Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-09-04
ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE

Worh MS price. one dollar an nOuT,
was his reply.
Los Angeles claims the worlds heaviest
band. 1t is the police band Of 30 mem
bers, the lightest weighing 200 pounds.
Total weight, three and a half tons.
AS rule. birds do not fly at greater
height than 1000 feet. Eagles have been
known to fly to a height of 600 feet. A
lark will rise to the same height and
so will crows
Cornelius Mable, Of Tappan, N. Y, who
has just celebrated his 1O3d birthday, says
he is In the prime Of life. hale and hearty.
despite the fact that he Is totally deaf
and partially blind.
A Doylestown, Penn, family raised Gu
cumbers In a home garden. child of
the family sold them to local grocer
for cent apiece. The grocer put them
on sale at cents apiece.
1t Is related of Theirs. the celebrated
French statesman who died 40 years ago,
that so long as there was n German SOL
der on French soil he always used note
paper with a deep black border.
The Yonkers man who started a bull
movement in apples by buying" three
small orchard crops in New Paltz for
$4,000 is said to have been suffering
from mental trouble" and the deal is
off.
A cucumber exactly one foot long has
been produced in the garden Of c. r.
Shelly, an Altoona, Penn, printer, whose
friends have asked him when he lis 60
ing to cut 1t, thinking it was a water
melon.
Following complaints from the churches
in Santa Monica, Cal, the city council
has decreed that all aviators flying there
on Sunday between the hours Of 1000 a.
m. and 100 p. m. must keep up among
the clouds.
One summer girl at Atlantic City wears
a bathing suit with fur trimmings and
has fur on her carriers. The collar of
the suit is of rabbit skin, and the fur
is 80 treated that it revives immediately
in the sunshine after being wet.
Joseph Randle, fishing in Silver lake,
near Chester, Penn, hooked a fish so big
that he was yanked overheard, dropping
headfrst into a bed of quicksand, where
he stuck fast. Companions of Randle
dived for him and he was finally released
and brought to the surface.
Grasshoppers around Owensvlle. Ind.
are so fierce that George Mitchell says
they ate the cloth covering off the pillow
on his hay rake seat while he was away
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