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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-07-26

part, he picked up a stone lying at his
feet, and was preparing to throw it, steady
ing himself carefully for good aim. The
little arm was reached backward without
alarming the bird. and Bob was within an
inch of dagger when 10. his throat was
swelled aud forth came natures plea: "A
-a-link-a-link, Bob-o-link, Bob-o-
link a-no-weet, a-no-weet! [ know it
| know it a-link-a-link don't throw it !!
throw it, throw it. &C.; and he didn't.
Slowly the little arm subsided to its natu-
raj position, and the despised stone drop
ped The minstrel charmed the murderer
We heard the songster through and watch
ed his unharmed fight, as did the boy with
sorrowful countenance. Anxious to hear
an expression of the little fellows feelings,
we approached him and inquired:
Why didn't you stone him, my boy?
You might have killed him and carried
him home
The poor little fellow looked up doubt
ingly, as though he suspected our meaning,
and with an expression of half shame and
half sorrow. he replied.
Couldn't, COS he sung so"
Dear little boys, don t stone the birds.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-07-26

sion a further inflow of Atlantic water,
which in turn undergoes concentration.
And this interchange will be maintained
perpetually, there being on the one hand a
tendency to the restoration of the level
lowered by excessive evaporation, and on
the other tendency to a restoration of the
equilibrium disturbed by excess of pres
sure. The inflow and outflow will thus
keep each other in check, so that neither
the lowering of the level nor the increase
of density will ever exceed very limited
amount.
This explanation, DIR. Carpenter thinks,
received additional confirmation by the
phenomena observed in the currents of the
Baltic. Here animmense amount of fresh
water is received from the lakes and riverf
which tends to dilute the waters of the
sea. An outflow is established from the
surface, which. Of course, being continued
without any counteractlng tendency. would
IN time wash out every particle of salt,
were II not for an under current which
brings back into 1t the salt water from the
North Sea. Thus, while the surface cur
rent Is tending to reduce the level of the
Baltic to that OF the North Sea, the influx
Of fresh water into the Baltic and the
outflow of a portion of the salt water must
tend TO diminish the density; and the
equilibrium is maintained by the inward
passage of body of salt water from the
depths The case is. therefore, exactly
the reverse of that of the Mediterranean.
but such as would he expected in view of
the hypothesis advanced by DR.. Carpen-
ter.-EDTToRs' SCIENTIFIC RRCoRD, in
Harper'S Maga-ine forAuglst.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-07-26

stance, would be the promegranate and the
olive.
Perhaps the most priced of all sticks
/ are those Of the orange and lemon These
are imported chiefly from the West Indies,
and although they can be procured without
difficulty in almost any retail shop in Lon
don, your really perfect specimens are
scarce, and fetch enormous prices An
orange stick is easily known by its beauti-
ful green bark, with fine white longitudinal
markings, and the lemon can be detected
by the symmetry of its proportions, and
the regularity and prominence of its knots
| These sticks are considered in the trade as
taking pre-eminerfty the first place among
walking sticks.
y very faVorite stick, both for the sake
of its appearance and its great rigidity, is
the rajah cane, and it is largely used for
walking-sticks, umbrella-sticks, and hand
les for parasols The celebrated Whangee
canes of China, known and admired for
the regularity of their joints, which are
the points from whence the leaves are Civ
en- off, are the stems of a species of PHIL
IOStachys, a gigantic grass closely allied to
the bamboo
Not long since new kind of stick ap-
peared which was sold under the name of
pa,m-canes. These, instead of being round
are angular and more or less fiat. They
are Of a brownish color, spotted, and quite
straight, without either knob or curied
handle. They are the petioles or leaf
stalks of the date-palm. Another new
kind of stick lately introduced from Algera
IL,
in reality, the produce of a tree known to
botanists by the same name of ECalVytlS.
the true home Of these trees Is Australia.
where numerous species exist, forming arge
forest trees, some growing to between four
and FIVE hundred fee high. Several species
have been introduced into south Europe,
and found TO thrive.
These are but few examples Of the
foreign trade in this branch of manuiac-
ture. Larger quantities Of various kinds
of sticks are received from the East and
West Indies, China, Java, Singapore, &c.
The well known Malacca canes. the stems
Of CalamuS ScipiOUtla, slender, climbing
palm, are not found abou: Malacca, as the
name would seem to imply, but are impor-
ted from Slak, on the opposite coast Of
Sumatra.
Besides real sticks, Ur those Of vegeta-
BILE growth, such substances as rhinoceros
horn, whalebone, tortoise she'll, and others
of animal origin, are largely used, and
many of them fetch high prices The trade
in walking-sticds Is in very great degree
home industry. Though they are made
in large quantities on the Continent yet c, NJ
parat,vely few finished sticks are importt3
Among these imported, perhaps the largest
quantity comes from Hamburg and con-
sIsts Of low-priced painted canes, such as
soldiers usually carry, and fancy toy canes
for children German manufacturers also
supply our markets 10 great extent with
loaded life-preseryers and corded canes, Of
which great many are sold in provincial
towns Paris also, in more prosperous
times, has contributed very much to aug
ment the variety Of tasteiullymounted
canes.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-07-26

