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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-01-09


Yes, some ] repeat it, gentlemen, some
And that is the reason We came to come
NOW what can we send to the Worlds great
That The state may he represented there?
r rory .he stat the maple grove and the mill,
y ne factory, furm, send what you will,
ms TACT as clear as the light remains
nay states true wealth is her weight in
Himself in an attitude, tell you
ana mat august body, all through its frame,
Expected climax, and it came.
a. propose, he said, deep-tOnei and slow,
l., propose that we do not send, but 90 !
r. rom me speaker down to the youngest page,
ms House an b onor to any age,
nu~t go as body corporate,
re finest production of the state"
Inat ,iates, of tho FREE PRESS, said Great
But tho House broke out in such wild APP
plause,
gould not be certain lust who it was).
we can charter" Plato Augustus cried,
49, special train for that Western ride"
Inc member from Franklin rose to object,
nut ratio AuGustus had no respect
FOR one who sat in the House before.
Ana, waving his hand. still kept the floor,
ii.IiscoHrslne IN in his matchless style:
~ VIII pay the state and be worth the while
10 let those peuple out West there know
That marb and granite, sugar and snow,
horse, cattle, pork, butter, pumpkins and
And money on bogus securities
hlN aIi OF ermont No, gentlemen. no.
t,d ,ho 1ti,cN Ine ueah an emphatic blow, -,
Bu Plato Augustus went ON to say:
from the entrance door to the Speaker
urS
We can renresrnt Lrr GO -. ., ,nt, slue'
her valleys fair and her mountains green--'
said Green r,,,,,, ',N,.,ti, 'i'i,h,
and What is better than htl.s aud plains"
Yes ali there i. Of 4,i VS. ' ami - ''.S;
!ell YOU scntlcmeH, "c are the STATE
Wid. i''u'' VIII" "IP"'use went fairy
While the. speaker pounded his desk and
A gcntleu,au askcd ",vorll ,.o,, o,.n.o
10 amG"d, 10y changing an entrance f,e?"
'rme a,u"n,l,I,I, 'r1 wv Vs., , v,, ~
IN lett"g-, paragraphs, leaders. puns
XII tS.,.i,, 49,, GYM \!''l',u .,tY ''ati'hs 9uns
such talent NH pay an entrance e.,
f. n, rcs w'.,'i enough HrHp mo or Hrms
Then l!nto Augustus cent hy a page
fi,S p'i 20 lir cl"rk ana 1t pa 5"i stage.
H., ,y,'', i 'r,n"l =" ana N4ld
A. o''n , tEe !" -. l''e-ehL y pi!l To Dc read
-, I.',rn,' ,''''N ' 80: GIe.-ll way.
All I' ,i,,,, o., " w ~ iei.h''i iAN'
I ,,,' 'i-h ~ oc-Hi"h was hUt halt through
NJ ', H. ,.'' It,, g "i.'l mere Ntrr lie"
So ny.nl,o In :, S,r, ~ IT,, -, 'ur Or'oN'
KIN I'o, ,,,. Va 40 " yer 4; icy ,nn Know
1, - ,t 60 - Wv i'a"i't W l'n-uAEe pam
.i tii, re E"Nt' nor 'h"l&ht 81 Gazing again
t,oi i."H .''' 80 " IL" IIvi com hAhd,
N"o" '"c "l'"'hhl'i" near Il; hand
t,,. u,,,, ~.
WV "-' anu 'h' Nc" SthOOl Law.
a special desnotch 70 tbo Ept,r ppveu
VIC pau" ~ 'Ho rNfh EESS
reported an interview with Governor
PAGE in which he st,.ad +b,. bo b,l noe,
'"'' ''' N'i 0on
le'fei with the supreme Court Judges with
a vlew to a-ccrtain,ug their construction of
the schoo Law with reference to the school
year, and furthcrmore that if the ouinions
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-01-09

No'm7H, las TU-t narroWIy escaped a
aouL'e session OF its ono Legislature and is
therefor IN . position to -ymrothiz9 with
Montana, which is hearing mp under the
burden Of three rival Legis,aurc3 Mon
tana he's one advantage, however. While
its legislative deadloci, continues there will
he little harm done in the way OF pernicious
legislation, and that is something to be
thankful for
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-01-09

The election of Henry Watcrson to mem
hership OF the democratic national commit
tee forbodes perfect shower Of political
pyrotecanics in the next campaign with an
occasional rainbow to chase The star eyed
goddess of reform VIII need to watch Henry
closely or there viii be trouble in the demo-
cratic camp.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-01-09

The regular monthly supplement of the
FREE Press will be issued next week. 1t
Will contain the opening chapters of new
serial, by the favorite writer, Capt. Charles
King. II is called can Army Porta" and
Is one Of the Captains best efforts. Look
out for the first instullment.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-01-09
rerms-s1.oo Year, Always In Advance

BURLINGTON, FRIDAY. JAN. o.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-01-09

NJ. D. BROOKS, General Agent.
80 school street, Boston, ilrs-.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-08-22
GENUINE JOKES.

