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

The great new state of Minnesota needs
I little more school master. OF the
$4,000 persons of "school age." bu,
| 1861 600 are enrolled, many of these attend
but very short time, so that but 160, ,OOC
only trille more than half the school
population-are getting tolerable cduca.
| lion.
The enthusiasts show that everybody
will get rich raising sorghum. After the
sugar is extracted there are left seeds
''skrungs" and "bagasse," good, respec.
lively, for feed, vinegar making, and
paper stock; altogether worth $43.3 tc
the acre. And then the sugar alone pays
Il profit on cultivation.
An Indiana avenue lady dropped in or
one of her neigobors for an afternoon call
How is your daughterp" she inquired
splendid. AShe has Just got back from
he state nominal school, where she
cjhphered clear through from ambition tc
| chemical fractures, and then she took ur
pottery and lobbery. and says she can
speculate the internal calculations CHI.
cago Cheeh.
A martinez of a sergeant turns up
unexpectedly to call out IL fatigue party
Only one soldier answers to the summons
with promptitude. "Confound it all 10
confusionr' yells the irritated officer,
What in the name of hundred thousand
devils do you mean by turning out alone.
sir, when | called out the whole squad ?
Forty eight hours in the blacklole That II
teach you to be the only man to turn OUT
From the French.
Some one was one dayrallying Congress
man Lelevre on his eccentric chirogra =
ply. 81 ought to write better; that's a
fact" he replied. "Why, some time ago
I wrote TO a man thanking him for q clip
ping cut from newspaper about me. and
asking him the name and date of the paper,
and he replied. 81 am much obliged for
your advise, and will follow it, believing
that my claim will 90 through, and will
at last get my pension. ."-Dubuque Lnde-
pendent
FAST RAILROAD TnE.-According to
A. j.. Rotch of the Massachusetts institute
of technology, there has been good deal
of misstatement about fast railroad time,
and he gives the following as correct: The
fastest in France is the train from Paris to
Bordeaux, $50 miles, in nine hours and
ten minutes, which is little over SO miles
an hour.
The fastest in Germany is that from
Berlin TO Hanover, 15S 1-2 miles, in three
hours and forty-eight minutes, over Al
miles an hour
Both of these are little faster than the
New York and Boston express via
Hartford. The fastest American running
is at the rate of AZ 3-4 miles an hour,
between Jersey City and Philadelphia.
The fastest English time is the Leeds
express on the Great Northern, at 54.7
miles an hour.
These latter very high speeds are for
less distance than in the French, German
and American lines first named.
THE PAY OF ACTREssES.-In one of her
lectures Celia Logan said that sin no other
occupation does woman receive such
liberal pay for her work as on the st, ge.
Few and fortunate are the female writer's
who make $4,000 or $4,000 by n life
time of work; but this is not unfrequently
the net results of a single season TO the
actress" A well informed writer re-
spends:
How many actresses are ther, who can
make $4,000 or $4,000 as the net results
of a single seasonP Miss Logan can easily
count them on her fingers. The truth is,
her representation as to the lucrativeness
of the occupation of actresses is mislead.
ing. The stars of the stage command
immense pay, but there are hundreds of
unknown actresses who almost starye