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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-06-18

which seek warmer climates in the winter
months will return to the neighborhood of
Cincinnati in the spring
;. Here we have our little sparrows to en-
iiven the city parks and gardens, but it must
De confessed that the little pets, with their
conceited bearing and self.suficient airs,
wonld be doubly interesting if they could do
something more than chirrup. We all re-
member the story tcld long ago of Brother
Aitus, the monk, who, listening under the
shadow of a tree. as he thought, for morn
ing, to bird singing, returned to his con-
vent to find his Comrades dead and his very
name forgotten. The legend was intended
TO enforce moral, but it contained grace
ful tribute to the sweet notes of the German
singing-birds. s.-NcW York Eoen6ng Post
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-06-18
SHORT CLOTHES.

The first short dresses are als) made with
yokes. ito which iull breadths are added,
making waist and skirt in one piece, but
belt is placed underneath, and the muslin Is
Daueed on it in two or three rows OF gathers.
The French aprons, which are merely yoke
slips without belts, are also used as dresses.
Gabrielles still rival the yoke slip IN popu-
Iarity. There have been several attempts at
changing the shape OF this garment, but the
SIMPLE model at first used Is invariably re-
turned to as the best. Corded plque and
white Irish linen are the fabrics for Gabri-
| elles. The trimmings are insertions OF open
worked English embroidery set In, with the
| goods underneath cut away, and a scant rut-
| lie of embroidery OF the same design edges
| the dress Tne insertion sometimes outlines
tabliers on the front breadth, passes over the
shoulders aad down the back. On other
dresses it is inserted dIagonally, or in blocks,
Or else oval med ilIi0ns. On piques kind
OF pique braid covers the ed5e wnere the IN
sertlon is joined to the fabric.
For girls over a year old square-necked, !,
sleeveless over-dresses of pique are worn over
Gabrielle5; also hish-necked prlncesse over
dresses with long sleeves are worn above the
plain skirt Of plque. The furnishing houses
provide for everyday wear factory made
blouses of pale buff linen cut in Gabrielle
shape, and neatly trimmed with rows OF
braid The price Is 81, and the garment Is
large enough for girl of two years. Boys
! hIOuses are of thicker linen, cut with dlagO-
nal front, and belted. Price 81. The wrap
worn alike by boys and girls of one or two
Years is a walking coat OF pique-a kind OF
long wrapper dress with large cape. Girls Girl
begin at this age to wear the regular Nor
mandy cap, with its high pointed crown o
muslin, plain, pufej, or embroidered, over
covered silk lining, and trimmed with col.
ored ribbon or black velvet price from 81
to Sl4. Lovely little sun-hats OF plque are
made with embroidered crowns buttoned on
scalloped brim. These cost only 81, anc
are very easily laundred. Boys wear soil
straw turbans, shaped precisely like the
Ragabas hats worn by their mammas, with
white royale velvet band and facing, and
closely y-curled ostrich tip.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-06-18

NJ. Blanchard Jerrod, in his recent little
book On Dickens, quotes one of that authors
letters to him touching the g Child's History
Of England and from the letter we see what
a thorough radical the author Was. Mr..
Dickens writes to his friend:
81 am writing little history of England
for my boy, which | will send you when it
is printed Tor him, though your boys are too
old to profit by it. 1t is curious that | have
tried to impress upon him (writing, | dare
say, at the same moment with you) the exact
spirit of your paper The Preacher Parrot
Tor L don't know what [ should do if he
were to get hold OF any conservative or High
Church notions and the best way of guard
ing against such horrible result is, | take it,
to wiring the parrots neck in his very cradle.
y, heaven if you could have been with me
at the hospital dinner last Monday. There
were men there your city aristocracy-who
made such speeches, and expressed such
sentiments, as any moderately intelligente
dustman would have blushed through his
clndery bloom to have thought Of Sleek,
soldering, bow-paunched, overted, apoplec-
tic, sn0rtlng cattle-and the auditory
leaping up in their delight | never saw
such an illustration of the power of purse, or
felt SO degraded and debased by its contem-
plation, since | have had eyes and ears. The
absurdlty of the thing was too horrible to
laugh at. 1t was perfectly overwhelming.
But if l could have partaken it with anybody
who would have felt it as you would have
done, it would have had quite another as
pect, or would, at least, like classical
mask, have had one funny side to relieve Its
| d small features"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-06-18

