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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-12-21

BANK NorEs.-Few of the persons who
handle Bank of England notes, ever think
of the labor and ingenuity that is expended
on their production. These notes are made
from pure white linnen cuttings only,
never from rags that have been worn.
They have been manufactured for nearly
200 years at the same spot-Laverstok in
Ham pshire-and by the same family, the
Portals, who are descended from French
Protestant refugees. So carefully is the
paper prepared, that even the number of
dips, into the pulp made by each workman
is registered on a dial by machinery, and
the sheets are carefully counted and booked
to each person through whose hands they
pass The printing is done by most Gu
rious process in Mr.. Goes department in
the bank building. There is an arrange
ment for securing that no note shall be
exactly like any other in existence, conse
auently there never was a duplicate of n
bank of England note that was not a
forgery. 1t has been stated that the stock
of paid notes for seven years is about
ga, 900, 900 in number, and they fill $1,000
boxes, which, if placed side by side would
reach three miles. The notes placed in !
pile would be eight miles high; or, if joined
end to end would form ribbon $1,000
long. Their superficial extent is more
than that of Hyde Park, their original valu.
was over G3, ,OOO 100000, and their weight
over l12 tons.-EngIish Exchange.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-12-21

AN UNEXPECTED FREEND.-An unex
pected friend TO man has been discovered
in kind of animalcule engendered by sew
age, which prevents the decomposing
matter from becoming dangeroug nui-
sance. Mr. Angel, the public analyst for
Hampshire, England, having examined
the sewage polluted fluid in Southampton
water, has discovered that where the sus-
pended matters. are thickest there is going
on silent destruction OF the foul matters,
through the agency of millions of the mi
mute creatures, by some held to be OF ami
NAL, but by Mr.. Angel believed to be o.
vegetable origin. examining the mud
dy auid through a microscope, it was
found to contain myriads of little brown
organisms, surrounded with gelatinous
substance. Each specimen was found to
be active in its movements and of peculiar
shape, being furnished with a belt of ellis
round the center OF the body, and with I
long, transparent and very flexible tail
After death, those tiny atoms give off ar
odor similar to that of seaweed, ant
change to green color. During life the.
evolve bnbbles of oxygen gas. which scrv
to purify the water from the effects @
decomposng matter.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-12-21

OYSTERS AND OYSTER FARMTNG.-The
oyster is a strange sort OF an animal. Chill
dron, and many grown folks too, when one
speaks of AN animal. think of COW or a
horse, or some large creature, because
hese are the largest and most familiar to
us. All forms of life belong to either
plants or animals. A rosebush is a plant,
and goat is AN animal, but it is not al
ways So easy to tell TO which branch or
group of living things AN object belongs,
There are many plants that move from
place to place by their own action, and
there are animals that are as much attach
ed to the rock or earth upon which they
grow as tree is. If the boys and girls
sh ,uld Just here ask me to tell the differ
ence between an animal and plant.
should be obliged to say, | do not know.
can tell horse from n maple tree. but
these are extreme cases, Most persons
can tell the color, red from blue, but the
red approaches blue through many shades
and in the same way the blue shades into
the red. until one may be sometimes at
loss to know where the red ends and the
blue begins. .
All this talk is to show you that all ami
mails are not alike in having those thing'
that are common with the most perfec
and higher forms of animal life. The oys
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-12-21

FARMING AS AN OCCUPATION.-Nt ttural
bias or inclination is first of all to be con-
sidered in deciding on the business of life.
| know two brothers, born and raised on
farm one of them took no interest in
any of the work going on, unless some
machinery was connected with it. He was
made for mechanic, and after he had
finished school course, and had made n
trip to Europe, he informed his friends that
his desire to build steam-engines was over
powering, and that he would consider it to
be doing him no favor to give him the
farm. So he went intoa machine shop and,
in the old way, learned Il trade. The other
brother, from early youth, took the greatest
interest in all the operations of the farm,
and during vacations from school, was
with the men in the fields. He knew the
places for all the tools and the names Oi
all the animals. In his case the inclination
to be farmer was as decided rs was that
Of his brother TO be worker in iron.
Each was allowed to adopt the desired
business, though it is not often that views
of boys in their teens are thus decided-iI
is generally easy to find out something OF
he biases and adaptations-and generally
when boy thinks be knows what he wants
to do, it is we'll to let him try to do it,
Geo GeddeS, IN AgricHtturtSt.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-12-21

