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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-03-05

Two CURIOUS NEEDLEs.-The King Of
Prussia recently Wis ted needle manutac.
tory in his kingdom, in order to see what
machinery, combined with the human hand
could produce He was shown a number
of superfine needles, thousands of which
together did not weigh half an ounce, and
marveled how such minute objects could be
pierced with an eye. But he was to see
IN this respect even something still finer
and more perfect could be created. Tie
borer-that is, the workman whose bust
ness it is to bore the eyes in these needles
asked for a hair from the monarch S
head. 1t was readily given, and with a
smile, He placed it at once under the
boring machine, turned hole in it with
the greatest care, furnished it with the
thread, and then handed the singular nee
die to the astonished king.
The second curious needle is in the pos
session of Queen Victoria. 1t was made
at the celebrated needle mandatory at
Bedditch, and represents the column of
Trajan in miniature. This we'll known
Roman column is adorned with numerous
scenes in sculpture, which immortalize Ira
jams heroic actions in war. On this d.
minutive needle, scenes in the life Of Queen
Victoria are represented in relief, but so
finely cut and so small that it requires a
magnifying glass to see them. The Victo-
ria needle can, moreover, be opened; it
contains a number of needles of smaller
size, and which are equally adorned with
scenes in relief.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-03-05

mix subtitle poison in favorite perfume
was a common mode of removing one who
had become obnoxious. Long ere Louis
time, Catherine de Medecis was accused of
causing the death of the Huguenot queen,
Jeanne d Albert, by the present of pair
of perfumed poisoned gloves.
The story goes that Annie of Austria,
the mother Of Louis XIV, suffered from
an offensive disease, and being fastidiously
particular not to be disagreeabe to herself
or others, she lived in an almost artificial
atmosphere, so heavy was the air about
her always with scents. The court fol-
lowed her lead, and the lady of fashion of
that day reveled in sweets. One reason of
Louis XIV,'s dislike to them is said to
have been their excessive use by his
mother.
They have always been more or less in
favor. Our great great grandmothers
used little silver boxes, which they wore
attached to their girdles, called pomander
boxes. Sometimes these boxes were round
like ball, and having chains by which
they were swung. These were filled with
articles giving out scents.
The ancients were particularly fond OF
the rose. and, in order to enjoy its fra
GRANGE, at great banquets had the floors Of
their dining halls covered two or three feet
deep with the blossoms, and net spread
over, that they might he kept in place
and yield their odor when pressed by the
feet of their guests. The roses thus used
at one Of Nero's festivals were reckoned to
have cost 100000.
Nowadays, in following fashions be
hests, people are content with all sorts OF
essence, and water distilled from the flow
ers raised for the purpose, to which French
names are given to make them more sale
able. They have not yet become, like the
ancient Arabians, so cloyed with sweets
that they find it necessary to burn pitch
and hair to restore the sense Of enjoyment
destroyed by excess of fragrance.-Cin-
cianati Times and Chronicle
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-03-05

An EXPLOSION On THE SUN.-PrOf. Young,
of Dartmouth College, observed on the Il tn
Of September, and has recorded In the BIS
ton Journal of Chemistry, what appears to
have been a very sudden and violent explo-
sion on the surf ce of the sun. He was ex-
amining an enormous pr0tu berance of hydro
gen cloud on the sun s eastern limb, which,
by his calculation, was loo, 600 miles long
by 81, 0G0 high, floating at height of l5,-
600 miles above the surface, and sending
down to the sun pillars of its own substance
like vast banyan grove Being called
away from the telescope few moments, he
was astonished, on returning, to inc that the
whole cloud had been blown into flying FL
aments, which rose as he gaZed, with a
greater rapidity than had ever been before
observed in this substance, TO a height of
more than 200 ,000 miles from the solar
surface. Hydrogen, in this state, has never
before been recorded as rising go high. As
these broken flaments streamed upward,
they melted away like wisps of flmy cloud.
Meanwhile little cap or knob which had
been noticed near the sun, developed wonder
fully into pyramid of fime $4,000 miles in
height there its summit was thrown out into
long filaments and threads, which were most
curiously rolled backward and downward
like the volutes of an Ionic capital, and
finally it fadedaway and at half past two (the
first change was observed at FIVE minutes to
one) had vanished like the other a fine au-
FORA borealis occurred the evening which sue
ceeded
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-03-05

