Governor of
New York, Mr.. Epcnctus Howe, or they
would not have Numbered 50 ridicuously in
sending his name over the wires 1t reached
ST. Paul ms ''E. Pontius Horse"
Mantua will celebrate next September the
"'p'teeHth 'tultHiihI VI tllt ucdtn OI NTBl.
AT the theatre of the Academia Virgiliana
| on the seventeenth of September will assem-
Bile large number of Italian and foreign
scholars who will proclaim in several poems
the fame OF the poet. An album will be
published containing all the poems read on
| the occasion.
Pittsburg has added to her other troubles
u water famine, which is not only closing
many Of her mills and shops, throwing thou.
sands of men out of work, but is breeding
disease through lack OF means of cleansing
public and private houses.
| John Smith and his family, 10 the number
of 1000 or more, held his annual reunion at
Peapack, n. j., on Wednesday. This was
the seventh time in as many years that the
New Jersey Smith has performed this opera
ton. The reunion was held on the farm
of Zachariah Smith, grandchild of John
Smith, who came from Holland in 1143. and
was the progcntor of an nceculablc number
of Smiths, the wilds of New Jersey for
the space of many miles, near Peapack, be-.
ing very thoroughly impregnated with them.
The Idaho Springs in Tennessee are thus
described within radius of twenty five
feet are found about six different kinds of
water, which ale well known for their cura-
tive properties. They are the white, black
and red sulphur, iron, alum and soda, all
used and much liked by the visitors" They
are as versatile as tirst-class soda fountain.
The destruction of the Notifications of
Paris will add large habi,able area to the
city. The space either actually occupied by
the Notifications or reserved in connection
with them comprises 1915 acres. In addition
to the direct advantage which would he de-
rived from opening this domain to settlement
the bill recently introduced IN the Chamber
points out that the masonry of the wal
would build thousands of houses in which
persons with small incomes would find com.
Portable homes, with abundant air and light
at low price.
The Moraviaus or church of the United
Brethren, have celebrated at Bethlehem
Pennsylvania the both anniversary OF til,
, establishment of tlrir foreign missions
Theirs was, perhaps, the earliest scheme o
Protestant prosclytlng ever undertaken, anG
the Island OF st. Thomas was its scene. 1hi
: children in the faith of John Huss now mum
her some 1000 The Moravians in tn
United states constitute a province indie
pendent in some respects though unite,
with their brethren through General Synod
The missionary spirit has been for som
years quite active among them, and has dis
played itself in all parts of the world.
During the month of July, according T.
official reports covering all the railroads o
the United States. there were thirty five col
lisions and iifty-thrcc dcrailmcnts. Of thes
| lat al .t,,n l,t, ,nl
: There were also three other minor accidents
, This is total of ninety-one accidents
whereby eighteen persons were killed au,
= tifty-siX injured. Fourteen accidents cause,
, the death of one or more persons, lively
| Caused injury but no DEATH leaving &C. o
III per cent of the whole number, in which
no serious injury is recorded. For the yea
l ending with July the record is as follows
Accidents, 1913 killed, 392 injured, 1907
-, The averages per day for the month wer
2,07 accidents, 0.5S killed and 1.S1 injured
!. for the year there were $50 accidents, 10
killed and 3.Sj injured.
An erroneous impression prevails tina
Stephen Grard was as much prejudice
against Christian teaching as he was agains
the monopoly of educational work by Chris
tian ministers Although he excluded min
, lsttTs from blTulu NOue5t, TUE lchCHtls U
that institution have many of them been de
vout men, and President Allen, whose deaf
is the occasion for 80 many tributes to hi
Z high character, was not only Jealous Meth
odist, but also president of the American
Bible Society. The moral and religious train
= ing of the youths at Girard College is regard
: ed as even more thorough than that provide,
at the average college,
The census returns disclose the fact tina
the District of Columbia has the most dens
a population of any district in the unie
States, 1t has 1850 persons to the squar
mile, exceeding six times that OF Belgium
which has only 800 persons per mile Rhod
Island has PA Massachusetts, gel; New
Jersey, ljl Connecticut, 1873; New York
,, 1867 Pennsylvania, 95 Maryland, "a Ohio
7s; Illinois, IS; Kentucky, 40. All tn
other States have less than 40 PERSONS to tn,
square mile, while Kansas has only II, an,
Nebraska, q.
Sir Bernard Burke, the British antiquarian
, declares that there is not now living singl
descendant in the male line of Chaucer, Shak
spcre, Spencer, Milton, Cowley, Butler, Dry
c den Pope, Cowper, Goldsmith, Byron o
f Moore; not one OF Sir Philip Sidney, nor,
c believe, of Sir Walter Raleigh; not one o
! Drake, Comwcll, lIampden. Monk, Mari
/ borough, Peterborough or Nelson not on
4 of Bolingbroke, Walpole, Chatham, Pitt
? Fox, Burke, Gratan or Canning not one O
Bacon, Locke, Newton or Davy not one o
= Hume, Gibbon or Macaulay not one o
r Hogarth, Sir Joshua Reynolds or 81
l Thomas Lawrence not one of David Gar
c rick, John Kemble or Edmund kean,'
The great Harmony mills at Cohoes. n
V, which have just reopencd after an cnforc
Z ed idleness of nearly four months, are six /
. number and of the following dimensions
v No |, four stories, $50 feet long, 20 fee
{ wide No. >, three stories, 800 feet long, !