Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-08-29
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


an average of 1000 acres year to her area
simply by careful drainage.
NJ. zadoc Kahn. the chief abb Of
France has just been promoted by the
French minister of the interior to the rank
of an officer of the Order of the Legion OF
Honor.
II. f. Dickens, Is. c., sixth son Of the
novelist. Is about to make his first visit
TO America. He sailed for Quebec on the
18th and will visit all our chief cities. He
is prominent London lawyer.
Lord Norton, who has Just celebrated his
Tth birthday. is the old friend of Glad
stone, and was secretary to the Admiral
ty when Mr.. Pimsoll made his famous
speech on the merchant shipping bill.
Signorina Teresa Lahorioli is the first
woman lawyer in Italy. She has passed
her examination with honors but as she
does not desire to advocate the new
woman" she has determined not to pra,
tiCe.
Bishop Thomas +. Gailor episcopal. of
Tennessee) recently received as a gift from
a woman in his diocese n iewelcd peCtoral
cross which has been pronounced the fin
est of its kind ever made in the country.
Major I,ouis V. Cazarc, until recently
supervisor of police, provost marshal and
ana, has been relieved from duty in Cuba
and appointed assistant adJutant general
of the department Of the East.
Lord Salisbury keeps at his HATFIELD
home a curious souvenir. This is the
stone, over a pound in weight, with which,
when he and his two daughters were in
side the window OF his carriage was
smashed at Dmfres. october q, 1894.
King Edward VII according to the Ber-
lin papers, will not leave Germany at once,
but will soon go to Wilhelmshohoe, ne ar
Cassel, and there spend several days with
the Kaiser.
John Farmer, the English musician whose
recent death aroused heen regret in Lon
don, was not always a musician. Like
many other men who have achieved fame
he began life in his fathers lace factory.
Admiral Sir Edmund Fremantle, who
has just reached the age limit and been re
tired from the British navy, was in that
service longer than almost any other lv-
ing English officer. He entered it fifty
years ago and served through the Burmese
campaign of l&2.
Major General Baden Powell has been
presented with a casket of Tasmanian
blaCkwood, curiously carved and inlaid
with gold and silver. 1t is gift from the
members of the Tasmanian contingent
who fought under his command after the
relief of Mafekinc
The German papers generally disap-
prove, tacitly at least, of Frau Cosima
Wagner's petition to the Reichstag for an
extension of the Bayreuth monopoly OF
"Parsifal' Her reques is receiving az
tive support. however, from Humperdinck,
Niemann and other eminent Germans
Hamilton King. United States Consul
General in Siam, says that the people of
that country do not want the Christian
religion, but that their king has expressed
his willingness that the Christian mission
aries should use any arguments that the
may toward the conversion of the people
An Irish Judge sitting in Four Courts
Dublin, In summing up a case In which
the plaintiffs were lady and her daugh-
ter, began: Gentlemen of the jury
everything in this case seems plain-ex-
cept Mrs. O'Toole and her charming
daughter.
The Earrings hold now four peerages-
two cartoons Northbrook and Cromer
two baronies. Ashburton and Revelstokc
And the founder of the family, like the
first Rothschild, came from Germany. lie
was Lutheran minister, who settled
with a son in Exeter some 200 years ago
and started n cloth mandatory.
Elaborate experiments in feeding wheat
to farm animals and swine have beer
made this year at the Kansas experiment
station, and also in other States of the
corn belt. The experts conclude thai
wheat has greater nutritive value thar
corn, and may be used either crushed
mixed with oats or corn, or In connection
with straw in time of extreme scarcity.
Few people are sc kind to the autograph
hends as Is President Mckinley. IT /,
said that In odd moments, when he has
pen in his hand, he will sit down and writ,
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number of Atty at Il tine, which, on appl
cations being received for his autograph
are straightway forwarded to the petition
ers.