Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-05-21
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The oldest mound builders-ants.
a ghost of Acknowledgements Ham.
let.
What is it that gets the most grinds on
the boys? Dust
Ben Butler is suing his son-in-law.
Those gas bills stick in his crop.
The Sandwich" advertising men are fit
objects for charity, and yet they board
themselves.
Sentiment for the soda water patron {:
"Drink to me only with thine ice"
Miss kilgore of Pennsylvania has been
admitted to the bar. She might make
money renting her name to the anarchists
There is getting to be great abundance
of peachblow vases, which shows that the
frost didn't spoil the crop, after all.
Aldermen are not generally very tall on
mathematics, but they have got far enough
along to know how to divide.
They have been celebrating the CEN
tenary of the potato in France Here's
something that the Irish don't seem to
have caught on to.
Life is Il passing show" says a poet
So 1t IS, brass band, elephant and all, but
if man wants to get at the inside facts
he must pay his way into the canvass.
Anna Perkins, the Cleveland champion
of the DR. Mary Walker costume, chal-
lenges any lady who criticises her costume
to public debate on the trouser question.
She pants for an antagonist.
FASHION NOTES FOR TIE SEASON.
Stripes are very fashionable with raps.
No changes are to be noted in fannels.
Several new green's are noticed in the
makeup of millinery this season. Prom
nent among them are cowslips and dan
deions.
There is a variety in sleeves, especially
in San Francisco. The best assortmcnts
range from trumps up to a full hand.
| Handkerchiefs are shown with narrow
hens, and are deliberately worked in the
corners. Persons with colds will be al
lowed to work them also in the centre.
The fashion for opera cloaks and for
balls are long mantles in fancy colored
satins trimmed with a little gold The
| latter is quite imperative, as Vreenbacks
are considered old fashioned and silver is
below par
sun umbrellas are very beautiful, and
/ covered with fine striped silks. Purple is
all the rage, and will be quite extensively
carried with Jerseys in the country-on
their horns.
A very pretty costume is of dark olive
tusso cloth with nickel plated skirt and
fourinch pine grained panels with mould.
ings to match, trimmed with cornice OF
blue velvet and with open towers above
the waist. A capote with either weat her
vane or a final, and Renaissance shoes
with gothic arches complete the cos
tune.
A society reporter wrote: Or Jones
and wife were present, dressed in white
tulle." Rather peculiar costume for d
doctor-BOStOH Post
More Marital Amenities. He-"If you
had the sense of a donkey you would lister
to me-" She-"l fear | should, my dear.
Hdrper'S Bdzdr.
1t is not often that a man finds out 81
much about his brlde-elect as the presi
dent is dong through the kind offices o.
the press We trust he is sufficiently
gratetul.-NctC Huren Ners.
Why, Laura, how tight you wear YOU
corsets," said one lady to another as they
enjoy anything | ate if | wore mine Il,
tight as you do" Grace before meat, tn,
other replied as She laced herself in.-Cht
cdgO inter- ocean.
a New Hampshire man kept his whiske.
bottle at the bottom of the well, and whel
his wife found the string and pulled 1t NJ
he tried to make her believe that it be
lOnged to a Chinaman who had boret
through from the other side of the earth
-Phit0dcip hid HCrald.
Before marriage Il girl speaks to he
. lover with her eyes, after marriage wit
her tongue. Life
Spies have not been executed in Amer
lea for m ore than Il score of years. Ii
hoped that Chicago will resuscitate tn
custom. Boston Post.
Martin Irons, the deposed Knight o
= Labor, is going to lecture. Now Marti
, will see how long-sutIering nation ca
work the boycott when she wants to-
Phil0delphiu Press.
; The man with name ending in ski
had better look out for the police. Il
these times of socialism, riots and dynH
mite, the policemans club, like the mag
netic needle, turns naturally to the Pole
-ChicdgO Times.
Scene IN Italy; First 3rigand-"Yov
see that MILFORD over there He is yer
rich. He came from New York in Amer
, lca. He is what they cailsan alderman
Let us capture him. The ransom will b
heavy" Second ditto-"True but thinl
of the disgrace of having to keep compan
t with him, even tor night ''-BOStoI
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