Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-01-17
Personal and ImpersOnal.

A. c. Kendall Of Bridgcwater keeps
anywhere from % to 35 cats as pets.
The book room of the Methodist ehurc h
of Canada employs so printers, IA binders
Is clerks, etc.-108 in all
During his pastorate at Grafton the Rev.
Mr.. Ward, of the Congregational church
has otliciated at over 25O funerals.
Eliza Manning Hawthorne, only sister
of Nathaniel hawthorne recently died at
Beverly, Mass. Monday, aged over 90.
The senate recently passed tho bill to
appropriate $4,000 for monument to
Baron dc Kalb, the brave revolutionary
hero.
Rev. j. a. Rice, recently installed over
the HinsdaIo N. H., Universalist church,
is one OF five ministerial brethren whose
father was minister before them.
Alfred c. Chaplin, of the Brooklyn
district, who has been chosen speaker of
the New York assembly, is a son of Il. A.
Chaplin, formerly superintendent of the
Rutland & Burlington railroad.
According to insurance companies, vic.
tins of "dCadly industries" are workers
in brass and copper, lapidaries, steel
grinders, manufacturers of paint and
white lead, iron moldcrs, makers of grind.
stones, sawyers and lead pencil makers.
Dr.. Webster of Putnoy, son of Rev.
DR.. Alonzo Webster of South Carolina, is
soon to remove to Brattleboro. He had
secured u large practice there, q good
part of which he will doubtless retain.
His house at Putncy is the home of Bro.
+. II. Knight, pastor Of our church there.
A returned missionary lately told a
Norwich audience that there was no barren
Sahara, and that the whole country known
on the maps as sterile and uninhabitable
is fertile and donsely populated. The willy
Arabs, he says, started the story in the
interest Of monopoly to keep out compcti-
ton in ivory and other traffic.
The impression that Germany is free
from the curse of distilled liquors because
the Germans are so partial to beer and
light wines, is corrected by the fact thai in
Prussia alone the annual consumption of
whisky and brandyamounts to $j5, 900, 900,
or fully s. per year for every man, woman
and child.
Bellows Falls will get IN Immense
business impetus by the enterprise in
which Congressman Russell and other
capitalists are now engaged, to create an
artificial lake by Overlooking the Sabin
and Chase meadow and about - acres of
the Drisiow place mt the mouth of Sax
ton river. This meadow is surrounded
by high natural barriers in what is known
as the "rerracc," and its overflow will
make a lake and water privilege which is
unsurpassed if it is egualed in Vermont,
and which will surely result in the erec-
ton Of u large number Of new mills.
Patti,in the ball room scene in "Traviata'
wears $250,0CO worth of diamonds. They
were around her neck, in her hair, on her
wrists, in her cars, up and down her
breast, all over the front of her dress
in fact, from every part of her they
| gistened and cleaned so that it hurt your
eyes to look at her, and made more than
one person wish for Il piece of smoked
glass through which 10 watch the third act
Of the performance. At Tiffany's there is
Sl0O0,OO0 worth of diamonds displayed in
one show case, but Patti, with her S250, ,O00
worth, makes infinitely Il better display -
| Nc1O York Letter.
According to theatrical manager whom
a New York Sar reporter held by the
buttonho}e for an hour, John Z. Owens is
paid $3.50 Il week; Agnes Booth, $50;
Tom WhiG'en. $3.50; Eliie Ellsler, S75; w.
j. Furguson, 500; Sydney Cowell, $50;
Edmund Collier, 500; Joe IIaworth, $50;
Ada Rohan, $l25; James Lewis, S1OO;
Charles Thorne, $3.50; Frederick de
Belleville, Sl2j; j. II. Stoddard, $3.50;
John Parsole, 500; Sarah Jewett, $50;
Maud Harrison, SIS; John Gilbert, $500;
Osmond Tcarlo, 5000; Harry Edwards,
500; William Herbert, 800; William
Carleton, 5000; Selma Dolaro, 5000; j..
II. Riley, $50; Richard Mansfield, S125;
Nine. Cottrelle, Sl2j; John Howson,
$50; Laura Joyce, 500; Lillian Russell,
| 500; Robert Mantell, 800.
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