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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-07-08

his wife driven to death with homework. |
The bountiful table which you enjoy did |
not come of ITSELF though the fresh veget- |
ables were brought from the garden. not
from the market The cream and eggs Tn
which you feast might have pat money into
somebody's packet.
Do not attempt to reconstruct the
household habits and arrangements.
Doubtless light and mir are delightful lux
uries, but if the good woman shuts her
blinds and doors, do not tlaunt them open.
Perhaps she prefers GOODNESS to glare and
shade to flies. Moses and stones and
bark are treasures to you, but do not clut-
ter your friends room with them, nor
track mud or gravel over the floors while
her shoulders are still aching with the
sweeping and dusting. Newspapers and
books AMI sewing and straw hats about
may make the house look pleasant and
social to you, but if somebody is careful to
pick up and put away do not indulge in
attractive disorder. If you propose to
help. let Your work be Il real help, not IA
hinderancc. When you tlutter about
the kitchen, or put your hand heedlessly
to the domestic machinery, you may prove
vexation OF Il bother. Do not keep
around in the way all the time. Give the
family opportunities to be alone. Never
ntrude on individual privacy. Let your
knowledge of family affairs be that OF
/ friendly, personal interest, never that OF
/ curiosity. Be blind and deaf to whatever
f il is kinI not to know. Express Your ap-
probation of whatever is done for your
! comfort, AMI make your friends feel that
their hospitality is Il favor and pleasure to
you.
Finally, do nos assume that yol know
more of the world than these country peO-
Pile The neiglbors on one side may have
spent the previous year in Europe On
the other side perhaps the Member OF
Congress lives. The young lady in the straw
hat, who leans over the garden fence to
Tux with the girls may be Il correspondent
for several city newspapers. The boys
raking hay may have just returned from
Il surveying or scien itic toar among the
Sierras.
These very little things of this kind
make the difference between the desirable
and undesirable guest. People who arr
entertaining in the parlor are often uncom
Portable visitors. Put yourself IN he
place if YOU would learn how to max
your hostess enjoy You. - Cor. Bostoi
journal.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-07-08

A new invention has just been tried IN
Paris which is said to render drowning
a thing of the past. 1t consists in the en-
ployment of pneumatic lndia-rubber tube
rolled round the body Il sufficient number
of folds to contain the necessary amount
of air. The tube is placed concealed in a
double envelope forming shirt. 1t ter
inmates by mouth piece, which shuts with
the aid of :. simple copper button. The
operation is simple in the extreme, and
the swimmer or immersed person has
enough air for whole day. When the
apparatus comes to diminish in volume, it
is easy to expand it again by the principal
tube in deep water without any effort or
difficulty. The trial was witnessed in the
Henry the Fourth Baths. when the inven-
tor. Nj. Gosselin. shovel its properties. He
stood upright, the hands raised above the
head. when the water dill not come above
the shoulders; he then ioated on his back
with arms crossed. The apparatus can bt
worn under the clothes like a flannel waist
coat. 1t extends from the neck to thu
knees, fastened in front by row of but
tons. 1t is composed of IA double flannel
in the midst of which an India-rubber tub
circulates, starting from the top of tn
chest. ascending the left side of the neck
and following the central line of the back
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-07-08

They have got preacher at Moro, Cal.
named Parks, who was recently compelled
to deliver a sermon under the American
FLAG. 4 few days before the occurrence
the preacher was ut a picnic where the
American flag was flying. AMI mtts tic
remark that THAT rag, through which i:@
had put many bullet hole, disturbe his
endowment" The remark was overheard
by a man namel Miller. who took no eX-
ception to it: but when. on the following
Sunday Parks took his place in the pulpit
he WAS disglsted to find an American flag
hncing from it. The sight of it set Parks
into a frenzy and, after inquiring in thun-
der tones who placed that rag there, was
about to pull it down, when Miller, who
WAS on the front seat, quietly rose and
presenting his pistol, intimated to the Rev
Parks he had b tier 90 on with his preach
inc and let the flag alone. as he rather en-
| loved seeing it there. Pirks followed his
| advice and finished his sermon without
any further allusions to rags, probably be-
cause Miller was on the front seat. with
his finger on the trigger of his pistol, qul-
etlv waiting for such allusions- Miller
stood by the blnting until the benedictlon
was pronounced an.i then male a motion
that the church had no further use for Rev.
Parks, which was unanimously carried.
Rev. Parks hls left Moro, and another
minister is wanted there.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-07-08

there it divides in two branches, encircling
the thighs as far as the knees. From the
central part of the principal tube twelve tc
fifteen lesser tubes diverge to make the
round of the body. and meet in front
where the row of buttons is. This i'm
provement on the life belt is said to be
certain to slperseie all existing appliances
in teaching winning or saving life from
shipwreck.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-07-08

