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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-01-24

INVASION OF RATS IN CHINA.-A few
months ago it was stated that Russian
Turkestan was suffering from an invasion
of mice from India. These visitations are
familiar in Asip. Chinese histories record
that ION three occasions an army of rats
invaded the country. In one instance
these Unsuitable vermn, travelling from
one place to another, attempted Il passage
of the Wei River and were fortunately
drowned. their carcasses choking up the
banks OF the stream for several days after
their destruction. On the other occasion,
however, they were more successful. Ny
riads of the creatures appeared in the
neighborhood of Marking from the HUI
kuang provinces. They are said to have
crossed the brooks and rivers in their
course during the night by making them
selves into moving bridge-each animal
seizing the tail of the one in front of him
with his teeth, and so swimming across ;
and on arrival at the other side they drew
themselves upon the crops and devOured
them. Another time they effected the
Yellow River" ."-PCtU Mall Gazette.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-01-24

LET EN- Col met queer philosopher
tho other day who has novel theory
about tho treatment ot pocket book drop
pers, skin gamblers and bunco PLAYERS
He claims that all these sharpers help tc
prevent dishonesty and crime saws fl
writer in the Brooklyn Eagle. On being
questioned as TO his reasons for this belief,
he said.
take the pockebook dropper, as an
instance; whom does he victimize ? Not
an honest man. but only the man who
claims pocketbook not his own. If the
law did not interfere the dishonest coun
tryman who is perpetually trying to get
money not his own, would be punished
as he deserves by the city sharper. but
the law steps in and takes the part of the
dishonest countryman, and prevents the
aharper from teaching him II wholesome
lesson"
" But" | asked him, ''you would no
defend the three card monte men on such
groundsp'
Certainly. Every man who expects to
win at three card monte thinks he ha-
discovered sure way. He supposes tn
corner of q card has been turned by
accident, and that he can make money
out of the monte man by picking out tn
card thus marked His plan is a dishoncs
one, and he by right ought TO be punished
for his dishonesty. But no. The majest,
of the law steps in and takes the part OF
the dishonest player, and prevents the
monte player from giving him Il costly
lesson in morals"
But how about those dealers who
promise TO sell man counterfeit money
and then send him box of sawdustP"
Has man right to buy countefeit
money? Should he not he punished if he
undertakes to get it for the purpose OF
swindling his fellow men? l think he
should. But what does the law dop When
II countryman who tries to buy counterfeit
money gets viclmized, the law steps in
TO punish his tutor. 1t seems to me the
law ought to encourage and reward every
man who can punish another who is trying
to commit crime. In this way the bad
forces in society could be made 10 neutral
zo one another
"Then you would. of course, encourage
rowdies in their fighting one another?" l
remarked
Il would. The worst rows in New York
nave always been in cases where the bad
fellows killed one another. The police
should encourage the contestants instead
Of interfering to prevent it."
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-01-24

young man dressed in The height OF
fashion, while riding in n Fulton avenue
car mt Brooklyn, yesterday afternoon,
with one of his toothpick shoes elevated,
discovered tiny thread across the patent
leather instep, and he wound it around
his gloved finger and began to pull. 1t
proved to be long thread, bu :. he kept
on drawing it, and when he had pulled
out over yard he felt in his pocket as
though expecting to find a spool of thread
there. As he drew down his leg he was
horror stricken at the discovery that while
one branch of his pantatoons was as tight
fitting as he could desire, the other was a
mere flap, and that he had unconsciously
ripped up the side seam. His face assumed
IN agnostic expression, and he bolLed for
the door after borrowing two pins from
he conductor.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-01-24

A $4,000 DINNER. William H. Van
derbilt celebrated the completion of his
new and magnificent mansion in Fifth
avenue day or two ago, by a dinner that
is reputed to have surpassed any private
dinner yet furnished in the metropolis
HIS dining room, whichis really banquet
hall, is capable of seating more than 100
persons, and on that occasion it waslneary
filled. The furniture, the silver, the glass
ware, porcelain, flowers, menus, viands
and wines are said to have been supremey
choice. All the guests were most care
fully attired, and am told each lady had
a new and special costume made for the
occasion. The scene must have been
brilliant, and a gorgeous demonstration of
the hosts disregard of cost-estimated by
the vulgarly curious of such matters to
have been not far from $4,000, The
object of the entertainment would seem to
render it dear as possible; for much of the
wine drank bore fancful prices, and every,
thing was in the hig lest style of ostenta
ton. The intellectual part of the feast
was said to be singularly deficient. One
of the guests cynically remarked that not
a single good thing was said between the
oysters and the black coffee; so that the
contrast between mental poverty and
material wealth must have been almost
painfully. y. Letter.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-01-24

