National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1867-09-13
Miscellaneous.

Miscellaneous.
1t is beauty's privilege to kill
time and times privilege to kill
beauty.
Generally observed-tilting
skirts, waterfalls and other peoples
business.
Cuba described in a single line:
"The land of the flea and the home
of the slave"
A French lady who held i'll her
hand a glass of cool water, said, so,
if it were only wicked to drink this,
how nice it would be
A New Yorker. travelling down
East, says, every place he visited i'll
Maine was watering place. He
says there was nothing but water to
be obtained. Thirsty fellow.
The proposed fifteen-cent curren-
cy note, it is said, is not to be issued.
We hope it will not. Even the ten
cent note should be retired at the
earliest moment. The five has pref
ty nearly disappeared, and its rep
rcscntative coin is getting plenty.
a news paper has been started in
Boston in the interest of the anti
prohlbitloniStS ; name, the Daily
Press; price, one cent; size accord
ing to price.
Dan'l Johnson of Weybridge. was
arrested Wednesday, for stealing a
horse of Ira Ward, of New Havan,
a harness and buffalo, Of Jos. Biz
kctt, Of Ferrisburgh, and for other
thcltS, and was committed by Jus
tice Roberts in default of $500 bail
The finest IDEA of a thunder storm
cXtant is when Virgins came home
tight. Now Virgins is u teacher,
and had been to II temperance meet
ing, and drank too much lemonade
or something. He came into the
room among his wife and daughters,
aud just then he tumblcd over the
cradle and fell whop on the floor.
After a while he rose, and said:
"W ile are you hurt -
"NO."
"Glrls, are YOU hurt -
NO
"Iclrlblc clap, wasn't it ?"
GOV. SMYTu ROBBED While
Gov. Smyth of New Hampshire was
stopping at the Revere House in
this city last Monday, his room was
entered and robbed OF two valuable
gold watches belonging to himself
and wife, ,.Ad also about 500 in
grcenbacks. Detectives Heath and
Jones arrested man on suspicion
OF being the guilty party, but were
unable to fasten the crime upon him,
and, after OBTAINING him in custody
some twenty four hours, set him at
llbcrty.-Boston JoMRdl
There Is a smart man in thcIeady-
made clothing bushes in Atlanta,
Ga. He told a New York drum
lner that when cuSto mcr comes in
after letting him try on several
coats, lie would say to him that he
hal coat which he had given to
gentleman to take home the night
belorc, but he was not satisfied with
1t, and returned it. Perhaps it may
lit his customer. "Now YOU know"
says he ''all men are more or less
dlshohest; so put a pocket book
III one OF the coat pockets, Which on
~ cost me thirty or forty cents
Now, when the man tries the coat,
he puts his hand'in the pockets and
feels the pocket book, and buys the
coat at once, for Il considerable adj
vance on the usual price; and he
never comes back to see about it."
Statistics of the colored schools in
Virginia show that nearly 1900
scholars are enrolled, the annual
expense of whose teaching will be
about 100000. In Richmond s..
ooo colored pupils receive instruc-
ton from 43 teachers, some of the
latter being also colored The schol
ars are regular III attendance. eager
to learn, faithful to the requirements
of the schools, and give good prom.
Use of becoming intelligent and wor.
thy citizens.
SEEING THE Sun AT MIDNIGHT.
In July, 1860, Hon. j. Ii. Camp.
bell, United States Minister to Nor
way, with party of American gen.
tlemen, went far enough North to
see the sun at midnight. 1t was in
% degrees North latitude, and they
assembled cliff 900 feet above the
Arctic Sea. The scene is thus graph.
lcally described:
1t was late, but still sunlight
The Arctic Ocean stretched away
IN silent vastncss ut our feet the
sound scarcely reached our airy
lookout; away in the North the
horizon, like the slow beat of the
pendulum in the tall clock in our
grandtathcr's parlor corner. We all
stood silent looking at our witches.
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