Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-09-14
PEOPLE In GENERAL

One OF the shahs treasures is q small
cube of gold covered with Oriental letters
and reputed to have fallen from heaven in
Mahomets time.
The latest born son OF the Crown Prince
and Princess of Greece makes the number
of Queens Nictorias great grandchildren
16 He is the llth grnndcLid OF the EN-
press Frederick.
One OF DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes rec
reations is the measurement OF the girth of
large trees that he happens to see in his
jaunts. For this purpose be always carries
q measure with him on his daily drives.
Senator Hills distaste for the society of
the fair is pronounced that ne takes
his meals privately when at hotels He was
driven to this step by the request of lady
at the Arlington hotel in Washington. She
asked the head waiter to place her at the
table at which Senator Hill was sitting.
| He heard ths whispered request, saw the
lady take a seat near him, and then arose
and loft the dining room before finishing
his meal. He never again appeared in the
general dining room Of the Arlington.
Bartholdi, the French sculptor is expect
ed in New York on his way from France to
Chicago. He will devote about six weoks
| to the worlds fair.
After the Catholic congress at Chicago
Cardinal Gibbons will 60 to Dubuque la
, to confer the palium on Arch bishop Hen
messy, October II.
Col. Crittenden, our consul general to
Mexico, advises every Young mau to learn
Spanish. He says he would give $1,000 il he
thoroughly understood the language.
Carter Harrison, mayor Of Chicago, still
con tinues to meet with the proverbial good
luck OF the wicked, " being engaged TO an
heiress who has s., O00 coo in her own
right, aud her age is only p.
Ex-Gov. b. T. Biggs Of Delaware and his
two sons are said to be the largest peach
growers on the Atlantic coast, and perhaps
in the world. Tho three men own between
20 and 80 large peach farms.
Ex-President Harrison has left Cape May
for Indianapolis, to attend the Grand Army
encampmsnt. stopping in Philadelphia for a
few hours to Wis the cruiser New York.
Gov Russell of Massachusetts has decided
to enter upon the practice II law immediate
ly after the expiration OF his term of office
on January l.
Alexander Herbert Bailey, the lost Eng
lishman for whom a search has been in pro-
gress for several years past 10y the solicitor
of an estate in England OF which Baileyis the
heir, has been discovered at last he has
recently been peddlng books for a Chicago
publishing house and posing as spiritualistic
medium for recreation through Washington
county, Pa.
Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone have been mar
ried for 81 years.
Gounod has decided TO 60 to Brussels in
the fall TO supsrintend the rehearsals OF
'Sapph1, " his new opera. His trip will ba
notable for the reason that the aged com
poser is now in feeble health and rarely
leaves Paris.
G. f. Watts the English artist, is so pro
life In paintings that it is difficult to think
OF him as a veteran OF - years
Father ii. A. Adams, who resigned the
rectorship of the Episcopal church OF the
Redsemer, New York, about six weeks age
to become a Roman Catholic priest, is now
a dramatist, and will devote himself in tbs
future entirely to literature. His first effort
is "a dramatization of Bulwer Lytton'
"What Win He Do With IT."
Mics Dudley, en- English ioyclist, hold