PRovIsIONINi A STEAMSHIP.-T
thousand five hundred pounds of butter,
5000 hams, 1000 pounds bscuit-not
those supplied to the crew; 1000 pounds
of dessert stores muscatel1, almonds,
figs, etc., exclusively of fresh fruits, which
are taken in at every port; 100 pounds
Of timed meats, 1000 pounds of dried
beans, 5000 pounds of rice, 5000 pounds
of onions. 40 tons of potatoes, 6O,O00
pounds of flour, and 10000 eggs. Fresh
vegetables, dead meat, and live bullocRs,
sheep, pigs, geese, turkeys, guinea-birds.
ducks, fowls, fish and causal game are
general y sIpplie at each port of call, or
replenished nj the farther end of the
Journey, so that it is difficult to obtain
complete estimates of them. Perhaps two
dozen bullocks and 60 sheep would be "A
fair average for the whole voyage, and
the rest may be inferred in proportion
The waiter has known 25 fowls sacrificed
in single day 10 make chicken broth
We therefore shan't s,arve, even if we are
Il day or two behind time, which is con-
sidercd a great enormity now. The men
tiol of chicken brothsugges sea sickness,
and sea sickness conjures up the doctor,
and with the doctor is associated medicine.
His dispensary is as well furnished with
drugs as any chemists shop in Il country
town, and when VIC observe that, among
other things, it contains y ounces OF qui-
nine, four gallons of black. draught, 20
pounds of seidliz powders, a gallon of
castor oil. and half Il hundred weis of
EPSON salts. it is evident that if the sick
people do not get well it is from no lack
of physic. -Four thousand sheets, 1000
5000 towels, 1000 pounds of
various soaps, 1000 pounds of candles
except in thoS' vessels which are fitted
with tie cl,clrc light; LOGO knives,
? 200 plates, CDO cups and saucers, 5000
glass s-fncy with n handsome income
nd amount represented by annual loss
f., IN hreakage would be!-SO0 table.cloths,
2 600 glass cloths-al these are figures
Exhibited in the provendering Of one ship
done. Think what they would amount
up 10 when multiplied by the number OF
,hlps in each company's fleet, and then
nv to realize the fact that this department
constitutes only one, and by no means the
greatest, of their incidental expenses.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-01-24

A BEAUTIFUL LIDEA.-Away among the
Alleghanies there is n spring so small hat
single OK could drain il dry on sum-
mer day. 1t steals its unobtrusive way
among the hills till it spreads out in the
beautiful Ohio. Thence it stretches away
a thousand miles, leaving on its banks
more than thousand villages and cities,
and bearing on its bosom more than half
a thousand steamboats,. Then joining on
the Mississippi, it stretches away some
twelve hundred miles more, till it falls
into the great emblem of eternity. 1t is
one Of the great tributaries of the ocean,
which, obedent only to God, shall roll and
roar until the angel, with one foot on the
sea and the other on the land, shall lift up
his hand to heaven and swear that time
shall be no longer, So with moral intlu-
ence. 1t is the rill, the rivulet, the ocean =,
boundless and fathomless as eternity.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-01-24
LONDON RRIDGE,-This noted struotr

LONDON BRIDGE. This noted structure
the one located farthest down the stream
of all the 1S bridges over the Thames in
London-is a solid granite work, consist
ing, in its chief part, of five big arches,
each of abolt 150 feet in width. and rising
about 25 to 80 feet above high water
(rhe tides. in the river here, are from Is
to 20 feet.) The bridge is 92S feet long
and 81 feet wide. All of the 1S bridges
are now free. London bridge, the hand
soonest of all, is Il really splendid specimen
of bridge engineering and architecture.
Its cost. including the approaches, was
92.566,26 or nearly 100000. The
traffic is immense. Every "a hours no
less than $4,000 vehicles pass over it;
while the number of pedestrians who
daily tramp across it is upwards of
10000. In order to keep the track from
a continual blockade and jam, police are
stationed to keep the slow teams on the
outside and the faster ones in the center;
and even with this precaution the bridge
is often so blocked as to be almost
especially Gin winter) between
9 and 10 A, NJ, and from 4 to 6 p. NJ
London Letter.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-01-24

TRUE HospIrALITY.-I pray you, oh
excellent wife, cumber not yourself and
me to get curiously rich dinner for this
man and woman who have just aiighted
at our gate; nor bedchamber made ready
at too great cost; these things, if they are
curious in them, they oan get for II few
shilings in any village inn; but rather let
that stranger see, if he will, in your looks,
accents and behavior, your heart and
earnestness, your thought and will, that
which he cannot buy at any price in any
city. and which he may travel twenty
miles. and dine sparely and sleep hardly,
to behold. Let not The emphasis of hospi-
tality lie in bed and board; but let the
truth and love and honor and courtesy flow
in all thy deeds.-Enlerson.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-01-24
OLD GRIMES Is DEAD.