RECIPROCAL FAvORs.-'Your back
hair is coming down" Thanks, your
front teeth are dropping out."-Epoch.
BoARDER-"I think your bill of fare
is worse this ear than it has ever
been, Mrs. ~Featherbed." Mrs. Feather
bed-''Quite impossible, sir!'-Masque
de Fer.
Mr.. PANDY-"What n remarkable
violinist, and only eight years old"
Mr.. Blooker-"Very remarkable, in
deed. The little girl has improved
greatly since l heard her twelve years
ago"
YOUR brother, the dentist, is very
slow and torturing ut pulling out
teeth" 81 know he is; but you see he's
rich and only follows the business for
the pleasure it gives him."-Fliegendc
Blatter.
SUMMER HOTEL. PRoPRIEToR-"My
dear, I've got Il piece of good news!'
His Wife-"Do tell me quick" Propri-
etor-"Your dressmaker has engaged
board with me for n month."-Pitts-
burgh Dispatch.
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c BY

OF 10, 900 persons one arrives at the
age of 100 years, of 500 one attains the
age of 90, and one i'll 100 lives to the age
of 90.
THE population of Paris. according to
the ensus Of last April is 2,422, 900. In
1886 it was 2,269, Gas. 1t has, according
to this. increased by : per cen in the
last five years.
IT is said that in Munich, which CON
sumes more beer than any other Ger
man city, the family allowance of the
amber fluid amounts to- sos quarts a
year for every man., woman and child.
The present population of IIelsing-
fors, the capital of FINLAND. is 80, 647,
of whom 30, 1877 are Films and 90, $50 are
Swedes. Last year there were only
14,479 Firms and 23, 949 Swedes. The
diminishing of the proportion of Swedes
in H~elsingfors is due, as Novage Vremya
asserts, to the progressive R~ussianiza-
ton of FINLAND.
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THE LEISURE a

UNMsrAKABLE SYMPToMs.--Ragged
Ralph-"I guess I'm going to be sick,
pard; 1 feel all out of sorts" Tattered
Tom-"Wot's the matter with you?''
Ragged Ralph-"I feel like workin'."-
Yankee Blade.
WEARY WATKINs-"W'at an outrage
it is that people has to work SO hard
Hungry Higgins you're talking
through your hat. If people didn't
work where would u grub come
from? Eh?"-Indianapolis Journal.
81 ALWAYS did despise yeast" Ian
guidly remarked one of the members
of the Sons of Rest to another member
as they reclined in the shade upon a
roadside bank. "Why?" was the Ian.
guild response. do you ask me
why?" the first speaker languidlv re.
piled. 81 despise anybody or anything
that yearns to work."-SomervilleJ Jour
nal.
LOOKING HARD ENoUGH.-"Why don't
you look for work?' asked the philan-
thropic old gentleman who had just
given n dollar to n of the Sons of
Rest. 1--WE been lying on my back
under an apple tree looking up into the
sky all the morning after work." said
the member of the noble order plain
lively, but | haven't seen any."-Som-
erville journal.
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MEN OF NOTE.

GLADSTONE is fond of having Long
fellow read to him.
PRINCE GEORGE OF WALES will be
made a duke when he gets home.
ANDREW CARNEGIE has started on an
other coaching trip through Scotland.
Two MILLION francs more have been
added to the fortune of. the Compile de
Paris through the will of Marquis de St.
Asticr.
HENRY HILTON has u fine collection Of
fancy and colored diamonds, numbering
nearly one hundred stones, in brown,
yellow and pink.
ROBERT BONNER has been such a lover
of speedy trotters that he has spent
nor than six hundred thousand dollars
in gratifying his tastes in that direction.
EX-SENATOR BLAIR is a sa~ndy-haired
man, with u flowing beard that is
sprinkled with gray. He is fifty-siX years
old and has served two terms in each
house of congress.
RUSSELL SAGE has shaved off his
whiskers and is spending the summer
at Lawrence, L.. l. He wears n broad
brimmed, old-fashioned hat, and looks
very much like u Connecticut farmer.
LAFCADIo HEARN is teaching a Japan
csc college in the interior of the island,
where a white nan is seldom seen. He
has married a Japanese woman and
writes to n friend that he is lost forever
to western civilization.
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OF II NATIONS.

