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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-06-26

CREEPING THINGs. a writer IN the
Morarian thus nairely discourses about IN
sects:
All llinsectS have SIX legs. unless they have
met with accidents such as YOU have often
seen when YOU have caught a grasshopper
to see him make molasses." After a few
struggles away he goes, leaving a quiver-
inc leg IN YOUR fingers. and for the rest of
his short life he hobbies about like one Of
our poor crippled soldier laddies: tor IN
sects DO not grow new legs like Holsters.
and | am very much afraid that he does
no, hnd any kind Sanitary Commission TO
olnd up his wounds and givv nian ..<sir
start in life with a Palmer le--
They do not breathe through their
mouths. but by means of a great number
Of lithe pipes which run through them
lengthwise, like the gas-pipes under our
streets. having openings here and there on
the sides of the body, where the fresh air
is drawn in. These little openings are very
curiou-lv contrived.-in some eases being
protected by tiny trap-doorS opening on
hinges, in others having a strong grating
over them of very coarse hairs. lou Will
see from this that IL is worse than useless
to snap an offending insect in two with a
pair of sharp scissors; for a. he does not
use his mouth for breathing purposes, and
a. his brain i not confined 10 his head but
runs all through his body, he will live foI
many hours in this mutilated state. Ii
fact. some insects never eat Il mouthtul at
ter they are full grown; so that if you cut
off their heads, YOU only bother them, be
cause they cannot see where to lay theil
eggs
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-06-26

eye 80 that it shall fit the stump-if it is
too large ii viii not move-if it fits nicely
it moves in every particular like the natu-
raj eye, and it is quite impossible in many
case, 10 tell one from the other. The ope-
~ation Is not in the least painful. and those
who have worn them a number of years feel
better with them in than when they are
out \ glass eye should be taken out eve
ry night and put in in the morning. In
three or four years the false eye becomes so
worn that a new one has to be obtained.
Some ladies who live at Il distance from the
manufactory keep box of glass eyes on
hand in case of accident, for besides wear
ing out they will break under certain cir
cumstances, as when
Hates last lightning CULVER from his eyes,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-06-26
MANAGERS.

THE NATIONAL ASYLUM FOR DISABLED NoLtS-
TIER SOLDIERS.
MANAGERS.
The President of the United States, The
Chief Justice. The Secretary of War, Ex-
Oficiis; Mai. Gen. B. F Butler. President,
Lowell. Mass. Maj Gen. Jno. H. Martin
dale. ST. Vice President, Rochester, y. Y;
JAY Cook. Esq. Jr Vice President, Phila-
dciphia. Pa: Hon Lewis B. Gunckel. Sec
retarv. DAYTON. Ohio; GOV. Richard j.
Oglesbv. Springfield, ILL.,. Gov Frederick
Smvth, Manchester. \. IL DR.. Erastus b.
Wolcott. Milwaukee. Wis Maj Gen. John
). Cayender, St. Louis, Mo Rev. Horace
q. Stebbins. San Francisco, Cal.
The Board of Managers of the National
ASYLUM for disabled Volunteer Soldiers give
notice that they are now prepared to receive
beneficiaries into either branches near Au-
eusta. Me Milwaukee, Wis. or at tie
Central Asylum. near Columbus, Ohio
Volunteer Soldiers are admitted upon ap
plication bv letter to either of the Managers.
or at the Branch Asylum nearest TO their
place of residence: whereupon blank ap-
plicatons will be sent to the applicant, and.
: daily qualified. transportation will be tur
nished him.
The requirements are,
FfrN-An honorable discharge from the
Volunteer Service.
S cond-Disability by wounds received in
the line Of duty
If the applicant is unable to travel, or for
other sufficient cause. relief will be furnished
under the direction of the Manager to whom
application is made
The overseers of all almshouses and charity
hospitals having disabled soldiers subssting
upon private beneticence respectfully
urged TO report such cases to either of the
Managers as ii Is not lit that merltOrlous
disabled soldiers of the nation he supported
bv private or public charity Soldiers are
especially informed that the Asylums are
neither hospitals nor almshouscs, but homes
where subsistence. care. education. religious
instructions. and employment are provided
for disabled soldiers by the Congress of the
United States, To be paid from the forfeitures
and fines of deserters of the army. The pro-
vision Is not a charity. lt Is a contribution
by the bounty jumpers and bad soldiers TO
the brave and deserving. and is their right.
Soldiers having wife. child or parent
dependent upon them. are not required to
rive up their pensions upon coming TO the
ASYLUM. Other soldiers are required TO
assign their pensions TO the asylum in special
cases only, 10 he determined by the board.
Suitable compensation will be given f r
profitable labor in the asylum. Good be
hayior will insure the kindest treatment.
Wives and children will not be cared for at
the asylum. until after the soldier has shown
by his ability TO aid himself and them in
part. bv his labor and steadiness, that taking
his family in chargc will not increase his ex-
penses to the asylum above the cost of other
helpless bencticiaries. in which cases pro-
vision will hereafter be made.
BENZ F BrTLER.
President of the Bard Of Managers
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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-06-26

