National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1867-01-11

IioN W ldiht IL CtilSuS VI luc CullU
rem of a neighbOrhood. an
organ grinder five minutes.
Aaron Ackerman of 3 rattleboro
says he did not know his first wife
was living when he married sec
Ond.
Patrick Dunavan, freight Con
ductor, fell between the ears of his
train at Milton, Thursday forenoon,
which run over him killing him IN
stantly.
The Vermont Legislature recently
passed an act TO punish by fine pau
pers who shall iuflict themselves up
on towns where they do not belong.
This is one of the richest contradic-
tions on record.
A good conscience is the best
looking glass Of Heaven; in which
the soul may see Gods thoughts
and purposes concerning it, reflect
ed as so many shining stars.
well, wife, | don't see how they
can send letters oD them wires with
out tearing EN- all to bits la, me,
they don't send the paper, bu: they
send the writing in a fluid state
There is no funeral so sad to fol-
low as the funeral of our own youth
which we have been pampeJing
with fond desires, ambitious hopes,
and all the bright berries that hang
in poisonous clusters over the path
of life.
\ gentleman was giving a lecture
to some boys, and explaining how
no one could live without air. He
then said, you have all heard of
man drowning-how does that hap
pen9 The ready answer was, cause
he can't swim
An Ashtabula Co., Ohio, farmer
is now engaged in buying sheep, be-
lieving they are a good investment
at present prices. In one case re
Gently he was allowed to pick 80
Young ewes ont of a good flock of
several hundred, at S1.25 each.
At the government Experimental
farm. at Washington, $40 varieties
of cereals and garden vegetables
were tested this year. Among these
were 100 varieties of wheat, 20 of
oats, 10 of corn, % of grass. seeds,
and 80 of potatoes.
! "A large deposit Of phospate has
| been discovered near Charleston s.
g.. which it is believed is destined
to add i'm nensly to the wealth of
that section, as it is said to be equal
in value to peruvian guano.
The Amesbury Villager says that
Mrs. +. Noys of that place killed a
Brahama rooster who had thirteen
nickel cents in his crop, two two
cent pieces, and other indigestible
articles.
! Prof. Miller, of Edinburgh, says
that "alcohoi cures nothing it coy
ers up great deal" 1t is sure to
kill. Stys DR.. Guthrie-If you
want to keep dead man, put hiu
in whiskey if you want to kill
living man put the whiskey into
him. Wine is capital medicin,
when taken in the 'original packa
gec.' If you must take wine for d
J medicine, take in the original shape
Wine in grapes, wine i'll pill vii
never hurt anybody.
PECULARITIEs OF CHINESE MED
ICAL pEACTICE.--The Physician
approaches the sick room with cOur
tesy and politeness, and having as
certained the nature of the disease
of his patient, proceeds to prepare
bis prescription. Their prescrip
: tons generally are vast compounds
. they go on the supposition, yer.
q. common with other practitioners
r that it is best to give several RENE
J. dies together, so that one or anoth
er of them Will hit the case.
), Sometimes they compound a
many as fifty to eighty different ii
gradients, and stew them all togetl
er and then administer them. The
I. hardly ever prescribe less than ii
y teen or twenty simple medicines
1 The physician is not so much 4 pr
u scriber as u seller of medicine. II
., tells his customers what he mink
/" best for them, or their trienos, bl
- - it is very frequently the case tn;
II they make the selection. For il
- stance, he may make up a prescrl
;" ton of ten or thirty remedies to
compounded. when the question wi
arise. how much is this TO cost
n The physician makes rs low an e
IN innate as possible, and replies. III
~ ~ patient, or friend, may think 1t II
w. hipl,. that it cannot be afforded
' '' oud one article or another is throw
:" out. TO reduce the cost-otten Il
m min article most valuable for the patieu
y" In some cases they cannot agree {
49, -, a prescription, or it's price, and Il
- patient deliberately gives hims,
20 20 up to die rather than to pay 4
~ ~ price demanded.
IT. The 'hotel clerk nuisance is gro
ing unbearable, and the New Yo
If Evening Gazette breaches - spec
ne sermon upon it. 1t says: we ha
he travelled from one end Of this la
J. to the oti'er--and back again