Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-03-04

ers resort to the public bath owned by
the village. Strange to say. notwith-
standing their scrupulous care in this
particular, some of their habits are ab-
solutely filthy. While bathing. the de-
gree of heat which they endure would
kill person not accustomed to it from
childhood. And in winter they often
rush out of the bath and roll themselves
in the snow. Such rapid transitions
from extreme heat to extreme cold Illus
trates common Russian proverb, which
says that what is health to the Russian
is death to the German. AS the old
proverb hath it, ssOne mans meat is an
other mans poison.
THE QUEEN AND THE SABBATH.-A
correspondent writes to the Leeds .Mer-
cury :-"On one occasion Her Majesty
had invited distinguished guests to dine
at Windsor Castle-It It was therefore
necessary that the Court band should
prepare itself to perform special selec
tions of music. The pieces chosen were
difficult, the time for practice limited,
and the leader. declaring that he could
not afford to lose day, summoned the
men to meet for rehearsal on the Sunday.
There were two Germans in the band,
named Schrader and Gehrmann, who
were Wesleyan Methodists. and whose
consciences would not allow them to
spend the Lords day in musical re-
hearsal They told their scruples to the
leader. who, however, peremptorlly or
dered them to be present on pain of in
slant dismissal from the band. They did
not hesitate moment On the Monday
morning. on presenting themselves at
their quarters, the leader, in violent Ian
guage. ordered them to be gone. The
poor fellows walked sadly away, and not
far from Windsor met the Bishop of Lon
don driving to the Castle. Stopping
the carriage on their signal, he heard
their tale, and promised to speak for
them to the Queen. Before the day
was over the leader of the band was
summoned into Her Majesty's presence.
The Queen inquired what had become Of
the two German Methodists, one of
whom, as being one of the best trombone
players in the country, was favorite at
Court. The leader explained that he
could not allow absurd religious seru-
pies to stand in the way of soldiers
duty. The Queen at once gave COM
mands that the men be Immediately re-
stored to their posts, and added, 4 will
have no more persecution in my service
for conscience's sake, and | will have no
more rehearsals on Sunday -
A FIGHT WITH CATAMoUNT.-As
Mr.. J. L. Ingraham and son, of West
Camden, were hunting recently, they
discovered the tracks of some large wild
animal, and after putting their hound on
the track, they followed for distance
of two miles. when they came in sight
of catamount of the largest size. Sepa-
rating, and running around and ahead
of the animal, they met at a point half
way up the mountain. At this place
the beast turned upon the hound, which
was pursuing, and after terrific combat,
hurled him away to distance of at least
ten feet, the men not daring to fire for
fear of killing the dog. Immediately
after whipping the dog the catamount
jumped to the top Of high cliff, from
which it made a leap upon Mr.. Ingra-
hams son, who stood over 80 feet below
him. His father. seeing that his only
chance was to kill the animal in his leap,
at once fred, breaking one foreleg, but
the animal struck his son, tearing his
coat in shreds, knocking him down, and
rolling with him down the mountain
some 20 feet. The hound followed and
attacked the animal, when he left the
young man and turned on the dog, and
threw him into the air again, and he
struck on ledge below nearly dead.
Mr.. lngraham arrived at this point, took
the gun which his son had dropped in
the struggle and shot the animal, and
with the butts of their guns both de-
spatched him. He measured five feet in
length.