pleasure in the very bloom of its freshness,
and load the heart with harvest of men,
ores that grow all the more fragrant with
age"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-06-26

CLASS EnE>-lt requires Il great deal
of taste and dexterity TO be able to manu-
facture class eyes. Prof Boissonneau of
Paris. has been in the business for fifty
wears. and is said to have made over a mil
lion Of dollars at il. He now supplies the
whole of Europe with glass eyes. The gen
tleman who makes glass eyes in New ork
was a pupil OF BoisSonneau. The work is
done entirely by hand. \ man sits down
behind Jet of gas flame which is pointed
and directed as he wishes by blow pipe.
He takes what Is called an optic, or the
white of the eve which has been blown
from the end of a glass tube and looks very
much like half opened white rose bud
with hole at the top of it. The optic is
made of a peculiar white enamel which
looks 50 near the color of the white OF the
human eve that IL Is difficult TO tell the ar
tifeial from the natural The optic is held
aud turned III the flame until it becomes
red hot, the glass being almost in state
of fusion. Vt this point the iris is intro
duced into the opening in the end of the
optic. being melted in from the end of a
small stick Of glass Of the color of the eye
which it is wished To initiate If the eye
is brown, brown glass is used if blue, blue
I glass Is used.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-06-26

A report having been published IN The
attended the Chantilly races on Sunday. the
Queen caused it to be contradicted in all the
papers The kinglings were there, however.
and went in for good time. They had pre-
viously telegraphed, asking permission OF
their royal mother, and not receiving an an,
swer, argued that silence gave CONSENT ana
went.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-06-26

The pupil of the eye is always made with
drop of black glass imbedded in the GEN.
tire of the iris The blood vessels seen IN
the white of the eye are easily put in with
red glass while the optic is glowing with
heat like ball of gold. The whole eye
can be made inside OF an hour, and is at
once ready to put in. The reader should
know that it is simply thin, glass she'll,
which is intended to cover the stump ofthe
blind eye. After being dipped in water
this shell is slipped in place, being held by
the eyelids. the secret of imparting mo.
tion to it depends upon working the glass
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-06-26
To Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.

We gladly give place to the following cir
cular
The NATIONAL ASYLUM FOR DISABLED yoLrE-
TEER SOLDIERS.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-06-26

THY blu. eye
Steal oeg the heart like sunshine Ger the skies
But give me the eve through which can sp:
To the depths of a heart warm and true:
Whose color MAY vie with the hue OF the sky
The soft. the sweet, love heaminc blue
Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1867-02-09
TAKING A WHALE.
BY ROGER STARBUCK.

