Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-10-11

ALLEY FAIR ASSOCIATION b.
ne directors of the Champlain Valley
ASSOCIATION held 4 meeting in Burlington,
Monday evening, all tho directors bsino
present except Messrs. SleId AMI Cram.
'oh' Inc president, Col. Ctnnon. nude
8, report in the form of some rocco nman.
"'''oH. winch referred to n committee
CONSISTING Of Gregory Smith. Henry
C - y VI SPl1ljing AMI l. G. b
cannon. The treasurer, c. NJ. Squirting
indte par.ltl report, sho wing tina, the
proli,'s OF the recent joint exhibition were
the Crn1'ian department of aoricul-
'tlt 'S lmatcs that 40 600 i'm MIGRANTS
nav" -'l'ed IN the Dominion since Ian
'a'l l. most # them English. Irish and
v'rY few from he cont
" H'N e me across the water To
''i'h Inc promised land of the fertile
I,hwe>t but many of them found homes
N me Older provinces, taking he lands
"h'ch had been vacated by native farmers
VINO are now making homes for them
serves IN Manltoha aud the territories.
They dance by steam and at railroad
Speed out west. a happy party of ST
Louis ladies and gentlemen made an ex.
coursion over the Chicago, Milwaukee
and st. Louis road, and danced the rae.
quet with the train moving and at forty
miles an hour. The ball room was in n
large baggage cal, sixty feet long by fifteen
ieet wide. The floor was eleoanlIv
carpeted and the walls beautifully painted
hung with pictures and decorated with
bunting evergreens and garlands of roses
lhere was an orcestra of eight pieces and
refreshments were passed every hour.
The body of large male gorilla has
arrived in Philadelphia. The animal
was at one time the terror of a certain
African locality 400 miles from the Ga
boon. lie was chased TO % settlement
called kangwe on the OIoval River and
there killed by a bullet in the left eye.
Some missionaries residing there saw BY
the gorillas appearance that such large
animal would be priced by American
scientists, so they bartered some beads for
his carcass and shipped it to Philadelphia.
The animal is over five teet eight inches
high. His arms are four feet six inches
long and he is supposed TO have been
twenty or thirty years old.
Mi, Stow, Il San Francisco dress re.
former, has informed the police that on
January lst she will begin to wear trcus.
ers in puplic, and she demands proteclo
IN case street crowds insult her. But the
chief OF police seems TO think that it will
be his duty to arrest her, on the ground
that her conduct would be disorderly. As
to the form of the proposed garment,
Mrs. Stow says: MY trousers are made
with blait. and descend Just 10 the line
OF beauty in the calf of the leg, lust
where the dresses Of young girls come
and ii young girls wear their dresses there,
why should not old girls adopt the same
fashion, She is advised by a lawer
that California has no law under which
she can be prevented from dressing in
that fashion.
The Philadelphia Press gets attention
by formally declaring that Cameron
should be "unloaded" from the republican
party, and urging that legislative elections
be ordered with reference to sending
somebody else to the Senate next time.
In view of the course Of the Pr eSs in the
present compaign this declaration is Ger.
tainly notable and encouraging, hut the
plan proposed hardly covers the case.
In the first place it belongs to the ire
form next year" order of business, and
men it aims ut the man rather than the
hf1rr IL IL
Cameron bossism, that must be struck
~ 1t Pen1'FlV mia politics, and news.
JlEcr| and men here now have an excel |
-ni opportunity to do that bv defeating
iI- nominee for the governorship.
4 RAILWAY SroRY.--A f1w years ago
m enormously wealthy banker, of the
Hebrew persuasion, was travelling from
Munich to Vienna by rail. In the same
carriage with himself was a gentlemen
by a friend. The stranger
was of pleasing manners, and the purse
proud banker ut length condescended to
enter into conversation with him, and |
gradually even Gas he himself expressed |
it, took a liking TO "the man. He even
went so far as to say at last, You seem
10 be a good sort of 4 fellow and a geutle-
man. Look here, am going to Vienna
10 see my daughter. who is married there
is awfully rich and keeps a tptop house,
[ will introduce you to her. The stran-
yer thanked him AMI mentioned that, by |
1 curious coincidence, he too was travel
ling to Vienna to see his daughter. Your
laughter, indeedm said the Jew banker,
with considerable arrogance; land who
may she be?' The Empress of Austr ia"
was the calm reply. The stranger was
he Duke Macmillan of Bavaria, father
If the present L n ra4S OF Austria and
the ox Queen of Naples, the companion
was his aide dc camp. 1t is needless to
say that the Hebrew millionaire utterly
colIap,el.-LonaJn S1oiety
BACoN'S FAMOUS EssAYS-Lord Bacon
was one of the most eXtraor binary men
Of which any age can boast. A scholar,
a wit, II lawyer, a judge, statesman, u
his writings will endure as
long rs the languages in which they were
written can be read. His universal genius
made him master Of all the sciences, and
his immortal writings laid the foundations
of the scientific method which his ching
ed The philosophy of the world. Prof
Piayfair said of him: 1.-The power and
compass of snch mind must be an object
of admiration to al succeeding ages
His Essays are a treasury OF the knowl-
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