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

We hear of n man who has made a for
tune attending to his own business. This
is authentic: But then. he had few COM
petitors -Boston Transcript.
A bright little five-years-old miss was
taken to the barn to see some sheep, and
after looking at them for moment she
exclaimed: Oh. auntie. see; the sheep
all wear their hair hanged"
1t was recently stated by DIR. Kedzie at
sanitary convention in Michigan that
cotton clothing could be prevented from
taking fire by the use of borax in starching
"a teaspoonful to each pint of starch after
the water has been added The borax has
no injurious effect upon the cloth or upon
the wearer. and is so cheap that all can
afford TO use it. Experiments show that
muslins and tarletans. the most inflamma-
BILE goods. when treated with borax starch
could not be made to burn with blaze.
Prof. Edison is experimenting on elec.
tricity as n motive power for railways.
He has an electric railway at Menlo Park,
half IL mile long. but soon to be extended
to form II mile circle. The present rolling
stock consists of one electric locomotive
and one open car. The railway is built
over natural ground with little or no
grading and with no regard for curves.
The power is supplied by his stationary
engine, the current being conveyed to the
track by two copper wires. one wire con-
nectcd with each rail. The machine is
me ,hnVf l;lyn -
pushes ahead with wonderful energy.
A German mandatory is turning out
over II ton a day of glucose made from old
linen rags. These rags, which are COM
posed of hard vegetable fibres, are treated
with sui phuric acid, which converts them
into dextrine. This is washed with milk
of lime, and then treated with fresh
supply of acid stronger than the former,
which transforms and crystalizes it into
glue ,se of which " rich" confections and
jellies may be made. The process is very
cheap. and the glucose Is chemically iden-
tical with grape sugar. An out-cry has
however risen against the making of grape
sugar from rags, and the German govern
ment will probably interfere with it.
HELPING ONES NEIGHBoRs.-A minis
ter was soliciting aid to foreign missions,
and applied to II gentleman, who refused
him with the reply, II don't believe in
foreign missions. l want what l give to
benefit my neighbors."
gard AS your neighbors?"
"Why those around me-"
do you mean those whose land joins
| Al,
Yes"
WELL" said the minister chow much
land do you own?'
about five hundred acres"
GLOW far down do you own?"
"Why, | never thought of it before, but
| suppose | own about half way through" +"
Exactly" said the Clergyman; Il sup.
pose you do, and | want this money for
the New Zealanders-the men whose land
joins yours on the bottom"
| PRoPAGATING Roses 1t is always very
desirable with those who have few
choice roses to have some extra ones,
either to give friend or to enlarge the
flower garden. To do this select ripen
shoots, well branched near the ground
(preferring those limbs that if cut off would
make nice bushy panO and with sharp
knife hack or notch the under side so that
when bent will come in contact with the
soil. These nOtches should be five or six
in number, through to the heart or pith.
Now bend the limb down, and with the
knife slit the limbs one and one half inch
up towards the end of the top, just below
the nOtches, and be careful not to break
the limb; cover two inches in the sandy
soil and lay II brick or stone over it to
keep it down. Keep the soil moist, and
by spring the roots will have formed often
four and five inch IS long, when it can be
safely removed. The most difficult roses
root easily this way.
1t will be Il surprise to large number
of our American women to be told that
the white wax, of which they make such
constant use when engaged in their house,
hold sewing, is the deceased secretion of Il
peculiar species of fly found in the eastern
portions of central China. Most of our
country women, if they have given n
thought to the subject, have supposed that
this white WAX was some refined product
of ordinary beeswaX-an article that has
about it the conditions of cleanliness and
heathfulness, which is more than can be
said of the exudations of insects due to
some bodily malady. These flies appar-
emily become diseased from feeding on
the leaves of u particular kind of evergreen
tree or shrub, of which they are exceed
ingly fond. The twigs of these trees in
certain seasons of the year are thickly
covered with flies, which, in time, leave
upon them n thick incrustation of white
matter. When this has increased to n
sufficient size the branch is cut off and
immersed in boiling water, which causes
the wax to come to the surface in the
shape of viscid substance, which is
skinned off, cleansed and afterward
allowed to cool in pans. The trade in
this article is quite an extensive one. as it
was estimated that last year the crop was
worth not less than three million two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.-Neo
York Times.