SWITZERLAND yearly receives about
twenty-five million dollars from foreign
tourists.
BICYCLES no longer a be ridden in
Danish cities faster than the speed of a
cab, by decree of the government.
THE Austrian census shows that in
Galicia seventy-four per cent. Of the
population can neither read nor write,
and only nine per cent. al read.
THE Hobart Mercury reports an ex-
traordinary manifestation of evolution
in the development of a new sort of
peril in Australian rabbits, in conse-
quence of their endeavor to climb over
wire netting fences.
The societies for the protection Of
animals in Sweden, Norway and Den
mark have petitioned the queen of
Italy to exert her influence in protect
ing the northern birds which migrate
to Italy in winter and are killed there
in vast numbers.
ACCORDING to the latest reports of the
ministry of imperial property there is
in Russia an area of one hundred and
seventy-two thousand dessyatins of
land Ia dessyatin is about three acres)
occupied with vineyards and producing
twenty million pals "a pail measures
four uuarts) of wine.
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ATOMS.

FULL. moon reflects one three-thou-
sandth part of the suns light.
PROF. MI~LLosEvICH has given the
name "Unitas" to the small planet, No.
3O6, lately discovered by him at Rome.
PROF. MARY Il. BYRD, of Smith col
lege, mas been elected to membership
by the British Astronomical associa-
ton.
THE new equatorial telescope recent
ly mounted in Paris has it's tube bent
at a right angle, and the image of the
sky formed by the object glass is re
Elected to the eye of the observer. 1t is
the largest of its kind in the world, it's
optical powers being very fine, and the
images of the planets remarkably dis
tiuct.
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IN UNCLE SANS EMPLOY.

GEN. SCHOFIELD will soon settle down
in Washington in Il coy little home.
JUSTICES BROWN and Brewer are the
only members of the supreme court
who do not own houses in Washington,
but they will 500 do SO.
JUDGE WALLACE, of the United States
circuit court, is in the ~fifties, above av-
erage height, slender and of fine appear
ance. His hair and mustache are iron
gray and his c~ountenance ruddy.
The life insurance carried by John
Wanamaker amounts to 81, 900, 900,
which is distributed in t~wenty-nine
different companies. The premiums on
these policies mount to $50, 900 Il year.
SENATOR HURST was generally sup
posed to be worth about $40, 900, 900
when he died. The appraisers have
filed their report in the San Francisco
probate court and the estimated value
of the entire estate is s., 1888, 1877. Is.
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the Protestant Episcopal church, il
dead, aged 81.


u hk
AMSTERDAM, Aug. lT.-The exercises
of the worlds convention of the Young
Mems Christian association yesterday
were entirely of IL religious nature. In
the evening Il large public meeting was
held, Count von ~IIogcndorph presiding.
The convention has beer IA very sue
cessful one and will be especially help
full to the struggling associations of the
continental countries. Most of the del
egates will leave the city, the Ameri-
cans for Paris, the Rhine and a little
trip on the continent, sailing for home
generally the last of August.
HIGHsTowN, n. j., Aug. 17.-One of
the little bands of Russian-Hebrew
refugees sent out from New York by
the trustees of the Baron Hirsch fund
are located at this place. They expect
ed to get small farms, as they were
mostly farmers, but instead they were
told to go to work on shirts. This they
were compelled to do, as nothing else
presented itself, but their earnings
were so small that they could not pay
rem and buy food. They claim that
they have beer deluded and swindled
of the money allowed them of the
fund.
EDNA, Mo-, Aug. IA very heavy
rainfall occurred here Saturday night
which caused the washout of several
miles of track on the santa Fe road and
during which two wrecks occurred ON
that road west of Hunland. A cattle
train was badly wrecked and two miles
distant the vestibuled express, west
bound, left the track and toppled ovIf
into a ditch filed with water. The en-
gineer was killed and the fireman Sc
verely hurt. Whether any passengers
were injured is not known.
ST. JOHNS, N. F., Aug. 1.-THE Tele-
gram, government organ, says: 1.-THE
ideas expressed by Col. Vincent at the
AthenHum hall are not popular in this
colony. The prevailing opinion here
is that Newfoundland's path of pro-
gress leads us in the direction of free
trade with the United States. Hon..
Caleb Lyons view on the matter are
more in accordance with the peoples
wishes"
ATCHIsoN, Kan, Aug. 16.-Southern
Nebraska and northern Kansas were
visited by a copious fall of rain last
night, beginning at midnight and last
ing until daylight The storm was es-
pecially heavy in Nebraska, where the
railroads suffer a little. 1t extended
to the west line Of Kansas. At Atchi-
son it amounted to a deluge. and was
accompanied by a severe electrical
storm. The rain was greatly needed
and will be of ~incalculable benefit to
the corn, which in some fields in this
locality had begun to fire"
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Weekly %Intelllgencer.
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary of the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

