Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-06-12
pITHN PARAGRAPHS.
Some Brilliant Reflections from Our Ex-
changes.

good for, at any rate, and that Is to pro-
teCt the President absolutely against all
danger of inpeaChment.-St. LOUJS GlODC-
| Democrat
Mrs. John Kelly telegraphs in emphatic
! terms that her husband is not dangerously
! ill. The intelligence is very welcome yet
it is strange how deeply rooted different
impression is in the minds of many per
sons.-N. y. Gruphtc.
1t must be considered as just a bit sig
nilicant that one of the applicants for office
at Washington rests his claim to recOgni-
ton on the ground that he aided in the
capture of John Brown ut Harper's Ferry,
and boasts that he got the first clip at
| HIM. "-BOStOn TrdDCllCr.
After a careful computation it has been
ascertained that one fourth class postmas-
ter is ousted every five minutes, sundays
ncluded.-POrttdnd Press.
BY the way, why is it that girls who
commit suicide or gain nOtOriety in some
other way are always "uncommonly pref
ty, exceptionally beautiful" or at least
Every interesting y"-BOStOH GtObC
The easiest way to jump from Brooklyn
bridge is to say it has been done. The
man that did it that way had II good time
Dragging of it and talking to the report
ers. The man that actually jumped with
his feet instead of his mouth is dead.-DC-
trOU Free Press.
Gen Bragg of Wisconsin is the Demo-
4
cans are all to be turned out and their
places given to Democrats-"that's what
we were elected for" But Gen. Bragg as
Il Uuion soldier did not fight the rebels in
order to furnish them with all the best
government positions.-IroU1 Times.
One thing, however, is plainly true
that well trained mind furnishes abund-
ant resources of pleasure which the mere
dollar making machine knows nothing
about. a taste for literature or science
enlarges the scope of business mans in
tluence, and makes his life more symme
trcal and more significant Let every
boy go to college who can, and let him
make any sacrifice to acquire a good edu-
cation, for he Will thereby he able to make
more OF himself whether he can make
more money or not.-NClr York Her.
did.
In spite of all that he attempted TO do
to destroy it, Mr.. Davis sill believes that
the constitution is Il great and good thing,
and he is apparently distressed at the dl
miniShed respect with which the sacred
instrument is regarded by the frivolous
generation which has succeeded him.
Coming from his lips these words sound
, like an assassin 5 praise of the virtues of
his intended victim. But severe language
and severe judgment are alike prepostcr-
, Gus i'll the case of jefferson Davis. 1t is
, not gun and Il bounty on his head that
the dUdo calls for, but Il glass case and an
uNllllSSlDIl ltt.--Nt u D Dih tHttN.
The Dolphin vindicates John Roach, the
little boat exceeding the requirements of
the government contract under which she
is built. 1t was right, of course, for the
Secretary of the Navy to require fulfill
ment of contract but it was unfair i'll the
. newspapers chat regularly and ignorantly
malign Mr.. Roach, because he is patri-
otto American manufacturer, to assume
that he was seeking to wrong the govern
} ment. Mr.. Roach has Il Shipyard, and is
one of the few Americans who have not
given up the hope that this country will
y yet have restored commerce and a
y restored navy. He is, of course, Il protec-
zionist. For these reasons he is Il atorite
target for the railing abuse of the British
| hirelings and Anglo-maniacs of the free
q trade press.-Syrdcusc STANDARD.
| The two openings for college presidents
:. in New England, at Middlebury and Bow
dom. are not of Il tempting character
When the person familiar with the tinan-
: cial necessities that Cypress so many OF
the smaller colleges reflects upon Sena-
y tor Stanford's proposition to devote Sl5,-
D., 100000 to taking the burden of the com
! mon school system off from the people OF
California, he thinks with Il Sigh that the
i Senator might find Il broader investment
for his millions. The people of any State
can well afford to support their school,
and it is for their own best interest to dt
= it but when it comes to the higher instl
Y tutiOns of learning the individual is called
: upon to help. If Senator Stanford SHOULD
" give half Il million dollars each to thirty
II colleges, he would do Il deed that woul,
=, immortaliZe his name. We stand ready
|, to nominate the institutions, and ever,
k one OF them shall be worthy.-SpriHltct
e RCpublicdH.
L The new postal card will be delicat,
pink. We bttray no secrets in Stain.
that Postmaster-Gcneral Villas thinks Sc
y riously of having he mail bags printed il
II old gold with Il tOurinch dadO of bird :
l. egg blue and Il large daisy i'll each corner
y Reform and art are going hand in hant
/ clear through the whole civil service
l. Philddclphid Press,
While Mr.. Gladstone was taking hig
d ground on the Afghan question hi
shrewder competitor took the low groun
q. belonging to the Afghans-and keeps it,
il boston GtObC.
4 New Jersey is an economical State.
n, maintains no physician or surgeon at tn
ie State Prison, though the inmates of tn
" institution number thousand or NOR,
IN If it were not for an occasional dOctC
H. among the inmates the latter would h
,e compelled very often to die without med
n cal asslstance.-Dctrot Free Press.
ne 1t is funnier than circus or conf
nj opera to see Democratic admnisGratiO
he with Mississippi man in the cabint
III turning up its nose at murder i'll thu
Stule. Bul lOf pOlltlcdl murders lnel
oh could have been no Democratic admin
ao tration. Washington Republican.
an The whiskey which the lunatic Reaun
,h fortified himself with before capturing
-, Wabash train and killing a Chicago polio
No, officer was purchased in Kansas Cit
" whicq explains a good many things. Kan
~ ~, sas City is the headquarters for the bolt
90 traffic in the Prohibition State of Knnsa
H., and Reaume seems to have got hold of
~ flask intended for the Kansas trade.-Ch
cdgO Herdld.
Wy England is not a great military pow
IN and Mr. Gladstone is one Englishman WI
zee knows it. Any Continental Power, eve
Ir- Belgium, can put II larger army in Il
lily field at short notice than England. En-
ce lands forty or fifty thousand soldiers
rec not count against great States like Ru
ke STA or Germany, which have always rea,
ice nearly half IL million men. John 81
of must tend to his shop,-N, Y. ECCHiI
lis Telegram.
,on Reform goes grandly on. Preside
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