Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-09

HAIR.-To prevent the hair from turn
ing gray and falling, keep the head cool
by using occasionally sage tea with little
borax added. With small sponge apply
TO every part of the head just before or at
the time of dressing the hair
How WE PART CoMPANY.-Ten thou
sand human beings set forth together on
their journey. After ten years one-third
at least have disappeared. At the middle
point of the common measure of life, but
half are still upon the road. Faster and
faster, as the ranks grow thinner, they
that remain till now become weary and
lie down to toll no more. At three score
and ten band of some four hundred still
struggle on. At ninety these have been
reduced to a handful of thirty trembling
patriarchs. Year after year they fall in
diminishing numbers. One fingers, per-
haps, a lonely marvel, till the century is
over. We look over again, and the work
of death is finished.
WHY LACE is so CoSTLY.-The finest
specimen of Brussels lace is so costly as
to require the labor of seven persons on
one piece, and each operative is employed
at distinct features of the work. The
thread used is of exquisite fineness, which
is spun in dark underground rooms, where
it is sufficiently moist to keep the thread
from separating. 1t is so delicate rs
scarcely to be seen, and the room is so
arranged that all the light admitted shall
fall upon the woik. 1t is such material
that renders the genuine Brussels lace so
costly. On a piece of Valenciennes not
two inches wide, from two to three hun
dred bobbns are sometimes used; and for
q larger width as many as eight hundred
There is one social dishonor about which
no one thinks it worth while TO say much
in reproba,ion, but which does more harm
than any other known TO us-we mean the
dishonor of repeating conversations, opin-
| ions, circumstances, not made under
promise eff secrecy, but which n high
sense of honor would treat rs confidential,
if haply high sense of honor were the
rule 1t is odd that one of the best things
boy learns at school is to eschew tale
boaring and keep faith with his compan-
ions, while one of the most common
practices of society is to betray The trust
contained in talk. and repeat to all what
has been told in implied confidence to one.
This habit of repeating what we hear is
as fatal to the best intercourse of minds us
to the finer feelings of society.
| CUBEB REMEDY FOR CATARRH. The
new remedy for catarrh consists in crushed
cubeb berries smoked in pipe, emitting
the smoke through the nose; after few
trials this will be easy to do. If the nose
is stopped up SO that it is almost impossi-
BILE to breathe, one pipeful will make the
head as clear as a bell. 1t is the best
remedy in the world for offensive breath,
and will make the most foul breath pure
and sweet. Sufferers from the horrid dis
ease, liberated catarrh, will find this rem.
edy unequaled, and months use will
cure the most obstinate case. Eating the
uncrushed berries is also good for sore
throat and all bronchial complaints. After
smoking, do not expose yourself to cold
air for at least fifteen minutes.
HINTS FOR AVOIDING ACCIDENTS WHILE
SuooIING.-1. Never carry your GUN
under any circumstances with the ham.
mers down on the cap. 2. Never carry
il ON the full cock, except when expecting
game to rise. 3. Never carry it with the
barrel in horizontalposition. 4. Never lei
it be pointed either toward yourself or any
other person. 8. In going through d
fence always hold it before you as nearly
perpendicular as possible, with the muzzlt
a little above your head. 6. Never loat
one barrel with the other either on the car
or at full cock. z. Never take your gurr
home loaded, except you immediatel,
place it under lock and key. s, and lastly
Always consider it an instrument tina
} may take away your own or the life O
your dearest friend at any time without
moments warning, and do not handle
, as If there was no more harm to be appre
hcnded from it than from your walking
: stick or umbrella.