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SPRING MILLINERY
WILL be opened at Mrs. S. PARKER'S on
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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-03-06
GREEN MOUNTAIN

agricuIturalists. But it is remarked there
ire many good farmers who are not Geolo-
gists, who perhaps do moi form a correct
idea Of the meaning Of the word. They,
however, neither understand the principles
of their art, nor can they derive any intel
%Iectual enjoyment from the results of their
practice; such men are "born to blush TN.
seen |" We do not mean to undervalue
that sure practical guide of the farmers, en-
perienCe, nor the result Of the long and fire..
quent attention to numerous local circum-
stances these are wheels within a wheel,
yet of no subordinte Importance
Numerous instances might be cited Of
the benefits conferred by Geology upon ag-
riculture. The intermixture of soils where
one kind Of earth is either redundant or
deficient, is practised in ONE places with
great advantage. Red sandstone districts
are converted into fertile land by intermix-
ing with them the calcareous marls which
they frequently contain in detached BEDS
So with the clay mari generally underlying
pine planes. The green sand mari of New
Jersey is applied to sandy soils with much
benefit. "When we benold," says Prof
Rogers, in his report to the Legislature of
that State, "a luxuriant harvest, gathered
from fields where the soil originally was
nothing but sand, and find it oil due to use
of a mineral sparsely disseminated in the
sandy beach of the ocean, we must look
with exuIting admiration OIL the benefits
conferred upon vegetation by a few scatter.
ed granuIes Of this unique and peculiar sub.
stance. The small amount of green sand
dispersed through the common sand, is able
as we behold, to effect Unreasonable bene.
fits in spite of a great predominance Of the
other material, which we are taught to re-
gard as, by itself, so generally preiudicial to
fertility"
We would regard it as a great advance
upon the present position of the farming
community, if each proprietor was quaIii-
es to name the rocks and minerals which
are incidentally met with in crossing his
fields. What pleasure would be derived by
the formation Of cabinets Of geological spec,
linens found on farms! How many young
minds grow up sealed 10 knowledge, be-
cause those around them to whom they
naturally apply are sealed likewise But
it is gained by application, we will not say
unremitted, but asSiduous and continued,
until its attainment seats its pOssessor on a
lhrone.-Cnhivat0r.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-03-06

"THE KNocKINGs."-The Christian Re-
gister, in the course of some very excellent
remarks on the Spiritual knockings" hum
bug. tells the following amusing anecdnte
1--WE are tempted to draw from our College
"reminiscences a case which we deem a very
worthy parallel to The audaciOus fooleries
Orr coevaIs al Cambridge cannO have for
gotten a nan Of lIvery-stable nOtOritey.-
HIS customers were often so obliv,Ous as to
The extent of their rides, that he contracted
with the iDnholders of the surrounding
country to score their names on such of his
vehicles as visited their respective taverns.
lie had also a horse who had been trained
TO lift his foot, as often as a slight signal
from his masters finger was repeated. A
stupid freshman mce returned, as he said,
from a ride to Watertown, but bearing with
him the sign manuel OF an innholder in
Concord. The youth persisted unbIushing-
ly in his lie, Says the man. my horse
knows, and will tell me, how many miles
he has been driven" The signal was given
and repeated. The horse lifted his foot
fourteen times in succession. The aston,
ished freshman paid his full stable fee, and
retired firmly convinced Of the perternatur-
al endowmGnts Ofthe horse"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-03-06
Volcano of the Salt Lake.

A correspondent of the Buffalo Com
merciaI Advertiser gives the following de
scription of IA volcano in the vicinity OF the
great Salt Like
"The volcano is in a plain ofmud, and on
the borders of the Lake. II is composed OF
mud, and covers several acres. Steam and
water are escaping from s me half dozen
apertures. The mud is raised up into cones,
the highest not five fee; from the general
surface. They are terminated by tubes,
some hardened and lined with crystals of
sulphur and other substances. One Of the
cones throws steam and water ten or fifteen
feet into the air. 1t escapes rapidly, and
with a sound resembling the escape of steam
from the pipe o' small steam engine aud
it elects hot and cold wafer at sh0rt inter
walls. Que caul iron, some four feet across,
no Is up until il overaows, then sinks sever
a feet, and again overfnws. Nothing is
seen but a mass cffnam the water is strong
iy imnregnated with saI-ammonia
eth re are other C ,uldrons, from 10 to
p fee in diameter. filed to within three
ar four feet with boiling mud, which is oc-
ca,ionalIy thrown out in every direction
About a mile furthrr off is another collec.
ton of mud cones. and on the opposite id
an island of volcanic rocks rises to The
hight us so feet at the foot of it is salt in
sheets, strongly mpregnaied with sal am.
monla; that fro II The Lake is pure. and is
used by the C%plifornlans. In the vicinity
OF the volcano we saw several lodges Cover
el with pumice, and we met with it in vari-
Gus places on the plains"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-03-06
A Down East Romance.

The following incident has Just been
communicated to US from source in which
we place implicit confidence;
In the year 1914, a Mr.. Thurston, of
Pownal, was married to a young lady OF
that place, with whom he lived for two or
three yeats, and then went to the British
Provinces, where, a short time after, 1t was
reported that he was executed for trespass
upon the Kings timber lands. A year or
two alter this report became current, and
which was supposed by Mrs. L. to be true,
she married a sec. md time with Mr.. Lowell,
with whom she lived until his death, which
occurred a few Yeas since.
Siace that time nothing has occurred to
occasion a doubt Of the truth of the rumor
respecting her frs husband, until a few DAYS
since, a person called upon her and stated
that her first husband had recently died in
Hudsen, New York, having been injured
BY a fall frSm his Garage, and offered her
$50 for an assignment Of her right in his
property. This she very wisely refused To
do. The neNt day another man called and
s9eTed Sl5O, which she likewise declined.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-03-06

OLD MAIDS. "A sprightly writer express.
es his opinion of old maids in the following
manner -
III am inclined to believe that many o
the %satIriCai asp~ersiona c list upon old maids,
tell more to their credit than is generally
imagined. Is a mi remarkably neat in
her person she will certainly die an old
maid Is she frugal in her expenses, aud
exact in her domestic concerns, she is cnt
out for an old maid Aud if she is kind,
aud human to the animals about her. moth
ing can s,ve her from the appelIation of an
'Old maid In short, | have always found
that neatness, modesry, economy, and hui
mainly, are the never failing characteristics
of an old maid.'"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-03-06

TAKE UP THY BED N WALK."-On
Thursday last, a man, dressed as a mechan-
ic, went to a house in Brighton, walked up
stairs, took a bed from a bedstead, made it
up in a bundle, and brought it down into
the passage. At that instant he heard
somebody coming. Thereupon, with ad-
mirable GOODNESS, he gave two or three loud
Eaps on the ~wainsc"tting, and when, in due
time one of the inmates made hel appear
ance, he said. ''Pve brought you this
Bed" replied the woman there's no bed
to com here, you must have made a mis-
take" II think not" laid the man this
is No. Is. isn't it?' eyes, this is I5."-
"Then that is the number master told me
TO bring it TO-" "WeII," said the woman,
tits wrong at any rate, so you'd better
take it away" "If you say Pm totake it,"
responded the thief, 81 had better do so;
and with that he took up the bed and walk
ed off: Some time elapsed before it was
discovered how completely the bed owners
had been done.-BrightOn Guardian.