Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-03-24

| II Ildn never lOSeS Dy lltlle pOllUes
ness as the soldier said when he bowed
his head for the cannon ball to pass over.
The state of Tennessee has law pro-
hibiting the retail sale of liquor within
four miles of an incorporated institution
of learning.
| 1t is wonderful how silent man can be
when he knows his cause is just and how
bOisterous lie becomes when he knows he
| is in the wrong.
The most infusible of all known metals
| Is iridium, which, as has just been deter
mined by II French investigator, melts only
when the intense heat of three thousand
five hundred and ten degrees Fahrenheit is
reached.
At dinner she had a doctor on either
hand, one of whom remarked that they
we're well served, since they had duck
between them. Yes" she broke in-her
wit is of the sort that comes in flashes
:" and am between two quacks." Then
silence fell.-BOSton Transcript.
The enemies of the car of Russia will
attempt shooting him, blowing him up
and stabbing him, and still he will live
until some day when he is fcoling with o
revolver that isn't loaded, and get the
whole top of his head blown off-OU Chy
Derricb.
leap year gives young ladies gen.
tleman's privileges in making love"
Perhaps it does. But no respectable
young man will have anything TO do with
II young lady who takes position on the
street corner. Nor would it look well for
Il dozen or more young ladies to loaf
around in front of church an hour and u
half on Sunday nights, sparring and
knocking one another's hats off, and dane,
ing tra-la.la on the sidewalk. in order
TO kill time until the congregation is dis
missed, and then buckle up to young
man and escort him home. Not any.
EDISoN's LATEST.-What time Mr.. Edi-
son can spare from his electric light he
devotes to the perfecting of his plan for
obtaining gold out of the ore already cast
away by miners. The latter product is
known as tailings. Both miners and as
sayerS know that there is certain amount
of precious metal left in these talings
| when cast off, but process by which the
| metal may be protitably secured. Mr..
Edison says, has until now remained
| unknown. This process he claims to have
| invented. He has so well satisfied a
number of mining engineers and capital
lists that his claim is well founded, that
company has already been organized to
work over the tailings east off at the
great mines. 1t was learned that this
company have contracted for and secured
| fifty thousand tons of this product among
| tbn, i,,na ,lictr Dfl 4
Leadville.
The process by which Mr. Edison pro-
poses to obtain the gold is yet secret.
1t is said, however, that quicksilver enters
largely into the process, us do also in a
lesser degree oxide of lead carbonate of
soda, charcoal dust and powdered glass;
Ne1O I0rb Sun
The Christian at Work says: "At
Beaver City, Nebraska, two hundred and
fifty miles west of the Missouri, Presby-
terian church costing two thousand dollars
has been dedicated. 1t stands in the fore
front of civilization, being thirty miles
further west than any other Protestant
church, and is the only church in the
county. On the day of dedication the
three hundred and forty dollars which
| iNlhelI'C' W w Niooh N'to JiOulpIiy nub-
scribcd in full, with one hundred dollars
additional to purchase carpets, lamps, etc.
A large part of the members of the church
live in sod houses and dug OUTS"
An excellent instance of the way in
which the children in the average public
school learn without learning is related by
BWneS' Educational Monthly. A teacher
in one of our public schools has been
accustomed to require her pupils to say,
"The equator is an imaginary line passing
around the earth" etc. 1t has never
occurred to her that the boys and girls of
her school had no idea what an imaginary
line meant, until one day visitor asked
them how wide they thought the equator
was. Some thought it was five thousand
miles wide Others two thousand and others
said they could jump over it. The visitor
then asked how they thought ships got
over it. One pupil said he thought they
got out and drew them oyer, and another
said he had read that canal had been dug
through it! "What is the name of this
canal?" was asked. The Suez canalw
was the answer.