The New York Sun, having poked fun
ut some of the Indiana editors because they
registered their names and - wife. IN
stead of lady" the editor of the Union
City Times very philosophically remarks
that 1.-The disparity in the use OF terms
arises from the dissimilarity in the social
habits of New York and indianapolis: In
Indiana we call our wives wives, be-
cause they are our wives IN truth ana IN
fact hone of our bone and flesh of our flesh.
the mothers of all our young Hooslers, ana
.s s snch we eat with them, sleep with them,
and travel with them, to the exclusion of
ali other ladies' especially when the reg
Indiana editors are level-headed.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-07-08

this winter. threw the leaves on
the sidewalk, thinking of no harm. Soon
after valuable horse was hitched near by
md ate them, and died from the effects be-
fore morning. Since this casualty they
ire being destroyed in the writer's locality,
though some are 10th to part with them,
and allow them to stand in room where
small children are running about. not
knowing that the drop of gum that is left
where leaf is broken off. is sufficient to
poison person if taken into the stomach.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-07-08

The School Superintendent of Marion
county, Iowa, recently visited school IN
a neighborhood where semi-idiot roams
at large, and is the terror of the women
and children. He entered the school and
sat down without introducing himself, to
witness the exercises. The schoolmarm
and pupils eyed with suspicion their mys-
terious visitor Presently an unruly boy
was guilty of some transgression, where
upon the man of learning arose from his
seat and proceeded to whip him vigorously.
This was the signal for general stampede
Schoolmarm and pupils, supposing him to
be the dreaded idiot, fled in terror. That
superintendent viii give his name next
time.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-07-08

not much inferior to them selves in size,
they move along like pack of hungry
wolves, destroying everything before them.
Their trail is marked by fir igments of fish
and bv the stain of blood in the sea. as,
where the fish is too large to be swallowed
entire, the hinder portion will be bitten off
and the anterior part allowed to float away
or sink 1t is maintained with great ear
nestness that such is the gluttony of the
fish that when the stomach becomes full
the contents are disgorge,l, and then again
filed The stomach of the bluc-tish OF
sizes, with rare exceptions, Is found dis
tended with other fish, sometimes to the
number of thirty or forty, either entire or
in fragments.-WlLLIAM c. WYCKOFF, IN
HtrpcrS Mtgazinc for July.
THE QUEENS DRAWING G-ROoM.-Ihe
ceremony of 1.-The drawing-room Is very
well known to some readers. 1t means the
presentation to the Queen OF the younger
female scions of aristocratic families, and
is the means by which the more mature
female members of the upper ten pay their
annual homage to their sovereign. As a
ceremony it is simple enough, the h'lle>
merely passing in Il single file before the
Queen and making Il salutation, which she
returns But although this reads aS Il very
easy performance, it is, in fact, Il most try
ing ordeal, and one against which u most
indignant protest is just now being raised
| The ceremony begins ut , o'clock, and Its
length of course, depends upon the mum
Der of ladies taking part in it. The mum
Der has now grown to be 50 enormous thai
the Queen, who has to stand all the time
| finds the fuirue too much for hcr and dur.
ing the latter portion gets one of the prin
| cesses TO take her place. Last week, say
a London letter, the throng was so immens'
and the arrangements for ingress anC
egresS so shameful that many ladies' wht
left their homes ut half-past one did no
reach them again till seven p. NJ, and thel
in a most pitiable condition, weary. fam
they had had nothing to eat-thelr splen
did Partisan dresses crushed and rumpled
their feathers broken, their laces torn 1t l
truly complained that what the British ma
tron looks upon as her greatest honor, CIV
ing her, as it is supposed to do, the cHcht
, of Responsibility (hough some very dub
Gus persons have been received OF lat
vears), is dearly bought at such Il cost. )
long as the drawingrOomS are held IN TN
! wretchedlv narrow area of St. James Ia
ace. and so long as the present enormou
crowd insists on attending them, It Will b
impossible to obviate the difficulty. As
remedy, it has been suggested that lnste:t
4 of passing before the Queen the ladit
should be drawn up in line, down whlc
: Her Majesty should pass. Or. again, TIL
the ceremony should be held in The ever
t inc. which would give it more the cllara
y ter of Il reception.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-07-08

