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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-05-21

proportioned, and the principal bedrooms
are arranged with taste and according to
the superior ideas.
But the drains 60 into staguant cess
pool. and the waste pipe of the cistern
leads direct into the drains; that is to say.
the architect has built husue which is a
nest for perennial typhus and diphtheria
and has thus constituted himself the pro-
spective murderer of any number OF in
nocent lives. Dampnefs through all the
basement, and imperfect ventilation in the
sleeping ROOMS, are extra fourishes OF the
weapon he employed in his trade.
People take these fue, artistic houses,
and their friends congratulate them on
their good fortune in having such first
rate architect, and make all sorts of ad-
miring comments on the perfect taste with
which their dwelling is arranged.
But, somehow, all sorts of troubles and
illnesses follow. Children die Of scarlet
fever, and older people suffer from incur
able neuralgia and dyspepsia there are
obscure cases of typhoid fever springlDg
up, no one knows why or whence and
the fine house, with its chief rooms to the
east or the north, with its defective ven
tlation, its poisoned water, and its contain
mated air is simply death trap con
structed by an architect at great pains
abundantly rewarded by applause.
Pail Mall Gazette
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-05-21

A REMARKABLE FLowER.-There is a
flower in the city'of Constantinope belong.
ing to the narcissus family bulbous-
rooted plant-that has most marvellous
flower. 1t is exactly in the form and col
or of hummng bird, so plainly marked
that person at first sight is disposed to
believe it to be veritable bird at rest up
on the plant.
This wonderful flower is in the possession
of but half dozen persons. and they ut.
terly refuse to part with bulbs or seed
Its bloom remains fresh for two or three
days, and is always replaced by another
before the first begins to fade. 1t does
not continue in bloom more than three
weeks. when the leaves fall and the stem
dies away,to again throw up its stem With
the bird flowers the following year. This
most wonderful curiosity is represented
to have been found growing near the city
named, in sn old lot in an ut-oftheway
place. The statements Of responsible per-
sons, who have seen this wonder, verify all
we have said of it; and from a gentleman
who has seen it our statements are taken.
-Colnaan's Rural World.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-05-21

EXTRACTING CoNFEssIoNs.-The police
of India have novel ways Of extracting con.
fesslons from their prisoners without tor
ture. One method applied to opium eaters,
is perfectly simple and sociabe. The po
lceman sits down opposite his prisoner and
playfully keeps an opium ball rolling
about the palm of his hand. Of course
the prisoner suffers like Tantalus himself
and the consequence is that that the police.
man very soon gets his story and the pris
oner his opium. Another method. used
where there are number ofprisoners sus
pected of the same offence. reminds one Of
similar proceedings in Arahiln tales. One
man is taken from the number and lock ed
up alone, while his companions imagine
that be is in the next room. ln this room
are several inspectors, who proceed to
stouty belabor an empty sack hanging il
the corner, one of them keeping up VIC.
lent groanng. This over, the man is lou l.
y called upon to confess, and constable
Stimulates confession in a low, mumbling
voice. All this little comedy seems stern
tragedy to the trembling prisoners in the
other room, and when the next man is
brought out be is almost sure to make a
full confession.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-05-21

NJ Felix Plateau describes, in Les
MOndes, an ingenious process, of his own
inventon,for drawing on paper white lines
on black ground, a method so frequently
used for scientific illustrations-by means
of which both author and artist will be
able to judge Of the effect of such an illus
tration before putting 1t into the hands of
the engraver. A piece of thiekish paper,
as smooth as possible, a little larger than
the intended illustration, is heated, say by
laying it, with proper precautions against
being injured, on the top of stove, and a
piece of bees-wax is rubbed over it until
the paper is mpletely covered with a
thin coating. A piece of glass. the SIZE
~f .h raro-. 70 eIavAvn nod by to;os held
over candle, and when thoroughly cooled
it is laid on the waxed paper and rubbed
firmly with the fingers, the result being
tnat blackened surface is produced on
the paper, on which any design can be trac-
ed with needle for the finer lines, or the
back of steel pen for the thicker ones.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-05-21

