Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-02-19
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When the Rev. Charles F. Mickey, Ba
fist minister, removed from Long Brand
10 Brooklyn. he left his bull terrier. TeddI
with his mother at the Long Brand
parsonage. The other evening Mrs. MI
koy went to prayer meeting, leaving til
dog at home alone. When she returld
she found the terrier fighting some bur5
ing wallpaper, which had been set on fi1
by gas jet. and which had SET fire
the carpet. The dogs whiskers had bed
burned away. but he had kept the al
! confined to the floor, and so saved the pal
sonagc and the adjoining church fro}
burning.
y Frenchman at Madrid looped the lod
in his plane ga times in a fight Of tv
| hours 80 minutes and nine seconds.
Tho new census shows that Jonath;3
A. Cyr. of Green Ridge, Caribou, has
his house family of D, consisting
father, mother. grandparents, and q Chi
dren. The oldest child is 2S and tn
youngest FIVE.
Gold bullion valued at more than S1oo,O|
stolen from the Denver mint has been I'd
covered because of the arrest Of skilld
worker in the mint and the discovery
a 400 bar of gold in the hollow of hi
artificial leg.
One out Of every two houses in I'll
rural districts Of Ontario has a teleph on
while one farmer out Of very four owl
a motor car.
Secretely and under heavy guard III
wonderful service Of plate and china b,
longing to the French republic was takd
to London for use at the dinner Wild
President Poincare gave while visitir
England. There were SO heavy package
and it required seven vans to transpo|
them from the railway station to the. EN-
bassy. The collection comprises histor
gold and silver plate and priceless Sevrd
china lined with solid gold leaf, the who
surprising in value the ransom of a KIM
y dispute about the amount of chang
due a man at Galcna, kans., was settld
when it was found that the bill that h
had handed to "a street vender was a
bill on one side and 81 bill on the othe
The Galean man is holding it now for a
offer of more than 81.
Since 1880 there has been five Sunda
February in 1894. in 1852, in 1880 and
1870. Tho next one will be in 194s
The division of the day into hours date
from the original sundial, and the potid
of 20 minutes and 60 seconds must be trace
back to the Babylonians, who combind
the decimal and the duodecim syste nj
OF enumeration, and chose 90 as a CONVEX
lent measuring aggregate because Of Il
, large number of exact factors.
The late John Martin Beck Of MariaI
Ohio, wrote 10000 letters to his wife, ii
Guiding those before they were marie,
He averaged Il letters a day, and sper
5000 in postage.
a delivery truck, driven by Harry Ru
lock. was struck by a fast Illinois Ger
trail train at Champaign, H., and carrid
on the pilot of the locomotive more ths
600 feet before the train. stopped. TIL
truck was pried off the pilot and IN
, driver. who had not moved from his seal
stepped on the gas aud whisked ava!
One clothing factory, after paying PR
ferred dividends and federal taxes, ha
remaining $500 oCo-1311 per cent div
dends ard federal taxes, had remainirI
$a,aO, 0oo-13.l1 per cent dividends on s1d
, 0oo,00S common stock, as compared wit
$50 per cent. the preceding year.
For more than 100 years the people
the little English village of DENLY Vail
Yorkshire. have celebrated any unusud
national event by baking an enormou
pie. The last one was baked to celebraj
the worlds return to peace. It weighe
two tons. cost about s1,200. and q Who'll
beef, a calf, sheep, $50 pounds of potsI
toes and GOO pounds Of -four went int
it and 5000 people ate it.
William r. Kendall. of Bowdoinhar n
Me, has offered so in prizes to pupils q
the Coombs high school for the best nj
pers giving 40 reasons why | Wish ID
Live In the Future"