Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-01-10

vania, recently SAID that II may De ques-
toned whether great learning is desira-
BILE quality in Judge. He has evidently
seen 1.-The CT urt'' looking at cases through
telescopes and microscopes when speca-
cles Of little power would have been far
better.-Travelhr.
Governor Pattison's choice of a corpora
ton lawyer for attorney general OF
Pennsylvania, is pronounced monumen-
tai bunder by his impartial friends. So
much in the way of reform has been looked
for from him that his failure at the
beginning of his term would be a sore
dissapontment to all lovers of pure
politics everywhere. His course will be
watched and more sharply criticised
than that of any governor Pennsylvania
has had for long time past.-IftbH1e.
Science is to utilize the Washington
monument. The signal office expects to
have a permanent station at its summit,
and the officers say that observations of
the air and atmospheric movements taken
at an altitude of $50 feet will be of great
value. Observations are taken, of course,
at far greater attitudes than this, but the
gradual slope of even the most precipitous
mountains and the presence of large
masses of rock near the observatory create
surface currents, even on mountain
heights, and interfere with the study Of
the phen omena of the higher level OF the
atmosphere.
General Meade's war horse, cold Badly,
died recently, at the age of thirty years,
.'near the Abingdon meeting house," in
Pennsylvania. The animal was originally
the property of Gen. Baker, who rode him
during the first battle of Bull Ruu and
then sold him to General Meade. The
latter used the horse during two days of
the seven days battles near Richmond,
and then at the second battle of Bull Run,
where "Old Badly" was wounded in the
near hind leg. At Antietam the horse was
again wounded, bullet passing through
his neck. General Meade dsmounted
and abandoned the horse, believing that it
had received its death wound. However,
after the battle, the generals groom found
the horse browsing about the grassy field
as though nothing had happened to it.
General Meade and his horse were both
wounded at Gettysburg. bullet pierced
the saddle flap and entered the horses
side, passing between two Of his ribs.
The biohest railroad bridge in the world
ia now being constructed on the extension
of 1he Bradford branch of the New York,
Lake Erie and Western railroad, and is
now nearly half completed The bridge
snans a deep rayine, at the bottom of
which flows the Kinzua creek, situated in
Mexican county, Pa, and the structure,
when finished, will be 2O52 feet long
between abutments and 9O2 feet high
from the surface of the ground to the base
of the rail. 1t is composed of continuous
lateral oirder irons SUPPORTED on twenty
iron towers, formed BY columns strongly
conncrted together by bracing. so as to
Give the greatest amount of strenot and
a. biIi,v 70 resist pressure from wind and
storms These towers have a uniform
Ienorh ut ton and bottom of 80 feet 6
inches a width at top of 10 feet, and at
the hottom the width varies with the
height the two HIGHEST towers having a
width at their bases of 1902 feet 8 inches.
There are 20 clear spans of Gil aud one of
80 feet in lenpth.
A GHoULIsH 1NCIDENT.-The ghoulish
matter just uuearthed at Philadelphia
recalls to the minds of many, incidents
that even here, in the immature days of
medical science were legally as culpable,
though perhaps more iustitiable, because
the absence of subjects was Il retardation
of the young "sawbones" on the road to
naturalization and n diploma. "Now other
arrangements are depended upon, and all
suspicion of the practice has long ago
ceased, All your old Boston readers will
remember Tom Watt at the Province
House, where as younglinss, they gather
ed Saturday evenings and drank Waits
punch and told stories. Perhaps some Of
them will remember the story told there,
for truth, some fifty years ago, of two
Young students who, rs lnpecunious as
supply themselves with subject. On a
dark and intensely cold night they started,
WIN noas seot an Thsu w pat Ine.p
to s co. having, perhaps. been there before
and made quick work of it, starting to
return, when one OF them proposed going