A PERSIAN SCHOOL "A Persian schoo
is very curious affair. The room is gen
orally open to the street. Looking in, one
sees lot of boys squatted on their heel.
on the floor round mollah, all rocking
themselves to and fro, and all repeating
aloud the tasks they have to commit tc
memory. The result is little Babel Of
sounds-a tumble, to those who understand
the language, of verses from the Koran,
drinking and love-songs from Haiz, and
heroic lines from Firdoosi. These are the
books most studied; and Persian's edu.
cation is pretty well complete when he can
quote freely from them and talk little
Arabic. Haiz is the favorite poet, and he
is quoted and recited by all classes, as was
Tasso some years ago by the gondoliers Of
Venice.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-03-05

EXPERIMENTS WITH WHIsKEY.-A well,
known physician suggests the following
tests for those who are sceptical as to the
effect of whiskey, and other similar spirits,
upon the stomach. Hold a mouthful of
whiskey, he says, in your mouth for five
minutes, and you will find it to burn
severely. Inspect the mouth you will
find that it is infamed. Hold it in ten or
fifteen minutes; you will fud that vari-
Gus parts Of the mouth become blistered.
Then tie handkerchief over the eyes,
and taste, for instance, water, vinegar,
milk, or sena; you will find that you are
incapable of distinguishing one from the
other. Such simple and easy expert
ment as this ought to convince any one
that alcohol is not only violent irritant,
but also narcotic; for in this expert
ment you have objective evidence that it
has infamed and blistered the mouth, and,
for the time being, paralyzed The nerves
OF taste, and, to a certain extent, those
also Of common sensation. Now, this is
not an experiment or fact upon which any
doubt has ever been, or can be, thrown !;
and can any one believe that the still more
important internal organs of the body can
be less injuriously affected than the
mouth ? Another well-known physician
says, that even the moderate use of such
liquors, if long continued, and grown
habltual, cannot fail to have ultimately a
prejudicial effect upon the health while
it may be confidently asserted that there
are no circumstances of ordinary character
by which it can be justified as beneficial
or necessary.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-03-05

HELr YoURsELF.-Fight your own bat
ties. ASK no favors Of any one, and you'll
succeed FIVE thousand times better than
one who is always beseeching some one.
influence aud patronage. No one will ever
help you as ycu can help Yourself, because
10 one will be SO heartily interested il
your affairs. The first step will not be
such a long one, perhaps ; but carving
your own way up the mountain, you make
each step lead to another. and stand firm
in that while you chop still another out
Men who have made fortunes are not those
who have five thousand dollars given them
to start with, but boys who have started
fair with a well earned dollar or two
Men who win love do their own wooing
and | never knew a man to fail so sig,
naly as one whoinduced his affectionate
grandmamma to speak good word for
him. Whether you work for fame, for
love, for money, or for anything else, work
with your hands, heart and brain. Say
:" will" and some day you will conquer
Never let any man say, d" have dragged
you up" Too many friends sometimes
hurt you more than none at all.-Grace
Greenwood.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-03-05

