Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-04-09

LABOR WAsTED.-Som Yankee Stats
tciau has nude an estimate of the amount
Of labor wasted in cutting the leaves of
periodicals. This is the way he does it,
The literature of the world published in
this form fills 2,0O0,000 copies of perodi-
calls each m NTH. Allowing ten leaves to
each copy rs fair average, the time
consumed in cutting each publication will
he ut least live minutes. Upon this basis
he calculates that about twenty years
time for every month, or 2fO years time
for every yeIr thus spent in cutting the
leaves. The distance that the hand travels
in doing this work in 5000 miles II month,
90. 900 miles II year. or fonr times the cir
conference of the earth. Strange tina; he
did not extend his figures and tell US how
many bulky horses the force SO expended
would have moved. or how many tight
boots il would have pulled on, or how
m my walking matches it would have run,
OF how many stairways it would have
enabled IL woman, weigh ng 2i0 pounds.
TO climb, in order TO tell II fresh piece Of
gossip.
| THE CASE OF PHAIR.-Col. W. G
V,azey, of Rutland, the most able Of
| Phair's counsel, is understood to have
drawn out of The case on the plea of press
of business. Another Rutland lawyer in the
case seems, from his eccentric a3tious, TO
he in his Sc, ond childhood. His principal
hold is blubbcring, but his tears are never
contagious, his lachrymose performance
generally causing smiles among his audi
| Vhj. l.t,yvnril hnc,,, q
Governor Proctor in the Downing hearing
on Thursday, was most extraordinary.
After warming His Excellency that the
eyes of the state, the country and myriads
of worlds were upon him, the speaker
dissolved into tears. Seeing II smile on
the face of an opposing lawyer, however,
he broke out: "(Boo-hoo hoo), Don't
laugh (boo hoo) at me- (Boo- hoo hoo. }
You had better wait until | Am ia my
grave before you laugh. Boo-hoo HOO"
This raising of the food gates and the
allusion TO grave possibilities are supposed
to have broken the governor completely
up and caused the reprieve.- Ruttdnd
Correspondent Springfield Republican,
The story goes that Ernest Longfelow
the son of the poet, met an apparently
well-informed Englishman, with whom he
had IN entertaining discussion on the
merits of the English poets compared with
the Americans. The Englishman calmly
counted Longfellow in the list of his coun.
trymen, and was much disturbed at The
positive assertion of his young fellow
traveller that the poet was an American
Both supported their opinions with the
assurance of unquestionable knowledge
and the discussion only terminated whcr
ut last the young American produced hi.
card and announced that Us he was the sol
of the poet, he might be supposed to know
; his nationality.
The dramatic story Of Eugene Aram, o
which Bulwer made such u powerful worl
of fiction, is recalled by the case of mn
named Thorpe, in Nova Scotia. DIR
: Mcdonald, II resident of Dartmouth,
town on the eastern side of Halifax FLAIR
F Dor, disappeared about thirty years ago
lie WAS supposed to have been killed 10
money. Thorpe. who lived in tho hous,
| with Mcdonald, was arrested on suspicion
f but us there was no evidence shown;
! guilt he was discharged. Recently skel
etOn was found under the flooring Of lh
house, and Thorpe, who is still alive. is t
be arrested.
Two hundred and eight young men have bee
fined 500 each at Mulhouse, Alsacc- Lorraine,
/ not presenting themselves Tor the conscriptlon.