Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-01-02

Va 9hpl tthNS tthu u ltlOh VI acquaintance
with the on-rushing world.
But l have dscoursed too long about
the weather and the railroad. meant to
have given you some account of our for
eign population, of whom we have large
proportion, especially Norwegian, but shall
have to defer it till some other time.
young colorel lady of Philadelphia wears
shoes seventeen inches long, and there is so much
of her on the ground that she never gets the damp.
ness out of her system.
Matt Carpenter is said to be the most
brilliant pleader before the United States
Supreme Court, and to be making there
an income of fifty Thousand or sixty thou
sand dollars a year.
The opponents of the weed are begin
ming to protest against the furnishing of
tobacco to the army, for which purpose
Sl77. .444 was spent last year. They think
it should 20 the same way with the old
whlskey allowance.
The largest bell in the world is said to
be in Kyoto, Japan, and to be perfect in
tones. By measurement it exceeds the
great bells of Pekin and Moscow, both of
which are cracked. Nobody knows when
or by whom it was cast. and though its
surface is covered with characters no
scholar has yet been able to translate them,
The bell is twenty-four feet high and
sixteen inches thick at the rim, and the
booming can be heard for miles. 1t is
sounded by suspended piece of wood,
like battering- ram, which strikes it on
the outside.
A bright story is told of the accomplish
ed wife-now dead-of General Hooker.
When she was the admired Miss Groes-
beck, of Cincinnati, she was once at an
evening party when fashionable young
dandy was asked if he would like to be
presented to her. "Oh, yes," said he,
anguidly, " trot her out - The lady over
heard the remark, and when he was pre-
sented to her, she adjusted her eyeglasses
deliberately and slowly scanned his cloth
inc from boot to collar. The survey fin
ished, she waved her hand and carclessly
said: "Trot him back, l have seen all
there is of him"
A wear from to-day citizens who are
sleigh-riding in the Park may find it less
difficult to keep warm if they will only re-
call the fact that on the shortest day Of
the wear 1877 the farmers of this latitude
were breaking up sod for complaining
the ne xt spring; that the grass was still
green and growing, and the turf was
starred with dandclions in bloom; that
eaf.buds were expanding on the trees;
that summer insects were buzzing merrily
in the sun, and that everybody looked hap
by except the bilious prophet, who took off
his overcoat and delivered his gloomy
predictions about fat churchyards and the
certain rum Of the fruit crop.-NeW l0b
Tribune.
The opponents of the Silver bill are
greatly encouraged by the failure of the
Senate to act on the Bland bill before the
holiday recess. A prominent official in
discussing the matter said, rs result of
personal interviews with many members
of the House, he believed that ii would be
t'n l1o'o", oF tba ,o,sure in the House if il is
again pun W " o;Iol rG1o, abanmo n % of % onininn ion
'',,a0o 'eea " r,on,hors and that many who Mt
first were willing to vote for an extreme
bill, and who actually dld support t'lG
Bland bill, are now convinced they actrd
too hastily, and are ready to vote lor
a moderate measure, win the oh]ectlohH-
BILE features OF the Bland biIl lelL out
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