THE WOLVES THE New YORK EDITORS
SAw.-Rather a funny incident occurred
the other day on the Southwestern Rail
road of Georgia. A man named Wolf re-
siding at Marshallville. near the railroad
depot, has five tow healed children
Conductor Dasher had on his train a large
party of northern excursionists, who were
anxious to see a l the curiositieS- Near
Marshallville he told them that there was
), man who had five tame wolves, all with
white spots on the top of their heads
They expressed Il desire to see the strange
animals. and the conductor said that a.
wolf-tamer lived near. lie would wait Tor
them. They alighted, and Dasher pointed
the way to the house, remarking. that a
the old she-wolf was an ugly customer he
would not 60 with them: Going to the
yard they found Mrs Wolf, and the
children playing around her. They of
fered to pay her liberally for the sight of
the five tame wolves. They were back in
time for the train
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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-07-08

THE ORANGE GROVES OF CALIFORNIA.
The orange groves are magnificent
sioht to behold now, laden as they are with
their golden burden-golden in seeming
and golden in reality. The harvest is Just
commencing and large quantities are daily
arriving at the depot to be shipped 10 San
Francisco and elsewhere. One dealer of
San Gabriel sold his orange crop for $50
per thousand. His orange grove covers five
acres and contains five hundred trees. Is
timntinr these ut one thousand oranges
each. the crop is worth $4,000. Three
thousand dollars an acre is Il pretty good
return for their cultivation, and nearly all
clear profit, for the crop was sold on the
trees. One acre in southern California
can be made to yield us great Il clear profit
bv semi-tropic;tl nut and fruit culture as
twenty to fifty acres in the Eastern States
devoted to ordinary kinds of farming
When one looks ut the loads of this lus-
cious fruit daily coming into town. and
thinks of the immense profit they must
WELD to their owners, he cannot help but
wish he had come out here some twelve oI
fourteen wears earlier AMI gone into the
ORANGE business. All kinds of vegetables
can be cultivated between the rows o.
orange trees-pein' t., potatoes, melons
/ pumpkins, beans, Squashes and peppers
and many other things. Rlme, too, co1ld
be cultivated with success, and mulberries
Some planters SOW the intervening space
with barley, and when the crop is harvest
ell they pat in Il second one of corn.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-07-08

THE PoIsoN OF THE OLEANDER.-A wrl-
ter in The Homestead inquiries of its readers
if they possess oleander plants, and advises
them 10 destroy them root and branch. .
The surest way is to burn them. He tells
of a gentleman who after trimming of his
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-07-08

"It is hard to say so,'' remarks recent
English writer, =" bat stern proprlety, rlgld
temperance, and the practice OF early rising
and the shower bath, are the grand sup
porters of human pride, and the consplcu-
Gus cases of unamiableness. by seernne
no good is effected.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-07-08