Early one morning while we were
cruising off the coast of Peru for sperm
whales was doing on the maintop-
gallant cross-trees. Suddenly something
seemed to 60 right through my brain l
woke to discover that it was the voice of
Zadik- the Captains S harpooner-a tall
swarthy, straight haired youth, half Ka-
naka, half English. He was very ten
der hearted, but an, excellent whaleman
whose power of vision was truly y remark
able. He stood on the other side of
me, shrieking with all the force of his
lungs:
.'There blows-there blow-ow-s =
Observation-Disclosures y
Where awayp' thundered old Capt.
Boom, glancing aloft.
"On the weather bow, four miles off,
heading to leeward -
This answer sent an electric thrill
through every vein; the old ship lurch-
ed as if she felt it too.
Up came old Boom, with spy glass
slung over his shoulder, mounting two
ratlines at time When on the cross.
trees he just gave one squint with bis
telescope /; then his voice rung through
the ship like great saw going through
board
"Back the main yard-clear away the
boats !'' 1t would have done you good
to see the men jump to falls and braces.
The ship came up slowly, and Boom
went down like lightning by means of a
backstay.
Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1867-02-09
Q, Clasp Me to thy Heart Again.

o, clasp me to thy heart again,
AS close as IN the olden time,
And tell to me life's joy and pain,
Mingled into perfect rhyme,
While clasped unto thy heart again.
What though thy pulse is faint and slow
That erstwhile throbbed so quick and
strongs
Thy words are just as sweet know;
And richer cadence fills thy song,
Than while thy pulse is faint and slow.
What though the passion fires that burned
Within thy heart so bright of yore
Have unto dying embers turneds
Is it not purer than befores
Thy heart where passion fires have burned.
What though thy step, once quick and
light,
Has feeble and unsteady growns
And wrapped in evenings fading light
Thy life o'er which the rainbow shone
When manhood's step was quick and light.
No dimness holds thy sight in thrall,
Thy gaze can reach beyond the stars.
Thy ears can catch the notes that fall
From heaven-strung harps through Eden
bars.
'Tis beauty holds thy sight in thrall.
81 adows, know, have crossed thy way,
And saddened tones from Sorrows lutte
Have mingled with life's gladdened lay.
Till heart and lips with grief were mute,
When shadows stretched across thy way.
May memories bright as summer birds
Go winging through thy heart once more
And on thy lips sweet lover words
Tremble as softly as of yore.
To memories light as summer birds.
Thy kisses wake tenderer thrill,
And in my heart. like breath of flowers,
feel their glowing presence still.
Within the poets fancied bowers.
I'll dream of thy sweet kissing's thrill.
y, poet-king. no more my heart
May drink thy words as flowers the dew.
So glorious and so bright thou art,
To know thee is to worship too,
Thou poet-king, shrined in my heart.
Louisville Journal.
Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1867-02-09
The Schoolmaster's in that Bed.

The following is one of the many in
cidents that befel boarding. round
schoolmaster.
l had been teaching in Lewis county
in this State, and this term was board
ing round. One evening after school
one of my scholars stepped up to me
and said:
"Mr. Jones, father said you would
come home with me''
"Very well,' Ireplied, and forthwith
set out for my patrons house, which
was some miles distant Now, be it
known, James McHenry, for such was
his name, had two daughters, the pride
and envy of the whole community. l
heard so much about them that | was
anxious to see them. 1t seemed, how
ever, that was to be disappointed.
When | arrived heard that the girls
had gone to party on the other side of
the creek; so l went to bed execrating
the luck which deprived me of seeing
them that night. The night had we'll
advanced when / heard one of the girls
come ID, and, passing into an adjoining
room, she warmed herself before some
Goals which were alive on the hearth 1t
seems the old gentleman and lady slept
in the same room, which | was not
aware Of then. Having warmed herself,
she turned to leave the room, when the
old man spoke:
"Girls, the schoolmaster is in your
bed"
Every WELL" said Sarah, and passing
through the room l slept in, went up
stairs.
An hour elapsed when 1 heard Judy,
the other one. She stood at the door a
long time, talking with her sweetheart,
then entered softly.
Disrobing her feet she entered the
room where | lay, in her stocking feet,
carefully undressing herself she came to
the side of the bed prepared to get in.
Now, it happened that lay in the mid
die, and turning back the clothes she
gave me shake, and said in a suppress
ed whisper:
clay over, Sarah.'
l rolled over and whipped the corner
of the pillow into my mouth to keep
from laughing. In she bounced-but
the bed would squeak. The old man
heard it and called out:
"Judy !"
Sir" was responded family from the
bed beside me.
"The schoolmaster is in that bed"
With one loud yell, and "Oh heav-
ens," she landed on the floor, and fled
with the rapidity of deer up stairs.
She never heard the last of that, 1 can
tell you.
Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1867-02-09

