National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1868-04-10
Miscellaneous.
Peach trees are now in bloom
throughout Western Tennessee.

The wife makes the home, aud the
home makes the man.
All the Vicksburg papers have
ceased to take telegra phic reports.
An editress in Boston is to be or.
dalned pastoress of q church in
bingham, Mass.
A religious paper calls for Christ.
ian courtesy in the matter of steal
ing reports.
a retired editor says his connect.
! ion with the Press has thawed and
resolved itself into adIeu.
Many fool who has sense enough
to get him a good wife, lacks the
wit to know it.
What is more beautiful and poetic
than the child's ide;. of ice-"Water
gone to sleeps"
Think before acting, Impromptu
deeds are often as miserable as im.
promptu verses.
Nearly one-half of the lands in
Sumter County, Ala, are advertised
to be sold for State and county tax, 9.
When minds arc not in unison,
the words of love itself are but the
rafting of the chain that tells tho
1 yiotitp ic hound
The editor Of the In Grange (Tnd.)
| Standard has n pass over a railroad,
which, much to his sorrow, is not
built yet.
A lady Of more wealth than cul.
tuYe applied to a Boston bookstore
recently for Dickens novel, "David
Copperhead."
4 Maine postmaster died the 9th.
er day who had been appointed by
Andrew jackson, and had been in
Office ever since.
There is Gallo proverb +" If the
best mans faults were written on his
forehead, it would make him pull
his hat over his eyes,
Nearly one thousand copies OF
Norwood" " were sold by one dealer
in Cleveland, between Tuesday and
Saturday Uf last week.
An oil tank recently burst in
Cleveland, Ohio, which contained
10000 barrels of water. Fortunate
that it was not full of oil.
The death is announced Of NJ.
Coulvier Gravier, a laborious OBJ,
server Of shooting stars. He made
meteors special study forty years
ago.
"What men want is not talent,
but purpose in other words, not tho
power to achieve, bat the will to la.
hor.n AS labor is the arch elevator
OF man, so patience is the essence
Of labor.
Klopstock, the German poet, en-.
: graved on the tombstone of his
wife two sheaves Of wheat, thrown,
as it were, carelessly together, with
the words: ave shall ripen in
Heaven"
Wit and gayety answer tho same
purpose that fire does in a damp
f house,-dispersing chills, and dry.
ing mp mould, and making all
vvboIegomp and chperfnl
\ printer ont West, whose Office
is about q mile from any other build.
ing, and who hangs his sign on tho
limbs of forest tree, advertises for
an apprentice. He says "a boy
from the country preierred.'
i An exchange says, 'we should
I give merit cordial recognition
y whenever and wherever it is met
WITH 1t is TO he regretted that
most people ncye. recognize it when
n they meet it, unless it is well and
: fash ionably dressed.
: GOoD FINANCIERING. The trust.
; ecs of the Passumpsic Savings Bank
= at St. J0hnsbury, at their meeting
! last week, voted, agreeably to the
:. provisions Of the act of incorporation
- to divide the surplus earnings of tn,
" :, last five years. Ii amounts to a
y pcr cent. dividend-thns giving &c
y such deposits in the institution dur
. me the last five years, some over
= pcr cent. interest annually. During
/ This period the bank has not suffer
III ed tie loss of one cent. 1t has
changed only o per cent. on lts
I' loans, and vet has been able to di'
vide Z per cent, TO its depositors,
III after deducting all expenses. This
@ may be deemed moderately good
:. lnanclerlng
1t "Wlr, if you are going out, pray
:, why don't you put your bonnet on,
st said Spriggin TO his better half
d "Why, I'VE had it on this half hour
dear, waiting for you." Spriggin
II hadn't specially inspected o squar
1t inch or two on the top Of his wife
+ head.
It The Columbus (Ohio) Journa
says Of n contemporary, "that 1t Is
d very well edited paper. 1t Is edite
,e by most OF the best Republica
It editors in the State. We have th
honor of furnishing an occasiona
article, which appears editorially.
in few days after publication In th