Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-02-26

Bredren,' said darkey in prayer
meetin, - feel S if | could talk more
good in five minutes dan | could do in q
year!
Jnks says he knew a money.lender who
kept the trunk containing the securities
near the head of his bed and lay awake
to hear them accumulate interest.
" Brilliant and impulsive people," said
IL lecturer on physiognomy, have black
ewes; or, if they don't have 'em, they've
apt to get 'em, if they're too impulsive."
The University Herald reports the fun
ny orator." ON the last night of the Uni
versiiy Council. Send your sons and
daughters to our noble University that
we NAV make men of them"
A little girl visiting neighbor with her
mother, was gazing curiously at the hosts
new bonnet when the owner qneried, "Do
YOU like it, Laura?" The innocent replied,
"Whv, mother said it was II perfect fright,
but ii don't scare me-" Laura's mother
int sdtay ldong after that.
Caesar used 10 say that no music was so
charming in his ears as the requests of his
friends. But he never had his mother-in-
law meet him at the door of his own house
with poker and II voice that would
startle a base viol, and request him TO
wipe off his nasty old boots.
would urge upon every young woman
10 obtain as soon as she can, by the sever
est economy, Il restricted, serviceabe and
steadily--however slowly-increasing
series of books for use through life; making
her little library, Of all the furniture in
the room, the most studied and decorative
piece; every volume having its signed
place, like little statue in its nlche.-
RuShin.
THAT young lady used her best to
catch your husband before you married
him." remarked one lady to another, rs q
mass of curls and hraids, tlounces and
overskirt passed the window at which
they were sitting. ~ wish to the Lord
she'd got him" was the quick reply, and
hen dead silence fell upon the two, and
wonders in crochet work were accomplish
in the next halfhour.
TABLE ETIoUETTE.-Split biscuit with
your fingers, instead of opening it with Il
knife like an oyster. If the biscuit be hard
; a beetle and wedge are admissible in the
. DCSb SOSlOty'
Do not pick yonr teeth at the table.
Pick them at the dentists, if he has n good
5 assortment to pick from.
t Salt should never be put on the table
, cloth. but on the side of your plate. If,
however, you want to pickle the table.
cloth in brine. you must put salt on it. of
l course. A barrel of salt table-cloth woulo
s come in play should your pork give out
: during the winter.
!, When asked what part of the fowl you
S prefer, answer promptly. If you want
G the whole of it, don't hesitate to say so.
il Never leave the table till all are through
g without sufficient excuse The sudden
Il entrance of policeman with a warrant
Q for your arrest, is generally considered
l. sufficient excuse in polite circles.
= Pay no attention to accidents or blum
l. ders on the part of servants. If Bridget
T. blows herselfup while encouraging the
Y fire with kerosene. keep right on eating
Il just as if you had never (kero)sene it.
d Never help yourself to articles of foo'
h with your knife and fork. Use harpool
1t or a lasso.
X When you finish your meal lay you
knife and fork on your plate side by side
with the handles toward the right, a llttl
" south by sou-west, bearing northerly whe
o. the wind is of the side-board quarters
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