SHOPS AND Markets IN VIENNA.-But
IT we turn from literature and fine art to
see what Vienna has done and is doing,
we shall find that she has cultivated pow
er of beautiful workmanship unequaled in
any other city of Europe. Vienna alone
among highly civilized and manufacturing
cities, has the blood to sympathizewlth the
Byzantine love Of having eUery thiny beau.
tlfuI, whatever be the coarse utility to
which it is devoted. The kitchen skewer
must have an ornamental head, like a
golden hairpin. And Vienna is the only
European city which is in position to
know completely the wants and tastes OF
the East. Hence stranger roams among
the shops endlessly, as under woven spells.
The clocks kill time by their beauty while
they record it ; the shawls are of the mag
le-carpet kind, that transport one to far
OF realms OF beauty; and there is touch
OF tranScendentalism In their meersehaum
pipes. What stearine works are these
who can ever burn candle irreverentl y
after seeing here huge grotto, with stall
actItes aud noble white bear, all artist.
caly done in stearine Beautiful bronzes,
herad,c engravings, theatrical decorations,
cabinets, gass-all these things in Vienna
show where its genius is at work. They
have way, too, of calling their shops by
pretty names, such as Laurel Wreath, "
- l. Amour" etc.
One may find much that is curious, if
less beautiful, in the markets-the parrot
market and the Hofmarket, where the old
women, called Fratschelweiber, chatter
quite as i1tel!igibly as the animals just
named. One need not follow the plan OF
the Emperor Joseph, who is said to have
gone to the market incognito and kicked
over a basket of eggs in order to hear the
Fratscheiwelber's vocabulary Of expletives;
he will hear enough Of it without that.
And then, too, he will see the wretched
Croats, who seem to be under doom to
forever sell strings of onions like that
which binds poor Jews in so many cities
to the merchandise of old clothes The
Croats are, indeed, much more despsed
race in Vienna than the Jews, the Germans
especially having never forgotten the part
they bore in the butcherles OF lS4S-
Harper's Magazine
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-05-21

RIDING HABIrs.-Among imported rid
ing g-habits, those made in London are pre-
ferred by esquestriennes. These Engllsh
habits are exceedingly plain this season.
and black habits are more decidedly favor
ed than ever. The basque is ST ort jock
ey with position pleats behind, pressed
fatty, and held in place by lengthwise
row of small buttons. The front of the
basque is short. and is often merely two
soft points. The edge of the basque is
simply bound with twilled silk braid
there are nine fat buttons up the front,
and the high neck has round turned over
collar Of velvet. The coat-seeves are very
tight, and have button AMI button-hole
at the wrist to widen them for the hand to
pass through. Cuff, aud all faocy braid
ing are banlshed from the most expensive
London-made habits. The skirt is not reg
ularly gored, but is shaped out from the
wide cloth so that it has hut one or two
seams. 1t is cut to bulge out on the right
side to make it fit smoothly over the knee
that is thrown over the pommel, and this
makes the right side ten inches longer
than the left. 1t is not so scant as has
been the fashion lately. nor so wide and
long as formerly, but is medium between
these, measuring four yards at its greatest
width, while the length is ffty-two inches
in front and sixty-two behind. The front
is sewed to the belt without gathers. but
there are six pleats behind the placket is
on the left side and very deeply Tapped
with pocket underneath. Seven yards
of cloth, at Sc a yard, are used for such
habits. They cost, when completed, S7S.
Lighter cloth at So a yards preferred by
some ladies for summer wear Glossy
broad 10th and tricot wear better than Ia
dies cloth, which roughens by usage, nd
gets a furred, nappy surface Furnishing
houses ask from $50 to 100 for stylish hab.
its. Tailors trim them with fine camel's
braid, put on a Ia maitaire, in tiny wave
and curls beside band of wider Hercules
braid Harper's Bazar
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-05-21

