Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-08-29

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out of his nostris. Col Burns proudly
waved his hand toward him, and said to
the crowd on the quarter stretch: "Now
YOU all watch that critter hump himself.
If "humping' meant believing until the
astounded Clorinda boted across the track
and stood trembling against the outside
rails, Wabash certainly did what the colo
mel expected. Wab lsh came along like Il
locomotive, passed the bewildered mare
and was looping into the homestretch
before timorous Clorinda's driver could
induce her to tlot. Wabash won by an
eighth of mile, and was cheered by every
spectator except Mr. Horton. who rhy
mIcally said to his driver: well, don ii
beat ALL
Miss Minnie +. Iioyt OF Connecticut, "a
years old, il Vassar graduate, is being
celebrated as the first person appointed t,
II clerkship in the treasury department
! under the new civil service rules. She is
now a clerk in the census bureau. Hell
was marked 1915, Virginia woman
n. 10 and Louisiana girl 1910.
1t is claimed that the pioneer tramp
died in Ohio few days ago. lie was &c
years old, and he spent the last 40 years
OF his life in going from place to place OF
foot. Born IN Holland, he fought in
Russia, France and India, and ctme to
the United States in 1907
Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, has secured
temporary triumph on the question Of
cheap licenses, owing to the diatory
policy of his opponents. His success will
defraud the city of 81 100000 in revenue
and benefit The liquor sellers to that extent.
1t is significant that Democratic victory
of any kind generally serves to benefit the
liquor sellers.
When vulgar man becomes rich and
his family govern society great fuss is
made if his daughter marries her fathers
coachman, although society said nothing
when the girls mother married the girls
father, because the father was barkceper
then and had not struck bis bonanza
Society is very unreasonable and is always
turning up its nose in the wrong place
NeU OFIeuUS flcdyune.
Phiologists say that the "eeny meenv,
money, NIL which children use for
counting in some OF their games. and
which are commonly considered glbberish
are in reality the sole survival OF the lam
guage spoken by the earliest inhabitants
of the British Isles. How delightful it is
to think that our remote ancestors had
souls to appreciate such games as ''pig in
the pen" and Iii spy"
A tempered bar of copper has been
found in an Indian grave at Nppgon. 1t
had evidently been used us drill. How
it WAS tempered is mystery perhaps
locked in the dusk breast of the brave
buried with it. Scientists have vainly
tried to do the like. This is only another
proof that the Wanted ingenuity of the
present day has still something to learn
from the past.
Muley Hassan, sultan of Morocco and
absolute Ruler of Tue Believers is
probably one of the richest sovereigns in
the world. Unlike other mllonaires,
however, he does not invest his wealth in
profitable securities. but like monarch of
the Thousand and One Nights, he boards
it in underground vaults, with which the
greatest bank and trust vaults of civilized
cities cannot be compared. The treasures
of gold, silver and gems are buried n
hundred feet deep surrounded by tenfold
walls of alternate stone and metal, fifty
feet thick; they are reached only through
a subterranean labyrinth Of the most
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band of armed Africans, VINO having
once entered this service. never again
ascend to the light of day. They live and
die in an Alladin's garden.
Out of total population of 400, 900,
New York city has only 81 ,052 persons
who own real estate, and the number of
separate pieces or plats is steadily increas-
ing. 1t was 1885 when New York
city crossed the Harlem and annexed the
Westchester wards The number increased
to 1872, 400 during the five hard real estate
years from 1875 to 1890, when forced
sales scattered many estates; but since
1880 the number has fallen 20 l52. 1872 |
New York, however, only has 78,36SI
so that barely half its plats are
built upon, and of these buildings only
10, sos are used in any way us dwellings. |
This makes the proportion of individuals
10 building l6, and to every fee used
wholly as II dwelling 2T, very nearly the
highest proportion in the world.
Fire broke out Sunday morning in
wo story tenement in Tbatcher's Court,
occupied by eight families. 1t spread with
'rightfu rapidly, Before the inmates
were rescued four were smothered and
me fatally injured by jumping. The
iilled are George and Thomas McLaugh-
in. aged IA and IL, Mrs. Fred Savage
md Katie and Mani Savage. The cries
or help from the persons imprisoned amid
he flames we're heartrending,
The fire started in Savages apartments
md is believed to have been caused by a
kerosene lamp which the evidence obtain
Lble indicates was thrown by John Savage,
Who bad been boarding with his brother,
1t Fred, or by the latter at John. John
Flynn who slept near the Savages states
hat Just before tho fire he heard some one
nv "For Gods sake don't throw that
amp" Mcintosh and the two Savages
we're arrested. They tell contradictory
tories There is little doubt that they
we're intoxicated and engaged in a row
when he fire caught, and that ono of
hem is responsible for it,