OvERFEEDING WITH HAY.-Now that
cows are about going into winter quarters,
Il hint about feeding hay may not be out OF
place. We often hear dairymen talk as if
the hight of skill in taking care of cows in
the winter was 10 get all the hay down
that it was possible to cram into them.
II give my cows all the good hay can
get them to eat" is the boastful remark
often heard from a spirited and aspiring
dairyman, though in doing so he is vast
ing good provender, without promoting
the best welfare of his animals, 1t is {
good thing to feed cows we'll, and to bt
sure that they have food enough to sustain
them fully, but it is neither wise nor econ
omical to crowd them with great bulk o
hay of any quality, tits not wise to crowd
any animal with great bulk of coarse
food. Cows should have no more hay
than they have time to remasticate, and i
this is not enough for their necessities they
should have some easy-digesting concen
trated food along with it, The quantity o
hay given should never exceed what they
will eat up clean. and twice day is offer
enough to give time for properly rumin
aling .-MatiOnaL LiUe Stock Journal.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-12-21

WHILE They ARE YET SPEAKING | VILLA.
HEAR.-In the spring of 1877 IA mother
who had been pledged to total abstinence
from childhood engaged more heartily
than ever before in temperance work, She
had An only son, for whom she had been
praying for years. One afternoon in June
she knelt in prayer, and had only uttered
few words when the assurance came,
THY prayer is heard" She rose from
her knees satisfied, the burden gone The
next morning, before 6 o'clock, tha son
came in and said "Mother, h'ye been
before the squire and pledgei myself to
total abstainance" The mothers heart
leaped for joy; she could only repeat, The
Lord be praised! The Lord be praised,
She was not surprised when She was told
that the afternoon before, while she was
praying, the son was urging It companio
to pledge with him, They did pledge
and, best of all, they have kept their pledge,
The promise was fulfilled, "While they call
| will answer, saith the Lord Mother
90, thou, and do likewise. The Lord is a
Iewarder ofthose who diligently seek Hin.
- Union.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-12-21

A novel auction took place few days
ago at Armenia. Duchess county, New York
when the Van Amburg circus and menag-
erie property was disposed Of An inof
fensive looking elephant was knocked
down for 81, l00,a mild eyed camel for 1925
and a rhinoceros for $2, 400. Horses, cages
for animals. tents, wagons and wardrobes
and trappings of all sorts were among the
things sold, "One man.fish wagon"
brought fair price, though no mention is
made of the "msn fish,. He has probably
returned to his former vocation of stable
boy or something Of the sort. The buyers
of the property were men connected with
circuses and menageries.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-12-21

LEARN TO BE BRIEF Long visits, long
srOl les, long eXhor, ttlons and long pray
ers seldom profit those who have TO do
with them. L,fa is short. Time is short.
Moments are precious. Learn TO condense,
aorldge and intensity. We can enlure an
ache, an III if it Is soon over, while even
pleasures grow insipid and inloerable, if
they are pro rtcted beyond the limits OF
reason and convenience. Learn to be
brief Lop off branches; stick TO the main
fact in your case If you pray, ask for
what you would receive. and get through ;
if you speak, tell your me sage, and hold
your tongue; boil down two words into
zone, and three into two. Learn TO be brief.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-12-21

DR.. HOLLAND AS SCHOOL MtsrER.-
The experience OF che late j. q Il bland
as superintendent of schools at Vlcksbury,
l. thus recpuntpd bv Edward Egglestpn in
the ID cember Century AT the end of hr
tedious river voyage, he found tlaJ the
schools which he had been called 10 super
lntrnd had not yet been organrz 1t, and
that, be- ond II department for glrls. they
had no existence Dr. Holland WAS warned
that uscIpllne was out of the question
h It If ne eXtcLeI obedience he would he
put out by the ltrgcr boys. There ensued
i stem fight between hlu ,ni his rebtl-
lou, pupils. in which his quick decision of
char iclrr gave him the nIa> cry. Even at
i lter day than TINS, suCn u thing rs the
shoo'Ing of II >cuonl IN ,ster for whipping
boy was not uuknOWn in the sou h west
and 1t is woner That DR.. Holland eScap
Ell violence. No hlng but his superior
qulckne5s and untalleing courage saved
hun. Once, the larger boys resolved on
revenge One VINO bad suffered sharl
punishment at his hands provided himsel
With u club and, backed by crowd o.
bury, over-grown school fellows, waiec
TO attack the teacher on his way to the
post Office. Seeing Inc crowd, and know
ny its meaning, Dr.. Holland fixed hi:
steady, dark eyes on the one who held the
club, clenched his fists, and walked straigh
forward through the veay midst of the
group, which melted slowly away at the
approach of the terrible master. Wher
the rebels had dispersed, the teacher fount
the prints of his nails in the palms of hi
hands. Though he staid in Vicksburg bu
fifteen months, ne wrought revolution il
its educational system. In less than yea
from his coming, the private schools wer
all given up, except one which derived it
support from out-of-town pupils. Tn
schools were graded, and were taught ii
one building under his supervision.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-12-21