The ASCENT OF CoToPAXI.-This, the
highest active volcano in the world, had
never been scaled until recently, when
that great feat was accomplished by DR..
Reiss, who has made report of the cir
cumstances attending the ascent to the
president of Ecuador He commenced the
ascent early in the morning, anu reached
the snow line in the afternoon. Here he
encamped for the night. 1t showed during
the evening and night, and the next morn
ing the sand and lava were covered by a
coating Of ice as smooth and hard as glass,
and they were forced to wait until the sun
had melted it. DR.. Reiss then pushed for
ward with the greatest ardor and arrived a
little after ten O'Clock at the base of the
rocks which crown the summit of the
mountain. He turned to wait for his
companions, and found that all had fallen
discouraged by the way except his major
domo and his dog, who were toiling pain
fully after him. The rocks among which
he mad now arrived were the huge relics of
former lava deposits, from the assures of
which came occasional gusts of sulphuric
acid, while the climbing was made dan
gerous by the fall of disiodged fragments,
one of which actually struck the doctor, in
hicting troublesome wound. But he and
his faithful attendant clambered on and
upward through the mist, until about noon
they found themselves suddenly and unex-
peatedly upon the southwest point of the
rim of the crater, which. stretching 1900
feet below them, revealed itself probably
for the first time to human eyes. Its form
was elliptical, its longer axis running from
north to south. From all its circumeer-
ence, rocky slopes descended in broken
lines to meet in the center, there being no
plane of any extent. The northeast por-
tion was thickly covered with snow, from
which the rest of the crater was free. The
air was filled with the roar of falling frag-
ments from the sides, and with white jets
of sulphurous vapor from the southwest
portion of the crater. The barometer gave
hight of 1898 meters, an estimate consid-
erably larger than that of former writers.
A noticeable observation of DR.. Reiss is
that chlorides are found among the depos-
its of this crater; thus contradicting the
statement of Humboldt that the absence of
this acid was characteristic of South
American volcanoes. The intrepid sayant
did not finish his observations, however
for while he was examining a handful OF
earth, gust of wind filled his eyes with
dust impregnated with sulphuric acid
causing immediate and acute Inflammation
and driving him at once down the cone
He thinks that the tremendous foods which
often devastate the neighboring valleys
have their origin in the sudden melting Of
the ice and snow in the high ravines BY
bursts of lava and hot air from the crater
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-06-18

BRAIN WoRRY.-Many of US pray to be
delivered from sudden death, and do we
worry ourselves into it? If we do, can we
help it? To most of US it is not given
to choose our lives, TO avoid the rough
places, to gently shoulder to one side disa.
greeable facts. We must climb over the
rocks though they hurt us sore, and the diff
ficulties, however they may annoy US, must
be met with brain fret and wear until they
are conquered, or we have passed them.
They are as real, living, annoying as any
tang gible ache or pain could be: as bruisng
and irritating as the peas in the shoes of the
pilgrims of old Nervous health is one
thing, and moral health, and purely physical
health, is quite another and different thing
Calm and steady mental work is conducive
to long life; but nervous emotion. mental
work that is constant urging, and, at the
same time, is an unhanging of the even tenor
of the mind, eats away the brain faster than
any mental labor. no matter how hard, that
is systematic As men do not really die oil
heart disease as often as is supposed. but ol
apoplexy, or congestion of the lungs, so they
do not die of brain work, but brain worry.
Scott died of it, Southey, Swift, Horace
Greeley. and probably Thackeray.-London
Times.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-06-18

