Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-09-22
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Tho fund being raised for Schley sword
by tho Philadelphia Times has now passed
the $1,000 mark.
Capt Clark. of the Oregon. accompanied
by his family has left St. Joseph. Mich,
and is now stopping in Asheville, y. G.
William j. Duffy, an amateur athlete of
New York, succeeded recently in swim
ming from the Battery to Coney Island.
or the nearly two million inhabitants Of
Berlin only forty-two thousand have AN
annual income OF over $50.
It is estimated that all the gold mined
in California since 1S4S could be put into
IL room II yards long, six yards wide and
% yards high.
Jeremiah Curtin. the translator of "Quo
Vads." is said to have realized $4,000 as
his share Of the sales of Sicnkicwicz's
study. from Suetonius.
President Mckinley has been invited to
attend the Festival of Mountain and Plain
in Denver on October as part of his
trip to the Omaha exposition.
Henry Banks, tho oldest man in Van
Rurcn county, Mich, is one of the rev
surviving slave jockeys" and distinctly
remembers the battle of New Orleans.
Giovanni Segantini. whose painting. AT
the Barrier" has sold for $1,000, began
supporting himself at the age of seven,
when he tended swine by day and studied
by night
Mrs Jane W. Blood whose death in
Kaysville. Utah, was reported last week,
was one of the first English converts To
the Mormon faith who left Southampton
for Salt Lake in 1854
The heirs of the late Simon IIernshem
of New Orleans. have given notice that
they will donate. in memory of their ia
Their the sum. of 5000 to the Fisk Free
nd ID,tI, ia, I in
In the time of Charles V. Spain had 49,
900 monks and priests and 5000 nuns No
fewer than lo2 days out of tho $50 were
holidays, and the 300 90 mobiles would have
considered it a disgrace to do amy useful
work to make IA living.
Admiral Dewey has written an auto
graph letter to the members of the
Louisiana constitutional convention thank
ing them for the congratulations they eX-
tended him upon the battle of Manila.
Thomas Harper sergeant trumpeter in
Queen Nictora's household, who recently
died In London, assisted in his profession
al capacity at the coronation of William
". and the christenings of all the pres
ent Queens children.
The Marquis of Normandy has convert
Cd his ancestral English home into a
school for boys, himself taking the posi-
ton of principal. He charges $1,000 each
for his pupils. among whom are a number
of young peers and other heirs to British
titles
A base ball umpire has lost his suit on
an accident policy. lie was hit in the eye
and he sued for SOS The court directed
verdict for the company on the ground
that umpiring Is a dangerous business.
and that the defendant was negligent in
going into the game.
The fibre of the ramic plant, originally
an East Indian perennial of the nettle
family, but now cultivated In the West
Indies and in the southern part OF the
United States, and used for almost every
purpose heretofore served by cotton, is
considered to be the coming textile fiber.
Nine. Melba Is a good oarswoman, and
loves no place in which to reveal her skill
more than the upper reaches of the
Thames She Is familiar figure in the
neighborhood Of Marlowc, whore PLEASANT
houseboat constitutes her headquarters.
The Theehaw Saw'pu, one of the princi-
pal Shan chiefs, has arrived m England TO
pay his respects to Queen Victoria In per-
son, He holds sway over minor tributary
chieftains on the Chinese frontier OF Bur
nah, and Is among the most loyal of Dor
der princes, having been of great service
to the British Empire.
President Diaz. of Mexico, had an eXcit-
ing encounter with a mountain lion re-
Gently while hunting In the mountains
near Huehuetoco with party of friends
The animal sprang at him from an over
hanging cliff hut fell short, and was shot
and killed by DiaZ before 1t could gather
itself together for another leap,
The mother of the late Secretary OF
State, w. Q. Gresham, celebrated the 92d
anniversary OF her birth in Lancsboro
Ind, a few days since. She was one OF
the first white children born in what is
now Harrison county, Ind. She was mar
ried to Col Gresham 70 years ago. One OF
her sons, a sheriff, was killed by a desper'
ado. Her oldest son was in the Mexican
and the civil wars. and recently died OF
wounds sustained in the latter war
The Emperors costume to he worn on
his approaching visit 10 Jerusalem has
been finished by the Imperial tailor and
sent home to Wihemshohe, where, on be-
ing tried on, II was found happy in its color
scheme and otherwise acceptable. The
| riding boots are yellow brown, the coat
and breeohes yellowish white, and the tro.
pical helmet of the same hue and texture
II he were Emperor of Cathay he could
hardly array himself In more jaundiced
habilments His equipment will not re-
semble that of the Crusader St. Louis, but
rather that of our officers in the Cubar
campaign, and will be much more com
| fortableS