SOME ODD FIsHEs.-Let Us look al the
fruits of the SEA. Many of them have sting
ING powers, and there is no need tor a Label,
:. Visitors are requested not to han lie the
fruits" The sea-orange (L0Ph0thHrtdJ 10
rtcii) and the sea-cucumber (Pt11tacfa from
d0sa) develop astonishing beauty IN Their
cold bath. The first had in the specimen
the writer SAW. all the richness of color
and something of the general appearance
of a blood orange. The wreath of tenta-
cles which it threw ont was OF the mosi
delicate shades of pink. The cucumber
taken at thirty fathomS in PlsSamoquodiy iy
Bay. was externally of Il deep rich green
and really looked like a cucumber; not
indeed, comparable to some that dra"
prizes at agricultural fairs for growing by
the ward, bat of modest dimensions. though
no mere gherkin of a thing-Say about sly
inches long and ten in circumference 1t
too, threw out n magnificent wreath Q
tentacles. AgaSsiZ SAYS the cucumber /
eatable. and has a lobster flavor. Anybod.
NAV try it who wants to. Forbes says tn
Shetland fishermen class it a .pHStcn,
which he translates rs poison.
A near relative ofthe sea-cucumber, die
nitied with the long name of Lcpt0SylIp1
0irartli. should be ftvoritc of mariners
| 1t is covered with the symbol of the deeI
The skin is filled with minute perforate
oval plates, TO elch of which Is attache
by the shank II perfect little anchor
! Doubtless the tiukes of these anchors civ
it the means of keeping itself in place
The animal has II bad tendency when cal
tured to break itself to pieces. This pre-
pensity to suicide is. however, chnraeterl
tic of many of the dwellerS of the Sc;
The sea-pot.lto is not remotely 4 relativ
but the likeness of B0'tc7lia renUOrnllS
that esculent is very noticeable. It's stel
looks like one of those roots which are o.
casionallv attached to a potato. 1t shoul
be stated particularly that the likeness
these animals. when freshly caught, to IL
things after which they are named do
not continue after their death. Preserve
in alcohol, they lose all their beauty. :
WM. c. WYCKoFF, in HDpcr'S NDt:tl
T,;IH
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-07-08

[Competent literary critics have prOnounced Inc
poem unsurpassed by any other produce
ton of its class in language. 1t Is periect III
rythm, beautiful in figure and expression
The Red Cloud chief., 1874-12-16
A
1850 .

w. accordance with the previous
announcement, on Friday evening last.
Hon IL ,. Haley delivered a lecture
a. the school honse, for the benefit Of
the Aid Society. The night was cold
blusteriDl, but the attendance was
good and quite a respectable amount
o: money, about sixteen dollars, reallz-
ed. Mr.. Haley Is a smooth, fluent
tal&cr and held the close attention II
his aud nee, while delivering the
"-ra>shopper lecture The occasion
greg "a, Ola joke, which happened
,hu,!y. Two or three days previous a
box Of clothing arrived Tor the Ali
Society, and among - contents wa, a
bradclCth coat, Of the claw hammer
style. or as the speaker called it, =
spike tail Mr. Haley was present
when the box was opened, and hap
pened Tor the fun Of the thing to try
II on to see how il looked. Some Of
the boys present remarked that If il
was a I'll he would have to deliver q
lecture at twenty-five cents u ticket,
TO which he iaughlugly acceftl. prob
ably thinking the matter would there
end, but the boys persisted and that
night printed notices Were posted all
thrcosarto~a ANNOUNCING The l~eceafe,
a. to come off Friday evening Mr.
Haley appeared in the "spike-;ail'
Goa and a white vest, accompanying
II, and a before mentioned de-
iiyered an entertaining AID Interesting
discourse
Afterward Rev. Maxwell mad a
few appropriate remarks, and then
MIR Mchitt stated that il I'D been
thought best 10 dispose Of some Of the
articles sent to the Society. as no,
being Of much real use to those in
lneed. the money received to be used
f. the purchase of provisions, &c.
PIE. Warner vas called on 10 at rs
'auctioDe"r, which h. did 10 such a
mastery manner a 70 lead u, 70 thluk
that he had followed that business BE-
fore be became rich and retired into
private life as a hotel-keeper. The
auction caused a great deal of fun.
Taken altogether the occasion was a
success, and every one present appear !
ed well pleased. II
The Red Cloud chief., 1874-12-16
PERSONAL.

Sheriff Bill, put in an appearance
on Monday morning, and appeared as
jelly - ever.
Il Miner and Nr. Vaughn. Of
Guide Rock, called early in the week.
Chas. Lane, called las, Friday, and
zee Lad a pleasant chat with him.
Rev. Latin, preached at the School
house, on Sunday evening. and the
mex morning gave Us a friendly call
= Abe CARRIER dropped into town and
out again, before any one could TAX
Ito him.
Tbos. Vaughn, of Walnut Greek.
vas down to attend The meeting Of
The Commissioners.
Mr, Cook, bTidee-builder. Curly
sn1 some more Of the boys came down
from Rivcrton on Monday, and re-
uainel over unul the nexi day.
They'll al be down 10 work on the
bridge ia a few days.
\ large number Of our friends from
ali parts of the county have called
during the week, a list Of whom would
nearly Ell a column. You are always
welcome, and come again whenever
you visit the town.
The Red Cloud chief., 1874-12-16
Masonic Festival and Bali.