WHERE DID THE RICH MAN Go little
Johnny was preparing for Sunday schools
situated some distance away, when his
mother saw une of his neighbors approach
ing in his vehicle. This neighbor, by the
way. was called :. Tue Rich Nan" beng
both. wealthy, kind-hearted, ani liberal to
the poor. Johnny ran out aud the rich
man took him into his vehicle, he was
going right past the Sunday scnool. 1t
Was very hot day, and SO Jonuuy to)S off
his shoes and stockings to keep him eff
cool. When they arrived the exercises
had already begun, aud as the man was
going to church about a mile beyond. aud
had agreed to call for Johnny on his re-
turn, he concluded not to put on his shoes
and stockings again, but leave them IN the
vehicle. So he tripped lightly into school
and the man drove away toward church.
His teacher was just hearing the lesson,
which, by the by. Johnny Was not ac-
quainted with, watch was the fate of the
rich man and poor Llzlrus. Soon after
Johnny took his seat, it came his turn to
answer question.
Johnny, can you tell me where the
rich man went ?"
He went to the Baptist meeting, sir
replied the little lad, thinking oaly of his
late companion.
NO no, my son, the rich man went to
heli,' said the teacher, with great Im-
pressiveness, while the other scholars were
tittering with laughter.
Odd hep exclaimed the lad. in all
honesty. Then he k4s taken my shoes
and stockings with him )" and up be jump
ed and. selzlng his hat, he put out of the
school-room and down the road to overtake
the rich man, and recover his property.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-05-21

TaE Split BaAN. A FABLE.-0as
morning.as farmer was feeding hIs horses,
he noticed that in their haste to get their
fill of the fresh bran, they had split much
Of it upon the ground.
." So much lost," he mlrmured to him
self.
But no the fowls approached and soon
made pretty clean wor2 oft. After them,
several pigeons aighted near the feeding
trough, and found sufi ,ient to occupy
them several minutes. Then the sparrows
took their turn.
Now" thought the farmer, - surely It
must all be gone"
But upon looking closer, he observed a
large number Of thrifty little ants tugglng
away at the fragments which had escaped
the sparrows And the farmer thought to
himself
This teaches me to waste nothing, not
even the smallest thing.''-Hearth and
Home.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-05-21
BY the Shore of the River.

Through the gray willows the black winds are
raving
Here on the shore. with its drft-wood and sands
Over the river the lilies are waving,
Bathed in the sunshine of o. lent lands;
Over the river, the wide, dark river
Spring-time and summer are blooming forever.
Here, all alone on the rocks 1 am sitting,
Sitting and waitng,-my comrades all gone
Shadows OF mystery drearily fitting
Over the surf vii its sorrowful moan;
Over the river, the strange, cold river.
Ali must wait for the boatman forever
Wife and children and friends were around me,
Labor and rest were as wings to my soul;
Honor and love were the laurels that crowned me
Little rocked how the dark waters roll.
But the deep river, the gray misty river,
All that live for has taken fureverI
Silently came back boat o'er the bllows
Steathlly grated the keel on the sand;
Rustling footsteps were heard through the willows
There the dark boatman stood, waving his hand
Whispering. II come o'er the shadowy river;
She who is dearest must leave thee forever"
Suns that were brightest and skies that were
buest
Da-kened and paled in the message he bore.
Year after year went the finest, the truest
Following that bcckonng hand TO the shore,
Down to the river, the cold grim river,
Over whose waters they vanished forever.
Yet not in vsions of grief have wandered;
Still have !olled though my arders have flown.
Labor is manhood; and life Is but squandered
Dream ing vague di cams of the future alone
Yet from the Ejdes oil the my ystcal river
Voices of spirits are whispering ever.
Lonely and old, in the dust am waiting,
Till the dark boatman, with soft, muflied oar,
Gldes DER the waves, and hear the, keel grating
See the dim, beckoning hand on the shole,
Waiting me over the welcoming river
To gardens and homes that are shining foreverl
Christopher p. Cranch, in June ATLANTIC
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-05-21