SrBENGrH OF \ MorHER's LovE.-The
almost superhuman strength and courage
OF wOmen under circumstances OF great
peril or when the maternal instinct is
aroused to the utmost for the preservation
OF their offspring, has been recently ex-
emphtied IN a most extraordinary manner
at SeganO, small village south OF Milan
y calId Of four years, playing near an old
well caroiessIy covered over, went too near
the insecure edge, and before an elder sis
tel could reach her, was precipitated to the
bottom. The frightened child ran scream
ing to her mother with the fearful news.
The latter, work woman in the factory,
stood for a moment as if paralyzed, when,
as if realizing the fu'l danger of her little
one, iustantaneously flew across the court,
and with her eyes fixed upon the water be-
low, pa.Iid, mute. teeth hard set together,
she thought only of rescuing her child, and
clutehing the old coping of the well, let
herself down from stone to stone until she
reached the water, where an inner row of
stones gave her footing The little one
had caught by its clothing to this Jagged
wall, and the brave woman, reaching far
over, firmly grasped the child, and lifting
it free, held it safe above water with one
hand, while with the other she steadled
herself against the damp, slippery wall
In the meaDtime the alarm mad been
given, and the workmcn who had come to
the rescue, let down ropes to which
woman was to attach herself and child
But this was impossible to be accomplish
ed without letting go of the child. The
poor woman could not again bear the ter
ror OF losing her baby for an instant, and
with look Of baffled, hopeless despair
thrown upon thosa who waited breathlessly
for the result, was about to resign herself
to her awful fate, when sudden grasping
Of the rope below gave renewed courage to
the spectators. The undaunted woman had
made another effort for life, and successful
ly. Slowly lifting the child to her mouth,
she had taken in her teeth portion of the
dress and safely held it, until she made
fast the rope to each. This communicated
to the people ab owe, shout went up, as
one more fearless than the rest, at the risk
of his own life, went down to the rescue of
mother and child, which he accomplished
by intrepid GOODNESS and undaunted cour-
age, amid the hearty braves of the men.
and the half-frenzed, hysterical shrieks of
the women.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-03-05
Pristine Proverbs Prepared for Per
c0ciUuS Pupils.

lDeaioated 10 the Educational BOdrd.)
observe yon plumed bped fine
To effect his capuvation,
Deposit particles saline
Upon his termination.
CryptogamOus concretion never grows
ON mineral fragments that decline repose.
While selfinspeclon it neglccts,
Nor its owl, foul condition sees,
The kettle TO the pot objects
Its sordid superdcies.
uocortcations Of the golden grain
Are set to allure the aged fowl, in vain.
Teach not a parents mothor to extract
The embryo Juices of an eggiby suction;
That good old lady can the feat enact
quite irrespective OF your kind instruction.
Pecuniary agencies have force
T. stimulate to speed the female horse.
The earliest winged songster soonest sees,
Audldrst appropnates, the annelides.
with soap, and brush, and flannel, you tickle
In vain the Ethioplc cuticle.
Bear not to yonlfamsd city upon Tyne,
The carbonuceous product of the mine.
The mendIcant once from his ind gence freed,
And mounted aloft on the generous steed,
Down Tie Iuecipice soon Will infallibly 20,
And conclude his career in the regions below.
IL IS permitted to the re inc race
TO contemplate even regal face.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-03-05

The VALUE OF FRAGMENTs.- New.
ark, N. j., Daily Adrertiser recently gave
some striking facts showing the value Of
little things. 1t states that one OF the Jew.
elry manufacturers OF that city (Alline
Bros. & co., recently put down new floor.
ing in their workshops, and that the gold
they obtained in burning the old flooring
not only paid for the new one, but for put.
ting two coats Of paint on the entire
factory. In another Garter, Howkins &
Dodd), the hands all work on sort of
bracket standing out from the bench in
front OF them, SO that the filings of gold
may fall on tin plate below, and be re-
turned to the melting room. The greatest
care is exercised to prevent waste. The
floors. benches and seats are carefully
swept every evening" and the sweepings
put away to have the gold removed from
them by chemical process. Every now
and then aprons, benches, stools, and even
the flooring, are burnt to get the gold out
of them. Even brushes, clothes, cotton
wool and rags are burned. The average
quantity of gold saved annually in this
way in the factory is about $4,000 worth
All the water in which the five hundred
employees wash their hands is carefully
filtered four times, and the amount of gold
recovered from it averages about SIS 200
a year. A barrel of sweepings will aver.
age four dollars and half pound and
even after they have, as they think, ex.
tracted all the gold from them, they sell
the refuse to the smelters at nine cents
and even as high as eleven cents pound
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-03-05
The many friends of Bishop Hunting

The many friends Of Bishop Hunting
ton, in this neighborhood, will appreciate
the following anecdote, which illustrates
the good bishops Characteristic zeal and
devotion in endeavoring to feed the spirit
ual flock committed to his care. was
travelling" said the narrator, between
Rochester and Syracuse, when my atten-
ton was attracted by the earnest tones of
two gentlemen in front of me, who were
ardently extolling the noble work which
their bishop had been doing in the diocese
of Central New York-how he had
smoothed away asperities and difficulties
how he had inaugurated and pushed for
ward new church enterprises-how he had
fostered feeble parishes, and established
Chr istian schools-and how successfully
he sought out, AID adapted himself to all
sorts and conditions of men, that, like st.
Paul, he might by all means save some.
In the midst of this conversation, rough
farmer-like man, in front of the gentle
men, suddenly broke in with Well,
stranger, what you say about that man,
is just so; he came to my house one day,
and talked to me- He pretended that he
wanted some oats; but he didn't want any
oats. He wanted to give me some oats y
'-Cambridge Chronicle.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-03-05