The Masonic Order Of Red Cloud
w.i hold a Grand Bal. and Festival "a
Christmas Ngtt, DeoeA:Je, p. 1874
4 Public Installation Of the ofcer.
Of the Masonic Lodge xii take plaee
early IN the evening to ahieh the pub
lie i invited.
Aftet the Installation, I Dance III
take place 10 the Masonic HAL. and
an Oyster supper at the Il le
House. Good muse will be furnished
b. the Banks Bros.
No pains will be spared 10 make a
PeJecf Sgecess Of the affair.
Everybody from this aud adjoining
counties Is invited.
TiCKETS:-BALL & SUPPER, 81 %
Ball, only, 100
Supper each. 80,
The Red Cloud chief., 1874-12-16
Sherif''S Sale.

Notice is hereby given that | viii
offer for sale at pubic auction. at the
door of the Court house, in Red Cloud
Nebraska, on Saturday the 2i day of
January 1875 at cne O'Clock p. m., of
said day, the following real estate
to-wlt:
The west half of Section ten tl0l
town two ~ range eleven III west
in Webster County Nebraska, taken
as the property of VIM. IL. james on
two executions in favor of the State
of Nebraska, issued by the District
Court in and for the County of Ian
caster an State of Nebraska, and To
me directed as Sheriff of Webster
County Nebraska.
Red Cloud. Nebraska, Dec, ., 1874.
II. e.. BILL. Sheriff.
By MARK II. WARNER,
WI Deputy Sheriff.
The Red Cloud chief., 1874-12-16

Send 10 RI. III. johnson. Crete.
Ncb. for circulars Of che Domestic
Sewing Machine: also terms n agents
a. e. ifyou mean business and really
want an agency.
A. s. Nef has opened up a first
class livery stable in the ear of Smi;h 5
billiard hall. and has some of the best
rigs" in this part Of the country
Orders for teams can be left, when be
i absent. at the Billiard Hall. Read
his advertisement.
The Red Cloud chief., 1874-12-16
G.I.E E.s-.

The people Of Gu.ds Rock and
vicinity have cent II g.. Bill, Sheriff
If tins county, u iova in behalf Of
the d.-ritutr II thai precinct. Thj-
selection ct a mln 10 represent
;ham la th,, matter wl> as good a.
could have been mad. No inan i,
better acquainted with the waats and
necessities or the people, and it iSser-
tain that the representations he may
make will be true to the letter. And
furthermore, those who see fit to en-
trust him with anything, can depend
upon il, that whatever is given will
be- properly handled and accounted for.
Success % bin in his mission Of
mercy.
The Red Cloud chief., 1874-12-16
CFluaCss

NJ. f. CHUkCiI-REv. CHAs
KELLY, Pastor. Services each al
ternate Sabbath at lO9 4, VI,
CONGREG ATIONEIST CHURCH
REV. y. MAXWELL. Pastor. Serv.
ices each alternate Sabbath at TO-
A. NJ.
BAPTIST CHURCH.-REv. Tnos.
MUXLoW, Pastor. Services every
fourth Sabbath a; = p. NJ.
SABBATH School every Sabbath
morning at . 4. NJ
j. q. POTTER, Supt.
Prayer meeting Sabbath and Thur
day evenings. ~ bald at the school
houeeiust north oft6Hn,
The Red Cloud chief., 1874-12-16
Notice 20 Teachers.

Notice is hereby given. That | will
examine all persons who may desire 10
offer themselves as candidates for
teachers of the primary or common
schools of the county, at my Office IN
Red Cloud. on the first saturday f
August, November. February and
May. III. s. HALEY.
Co. Superintendent.
The Red Cloud chief., 1874-12-16

Our people should remember that
T 7. Webb. the mail contractor is
making one trip each week between
here and Jsnia,a. in addition to the
number. for which he receives .con-
bensa,ion. In view of this fac, be
to receive As much Of the carry
ing business as Is possible. AT the
best itwil, not pay him more Ihan ex
peaseS.