Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-04-01
ODD ITEMS FROM EvERYwHERE.


The brethren of n colored church at Nc
Duffic. Ga, were surprised at the small
ness of the contributions, but their won
der ceased when they discovered tina,
one Of the collectors had tar In the TOP OF
his hat
Mrs Jennie Hendrickson. widow a
Chester Pa. has received letter front
sweden informing her that she has In
herited $2W0Go0 but she says she Is go
ing TO keep right on working at the wash
tub. not to disappoint her customers some|
of whom she has had for 10 years. ''Nvhen|
get the money she says. Il am goins|
to try to find these good people a new
washerwoman."
Mexico has tribe Of Indians whose
language is limited to about 300 words|
and who cannot count more than TO-
In Brantford Ontario. the board Of ed i
ucation has given notice that pupils pass
ing entrance examinations, who are mem
bers of the families OF four children or|
more and whose parents are not earning
more than 40 cents an hour for an eight i
hour day. will be taken care Of by the
municipal board Of education. The cost
Of food, clothing and books will be pro-.
vided. and the pupil will take fun
course in the Collegiate Institute.
lnseparable companions for more than
a year, when both we're hunting gold In
Alaska, Matthew Biggers and John Poul- !
son. separated % years ago. met by
chance in a barber shop In Chester, Pa. i
and found that while they had been frye
ing necessarily to find each other they
had been working not more than 50 feet
apart in a local industrial plant for near
| ly n year.
Kansas City is going to have a 12-story
office on a n n Of ~
II 12 feet wide. at the northeast corner
of 10th and Main streets.
Every British man-o'war has its crest,
just the same as every regiment In the
army. Note paper used by officers is
embossed with the crest OF the ship to
which they belong.
Plainclothesmen detailed on special
duty in a downtown district In Pittsburg
: to round up suspicious characters traied
two city detectives for nearly an hour,
only to lose them when they entered tho
detective headquarters.
30. yes said a Pullman porter in
| Cleveland. I'VE have some excitement.
The other day sick man fell out OF the
window and was killed. the day before
that a woman took poison. and last night"
continued the porter. mopping his brow,
"a baby was born
| Congressman Wilson Of Pennsylvania
among other requests for garden seeds.
has received the following letter: Dear
Friend-You may send me some of your
garden seeds, and do you know of some
good woman who could come and keep
house for me this Summsr-some woman
and child that got no home may come.
Will be used right
When Roy Lane of Paris. Mo. was a
small boy his mother, then a widow,
came to live with her father. the late
W. II. Jenkins. The mother died and
the grandfather. by legal adoption, made
the son his own child. Now the courts
must decide whether Roy inherits both
as grandchild and as child. or only as
child. having lost first his status by
adoption. In one case he gets a single
share of the estate. in the other a
double. The question. according to the
law books. has never been raised before.
| Sixty persons will be able to Jam into
one of Mayor Hylan's municipal buses.
Of which 200 have been authorized by
the board OF estimate, but 80 Of them will
have to stand in the 24-inch aisle and
cling to white celluloid handles"