National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1868-06-12
Miscellaneous.

Poverty is the sixth sense.
Better free in foreign land than
serf at home.
Better go TO bed supperless than
run in debt.
There is no good in preaching to
the hungry.
Charity gives itself rich, but COW
etousness boards itself poor.
1t is not enough to aim, you must |
hit.
Piety, prudence, wit and civility
are the elements of true nobility.
More are drowned in the bowl
than III the sea.
A hundred years of wrong do not
make an hour Of right.
Take the world as it is, not as it
ought to be.
Speak little, speak truth; spend
little, pay cash.
Handsome apples arc sometimes
sour.
It is easier to blame than to do
better.
Our neighbours children are al.
ways the worst.
Forgive myself nothing and 9th,
erS much.
When God means to punish
nation, he depriyes the rulers of
wisdom.
Little and often make heap in
time.
Take care Of your plough, and
your plough will take care OF YOU.
He who saves in little things can
be liberal in great ones.
He who pelts every barking dog
must pick up a great many stones.
Would you be strong conquer
yourself.
Where the hedge is lowest, the
devil leaps over.
"lou have lost your baby, | hear
sad one gentleman to another, eyes
poor little thing 1t was only five
months Old. We did all we could
for it. We had four doctors Bills
tered its head and feet put mustard
poultices all over it; gave it nine
calomei powders ; lcechcd temples !;
had it bled ; and gave it all kinds OF
medicines; and yet after Il weeks
illness it died.
The line Of conduct chosen by
young man during the five years
from fifteen to twenty, will. in al
most every instance, determine his
character for life. AS he is then
careful or careless, prudent or i'm
prudent, intelligent or ignorant, tenn
peratc or dissolutc, so will he be in
after years; and it needs no prophet
to cast his horoscope, or calculate
his chances iii life.
San Francisco, May 80. Twohcavy
shocks of earthquake were felt in
Sacramento and vicinity last night.
They were not felt in San Fran.
cisco nor along the coast southwark,
but were very severe in Nevada.
that region being the principle seat
of disturbance. -Four heavy shocks
were felt at Fort Churchill. and in
Virginia city large buildings were
rocked and everybody rushed out
doors, eXpectinga general dcmoli
ton. The pumps inthe Savage Sill.
Yer Mines were stopped, and the nj
ncrs supposed cave had occurred
TIE LAST Hours OF Mn. Bt-.
CIIANAN.-EX President buchanan
died Of pleuro pneumonia. He had
been i'll for some months, but was
gcttingbctter, until the recent damn
spell caused u relapse. On Sunday
his physician had hopes of his re.
cupcration but towards night he
began to sink rapidly and exhibit
the symptoms of early dissolution.
lie praycdand took the sacrament
nj six o'clock on Monday morning.
"God bless my country wse tie
last words expressed 10y him, and
they were repeated 10y him several
times in whisper. One Of his
latest requests was, that cXPresi
dents Pierce, Fillmore aud President
,IonSon be invited to attend Iii.
funeral.
a bachelor, according to the lat
est definition, is Il man who has lost
the opportunity of ,king woman
miserable.
On Wednesday us the train from
Lowell was entering the depot, n
young man named Charles II. Cox
jumped oil the platform. and falling
on the track the wheels passed over
ms legs crushing both. and nearly
severlng them from his BODY. lie
was Immediately conveyed to thc
hospital, where il is thought tho nc
cident would result fatally.