Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-09-11
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More than 100000 persons in England
are receiving unemployment pay from the |
government.
A London choir Of 1000 voices has been |
organized under the auspices Of the |
League of Arts, to sing at public cere- |
monies.
Two hundred and fifty miles Of British |
war medal ribbon are to be issued to the |
men and women entitled to these decora- |
tons through recent edicts of the King
One thousand men at Okmugee okla,
signed q pledge to wear old clothes for
three months and as long thereafter as
they will last, or until prices are reduced
Getting a divorce in Canada costs so
much that 1t Is proposed to establish nu-
merous divorce courts in the provinces
so as to place divorce within reach of the
poor
Lightning struck the barn of Herbert
Starbird, Of Litchfield, Me-, where four
cows were standing in a row. and killed
the two cows on the end of the row,
while those in between were uninjured.
William j. Deywin, of St Louis hurry
ing along the street, took second glance
at a piece of paper that blew against his
foot, stopped, picked it up and found
that it was a certified check for 10000.
on the farm of Samuel c. Hardison Of
West Franklin Me-, tore OH strips fully
IS feet In length and less than an inch
thick as neatly as IL with a cutting in
strument
Unable to ship by express, on account
Of the railroad strike, wooden COM
pany in Maine made a large shipment
| Of cloth to New York by parcel post
| The postage on each parcel was from
$3.50 upward.
| A Kansas man says he has produced
"bugless potato by crossing the po-
! tato vine with weed that the potato
beetle doesn't like. The vines are chang
ed somewhat, but the tubers remain the
| same ever.
| Shortly before his abdication King Lud-
| wig, of Bavaria, presented to the wine
museum at Speyer several bottles of wine
dating from 1910, 1888 and 1922. The mu-
| scum contains bottle dating from the
days of Rome, found in Roman grave,
believed to be the oldest bottle of wine
| in the world.
| Boys shopping around at Lock Haven,
Penn. found a hole 10 feet wide and u
feet deep extending under the State road
near the Clinton Country club. They
could hear water running, and it is thought
|
who use the road. has been made by the
outbreak of a large spring from an un-
derground stream.
Nail brushes are nailed to the wall
above the washstands in a London club.
you don't mean to say" a visitor said
, that the members steal the nail brush
es and you have to nail them down.
NO" said the porter. Not that, sir
Many Of our members now have only one
arm. We nail our nail brushes to the
wall so they can use them"
Among the white constituents of Repre-
sentative Johnson. of Kentucky, is a
family named Hamilton. the sons and
daughters of which have these names
avenue Belle" ''Helen7 the Kitchen
taken Theoretically, Chinese Figger.
Hebrew Fashion," London Truth.
Greek WISDOM" Kingdom Come
The last name, that of a son. has been
conveniently abbreviated to King"
Mysterious squirming and moving of
a. mali .ach on the railroad platform at
Fairfax, Va, led to an investigation as
soon as the bystanders got through
thinking they were seeing things" and
when the bag was opened Tabby, the
Fairfax postoffice cat jumped out, in
dignant but uninjured. The theory is
that she jumped into the mail bag, hang
Ing on a rack, and calmly went to sleep.
Three South Portland, Me-. fishermen,
Dr. George w. C. Studley, Percy York
} and Capt. William York out after
groundish when they sighted sword
! fish They had no swordfish fishing out
) fit, but with a stove poker and boat
hook handle they improvised a harpoon,
with which they landed the big fellow.
In Portland they sold the swordfsh for
800 and the groundhsh they had caught
about 1000 pounds-for $50.
| Near Valdosta. in Georgia there is a
lake three miles long and three-quarters
of a mile wide, with an average depth
of u feet of water, which disappears
, every three or four years and then comes
r back again. 1t disappears into natural
I subterranean passages. taking two OF
t three weeks in the process and leaving
+ n beautiful sandy basin. After a month
e or SO the water begins to come back. and
o in a couple of weeks 1t is the same old
e lake.
$ Canadian money Is accepted at "A dis
y count in this country now, but a Wind
n sor, Ont. merchant says that in the early
DAYS OF his business his firm had casl
o books where American money and Can
e adam money had to be kept in separat,
+ accounts. because American money wa:
= worth only about 60 cents on the dollar
Q at that time. "Our bank deposits" h,
I says, were divided and two columns wer,
Q used in our passbooks. one for American
= currency the other for Canadian
painter at work on a water tank a
e Bull Mimi. foresaw a catastrophe wher
T a COW began to scratch her back on the
a bottom of his ladder and started to come
n down. That frightened the cow, and SHE