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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-12

According to very general belief, the
toad is endowed with II supernatural
power of existence which enables it &c
live for ages without food or air, and the
oft-repeated tales of the finding of live
toads inclosed in solid rock gain ready
credence. Such reports can have little
foundation in fact. Curious TO learn the
actual vitality of this reptile, DR.. Buck.
land enclosed twenty-four healthy toads in
us many air-tight cells of limestone and
sandstone-the limestone cells being con.
siderably larger than others. On the 26tt
of November, 1925, the stones and their
tenants were buried in the doctors car.
den, where they remained until Decem.
Der 10th, 1926, when they were disinterred
All the toads in the sandstone cells were
dead, and had probably been in that con-
dition for some time. Nearly all the
toads in the limestone cells were, however
alive. One or two had actually increased
in weight, which shows that some open
ing must have existed in the cells
through which insects and air gained al
mittance. The toads which were founC
alive were again buried, and all dice
during the second year of their imprison
ment, These experiments seem 10 es.
tablish conclusively the fact that even the
toad cannot exist for very extended
period without air and food. 1t is, there
fore. pretty safe 10 assert that living toads
are never found in solid rocks.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-12

CHARITY OF SPEECH. Charity of speech
j. AS divine q thing rs charity of action.
The tongue that spe1ksth no evil is us
lovely us the hand which give h aims. 10
Judge no one harshly, to misconceive no
mans motives, TO believe thinss are what
they seem to he until they are proved
otherwise, to temper judgment with mer-
cy. surely this is quite as good as 10 build
up churches. establish asylums and to
found colleges Unkind words do rs much
harm as unkind deeds; many 4 heart has
been wounded beyond cure by words
many reputation has been stabbed to
death by few little words. They have
separated families, parted husbands and
wives, and broken the ties between the
dearest friends. There is charity which
consists in Withholding words, in keeping
buck harsh judgments, in abstaining from
speech, if to speak is to condemn. Such
charity hears the tale of slander, but re.
peats it not; il will not be the one to help
the ball to roll. 1t listens in silence, but
fOrbears comment. and it locks the un-
pleasant secret up in the very depths of
his heart. While the busy, censorious
world is wagging its tongge, charity sits
dumb amid the clatter, refraining from
passing judgment on that Of which it has
no proof, and which, even if it had. would
prefer throwing the mantle OF silence over
the unpleasant matter.
| Could it bi possible for slander TO make
the headwaX il does, if reticence, instead
of promuigdion, was the universal rulep
could report be furnished with the hund-
red wings it has if there were not so many
tongues wtggingp Silence can still
rumor, it is speech that keeps it alive and
lends it vigor. 1t is 10 the heart that is
kind and gentle that charity flies and
broods quietly over it with the peaceful
ness of the dove. There it makes its
home, and by the world withheld and the
kindly word outspoken, we have tho sign
that the dove of peace is nesting in the
heart. The heart which is filled with Bit
terness will give vent to it in words. 1t
sees nothing bright or beautiful, because
it looks through clouded vision. Words
are a pretty good test of temper and habit
of thought. As " to the pure all things
are pure" so To the malicious and i'll tenn.
pered all things are black, unlovely, and
of i'll repute. Words are the signs of
thought, and if the thoughts be sweet and
good the words will he kind, gentle, free
from malice and uncharitableness. There.
fore by our words do we proclaim what we
are; the good fairy, dropping diamonds
from her mouth. Or the evil fairy dropping
toads.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-12

