Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-09-07
THE IDIER.
Notes ana Gossip Picked Up OH the
Street.

Notes and Gossip ricised ZIP OF the
Street.
"Cold ~ said Commander IL. L. johnson,
U. ). N, on one of the recent cold-snap
days, at is cold and Pm glad of it. got
my hot weather flor this WORLD all in
lump and don't want any more of it. 1t
was on the Rio Grande, a few years ago.
was sent up the river to look out for cattle
raiders. All of sudden the river went
down and our boat was left high and dry,
right in the middle Of a mans garden, aud
there we had ~ wait for the river to rise
again. 1t took six weeks to do it, and for
a part OF that time there wasn't an hour
when the thermometer didn't register as
high as 100 degrees above zero. Hot? We'll,
L should say so. And bugs Why, we
used to be glad when the mosquitoes came,
Tor they wonld drive or the rest Of the
bugs Aud the perspiration came in great
drops from the mere remembrance Of suffer
ings endured.
A worse experience than that, however,
was once undergone by our townsman Mr.
John w. Anderson. A vessel in which he
sailed before the mast was wrecked off the
eastern coast of Africa and all hands were
lost except himself and two companions.
They succeeded in getting to shore, but one
died from exposure soon afterward, and the
other, from the same cause, became insane
in short time. To add to the comfult of
Mr.. Anderson's situation his insane cOmpan-
ion developed homicidal mania, and he was
forced to be constantly on his guard to save
himself from being murdered. At last the
maniac died from exhaustion and MIR. Audrr.
son was LEFT alone. For several months lie
passed wretched existence, subsisting upon
smell fish, ETC., gathered along the shore ; but
finally he succeeded in signalling passing
vessel and was taken of.
tramp printer, by the way, who turret
up here the other day, was also man 81
African experiences. Ills tramp, he said
TOOK him well into The interior Of Africa ant
there he struck an English station where
little weekly newspaper was published. III
was set at work aud everything passed aion.
nicely until publication day, when it ap
pcared that the paper upon which the week.,
was to he printed had not arrived aud pr1Da
bly, would not arrive for several months
The broken-hcartcd publisher WAS in dtspu
and talked of suicide, and things were in In
, worst kind OF pickle, when Il bright lie
struck the printer. He hascnel u III
woods and gathered great quantity of bari
, from a tree similar to our silver birch ani
, brought 1t in triumph TO the editor. Cpo
this material the ujiji Banner IF Freedon
! was printed and Central Africa was saved.
And speaking of adventures in foreig
parts, the Ethans had some, in the cour4c o
$ their recent travels in the wilds of Massachti
. sets and Rhode Island The best story til
$ ldler has heard is that of the handsome mem
, Der of the company who got to his room lat
5 and couldn't find the door-key. lie didu
c want to make fuss aud SO he quietly pile
s all the furniture in the room against tn
door, repeated few PRAYERS, and went I
s bed in the morning found that the Ike
{ was in the door all tight and that it wa
4 a closet door which he had so care
d fully barrcaded An incident whic
j reminds the ldler of one in til
s The career of the urbane librarian of III
Fletcher Free Library. 1t was doubl
/ window, hut he didn't observe the fact, am
e lifting the inner sash, he crashed through I'll
t outer one, his head bossomiug through tt
= glass like Venus through the sea foam.
r Bat enough of these wild, exciting tale
Il of strange adventure. A more solemn sui
: ject is that of domestic help. The article
= very scarce, just now, and even the mo
: thrilling appeals in the ten-cent column
the FREE PRESS DO not always succeed
enticing it from its lair. And the domest
knows that she is master OF the situation all
she lives up to her privileges. AT one hou!
seven domestics were successfully engaged
Each of the noble seven solemnly promise
to be on hand the very next day-and n,
one of them was ever seen again. Many al
n the tribuations of the housekeeper thcl
days.