National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1869-03-12
Iowa has sixty-thres unmarried


The probable reason is that the
editors have too much regard tor
the fair sex to doom them to .
life Of poverty.
Prentice says Senator Chandler
is not like the angel that some times
went down into TT pool of Bethsa.
da. He never troubles the waters.'
The standing army of Bolivia il
SAID to consist of eleven men, one Of
whom is Captain.
1t is said that there are Ave thou.
sand persons in New York learning
to ride the veloclpede.
Nilkmen and dancing masters
agree nicely on one subject-that Of
pumps.
'Half the failures in life arise from
the pulling in of ones horse as he is
leapin..-CHAPIy.
At Woodstock there has fallen
lO' lnches-Deariy nine 1eet-of
snow the past season, and mt pres.
ent there is over four feet on level.
The Kentucky Legislature has q
bill before it to limit the legal de.
tense of insanity now generally set
up III trials Of murder.
The Lewiston Journal says thata
party recently called at post office
on the Kennebec and asked if there
were any papers for him. In reply
to the clerks question whether it
wa' a regular Or transient newspa.
per he expected, he stated that
twas neither-it was = Methodist
paper.
The poet says. "There is a tide
III the affairs OF man which, taken
at the food, leads on to fortune"
&c. The trouble with many is that
they get stuck in the mud at low
water mark, and are thus over
whelmed 10y the sweeping tide
They are umwaIy flies that have
walked into the spiders pau lor.
When any temptation desires to
speak with YOU, answer that there
is other company within.
Corn is worth, at Fort Dodge 1S
cents per bushel, and whiskey Is
cents drink.
Montreal is reported as being bur.
led IN snow, to an extent which
causes almost an entire su SpenSi0n
of busl"ess. The cahots in the
streets make riding much like going
through storm at sea. The yards
and alleys are piled with snow; the
fire hydrantS are covered out of
sight and the Witness tells of u cut
through Il snow bank twenty feet in
depth.
Much sport has bern created in
tlolyoke by the exhibition of AN old.
fashioned spinning wheel As a veloc.
lpcdc. So few ofprcsent generation
are familiar with the ancient ma.
chine that the hoax was very sue.
crSStul.
We see it stated that there are
seven printers couhred ia the In
diana insane asylum. Poor fellows!
Bat it is no wonder, as YOU, reader,
would learn, if you could know the
ovcrtaAing brain work required TO
dccipheI and render into words and
sentences, the MSS, placed before
them-and, perhaps, the worst of
which come from some editors pens.
Disagreeing in little things, and
agreeing in great ones, is what forms
and keeps up commerce of society
/ and friendship among reasonable
men, and among unreasonable men,
breaks It.
How many amusing and ridicu.
/ W
world, each pal" OF men that Sc
crcty laugh at each other, were to
laugh at each ether aloud.
70 the feeble, the sluggish and
purposcles,, the happiest opportu.
mites avail nothing; they pass them
by, seeing no meaning in them.--
But il We are prompt to seize, ana
improve even the shortest intervals
of possible action and effort, 1t is
astonishing how much can be ac-
complisicd.
THE AREA OF Cities Cincin.
uati is about cnlarging her bounda.
reg. Her population is nearly as
large as that of Chicago, but her
area is two-thrds less. Philadc,.
pbia has not only the largest area
of any city ia the United States,
but il is larger than Paris aud near.
ly equal to London. The following
table Is interesting:
Cities. Square miles.
New York %
philadelphia l29.J
pittsburg and suburbs "a
Buffalo 81
Chicago 23.5
Louisville l2.3
Boston 10
Baltimore 10
Milwaukee Il
riuuati only