The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1882-10-13
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curtain dropped, she stole, unnoticeai,
down TO the doorkeeper's room, borrow
ed there a bonnet and shawl, and then,
without q word or notice of explanation
to the manager, made off and spent the
remainder of the evening wandering
about the Quays and by-streets Of the
CITY, Studying human nature" Of
course the luckless manager had to dis
miss the audience and refund the money
at the box-office. Next day tho actress
took dose of laudanum, and her life
was narrowly saved by the use of emet-
les.
The lake of Geneva is the most extern
sive of all the Swiss lakes, its breadth
being at some points from 7 to 10 miles,
and its length nearly miles. The
Rhone enters the lake AT Gangsette, its
upper extremity, so turbid and muddy
as for a long distance to form separate
body of distinct color, but it is so soon
filtered and purified BY the cold and
clear ice waters Of the lake that it issues
from its. lower extremity ut Geneva a rap
id stream of bright blue, nearly l50 yards
in breadth, the formation of the river
after passing through the lake taking
place almost in front of the city of Gene
va. 1t is the only one ofthe Swiss axes
on which sailing vessels are to be seen,
all the others being 80 hedged in by
mountain cliffs, rising perpendicularly
from the waters edge to the height of
thousands of feet, that sails are perfectly
useless.
Democracy like Christianity is not
served best by its own brawling advo-
Gates, but often far, far better, finally, by
those who are outside its ranks. |
should say that such men as Carlyle and
Emerson and Tennyson, to say nothing
OF Shakespeare and Walter Scott, have
done more for popular political and So
cial progress and liberalization, and for
individuality aud freedom, than all the
pronounced Democrats one could name
1t remains to be distinctly
avowed by me that Emersons books
form the tal.est and finest growth yet of
the literature of the New World. They
bring, with miraculous opportuneness,
exactly what America needs, to begin at
the head, to radically sever her mot too
apparently at first) from the fossilism
and feudalism of Europe.-lWalt Whit
man.
A red oak tree, with base diameter
of at least three and one-half feet, was
recently cut from the farm of Sam Ev-
ans, near Bethany, KY, and sawed into
lumber. While one of the planks was
being unloaded at ] Tipton's shop,
Daniel Evans observed what he thought
to be knot in it, and began to pick at it
with his knife. The supposed knot
proved to be sound dogwood peg,
which, when removed, revealed lock
of red hair. The hole had been bored
about five feet from the ground with
three-inch auger, the lock Of hair placed
in it, and the pin driven in and nicely
smoothed off. From the outer end of
the pin-when the tree, in its even pace
with time, had closed over ito the
bark were counted 215 growths, not in
Guiding the sap which is supposed to
represent about twenty-five years in the
life of the tree. Each one of these 2l5
represents year. Adding this to the
sap growth of twenty-five years. and we
have almost positive and indisputable
evidence that that lock of red hair was
placed in that red oak tree at least 24O
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