The GREAT BEAUTY OF IRELAND.-We
know of course that Ireland is called the
Emerald Isle, and that the color of the
emerald is green, but never had it entered
into our Imagination that there was any,
where in this world to be seen such verdure
as it charmed our eyes to look upon in the
rural districts of Ireland The slopes,
the knolls, the dells, the fields of young
grain, over which the breezes creep like
playful spirits of the beautiful the pas
lures dotted over with sheep of the purest
wool, the hill-sides rising up into mist
shrouded mountains, are all covered with
thick carpets of smooth, velvety green.
But Ireland should also be called the flow
cry Isle. There is not a spot in ireland,
l believe, where blessed Nature can find
an excuse for putting flower but she has
put one-not only in the gardens and
meadows, but upon the very walls aud the
crags of the sea, from the great blooming
rhododendrons down to the smallest foweret
that mOdestly peeps forth from its grassy
cover. The Irish furze, so richly yellow,
covers all places that might otherwise be
bare and barren the blooming hawthorne,
with the sweet scented pink, and especially
the whito variety, adorns the landscapes
and the gardens wall-fowers of every hue
and variety Chamber to hide the harshuess
of the mural supports, the beetled cliffs ot
the North Sea are fringed and softened
with lovely flowers; and if you kneel any.
where almost on the yielding. velvety
carpet you will find little well-nigh in,
visible iowerets red, white, blue and yel-
low-wrought into the very woof and text.
ure. Ireland ought to be called the Beau
tiful Isle. The spirit of the beautiful
hovers over and tonches to living 10y e,ines.
every point-PaH Mall Gazette.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-07-26

/ Discovery a New Motive PowER. a
citizen OF New Orleans has recently been so
successful IN experimenting with fluid gas of
ammonia as motive power that he claims
that there is probability that it may super
sede horse power on street railroads. Liqui-
fed ammonia, when subject to a heat of
COS Fahrenheit, turns to a vapor which
produces pressure of sixty pounds to the
square Inch. This pressure is applied like
steam. and is subject TO the same controlling
influences. When intended to be used for
the purpose of propulsion, the ammonia is
poured into Il system of tubes. deposited in
tank of water in such a way that the gas
which passes through the cylinder. instead
of escaping into the open air, may be car
ried through the exhaust pipe, and be alb
s0rbed bv the water. In this manner the
ammoniated water is preserved, and being
reinstilled, is capable of being used over
again several thousand times, wearing out
only at the rate of twenty-five per cent.
per annum. The gas is so readily absorbed
by the water that 1t prevents any disagreea-
be smell or noise of concussion with the air.
At the end of each trip the tubes are refill
ed from stationary reservoir of liquid am
monia, and during the journey the heat lost
by the tubes is acquired by the water in the
tank, which re-imparts 1t, and prevents the
ammonia from falling below the boiling tenn
perature. The report of the examining COM
mittee, headed by General Beauregard, ap-
proved of the invention in terms which are
too indefinite to be conclusive.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-07-26

