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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-16

How VICTORIA BECAME ENGAGED -
There have been published several news
paper accents of how the Princess Vic
toria brought Prince Albert to the popping
point. The following is the latest sketch
of that delicate affair. 1t is not at all
like the others, but reads pretty withal
1t is by '1gnatious " writer for the
London Figaro:
Certainly the young queen thought less
Of England than of marriage. The min
isters would FUN have made her marriage
y sort Of international treaty. Beyond
all doubt, Victoria was the finest match
in the world. The queen, however was
full Of host of little projects, ever shift
Ting and changing like the little heaps of
sand the children raise in the garden of
the Luxembourg. She told her mother
she would wed no one whom she did not
love. The Duchess of Kent reported the
speech to the ministers, who thought it
revolutionary in the extreme. Coronation
day came, and the next day the ball at
Windsor. Among the dancers was tall,
handsome, slender student, from the
University of Bomber cousin-a Co.
burg, like herself The queen noticed
him, and Prince Albert did not return to
Bonn. Even had he not loved be would
lave stayed; and he loved. But his cou-
SIN was the queen! Here the woman had
t, make the advance. Victoria, deeply
touched as she was by this love. (which
w.issieyer more to leave her,) could not
easily Conquer the maiden timidity due to
her severe education. Nevertheless the
moming came. assure you | invent
noting. Although the queen has not
conented to relate these delightful incl
dens, Prince Albert has told them to his
frieids.
Ieverless, then, morning came.
They were riding togather, he and she.
down the great avenue of oaks at Wind
sor. Those oaks were younger then, but
old nough already. After gallop they
found themselves alone. We know how
dangerous it is for Il man and woman 10
ridetogether. Suddenly the queen took a
snri, of honeysucke from her bosom land,
stooing, offered it to Prince Albert.
Bending to reach it, his lips touched the
tips # his cousins gloves. Perhaps twas
The ault of the horses. The woods of
Engnd and France know well how many
love! the noble brutes have been the cause.
sibnce followed, more sweet than any
thing ever sung to the heart of Mozart.
Next morning Prince Albert still wore
the loneysuckle in his button hole. He
keptit even when it had faded. A fort
igh after that ride the penipotentiary
miniiter handed King Leopold of Belgium
a tiny letter, closed by an enormous red
seal, as though it had mighty secret Of
state 1t began, MY Dear Uncle" and
was igned 'Victoria."
A month later the queen mentioned her
intention to marry Prince Albert of SAKE
Cobug Goath to her ministers. She asked
their ,ounsil, but with pretty air of de-
cisol which caused them to reply with a
unanimous Eyes" The wedding took
placeon the 10th of February, 1S40. The
Queer of England married for love-
Lord Melbourne was right when he told
England that the queens marriage was
the qleen's romance.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-16

SOMETHING ABOUT OYsTERs.-Professor
w. X. Brooks, of Johns Hopkins universi-
ty, at Baltimore. Md. gave his experience
in the Matching of oysters by artificial i'm
pregnation. He began his first expert
ments in an aquarium, but he found that
in few days it was impossible to find the
little oysters, so infnitesimally small were
they. lie then placed fluid in watch
crystal in which half million oysters
could swim about, for, he remarked, the
oyster during his early life is swimming
animal. His experiments showed that the
oyster formed its shell from two days to a
week, and even swan about after having
formed its shell. A fair average oyster
would yield from 100000 to 100000
of eggs. He made his experiments ut
Cristield, Md, on the Chesapeake, place
which is literally built on oyster shells,
and its inhabitants live by the oyster trade.
Oysters were marketable at an average
age of three years. He found no difficulty
in keeping the young oysters in a watch
crystal until they had formed shell. but
the great difficulty WIS in daily supplying
them with fresh water. From the watch
crystal he passed them into n saucer, and
so on into larger vessels; but when he
got them into four gallon aquarium, he
could not find them, except perhaps here
and there one; 125,O00,000 young oysters
even after the shell had begun 10 form
would ii exactly one cubic inch.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-16