CoLERIDGE AND WORDSWORTH AS
GRoOMs. Il led the horse to the stable,
when fresh perplexty arose. removed
the harness without difficulty; but after
many strenuous efforts, could not remove
the collar. In despair called for assist
ancc. when aid soon drew near. Mr.
Wordworth brought his ingenuity into ex-
ercisc, but after several unsuccessful at
tempts he relinquished the achievement
as thing altogether impracticable. Mr..
Coleridge now tried his hand, but showed
no more grooming skill than his predces-
sors; for after twisting the poor horse 5
neck almost to strangulation and the great
danger of his eyes, he gave up the task,
pronouncng that the horses head must
have grown (grout or dropsyO since the
collar WAS put on. For, "he said, it was
II downright impossiblity for such huge
os frontjs to pass through so narrow a
collar
Just at this instant servant girl came
near, and understood the cause of our
CONSERVATION, La, MASTER" said she.
"yo don't go about the work in the right
way; yo should go like this" when turn
ing the collar completely upside down, she
slipped it off in u moment, to our great
Illumination and wonderment. each salisf-
ed afrrsh that there were heights of
knowledge in the world to which We had
not yet atlained.-From CotHcS life of
Coteridgc.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-12

FREDERICK DOUGLASS AND HIS WIFE.
i was surprised to find that Frederick
Douglass was hardly regarded rs rep.
resentativo man among them. His
sympthies are to certain ineradicable
extent with the proud white blood of his
father. He is II true man, but constitu-
tionally unlike his mothers race in many
essential particulars. His wife, however,
is II full-blooded negress, and | am told
that she has never learned to read or
write. He engaged himself to her when
in bondage, she being free negress of the
same ncighborhood, and after his escape
II sentiment of honor led him back to
marry her. lie seems greatly attached
to her,
1t is always interesting to meet and to
talk with Mr.. Douglass. His grand head
is now thickly covered with snow-white
hair, and the years begin to tell upon him
in other ways. lie is majssticlookng
figure in pageant, as | saw him at the
white house on New Years day.-Fronl
tke Troy Times.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-12
Boston, May, 1880,

How GIRLS ARE MADE STRAIGHT
The llndoo girls are graceful and ex-
quisitey formed. From their earliest
childhood they are accustomed to carry
burdens on their heads. The water for
family use is always brought by the girls
in carthcn jars, carefully poised in this
way. The exercise is said to strengthen
the muscles of the back. while the chest
is thrown forward. No crooked backs
are seen in Hindoostan. DIR. ii. Spray
says that this exercise of carrying small
vessels of water on the head might be
ndvantagcously introduced into our board
ing schools and private families, and that
it might entirely supersede the present
machinery of dumb bells, back boards,
skipping ropes. etc. The young ladies
ought to be taught to carry the jar as
these llindoo women do. without ever
touching it with their hands. The same
practice of carrying water leads to precise
ly the same results in the south of Italy as
in India A Neapolitan female peasant will
carry on her head Il vessel full of water to
the very brim, over Il rough road, and not
spill drop of it; and the acquisition of
this art Of knack gives her the same erect
and elastic gait.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-12

Nor Much OF Loss.-A young lady
went 10 n drug store, Monday, located moi
a hundred miles from the market house
and had prescription made up.
How much?" inquired the lady.
Fifty cents" said the clerk.
/" But l have only forty-fve with me-
replied the customer; can't you let me
have it for that?"
" No, ma'am," said the clerk, " but you
can pay me the five cents when you come
in again"
" But suppose | were TO die" said the
lady jocularly.
Well,i wouldn't be very great loss" "
was the smiling response.
And Immediately the innocent clerk
gathered from the indignant flash on the
lady's face that he had been misunder-
Stood and before he could assure her that
it was the little balance and not her that
would be no great loss, she had bounced
out at a go-as-you- please gait and was
beyond the sound of his voice.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-12

The inscrutable beings known as "boys''
are proverbially more quickwitted than
men in getting out of scrape A lad
was being catechized by his pastor, and
had the question put to him AS to the
number Of things necessary in the rite of
baptism. He replied Three" Stupid
boy!" exclaims the holy man, everybody
knows there are only two the prayer book
and the water. What do You mean by
three?" The boys prompt answer came
in the form of the question: And how
about the baby?"-7e Hour.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-12