zE- From and after this date all Sheriff's
Constables' and other legal sales. advertised
in the CHRONICLE, must be paid for on the
day Of sale, punctually. We hold none but
the officers responsible for their payment.
ns- Transient advertisements must be paid
IN advance. Job-work paid on delivery, in
Ddriably.
w- All regular advertisers will be requi-
red to settle on the first of every month. Our
city advertisers will be required to pay up
every three months.
Es- Advertisements will becontinued until
ordered out and collection enforced All ad-
vertisements should have marked upon them
the number of insertions required.
va. There will be no deviation from the
above established terms and rules of business
Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1867-02-09

WoRDs.-Beware of impure words.
Filthy conversation is fruitful means
of corrupting. 1t is the channel by
which the impurities of the heart may
be communicated to another And We
know who said, evil communications
corrupt good manners" Words are an
index to the state of the heart Hence,
says Christ, "}y thy words shalt thou
be condemned, and for every idle word
men shall speak, they shall give an ac-
count in the day of judgment" There
are those whose conversation is filthy
and disgusting. Parents should guard
their children from such. They should
themselves avoid every indelicate ex-
preston, and check the first appearance
of any such thing in their children.
Avoid foolish talking and jesting.-
Children, let your words be pure.
Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1867-02-09
From the " Pacific"
LINES.
ADDRESSED TO A FRIEND UNDER GREAT BE-
REAvEMENT.*

1NHh 'IHINls
All things in natures wide domain
Have lost their charm for thee;
A charm that ne'er shall crown again
Ihe summers yet to be.
The rosy flush of morning hours,
The evenings purple light,
Ihe dewy fragrance of the flowers,
The silence of the night
All that thy admiring ewes
Once deemed so wondrous bright,
Since lie passed upward to the skies,
Now wear nameless blight.
o, never more shall bloom of spring
Seen through thy gathering tears
Or autumn's golden glories bring
The joys of vanished years.
Those vanished years whose record bears
The story of his love.
How blest they seem how sweetly fair
All other years above.
But as the seasons come and go
On Times resistless tide,
Thy bitter tears will cease to flow
For him the glorifed.
As in some "sweetly solemn" hour
To meditation given,
Perchance, the 'pearly gates ajar,"
Thou'lt see the hills of Heaven.
And on those peaceful heights serene,
By saints and angels trod,
Thine earthly love, with heavenly mien,
Close by the Lamb of God.
And through the chambers of thy soul
Will echo ceaselessly,
Like some grand solemn anthems roll,
His parting words to thee:
Eternity, with all its bliss,
Not long enough shah be
Thine image, o, beloved! to efface
From my souls memory"
MoKELUMNE Hull, Jan. l, 1867. M. S. D.
*The author will permit US to mention, for
the sake of numerous friends, that the la
nented minister, whose decease called forth
hese beautiful lines, was the Rev. J. S. Zelie.
Ed. =" Pacific"
Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1867-02-09

THERE is no end to the novel
names given to the ladies' hats now "a
days. One of the very latest styles is
called the "Butter DISH They are
described as being ''cross between a
turtle-shell and wash-pan - and the
fair wearer says they are $50 cep'
Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1867-02-09