THE FASHION OF PERFUMES. s.-Perfumes
are again in fashion. The tickle goddess
has once more taken them into favor and
her votaries will again appear redolent
with sweet scents.
. Not this part musE ciyct can we Gull,
Nor another's but rich result;
SO she was all one sweet part,
In due proportions Mixed proclaimed the MAX
er's art,
sang the poet Of his mistress.
The sweet odors which in old times were
procured from the burning Of gums, spices
and ordorous woods, to crafty the senses,
and which later were furnished by the
musk, ambergis and oivet, and by few
flowers, are at this day not only the result
of the en1luer age, or maceration Of almost
all known blossoms. but are procured, by
chemical process, from articles in them
selves the opposite of sweet.
One reason for the decline Of the use Of
perfumes at particular eras, was their en-
ployment as vehicles of death by poison
In the reign of Louis XIV, the art of poi
soniDg by this means had reached such
perfection, and persons had become such
adopts in their use, that it was dangerous
to partake of or use anything which did
not come through trusty hands. Some of
Louis earnest relatives perished by poi
sons supposed to have been administered
in snufs, liquors, fruits or perfumes. To
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in succession. He had no premonition of
these attacks or any subsequent ill-feel-
ing; had been plowing the day before his
first attack. He got better in few days,
and continued to work in various places ;
could not do much, changing often, and
always finding something that did not suit
him every place he tried On May 20,
1861, he had a series of convuIsions, appa-
rently epileptic, lasting until the evening
of May 81, when he died-l2 years, 6
months and s days after the date of an
injury which had destroyed the anterior
and part of the middle lobe of the left
cerebral hemisphere. Unfortunately his
brain was not examined, but the openings
in the skull we'll indicate the extent to
which one half of the brain was destroyed
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-03-05

1t is happy man, inwardly and out
wardly, who could write IN his will as the
late John P, Kennedy of Baltimore, author
and politician, did 81 have reason to thank
God for many blessings, for kind friends,
worthy kinsmen, prosperous and contented
life; for cheerful temper, competence of
worldly goods, fair share of health, inter
rupted only by such alterations as have
taught me the more to value it; for oppOr-
tunities of public service, afforded me through
the confidence of my iell0w-townsmen, In
more than one honorable trust; and above
all, for home made dear to me by the affec-
tionate and constant devotion of my wife,
who has done everything in he- power to
render me happy; whose rare virtues OF
mind and heart have given the most COM
plete success to her endeavors"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-03-05

AN INDIAN CITY IN THE FOREST OF
PERU.-The city of Huatinmio proved to
be group of seven large sheds perched
a mong plantains and bananas, divided into
stalls, and affording shelter for hundred
individuals. The most sordid destitution
If Ignorance of comfort can be called
destltution-reigned everywhere around.
The women were especially hideous, and
on receipt Of presents Of small bells and
large needles became additionally disagree.
able in their antics Of gratitude. The
bells were quickly inserted in their ears,
and soon the whole village was in
Naturalization.
A night was passed in the hospitality
of these barbarlans, who vacated their
largest cabin for their guests. A repast;
was served, consisting of stewed monkey q
no salt was used in the cookery, but O g
the other hand a dose of pimento wa
thrown in, which brought tears to the
eyes Of the strangers and made them run
to tae water jar as if to save their lives.
The evening was spent in general CONVEX
sation with Siriniris, who were completely
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-03-05

