Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-07-03
PITHY PARAGRAPHS.
Some Brilliant Reflections from Our I'm
changes

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Congressman Stewart OF Vermont says
81 am not and will not be Il candidate
for the Senate against Mr. Edmunds.'
EX-GOV. Smith can now take the flOOr.-
Boston TrurClCr.
Some Washington ladies are indignant ,
because Miss Cleveland wears steel orna-
ments. Yet they are probably quite as
servceable as more costly ornaments
would be.-N. y. Grdphic.
And it (the new British Administration
will be II government with Mr.. Gladstone
in the opposition. Whatever his weak
uesses may be in Office, as leader of her
maiesty's opposition he has no weakness
es There he stands for England AS no
other man of his time has stood, and there
is no one to cope with him. SprinWiCld
Republican.
A recent despatch says that Senator Ed
munds will appear before the House of
| Lords during his visit to England. There
| must be some mistake about this. The
House of Lords Will appear before Mr.
! Edmunds. -PcOrid transcript.
The appointment of Gen. Rosecrans, OF
| California, as Register of the Treasury,
has but one merit it confines an neon
tinent and venUmUus old gossip in a posi-
| ton where his writing can be limited to
| signing his name, and where he can be
| officially required to keep his tongue reas-
onably stlll.-N. Y. Times.
mark that "none of Mr. Blaine's friends
entertain the idea of putting him forward
! for the presidency again 1t Is well to be
wise always-even after the event.-TrOy
| Times.
Mr.. r. H. Stoddard can do just as good
work here as he could do as consul at
Athens. No working literary man, de-
pendent on his pen, can afford to take an
$500 situation abroad He must keep up
the dignity of his position and his COuil-
try, and when he has kept up his dignity,
| there Is not enough of his salary lett to
| keep down his EXPENSES Boston 1fdH-
script.
An essayist of positive opinions, after
contrasting the tender essayist with the
erratlc poet, says that our age needs more
Lambs rather than more COleridges. With
the first half of this statement those who
dwell in and about the New York Stock
Exchange are in eHrtyagreement.-N. v
Commercial IdrCtiSCr.
The denial of the silly story that Mr.,
Blaine and Senator Logan have'had a fall
ing out will hardly retard the progress of
the original talsehoOd. There are SO many
Democratic newspapers in this country
that talsehOOd of TINS kind will get
across the continent and back before the
truth even gets Il .-POitluHd Press.
spent in gin mill, one hours vacation
is too long and frequently lands its victim
in penltenitdry. spent III fishing, hunt
ing, surveying the country, prospecting
for new business opportunities, or looking
for some avenue in winch he can so invest
his little means as to become thereafter
his own employer, one, two or three
months may be too short. ChicugO Inter-
, ocean,
Lord Coleridge may be lord chief
: justice, but he is a veritable porcupine
Tor all that. After being allowed to com
promise the Adams suit to spare him the
,l III
) refused to attend his daughters wedding
! But she secured her chosen husband just
the same.-N. Y. Word
Whatever Englishmen may have to say
of American rush in business and other
wise, Mrs Lucille Yseult Dudley has no
, occasion to complain OF the rapidity with
which criminal cases are prosecuted in
our Courts. Her letter explains this
Fish and Ward are noteworthy examples
of our slowness in some things.-N. y
t Tribune.
, 1t is said that there are fifteen hundred
l cases of smallpox in London, and that the
= disease is raging III other English cities
! This is a pertinent commentary upon the
war which has been carried on in England
5 against vaccination. Societies have been
t formed pamphlets had been published
t popular ignorance has been invoked
5 against one of the greatest medicinal
t blessings of modern civilization, and the
e full proportions.-PrO journal.
The New York Times thinks Dr. Duryei
k will make as good president of Union Col
Il lege us any clergyman but Clergymen dc
', not make the best college presidents DR.
J.. Eliot of Harvard il perhaps Il, able Il col
n lege president as there is i'll the country
= to-day; but wit tn that exception the ables
- and most successful presidents that Amer
: lean colleges have had for the last 2O
II years have been clerSynen.- boston
# Post.
= As it is, every decent man IN New Yorl
% must feel gratiiied that BUddenslek la
~ at last been brought to justice. New Iori
: is not only a safer place, but Il more re
+ spectacle place now that tie chief of il
r. Jerry builders Is to be removed to
building fortunately much more secur
than any i'll the construction of which n
N has had any share, and il to spend TEL
ID years of his life by engaging for the frs
to time in hard and honest labor.-N. y
), Times.
pr Henry Watterson, whom we may homo
r with the title of the Nittor Hewgag q
20 the Democratic press, SEEMS to light re
err markably shy of the fact that the WOO
tn growers convention, composed mostly [
he Democrats, demanded increased protet
# tion on wool. 1t is Il SOLEMN fact that the
RI made the demand, though, and 1t is n
equally solemn fact thst the Democrat
~, reduction of the wool tariff will give tn
-, htpubllCtuS Il DlS lllUoTlll Ill oulO III
5 fall.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
hg What pity New hampshire couldn
We command men in her politics that coul
ne rank with Nermontb Edmunds, MOrri
IN and Phelps They may be conceale
as somewhere in the shadows of our Grant,
er hills, but our political machinery doesn
lis yet bring them ou.-NCD HdmpShii
lis Letter,
of The last man in TIE world to regret til
as Conservative dccishn is Mr.. Gladstol
lily himself, The episode which brings abol
en- his resignation ma, also be proyidentin
III, Again, 1t diverts the public mind frol
pt those points in his policy which are mo
he open to criticism, md places him in II pos
lal tiOn where he can become the aggressOr
lhs the campaign, If he is spared his healt
lie and strength, wemay he sure that he-Wi
ng give the English people II splendid ser
OF of vindicatory Jrations. Detroit FIR
TIC Press.
Did Smallpox has appeared at Plattsburg
n. Y, and the hcal health officer has n
o piled to the stat board of health for va
oh cine y rus with which to forestall Il probab