Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-01-12
Items Of all Sorts.

! A lady made a call upon friend who had
! lately been married When her husband came
home to dinner she said, =" have been TO zee
Airs" Well" replied the husband,
= suppose she is very happy " Happy?
should think she ought to be, she has q oamel's
hair shawl two-thirds border. ~.
A Philadelphia print calls the shells which
were sent singing into charleston Friday,
" GlIlmore's Christmas Carols. /" ~
An Irishmsn says; Z" lisa great pleasure to
be alone, especially when you have your sweet
heart with you" '-''
A thoughtful writer says. that it is an exquis-
ite and beautiful thing ip our nature, that when
the heart is touched and soitened by some tran
quill happiness or aiectionaIe feeling, the mem
ory of the dead comes over it most powerfully
and irresis,bly.
II is proposed now to send " 6sh-hash to
the soldiers, put up IN tight barrels Won't the
New England boys think they are ut home We
hope it will reach them in such condition as to
save them the necessity Of defining the mes a.
having " something dead in it," as the South
ern youth did when first treated TO fsh-hash.
II Brigham Youag should lose one of his I've
and thirty wives, would he be u widower,
refugee from Richmond, mao of note,
who has just reached Baltimore, predicts that
when the crisis comes JEFF Davis will cut bis
throat lie says he knows the arch-tral,or
we'll, and that suicide wall certainly be his fate.
lie saya The same OF Pic<ens OF South Carolina,
and some Others.
Cunning. The greatest Of oil cunning Is 10
anpear blin1 10 the snares laid loo u.s. men be-
Ing never 50 easily deceived Us when they are
endeavoring to deceive others.
y,Rrur Were there but ono virtuous man,
he would h,ld up his head with confidence and
honor he would shame the world, aud not the
world him.
A patriotic old lady recently sent three smok-
;nv cans as presents TO officers in ibe Army OF
,he po,omac One was for Gen. Meade aud the
rem.inipe two she desired TO be presented to
two generals, one of whom must be a teetotaller,
and The other one who never iodulged in pro-
,anity. Gen. Williams, chief Of Gen. Meace's
staff, took the antiproianity cap, and Gen. Hunt
the temperance cap. A grea. deal of iun 10
made about he distribution OF these presents.
A seasonable injunction Place ashes on the
sidewalks and slippery places about your houses =
What if little dirt should get into your entry,
il not that better than To have your friend slip,
eod, falling, break one Of bis or her limosf
Mrs. Rose Greenhow, who, after playing the
part of a rebel spy ior some tune, was impris-
aned At Washington, and who has published 10
England book about her Imprisonment. is
not treated very gngerly BY the hnalish critics.
The Aihsnaam ai,ly calls her " a sort Of female
spy." and does not suppose ,ba' many readers
viii bo able to indulge In the luxury OF much
sentimental pain in her behalf. The Reader
saws that her book "" very silly" and that the
an,hor, in any other country than this, would
have met with spy's punishment. ~ (" F''s-p
The damage done by Gen. Avsrill in his re-
cent raid is estimated at over i've millions OF
dollars. 4-.
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