Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-07-03
OUR KALEIDOSCOPE.

President Cleveland has written to the
owners of the recently launched schooner
Grover Cleveland" at Boston that he
will give them II flag for the vessel. The
President appears to be fond of driving
sharp bargain.
Leonard Fulbright of Georgia claims
that after coming out of one battle
during the war one hundred bullets
dropped out of his clothing, and not one
had scratched his skin. We should like
Mr.. Fulbright for Il fishing companion,
this season, first rate.
If all Indians toe in as bad as they are
to- we should say that "a good
motto for them would be, Turn the ras-
Gals out"
Popnjay says that he wishes he could
induce his wife to try the early closing
on her mouth.
Clerical conundrum: If the devil lost
his tail, where would he go for another
one Profane answer: To a place where
they retail ardent spirits.
The Ewg- Webliche" is to be discussed
by the Concord philosophers this year. In
order to accommodate the crowd, all the
railroads will carry at excursion rates.
A Kentucky girl was struck by lightning |
while dressing for her wedding. With |
out turning around or taking the hairpins |
out of her mouth, she simply remarked, |
"You girls had better stop flinging your
shoes till we get started"
a Baptist preacher in North Carolina |
says the frying-pan has prevented the |
conversion of the world. People seem to
realize that "out of the frying PAM means
into the fire"
The New York Evening Post never pub
fishes any poetry. The editors are prob
ably all bald headed old sticks, whose
hearts are past going pit-a-pat, when a
sweet girl graduate trips into the sane
tum with four yards of perfumed code to
Summer"
a New York dentist says that women
who gossip great deal lose their teeth
soonest. We doubt it. The women who
lose their teeth soonest are the ones who
leave them lying around in wash basins,
on window stills, etc.
Umbrellas in 1915 according to a recent
writer, weighed about three pounds and
half. Must be it used to make fellows
arm ache, in those days. to escort his girl
home in the rain.
georgia printer claims 10 nave oeen
cured of dyspepsia by eating a quart a day
of the ashes of pine wood Give printer
good square meal like this, and dyspep-
STA won't bother him long.
A large number of Mexican editors are
making a tour of the principal cities of
the United States. They never make any
| speeches where they are entertained but
politely offer instead to shoot a potato or a
bord hoilod eoo off tbair boc+,s haad,,ith.
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gu. scattering any cluilps uo" Tue oach
of his neck.
II is a bright student who can read his
Latin Commencement programme a year
after graduation-Bo Transcript.
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Whlie medlcal students are being harsh
~ condemnea lor ROOFING graves ~ IL IS Tor
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NO. remarked the man win the open
countenance, II don't like flies; ! hate
them. Why, what do you think? One of
yn v nmth Ietendime tn tbnk If w"s the me
window. that's a little more than ",,a ~ /
can Dear noo'o" 1'""So. eit'
dor he j. either hanged or sent to nrisnn
When an indian commits twenty he is
nrnvided with rntions arms tent and a
we'll hound family bible from Boston -
DcfrOtt Free Press.
4 Livingston county. n Y. woman is
the mother of twenty-seyen children. In
Tho face If those awful statistics there are
VET neonle in the state of New York who
are oskinr why there are so many men
who don't marry -COurier-JOurnnf
DR.: Talmage ana nve hundred members
OF ms congregation are at Niagara rams