This famous ballad was written by A. G. Green,
Providence Il. l., lsO3, died 1879
Old Grimes is dead, that good old man,
We ne'er shall see him more:
lie used to wear long black coat,
All buttoned down before.
His heart was open as the day
His feelings all were true;
His hair it was inclined to gray,
lie wore it in queue.
Whene'er he heard the voice of pain
His breast with pity burned:
The large round head upon his cane
From ivory was turned.
Kind words he ever had for all,
He knew no base design.
Ills eyes were dark and rather small,
His nose was aquiline.
lie lived at peace with all mankind,
In friendship he was true;
His coat had pocket.holes behind
His pantaloons were blue.
unharmed the sin which earth pollutes
lie passed securely DER,
And never wore pair of boots
For thirty years or more.
But good old Grimes is now at resi-
Nor fears misrortune's frown;
He wore a double breasted vest,
The stripes ran up aud down.
lie modest merit sought to find.
And pay it its DESERT
lie had no malice in his mind.
No ruffles on his shirt.
His neivhbors ha did mot ahusa
Was sociable and gays
He wore large buckles on his shoes,
And changed them every day.
His knowledge hid from public gaze
He did not bring to view,
Nor make noise town meeting daya,
AS many people do.
His worldly goods he never threw
In trust to fortunes chances;
He lived (as all his brothers do)
In easy circumstances
Thus undisturbed by anxious cares
His peaceful moments ran,
And everybody said he was
A fine old gentleman.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-01-24

peaking of things which his hearers might
expect TO witness during their lifetime.
Such view is not necessary. We may
just as naturally understand that Peter is
putting the whole matter of Christ's
character and offices before them, and so
speaks of him as coming again to Judge
the world. There is some difficulty with
the word restitution, and in the new
version we have restoration; and many
su ggest "fulfillment." The idea seems to
be that along with the closing up of this
there will be making right
of what has been wrong in the world.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-01-24

There is in Russia a fountain of naptha
which has formed lake four miles long
bv over mile wide and two feet deep
This sheet of infamablc oil recently took
fire, including the central fount; and the
effect was most imposing, The quantity
of naptha on fire was estimate at four mil
lion five hundred thousand cubic feet, and
it was feared that the fumes would ex,,
plode the the subterranean sources. Even
the earth saturated with oil was on fire,
but no explosion occurred. The heat was
intorable except at n distance of one thou.
sand yards from the edge of the fire, and
trees and buildings within three miles of it
were coated with thick layer of SCOT.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-01-24

DAIRY PROFITS IN VERMONT. From
one year beginning January lst,, 1882
Ezra A Parks kepttwenty five COWS, four
OF which were two year ODDS, two were
three year Odds. five were four year ods,
four were live year oids, and thr rest were
older. Four of them were full hlooLed
and the rest were three quarters and seven
eighths Jerseys. Eve of the oldest he sold
IN October. Judge Parks thinks the
twenty five COWS equal to about twenty one
or twenty two in their prime. The cows
did not eat 81 worth of grain each from
the first Of June to November. He sold
7ll0 pounds of butter for S243422. He
used 250 pounds in the family; made 150
pounds of cheese, equal to rs pounds OF
butter; milk and cream used in the family
equal to 100 pounds of butter. making
425 pounds, worth $l45 Sc, He sold milk
equal to 73 pounds of butter. worth $25.
This made II total of 7G0S pounds amount
ing to S2604 10. He fed sour milk to
hogs worth $3.50; calves sold and raised
5000, making total product OF $3054 70
He is now making 100 pounds of butter
week. In June he makes 200 pounds Il
week. He sells over G00O pounds of his
butter in tubs, and if he stamped it he
would realize more money ey.-Calelonian.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-01-24

