Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-04-25


that he AVERAGE Young man is So ulrria-
Bile thu fathers olgl to MI" their IlnGh-
trrS. WHAT the average younr man i
afraid of is not 50 much int father will
hide his daughter ~ th,t he will hide The
average young man -N0rwjch Bulletin.
A curion, railway signal hls recently
be invented in Illinois, TO prevent one
train from running into u preceding one
AS the inventor believes that considerable
of demonstration is necessary to attract
the attention of the average engineer, and
Us il is fficult to find living men who will
stand on hgn pelestalS and make frantic
gestures at stated intervals, he has invent
ed machine man, who houliShrs II o,
rings bell and displays II changeabe
light in his hat with untj,ling regularity.
The machine is worked by electricity,
which is set in operation by the passage
of The train, and the frantic contorlions of
the etfigy are said 10 he almost ridc ulous
enough TO make the iron horse laugh
In his place in the Senate of the United
States, Mr. Morrill,, Secretary of the Treas.
ury, said: Satisfies show beyond all
controversy, if anything has ever been
made clear by statistics, that three.f0urths
of the pauperism is attributable, directly
and indirectly, to Intoxicating drinks, and
three. fourths of the crime to the same
cause. Just contemplate that statement,
and then see whether the government of
country that raises its revenues by the en-
couragement of the distilation of such an
agency as that has no connection with it.
More than all other agencies combined is
the terrible effect of alcoholic drinks upon
the health and morals and prosperity of
this people. 1t is the gigantic crime of
crimes in this age, and particularly in this
country"
Mr.. Ruskin would be more fortunate
man if he were less ubiquitous, and also
less miscellaneous When Theodore Park
er died, one of his eulogists said of him:
" Not fritering himself away in dissipated
mscellaneeusnGSs of effort, but pouring
himself in II cumulative course of fore >ee-
ing and single purpose, he will not evapo-
rate like shower of isolated exertions in
the desert of contcmporaneous notice, but
roll as II voluminous influence across the
plains of posthumous fame" This SEN
tence has remained in my memory as the
lonoest one of its lenoth i evnr roaI Rnt
long as il is if now annenrS to mo = fair
lascrintion of two lif;,rent kinJs of n,ind.
it characterizes such men Us Parker, Carl
yle. Mill, on the one hand, and on the
other it indicates the fdgety genius of
Charles Kingsley and Mr. Ruskin. of each
Of the latters Oxford lectures one-third
has been nm art ono on nolitic,l erononv
and thp other a sort of allocntion ogninst
'iie "so;.-N' w. N9"''''y " l'c''e' w Wv
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GLADSTONE AND THE PooR BoY.-The
rector of II London parish one day called
on IL sick boy. The boy was one of the
neglected outcas;s oil the great city. Ac-
customed to earn his living by sweeping
one of the muddy cross-walks, his face
had become familiar to many of the pass
ers-by. The clergyman asked him if amy
one had called on him during his sickness.
"Oh yes!" replied the boy; " Mr.. Glad
stone came to sre me-"
{" Mr.. GIatstone!" exclaimed the rector.
" What Mr.. GluIslone?"
Why said the boy, "the only Mr..
Gla stone
So the great English Premier conld lind
time, amid all the oner us duties Of p bic
life, to seek the abode and min ste to the
wants Of dirty stl eot sweep All the
atlr ,ciuns of 1ristocracy and grandeur of
royalty dit not dlspe ilom his har the
sense of duty to the little outca>ts. Moth
ing in the long ev'ntfIl life of the great
man seems to Us 50 noble and Christ.like