Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1838-12-07


General Harrison.--Amid the strife oil
nortv feuds, il is greatfui to meet with one
nble and willing 10 draw such picture as
The subioined, without reference TO action
or its designs 1t is from the pen .oi the
Rev. Timothy Flint OF Salem. Massac husetts,
and NAV be found in his "Recollecilons oil
the Last Ten Years." published in 1926, be-
fore The name of the Patriarch Of North
Bend was mentioned in connexion WIN the
Presidency.
"My duties and my travels occupied me
in such a manner as TO allow me lew OPP
portunties for making individual estimates
of character. Chance brought me IN con-
tact. and afterwards into considerable iniima-
CIV. with gentleman, Of whom very different
portraits have been drawn, Genera Harri-
son. OF his urbanty, and general hospital
itv and kindness, | entertain the most CRATE
ful recolectons could desire no aiten
tons, no facilities for discharging my duty,
which he did not profier me. His house
was open for public worship. He kept an
open table, to which every visitor was wei
coined. The table was loaded with album
dance, and with substantial good cheer,
especially with different kinds Of game.
In these respects his house strongly remind
ed me of the pictures which my reading had
presented me, of old English hospitality.
There is something imposing in the digni-
fled simplicity of bis manner. In the utter
want of all show and insignia, and trap
pings there is something, which finely com
ports with the severe plainness Of republi-
canism. On fine farm, in the woods, his
house was open 10 all the neighbors, who
entered without cerimony and were admit
ted 10 assume a footing of entire equality"
THE SLIDE OF ALPNAcH 1t is fact
that there is railroad in Europe where the
speed Of t,oo hundred and sirteen miles an
hour is ordinarily obtained-not indeed for
passengers, but for timber 1t is the cee-
brated Slide of Apnach, in the Alps, con-
structed for the purpose OF conveying trees
from the mountains TO the Lake OF Lucerne.
The following is description OF this famous
slide -
This railroad, which was completed in
the year 1918, is formed entirely Of about
100000 large pine trees, deprived of their
bark. and united together in very ingeni-
GUS manner, without the aid of iron. II oc-
cupied leo workmen, during Is months,
and cost nearly 100000 francs, or f4250.-
1t is about three leagues, or fory-four thou
sand English feet long. 1t has trough oil
about six feet abroad. and from three 10 six
feet deep. It's bottom is formed Of three
trees, the middle one Of which has groove
cut in the direction of its length, for recsiv-
ing small rills of water, which are conduct.
ed into it from various places, for the pur-
pose of diminishing the friction. The whole
slide is sustained by about two thousand
supports; and in many places il is atiac he'd
in very ingenious manner TO the rugged
precipces of granite. The direction OF the
Slide is sometimes straight, sometimes zig
gag, with an inclination of from ten to eigh-
teen degrees Ii is often carried along the
sides of hills, and TANKS Of precipitous rocks
and sometimes over their SUBMITS Occa
sionaly it goes under ground. and at other
times it is conducted over the deep gorges by
scaffoldings 100 feet in height. The large
pines which were one hundred feet in
length, and 20 inches thick at their smalles,
extremity, ran through the space OF three
leagues, or nearly nine miles in two minutes
and half There is an account of this
wonderful slide in Babbage's Economy OIL
MdIuihSIy uuu NfduuldCtuiCot quOltu lTOUl
Brewsler's Journal, from which and other
documents. in our commonplace books, we
have made the above abridgment."
Deaths Doiags-"I am now worth 100
900. pounds" said old Gregory, as he as
cended HILL which commands full pros
pect ofan estate he had jus, purchased; Il
am now worth one hundred thousanc
pounds. and here, said he. I'll have pine
ry; you larm houses shall come down. sale
old Gregory. they interrupt my views.
Then what will become of the farmers p
asked the steward who attended him. That,
their business answered old Gregory
And that mill must not stand onthe stream,
said Gregory. Then how will the villa
gers grind their corn p asked the steward
That's not my business answered ole
Gregory So old Gregory returned home
ate hearty supper drank bottle of port
smoked two pipes of tobacco and fell int
profound sumber and awoke no more
and the farmers reside on their lands; ant