Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-09-02

| Over sat next to Colonel Graham. In res
! ponse to atoast the Colonel arose, and after
paying his respects to the company, said that
he had an important discovery To make
known. He had labored upon it for years,
and had now arrived at the conclusion, alter
/ long scientific explorations and many anxious
nights of study, that there was tidal wave
in Lake Michigan of at least one-third of an
inch. DIR. Over, who next TO the Col
onel, sprang to his feet and exclaimed. IN ut
ter amazement: Good God Colonel, you
| don't say SO. | always thought there was
something the matter with that cursed lake
.sAfttr recess, Professor R. NJ. Hough read
a valuable paper upon the Resuscitatlon OF
the Cincinnati Observatory for pork packing
purposes The magnetic instruments could
be used to attract the hogs there, and any
number could be killed daily by reading to
them essays on the theoretical erection of the
moon Dr. N B. Judd sent in an interest
! ing paper upon the variation in the beers of
| Berlin with the samples of each. DR. w llhur
! F. Storey introduced an exhaustive paper up
on Kilgubin and its inha bitants. in which
! he discussed the conditions under which
they live, and stated that recent remains oI
men have been found there in the Silurian
strta of alluvial mud. together with pigs and
old bottles containing liquid closely re-
sembing whiskey. As democratic tickets
were found in the same strata he expressed
himself confident it whiskey. He had
submitted samples of it to Professor Went
worth, who was of the same opinion Dr.
John r. Walch read paper on the Antiqui-
ty of the Periodical Business, bringing for
ward the most undoubted evidence that Noah
was acquainted with it from the periodical
visits he made to his vineyard. and the equal
ly periodical manner in which he was accus-
toned to get drunk He also alluded in
withering terms to the remark of Solomon
that ''of making books there was no end,
and closed his paper with brief dissertation
upon the effects of heat stationery. Pro
fessor David \. Gtge presented an extreme
y interesting paper upon Devon cows and
Cotswold sheep, and an exhaustive paper up
on the antiquity of hotel clerks
1.-The days proceedings were brought to
a close by a paper real by Peregrine Pickle
upon the Coming WOmln," in which he
showed conclusively that the fauna to which
she belonged would not wear b)nnetS-
nor use pearl powder. Tlking into consids
GRAFTON the perturbing inf Iences of atom
dissmilar to their character and dividing
them into classes according To their compo-
sition, he thought the coming woman, If she
progressed in the ratio of the present woman.
would rapidly pass the elliptic of true relig
ion and become a disturbing fbrce iu the
community. But while asserting this he did
not wish to be understoD II as denying the
fact that 'fibrine of the plasmi has an aka
line reaction"
.'He wpul1 maintain that theory to his
latest breath.
"In fact the plasme could hardly be plas
ma without N alkaline reaction.
s.Dr. Alfred CJwles to the contrary not
whilst indlng, wlo might be gDpi authority
oniron front bail iin5s, hat 1t 81 lie 1t
ly acquainted with tla plaSnl t. sp.lk of it
with any degree of certainty.
''R lon for the saraaqs
GLORY to science
The latter remtrx is It original. bat is
aprOpos, which is just as good