Mr.. George w. Curtis thus closed his
/ lecture on the education of women: Now
as to the question of 4 collegiate education
for women, it is not proposed that women
shall be compelled to 90 to college, but
only that they shall have precisely the
same opportunity that men have, if they
wish to improve it. There is in England,
at this very day, lady lecturing at
the Young Women's institute upon do
mestic questions, such as " ould you pre-
fer to use an earthern or an iron pot upon
your kitchen stove ?" or g How would you
lay out 10 shillings if you had sick hus-
band and six children to young to work p
and g How would you make bread ~ This
is precisely the kind of education; the
sooner it becomes universal the sooner we
shall have better food and better health
We have our agricultural chairs and col
leges aud certainly if it is worth while
to teach US how to raise wheat it is as wise
to teach us how to convert it into bread
If there are branches Of knowledge improp-
er for women to learn, or duties unfit to
perform, they will know it thousand times
better than men, so give them their choice.
If there be some women in whom the love
of learning extinguishes all other love,
then the heaven-appointed sphere Of that
woman is not the nursery. 1t may be the
library, the laboratory, the observatory
Not the happiness of Romeo and Juliet,
but star-eyed science is her place. Does
such woman prove that perfect liberty of
education un-spheres women? On the
cvntary it bas enabled that woman to per-
ceive exactly what God meant her TO do.
We have left the petted slave in the Greek
household, to 90 forward and onward. We
have left the idle toy and the painted doll
with Chesterfield and the clubs, and we
90 forward. God lead us to find the true
woman in the free American home
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-03-05

mystifed by the form and properties of q
candle which Ma-coy drew from bis bag,
gage and ignited. The wild men passed il
from hand to hand, examining it, and
singing themselves in turn. Still another
marvel was the sheet of paper on which
the artist essayed portrait of one Of his
hosts. The finished sketch did not ap.
pear to attract them at all, or to raise in
their minds the faintest association with
the human form; but the texture and
whiteness of the sheet excited their ad-
miratlon, and they passed it from one to
another with many exclamations Of wonder
Meantime, number of questions were
suggested and proposed through the
! Interpreter.
The formality of marriage among the
Siriniris was found to be quite unknown
the most rudimentary idea of divine wor-
ship could not be discovered the treat.
ment of the aged was shown to be con-
temptuous and neglectful in the extreme
and the lines of demarcation with the
beasts seemed to be but feebly traced
Finally, Mr.. Marcoy begged the inter-
prefer to PROFOUND the delicate inquiry
whether, among the viands with which
they nourished themselves, human flesh
had found place. Garcia hesitated, and
at first declined to push the interrogation
but after some persuasion consented. The
Slrlnlris were not in the least shocked at
the question, and answered that the flesh
of man, especially in infancy, was a deli
cious food, far better than the monkey, the
tapir or the peccary that their nation,
in the days ofits power, frequently used it
at the great feasts but that the difficulty
of procuring such a rarity had increased
until they were now forced to strike it
from their bill of fare.-Lippinc0tt's May
azine
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-03-05

ANOTHER Tunnel UNDER THE ALPs.-
Another tunnel is in progress through
Mount St. Gothard. between the Swiss
cantons Uri and Tessin, and by which
railway route will be opened from the Lake
Maggoire region and Northern Italy into
Switzerland and Germany. Twenty-four
of the Italian engineers of the Mont Cents
tunnel superintended this new work. 1t
is being actively pushed on both sides, and
on the southern end over hundred feet
have already been tunneled. 1t is more
expensive and difficult undertaking than
the Mont Gems tunnel, but the experience
gained in the execution of that greatest of
human achievements, and the perfected bor-
ing machinery, will much facilitate the
completion of this route from Italy into
Central Europe. When this is opened,
Germany, and the Northern States of Eu-
rope will draw their japanese, East India
and Chinese merchandise principally
through the Italian ports, instead of by the
long water route of the Atlantic and the
North Sea.
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To Keep a True Lent.

Is this asfast: to keep
The larder lean,
And clean
From fat of veals and sheep:
Is it to quit the dish
OF flesh, yet still
To fill
The platter high with fish?
Isl to fast an hour?
Or ragged to go?
Oh show
\ downcast look, and sour:
Nol 'tis fast to dole
Thy sheaf of wheat,
And meat,
Unto the hungry soul.
1t is to fast from strife,
From old debate
And hate
To circumcise thy life.
To show heart grief-rent;
To starye thy sin,
Not bin
And that's to keep thy lent.
Robert Her rick