Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-08-25
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

General w. T.. Draper, our Ambassador
to Italy, IT is said, wanted to resign and
enter the army at the beginning of the
war.
The young Queen Of the Netherlands
will formally assume the rcins of govern
mcnt at $50 =. m. on August 81, that being
the hour Of her birth.
DR. Nansen's profits from his book.
"Farthest North" are said to amount to
$3.50 900, The profits Of his lectures have
added greatly to this sum
Chinese ladies. who. twenty years ago,
were locked up in harems. may now be
seen bicycling through the towns.
The Spanish cruiser Almirante Oquendo.
pronounced Al-me-ran-tay O-ken-do, was
named in honor of Admiral Oquendo.
The rainy season begins in Cuba May
and lasts till November. There is but
one recorded snowfall in the island that
OF Christmas. 1886
At the meeting of the Toronto Methodist
Conference il was ruled that women were
not eligible as delegates.
\ correspondent of the London Times
estimates that the population of London
/ in 1901 Will be 6l40,0oo and 10000 i'm rel
Boston claims to have the longest paved
street in the word-Washington street
/ which is seventeen and a-half miles in
/ length
| II is declared that n noted lecture
managers recent offer of $1,000 to Hob
son, the Merrimac hero for a series of
ten public addresses on his experiences at
Santiago, was made in good faith. The
manager declares. moreover, that every
cent above expenses will he paid into the
fund for hospitals in Cuba and elsewhere
! 4 marble bust of the late j. q, Blaine
has been placed in the rotunda of the
state House at Augusta. Me. 1t is the
work of Prof. q. Tretanove, the Italian
sculptor.
Tho war just ended has been The short
est in modern history, the Austro-German
difficulty of 1866, alone excepted.
Thomas f. Bayard, after serving term
as Secretary of state became the Ameri-
can representative at the Court of ST.
James; Colonel Hay now reverses the Or
der.
one direct result of the Suez Canal has
been the introduction into the Mediterra-
mean of sharks, which previously We're
unknown there
In town of Chile most shops are open
till midnight. and during the hot after
moons, when everybody takes siesta,
they are locked up.
The region about the Dead Sea is one of
the hottest places on the globe. and the
sea Is said to lose l,00C, 900 tons of water a
day by evaporation
Commodore John A. Howell. who has
been promoted to the rank of rear adj
mral Is the inventor of a self-propellng
torpedo that differs i'm several respects
from the Whitehead. The chief novelty of
the American system relates to the mode
of driving the screw.
1t is stated on good authority that Bret
IIarte's late writings bring him twice as
much in England as they do in this coun-
try. II he would come back for some fresh
material he might get a better grip on his
American constituency.
The Vatican after January | will pe
lighted with electricity. the motor power
being supplied from Lake Bracciano. 70
miles to the north and up in the noun
tains. As there are 1000 rooms, the work
of installation Is no small contract.
Young George NJ, Pullman, of Chicago,
one OF the two sons cut off by the will of
the late Parlor Car magnate with a mere
! pittance. has finally, after many attempts.
accomplished his purpose In marrying
Miss Lyn Fernald, pretty Chicago girl
of twenty. They owe 1t to the assistance
: of proprietor Hartman. of the Holland
House. New York. The bride was once
bstrothed to her husbands twin brother
The women of the Canary Islands are
remarkable for being very masculine In
appearance, as they have mustaches and
short hair, wear mems hats and smoke
cigars. The Boston Globe states that they
, are, however, of a generous disposition
II stranger asks them for IA cup a water
they will often shower his head and
shoulders with 1t as an cxcruciatingly
funny joke.