Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-09-18
PITHY PARAGRAPHS.

The case of the Pennsylvania railroad
conductor, who was recently married
while his train was going at full speed,
suggests the old saying about marrying in
haste to repent ut leisure One who gets
married while going ut forty miles an hour
can fairly be said to marry in haste.-IIOS-
tom Herdld.
Gail Hamilton and Miss Cleveland are
said to be entered for II match in the NOrth
american RCriCU in II discussion of the
happiness of the married life of Thomas
and Mrs. Carlyle. This will be followed
by discussion between King Thebedau
and the I'll Mahdi on the climate OF the
North Pole. -DctroU Free Press.
"The bloody shirt" will continue to be
an issue in politics as long as Il negro cti-
zen is IN danger of dying in one, if he APP
proaches the polls to vote.-ChicdgO Jour-
nal.
The real destroyer of the forests is the
careless sportsman or hunter, who care
lessly or criminally leaves his campfire to
spread, running over, very frequently,
thousands of acres, utterly destroying the
growth. These are the destroyers of for
ests and the careless forest tramp de
stroys annually thousands of acres of for
eSts where the lumDerman deprives one
acre of land of its forest growth.-IOuT-
nal.
summer schools are becoming Il nota-
bic feature of American life. They appeal
strongly to the desire on the part of the
normal American to be busy if possible
while he is doing nothing. summer
schools already cover great variety of
topics, and the indications are that they
Will be still further extended in the flu
ture. They are perhaps not an unmiXed
blessing, and it is to be hoped that they
will not supplant the old time-honored
methods of acquiring knowledge.
The way to protect the public is for
druggists to be druggists i'll the real sense
of the word and not make so much mon
key-show in their stores. Let them come
down to the old rule, and good one too ;
Keep your prescription clerks behind their
respective counters and have assistants to
wait on the retail customers then have
all your poisons, such us strychnne, arsen-
| ic morphine, corrosive subimate, afro
| phia etc, in II separate closet marked
Poison and to which the prescription
clerk only has access, and you will see but
few fatal mlstakes.-COr. y. y. lIorld.
Minister Phelps is in danger of stopping
over if, indeed, he has not already slOp-
ped. The cable reports him as telling the
London cutters, at their banquet last
night that America 'reciproCated and
echoed the sentiments of love, honor and
devotion just expressed toward the
queen If he really said anything like
this he talked nonsense, and thoroughly
misrepresented the people of TINS country,
fully One-third of whom neither love nor
honor the queen, but quite the reverse
while the other two-thirds entertain Il
mild esteem for her, based on the belief
that she is Il sensible old lady, who has
conducted herself respectfully through Il
long life, and, therefore, considering the
badness of the Guelph stock to which she
belongs, and the general ViciOusneSs OF
royal blood anyway, is entitled to the
credit of being comparatively Gooc
queen. To say that any considerable mum
Der of American citizens love her, or are
in any sense devoted to her, Is to drlVel II
Il way quite unbecOming the dignity of III
American minister to England Boston
TrdrcllCr.
Il know many believe that Edmund
threw the election, but at the meeting o
the legislature every member Will be mac
: to think his name don't commence Will
"a so he can he the first to vote for him,
col. george W. HOObcr.
The funny men all over the countr
seem to be making dead set against tn
messenger boy son account OF ms allege
: slowness. This leads us to say goo
word for this adjunct of modern ciVlliza
ton Maybe he doesn't always run wit
: messages, but he hasn't got enough salar
e to run on. We would like to see the fun
e ny men get over twenty miles day NOR
or less, on Il dead run, with salary mex
tonothing IL week-sometimes half frozen
y
V ovcrwOrked and underted. We reall.
- don't think they would be half as funn
, as they are now.-N. \. TribuHc,
Alfonso must hold the Caroline Island
or lose his throne, as he patheticallN IN
i forms the Emperor of Austria. However
> he need not do any of the actual tghtln
a himself. The principal function of
:. modern monarch is to look dignitied an
distribute medals.-N. \. Grdphic.
There is IL deal of talk in the newspi
+ perS about President Cleveland ben
J.. found in the New York backwoods i'll h
9 shirt sleeves, collarleSS, and with oil
. breeches on, and shod with cowboy
II boots. Some Democratic papers are |
t mysteries of admiration over the spect;
e Gle of ''the President of 60, 900, 900 Poop
sitting in the woods looking like an ord
nary man" How absurd George Wasl
l. ington used to shiver in natures integl
ment while his only clothes were gettin
# washed, and our early Presidents genera
~ ly had a rough time trying to kindle gree
IL logs in the old tireplaces, catching curtai
1t lectures from their danes meantim
Presidents are but mortals, after ais
PAU Pioneer Press.
" There are lightning impression gathe
II ers, Just IA there are lightning calcul
/ tors. Are you sure it was of Il MOnda
Il and between noon and one o'clock Wht
this accident oCcurred,' asked the eros
examiner of the man who had sued Mi
II sissippl steamboat company, one of who
II boilers had blown him sky high. Il am
was the prompt reply, for | rememb'
seeing clothes hanging out to dry an
e folks eating their dinner as was comm
2. down. '-NeC York Tribunc.
c The disposition among physicians
certain cities to return to the old plan
supplying their own medicines to patient
II has been strengthened by the numerol
:, druggists mistakes lately reported. III
saddlebags, once Indispensable % ever
!, practitioner, and now used only 10y cou
- try doctors, seem likely to enjoy ii r
II newal of popularity.-IH pOltS JOu
a nal.