A few evenings since young lady of
Chicago went down oD the dock, and, taking
off her hat, let her hair down. She then
took letter from her bosom, and after read
ing it, tore it in pieces. Next she leaned
over and looked down into the water, after
which she stepped back and seemed on the
point of sprnging into the river, when two
Young men interfered. They seized hold of
her and asked her what she meant, and when
she failed to answer they took her ID the
armory. Shortly afterward a gentleman
claiming to be her brother, called for the
young lady and took her away with him.
lie refused to give either his or her name,
but said that his sister was non coDlp0s
T2eEtiS
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-07-26

CASTING OUT DEv1Ls-A Methodist
preacher, of a large muscular frame and
huge hand, with a powerful grip, some
time ago was holding a meeting, at which
quite an interest was awakened A number
of persons had come to the anxious seat,
aud some had been converted. A group,
consisting of two or three young men and
as many young ladies, were present, whose
object In coming was to have merriment
The minister kindly requested them to
observe decorum bene6tlng the place
One of them ventured in rather an un-
gracious manner to reply that they had
understood that miracles were worked
there, and they had come down to see some
performed Upon this. our robust friend
the minister, coolly took the young mar
/ by the coat collar, deliberately led him
down the aisle, and opening the door, with
out any ceremony IanGed him outside
quietly remarklng we do not work
miracles here, but We cast out devils
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-07-26

WHAT We SHOULD EAT.-Those who
expect to think, says the chronological
Journal, should not eat much food which
simply produce warmth and fat, such as
ham, fat pork white bread, butter, rice.
tapioea and starch. These contain very
little phosphate food. being carbonaceous.
The proper food for laboring men-we
mean thse who have TO exercise muscular
strength chei1y-should be that which
contains the greatest amount of nitrogen.
Among these barley and cheese stand high.
The red flesh Of the OK or sheep and un-
bolted bread are the leading articles. Men
who train prize-hghters seem to understand
much better than others how TO build up
physical strength and endurance When
their battle or their race Is ended. they
lay aside their unboted bread and fruit
their lean beef and mutton, and fall into
their old habits of liquor-drinking and o
eating STRENGTHENING articles, such as rice
fine bread, pudding, with fat meat anC
butter, and they soon become as fat anc
law as the carbonaceous articles can make
them.
If a man wants TO stand the cold he
may eat buckwheat cakes with butter,
syrup ial poEh auu hAttS DSau> out ISt
him look out when hot weather comes for
bilious fevers, pimples on the face and a
rank smell of the whole system, and
muddy, dirty complexion. Men living at
the north pole, or near It, can drink fish
oil by the quart, or eat pounds of cake
tallow, and the cold climate will burn it
out; but in warm OF temperate regions
the food should be so selected as to furnish
nourishment for muscle, bone, brain, and
warmth in proper proportions.
The student should eat articles which
are pretty largely charged with phosphates
or brain food; the laborer, those articles
containing nitrate or food for muscle
and those who are much exposed to cold,
but not required to exert muscular strength,
that kind of food which is largely charged
with earbonates or heat produces.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-07-26

The Portland papers report that on the
Grand Trunk Railroad was a Canadian with
his wife and three children, bound for Boston.
The man and woman quarrelled about some
thing all the way along until they arrived at
Locke's Mills, when he ended the dispute
by jumping from the train, which was NOV
ing at the rate of twenty miles an hour Of
course there was general commotion among
the passengers, and of course the mans wife
and children set up lugubrious scream.
The train was stopped and moved back TO
where the man made his leap. but instead
of finding mangled corpse, they found the
man all right aud Fastening to get on board
the train. A reconciliation was effected and
there was no more trouble.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-07-26
The CuriOsitieS of Walking Sticks.

