Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-02

young cOlorel lady of Philadelphia wears
shoes seventeen inches long and there is much
of her 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 year.
The opponents of the weed are begin
ming to protest against the furnishing of
tobacco to the army. for which purpose
Sl77, ,44+ was spent last year. They think
it should 90 the same way with the old
whIskcy 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 a 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 ut an
evening party when fashionable young
dandy was asked if he would like TO be
presented to her. Oh, yes" said he,
languidly, " trot her out" The lady over
heard the remark, and when he was pre-
sented to her, she adjusted her e-glasses
deliberately and slowly scanned his cloth
ing from boot to collar. The survey fin
ished, she waved her hand and carclcssly
said: " Trot him back, ] have seen all
there is of him.
A year from to-day citizens who are
slcgh-rding 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 year 1877 the farmers of this latitude
were breaking mp sod for complaining
the next spring; that the grass was still
green and growing, and the turf was
starred with dandclions in bloom; that
leaf.buds were expanding on the trees !;
that summer insects were buzzing mcrrily
in the sun, and that everybody looked hap
bv except the bilious prophet, who took oil
his ovcrcoat and delivered his gloomy
predictions about fat churchyards and the
certain rum of the fruit crop.-NcW York
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 IL result of
personal interviews with many members
of the House, he believed that it would be
impossible to obtain two-thirds vote in
favor of the measure in the House if it is
again put to "a vote He says there has
been very decided change of opinion
among members and that many who at
first were willing to vote for an extreme
bill, and who actually did support the
Bland bill. are now convinced they acted
too hastily, and are ready to vote for
a moderate measure, with the ohiectiona-
bic features of the Bland bill left out.
The wild vagaries of iuries have been
curonsly illustrated in st. Louis. In 1873
suits for libel were brought by one Belle
Barber against both the GlObe- Democrat
and the DtSpa ch. the two complaints being
exactly alike. On the first trial against
the DiSpatch she received verdict for
$500, but the proprietors appealed, and Il
new trial gave II verdict of 81 against
them. The first trial against the GioJc-
Democrat resulted in Il verdict for only
$1,000, and second trial being secured, a
verdict has just been brought against it
for $4,000. Here are four " intelligent
iuries" sitting exactly on the same cases,
hearing the same evidence and materially
the same charges from the Judge, and yet
bring in verdicts varying from 81 TO $4,000.
The west has been calling so Justify for
the "dollar of the dlddes," that enter
prsng bankers and spectators in New
York and San Francisco have heard the
call and responded. Circulars from the
Atlantic and the Pacific money centers
flood the west with offers to supply
" daddy dollars" trade dollars, Mexican
dollars. Manufactures get them delivered
for from nnety-six to nipety-seven cents,
and the Iaborers take them for one dollar.
Firms having large rolls make very
fine percentage in this way. But already
there are indications of an early tcrmina-
lion of this kind Of dicker. Merchants
and shopkecpers lind even western bank
crs know the real value of the old dollar,
and refuse to take it in exchange for green
backs. They win soon make the trouble
known to their customers, who in turn
will refuse longer to be cheated by their
employers, who in turn will stop buying
silver dollars. This practical illustration
of the silver Elllacv where the craze is
most General may have good effect.