Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-03-30

| ououl seNen nunureu year.
Samuel J.TIlden'shousc at Gramcrcy park,
New York, Is now said to be the richest and
most ornate In America.
The whipping post for wife-beaters is to be
set up in Illinois. The law not only provides
that any husband who assaults his wife shall
be whipped upon the bare back, but that he
shall pay all costs of prosecution.
| Tarrytown is to commemorate, April 3,
the hundredth birthday of Washington Irv-
ing.
| To a young friend who declared to Ruskin
his intention to be an architect, the bilious
critic replied, ~ am very glad to hear il
there are no architects in England now"
shower of snow, the first for thirteen
years, fell in Rome fortnight ago, and the
dome of st. Peters was white for several
hours.
The Spanish Cortes want to retire some
superfuous generals, Spain having thrice the
number of other countries-onc to every 51S
men.
Kavanagh's car, in which he drove the
Dublin assassins. has been sold to Nine.
Tussaud's exhibition in London.
The coming and going ends of the North
ern Pacific railroads are now within As hours
stage ride of each other, and will soon close
the gap.
Missouri has just enacted high license
law, which taxes drinking places from $3.50
to $1,000 year, and requires bonds of liz
uor sellers and theassent of adjoining prop
erty holders.
According to recent accounts, the use
of the telephone is making progress in Italy.
Rome now has G51 telephones, Turin 454,
Naples ALB and Milan 800.
Last year, during the dog-killing season, it
cost Vicksburg, Miss, 500 per month for
carts to remove the carcasses of the ours
but this year they are fed TO the catfish, and
the city saves SGOsper month.
Last year the Suez canal earned SIC, OOO,-
900. and paid dividend of 20 per cent al
though reduction of 10 cents ton took
100000 from the revenue. In 1881 the
dividend was ID per cent.
The London Medical Express explains the
recent falling off in the consumption of beer
| and spirits in Great Britain by the fact that
one million persons have joined the blue rib
| bon societies since October, 1880, and 564,-
O0O have signed the pledge.
The cost of the proposed canal for uniting
the Bay of Biscay with the Mediterranean is
now estimated at S24S, 900, 600, the length of
the canal being some 27O miles Engineers
speak confidently Of the feasibility of the vast
undertaking.
A hospital for Mussulman women, presided
over exclusively by Russian female doctors,
has been established by Gen. Tchernaiefr at
Tashkcnd. This is the first time that Rus
sian women have been admitted to separate
and Independent medical practice.
ID. L. Dowd of Springfield, Mass the cham
pion heavy weight ifterof America has again
beaten the record, lifting, at an exhibition of
his pupils at Worcester, Mass, 14l1 pounds
Of iron, without harness, beating by 81
pounds any previous lift.
At Heidelberg, the other day, all English
man being much put out at the way stu
dent used his knife at dinner, at length ven
tured to suggest that he might cut his mouth
if he continued the operation. The student
rcmarking that he had a brthright to LAGER
ate his mouth to his heats content, left the
hall and sent challenge, and was subse-
qucntly shot dead by the Euglishman.
In Spain railway train has been adopted
consisting of two engines and twcnty-four
carriages which contains complete equip
ment for the reception for a heightened peri
cd of eight officers and 1876 men, and forms 9
little movable war depot. The carriages are
ironc'ad and provided with loopholes, anc
the train carries four guns.
Wildcat mining operations are not confineC
to America. 1t has leaked out that a mum
Der of English capitalists have invested
twenty five millions of dollars in ALLEGED
/ gold mines in India, the total output o
: which for three years has only amounted t,
! about twenty-five hundred dollars. The
only ones who have proftted by the invest
ment are the parties who originated the en-
terprlse and were instrumental in selling tn,
stock.
Hamburg correspondent writes that the
divers who have been down into the steam
ship Cimbria report that there are over 30(
cornsoc in th. al vossol i, svorv inn
o,;nroI,io a,,i,uJa ~ 49, 40 b. 40
, llon OF the water causes them all 10 sway u
,hn .corn 10 orn Of ;ncnnoa;yahio horror va"
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| IN Los Angeles Gal, none OF the member
e of which was over Is years of age. Tn,
: leaacr If ,hc oanr was Nrlli. Divine brigh
E l;ttln brune,tc of In years She was one n
A The smar,est scholors in the nublic schools
v nnd invariahlv ,nnls tho nrizc altered Inv hc
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