A school boy being requested to write
a composition upon the subject of" Pins, .
produced the following " Pins are very
useful. They have saved the lives of a
great many men, women, and children
n fact, whole families" " How so p asked
the puzzled teacher and the boy replied,
d" Why, by not swallowing them" This
matches the story Of the other boy who
defined salt as /" the stuff that makes po-
tatoes taste bad when you doa't put on
any,"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-06-18
TERMS FOR ADVERTISING.

and bis explanation seems as probable as
it is ingenious. DR.. Reiss adds another to
the many refutations of the exploded fic.
tions about respiration being impossible at
these great attitudes, and blood gushing
difficulty of breathing at 10000 feet. but it
does not appear to increase above that
height The doctors dog appeared to suffer
more than the poems; but though his lungs
we're weak, his conscience was strong. aud
he followed his master. grumblingly, 10 the
sfmmit.-New York Tribune.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-06-18

SCIENTIFIC PRoGREss.-Under the head Of
astronomy, nothing can be more startling
than the announcement that the earth has
actually passed through portion of a comet
without material influence upon terrestrial
affairs. The researches of those who have
studied the phenomena OF meteors and Of
comets seem to have dem monstrateI that a
shower of shooting stars is the appearance
put on by a comets tail when the earth
shoots through it, and that this periodically
happens in the case of Tempel's and of B e-
las comets. Mr.. Procto: has published
some very plausible views as to the process
by which comets aud meteor streams have
been originally formed within the solar sys-
tenn, in opposition to the theory that assigns
the distant stellar systems as their birth
place. Thus he thinks Jupiter may have
given rise to quite number, and Uranus to
at least one. Inc new star Atlas, by Hels,
is added to the list OF rlglnal and valuable
star charts. Among the important works
relating to the motions Of the planets Of the
solar system, We notice the new determina-
ton, by Kruger, of the mass of the planet
Jupiter, as deduc3d from its attraction of
the asterold Themis; and especially impor-
tant in this department OF astronomy will be
esteemed the thorough investig alton of the
orbit of Uranus, with tables OF his motions,
now in press, from the pen of Professor
| Newcomb. Two new asteroids have been
added to this group of planets, bringing the
total number up to l30. The general activity
in astronomical matters is shown by the pro-
posed new building for the CINCINNATI Oh
servatory, by the assignment of an additona
astronomer professor E. S. Holden) to The
naval observatory, and, in France, by the
complete reorganization of the corps OF gov.
ernment a,tronomers.-Harpcr's.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-06-18

Among the +" marriages in high life" re-
Gently announced in New YORK, was that Of
J. B. Matthews, son of the well-kuoxn mill
lionaire. Edward Matthews, to Miss IdaSmith
formerly Of LYDIA rnomps'n's troupa Of
BLONDES.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-06-18

The English papers are giving circulation
to the following quaint and ancient record
copied from the parish register OF 4 village
in Derbyshire: :" This year, l6l4-l5, jan
uary l6, began the greatest snow which ever
fell upon the earth, within mans memorye.
1t covered the earth five quarters deep up
on the playne And for heapes or drifts
of snow they were very deep, so that pas
sengers, both horse and foot. passed over
gates, hedges and wales. 1t fell at ten sew
erall tymes, and the last was the greatest,
to the create admiration and ieare of all
the land, for it came from the foure pts oil
the world, SO that all c'ntryes were full, yea
the south pte as well these mountaynes.
1t continued by daily INCREASING until the
18th day of March without the sight of
any earth, eyther upon the hilles or val
leys), upon w'ich daye, being the Lord s
daye, it began to decrease; and SO by little
and little consumed and wasted away, till
the eighth and-twentieth day of May. FOR
then all the heapes or drifts Of snow were
Consumed, except one upon Kiuderscout,
W 'ich lay till Wilson week.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-06-18