"AstiINGEOS NOTES.
THE attorney for the Pacific Mail
Steamship Co. has laid before the presi-
dent the facts in connection with the
government of Salvador holding the
steamship City of Panama. At the
conclusion of the interview the presi-
dent telegraphed the secretary of state
to instruct the minister at Salvador to
furnish a full report. The secretary of
the navy was also telegraphed to keep
h cruiser Charleston ready for any
service that might be required of her.
THE president, upon the recommen-
dation of the civil service commission,
has made important changes in the
rules governing the classification SER
vice. All promotions of clerks are to
be made only after examination.
INQUIRY at the treasury department
develops the fact that Secretary Eos
ter's plan for continuing a. per cent.
loans at . per cent. has so far failed to
meet with the favor that was antici-
pated by it's advocates.
FRED DOUGLASS has expressed him
self favorably towards the projected
granting of pensions to ex-slaves.
The national land office officials warn
steads in Oklahoma of alleged vendors.
The treasury shipments of small
notes to the west, for to use in moving
the crops, aggregated So, $50, 900 on the
18th.
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THE WEST.

THE st. John & Marsh Lumber Co,
Chicago, Kansas and Colorado, has
failed. Liabilities and assets about
S150,000.
Tons of wool and tallow and thou
sands Of hides were destroyed by fire
in the big warehouses of George
o'Berne and II. M. Hosick at Chicago
on the 18th. The loss is estimated at
about 5000, 0O0.
THE steamer Major Powell, which
was taken to Green river, Utah, by rail
to navigate that stream and grand riv-
er, was launched on the 18th. 1t is in
tended to investigate the ancient cliff
dwellings along those rivers and reach
the Colorado river il possible.
Rev. DR. A. l.. LINDSEY, a professor
in the Presbyterian theological school
of Oakland, Cal, and one of the most
prominent ministers on the Pacific
coast, Is dead.
THERE Is war among the bre wers in
Kansas City, Mo-, and beer has tumbled
from seven dollars a barrel to four dol
lars. Outside brewers wanted TO raise
the price to eight dollars; local brewers
would not agree to it, hence the war.
j. FINLEY HoKE, the noted forger
from Peoria, ILL.,, completed his five
year sentence in the Joliet p%eniten-
tiary, but was rearrested on IL bench
warrant instigated by the Merchants
national bank of Peoria. There are
nine indictments hanging owe him, the
bonds for which aggregate S57. 900.
STILLS q DUHLMELEB's furniture
factory, Cincinnati, has been destroyed
by fire. Loss, $50, 900.
A SPECIAL committee of the South
western Railway a. Steamship associa-
ton was in session at st. Louis on the
18th for the purpose of considering the
adjustment of rates on grain, packing
house products, etc, from points in
Kansas to Texas.
EUGENE II. BoNRICK and his wife,
Grace, committed suicide at Denver,
Col, by taking poison. Both were
young and there was some trouble
with their families.
: THE miners of the Virginius at
0uray, Col, struck to the number of
over 100 because the management re-
quired them to use lamps instead of
candles in the workings, they claiming
the smoke from the lamps made them
sick.
, ". ii. WOODWARD, having in charge
the arrangements for bringing dele
gates to the sovereign grand lodge of
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows
at st. Louis that all rail-
roads will transport members for one
fare for the round trip.
A windstorm visited Keo-
lkuk, Ia, on the afternoon of the 18th.
TIN HOPKINS has decided to contest
,the will of his adopted mother, Mrs.
Hopkins-Searles.
Ellsworth, Mimi, has been rayaged
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THE EAST.

