Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-12-15
OR KALEIDOSCOPE,

| THE Ancient Order of the Sons and
Daughters and Brothers and Sisters of Moses
Of the District AMI Of the World is the nam,
of fraternity Of coorcd people in Wash
inSton The title looks pretty comprehensive,
but why are the cousins and auuls thus
| sighted:
y curious example Of the way they look
at man in England is given by the London
correspondent of the Im,rioN Rgist,}, OF
Paris, who say of Antho1y rro.lope: lie
is duh novelist, and, hut for his weight, IN
excellent man across country"
current item says u Missouri girl began
canning tomatoes with nineteen warts ON her
hands and quit with only one. An interested
public fond of canned tomatoes, asks not il
the girl is a Missouri lily, but ~ hat became
| Of the warts;'
There is painful rlmor that Arab is
coming 10 this country 10 lecture
\ Chicago editor writes three inches OF
matter abont congressional stupidity. There
are some writers who are always trying to
crowd 10000 volumes into paragraph
LOuiscHlc Courier JOWUdL
The following advertisement, extracted
rom the servants wanting places column,
would seem to apply more strictly To- Ire
land AS valet to single gen'l-mln or 9th
erwisc, age twenty-five: three years good
character. Understand, shooting men. -
LoHdon Fig"ro.
A new stand point, Jones Jr.-"Comr
and have Il drink, old man.. Brown
IA NJ. lrir
Meal Times Association, and quite given up
,hat sort OF thing, But look here | don't
mind, ii you'll stand me Il dinner. - F'H4Hg
F0W..
Country doctor to TomlinS Now with
r, gard to that cut on the top Of yoIr head
don't think it will h. serious, but You must
keep Your eye on IT, And rompkins Win
has the slightest suspicion OF II sluint, goes
away and dis-rccommends that doctor
NoOahiHt.
And what age is it You now are, dear
asked the colonel just back from luGiu o.
the tall daughter of his friend Tomkinslu
Smith. "Wel, that is what | cant quito
make out" returned the eirl, taking care
not TO meet her mothers eye, for when
20 anywhere with papa | am sixteen, hut
when 20 on, with mamma am never more
than twelve next birthday he.coldncl
FASTENED to change the subject. --Lon,lon
Figaro.
heard good story OF an ingenious cl,r,
in the admiralty. A gentleman with whom
he had a slight acquaintance asked him
whether lie might come TO his room on the
day Of the great review "Certainly,' re
piled the clerk May bring my wife :"
'Ncs" Il have two daughters, may they
come :" by all meaus.' A second time
the gentleman called to ask whether few
ntices might be added TO the band. To this
the clerk chocyfully assented, 1--WE cannot
be sufficiently grateful II YOU said the
gentleman. nor enabling US 10 have SO good
a view of the review" Il am afraid" au-
swered the clerk, "lhat You and your family
will not see very much of il, for my room
looks ont into II lack yard, '-LoHdon
TruH
Mrs. Bezumbee'S oall-Mrs Bezumbae, a
tall elderly lady, who always dresses in deep
black, and is very much given To making
calls, will from now on make no more frieud-
" visits to the mansion of Colonel Bailey
DAYTON She Was sitting on the gallery
surrounded by the family when large
turkey -buzzard alighled on II tree near the
house. what II large buAlmd" remarked
Mrs. Bezumbee. ''ls that II buzzard 2 asked
little Emily, very much amazed. "Ncs, my
child, that's buzzard.' But 1t don't look
much like you.n OF course it don't look
like me- Who says II urkcy-hu2zard looks
like me ?" asked Mrs. Be2nmbcc, indg.
raully. "Why, Ma does. Every day when
he sees you coming. she says, There comes
hat old buzzard again. ~ Teas Sytiags,