Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-11-03
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In the course OF few years The Northern
Pacific iairoad will run through an avenue
OF shade trees hundreds o. miles in length.
This extensive tree planting is being done 10
protect the road from storms and snowdrifts.
In addition to having large gang Of men
ut this work between Fargo aud Bismarck,
IN Dakota the officers have distributed i'm
M nse quantities of seedlings and cuttings to
the farmers settled on the land grant and
offered prizes for skill in forestry.
The new Boston Congregational newspaper |
will make us first appearance ahout the first /
Of December.
The Ting lueng, the formidable iron.clad
that has just been built in Germany for the
son electric lamps
The largest locomotives in the world. now
nearing completion at Paterson for the Cen
trail Pacific Railroad, have eight driving
wheels and four wheels under the forward
truck, and weigh G3 tons.
The increase in the Canadian postal bust
ness shows that the country is developing
satisfactorily. The dead-leticr Office, for cX-
ample, last year received 534.b 75 letters
postal-cards, circulars, etc, while SO, l31
were sent for improper address or insufficient
postage, making 6l7,712 in all, against 502,
}S5 the previous year. The total value of
contents of dead letters received last year
was 1871 1886, 1s. Of this sum about 500, 900
| was cash.
! The membership of the Protestant churches
of the United States is, according TO recent
reports, 994O, 93s of the Catholic churches
$3.50, 900. The annual expenditures of the
| Protestant churches are $3.50, 500 900, or
about 80 to each member. The expenditure
of the Catholic chuuches are about - for
each member. There are. however very
many contributors to the Protesan,s who
are not church members, though they are in
tereslcd in all church work, and regular at
PENDANTS upon religious services. The larger
| Protestant denominations have membership
AS fol ows Methodists 1868, 04i Bnp-
lists, 2,33G, 900: Presbvtermus, S93, 4S5
Lutheran, 729.4l3; Congrcgationilists,
3s1, G97 EpiscopaIians, H4,5sO. The cS-
penditurts for eah member is as follows
Episcopalans, S2l Prcsby teriaus, "A
Congregationalists So Bapllst, Dutch Re-
formed and and Lutheran, - each MethO.
disls. ii 80 Catholics, SU.1j Jews, S23.
The holy synod OF Russia has just pub
lishcd lis report for 1880, and reports mem
burship Of 81, 196, 092 souls, including lO.5l1
e Invcrts tor the year. OF these latter ll3j
were Roman Catholics 732 Procstans, 39s
Jews. 400 Mohamn cdans, and the res
pngans OF the Greek dissi cnts 2i97 joined
The OFT todoN Geek Church. The synod re-
ports i4O monastericS for men, lO' for
women, the former containing 1854 monks
and 3i90 noyiCes, while the mouaslorlcs Tor
novccs The Russian Church has II ,i3;
cu,hcdrals and churches, with 3s, 0,2 priests
aud &c, t3s deaconS n lower clergy. The
church controls 9j hospital, with l22G beds,
and Gas asylums for ,426 persons also
434S schools with los, 1901 upils. The church
iucomc was II 252. $50 ruDl,s. The chuich
funds on January /. 1881, were 80, 4l2, As,
ruhrs. or about S2j000,U00. The govern
mcni paid the salary OF IS, ~. priests ana
deacons. The Russian Church has tiity-lhrce
theological seninar,s and four spiritual
academies, This shows nnlch proCr, $ upon
former accounts. and IS largely due To govern
ncni patronage
The reward offered by the goycrnmen, of
Cyprus of one Piastrc per nkc, ur about !.
half penny per pound fer locust eggs, sub
s,quently raised, however, tn thee times
, that sum as the eggs became sca!ces, resulted
in the collection Of the enormous am MN, OF
; 1899, tons of eggs in the sevcn months pre-.
ccding the middle Of February last. Bcsid :
this step, screens and locust traps we're tx,
tcnsively employee and atogcIli,r t32 coo,
IN more than one fifth of the total revenue
Of The island, WAS expended i'll the official
Locust campaign during the financial YEAR
Tie Cyprus locust is II species couilutd tc
5 the island aud hopes are entertained of being
I able finally 10 cNtirpitp the pest,
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y o"'io''s '""Su' "''''"S Wv I"'1' W.
I of what is the whole duty OF fireman has
. Just been remanded Tor new tiial by tli'
supreme court OF Wisconsin,. NhiIa me
! Beckwth House at Oshkosh was burning
;. Il. Paige made an otcr u SJ'oOo 10 any
: one who would rescue ms Wllr. NhaiIc'
thc woman and claimed the money, but wa,
p nonsniicd in the circuit court. On appea
/ tho sunrrme court has reversed tina, iiIdt
+. ment. closing its Opiu,on as follows; In
asm,ch rs The plaintiif could not rescue Tia,
body Of Mrs Paige from the burning build
!, inr withou, Imminent peril of losing lis OWL
liz. and inasnnlch ms il was moi his duty n
T.. a maid Officer aud member of The fire denart
y mnnt 10 do so. he is in a position To CLAIM
: the ee,yurd ALLEGED to Lave been offered b,
), The defendant for such rescue
r When the Pilgrim Fathers felt the mrs
= cold of autumn they thought winter hat
Al come. but the Indians said, 7'No, there will
e Inc summer vet" Hence the ORIGIN of IN,
d name Indian Summrrn ACCORDING 10 iii,
It Ros,on Evening TrnuscrjDt In The famou
fores, Of Ardennes whose oaks are noic,
for tb.;r brilliant autumn bues. il ia Gallo.
pod Ieaf y a name which would he c,nec
;aliv annronrato in Amrrjco whose corpeou
a,,,,mn foliage is unenualled In German,
ne ST is called 6OI Mems summer" and i,
No France est Martins summer" Elsewbcr