National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1869-10-15


er growth of nOurishing herba
than covers them to day. Ucays /
smile forever on the generous, higi
souled people whom they subsis
and who honor so healthful a.
happy home! II. G.
He that serves the public obig-5
nobody.
Tidyness Is admired, even by tho
negligent.
Delaware has shipped over two
and half million baskets of peach.
es this year.
A family of outlaws, Taylor by
name, were externinated recently
in Western Texas, by the citizens.
An Arkansas editor appealed 70
the 'dlssipeIs of science in his town
to celebrate the Forthcoming Hum
bolt cemetry.'
Owing to frequent accidents the
French government has prohibited
the exhibition of persons entering
the cages of wild animals.
Key West and other places in
Florida are Ovcrrun with CubanS,
who have left their homes to escape
conscrlptlon.
The Gar of Russia has authorized
the opening of subscriptions
throughout the empire in aid of the
monument to be erected to Huns
boldt i'll Berlin.
Brigham Young has lost his fami-
~ Bible the only thing that had the
names and number of his children,
and now he can't tell how much of
a father he is.
Parents often see their faults re-
tlected in their children and want to
break the glass. The difficulty is
not in the mirror but with the object
before it.
The French have discovered that
the white of an egg given in sweet
ened water is a sure cure for the
Group. The remedy is to be repeat
ed till a cure is affected.
A topper recently solloquiscd
what a waste of time and money to
be buying meat when you know the
half of it is bone, while you can
spend it for rum that hasn't bone
in it,
"C.c-can that p-p-pup-parrot tier
talk y asked II suffering man OF q
German. "Suppose he no can talk
. so mOoch better as that what you
talk, chop he dam head off, was
the reply.
"Thc blessed man that preached
for us last Sunday" said Mrs. Part
ingt0n, "servcd the lord for thirty
years--tirst as circus rider, then az
a locust preacher, and last as an ex-
haustcr."
An old Scotch preacher is report
ed to have said, one of his sermons
. ut Aberdeen 'Yc people of Aber-
deem get your fashions from Glas-
a gov, and Glasgow from Edinburg,
= and Edinburg from London, and
! London from i'aris, and Paris from
the Devil
j. A Cincinnati lcttcr-writcr says
that the common people of that city
y now are those who kill pigs. The
y aristocracy are those whose fathers
- killed pigs,and who of course regard
y present piggicides as persons with
II out honorable antecedcnts. Touch
= the question of pigs to them, and
:, they bristle up.
y A veteran topper has been reading a
t series of articles on liquor adulterra
: tion in New York-the analysis OF
. the liquors showing an average OF
about sixty y.iive parts of water tf
= thirty.iiye of spirits. 'They don,
!. give the spirits fair chance said
u the aged bacchanal, they'll keep on
fooling with water till it depopulatcs
" i" the earth again.
N DR.. IIinchciilc, who died Bishol
III of Peterborough, had much ready
h. wit,and was extremely apt ut check
n ing those who were fond of Cavillin.
y. ut the meaning OF different texts o
II Scripture. On being asked one da.
il what was to be understood by thu
a. expression, 'ue clothed himself will
IN curses as with u garment 9Th,
#. clcarcst thing in the world,' replie'
h. the doctor 'thc man was in th
hnhit nf SwnurtpV'
II. A minister is about to lo9c on'
on of his congregation. The ministe
d- questions him ~ to his motive 10
leaving. 'Ilave you any fault t.
ed find with my preaching, brother
d. Not for myself was the reply
r. 'What objection has your wife r fol
vol lowed up the enquirer. 'Oh, non
m. ut all, Then where il the trouble
1t. my friend = 'Why, my son says tina
~. hc can't understand what you mean
ri. The minister looked sober for n me
~. mcnt, aud then rjoincd: we
,ol brother | suppose you must go to
cs can't preach aud iind brains too
nc A handsome young widow ap
III Piled to "A physician to relieve her ,
" three distressing complaints wit
III which she was afflicted. In the fir,
place. said she, Il have little or u
cc appetite. What shall do for that
it 'For that, madame, you should tai,
ng air and exercise And, doctcr,
lly am quite iidgcty at night time. al'