Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1896-02-20
PERSONAL AND GENERAL NOTES.
People of Whom You Have Heard and
Things That You Want to Know.

People of Whom You Have Heard and
Things That You Want to Know.
The Cincinnati friends of Standardized
Foraker are arranging to give a big re-
ception in his honor.
Paul Leicester Ford, the Brooklyn nov
elist, has one of the finest private IL
braries in that city.
The Transvaal worry has caused an i'm
mense sale in London of Olive Schreiner's
Life on an African Farm"
Edna Lyal states that the original for
her patriotic "Doreen" was the popular
Welsh cantatrice, Edith Wynne
Laureate Austin is said to be amazed
and discouraged by the unfavorable COM
ments upon his first official poem.
Il. j. CIucky') Baldwin has mortgaged
his Baldwin Hotel at San Francisco, Cal,
and the Santa Anna ranch for 100000.
An expedition under Prof. Solas will
leave Sydney soon for the South Sea Isl
ands, to make deep borngs in coral atolls,
| A check was received at Vassar college
from Miss Helen Gould for $4,000. 1t is to
found scholarship in memory of her moth
er.
Jules Cherets posters have procured for
him the commission to decorate one of
the committee rooms of the Paris Hotel de
| Vile.
British officers in Dublin must wear
moustaches, by order of Lord Frankfort
de Montmorency, the general in com
mand.
Frank Dcboe of Crittenden county, KY,
gave his sweetheart a glass of egg nog.
Now he is liable to go to Jail for giving
liquor to a minor.
| Yvette Gulbert subscribed TO a press
| clippings bureau when she reached these
shores She intended to keep scrap
/ book of notices connected with her artis-
! tic career in America. She has not recov-
cred from her amazement at the energy
and persistence of the American press.
The number of clippings she has received
has necessltated the purchase of five more
scrap-books. and Yvette has grown weary
of scissors and mucilage.
When in Rome Senior Crispi has an es-
cort of 80 police officers, which costs Italy
$4,000 year. When he leaves the city the
expense Is increased to three or four times
that amount.
There is a report to the effect that Mrs.
Frank Leslie is again to venture on the
sea of ,matrimony. Mrs. Leslie's friends
are quite convinced that the report is true,
but Mrs. Leslie has up to date vouchsafed
no information on the subject.
C. f.. Croker of San Francisco has Just
returned from a visit to Whitelaw Reid OF
the New York Tribune at Phoenix Arz
He says that Mr.. Reid intends to spend
the remainder of the winter at Phoenix
and finds that the climate there is proving
very beneficial to him.
Ex-Secretary w. NJ. Evarts is seldom
seen about New York nowadays. The
famous lawyer and statesman is living
quietly at his home. His eyesight Is seri
ously impaired and he passes most of tn,
time in his rooms. Now and then some OLE
associate visits him and they recall tn,
stirring incidents of his political life. Hi.
greeting of old friends is always hearty
Senator lloar of Massachusetts is one o
the best friends of the eX-secretary. II
the course of a recent visit to New York
Mr. Hoar went to see Mr. Evarts, and tn,
two men talked long over old times. Sena
tor Hoar's father was Mr.. Evarts guar
dian. and Mr.. Evarts and Mr.. Hoar wer
brought up together in the same house
Fourteen farmers in Loup county, Neb
joined issues and by their own labor con
structed the Newton irritating ditch, /
miles in length. The work took them ST.
months. but they've got water to sell now
Ontario, CAL claims that it ships NOR
lemons than any other town in the Unite
/, States.
Amherst college will send an expedition
to Japan next year to view the eclipse.
Baron Hirsch has thus far sent 1000 Rus
sian Hebrews to the Argentine Republic.
' Miss Louisa Aldrlch- Blake is the frs
{ woman to receive the degree of master O
surgery from London university.
Frederic Harrison, who Is writing a lif
of William the Silent, has gone to TIL
Hague to gather further materials for hi
} work on the spot
The third man to join the proposed bal
c loon expedition to the North pole, unde
e the Swcde Andre. is Nels Strindberg O
I Stockholm. The expedition will start mex
\ year.
Cecil Rhodes has ordered large number
I of English song birds. llnnets, thrushe.
. blackblrds, larks and nightingales, to b
sent TO Cape Town, where they will be ac
climatzed and set free.
The suggestion has been made that tn
house of the Rev. DIR. Samuel f. Smitl
i the author of America" at Newton Cen
tire, Mass, be purchased and preserved a
! a memorial
=, State Senator Garfield Of Ohio is sponso
, for a corrupt practice act, which he wi
. try to push through the Ohio Legisla tur'
. 1t would put a limit to political expend
!, ture and require an accounting.
( 1t is charged that President Kruge
sports whskers of the vintage of "a. T
0 say that he shoots like sixty is superfuou
Among the features of the Tennessee
S will will be tower of 26S cotton bales, II
e feet high.
y For several years woman has drive
d the stage between Mancelona and Be
Q laire Mich. She handles the reins a we
n as any man in that region, and has neve
n had trouble with stage robbers.
An immense fly Wheel 2S feet in diane
ter, having a face four feet broad, an
. weighing 100000 pounds, is on It's way froi
:, Philadelphia to Joliet, III. 1t is bein
u transported in two sections, on two cal
. built for the purpose.
d The bottlers of the United States emplo
n 26, 1888 men, serve OBS customers, us
a 20, $40 horses, have invested SAL ,573, 1885, us
q annually $l2,747, 633 worth of bottles, an
q the loss and breakage amounts to s9,522
II 804.
Soap is now made in the form of shee
and sold to travelefs who object to the us
of hotel soaps OF those used In publ