Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-09-25

ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE

AT FL Paso. Texas Liberty hall. built
ms public meeting place in the new
courthouse, is to be converted into n
public market as a means of reducing
the high cost of living. The big amphi-
theatre is to be equipped with stalls and
an outdoor market and will be opcrated
by the county authorities.
There are 81 different designs of paper
money of various denominations in this
country. OF ones. twos and one thous-
ands, there are five kinds; of fives, fiji
ties and one hundreds, six kinds: of tens
and twentcs. seven kinds; of five hun
dreds, four kinds; of ten thousands, two,
and Of five thousands, one.
Frank Morrison. secretary of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor. describing an
ideal democracy" said that he did not
see any reason why wealth should pass
from father to son
Lawrence A. Corrow of Plymouth hopes
to get the prize offered in contest con-
Quoted by sporting magazine for the
biggest bass with bass which he has
sworn before a notary was 81 inches long
and IL 1-2 inches around, weighing six
and three-fourths pounds
A young Norwegian VINO gave his name
as X. X. Raynerston, aged %, and who
was under sentence for larceny ESCAPED
from Bennington jail by bending one Of
the bars In a grating, making an OPEN
ing only Il inches high and nine inches
wide. partly blocked by the bar that he
bent with his hands He is small youth,
not more than five feet three inches tall
and weighs only about 115 pounds
A Coventry girl took the role of Lady
Godiva in this years pageant at Coven-
try, which drew tens of thousands of Wis
itors, although the heroine rode clad in
white and gold brocade instead of in
natures garb.
Another mystery of the mails was pre-
sented September 10, when Mrs. w. J..
Mott Of Cornish, Me-, received a post
card mailed to her from Portland. 80
miles away nearly II years ago, by her
mother-in-law, now deceased. The card
bore the postmark. Portland. October
6, 1907, the Cornish postmark as received
Mt Cornish the following day, and the
Boston postmark. September Q. 1890 p.
m. 1910"
, Alton Gilman OF Whitman. noticing 4
furry in the water in front of his cot
tage, found huge bass struggling in
the water and netted him. He found the
bass had caught a large hornpout and
the horns of the pout had caught in the
bass gills. SO that Mr.. Gilman caught
not only the bass, but Il good sized horn
pout,
Halsey Flint OF Cushing, Me-, has a
pet gull which he Matched under a hen.
1t will fly to his shoulder and perch
there. and occasionally flies to the shore
and mingles with the other gulls for ',
short time, but not for long because they
pick at it and scream. At night it re-
turns to the henhouse to it's perch.
Some of the tallest steeples and smoke
stacks IN Cincinnati have been painted
by Mertie Kennett, young matron,
who makes a good living as a stecple-
jack.
The Ice Cream Trust in Burlington
County. n. j. recently jumped the price
to 70 cents a quart. Immediately COM
b!nation of local dairymen began MAX
ing ice cream and Is daily selling hum
dreds of gallons al As cents a quart. The
dairymen are also selling pasteurized
milk at u cents quart while other
dealers are charging Is cents for ordinary
milk.
Corn belt farmers are letting pigs select
the food that seems to them most at
tractive. Pigs cafeterias. consisting OF
little house, with feed hoppers supplied
with corn, meat meal, wheat by-products,
salt and other delicacies, multiply the
weight of the young porlkers until, be-
fore their first birthday, they are sold
at q good price.
Arriving In Minneapolis to attend the
Minnesota State fair. Chief Ka-BeNa-
| Wey-Wence, meaning "wrinkled meat"
seated on the floor Of his hotel. announced
that he is 1870 years old, and desired to
4 n 49,. Ia,
A photograph of the top of the head of
the State Of Liberty In New York harbor,
taken from seaplane, shows that the
helmet that Bartholdi put on the statue
looks from above very much like the tin
hats that the soldiers in France and Bel
GUM wore in the trenches.
The Joy of the Mexican bandit is the
song La Cucaracha," the name of which
ordinarily means a cockroach. but in
this case refers to a drugged cigarette
drugged with marihuana. form of In
dian hemp which when smoked produces
the more agreeable effects of opium. but
adds to these a mania FOR fighting The
words the bandits sing to 1t form a
couplet, which may be translated: "With
Carranza's beard am going to make q
ribbon toquilla) to put on the hat OF the
brave Pancho villa"
An up-to-date way of doing battle
with the Canada thistle Is that used by
an Oregon man. who inoculates patches
of the beautiful but strangling weed with
a fungus growth which destroys the
plants, root and all.
Rev. DR.. Samuel w. Gohrett. veteran
fisherman of the Philadelphia Methodist
conference, past 70 years Of age, has got
himself in dilemma by saying that he