Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-10-24
THE IDTI.It.

Not"s and Gossip picked uu ON ile .tt",t
IN looking over tio records %. jlr First
Baptist church of this cIls SION ill.,. occasion
Of It's recent cmjcrmpuull. ou. OF he
officers Of the church found the following
dlnuSu4miAutc: "Or2uuMcd D..oa}. for
the first time. a ~abbath.4choJi. with seven
teachers and five pupils"
I'm organization MHrNcilOuSly like that
ol the American navy tO-day-aII officers
and no privatcs
The genial landlord Drew. of the Van
Ness House went over to the Adrundacks
the other day, on some church mission,
and had two narrow escapes one was
from drowning and the other was from
shooting Il deer. The deer didn't come
very ncar-only near enough 50 that one
could have touched him with ~ pad
die. Mr.. Drew blazed away but the
. bullet failed to connect with the
/ deer, and the sagacious quadrupcd well
knowing that forty or fifty more shots
would seal his doom, hastily left for parts
unknown. As to the hairbreadth escape
from drowning, Mr. Drew took some ladies
out in boat to show them how IlanlAn
rowed. But when he lost his balance and
dropped over into ten feet Of water, going
to the bottom like shot, the ladies deCid
ed that the llanan style of rowing might
do for Canada, but never ought to be in.
lIb'tN'N'l Iltb lIlt l Illttil E7ldltS.
1t was the ldlcr's good fortune to meet
Hon Henry O. IIoughton Of the
famous Riverside Press during his re
cent brief visit to Burlington. Mr. lIouGh-
ton, as is well known, learned the
printers trade in the FREE pEE~- office.
He told the ldlor that one day as he was
labOriOuslv setting type Il little. driCd-up
old gentleman came in and handed him
printed Slip On it were Il number Of
words likS theatcr." "ceutrr." etc.
"Hhcre, my lad, said the old gentleman,
"Whcu You come to those words always
spell them the way they are spelled on
that Slip
The old gentleman was Noah Webster,
l the famous dictionary maker, and what is
! described above was his method of intro
ducing his spelling reform.
And since that time added Mr.
lIOughton,' II have printed some two
hundred tons of WebSter's dictionaries
+ Mr.. llOughton is very proud OF the skill
he attained It's pr 'ctical printer and mar
rates with a great deal Of satisfaction how
b. ON one occasion he set" one entire side of
t an issue of the FREE PRESS. and 50 much
+ confidence had the proprietor, Mir. stacy,
T. in his correctness as Il cOmpositor that he
e ordered the form sent to press without
e any proofreading.
- 1t isa "farcry' from an apprenticeship in
the FREE PRESS office to the proprcturship
e of that great printing establishment near
the banks of the Charles river, but Mr..
= Houghton has fairly and handsomely won
, his great suCcess-and long may he live to
/ enjoy it!
e "Mammu," said seven-ycarS-old Bur
lington boy on his return home from
y school the other day, "MammH, isn't Mr..
r Cleveland naughty, swearing Kind of a
Y man ?"
: why do you ask such question. my
i dear - was the mothers response.
e because" replied the lad, 'all the
d boys in the school that are for cleveland
!, are naughty. swearing boys, and 80
4 thought Mr.. Cleveland must he tlat KIND
g. Of man himself"