Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-12-04

the rate of five cents per line.
demonstrative joy. l simply pointed to
the door, and after a brief look at me,
choking down u laugh she had invented
expressly for such time, my wife went
out, without word, carrying the baby,
also silent, in her arms.
Could anybody write after that? An
hour went by, and the time for leisure was
nearly gone, and still the uninterrupted
manuscript lay lonesome on the table. L
got up and found the little woman; | drew
her down into my lap and kissed her
greyed mouth; l said | was a brute, and
She forgaye me if [ wouldn't be so any
more; AMI finally she remarked. drawing
a long breath, - I'm sure [ didn't mean to
disturb YOU, and 1t was such a little thing,
and you were 50 cross, and all about moth
ing, too Please, dear, don't be SO
naughty ever artia. VIII you ,"
i [ never VII hs naughty again, Inever
will attemp. 10 write 50 much as business
letter out ds Of my own sanctum. My
desk in that sanctum has faded green baize
on 1t, and some parts of the baize are worn
down to the bare, iuk-stained table The
F
san-tum are numerous and some of them
venerable, and the rug on the floor of that
Sanctum undoubtedly hides a vast amount
Of dirt. iGto that sanctum are always
coming visitors who have 10 business there,
and AZ variou other ii not all times there
i the --ratc';rc oi' other pens than mine,
and the talking o.. other men than me, and
the rattle ana rumble underneath of several
presses that are the nearest idea that [ can
fetch about perpetual motion. But, be-
yond all this, the place has papers in it.
done up IN wrappers and undone, clipped
and unclipped, and they lie about desks
and tables, and in the basket on the floor,
and In every other conceivable place, and
nobody OF the works has got to think for a
moment that they ought to be arranged or
. fzei un n the least Beyond this,
the chairs are old and easy; beyond this,
paper a-j pencil, pen and ink are always
al hand, evidently wanting to be used and
continually in readiness: beyond this, the
cid cloc,, on the wall never goes, to warn
you about things better forgotten for the
u0pee: 4: and, better than all, the place is
dedicated to the business, Is intended for
it AMI nothing else, and the very smell of
Il Is good for nothing 50 much as quiet
but earnest stimulant TO literary labor.
ANIMAL GRAFrs.-YTe e gather the follow
ing curious facts from the Medical G7,d
Surgicgy Reporter, a weekly journal pub
lishei in Philadelphia and New York. To
the non-proteSsional reader they viii proba-
bly, be entirely new:
4" Plastic surgery recognizes life in part,
and gratis one portion OF the body on an
ether, Or replaces 4 portion of nose or a
finger when loopedotf, ami witnesses its con-
tinuel growth In lower animals this
principle l. more astonishingly developed
Cut 2 pa'rp into a dozen pieces, and each
ira ar,ncat viii develop itself into an indie
pendent and perfect tEpe Of the species.
l French naturalist, T. Eulpian, cut off
the tails oi' tadpoles, aul saw them not on
Is live, but grow ior ten days, Indifferent
70 all theories Of nervous centres, digestive
apparatus. or circalat0rF systems. But the
member thatscems 10 have the strongest dose
of the vital priaciple IS the tail of a rat
This Is the very ileal OF life, and here, if
anywhere. we ought to locate the seat of
vitality The Glowing experiment was
made by IL. I}ert. He dried rats tail
under the HI Of an air-punp, and in i'm
mediate proximity to concentrated sulphur
ie acid, 80 a to gradually deprive it of all
moisture. Then hcplacel il in hermetical-
ly-sealcl glass tube for FIVE days At the
end OF this time he subjected it for num-
Der OF hours 10 4 temperature of 9S7 Cent
IN a stove, and subsequently sealed it
second time in his tube Four days more
having elapsed, he united this tail by its
cut extremity to the freshly-cut stump of
living healthy rat, and quietly awaited the
result. Ills success was as complete
as it was marvellous. 1t commenced to
expand ana perform the natural duties of
a tail. and three months afterward he de-
by a second amputation and
carelel injection. that it was furnished with
proper vessels and was living part of the
second rat
What rich lessons practical surgery
may learn from such experiments, can be
imagined 4 careful anatomist has trans
planted fragment Of bone from the skull
IF one rabbit to the skull Of another, and
ound it form adhcsions and replace the lost
portions perfectly. i piece Of periosteum
aiken from rabbit twenty-four hours af-
ter death, grew and produced bone, when
neatly grated on a living animal of the
5ame species. Nerves also have been re
moved from one body to another with sue
;ess, and some very singular results noticed
where portion of motor was excised and
supplied by a fragment of sensory fla
nent. The diseases to which grated men,
'ers are subject, after they have been ex-
posed to certain Reagents, are also full of
lints for the pathologist and the phi ysician.
FLoUR MAKING.-The question how
much wheat does it take to make a barrel
# -four Is often asked, and the answer Is Of
IL IL.