Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-05-14
Probate and Commissioners Notices. .asOe4ch.

Man can do many things, but there is
one thing he can't do-he can't button on
a new collar, just after cutting his thumb
nails, without looking up in the air.-BoS-
ton Globe.
The honest man who is out of debt and
has enough to eat and drink and wear, and
place to sleep beneath a tight roof, be-
longs to the arstocracy. With the smile
of God and place 10 labor, he has nothing
to desire save the crown that awaits the
promoted.
A publication Of the navy list for 1879
shows that out of 1868 officers less than
one half are at sea. Of the rest 523 are
doing land service of one kind and another,
and about one man in eight is doing moth
ing. OF those doing "sea service" large
share spend their time on vessels securely
anchored in the Mediterranean, where
their craft is usually undergoing re- airs.
An old darkey caught a two-pound
sucker one day and was so well sa l>fed
with his work that he lay down for IL nap
with the fish beside him IN the grass.
Another darkev came along presently,
picked up the sucker and left u haf-pound
one in its place. When the first man and
brother woke up. the first thing his eyes
sought was the fish, and it took him some
seconds TO realize that something had
happened. Then turning his prizt over
and examining it all round, he IMPLY
said, "Golly. how dat fish am shrunken!"
MAXTMs FOR Young MEN.-Never be
idle. If your hlnds cannot he useiu!ly
employed, attend to the cultivation of your
mind.
Always speak the truth.
Keep good company or none.
Make few promises.
Live up to your engagements.
Have no very intimate friends.
Keep your own secrets, if you have any.
When you speak to Il person, look him
in the face.
Good company and good conversation
are the very sinews of virtue.
Good character is above all things else.
Never listen to loose or idle CONVERSE
ton.
You had better be poisoned in your
blood than your principles.
Your character cannot be essentially
Injured except by your own acts.
The man who lives right and is right,
has more power by his silence than an
other has by his words. Character is like
bells which ring out sweet music, and
which, when touched accidentally, even,
resound with sweet music.
A BIRD THAT TURNS SoMERsAULTs.--
There's a pretty little bird that lives in
China, and is called the Forked Tailed
Parus. lie is about as big as a robin, and
he has red beak, oran9e.co .colored throat,
green back, yellow legs, black tail. and
| red-and- yellow wings. Nearly all the
co(ors are in his dress, you see, and he is
q gay fellow.
But this bird has trick known by no
other birds that ever heard Of He turns
his free life on the trees, but also after he
is caught and put into cage. He just
throws his head tar back, and over he goes
touching the bars of the cage, and alight-
ing upon his feet on the floor or on
perch. lie will do it over and over num-
Der of times without stopping, as though
he thought it great fun.
All his family have the same trick, and
they are called Tumblers. The people of
China are fond of keeping them in cages
and seeing them tumble. Travellers often
have tried to bring them to our country,
but q sea voyage is not good for them, and
they are almost sure TO die on the way
" Jach in-the- Pulpit" 81. Nicholas for
Nay.
SIGNS OF THE TMEs.-I am an old
man yet in material things have seen
the creation of new world. | am con-
temporary with
The Railroad,
The Telegraph,
The Steamship,
The Photograph,
The Sewing Machine,
The Steam Plow,
The Friction Match,
Gas Light,
Choloroform,
Nitro Glycerine,
The Monitor,
The Caloric Engine,
The California Gold Discoveries,
The Oil Well Discoveries,
Gutta Percha,
Canned Fruits,
The Electric Light,
The Telephone, etc., etc., etc.
Gentlemen conservatives, these are some
of the foot prints of material progress of
the present generation. DO you think the
moral world will remain the same as be-
fore? that society will be unaffected by
these charges? If you do, let me call your
attention to the fact that this same genera
tion has seen the abolition of slavery on
grand scale, the ascendancy of republican
America, the opening of China and Japan,
the institution of worlds fairs the spread