The rom intic incident of the Alta tic dis
aster has been the discovery that one of the
men, a common sailor, and one whose life
was sacrificed in efforts to save others, was
a young woman of about twenty Or twenty
five years of age. Her sex was not known
until the body was washed ashore and thr
rude clothing removed preparatory for bur-
ial. She had served as common sailor foe
three voyages, and was favorite shipmate
with all. She is described as having fewer of
the vices incident to sailor life than is
usual, but she was, nevertheless, as jolly an
old tar as any Of them. One of the survivor.
of the crew, in speaking of her, remarked,
II didn't know Bill was a woman. He
used to take his liquor as regular as any OF
us, aud was always begging and stealing
toba co. He was good fellow, though, and
| am sorry he is a woman The most sin.
gular part of the whole story is that the wo-
man was an American. and was about the
only one of that nationality belonging to the
crew. Who she was and where she came
from, and her motive for leading such q
strange life Of hardship, never was and nevsl
will be fully known.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-06-18

Since Geooge w. Matsell, who used to
publish the Police Gassfte, has become su-
perintendent Of police in New York, pub
fishers and venders Of obscene publications
feel happier than they did.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-06-18
- Your MOtherIn-LaW.

HER SIDE OF THE sroRY-AND PRETTY GOOD
STORY, TOO.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-06-18
PROSPECTS OF TEE PoLARIs.

As to the Poleris, it seems to be but an
act OF prudence to despatch vessel to her
IeIei, at least as far as .Upernayick, there to
await tor a time her possible arrival, and
should she not appear within reasonable
Time to 90 in search of her as far as Whale
Sound, at the mouth Of which is NOrthum-
oerland Island, where she was last seen. 1t
seems to me that the chief reason for appre-
hensloh regarding her is the fact that she is
lett without boats, and should any accident
tappen TO the ship the crew are without re
sources, unless by breaking up they can
build boat. Unfortunately, too, all the
dogs, eleven in number, were on the ice, and
had to be shot afterwards for want of food.
lhe want of them will be severely felt by
IN Load a,ro of ico ionrnaus
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-06-18

Inc voyage of the party on an ice. foe for
two thousand miles exceeds in romantic in
terest all the inventions of the dramasist,
ana shows what calm courage and human
'n1uranse can accomplish. TO the courage
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1873-10-18

From the Brirtol News.


Ex. President johnson l,ss been noted tor
his kindness To iHilOrs Some time since he
loaned to one Of hem the old able on " hich
he used t" ply his shears and needle. and
from which he. in AN unparalleled career.
rose to the Presidency. During the ci.,lrra
alarm Of June last, this brother left Green
vile in hurry. taking his family with him
10 Bristol. In the confusion he neglected
to leave behind this celebrated table. Mr..
Johnson was pros,ra,cd by violent attack
Of cholera, and could not look after outs
door matters. and 80 the table found its way
to Bristol. Of course 1t WAS regarded hy
the family as u relic too interesting IL be
lost, and Wednesday last. Mr.. - Johnson.
son Of the ex.Presidcn', arrived in Bristol in
quest Of it. and found II safely locked in one
Of the A. NJ. 80 cars. and snug!y billed
for distant Virginia town. to which the
aforesaid tailor had already removed. There
was no use for warrant in detinue, for the
service could not bc made. and NJ both
table aud tailor were in Virginia. all attach
mcni could not bc served.
Did the pursuit end there! Not = bit Of
it. Learning that day that many Of the
Virginia cars arc backed across the State
line 10 the Tennessee switch in OrdeI 10 get
them on the proper track. Mr.. johnson pro.
cured from Justice on the tennessee side
writ "f replcvin. aud when this Car Was
being switched for its V,rgini" journey
there was present Tennessee officer. who
very dex,cr,ously switched the table out Of
II and turned it over t. the son Of the ex
President. who now has It again in Green.
vile
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1873-10-18
Yriends Worth 8avin1.