THE HEART.-For thousands Of years,
the hearts of animals had been beating be-
fore it was discovered that the purpose of
the continuous action OF that organ was to
bring the supplies required for interstltiona
repair to the remotest members OF the anil
NAL body, and at the same time carry Oft
the waste which had been replaced by
fresh material. For thousands of years,
human hearts had been beating, and,
mlsled by superficial observation, the heart
was supposed to be the seat OF thought
and passion, the center of good and evil,
devotion and love and it was even COM
pared by poets to an altar on which flames
were burning, etc.
But modern biologists have changed all
this. The human heart is no longer the
seat of noble feelings of generosity, charity
and love; all these functions have been
transferred to the brain, while the heart
has been degraded to a simple hydraulic
apparatus; in fact, to a machine to all
intents and purposes equivalent to pump.
If, after having fully realized tAe stu
pendous change in our estimate OF this
noble organ, we make it our task to lnvestl-
gate its operation, our admiration and
delight concerning its exquisite construc-
ton compensates US fully for the dlsap'
pointment which at first we may have felt
when poetry had to make room for reality.
During the life of a man, this little
pumping machine performs some 100000
pulsations every twenty'four hours,
100000 per year, and, in life OF 80
years, nearly 3,O0O,OO0.OOO Of pulsations
without ever stopping as stoppage would
be at once fatal to the individual. Every
pulsation projects six ounces of blood with
a force which has, by experiment, been de-
termined to be equivalent to hydrostatlc
pressure of eight feet, which is equivalent
to a paper of three foot pounds for every
pulsation, and 72x3 or PIG foot pounds
per minute estimating the power of a
strong man at 1920 foot pounds per min
ute. it is seen that the little muscle which
we call the heart exerts at every contrac-
ton a power equal to one-twentieth part of
the power which his whole body is capable
of exerting; but then, this power works
night and day without his will, even with
out his knowledge, while man can only
work one third Of the time. The whole
amount of blood propelled by the heart is
27 pounds per minute, 1920 pounds per
hou-, 3S 900 pounds, per day. IA 0.0OO
pounds, per year. l,Ooe, ,ooo,o 900 pounds in
. = life time. Are we not then justified in
asserting that there is nothing lost to the
eye of the intellect, by the transfer of the
heart from the domain of imagination and
speculation to that of positive science ?
Scientific american.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-05-21

The Poughkeepsie Press. speaking of
the intelligence of cows, says: "Ole of
our farmer subscribers recently purchased
an excellent COW, and put in the yard with
the others. His help went to milk at night
as usual, and sat down before one of the
other cows. No sooner, however, had he
done SO, than the newcomer made for him
and drove him from bis seat, nor would
she let him proceed with the milking.
The proprietor's attention Was called to
the strange conduct of his new purchase
whom his man considered dangerous. Mr..
p. went into the yard aud began to soothe
the animal with gentle handling. and then
sat down 10 milk her, when be found her
as meek as a lamb. After that she was
perfectly satisfied, if she only was mixed
first. but 10 one must presume to slight
her in this respect"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-05-21

UNCoNsIDERED MUKDERERs.-The man
who cuts his neighbor's throat runs a
good chance of being hanged ; the man who
murders him by secondary causes is neithes
condemned nor suspected. Yes. there are
crowds Of these murderers abroad, agents
and effects of our boasted civilization; and
we decorate some of them, honor others
aad pay all, just as We pay the undertaken
and the sexton for the considerate burial
of our dearest.
The ordinary architect is one of these
murderers and We question whether we
shall get rid of his bad breed until one of
them has been hanged. The ordinary
architect builds handsome looking house
paying great attention to the ornamentaion
Of the iron.work, the right curves Of the
mouldiugs, and the general effect Of the
facade. The stairs are wide and what he
calls noble, the drawing-rooms perfectly
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-05-21

NATURES Observation-Disclosures will be
reported. All things are engaged in writ
ing their history. The planet, peb Bile
goes attended by its shadow. The rolling
rock leaves its scratches on the mountain,
the river its channels in the soil, the ami
NAL its bones in the stratum. the fern and
the leaf their modest epitaph in the coal.
The falling drop makes its sculpture in
the sand or the stone, not foot steps in
to the snow, or along the ground, but
prints in characters more or less lasting q
map of its march; every act of man in.
scrlbes itself in the memories ofhis fellows;
and in his own face. The air is full OF
sounds-the sky Of tokens, the ground is
all memoranda and signatures, and every
object is covered over with hints, which
speak to the intelligent.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-05-21