WILLING TO OVERLOOK Ir.-An acci.
dent occurred in Thomaston some years
ago, says the Waterbury, Comm A0,eri,
can. in connection with the Nnuga,uck
railroad company that has probably never
appeared in print. A man by the name
of Darrow owned number of cows, and
one day they escaped the confines of their
pasture and strayed on the Cur track. The
engine of a passing train ran over and
killed two of the animals. Next day, Mr.
Darrow went TO Mr. Waterbury, thor
superintendent of the road, and, after cx
planning the matter of his loss to him
asked him what he would do about it
Said Mr.. Waterbury:
Was any damage done to the ro I'd, IL
you sayP"
Why, y,no-not as know of, "said Oar
row.
"Was the engine or any of the car
injured in any wayP"
No, of course not" said Darrow.
Well, then," said Waterbury, " if n,
damage was done to the company.I won
do anything about it; but you must b
careful not to allow such a thing to occ
again"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-12
NO. 49,.

very wide application. We are in a
world where evil is AMI must make II
choice. The good should he chosen mo-
only for its own sake. but f." The we'll
'ioers. Wealth will continue t. b. wur.
shiped: success will remain gnh; men
will gr"vrl when they should soar. and
grope in the dtrkne,S when they m! !ht
run in the light; low iletls will In cnrr
ished and dehtSing tastes prevail. Bat
despite the crOakers ON One side and Gym
les on the other, the number is Increasing
ca h year of those who "covet earnestly
the best gifts. Golden Rule.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-12

WESTERN VIEW OF THE MONROE Doc.
TRINE.-Bindwell l.. Stevens writes from
North Vernon, Indiana: "What is the
Monroe doctrine?" The Monroe doctrine,
Bndwell, simply and explicitly declares
that no foreign nation shall come over
here and slide down our cellar door
that England and France shall not hang
on our front gate to do their courting /;
that they can't bring over their own syrup
pots and elder sprouts and make sugar
in our maple grove; that Germany and
Austria can't spot no bee tree in our
woods; that Italy can't cut her frewood
out of our hedgerows that Russia can't
spank our neighdor's children with our
butter paddle. The Monroe doctrine
simply means that we are the bull of the
woods between the two oceans, and that
the man who joins farms with us on either
side had better not move the boundary
fence until he talks to us about it, and that
he cant sublct patch of his farm to any.
body until we are satisfied that the new
tenant will make Il good neighbor for us.
That's about all there is to it-Burlinqton
HaWkeye.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-12
Probat. and somulissioper. No,lee. g o,s.eh.

8. When the skin is rough and harsh
and does mo- IN we easily and smoothly to
the touch. the horse is heavy eater and
his digestion is had.
9. Avoid Il horse whose respiratory
organs are at all impaired. n thn e,r is
placed at the side of tle heart. and A
whrrz M sonn is heard. it is AN inii-
cati'n of trouble. Let him 90. Turf,
Fteld and Farm.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-12

Vast deposits of carbonate of lime are
distributed over the globe in the form of
limestones, chalks, marbles, marls. etc.
Numerous and extensive as are these
deposits. it is believed that they are all Of
animal origin. The softest chalk and the
densest limestone are found to consist oil
the aggregated shells or skeletons OF
myriads of tribes of the lower animals,
which existed in some remote period ol
the worlds history. Coralreefs are sea.
islands of carbonate OF lime built up by
minute aquatic animals, and their forma
tion is an example of similar deposits now
being made.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-12

WE MUSr HAVE SLEEP.-I would keep
- better hours" if | were boy again;
that is, would go to bed earlier than
most boys do. Nothing gives more men
tai and bodily vigor than sound rest when
properly applied. Sleep is our great re.
plenishor, and If We neglect to take ii
regularly in childhoo |, all the worse for
us when we grow up. If We sit up late,
we decay; and sooner or later we contract
II disease called insomnia, allowing It to
be permanently fixed upon us. and then
we begin TO decay even in youth. Late
hours are shade VS. from the grave.-J. T
Fields.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-12
Science for Boys.

