Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-08-14
ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE

| British postman has walked 100000
miles in 30 years.
London fears a tobacco famine. 100
many women smokers" declares a big
dealer
| stolen motion picture films valued at
( $4,000 were found by detectives in
coal bin in New York tenement house.
/ Moon Hollow is the name given TO the
spot where the boundaries of three States
meet-New York, Vermont and Massa-
| chusetts.
/ In Hawaiian "ulku" means flea and
"lele' means to jump. so that the lit
eral translation of "ukulele" is ''iump-
ing flea"
John Smith of Providence township
Penn, has a half-acre strawberry patch
from which he picked this year 500 worth
of berries.
Mayor James Couzens of Detroit Is
perhaps the richest mayor in the coun-
try, with 2,1sO shares of nivver stock
valued at s29,25o.OoO.
! The 1900 residents of Mt. Pulaski. H.
had to go for 4S hours without a bath
I A water consumer left his faucet open
all night and morning found the city
supply tank empty.
Missouri farmers are catching grass
hoppers with machines. The grasshop-
pers are worth 81 bushel and find
ready sale at s125 a ton as chicken feed,
being rich in protein.
| Victor Berger, declared disloyal and
unfit to sit in Congress, has already
drawn $3125 for salary as congressman
s3712O for mileage and s93334 for clerk
hire. a total Of A,4294
| Charles Lebseltzer Is building a cir
cular cattle barn near Kissel Hill. Lam
caster county. Penn. 1t will have As
| stalls, with running water right where
every animal can get it whenever 1t is
desired.
| 1t is estimated that II half the acre
age which is now occupied by hedge
rows in England and Wales were sown
in wheat there would be a yield SUM-
! cient to provide bread for more than
100000 people for whole year.
Kansas City chewing gum salesman,
| transacting business in Wichita, told a
story of the precocity of his baby daugh-
ter, born July 10. The young lady, he
said. chewed a stick of his particular
brand of gum when only 30 minutes old.
! In order to prevent automobile ac-
| cidents along the highways around
| Springfield, ILL.,. especially at railway
| crossings, the highway commissioner has
directed all property owners to cut weeds
| and trim hedge fences within 200 feet
| of every road crossing.
Robert F. Bickford has bought the con-
tents of three pockets recently found
at the Greenlaw tourmaline mine in Au-
burn, Me. The purchase is said to in
clude more than 1900 carats of green
blue tourmaline, which is very clear and
will cut with little waste.
Now that the Il sons of Nanny Brun-
err, a H-year-old negro of Talequah. Okla
homa. who were in the service are re-
turning from the war, all his 80 living
children will soon be in this country.
Twenty of them are boys and 10 are girls
There are five pairs of twins.
VII" in the air on flight over San
4 20. Lieut. w. Edward Kilgore
newspaper story of the flight
Experience. dropping 1t on the
.." of the San Francisco Call. The
s,o'y was picked up and published in
the Call while the plane was yet in the
air.
Lancaster. Penn, is conducting an Off.
cial fly-swatting contest, with cash prizes
, offered to the boys and girls who make
the largest returns of dead flies. Two
of the largest department stores Of the
} city are making free distribution of 90
|, 900 swatters and they will go into every
home in the city.
, A Manila shoe dealer now in Salt
Lake City says: when my shoe bust.
ness was opened in Manila q years age
it took exactly five years to sell Fill
:. frip IT, 81 ID
, becoming more popular, among the WON.
en- especially High-heeled shoes are worr
by the native women along with theii
native costume"
The largest bar in the world-formerly
used in the Ungerleider saloon in Bridge
port. Ohio. just across the State line
from West Virginia-has been sold t.
Thomas Anderson of Wheeling. on tn,
J West Virginia side of the line. now tha
Ohio is as dry as West Virginia was
and will be used to dispense near-bear
1t is 113 feet long.
Making him deck scrubber on the yes
sells he once commanded was the ironi
cal prank played by fate on Captain
Bortfeldt, one Of the 1900 informed Ger
, mans who were placed aboard the trans
port Princess Matoka. on her voyag,
from Charleston, S. c., to Rotterdam
, During preparations for the vessels de
, parture from Charleston, Bortfeldt wa
used as a baggage handler. On the tril
across the Atlantic he was deck scrub
Der.
Here is an illuminating instance Of tn
n working of the out-of-work pay system
{ in England. A general filter was offere'
a job at GA los per week, which. witt
overtime could be turned into G5 10. Fo
various reasons the man put off tax
+ ing up the job. and inquiry revealed tn
. | interesting fact that he was drawing -
. out-of-work pay, children's allowance
9s, military pension OF lis. a club out
s of-work pay. Dos. while his wife was earn
& ing SOS por week and her board.
e Rosey's Graveyard, near Vintage. Penn
is a great heap of worn-out automobile
/, | in which there are thousands of ma
:, chimes and parts of machines from whic
- automobile owners who are unable to &c
l. parts for their cars in the market ma
d dig out what they want. During the wa
many users of fore en- made cars resort
ed to this graveyard for their repair!
9 Only one machine ever thrown into tn
d heap was ever revived" Parts OF Sc,
IL erai hundred other cars were used in i,
reconstruction-and It ran.
N Born together like the Siamese twin