Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-05-21


The mining company at Ely have lately
added 1872 feet to their furnace building,
with eight new furnaces. This makes the
fifth addition that they have made since
they built their first blast furnace, in 1867
They have now one of the longest, if not
the longest, building in the state, it being
over 700 feet in length.
The great speech of Senator Edmunds
has had u powerful effect upon the minds
and has opened the eyes of all republicans
to the enormities of the military bill and
the dangers of passing it. The president
himself, have no doubt, has been greatly
instructed by that speech.-Corre$pondent
in Boston Traveller.
Mr.. CRUDE, a maker of wax images in
New York, has constructed what is claim
ed to be the largest globe of the world,
showing the ranges of mountains and other
peculiarities of the earth in relief, now in
existence. Its diameter is four feet and
about one inch, the scale being l in TO-
100000. The globe is made of wood.
The relief is formed by wax. Mr.. CRUDE
has been two years in perfecting his globe.
and Chief. Justice DAILY and other geogra-
piers have lately been giving attention to
it.
Chicago boasts of a young lady of
twenty-one so cultured that when, the
other day, sounds of thousand consecu-
tive pigs under u thousand consecutive
gates, with interudes as of the ripping up
Of clapboarded houses by tornadoes, is
sued from the yard in the rear of her
paternal mansion, she said to the young
man who was sitting in the parlor with
her, and opined that there had been a
terrible accident, 80. no; that is only pa
and my brother Robby having trunk
strap recital in the woodshed. y Chicago
Tribune.
A Young girl named Susan johnson of
Unionville, Ky, who is addicted to reading
novels, dressed herself in boys clothes.
and, armed with two pistols and dagger,
took the packet for Evansville, intending
to lead a life that would be terror to the
foe. On the boat some deck hands were
moving some freight, and big rat scud
out in the direction of our hero. Miss
johnson Jumped on Il bale of tobacco and
screamed. They carried her to the ladies'
cabin, where she remained during the
round trip, and she has now promised her
paren,s to do her share in the kitchen and
keep her end up ut the sewing machine.
A good story of ventriloquism is jns
now going the rounds in London. A lady
t passing out of her gateway in the West
end n few days ago saw II vendor of birds
. close by, and admiring fine bullfinch
= h,, II nnpll whi Il la and
y what was its price. The Bird said the
It seller, " madam, is thirty shilllngs, and 1t
whistles. I'm leaving thee in sorrow
Annie as well as any man could do it,
with which there came out song appar
emily from the birds mouth which quite
startled the lady. The bird was bought
. but it never whistled more, and the ven
u tri,oouist is still earnestly looked for al
= ever Kensington and the Cornwel-roat
+. districts.
l. FRIGHTENING ALL IT CAN" -Th
d day had been dark and gloomy, when sud
" denly, towards night, the clouds broke
;, and the suns rays streamed through
~ !, shedding flood of golden light upol
=. everything.
A sweet voice Mt the window called gu
in joyful tones, Look, papa! the sun
tightening all it can't
lie $50 it is" answered papa; and 20,
r can be like the sun, If you choose"
How, papa? Tell me howl"
50 by looking happy and smiling on u
g all day, and never letting any fearful rail
lie come into the blue of those eyes. Only b
" happy and good."-Erehange.
A School Boy SToRY.-A correspond
ent of the Boston Saturday EUening Gazet
~ tells the following anectdote of his schoC
ny DAYS: Honorable liars are scarce.
remember n few, and they were hig
ai school boys, of course. A squad OF then
Al peltinc each other with snow balls 1
they went over the common and up Jc
rs street, on the way to school. one afternoo
mt were not such good shots that one OF thel
n, did not hurl his missile through a parlc
~ wndow-pane. Up went the window
AZ and out popped an angry lady
u" head. Which of you boys broke th
pane of CLASP 4 did it, promptly reptile
e, the real offender, stepping forward
en apologize. Whats your name and whe
he ~ do you live? The boy. responded fruitful
nv ly; but his companions, to save hin
oil cried out: No, moi did it? |. lie dldi
w. do it, and his name isn't what he sal
and he don't live there, anyhow. N
name is So-and-so, and l live numb
ds- something in such n street, and my tat
rd err II pay! The confusion of tongues al
counter statements so perplexed the lac
rly that she concluded they were all pack
len liars, and in q rage she shut down u
ds' window with bang and broke anoth
IN mana nf olace