SPONTANEOUS CoMBUsTIoN.-Some ex-
periments made at Riga with reference to
the spontaneous combustion of various
materials, waddng raw flax hemp, the
waste from silk, wool and cotton spinning,
also sponge, as well as wood most found
in cabinet makers shop-appears to de-
monstrate the important fact, among
others, that small quantities really take
fire scorer than large ones. The sub
stances named were saturated with va
rious fluids-oils, fresh and in gummy
state, turpentine, petroleum, various var
nshes, etc. All the tibrous materials
took fire when saturated with any of
these oils, or mixtures of the same !;
sponge and wood dust, on the contrary,
proved to be entirely harmless. Combus
lion ensued NEST rapidly with seventeen
grains of strong oil varnish-rfamely,
in thirty seven minutes. while two hun
dred grains of washed cotton waste, of
which portion was saturated with seven
hundred and fifty grains of strong oil var
nish and the remainder wrapped about it,
required IL period of well nigh fourteen
hours. On these materials being placed in
well sheltered spot and subjected to IA
heat of from eighteen to forty deg. c.,
silk did not flame up, but slowly charred (;
and as already mentioned, small guam
titles seemed to take fire sooner than
large.-America Machinist.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-16

1t is said that Walton hall, England, had
at one time its own corn mill. Going out
of use the mill stone was laid in an orchard
and forgotten. Its diameter was five feet
six inches, its depth seven inches, and its
hole eleven inches in diameter.
By chance lilbert seed was dropped into
the hole, and in time sprouted and began
TO grow up through. This was in 1872.
In 1868 the tilbert tree had filled the hole
and lifted the milestone, wearing 1t like
crinoline about its trunk.
A teacher ought to feel responsibility
for the spirit and methods and attainments
of all his scholars. He must not leave
them so. If they are not inclined to
sludy their lessons before hand, it is his
duty to see that they come to his way OF
doing. If they want him to do all the
talking and are reluctant to take any part
in questioning about the lesson,tbe respon-
sibilitv is on him to see that they feel
differently and do differently. When a
teacher confessos that his scholars do not
study, and are not attentive. and Will at
the best be only passive hearers in the
class, he exposes his lack as teacher
rather than their lack as scholars. A
teaher's true mission is to take just such
scholars as these, and bring them to a
better standard Of thinking and doing,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-16
Splicing the Ladder,

| One night the large and splendid Sailors
Home in Liverpool was on fire. and vasl
multitude gathered to witness the conha-
grafton. The fury of the flames could moi
be checked. 1t was supposed that all the
inmates had left the burning building
Presently, however, two poor fellows
were seen stretching their arms from
an upper window, and were shouting
for help. What could he done to save
themp"
A stout marine from a man-Of war living
in the river said, "Give me long ladder,
and | will try it,"
He mounted the ladder. 1t was too
short to reach the window. pass me up
| small ladderm he shouted
1t was done. Even that did not reach
to the arms stretched frantically out of
the window. The brave mariner was not
to be baked. lie lifted the short ladder
upon his own shoulders, and holding
on by easement he brought the upper
rounds within reach of the two men,
who were already scorched by the
flames.
Ont OF the window they clambered, and
creeping down over the short ladder, aud
then over the sturdy marine, they reached
the pavement amid the loud hurrahs of the
multitude.
1t was noble deed, and teaches n noble
lesson. 1t teaches us that when we want
TO do good service TO others we must
add our own length to the length of the
ladder.
Harry Norton saw that his fellow clerk,
Warren Proctor, was becoming hard
smoker and Il hard drinker, although he
was only sixteen years old. When he
urged him to stop smoking and drinking,
Warren replied:
"Whv, you sometimes take II cigar and
glass of WINE yourself"
"Ifyou will sign pledge never to smoke
a cigar or touch drop of liquor, | will do
the same" was the reply.
The bargain was made, and Harry
saved his friend by adding the length of
his own example to the length of the lad
der.
A widow lady living near me was suf-
ferng from sickness and poverty. Her
daughter, Il delicate, refined girl said to
herself, MY mother must be taken care
of III advertise for place as a servant
girl
She did so. A rich man saw the adver-
tisemcnt, and determining that the brave
girl should not undertake that, he procur-
ed her n situation as secretary in an insti-
tuition where she gets six hundred dollars Il
year. An unselfish daughter thus brought
relief to suffering mother. She spliced
the ladder with her own self-denying ex-
ertions.
1t is noble thing to be unsellish, and to
give up qualification for the sake of other
people. When the great Christian sage of
old said, at is right not to drink wine by
which my weak brother stumbles," he
added the length of his own influence to
the ladder for saving others from drunk
enness.
Icould tell of two Christian lads well
educated and refined, who 90 every Sun
day to - mission school in Il dirty and
degraded street, that they may encourage
some poor, ragged boys to 90 there, too.
These two boys have the spirit of Jesus
Christ They are not selfish; and they
mean that the poor, ignorant lads shall
climb up in the world over them.
That is the way to initiate the Divine
Master, who gave Himself that men might
climb out of the folly and degradation
of sin into Heaven Itself Y0uth'S Com
panion
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-16