The West Chester R.p"bliean relates the
following: "During the ti"anrial excite
ment That prevailed on Friday and Saturday
last, run Was mnde upon the banking
house Of Mr.. J. N. Albertson, Of Norris-
town. N" one in ordinary times would
question Friend Alber,s0n's ability to nav
all his deposl.Ors, but ~ "ne scared animal
will sometimes siar,le whole herd, 80 it
proved in this instance with . few ,imii
depositors. While the rush was .. its
height, and the grecnbacks were being paid
ou, a. rapidly Is busy hands could handle
them, Henry 8. lli,ner, Esq. of White.
marsh, entered the building. aud after TAX.
ing cursory glance y. the scene before him,
took up piece Of paper and wrote thereon
~ agree to be responsible t0 the dcpsitOrs
in the banking house Of J. Morton Albert,
s'n, to the cx,en, Of ono AsnIrei Mousand
do1!"rs. signed his name, dated the paper,
and fastened 1t up against the entrance door,
where every one entering could see il. A
few minutes thereafter, bis brother, Daniel
U. Hi'ner. ESQ.,, came in, and noticing the
paper, t"'k il down and wrote: i concur in
the a6Ovc. and will bc responsible u the
extent Of one hundred Mousnwd m0re.,-
signed his name with date. and replaced the
paOer in its former position. These two
gentlemen were known 10 be abundan,ly
able u make their words good--Daniel q.
lliiner being by far the veal hicsl msn in
Montgomery c"unty. Our informant says
the scare WAS over in twinkling, and no
one would have supposed there WAS man
In the crowd ,ha, had come there with ,lss
slightest intention Of drawing his money.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1873-10-18
1mploVe6 Cable VHiro.

The journal Of Tclcgraphy. in a long
and interesting article on the new Atlantic
cable. says. that II comprises three different
types Of material. each Of which emls,tl,es
some valuable features distinct from the
others.
These types are represented in the shore
ends. the intcrmrr' late cs,.lcs and the deep
sca cattle. The intermediate cables orr
lighter aud slightly varying patterns. and
ere coniiaucd trnn, the shore ends fur the
distance "f fr'm 10 I" go miles. when
they "rc joined BY the decp-tes cable. which
Is IT sill lighter design. The conductor in
each care il n strand of seven cuppcr wires.
insulated with gu.,s percha, prepared &C..
corairg I" Mr. Willoughby Smiths patent.
alternating with ChAitcston's compound,
the ceres being cs.ycroj with serving 1T
juic yarn eiccpcd IN solution Ut prcscrva.
tive mixture. The outer covering Of the
shore ends Cs,nsisis Of twelve strands. each
formed oi three gslvsn,sed irun wires,
served ~ilL yam, and I'ssscl Through .
compound which c,ntains silica This u
whir,wsi- with fine strand Of juie, and
sgsin vs,ssi il,r.ogh ihe compsund
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IDEAL HusBANDs "A writer in the Snt.
urday Reciee says: OF course one would
not like to see women give themselves 10
anyone. no matter whom he might he. for
the sake Of getting married; but the solid
thing of life should he taught them Us well
rs its poetic beauties; and false hopes, false
ideas. unsubslsn,ial loves, should hc rigor.
ouslv excluded. A bad maj riage or love-
less life :s not . pleasant coda 10 that never
acted romance; nor 10 the disenchantment
which comes with such cruel uncertainty
on the heels Of of the lovesick and unsuita.
ble marriage blessing to be desired.
Beauty fades. assion cools. the blindness
ut romance gets c"uchcd when seeing il too
late; poetry dUes not pay the butcher, aid
gallsn'ry of hearing of the ''long sword,
saddle, aud bridIe' kina IS apt to lose itself in
domestic bad language when the pot -
empty Of puddings. and half dozen
children swarm about the musiy ludgings
or dingy quariers 10 which love and folly
have reduced the gay lieutenant ard bis
bride. On The whole. Prince Pre,iyman Is .
dangerous fellow either 10 get or wsi, for,
having the trick Of unsubstsn liability
throughout. Romantic girls would do we'll
to reflect that, il they are to only have one
gown in . lifetime. they had better buy one
that will wash and wear crcii,shly 10 tho
cnd. rather than i,,nay bit of tineIy that
lo'ks well only in the beginning, aud goes
10 pieces bcfore the first year il oa,.