PRAY AND VoTE.-Let the father who
has drunken son bring his case before
the temperance meetings, ask Christians
to pray for him, plead with the temperance
lecturer to save his boy, then on election
day go and vote for his party ticket, build
up the men who defend the rum traffic.
who patronize the saloons, who use the
bar-rooms as an engine of power for their
party, then wiring his hands and groan
that his boy is lost.-Ihe Rech abae.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-12-21

A murderer who was hung in May,
while onthe gallows spoke as follows;
My dear friends, am on the scatfold
to pay the last penalty of the law, and |
bless God that He has seen fit to pardon
me and wash away my sins. feel that
my sentence is just and | want to warn
you all, my dear friends, never to touch
the intoxicating cup. 1t was all through
liquor that | came here. Oh, my dear
friends, as you value your own souls leave
that cup alone. 1t has done more harm
than all other things put together, and
has been the ruin Of thousands, as it has
been of me.-SeLected.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-12-21

WHAT New YORK CITY HAS TO FIGHT.
Nearly every candidate for local offices
in the city of New York, irrespective of
party, is a saloon keeper. 1t is hard to
expect men to enforce laws, who contin
ually violate them themselves by keeping
the side doors of their gin places open on
Sundays, holding political caucusses and
dispensing five-cent rot-gut to their heel
srs, friends and admirers,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-12-21

The girls school building at Sidon, in
the territory of ancient Phoenicia. has
been enlarged by several additional rooms.
The increase in attendance has rendered
this accessory.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-12-21

THE WOODEN SHOE IN FRANCE. .-Sa-
bots. or wooden shoes, are worn by at least
one half of the French people. The peas
ants and farmers have no others, and in
cities and villages numbers of the laboring
and poorer classes wear ,hem. Few, per-
haps, are aware of the great saving to the
nation from this custom. An ordinary
pair of sabots cost about two francs, or 40
cents, and they will without any repairs
last at least two years Taking the popu
lation of France to be forty millions, it is
safe to estimate that the shoes of twenty
millions of them cost the same number of
francs yearly, or $4000000. Assuming
the population of the United States to be
about the same rs that of France, and com
pairing the foot gear of the same class of
Americans with that of the French refer
red to, it Is no eXaggeration to conclude
that their leather boots and shoes, with
repairs, cost them annually So per head,
or 800, ZOO, 900 The French thus save.
rs compared with the Americans, on this
one item alone, S96,0O0.0O0 yearly about
equal to the annual interest of 5000 900
at per cent. Il is by such savings that
we can account tor the immense wealth of
France; for it Is an axiom that the ecOno-
mIes of an individual, and more particu-
larly of u class increases the resources of
a nation. This great saving is not the only
advantage of stbots Wood is a much
better non conductor of heat and far more
lmpenetrable to moisture than leather
aud with the thick wooden "chaussette
or short sock, always worn with sabots
he feet are kept dryer and warmer than
they could possibly be by any leather boots
or shoes; for this reason they are also
much worn in France by the highe' classes
who i've in the country.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-12-21
TERMS FOR ADVERTISING.

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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-12-21
WEDNESDAY MORNING.

On assembling for the morning session
L. r. Pember, member of the board from
Wells, read paper on, Will it payP
He proceeded to speak of the advantages
of Vermont for farm, RS as compared with
the west. This is question that should
be fairly considered by young men who
are determined on leaving their native
state for the west-Will it payP Thinks
that this excessive immigration is destined
to greatly depopulate portions OF our state
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-12-21
TUESDAY EVENING.

A large audience having assembled,
no. wthstanding the violent rain storm,
DR. Cutting delivered IN unusually inter-
esting addresssupon Information where.
by farmers can save money" 1t contained
very many facts and suggestions relating
to our homes and their surroundings, and
if the practical advice given were to be
followed to a reasonable extent much
money as well as discomfort and even
suffering might be saved. He asked how
many in the audience ventilated their
cellars? Two hands only were raised.
This he pressed home to them with force,
ulging such ventilation that the poisonous
gases from the decomposing vegetation
stored in the cellar might not permeate
the house, causing disease, sickness and
often death, thus from Il small neglect
wasting large amounts of money on doc
tors bills and other expenses, as well as
causing so much suffering and often death
He urged the growing of house plants,
AS they help make the atmosphere in our
rooms healthy, and health gave us Its
return in cash. He showed the united
opinions of medical men to be that typhoid
fever and diphtheria were caused by what
we UTuIlh Ill Wul'lp anu biiN
gases that emanated from our surround
ings; that after these originated in town
they were contagious, but most likely to
spread in contaminated atmosphere.
Avoiding such diseases and keeping our
homes healthfu would enable any larmer
to become forenanded Next to cash came
happiness, and what family was happy
when not in healthP Next to health camt
the happiness of eating, drinking and
wearing fine clothes, and even here money
could he saved by buying understanding
and such articles rs were best and cheap
est, and such were the unadultcrated art
ces.
This part of the address was listened tt
with great attention. AT the close numer'
Gus questions we've asked and nby aswer
ed.
O. s. Bliss, secretary of the dairymeni
association, said that he had found ou
from experience that II lamp placed in ar
ordinary box stove aud the door left open
afforded good means of ventilatng
bed room in hot weather, the slight hea
IRON the lamp causing rapid draft NJ
the pipe, and thus the air was made pur'
and good, and the temperature lowered
If the lamp could not be set in the stow
setting it at the stove door would answe
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-12-21

