Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-12-06

dSIcGd tAdt Il utu II stranger ludu HCltOuI
now comfortably pass their declining
years.
An Iowa gentleman, who was involved in
domestic troubles, met with a genuine
= jobs comforter the other morning.
Meeting an old friend who was a widower, he
related his troubles to him. and told him that
be expected to be broken up, as his wife had
commenced suit against him for the sum of
three thousand dollars alimony. * Well, !"
says the wldOwer, '' I'll wait and see how
she comes out, and if she succeeds III go for
her
\ preacher, whose custom it was to indulge
in very long sermons, exchanged with one
who preached short ones. AT about the usual
time for dismissing, the audience began to
20 out, until nearly all had left, when the
sexton, who had stood it as long as he eOCld,
walked up to the pulpit stairs, and said to
the preacher in a whisper, . When you have
sot through, lock mp, viii you, and leave the
key at my house next to the church. =
A South Carolina Presbyterian thinks that
Grants = Let us have peace, must have
referred TO that . peace which passeth all
understanding.
Theodore Woodruff and Victoria Tilton
are nominated for President and Vice-Presi-
dent by a confused Western editor.
Coroners' iuries at Lacrosse call it . prob
able murder when person is found with
seven stabs in the back.
Stephen Pearl Andrews states. clearly
enough. that " the As0lut0id and Abstrac-
t3Id Elementismus of Being echoes or reap
pears by Analogy within the Relatoid and
Coneret0id Eiaborismus.' Of course
Mrs St Clair in her lecture on the &" Nor
mons at Home" delivered recently in ST.
Joseph Mo, endeavOred to excite the svm-
pathy of her audience in behalf of Brigham
Young. She said, - Suppose, gentlemen, you
We're set down in the middle OF twenty wives,
all depending upon you for support, what
would YOU do There was silence for a
moment, and then young fellow roared
out, =. would DO the best | could. =
Greeley says that the best way to raise
early pop corn Is u start it now. Put the
corn, any kind will do, ina corn pepper, and
suspend It in the sun over a pan of water till
the shoots grow out between the wires: then
il the spring set il out in pots or beds. and
before June the popped corn will be hanging
IN little paper bags all over the branches Any
one who says any other way Is better, is
4 liar and a viIlain.-H. q.
Some bold Celtic imagery still floats in the
brains of W elshmen, and they can tell bet
ter fish story than we can. One of the
! 3urnas there says that while fishing at Lii
anwest. a bennington gentleman landed a
salmon weighing twenty-five and one half
pounds, and had it conveyed to his hotel,
with the intention Of dining on one half of
it, On the salmon being opened, it was dis
covered he had gored an eel, weighing two
pounds and one quarter. The eel was dis
sected and a one and three quarter pound
trout was cut open, and inside were found
eight minnows, making the total catch of
ten ish The search was not further pur-
sued.
Adversity," said Western preacher,
=. takes us up short and sets Us down hard,
aud when it 5 done with US we feel as con-
tented as a boy that's been spanked and set
away to cool.
Dr.. Barrows at a Congregational festival
told a story of ladies' sewing circle in the
country. which at first went hard, consisting
Of only four old ladies who spent the after
noon IN knitting. By and by, however, the
meetings were fully attended, and there was
a good time generally, when one evening the
pastor said 10 one OF these women, - Better
than we used to have. = Yes
was the reply, " but they ain { near so sol
emn :
The Austrian women have certain legal
rights of life, limb and liberty which those
in America might be happy to boast. They
can refuse to accompany their husbands to
any locality which endapgers their liberty,
life Or health, and unless married to military
men, can refuse TO be parties to perpetual
and TO settling in foreign
countries.
Wendell Phillips. in his recent speech in
Boston in behalf of the labor reform, de-
elares that his highest ideal of civilization
IS a New England town such as it was fifty
years ago ; when there was no pauper no
very rich men where every householder
owned the land he lived on, and the only
distinction between the inhabitants was that
IF natural gifts or moral culture.
An exchange pithily remarks: - Men eat
too much, fret too much, exercise too little,
sleep too little and then drink whisky Let
them turn themselves into the fresh air, eat
simple food, sleep enough, and they will be
more healthy Says DR.. Guthrie - If you
want to keep dead man, put him IN whisky
if you want to kill living man. put the
whisky into him"
\ cotemporary says - The fearful mortal
itv which has ragged for the last fifty or sixty
years among the servants Of George Wash
Ington and Andrew jackson, has at length
attacked the nurses of our later Moses-Andy
I l. - tod hot