BEING ON TIME.-Men like Mr.. Spur
geon know what is the worth of being on
time in filling every engagement, and he
speaks here like man in earnest. The
habit of strict punctuality is one of the
essential qualities of good Sunday school
teacher. Mr.. Spurgeon says:
Punctuality is one Of the minor morali
ties, but it is one which every young man
should cultivate. The very smallness Of
the virtue makes its opposite vice less ex-
cusable. 1t is as easy to be in time rs il is
to be five minutes late. when you once
acquire the habit. Let it be acquired by
all means, and never lost again. Upon
that five minutes will depend world of
comfort to others, and every Christian
should consider this to be a very weighty
argument. We have no right to cause
worry and aggravation to others, when a
little thoughtfulness on our part would
prevent it. If the engagement be for II
O'Clock, we have no authority to make it
IS, and by so doing we shall promote
nobody's happiness. That odd five min
utes may create discomfort for ourselves
throughout the entire day. and this perhaps
may touch the sluggard little more
hCtulN luttl lGoo oPlllSu COuSluCl bblOus
He who is little late in the morning
will have TO drive fast, will be constantly
in fever and will scarcely overtake his
business at night: whereas he who rises in
proper time can enjoy the luxury of pur-
suing his calling with regularity ending
his work in fit season, and gaining little
portion of leisure. Late in the morning
may mean pulling and blowing all the
day long, whereas an early hour will make
the pace an easy one. This is worth
mans considering. Much evil comes of
hurry, and hurry is the child of unpunctu-
ality.
The waste of other peoples time ought
to touch the late mans conscience. A
gentleman, who was member of com.
mittee, rushed in fifteen minutes behind
the appointed hour, and scarcely apologize
ed, for to him the time seemed near
enough; but Quaker. who happened also
TO be on the committee, ,and had been COM
PEELED to wait, because quorum could
not be make up to proceed with the bust
ness, remarked to him, Friend, thou hast
wasted full hour. 1t is not only thy
quarter of an hour of which thou hast lost,
but the quarter of an hour of each of the
other three; and hours are not so plentiful
that we can afford to throw them away"
We once knew brother whom we named
"the late Mr.. S." because he never
came in time. A certain tart gentleman,
who had been irrtated by this brothers.
unpunctuality. said that the sooner that
name was literally true the better for the
temper of those who had to wait for him.
Many man would rather be fined than
be kept waiting. If man must injure
me let him rather plunder me of my cash
than my time. To keep busy man wait
ing is an act of robbery, and is also an
insult. 1t may not be so intended, but
certainly if man has proper respect for
his friend, he will know the value of time
and will not cause him to waste it. There
is cool contempt in unpunctuality for it
as good as says, "Let the fellow wait;
who is he that l should keep my appoint
ment with him?"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-16