a surprising fact connected with the
manufacture Of walking-sticks in London,
is the immense foreign trade which it
ere ates. Tons Of material for this purpose
are constantly arriving, and are sold pri-
vately or by public auction to the stick
makers. An unpractised person would at
once pronounce them valueless. Fashion in
this branch of trade, as well as in any
other, regulates the demand for certain
kinds At the present and for some time
past, says a magazine writer, pimenta
sticks have been in great demand both for
walking and for umbrella sticks. For the
former purpose they are manufactured in
to almost every variety of fanciful patterns
by staining, carving, and other processes,
and the wood being very strong and close
grained, admits Of its general adaptation
to almost any purpose. For umbrellas
pimenta sticks are very useful, for their
rigid nature prevents their breaking or be-
coming crooked As imported in their
rough state, they are about two or three
inches in diameter and from three to four
feet long they are the produce of tree
known to botanists as Pime1lta czllqaris,
which yields the allspice or pimenta of
commerce. 1t is native of the West
Indies, where it is also extensively culti-
waited Tor the sake of the well-known ber-
ries.
Lately there has arisen great fancy
among connoissealrS for myrtle sticks; these
are principally used for umbrellas, and
may be known by their rustic and knotty
appearance. Such specimens have singu-
larly fantastic look, and would, we should
think, be well suited for umbrellas intend
ed for lending, as the owner could not fail
to recognize his property. Myrtle sticks
are imported from Algeria, whence also
are obtained various other kinds, some of
which cannot fail, by reason of their names
if not from their. appearance. to command
some amount Of interest. Such, for in
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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-07-26

Couldn't Cos He SUNG So.'-Leaning
idly over the fence, few days since, we
noticed little four-year old lord of crea-
ton, amusing himself in the grass by
watching the frolicksome flight of birds.
which were playing around him. AT length
a bobolink perched himself upon droop-
ing bough of an apple tree which extended
to within few yards of the place where
the urchin sat, and maintained his position,
apparently unconscious of the close prox-
unity to one whom the birds usually con-
slider a dangerous neighbor. The boy
seemed astonished at his imprudence and,
after regarding him steadily for a minute
or two, obeying the instinct of his baser
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-07-26

THE ARDENNEs DoG.-The dog Of the
Ardennes accompanies the flock when it
leaves the pentold in spring, only to return
when the winters snow drives the sheep
home again fer shelter Each shepherd
possesses one or two of these dogs, accord
ing to the size of his flock, to act as SEN
tinels Their Office is not to run about
and bark, and keep the sheep in order, but
to protect them from outside foes. When
the herdsmen has gathered his flock in
some rich valley, these white, shaggy mon
sters crouch on the ground, apparently
half asleep but now and then the great
sagacious eyes will open, and, passing over
the whole of their change, remain for q
while fixed on the distant horizon as though
they followed a train of thought which led
them away from earth-so sadly do they
gaze into the infinite.
But let the mountain breeze bear to his
ever-moving nostril the scent of the hated
wolf, or his quick ear detect an unk known
noise then is the time to see one of these
dogs in his glory. His eyes become black
with ferceness his hair stands erect his
upper lip becomes wrinkled, showing a
range of white, formidable teeth, while a
low growl alone escapes from his throat
When his keen faculties have detected the
whereabouts of his foe, he rushes forward
with bound that overieaps all obstacles,
and bark that echoes from all the sur
rounding hills.
Every dog of the like breed that may
be near, takes up the note and rushes
cleaning through the brushwood to join in
the attack. Tender as the childhood he
protects, woe to him who dare lift hand
on one of the little ones with whom he has
been brought up. 1t is not he who buys
him who is his master it is he who fed
him when pup, who petted and shared
his pittance with him-he it is who has
his love, and who reciprocates his faithful
Affection, Overland Monthly.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-07-26
NO. 80

but taste of tobacco again brought a
commencement of the same symptoms.
This was unooubied y an extraordinary
case, and must have been brought about
by an extraordinary combination of cir
cumstances; but the question arises, can
an article capable of producing such ter
ribe effects on person habituated to its
use, even under extraordinary circum-
tsances, be harmless under ordinary circum-
stances?
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-07-26