An OLD BABY --AIoni " morning last,
says the Cownnsville, (Pt) Times, John
y Miller an l' wife of Newberg,
accompanied by their small family.
rrrved in his place on their way to seek
home in Maryland They had with
hem y child prodigy which was indeed t,
mrio,ity L was born in Ferguson
town>hir, Fchru ny /, 1868, and therefore
: II yra-s Of age. 1t weighs % ,unds
md is % inches in height. This wonderful
pigmy IS of the female sex, and is perfectly
helpless, although it can cry Justify, and
plrakes Of no food save milk, which is
livcn it through a bottle. 1t is very quick
~ noticing objects and knows what is
old to it but cannot utter II word A
sister who had been away for three years
was instantly recognized by it on her
return, and it seemed del GIFTED 10 see her.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-01-24

Down in Opelka, Ala, when they see
policeman on the streets, they chase him
into the nearest saloon and give him his
choice between a ducking and treating the
crowd Citizens aren't quite so eager to
hold office down that way.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-01-24
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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-01-24

That man is phrenologst, Pat "A
phat| asked Pat puzzled. "A phrenolo-
gist.' 'Phats that" why man who
can tell, by feeling of the bumps on your
head, what kind of a man you are Bumps
on me head. is it?' exclaimed Pat. Then
| should think it would give him more of
an idea phat kind of woman me wife is :"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-01-24

A poem in the Cambridge Tribune
begins: "Am l we'll or unwelp Am l
living at alp" After looking the stuff
through, the reader is bound to conclude
that the writer was decidedly unwell, and
it is very doubtful if by this time he is
Giving at ALL" He wouldn't be if his
identity were known--LoWeU Citizen,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-01-24

OF eight cities in the United States,
having over 100000 Inhabitants, the
number of churches in proportion to the
population is largest in Cincinnati
Philadelphia is second on The list, Boston
third, Chicago fourth, and unhappiy for
the pretence of the "city of churches" +"
Brooklyn comes but fifth on the scale
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-01-24

Prince Napoleon says his object in issue
ing manifesto was not to overthrow the
republic, but to ascertain what the people
thought of it. He has probably found out
to his satisfaction that change is not
desired at present. His declaration that
the government is weak may have some
truth in it, but it is at least strong enough
to send him into exile.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-01-24

A very quick child made an observation
to her governess the other day which had
great deal of truth in it. "How is it,
my DEAR" inquired the lady, "that you do
not understand this simple thingF' II
do not know, indeed" she answered with,
a perplexed look; "but sometimes think
l have so many things to learn that /
have no time to understand"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-01-24

The Hartford Post referring to the pre-
diction of the St. Louis Globe. Democrat
regarding the election of Senator Edmunds
TO the presidency, says: "This prophecy
blows, and may be taken as slight indi-
cation that the republicans of the west are
not so determined in the matter of geo
graphical selection of candidate as they
have been for years past. They are willing
to recognize ability, even in the east"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-01-24

A good story is told about Mazzini
While the notorious Italian agitator was
in London he went out one day with an
English friend and bought lot of rusty
old swords and pistols. "What on earth
are you ooing to do with them?' asked
the Britisher. Nothing at ALL" replied
Mazzini; "only when the police hear of
my purchase kilograms will be sent
everywhere, and not king or queen will
sleep quietly tonight And the Italian
chuckled.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-10-05
FOR RENT,

That handsome residence formerly eccE-
pied by Colonel Shaughnessy, near ihe Gardo
House, 500.
A nicely furnished house Ofsi1 rooms, IL
blocks from Main street; $50.
House Of five rooElS, Third East, $50.
Handsome furniture in house for sale.
4 fTSt-ciGSS Furnished House Of
nine rooms. complete, together with but
terieS, closets, good cellar, bath room,
hydrGat aCdter, etc I; large lot IN tGl0'l
and beautifully shaded, on car line,
close to business. Call ut my office for
particulars.
Office Msxt to MalkST House,
MAIN STREET
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-10-05
Western Passenger Rates.

Chicsgo. "A special meeting of the
Chicago Railroad association, passenger
department., was held yesterday in ref
erence to q reduction of rates between the
Missouri river and the Pacific coast. The
following telegram was signed By the
general ticket agent Of each road
represented and sent to the gen.
eral ticket sgents OF the Union Pacific,
Northern Pacific, Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe and Missouri Pacific roads.
1--WE will at once put in effect new rates
to San Francisco and Portland on the
understanding that in the divisions we
are to be allowed our locals on this bus
ness. No pro rata would give us more,
and as you are ss much interested in this
competition as We are, it is only fair that
you should be subject to the usual
method of divisions in force everywhere"
a telegram received here on Monday
from the general ticket agent of the I'm.
ion Pacific road was supplemented yes
terday by another telegram stating that
the clause limiting first class tickets to
Portlsnd via San Francisco and steamer
has since been cancelled. The S95 rate ia
uulimited by all routes.