p,vr ANrn Ivprprry once stepped
,,,,aa ,,,harf .,rI r,,do INV Wv toward n
upSsal in which 7 w,s to make y vovaoe of
$50 ,ii h,,,'J.,d n,;los. hnt 10 What :,
SioLti She was a collier. and the coal
,ros inc, now hning emn,iai Inv men who
,vero sn covarn5 with The dust that filed
tho ,ir that thnv seemed rs black as the
no nan, i'' i,SoIf t''''
W, Whot ,.' n nros,oct for , vovaoe Of COM
c,r,. ovor1th;np hlarkened with coal dust
so thot noihino could be touched without
soilinp the hands. Deck, ropes. railing,
ovnry,h;no w.e olike-black black. black
bi9orar7 7 hlacknr hlacker. from stem
70 o,orn oil was hl,ckness and dirt. The
Ii,,Io NOT dng that lived ON board and was
a,';I - ho ,1h;to was ynrv far from white
1nm. "," an1 tho homo that I conld escape
,h,, ,o" '.onoral nontan,inat;on if 7 went on
,no.j Wv saa,,,od innossihIn And vet I did
~o On ho,rd and nossed the VOYAGE in
iooriiraSs and corfort notwithstanding
7 was on board such n collier rs have
dosnrihed "
wy, ~ w., .s. mn how this could he possi-
H., w e;o, sUu ,'hot IS hnvo s,id9 answer 7
.n,,, Wv ~, NV ho,tb WITH tho cantain. On
,bot 1irtv shin tho c,ntain had delightful
tn". .,o u'aS ,n.p nnat ,na rosv we'll furnished
arI', orI ohova t all % scrnpuIo1slv clean. despite
ANY, .no IT, H. o,tsilo IIere was white linen
unon r"e "ti" the ~ heJs and clean covers upon the
.pJ upJ" ."o " ,ha;rs snf, rich cnrnets.
,an.uS, a';,ssn, or on3 ,ic,nres ] mon the walls,
S;,t;na thoro chatting with the CAPTAIN.
or ""r'ms a5;nm o"o from some choice book in his
or or lo'u'ns ion' 1o. ;,,,noss;hlo tbera could
~ ~ ',',,,oh J;rt all around True. the
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-16

HAPPY HOMES. Nothing appears to us
so beautiful in human experience rs the
reciprocal affection of parents and chill
dren. especially after the latter have at
tained maturity, and, it may be, form new
relations in life. We have seen the loving
and lovely daughter, after she had become
II wife and mother, seize every opporluni-
ty of visiting the parental home, to lavish
her affectionate attention upon her parents,
and. by thousand graceful and tender
kindnesses. assure them that, though she
was an idoized wife and happy mother,
her heart still clave with every strength.
ening fervor to father and mother. who
watched over her infancy and guided her
youth. 1t has been our privilege 10 know
such, and as we have witnessed the out
pourings of love and happiness between
these devoted and glowing hearts, we have
felt that surely much of Heaven might be
enjoy ed here if all families were equally
attached. And would that every daughter
knew what pure joy she might create in
the parental bosom by II constant keeping
alive of the spirit of tilial devotion, and
seizing frequent opportunities to make il
manifest in little acts of gentleness and
love, Notwithstanding the child may have
become parent. The child never grows
old to fond parent. 1t is always the dear
child, and never so dear as when it keeps
up the childish confidence and love of its
earliest years.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-16

A man may cat and drink heartily all
day, says an unknown writer, as quoted
by the Scientific american, and sit and
lounge about, doing nothing in one sense
of the word; but his body must keep hard
at work all the time or it will die. Sup
pose the stomach refused to work within
ten minutes after hearty dinner, the man
would die in convulsions in few hours
or cholera or cramp-colc would rack and
wreck him. Supposing the pores of the
skin meaning thereby the glandular ap.
paratus with which they arc connected
should 90 ION strike" he would in an
hour be burning up with fever Suppose
the liver became mulish the appetite would
be annihilated. food would be loathed, tor
turing pains would invade the small of the
back and the head would ache to bursting.
Suppose the kidneys shut up shop and
danger most imminent, sufferings unbear-
able, and death more certain would be the
speedy result. If the little workshop of
the eye should close, in an hour he could
not Shut nor open them with physical force
and in another hour he would be blind /;
or if those of the tongue should close it
would become as dry as bone and stiff as
STEEL To keep such complication of
machinery in working order for lifetime
is miracle of wisdom; but to work them
by the pleasures of eating and drinking is
miracle of beneicence.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-16

