Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-01-03

"lf you would be truly happy. m,
dear" said one New York lady toanother
you will have neither eyes nor ears whe,
yolr husband comes home late from III,
club" Yes, knoA," answered IN,
other, wearily, but what am to d,
with my Rose.
Illinois is worrying over the question
who shall step into David Davis shoes p'
Inc next senator may step into David's
shoe', but by the great American desert
ne better keep out of the OLD mans
trousers If he wants to be in time to draw
any pay,-Burl'ngton Hawkeye.
There is one Georgia editor who will
wish he hadn't. The Atlanta Constitution
he other day published without comment
the statement cf "A city hosier thus: AT
Ianta women have the biggest feet have
ever triel to incase in silk, Isle or
baibriggan. Why, have had some of
them 20 all through the stock, and
protesting not to be suited, inquire for
their husbands, and on the pretence of
laying in Il surprise for Tie good man,
really measure their own supplies"
HAPPY TnoUGHrs.- Keep trouble at
arms length. Never turn IL blessing
around to see whelhcr it has a dark side
to it.
A wise and good man does nothing for
but everything ttr tie sake
OF having acted we'll
Begin your life work bctim .s; it is sad
to be sowing your seed when You should
be reapng your harvest.
1t Is much easier to find Il score of men
wise enough to discover the truth, than to
find one intrepid enough, in the Etcc of
opposition, to stand up for it.
John Greeneaf Whittier, the aged poet,
is tall, straight and SLENDER and his fore
head is very high, rising massvely into a
region of snow white hair. The face and
head in appearance are almost Semetic.
His religion and his habits are those of tie
Qnakers. The writer of this paragraph
remembers hearing Bayard Taylor with
cheeks still boysh and with i'm elastic
'tep) saying several years ago that they
must soon lose Whittier: but they are no
longer with us, while the Quaker poet
seems as fresh as the roses that little school
girls daily take TO his home.-New York
Hcral0.
ORIGIN OF A FAMILY PHRASE.-That
oft quoted saying, Those who live in
glass houses should not throw s,ones,''
originated at the nnion of the crowns,
when London was, for the first time, inun.
lated with Scotchmen. Jealous off their
INVASION, the Duke of Buckingham organ
"a M n onnipS bon
we're formed for the purpose of breaking
he windows of their abodes. By way of
etaliaion, number of Scotchmen
mashed the windows of the Dukes man
ion known as the "Glass House, in
Martins Fields, and, Oh his complaining
o the King, his majesty replied ''S,eenie,
eenie, those who live in glass houses
houd be careful low they fling stones.n
-NCnlor of Alerander .Seat0N
A Color E-BEARER's HERoIsM. .-Chas.
;. Vansant, who was killed on the Penn.
ylvania railroad the other evening, was
he hero of one of The most gallant episodes
t the late war. He bore the colors of his
egiment at Balls Bluff, and when, during
he desperate charge, his colonel was shot,
e bore him from the field, and then
etnrned, amid II hail of bullets, to rescue
be flag Five times was it captured by
ne rebels, and reganed by Vansant in Il
and Io.hand struggle. At last he broke
way with the tltg and cached the river.
lis enemies were at his very heels, but
e plunged into the water. dived to the
ottom, placed the flag there under Il
tone, and then swan to the other shore
nd escaped. Afterward he revisited the
pot, and succeeded in finding and restor-
lg to the regiment tho flag he had SO
defended.
The following story is told of Artemus
Ward: When he was boy he was fond
playing cards, an amusement he was
oliged to indulge in sureptitio usly, as his
ood mother did not approve of it. One
ay as he was deep in II game, supposing
is mother was abs mt, he heard some
ne appro lching the door and Immediately
altered up the cards and thrust them
ITO the pocket of a coat hanging against
lie wall, which he supposed TO be his own.
dreadful msake on his part, for it
nlonged to the minister who was stavinr
lerc for Il while. The next Sunday there
ms baptism in the lake at which this
linister oiliciated in this same coat. As
entered the pond, the water bore up
lie skirts of the coat, reversed the pockets,
I'D the entire pack of cards hoa.ed ont
1d covered the water for quite a space,
uch TO the horror of all the good people
'eScnt, ana the confusion OF the unfor.
mate divine who saw himself wadinp
rough an array of ilcks, kings and aces,
'eadtul to contemplate. 1t Is said that
le youthful Artcmus was treated TO the
lnishment which his escapale deserved
ON the hands of bis maternal relative.
WHO IS MARIA?-"Who is MariapH
as the question that startled Mr.. Brown
Tho talks in his Sleep AS he walked the
her morning and found Mrs. Brown sit
lg up in bed with an interrogation point
one eye and an exclamation point in the
her.
"Maria9 Maria who?"
That's just what | want to know; YOU
pelted the name over and over again
st night"
"Let me see oh, yes, that's Parker's
ga splendid animal. I've been trying
buy her.
You ought 10 own her, certainly; YOU
G excessively fond of her. You asked
'rker's dog TO put her arm around YOUR.
ok and kiss You. You even went SO far
to tell Parkers dog that you loved her
til all your heart, and that when YOU
me 10 die if you could only Law your
ad on Parker's dogs bosom you could
eathe out your life sweetly there. Then
IL asked Parker's dog to have another
ate of ice cream, and if the watch YOU
We her kept good time, during the night
u kissed Parker's dog dozen times,
lied her all the pet names known, and
owed to me conclusively that you ought
live with Parker's dog and not with
e."
Mrs. Brown went home TO her mother.
4lMAN BEECHER' S ABSENT MINpEpNEss.
DR.. Beecher was frequently absent
nded. On one occasion, after an even.
IS service, he started for home in A
own study. The houses in his block
re of the same pattern. He entered the
ong door. The house which he mistook
his own was occupied by well known
tier by the name of Rhoades, "A Unitarian
n doctor mt his hat m tho e,,sl =: a,