Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1862-01-10
From the Home Journal.
HINTS AND HAPPENINGS.
HINT FOR KENTUCKY.

FROM lne nome JOurnai.
HINTS AND HAPPENINGS.
HINT FOR KENTUCKY.
An important state consideration re-
sides in the fact that Kentucky has sub
terranean capital, ten miles square, ready
ercavated. If the present political con-
vulsions should render the location of
new metropolis matter of any import.
ance, Mammoth Cave will be remembered
and it is as we'll to copy, for the Keutuck-
ians paragraph announcing the opening
of the new Improvement in London -
The first portion of the London subter-
ranean City Railway will be opened OIL
the first of May next. 1t will extend
from paddington to Victoria Staten. 1t
will be so wide and well lit that it will
seem more like we'll kept street by night
than subterranean passage. 1t passes
right under Fleet. street ditch, the fullest
and foulest of the London sewers" That
which will cost London millions of pounds,
the excavating Of London--is already done
for the future capital of Kentucky!
ENGLISH vs.. AMERICAN GIRLS.
The English girl spends more than one
nalf of her waking hours in physical
amusements, which tend to develop and
invigorate and ripen the bodily powers
She rides, walks, drives, rows upon the
water, runs, dances plays, sings. jumps
the rope, throws the ball. hurls the quot,
draws the bow, keeps up the shuttlecock-
and all this without having it pressed for
ever upon her mind that she is thereby
wasting her time. She does this every
day until it becomes habit which she
will follow up through life. Her frame,
as natural consequence, is larger, her
muscular system better developed, her
nervous system in better subordination,
her strength more enduring. and the whole
tone Of her mind healthier
WASHINGTON, AT PRESENT.
A correspondent of contemporary
says: 1.-The capital was never 5cfore.
except on Inauguration day. SO crowded as
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now. No other spot in the country is so
interesting as Washington with Congress
and a gigantic army present. Governors.
editors. and important personages from all
parts of the land crowd our hotels and
streets. The old citizens of Washington
are amazed. Said one Of them a day OF
two since. Our city is like New York
Pennsylvania Avenue like Broadway.
This war will revolutionize our city. |,
has already become northern rather thar
a southern city. When the war ends
Washington will not relapse into its forme,
condition We might have added with
truth--neithcr will Virginia or any Other
state through which northern army has
passed. The war is a revolution all
through the border slave states in so
cial and business point of view North.
ern thrift and enterprise will make over
anew the barren wastes of Virginia, and
will throw current of fresh blood into
tthe sluggish veins of the rebel states"
SOUTHERN GREETING TO NORTHERN sYxPHArI
aERs.
The Richmond Examiner Of December
fla. has an article which is instructive
showing us how the gentlemen and ladies
of secesh feel toward those Of the Ncrtl
who sympathize with their cause, W.
copy a partition Of iti--:"The South Il
,oyerrnn with venonaous Yankees, wht
with their whole heart hate Us aud oul
institutions, Thanks, In. part. to oul
government at Richmond. Even in ,tha
very government there is said to be ,
Northern man high inpower and position
Our army likewise is blessed With severa
!, generals from the North. IL not tbi,