HUMAN GRAFTING.-The Hartford Post
made on II Windham county boy On the
31st of December. 1878, Jesse,an 11-years-
old son of Edward Morgan, an influential
citizen of Canterbury, fell into shallow
vat containing solution of potash in boil
ing water. He struck on both feet the
liquid coming nearly up to his hips,
and instantly the skin of the legs COM
menced to peel Off 1t was found that the
flesh on both legs had been so thoroughly
boiled that no cells remain for new skin
to form growth upon. The boys life
was one of excrutiating agony for months.
Last April II young physician determined
to attempt the salvation of the child's life
bv skin grating. The boys parents im-
plorng him to try it. Over two thousand
gratis were used, the mother of the child,
q noble hearted Irish coachman in the
family, the lad himself and many of the
neighbors submitted portions of their cuti-
Gle for the operation. Hundreds of visit
ors flocked 10 see the patient,and implore1
the doctor to try piece of their skins in
the operation. The pieces of flesh were
pulled off with forceps. and were about
three times the size of the head of pin.
The process of grating is similar to that
employed in horticulture. The gratis
grow fastest in the spring months. One
of them is put on muscle, where it sticks
in and deposits CELL after which the top
sloughs off. Although the work is not yet
complete, the legs are nearly restored to
their normal and natural functions and the
child can walk II short distance without IA
crutch. but is still very weak from exhaus-
tion and ematiation."
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-16

An artesian we'll is being bored in Bos-
ton in order to determine whether or not
there is under the city an available supply
of pure water. At the depth of about one
hundred and fifty feet the borers found a
small stream of excellent water in strs.
tum of gravel beneath stiff blue clay. and
again at the depth Of three hundred feet
they struck second small stream of good
water in slate rock. The tubing used
measures eight and half inches outside
diameter and is one-third of an inch thick.
The weight now operating on the rock is
about three thousand pounds, the drill
itself weighing about sixteen hundred
pounds.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-16

GROWTH OF THE EARTH.-The millions
OF aerolites descending upon the earth as
an everlasting shower over all its surface,
prove that the earth is growing; the grad
ual rise of the ocean proves the fact, and
the great truth is also demonstrated by the
bottoms of all these oceans, according to
their various depths, constantly getting
filed up by primary formations. In short,
the universal law Of terrestrial growth is
demonstrated by every shell upon tho
shore, which, by its formation, is just that
much permanently added to tho bulk. But
sinking into the bowels of the earth as
deep as man can reach, proves the
the growth of the earth far more strongly
than all the facts and words which are
available on the momentous question; for
no matter how far down, every inch of the
dc scent was once the surface, however low
it may now be out of slightly the accumu-
lation of creative increase over it since the
time. Thus, so far as we have been ena-
bled to penetrate, and the rule holds good
over every part of the surface, we find the
strata, however deep we may descend. all
living. as to time, in the order OF their
formation. They cannot be otherwise, rs
no convulsions of nature could reverse the
position of one stratum by superimposing
it upon another. If we sink down through
the strata TO the depth of say thousand
yards. we pass through the works OF sew
eral geological epochs, the first one that on
which the drift of the deluge rests. the
latest formation,th next-if in the sinking
there is no missing link-a step in time
earlier, and so on in succession, until we
reach the lowest stratum at the depth
mentioned, the oldest one in the series.
There it is Just where it was deposited,
then on the surface of the earth, perhaps
more than million years ago, while all
the others have been in later times super
imposed in their respective geological
epoohs, up to the surface. There is another
such epochal formation going on and get
ting thicker under all oceans since the
present continental feature of the globe
arose, which will yet be dry land, and will
be the latest formation for the gsologists
of the remote future.-Colburn's Magazine
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-16

The carpet beetle it is said, as we'll as
the bacon beetle, has great repugnance
to tallow. Any placed near it will at once
drive it away; so that the judicious use OF
tallow will preserve our carpets from this
pest. Before the carpets are laid down
the floor should be painted over with melt
cd tallow, taking care to fill all the crew
ices in the floor, as there the larve usually
conceal themselves.
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We hear of man who has made for
tune attending to his own business. This
Is authentic: But then. he had few COM
petitors Boston Transcript.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-16

A bright little -years-old miss was
taken to the barn to see some sheep, and
after looking at them for a moment she
exclaimed; Oh. auntie. see; the sheep
all wear their hair hanged"