thought there was nothing so good for theil
health as we'll educated brain. Girls need
ed beefsteak in education as much as men
and 1t Was wron, to feed them on Cruel
Education would not only not injure girls
out was absolutely necessary for tneir health
LITTLE BREEzE
Professor Agassiz rose to say word for
Harvard. He had not the light-6owing words
or the wit of these who had preceded him.
but he must refute the ssauts upon Harvard
and especially upon Mr.. Elliot personally
they were wholly uncllled for. Harvard
Was doing all she cnuid for the cause of edu-
cation. Why Were not Amherst. Tufts,
Williams or other colleges attacked. and not
poor Harvard alone? The speaker was a
Harvard man, and felt that he must say this
for her.
Mrs. Livermore said that at seventeen
years of age she lonsed for an education in
Harvard, and could not have it. She to-day
telt the wrong, for her daughter, a healthy
young girl, capiple and ambitious, was also
shut out. TINS daughter was the light Of
her home, and her parents hated to send her
to distant school. when Harvard, the best
OF all. was closed. Why were we born
women," cried the speaker, :. since there is
no place in the world for US p Mrs. Liver
more then left the SUBJECT in b ind, to give a
speech on Woman Suffrage, which was well
received.
Colonel Higginson, in closing the debate,
said he believed no one had spoken more hon.
estly and with greater recCltude OF purpose
ttan President Eliot. The Colonel was sur
prlsed that the name of Harvard College
should act upon any enlightened woman " as
a red rag acts upon bull
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-05-21

TIMELY CoUNsEL.-In these sweetly
perilous days of early May sunshine, when
the revlvifying rays of the SUI give US a
foretaste of the summer to come, it would
be well for our physicians to initiate the
praiseworthy custom of the weather
branch of the department, and display eau
tionary signals. Let these healers Of
disease disperse the ounces of prevention,
which are worth pounds Of cure, by warn
ing those under their care that it is dan
gerous to discard woolen clothing for weeks
TO come that the draughts of air now ad-
mitted in windows of counting houses, Office,
sitting-rooms, parlors and churches bear
catarrh and consumption on their wings
that an hours discomfort from the unwon-
ted warmth may prevent months ofillness
perhaps save life, aud rash, unthinking
people afflicted with symptoms of spring
fever, will learn to cheeriully bear the
slight ill Of early May.-N. Y. Express.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-05-21

The FAMILY HAMMER-There is one
thing no family pretents to do without.
That is a hammer. And yet there is
nothing that goes to MAKE up the eq lip-
ment of domestic establishment that
causes one-half as much agony AMI pro-
family as hammer. 1t is always an old
hammer, with a handle that is inclined to
silver, and alwIys bound to sip. Tue
face is as smooth as glass. When 1t strikes
a nail full and square, which it has been
known to do, the act will be found to
result from combination of pure acci-
dents. Tue family hammer is one of these
rare articles We never profit by. When
glides off niil head, aud IN lshes dowa
a couple of fingers. we unhesitatlngly
deposit it in the yard. and observe that
We will never use it agaiu. But the
blood has hardly dried on the rag before
We are out doors ia search of the hammer,
and ready to make another trial. The
result rarely varies, but We never profit
by it.
The awful weapon goes on knocking off
our nails, and MASKING whole joints, and
slipping off the handle to the confusion Of
mantel ornaments, and breaking the CON-
mandments, and butting up an assortment
Of astounding and unfortunate antics, with
out let or hlndrance. And yet We put up
with it, and put the handle On again, and
lay it 'ay wuere it won't get lost, aud
do up our mutllated and smarting fingers.
And yet, if the outrageous thing should
happen to get lost, We kick up a regular
hullabaloo about it, until it is found
again. Talk about the tyrannizing inal
ence of bad habit. 1t is not TO be en-
pared with the family hammer-D1nbury
Ne.cs.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-05-21

Two darkies in the West went out to
hunt 'possums. and by accident founi a
large cave, with small entrance. Peep
ing in, they discovered three young bear
whelps in the interior,
"Look heah, Sam while 60 in dar, -
said one, land gets young bars, you just
watch heah for de ole BAR
Sam got asleep in the SUI, and when
opening his eyes, he saw the old bear
securing her way into the cave. Qlick as
wink he caught her by tho tail, and
held on like blazes.
Hullo dar, Sam, what dark de hole
dar 2"
"Lor' bless you, Jumbo, save yourself,
honey if dis tail comes out, you'll find
what dark de hole