Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-12-29
VOL. XXXU.

Mr.. B. +. Carpenter is authority for a
notable story of Henry Wilson that has
never yet been published. The evening
before his Inauguration as vice president,
he called on Mr.. Sumner and said: Sum-
ner, can you lend me hundred dollarso
have not got money enough to get in
augurated on. Mr.. Sumner replied: Ger
tainlv. If it had been a large sum |
might not have been able to help you; but
can always lend 4 friend hundred dol
lars. He then gave Mr.. Wilson a check
for the amount. and after the latter had re-
tired Mr.. Sumner turning to Mr.. Carpen-
ter, remarked There is an incident
worth acknowledgement one as could
never have occurred in any country but
our own.
The following anecdote Of Chief Justice
Chase is told by the Toledo Commercial !:
" Soon after Chief Justice Chase assumed
the gubernatorial chair IN Ohio. he issued
his proclamation appointing Thanksgiv
ing Day. TO make sure of being ortho-
dox, the Governor composed his proclama-
ton almost entirely Of passages from the
Bible. which he did not designate as quo
tatiOns. prcsuming that every one would
recognize and admire the fitness of the
words as we'll rs his taste in their selec-
ton. The proclamation meeting the eve
of a Democratic editor. he pounced at once
upon it, and declared that he had read it
before couldn't exactly tell where-but
he would take his oath that it was Il down
right plagiarism from beginning to end.
That would have been a pretty fair joke;
but the next day a Republican editor came
out valiantlv in defence of the Governor,
pronounced the charge lbclous, and chal-
lenged any man living to produce one sim
gle line of the proclamation that had APP
peared in print before.
The wire manufacture is one Of the
most interesting in steel For the scner-
al kinds of wire, the steel having been
softened. is reduced by rolling to a quar-
ter of an inch in thickness; it is further
reduced by being drawn through dies.
graduating in size down to the fincncss Of
Il hair From pinion wire the co. wheels
used in watches and clocks are made; but
the finest Of all-tiner even than the hu
man harris the watch motion wire. Its
price in weight exceeds that of gold. 4
single pound weight will produce "a length
of nearly nine miles. Then there is steel
for ladies' STAYS and ships stays, for tele
graph wire and for the strands of cables
and for countless other purposes, including
needles. of which 5000 may be had wrap
ped up in 4 packet to carry in your waist
coat pocket; steel springs for watches.
steel ribs for the frame work Of umbrellas
and parasols, and steel wire rope. The
latter is now very important branch Of
the manufacture, 4 rope wire, strand upon
strand. containing thirty-six thicknesses
of steel. is lighter and more elastic, rs
well as stronger, than iron rope.
GROWTH OF AMERICAN CHEESE Pro
DUCTIONs.-A writer in Harper'S Mugd-
zine gives some very Interesting and
curious facts in relation to the astonishing
growth of American cheese production.
In 1870 the aggregate value of the butter
and cheese exported this country amount
ed to only S334,000 About this time a
farmer in Oneida county, New York,
named Jesse Williams. originated the
cheese factory system. and his success was
so great that farmers in other sections Of
the State began to follow his example
The system has developed so rapidly that
there are now 500 cheese factories in New
Y York alone. and in the entire country
about ter times that number. As a re
suit the exports of cheese in 1SGl amount
ed to $50 81, and continued to increase
until in 1874 they reached 2l2,OOo,0O0
and for lSzj the figures will be larger
still. In 1874 the exports of cheese from
the port of New York amounted to 90
S34 .G9l pounds. and Canada in the same
year exported 2o.00o,0o0 pounds. The
principal e>c-producing States are New
York. Ohio. Vermont, Illinois and MasSa-
chu>ctts. Cheese is Il very nutritious arti-
Gle of fool and the best substitute for meat
The scarcity of meat in England and
other European countries has led the IA
boring classes to adopt cheese rs a suhSti-
tute, and t" this fact is largely due the in
creased demand for the product Of our
American cheese factories.