A rock is any bed. layer or mass of the
material of the earlh's crust. The term.
in common language, is confined To the
solid rock. But in geology it is often APP
piled to kinds, 50 rs to include granite,
limestone, cong glOmerates, sandStoncS, clay
states, and the like solid rocks; gravel
beds, clay beds, aluminium and any loose
deposits, whenever arranged in REGULAR
layers Or strata as II result Of natural
causes. Rocks are composed Of minerals
But these minerals may be of organic ori-
gin. The material of all the great lime
stone formations, is derived from the re
mains of plants of animals, ground into Il
calcareous earth by the sea consolidated,
just as corals are now ground up and
worked into great coral reef rocks in the
West Indies and the Pacific ocean.
In other cases onlys small part Of rock
is organic, the rest being of mineral origin.
Such rocks usually contain district re-
mains of shells of corals that have con
tributed 10 their formation; these relies,
whether plants or animals, arc called fOS-
sils, and the rocks are said to be fosSilf,
crous. They are also called petrifications,
though not always petritied.
The material of mineral origin includes
all that is not directly of organic origin,
all the sand, gravel etc derived from the
trituration or wear of other rocks; the
material from chemical decomposilion.
like limestone, or from volcanic action,
like lavas and Trap or basalt.
Rocks are conveniently divided into
fragmental and crystalline. Rocks thus
are made up of pebbles, sand or the parti-
cles of sand, and even of clay, being
strictly fragments broken from the rocks
of the globe, either deposited us sediment
in moving waters, or accumulated through
other means, as ordinary conglomerates,
sandstones, clay rocks, tufls and nearly
all limestones.
The large part of the rocks here men
toned are made of sedimentary material,
that is, material deposited II, sediment
by fresh wator, and hence called sedimen-
tary rocks, consisting of layers spread out
one over the other.
Granite, granular crystalline rock, ,con-
sistng of quartz, teldspar and mica hav-
ing no appearance of layers in the arrang-
ment of the mica or other ingredients.
The mica is in scales, usually white or
black, or brownish easily separable into
thinner elastic scales by means of the
point OF a knife; the quartz is usually
grayish white, CLASSY, and without any ap-
pearance of cleavage; the fcldspar is COM
monty whitish or flesh colored, less CLASSY
than the quartz, and showing Il flat, polish
ed cleavage surface sin one or two direc-
lions. An average granite is composed of
silica 72.07, alumna l4Sl, protoxide and
sesquioxyde of iron 252, magnesia O33.
lime .63, potash oil, sod. 2.79, water
l.09-lOO,35.
Porphyritic granite has the feldspar
distributed in distinct crystals which np.
pear as rectangular whitish blotches on a
surface of fracture. Ilornblende granite
contains black scales or grains oI horn
bende, besides the mica. There are also
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-12

GERMAN SCHOOL BoYs.-All their en-
ergies are used up in their studies. They
take no violent exercise except on the ice
in winter. School work is exhausting
and it takes all their energies out of them
In it they do take an interest. And the
reason-or one principal reason why
they do so is because from early childhood
it is impressed on them that their whole
future depends on it, The Abiturent en-
Examen is the day of judgment looming
before the childrcn's eyes, and their child
ish life is solemn march to that dlesirae.
At the close of youth, before entering on
manhood, comes the terrible day which
irrevocably fixes their fate. Unless they
issue from that examination with testi-
monial OF "ripeness," every learned pro-
fession is closed upon them, and three
years military drill instead of one is their
doom As the boy goes to school he
passes the barrack yard or platz, where
the recruits are drilling. He sees them
posmring. goose stepping, tumbling, ,fenc-
ing marching. in mud or snow, and he
thinks, II shall have three years of this
unless | work." and it acts rs a daily
stimulus to eXertion.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-12

When man looks buck into the dim
vista of bygone years, about the only
things he can remember are his mother's s
slipper, his first pair of boots, the old
sch ,ol-mlster, and the little rosy checked
school girl who used to make his heart
hutter whenever she asked him for bite
of his chewing gum. Life was worth liv-
iag in those days, even though there
wasn't much money in it.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-12