A Florida Journal says that while lady
of Jacksonville was dressing fish recently,
preparatory to cooking, she discovered, en-
bedded in its flesh, small stone, resembling
glass, and nearly the SIZE of northern white
bean The stone resembles diamond cuts
glass freely, and is very transparent and
refractive. Should this prove 70 be dla-
mond its value is estimated at four or five
thousand dollars; should it be otherwise,
the stone is at least valuable TO mount as an
ornament. The lady has already been Of
fered one hundred dollar for it.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-07-26

A Philadelphia policeman the other night was
startled by spectral object depending from
third-story window, and upon more mi
mute inspection discovered that a woman was
hanging head foremost from it lie gently
aroused the other inmates, and. as they ap-
preached the door, exclaimed in a subdued
tone, q For Gods sake, get her in before she
falls out or wakes - Silently they stole into
the chamber and tremblingly drew her itno
the room She was safe.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-07-26

ToBACCo.-We clip the following from
the Alblon Pioneer. Young men, read
this
An incident occurred N this place on
Tuesday evening, that gave stronger argu-
ments against the use of tobacco than
could have been produced by volumes of
writing 1t being personal acquaintance
and friend of ours, and having been pres
ent through the whole scene, we are able
to give the full particulars, which we leave
to speak for themselves
The person had the day previous been
working at some rather harder labor than
he was accustomed to, and had felt himself
much fatigued During Tuesday he had
used rather more tobacco than common ;
he had been in the habit of using it for
many years. During the evening he asked
friend for 'chaw,' which he gave him
in the form of fine cut ); as he put it into
his mouth, he remarked that it was the
best and largest 'chaw he had taken for a
month but he had scarcely had it in his
mouth a minute, before he was seized with
a feeling of death-like faintness This
was quickly followed by all the symptoms
of the the poisonous action of tobacco
vomiting, colds sweats, utter prsotration,
$50 great that he coull not even raise
himself) and that terrible sensation of gone
ness that all who have been made sick on
this weed can well appreciate. No persua-
sion could convince him that there was any
chance for recovery, and, indeed, to a cas-
ual observer, he looked but little like it.
A physician was called IA who administer
ed u remedy that caused him presently to
feel better, and in the course of a couple
of hours from the attack he got to sleep !;
but for some time it required close obser-
walton to discern it from that sleep which
knows no waking. By the next morning
he was able to be up and 60 about his
work, though still feeling tolerably weak.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1871-03-30

At the ''wee sma' hours when ghosts and
hob-gob3lins are at large; when the gl,ibbet''
mOurnfal crcak startles the passers-by wher
grave yard noises mase {" eacl, individual hal,
stand on c,sl:'' when nature is hushed in sleep
and all peacably disposed individuals are wont
to BIZ embodied In the arms Of the god of sleep
we spy the animate form Of one of our disting
ui-hed fellow citizens become the prey of NOR
tai pain. a he dashes his foot against an invert
ell plank upon the walk built by our invincibls
and irrrprsSibie Teutonic friend. Schuler. 4
diluted An. and an expressive. rather than ele
giant. denanciafion Of the city government il
the result. willie the world waggcth rs ever
This circumstance should teach the city to keel
their sidewalks in repair. far pes.dventur,
damages, inplacs Of curses. will tieplete the sur
plus cash in the treasury.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1871-03-30

1T will he noticed by the extended programme
that appears in this paper that the Odd Fellows
Of this city propose to give an entertainment
at the court house. Saturday next. This order
has rented the second story Of G. W. Tressin's
hardware store. and are having their room fit
ted up in good style. and now propose to de-
vote the money realized at the entertainment
to the purchase Of acsrpet. Judging from the
facts presented to ~. we have conlutled that
the exercises will be very pleasing. We en-
join our citizens to come to their help. 1t will
he a matter Of advantage to the city. to be able
to point to a well-furnished hall belonging to
this society. The usual Kberality Of our citi.
stance.