Containing canned and dried fruits, hams.
9ulter' beans. clothing for children. and
ever so many things. Everything is very
dear here. butter Is cts. to 81; d ,ur ha>
been as bigh a. S2j per nb. once since |
have been here; ham, by the whole, 80
cIs. per pound.
| have had considerable of the time
seven children, from hetthen parents, for
whom | have provided myself | wrote
to Mrs. Prescott that | could do nothing
with SiU0 | do want to lay foun
datIon for n permanent work, had it in
my mind that if the society would repair
he building | could easily get it fur
nished and get clothing for any number
of children. The usual suggestion came
up, why not ask the Lord for it?" could
not, nor did not till about two weeks ago.
| somehow felt myself marching up TO it,
and one morning, reading "Open thy
mouth wide and | will fill it," came with
wonderful force and the question came,
"why not ask the Lord for large things?'
Then could ask. 1t is coming, but |
cannot tell from whence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-11-23
WOEtEc's Cool Head.

Greenville Murray, in the Geneva Continental Times.
The reasons of Mnitke's amazing success are
not far to seek. 1t has been suggested that the
military art may be no very profound mystery,
that 'ts principles are the principles of plain
good sense, and that a quick eye, a cool head.
and a stout heart VIII do more to make a gen.
eral than all the diagrams of Jomjni." These
considerations do not quite exhaust the subject;
but there is no doubt that the above natural
qualifications combined with the serious study
of tactics, are pretty certain TO produce a
great captain. fortune moderately faYOrinI
him. And Moltke has at least taken care
that fortune should as rarely as possible,
be against him. From Saarbruck to Sedan
it was said of him, ''he left nothing to chance -
According to story which explains much. a
streets Of Berlin on memorable morning IN
the second half of July. 1870. The French u,ti-
matum had Just been received, and the friend,
after a hasty greeting, was moving on
''Whither away so tast:" asked Motke. s'Oh,
| know you must be busy" Not at all. Every
thing is ready" And, German wise, the famous
strategist carried off his companion to cafe
to talk philosophy over a glass of Bayarian
beer At Versailles the French wondered to see
him SO often ''doing nothing" as it appeared to
them. Evening after evening he strOlled into
the restaurant he had chosen as leisurey as any
rich young officer in a crack cavalry regiment;
and stayed as long at table az others. Not that
he is anything OF an epicure-hiS tastes being
of the simplest. 1t was noticed that favorite
dish of his was roast goose. He had so thor
oughly mastered his work that he had no need
to be fussy over it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-11-23
How to Fatten Oysters.

Lovers of the delicious bivalve will be disap-
pointed to know that the crop of the lower pc
ninsula has been materially affected by the
recent dry spell. While fair oysters are gathered
at Chrisfield, and the shipments from this point
are extensive, the crop elsewhere is very poor
When the supply of fresh water from the streams
emptying into the bays in which the oysters
grow is small. as during the present fall, the BIZ
valves suffer greatly becoming SO salty in flavor
as to be in degree unpalatable. Besides this.
they do not appear to thrive. and are rarely
found in well-fattened condition. At the
fisheries this serious impeachment to growth
is partially repaired by the use of arti-
fetal means in the shape of monitors. :"
or flats. The oysters are taken from the rock
in their present improbable condition, spread
upon these flats and taken to fresh water and
sunk. Here they remain several days in these
feeding grounds. When raised to the surface
they are found to be fat, palatable and ready
for shipment. Another ingenisus plan to bring
fulness to the most dyspeptic-looking of the
crop is, upon being shucked, to place them in a
barrel with twenty five pounds of ice The bar
rel can be fastened tightly and put upon the
cars. The ice in the barrel will last for several
days, and by the tune the western dealer gets
his consignment the lean and hungry biyalye
Will nave consumed the ice and built upon this
sustenance full, smooth and nutritious month";
iul. The present rains are expected to have a
marked effect upon the oyster and materially
reduce the prevailing high prices.-P hiladelpIia
Record: -. 1'