Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1849-04-12

NATIVE PoLIrENEss.-Ane elderly gentle
man, walkin along the street, took hold of
a cows tail, and gracefully placing it over
her back, exclaimed, "Madam, you have
dropped your boa"
A negro being asked if he knew who E
Pluribus Unum was, replied:
81 dosn't adzackly know de gemmen my
self, but reckon as how be is one of em,
as he hav his name on all de drums"
"Vat you makes dare?" inquired a
Dutchman of his daughter, who was being
kissed by her sweetheart very DANGEROUSLY,
80, not much-iust counting little-dats
ALL" "Oho OATS ah, Ell? Ply tam, l taught
you was vighting."
GA BRIGHT GlRL.-What are you doing
there Jane| Why, pa, I'm going to eye
my doll pinafore red. But what have you
to dye it WITH Beer, pa. Beer? Who
on earth told you that beer would dye red?
Why, ma said yesterday that it was beer
that made your nose SO red, and thought
that I--Here, Sunsan, take this child
to bed"
A mother admonishing her son, lad a.
bout seven years of age, told him he should
never defer till tomorrow what he could
do to-day. The little urchn replied, "Then
mother, let's eat the remaider of the plum
pudding tonight"
FOUNTAINS PLAYING.--Alfred
Fountain and Mary Jane Fountain have
been arrested IN Baltimore for fighting and
assauting each other.
A Frenchman, named Verdalle, ascend
ed from New Orleans on the lth inst. in a
balloon, with his head downwards, and at-
ter going through numerous "slake rope"
evolutions, he rose about mile, when the
balloon exploded and precipitated him to
the earth from distance of 1000 feet
and he was not the least injured. He owed
his miraculous escape from death to rose
bush in the garden where he landed. The
wind being very strong, the balloon was in
a measure kept up in such manner as &c
break the fall. Mr.. V. was very composed
and exclaimed, on rising from the rose bush
and picking up a rose that he knocked of
in the fall, cay, ay, sacre! this is yer!
sweet spot"
"TO THE EDITORS.-In looking owe
file of the Old Virginia Gazette, for TIL
year l74S, No. GAP, have stumbled up
on the following curious epitaph, which
said to have been copied from tombston
at Arlington, near Paris. Your lady read
ers may be pleased to study out the mean
ing.
Here lies
Two Grandmothers, with their two Grand
daughters; two Husbands, with their tw
Wives; two Fathers, with their two Daught
ers; two Mothers, with their two Sons; tw
Maidens, with their two Mothers; two si;
ters, with their two Brothers; yet but 81
corpscs in all bursed here, all born Iegit
mate, from incest clear Nat. Int
A BAD BOOK.-'Is that the prisoner
said one spectotor to another, during tria
for manslaughter.
'Ab! indeed! What a dreadful bad loo
: he has, especially about the eyes! But VIII
: is that respectable looking young man a
his side in the green vest!
In the green vest Why that is the pri;
oner himself. The other man is his law
yer,
well, now I do begin to see that tn
fellow in the green vest don't look so re
spectacle after all. Indeed he has ju;
the air Of an old offender.
We have received two answers to on
puzzle on the word New Door, one from
boy in this village, and one from sma
girl in Berlin, the last of which we insert
an account of its neatness, as follows:
"Transposition Of the letters in NEN
Doom so as to make ONE WORD.