Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-03-12

Inc editor OF Il MISSISSIPPI journal re-
quests that his friends and contem porarios
no longer address him rs colonel He
is supposed to be insane.-Mempkis Ac!-
ldnche.
Habits influence the character pretty
much as under currents influence Il vessel.
and whether they speed US on the way of
our wishes or retard our progress, their
effects is not the less important because
imperceptible,
If the spring puts forth no blossoms, in
summer there will be no beauty, and in
autumn there will be no fruit. So, if
youth be trilled away with without i'm
provements, ripper years will be contcmpti-
BILE, and old age miserable.
Unselfish and noble acts are the most
radiant epochs in the biography of souls.
When wrought in earliest youth, they lie
in the memory Of age like the coral is
lands, green and sunny amid the melan-
choly waste of ocean DR.. IhonlGS.
A practical farmer writes that for killing
lice on cows, horses or hogs, he has always
been successful: Take wafer in which
potatoes have been boiled, and rub it over
the skin of the animal affected. The lice
will be dead in two hours, and no further
progeny appear.
The natural setishness of mankind is
never more strikingly set forth than in
the supreme pleasure with which the COM
fortably boused railway passengers enjoy
seeing the train make u farmers team
run away and scrape the troubled agri-
cutnrist up against barbcd wire fence.
The word "Thonatopsis" is used TO
signify death, having obtained the signif-
cance rather oddly. When the small
sister of Caius Marcus asked him if her
little drowned kitten was really dead, he
replied cheerlully, "deadcr than II top,
sis" She misunderstood him, and sup
posed the four last words TO be one word,
possessing some mystic significance So
she employed the new word, "rhan-a.top-
| Sis" in requiem which she shortly
wrote, and ever since it has been used to
signify death.
President Grant Is SAID to have remarked
TO some English officers, while discussing
military matters, that he considered the
bayonet and sabre almost useless. Alas,
| Ulysses this from you! Why it is only Il
tritle of some fourteen years ago that You
explained to us, that when cork-screws
were scarce and corks obdurate, nothing
Topped off the head of bottle Of "old rye
with such neatneSs and precision aS a
sabre, and that bayonet, though some
what clumsy, was an excellent substitute
for cigar holder San Francisco NcwS
| Letter.
LIGHT FOR THE SICK RooM.-A kcro-
sene lamp is not Il suitable light for the
sick room, for it should never be turned
down low, on account of the disagreeable
odor which results. A scientific man once
said " There is nothing in the world that
will produce diphtheria sooner than Il bad
kerosene lamp" Be that rs it may, if
your kerosene lamp emits u disagreeable
smell, it shows that something is wrong
the oil may be of IN inferior quality, tie
burner may be poor, or it is clogged up,
or the wick needs to be evenly trimmed
|-Harpcr's Ba-ar.
| WINDING THE Bra CLoCKS.-The New
| York World says For good many years,
running back into the sos, old James
Rogers wound the clocks belonging to the
city. His successor is John McCarten, a
watch and clock maker. His official title
is regulator of public clocks and he is
employed by the department of public
works at the magnificent salary of $500 a
year. Considering that he not only winds
but regulates, oils and repairs the clocks
his Office is hardly snccure. Each OF
the clock companies employ II winder to
look after the clocks of its customers, and
they also wind certain church and othci
great clocks which may have been put up
by other makers.
The first thing to be learned by boy OIL
young man, or any one else having The
least ambition to become useful member
Of society, is the habit Of saving. No
matter if boy or girl has wealthy parents,
each should learn how to save, if for nc
other reason than that riches are we'll
known TO "take to themselves wings and
fly away Few are so well-to.do rs to be
secure against poverty and want. In this
country it is notoriously true that the
children Of the wealthy classes are otter
miserably poor; while the men of large
means among us, as II rule, commenced
life without other advantages than habit
of industry coupled with the disposition tt
save.
Princess Louises simple manners
are said to conquer every body at Niagara
Her dress corresponded with her artles
ways. Her short walking dress was mad,
of black silk trimmed with Grape. Owe
this she wore a seal-skin sacque lined will
plucked otter, and over that Red Rive
ulster. A seal-skin cap decked her brown
head, Il white "nubia" her neck. pair o
fur-lined gloves and wooden wristlets he
small and pretty hands. Upon her fee
which are also pretty, were heavy Englisl
walking boots-number three-protecteC
by American arctics. The Marquis i
described us having "thc appearance o
being u sweet-tempered gentleman" hi
"manner is artless" and "he asks all sort
of questions just like an American"
WHAT He WANTED.-He had been con