Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-12-17

China does not appear to agree with our
consuls. 1t must be the tea.-NeU York
Com. advertiser.
A rather gaily dressed Young lady asked
her Sunday school class what was "meant
by the pomp and vanity of the world"
The answer was honest, but rather uncx-
pected, Them flowers on your hat
Take the fine dust of tea, or the scrap
ing of the inside of tanned leather, and
bind it close upon the wound, and the
blood will soon cease to flow, These ar
ticles are at all times accessible, and easy
to be obtained.
A French staistician has computed that
if II person were to live continually in II
railway carriage and spend all his time in
travelling. the chances in favor of his dy-
ing from railway accident would not oc-
cur until he was 960 years old.
Dragging nobleman once said at q
table that he had shot Il buck through he
hind hoof and the ear with one bullet.
and called on his ready wilted serving
man for corroboration. The servant,
scratching his ear. replied that the buck
was scratching his ear at the critical mo-
ment. and added in an undertone to his
master, " For mereys sake, my Iud, next
time don't make it so hard to make both
ends meet"
A MUFF HEATER A woman has found
out comfortable secret which is wurth
giving. 1t is the carrying of II small hot
tie of hot water in the muff TO keep the
hands warm on long drives. The bottle
is dressed in cardinal funnel, cross
stitched with silk and tied with ribbons,
and is very gay little companion. Chill
dren who have cold feet, and delicate
girls. should carry soapstone foot warmers
tu school, and sit with their feet on them
under their desks. There is no USE in
allowing Il child to shiver, or to 90 with
cold, cammy feet ard burning head by
way of hardening" it.
JUMPING CITY.-ldaho furnishes a
phenomenon which would be possible in
no other civilization but that of the great
west. A town now called Beaver. situated
ut the mouth oi Beav' L canon. is u sort of
kangaroo city, which has jumped along as
the railroad advanced, thirty or forty miles
at time. A year ago it was one hundred
and twenty miles from Ogden.since which
time it has changed its base and name
several times and is now one hundred and
forty miles from its former base When
the town takes spring, the hotels, saloons,
dwelling houses and shops are packed up
and moved along and are set down again
| Just as they started. In each new locality
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| that visitor at one place is Mt home with
out asking, in the new. The inhabitants
seem to take kindly to this municipal
nomadic life. and Barney O'Niel, the
hotel keeper, says, livery time she jumps,
the town will bring up, for the genius for
moving has been so fully developed, that
it may be doomed to be forever jumping
about among the Rocky mountains.
BEECHER ON DEATH.-Henry Ward
Beecher, lately preaching on the subject of
death, made the following remarks:
" Generally there is no pain at the last
moment, for it seems that the body suffers
in proportion TO its remoteness from death.
1t is commonly supposed that evil men die
| in great horror of their doom. They don't
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TRANQUILITY as any one else. Tranquility is
the law of decadence. Pain or exquisite
pleasure at the last are only experienced
in exceptional cases. Men suffer more
every day of their lives than they do in
dying. Every man subject to the incur
sions of rheumatic affections, or to the
pangs Of toothache, suffers hundred times
more than he will when he is on his death
bed. No death is more painless than a
sudden death. Livingstone records his
experience when sprung upon and struck
down by lion. The moment when the
beast was on him was one of the most ex-
quisite tranquility. No death is too sud-
den for him who is doing his duty. Not
the stroke of the lightning; not the fall
from the precipice. Right living is the
correct road to right dying, and no man
need fear death.