Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-06-07

There has been decided change for the
better in the condition of Bishop Foss.
The pysmia symptoms are disappearing.
His mind is clear, and the fever is abating.
His physicians are very much encouraged.
According to the latest statistics on the
subject. there are at the present time so
Protestant missionary agents in China.
Reckoning the population Of China at
800, 900, 900. a ratio is found of one mis-
sionary agent to population of l,129,032
Dear me-" said an American female
abroad. not long since. when shown the
monastery at Venice where Byron wrote
Childe Harold" "I'd quite forgotten
Byron Was a monk. How stupid in mel"
Another one did still better, however.
When looking at the house of Sir Walter
she suddenly exclaimed: "Why! Scotland
must have been named for Walter Scott
must mt it, thought really never thought
# it before"
Major +. W. belamy, who owned sew
rral hundred slaves before the war, Is now
he master of thousand negroes, who
,ultivate his farm of 10000 acres near
Quintman, Ga. They live in neat, viii e.
washed cottages, and are provided with
churches, schools, and, if the local news
paper is not mistaken, with dance houses.
| Every dwelling has its garden, potato
patch and orchard. and every tenant is
Encouraged to save his money, buy land
md develop his individuality. 1t is said
hat all the children over ten years OF age
can read and write, At the plantation
house things are done in the old style.
Yes, thank God there is rest-many an
interval of saddest. sweetest rest-even
mere, when it seems as il evening breeses
from that o. her land, laden with fragrance,
played upon the cheeks and lulled the
he ,rt. There are times, even on the stormy
| sen, when a gentle whisper breathes softly
~ of heaven, and sends into the soul a
Iream of ecstacy which can never again
Aholly die, even amidst the jar and whiri
If waking lie How such whispers make
The blood stop and the very flesh creep
With sense Of mysterious communion !!
How slpgularly such moments are The
pooh of lifr,--lhe few points that stand
nut prominently in the recollection after
GOOD Of Yeas has buried all the rest, rs
Ill the low shore disappears, leaving only
few ock- points visible ut high tide!-
+. W. Robertson.
In the antehellum days New York
tate grocer raised the price of certain
grade of tea from three shillings" to
forty.five cents, and an old farmer who
came in with barrel of cider.vinegar to sell
could scarcely credit his senses when told
that his favorite brand of tea had advanced
several cents per pound. WHAT no arth
is the reason for this sudden rase?" he
inquired Scarcity of tea.chests,' was
the brief answer. "Well, do You want
my vinegarPr "llow much ?" Eight cents
a gallon" II only paid you seven for the
last" Yes; but cider has riz, you see."
"What has brought cider upP" asked the
astonished grocer. Scarcity of bung,
hole plugs" was the quiet but serious
reply. They looked at each other without
winking, and then tea dropped back to
lthirty-eight and cider to seven cents. -
Val Street Nc,pS.
The Alliance is not sverse to cards as a
game for children. 1t says: Do not teach
your children that it is wrong to play cards.
Nothing Is gained by lodging temptation
in that way. Teach them that it is wrong
TO gamble for cent. Have social game
of whist with them once in while. They
will never stray to the saloon for amusc.
ment when they can get it at home
Young folks must have some kind of
games to amuse them. and there is a
strange fascination to all but the goody-
goody about that amusement which is
forbidden to them. Half of the respecta
Bile young men of this city, who visit
saloons for amusement, have been driven
there by the dearth of amusement at home,
by strict parents who think "high-low.
tck" an invention Of the devil, and con-
slider home game of whist the unpardon-
able sin.