A SPECIAL to the New York World
from Saratoga gives an interview which
its correspondent had with C. C. Shane,
the wealthy fur merchant, in which he
said he had been informed by the agent
of a satin and silk importing house that
the importers in New York have raised
$500, 900 to defeat Mckinley.
GEORGE JONES, editor of the New
York Times, died at Poland Springs,
Me-, on the 18th. He overthrow the
Tweed ring.
IT was rumored at New York that
the Hudson County Jockey club had
purchased the Saratoga track. The ex-
act price paid is not stated, but it is be-
lieved to be about 5000, 900.
JIM CoRBETThas deposited 81, 900 with
the New York World to fight any man
above ground, Marquis of Queensbury
rules, to q finish or a limited number
of rounds. He prefers Slavin or
Mitchell.
A sQUALL on Long Island sound blew
the supports of II steamers deck down
on which a large body of eXcursionists
were enjoying themselves and fourteen
persons were killed and many others
injured.
JAMES RUSSELL. LOWELL, the we'll
known contributor to literature, died
at Cambridge, Mass, on the 18th. He
was born February %, 1919.
TsANG DING and Ong Mo 10y, two
Cinnamon who were taken from Mott
street dives to the Charity hospital,
New York, were after a careful exam
nation by the doctors, pronounced lep-
ers. Charity hospital authorities re-
leased the men declared lepers because,
as they say, they have no power to hold
them.
A DISPATCH from Erie, Pa, y Ex-
Congressman SCOTS condition is slight
ly improved. Nh. Brand, his physician.
says: ~ am confident Mr.. Scott will re-
cover, though his recovery will be
necessarily slow"
The engagement of Dr.. Paul Thorn
dyke, of Boston, formerly of Milwau-
kee, to Miss Rachel Sherman, daughter
of the late Gen. Sherman, is announced.
COL FREDERICK PHIsTER, of New
York, has been appointed adjutant-
general of the g.. A. II.
AN express on the Reading railroad
collided with a freight AZ Egg Harbor
City, N. j., on the 14th. Several pas
sengers were injured, two probably
fatally.
THE funeral services over the re-
mains of James Russell Lowell took
place at Harvard university. Inter
ment was in the family lot at Mount
Auburn.
THERE was a free fight lasting sever
al hours at a recent farmers reunion at
Pennsville, N. j.
JUST before the steamer Buffalo left
jamestown, N. Y, for the illuminated
feet display at Chautauqua a section of
the deck, crowded with people, gave
way, throwing about thirty persons in
the water. A scene of excitement en-
sued, but by prompt action all were
rescued alive.
CHARLES DIECKE, aged 1G years, is in
a New York hospital, suffering from
trichinosis. He may recover.
SARANAC lake club house, near
Plattsburg, N. Y, has been destroyed
by fire. Seventy-five guests lost nearly
all their personal effects.
MATsADA SoRAKICHI, the noted Jap
anese wrestler, died suddenly at New
York recently. lie was suffering from
consumption.
THE large paper warehouse of A. G.
Elliott & Co., corne OF Sixth and Jayne
streets, Philadelphia, has been badly
damaged by fire.
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by a windstorm. The town was left IL
wreck.
SEVEN houses in Campo, near San
Diego, Cal, were washed away by n
cloudburst. No lives were lost.
Ar EliHabethtown, Ind. there was n
cyclone recently. The brick school
house was ruined. The brick residence
of Charles Cisco was torn away seven
feet above the ground and his son Ezra
was killed. The father is probably ia
tally hurt.
A u from Oklahoma City says
that news has been received there that
the Daltons and their gang of despe-
radoes have been tracked down into
the southern part of the Sac and Fox
country.
SAN FRANCISCO stevedores have struck
for an increase of wages.
THERE is absolutely no foundation
for the reports that Jay Gould is seri-
ously ill at the Soda Springs, Idaho.
Two men were killed by a collision
on the Union Pacific near Brighton,
Col. A freight engine had died" and
while the train was standing on the
track n special dashed into it
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U AMERICAS.

LITTLE Willie Hawkins, while in
swimming in the mill pond near his
home at Burrowtown, Ia, caught four
minnows in his mouth and swan ashore
without swallowing or losing them.
Four boys Of Birdscye, Ind, found an
old coat near the railroad and began
tossing it about and beating each other
with it. A bank note slipped from
meath one of the patches. The
ripped the coat to pieces and it PAL
out seventeen hundred and eleven
lars. 4zga-
AN Arizona boy who has n tame,
harmless snake tied his little gbrnther's
rattle to it's tail the other day yaridivsheh
two tramps tried to break into the
kitchen they were frightened nearly 10
death, supposing that Henderson
which is the snakes name-was u rat
tlesnake.
A MAIL boy of Philadelphia kindled
a fire in his fathers plug hat, which
had been stored in the attic for the
heated term. after the fire had gained
considerable headway"- appropriate
word! a member of the family put it
out and at the same time smashed the
hat with a bedquiltsaM
Baby carriages atIWinkler Furniture
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