Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-05-20

Never relax in adding to your stock of
useful knowledge, both by reading and
meditation. If you read without medita-
ting, you preach only the thoughts of 9TH
ers; if you mediate without reading. you
will gain few ideas-Gresleyn
Human life is full of instruction. Indeed
every life is parable, and more than a
parable. But new significance and point
is given to the lesson by means of the con-
trasts which abound in human experience.
The way one noble lord in Parliament
calls another noble lord "a liar is as follows,
as quoted from a speech last session: Il
beg to call the attention of my noble friend,
the noble duke, to an observation which
my noble friend, the noble duke, is report
ed to have made, and which nv noble
friend, the noble duke will find upon re-
Fiction to be inconsistent with strict ve-
racity"
A County Wicklow carman was driv-
ing couple of passengers on summer
day in the Glen of the Downs, not far from
Dublin. One of the passengers inquired
of the driver what was the name of his
horse. us it his name you're asking me,
your honor. Faith, have not given him
any name, your honor, but as he draws so
we'll L think [ ought to call him "Taypot." ;"
"How many boarders have you, madam ?"
said military officer to the keeper of
quite respectable clearinghouse in Nine
teenth street. why" said the lady, II
have a number in the city, and several
who make short visits from the country."
But how many steady boarders have
you?' ''Why out of the ten now in the
| house there are not more than three l can
call steady"
The HEIR TO THE FRENCH THRONE
March 18th the Prince Imperial entered
upon his thirteenth year. and has now only
four years to run before his legal majority.
On the 18th every school in Paris was out
at play. The army was not forgotten to be
propitiated. Punishments were remitted.
rations and wine increased and decorations
distributed. He is growing fine, tall boy,
with wonderful manners for his age. and
very attracting and engaging, from inherit
ing most of his mothers charms and grace
of bearing.
these inquisitive geologists has struck
new vein of discovery, more alarming than
any other. Mr.. Evan Hopkins, of England.
has succeeded in proving, to his own salts
faction, that the crust of our globe is slow
ly travelling northward, and in a few
centuries, more or less, our pleasant New
England will be at the North Pole, and the
secrets of the open Polar Sea will be dis
covered.
The Manchester IN H. Dzly Union
vouches for the following warning note.
which it says was copied literally from ons
posted upon a tree by the road side in
North Weare;
)" AwI percons are Forbid To Pick bur
les or Plumes on this pease
p. s. Nor blubres.'
\ lecturer, enlarging on the subject of
diet, said recently; Soup, fish, flesh, oil.
vinegar, wines, pastry, ices, confectionery.
fruits and numerous minor ingredients of
conflicting chemical qualities. are among the
materials thrown in Stir these things to-
rether in a vessel, and which of US would
not sicken at the appearance and odor ?
Yet at dinner party they are all crammed
into the stomach, there to fcrment and gen.
crate pernicious gases.
YANKEE THRIFT.-Mr Brown, an Ameri-
can living in Valparaiso, Chile, has lent
that city s250,000 in gold for internal
improvements. The history of Mr. Brown.
says a Boston paper, is remarkable in
stance of the force and perseverance o
the Yankee character. 1t is but a few
years ago that he landed at Valparaiso
from ship where he had worked one
of the crew, and with nothing but the
clothes he had on, commenced work as
journeyman carpenter. To-day his prop
erty is valued at five millions. He has an
interesting family, lives in princely COM
fort, and stands at the head of social and
financial affairs in Chill