Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-12-27

ire left out AMI others are left tin.
\ doctor was asked TO dane, tho "Lan.
GERS" lie declined, bit expressed a
Willingness 10 lance the dtncers.
a San Francisco woman advertised MS
folow>: For sale two beautiful small,
snow white, house dogs, cheap. She was
| threatened with Mysteries when she read
this tie next morning: Too beautiful,
small snow white houses, dog cheap
Professor (cxplaiuing the influence of
different densties of air on sound)-"If,
now, from here we should hear the steam
boat whistle down in the hal Dor. what
should we infer? Bright JUNIORS Stoam-
boat coming in "-Yrie Record.
In 1860 the late Senator. Carpenter
predicted that not many years would
elapSc before there would be "pracically
but one lclegra.h company in the United
States, and that railway consolidation, if
allowed 10 90 on unchecked, might sooaer
or later result in such a combination that
Il few magnatcs could "sit in Wall street
with closed doors, and by the light of
candle, direct the whole carrying trade Of
his continent.
Some culious phenomena on the darken.
ed orb of Venus are reported by Professor
Lrn%lcy Of 'he Pittsburgh observatory,
ana by Other observers. If there was any
rem lining doubt or question whether our
| brilliant sister planct has an atmosphere,
that doub, will be pretty cilecually
removed by the time the results of these
widely separated observations have been
gathered and summed up.-Hdrttord
| times.
I a new sect is gaining ground in Finland,
having for its fundamental principle the
reversal of all ordinary ideas of govern
ment. and establishing all or more than
the most enthusiastic advocates of won
ans rights ever pie lded for. With them
The woman is the priest of the family, and
the hu,ban und4rt to confess to her
once week. A similar sect, clllcd the
| Purts, exists in Siberia.
| In Greece much Of the labor on the
farms is done by girls and women who
work from sunrise to slnsat. Many eat
meat but once year-at Elster Then
every one cats spring lamb. Their supper
usually consists of bread, soup, black
Olives, salad and fruit in season. The
landlords complain that the poverty of the
country is owing to the great number of
feast days which are observed Some
laborcrs observe on an average nearly a
day week, besides Sunday.
II has been found by Mons j. 3. Dumas
that water saturated with alum is remark
ably olli lent in extinguishing fires. This
property is supposed to be due 10 the
coating it gives to objects wet with it,
which prevents contact with the oxygen of
the air and thus rctards combustion. 1t is
reported that, as an experiment, French
Eremen are TO be quite extensively supplied
with instruments lor throwing such solu-
tions of alum.
A short time ago at Il school in the north
of Eng land, during II lesson on the animal
kingdom, the teacher pat the following
question: Can any boy name to me an
animal OF the order cdentata; that is, a
front tooth toothess animal?" A boy,
whose face beamed with pleasure at the
prospect of Il good mark, replied, II can"
"Wcll, what is the animal?" My grand
moher! replied the boy in great glee.
pse,ti, instead of seeking health and
conso' alton in trayel, in company and in
exercise, after his wife's death, shut
himself up alone amid medieval relics in
II large, gloomy house. He sought relief
from grief and sleeplessness in chloral,
and as the London "Dutiy NcIOs" declares,
this drug at last became his familiar fiend,
and distorted his ideas and his sentiments
even about his friends. Some magazine
criticisms, which healthy man would
have fumed at and forgotten, led him to
the belief that he was the victim of u
conspiracy, and THAT way madness lies"
His bodily health could not support the
s'rcsS of his intellect, and the result was,
in literary sense, disastrous THE
lesson ot R)ssetti's life, says the "Ne'US,'
"l< one that Scott, Wordsworth, Byron
and Shelly knew unlaught-lhe lesson
that poets should live in the open air, on
hons back on the rivers, on the sea-
Genus becomes morbid when it is cooped
up indoors, us Rossetti was cooped up.
partly by his profession of painting, partly
by indDltnrc.
A KEEN REBUKE.-Ii 10 was ! c)lumer-
cial travcl,r on his wav from Bowling
Green to Ilopkinsvillc, Ky. There was
Il w lit of III &c hours ut Gurthic. and a
marty Of Young ladies. with lively vouno
married persons actlhS rs natrohs' maoe
the station rl'g WIN lnerrImeht. lhey
were gong 70 Visll the NltmlAo'h cave
The face q one OF tAem Is stuuy-a
perfect oval yet win th'I ficn' warm
bruhe, ,te 'hnt you sec more ollen III Ihe
Latin RACES ii IN IN the Anglo-oaxon; ller
eyes 'o)ke' OUT rom under the oroau
brlm OF U I'lnesoorou@n nat through hall
closed ld*, wonderfully lah'alz,ng IN
their suhdued mlrth. c0qneiry, ana love OF
lie, lightly velled with the iaz!nGss Oh
good bree"lng me brassy ana dlpper
llltie wre;ch OF ieIl2" ma been watch
ing the girls a' Cat Wouid oeVy OF
irollc5ome ami unsophistIcated nice.
Hastily selZlng ana returning handker'
chief accident tIy dropped by the Galncsoor'
ough beauty he seeks, with Inc audaclty
OF his class, to open conversation;
g very gay party you nave mss.
"Yes" SAYS she quietly boWlng acknowl
edgemcnt OF the handkerchief, and
letting her eyes drift slowly over hlm,;
but then you see we know each other."
A very keen remark, Keen eyed rs