UGLY But GooD.-Beauty gets plenty
OF praise. foets slug OF It, romancers
iurnisn IT IN aoundencc to their herolncs,
dramalists use II lor Their most stirring
plays painters and sculpta delight 10
portray 1t; all the world worships it;
and yet there Is much to be said about
lne noble qualities OF ugly little women.
1here Is mucn more charm IN the vitality,
energy. unsellshneSs and galety OF an
ugly little woman than in II half II dozen
tall, queenly beauties, who have TO be on
the watch all the time to pass well and
make their points effective,
There have been men IN the world who
thought it fine thing to say that "an
ugly woman has no place in the economy
of nature" But if the records of the world
were intelllglbly written it would be found
that ugly little women have been the her.
oines, the helpmeets of the heroes. 1t is
the function of beauty to get men into
trouble. Helen of Troy, Cleopatra, Mary
Queen of Scots, and hundreds of others,
wherever they came they brought cal
amity. Beauty and anguish have walked
hand in hand the downward slope to
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-12

e Are you professor of religion. my
little fullow?' asked Il lady of her psstor S
six.years. old boy. recently, No,mI'am.' y
was the little boys promp: respon's;
" I'm only the professors son."
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-12
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The Narragansett.

Taken to Faulkner's Island - Three
 More Bodies Reported-Accusedo of a Das-
 tardly Crime.
 The Narragansett now lies at the west end of Faulkner's Island, where she was lowed to and beached on the 4th. The wreck will be pumped out, canvas put on and she will then be lowed to New York. Areport is that three more bodies foated out of the cabin on Monday night. It has not been verified.
 Last Saturday evening Daniel F. Loomis, of New London, was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Morris on a warrant charging him with being implicated with William Lang shaw in the robbery of Edwin J. Horton swho was lost on the Narragansett Loomis and Langshaw picked up the dead body, and it was subsequently discovered that a gold watch and some money, which MT. Horton had when alive, were also missing. Langshaw has hearing in Lyme to-day. Loomis was not apprehended until Saturday evening. He had preliminary hearing before Justice Bush in Lyme Monday. It will be resumed there to-day before the same officer. Mean while Loomis remains in jail in New London in default of $500 bonds.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-07
ADDITION N!

Brown, Bolton & Go. are selling the biggest bargains in Dress Goods that have been shown here for years.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-07

 who were thrown out They were not hurt, but woful looking were their dresses, as they fell in the mud.
 John Bucknam, of Spring Hill, Norwalk, had one hand terribly burned and blistered by the explosion of a rocket he was touching of for the children.
 While playing with pistol Edward Sturges, of Westport, son of Sylvester Sturges, acci- dentally discharged his piece and got bullet through one of his hands.
 Serious ARafr in 1Tiddletoyvn.
 At picnic by St. Johns Benevolent Soci- ety at Middletown, at Halls Grove, when the rain came many persons took refuge on the dancing platform, and the platform gave way and there were shrieks and groans heard from those buried under it. A scene of confusion ensued. Efforts were at once made to get those under the wrecked platform out, which was soon done. None were killed, but the following persons were injured Patrick Griffin, twenty years old, right leg broken near ankle joint; Mary Ward, compound frac- ture of right arm and leg broken 8 girl be- longing in Cromwell, whose name could not be ascertained, had her face badly smashed and bruised.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-07
Serious stabbing Affray.
One swede Attacked by Another

One Swede Attacked by Another.
 A Hartford Times special from New Brit ain yesterday says A serious stabbing af- fray occurred near J. B. Parsons1block, on Franklin street. at o'clock last evening. A drunken Swede named John Erickson had 8 fight with another party, which fight had been stopped. Shortly after Erickson met another party named Hanson, also Swede, and although he had nothing to say to Brick son, the latter suddenly drew knife and stabbed him in the neck, inficting danger ous wound, which would have ca used death had not surgical aid been at hand. As it was. after sewing up the wound, it was extremely doubtful if the injured man could live, but we hear that he is better this morning. The case came before the police court this morn ing. Erickson had been drinking heavily all day, and was bad customer to handle. Of ficer Flannery had to use his club vigorously to conquer him. Erickson is said to be quiet man except when under the influence of liquor. The affair created great excitement in the vicinity and 1t was generally reported thatia murder had been committed