Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-08-05
Notes and Comments.

THE FIVE FULL Moons IN JULH.-A lady
neghbor of ours who is not always quite willing
to take all she sees in a newspaper for gospel on
reading in tho last Freeman an article we cop
led from our standard city Journals, stating that
there we're TO be five full moons IN July, and that
it was a circumstance which had not occurred
since 1906. iaR turnbl~essvsr t.es e"ty years
stock of old Almanacs, when behold she found
that just such an instance occurred in 1888 By
this incident, for the fortieth time, have we been
admonished of the folly of taking everything for
granted we see in print when any means of as
certaining the truth are at hand Our young
friend A &C. Of Milford, under whose eve errors
have but lousy chance to escape undecided,
writes us that he has also discovered the blum.
der
A Bio LAMB.-.Benjamin Town, of Montpe.
ler has a half blood French Merino lamb, four
months and 10 days old, weighing LOG pounds.
These repeated instances of extraordinary specl-
mems Of agricultural produc tons, which We and
the other papers of the State are this year pub
fishing, cannot but be taken as evidence of the
certain and rapid progress of the great interest
of agriculture in Vermont
SUCCESSFUL AUTHoRsHIP-Mrs. Stowe. late.
ly received $4,000 of her publishers for her
share of the profits of the sale of Uncle TOMS
Cabin, for the first three months No such in
etonrn IF nro6t5 from n I;,a.. 80, oGr,r, L.. 49,.
been known in America, and it stands, in author.
ship, as a capital prize in lottery, against ten
thousand blanks or prizes, so low that they but
little more than pay for the cost of the ticket.
We knOD of some who have written four times
az much as Mrs. Stowe, and never received in
their lives over a tenth part as much as she has
in three months as yet their works have been
pronounced decidedly successful. There is no
one thing ON which such erroneous opinions pre-
vail as on the profits of authorship. We are
fully satisfied, that 8 out of 10 of all the books
published in America, at this time, are loss to
their authors or publishers.
NEWSPAPER CONrMBUrIoNs-" No com
muncation will receive attention unless post
paid IS the universal caveat +; but we quote it
not, to ground any complaint we have to make
in the matter of unpaid postage, but to ask
where is the propriety of sparing the printer the
payment of three cents postage, and requiring
him to spend three shillings' worth of time, in
decphering and correcting bad manuscript, or in
remodeling that which is claimed to be poetry,
for the purpose of reducing 1t to something like
measure?
AS an addition to the old rule above quoted,
we find ourselt compelled to add by way Of
amendment, nor unless plainly written, cor
rectly spelt, grammatical, and containing some
thing not before and better said by others, nor
unless, if it purports to be poetry, the measure
at least be faultless" We have q cord, or less
of manuscript verses on hand, sent US for inser
ton, many of which contain good and poetic
ideas, but go limping along, like spawned hor
ses. in the measure, and are for that reason de
med public appearance. lest they bring discred
it on the breed of Green Mountain Pregassaset
PlAINFIELD SPRINGs.-We ara more an
more satisfied of the value of the medicinal WI
tiers of the PIainfeld Springs. We have note
their effects in all cases of humors, and imp,
rites of the blood, and so marked have been Il
cures, that we have often and honestly sad til
the lack of a true knowledge of them, alone pr
vented them from becoming one of the create
resorts in the United States for the cure of
eaae,
Harris HorEL.-We have never till lately kno,
much of this gigantic establishment situated ne
the Railroad Depot, and Steam Boat landing,
Burlington. 1t would accommodate a regimen
and its furnishing, arrangements, tables, a
careful and kind attentions ever bestowed by
landlord and his people upon all guests, maxi
one of the most desirable houses for tie npora
or permanent sojeurn to be found in any CO..
try. 1t has over 100 furnished rooms Its f
niture alone cost over $4,000 and the cost of
establishment, was between forty and fifty the
and dollars.