Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-08-03
PEOPLE In GENERAL.

PATHS next annual farewell tour in
America begins here in November.
! Thco lore Thomas is in great luck. He
draws $40, 900 ayesr from the worlds fair.
Mrs. Palmer has arranged to spend the
whole OF the salary allowed hcr by Con
gress-nearly $i000-as president OF tho
lady managers of the worlds fair, in hav-
ing as many poor children as possible to see
the fair
Ella Kodda, a Turk, who has been APP
pointed quarantine in rpreter at tho port
of New York, can talk nine languages, and
is to do so hereafter, in such proportions as
he may be required. for 81 day.
Hon. George S. Boutwell,, when elected
governor of Massachusetts, was the young
est person ever elected to that office. Now
he Is the senior ex-governor OF the State as
well ms the oldest in years
Rev. Edward p. Bodgett who has re
comfy celebrated his 5Uth anniversary as
pastor of a Congregational church in Green
wich, Mass, missed regular service in his
church only once ON account Of illness In 43
yenrs.
The conservation of Dean Lawrence as the
Episcopal bishop of Massachusetts, will prob
ably take place in Trinity church, Boston,
the first week in October.
MIR. r. G. Dyrenforth has the utmost
confidence that at no remote date rainmak
ing will be carried on In ceCtain portions of
the country as a regular and practical
thing
1t is said that T. V. Povderly will re
sign as general master workman of the
knights of Labor in October and will then
practice law in Pennsylvania.
The singers who will appear with Patti in
her American tour are Mms. Fabri and Sig
nors Galassi, Novara, Lely and Masteroni.
There will he an orchestra of % pieces un-
der the direction of Signor Arditi.
The sultan of Johore i. said to be one OF
the best billiard players in the East
Founder" Bradley OF Asbury Park says
he has arranged it that at his death the
beach will become the property of the
town. lie has refused to sell it to the
town for $3.50, 600 and is said to have re-
fused twice that sum from private indivd-
| uas.
Hugh O'Donnel chairman of the advis-
DRY committee OF the Amalgamated work
ers at the time of the Homestead strike, 10
now associate editor of The Eight Hour
Herald of Chicago.
Mrs. Russell b. Harrison is passing the
heated term at the beautiful estate of her
AatueC, e6 senator Saunuers OF Omah8.
1t is reported that Mime Rhea, the act
ress, married her leading man, w. L. Hart
Just after the arrival of her company in
Paris. MIR Hart is - years old, or about
20 years the Junior of his wife.
Senator Shermaps new white marble
house on Franklin Square is ono of the
most complete private residences in Wash
ington Everything Is now ready for the
repeal of the Sherman bi II.
The tennis court on George Vauderbilt's
place at Asheville, ~ c., is Of marble, and
is said TO have cost S25. 900. Nice places for
a racket.
The sultan of Turkey dimes in solemn
state, using neither table. plates, knife, nor
fork, but only spoon and his fingers, with
which he fishes out his food from a series of
little saucepans. Generally he has a large
retinue in attendance, but always eats and
drinks alone, without even favorite wife
to break bread with him
George G. Perkins, who has been appoint
ed United States senator to succeed the late
Leland Stanford, was born in Maine ia 1889,
went to California Sin 1S49 aud began life
there as miner and later as country
storekeeper. He was the founder of the
firm Of Goodale, Perkins d Co, the leading
firm in coast passenger and freight traffic.
He was elected governor of the State by the
republicans in 1879.