Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-06-05
THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER.
Bits of Gossip, Comment and Curious In
formation.

Bits of Gossip, Comment and Curious In
formation.
A bank failure at Dunkirk, n. Y, has
developed the curious fact that about one
fourth of the families who have been liv-
ing on public charity the past winter had
money on deposit in the bank.
1t is curiosity of our relations with
Cuba that we sell wheat to Spain, which,
after being ground into flour, is shipped TO
Havana, and sold at Il profit Wheat has
been shipped from this country to Liver
pool, thence to Spain, and then as -four to
Cuba, and has returned II profit on each
transaction.
A Western liquor dealer advertises as
follows: "Having experienced change
of heart through the blessed efforts of
Brother b. and Sister 5, desire to state
to my numerous friends and patrons that
at the end of the current month | shall
retire from the accused liquor traffic for
ever. Until that time my stock on hand
will be offered at greatly reduced rates
Come one, come all :"
A well-known Paris teacher rose from
his seat in II Protestant church in that
city on Il recent Sunday, at the close of
the sermon, and remarked THE pastor
is quite right" Before the congregation
could recover from its establishment, he
| drew pistol and shot himself dead. The
deed was n strange commentary on the
discourse, whose character, however, Is
not indicated by the newspaper narrative
OF the occurrence.
An unprecedented amount of unnvest-
ed capital is now lying in the banks
throughout the country, the result of the
unsatisfactory condition of industry. In
New York city alone the bank deposits
are S5O, 900 900 greater than they were a
year ago, and the banks are loaning SOS
100000 less, making the actual increase of
unemployed capital siS,OOO,OJO, The sur
plus reserve in the New York banks over
legal requirements is now $5I4tGO5O, as
against -, l2i, O53 in 1881.
A distinguished Boston divine, of I'M
usually solemn and impressive appear
ance, went ont to Il country town not long
ago to lecture, says the Boston RCCOrd
He arrived early in the afternoon and all
the town. of course, "spotted' him with
i'll tive minutes as Il very great and very
sanity man. He went INTO IL drug store,
and, in tones that froze the young blood
of the clerk behind the counter, said ::
"Goung-m an-do-you- - yes,
SIR said the trembling clerk: Pm sor-
ry, but learned the habit young and
haven't been able to quit it yet" "lhen,'
said the great divine, without the move
rnent of Il muscle or the abatement of a
shade Of the awful Solemnity of his voice,
can you tell me where | can get good
cigar"
a comcal incident in the Illinois sen
atoral contest happened in Watseka, ILL.,,
last week. Maj. Peters, editor of the Re
publicdp of that place, and Republican
member of the Legislature of lroquois
county. when assured of Logans election,
telegraphed the boys from Springfield ;
Logan is elected. Paint my old home
red He meant, of course, for them to
hold jolification in Watseka, but the
| boys took him at his word, and showing
this message to Mrs. Peters, gained her
consent, and, forthwith, the entire male
| population turned out, and, procuring the
| brightest red imaginable, painted the
house, barn and out-otlices scarlet--roof,
chimney and all, not sparing even the
| fences and tree trunks When he ma jor
heard of the affair the next morning he
was the maddest man in the nation, not
withstanding Logan's election.
A writer in the Alicnist and Ncurolo-
gist recently gave this curious instance of
the influence the mind may have on our
bodily ailments During the week of
the great st. Louis fire in 1919, the ravages
of cholera, which, up to that event, had
reached mortality Of over POO day out
of population of $4,000, almost entirely
ceased, so stimulating and invigorating
was the excitement of that week to the
| brains and nervous systems of the people
and the physical eXaltation inseparable
from the sudden necessity thrown upon SO
many business men for repairing the sud
den damage and re-establishing their alb
ruptly interrupted business" 1t is not
possible, however, that the publication of
the city by great fire may also have con-
tributcd TO check the epidemic