AFFEcTIoN.-"I speak as feel :"
returned Clifford "were the woman |
loved suffering through poverty, | would
beg with her; through injustice | would
defend her; from unkindness, | would
protect her; and if the world forsook
her. would be to her the world"
Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1867-02-09

WHAT is the difference between an
auction and sea-siokness ? One is sale
of effects, and the other the effects of
sail.
Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1867-02-09

REASONABLE EXpLANATIoN.-O
of two gentlemen recently conversing
about the natu. al bridge of Virginia,
remarked that there was an extraordin-
ary incident connected with it, for that
General Washington once threw dollar
completely over it, an achievement which
has not been performed since. "No
wonder" replied his companion, "for
dollar in those days could be made to 90
a great deal farther than at the present
time"
Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1867-02-09

THE town of Dunbarton, New Hamp-
shire, wit population of over one
thousand, has no pauper, no lawyer, no
doctor, no hotel or liquor store, no man
ufactory of any description; its town
debt is paid, and, with the exception of
a minister and two women, its inhabit-
ants are all farmers.
Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1867-02-09

A WAC in Detroit has been taking
liberties with the reputation of the
Pontiac railroad He was asked wheth-
er he knew of any accident on that road
and he replied
Never-but once middle aged gen.
tleman left Pontiac for Detroit, and died
of old age at Binghampton-half way!
Great road, that b.
Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1867-02-09
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ast.--Its simplicity and great
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2nd,--The reversible feed motion
3d.--The perfect finish and snb-
stanti:al manner i'm which the
machine is made.
4th.--The rapidity of its wOkingr
and the quality Of work done.
6sh.--The SeIf-adjuSting tension.
The Florence" was awarded the First
and Highest Premium at the Stat Fair of
California, the on y Fair on the Pacific Coast
at which any two double thread Sewing Ma
chimes were exhibited in competition in 1865.
The Florence received the only premium
awarded, by the Mechanics Institute of San
Francisco, in 1864 and 1865, to any Sewing
Machine, Sewing Machine Co., or Agent. The
claim of a competitor to medal is without
any foundation whatever.
Wherever the FLORENCE has been brought
in competition with other Sewing Machines
it has always been declared the best. 1t is
the most simple. the most substantial, the
most efficient. and its use is easily learned.
Every Machine sold is guaranteed in the full
sense of the word.
SEND FOR CIRCULARS AND SAMPLES
OF WORK.
SAMUEL HILL, General Agent.
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San Francisco. March 24tn, 1866.
mar2+1y1
Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1867-02-09

WHAT is the useo sighing and weep
ing as we float down the stream of Time?
Why make the voyage of life a wailing
voyage?
Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1867-02-09

Josh Billings says: "There is two
things in this life for which we are new
er prepared, and that is twins"
Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1867-02-09

SURE to harrow up the sole-Peg
ends inside ones boots.
Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1867-02-09
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all kinds of JOB WORK executed with
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Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1867-02-09

SECRETS. We must regard every
matter as an entrusted secret which we
believe the person concerned would wish
to be considered as such. Nay, further
still, we must consider all circumstances
as secrets entrusted which would bring
scandal upon another if told, and which
it is not our certain duty to discuss and
that in Cur own persons and to his face.
The divine rule of doing as we would be
done by, is never better put to the test
than in matters of good and evil speak
ing. We may sophisticate with our
selves upon the manner in which we
would wish to be treated, under many
circumstances; but everybody recoils
instinctively from the thought of being
spoken i'll of in his absence.
THEY have spirited girls in Ohio,
who evidently believe in certain phases
of "Woman's Ri ghts.' Not long ago a
young lady of that State having heard
that young man of her acquaintance
was chatting between two opinions" !"
and not likely to vote at all without
some coaxing, took her fathers buggy
on the day of election, went to the house
of the absentee, brought him to the
polls, "voted hin" and then carried him
home again We rather think that girl
voted.
Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1867-02-09
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