National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1869-04-09
Babies are taken in pawn for
| whiskey at Cbpyenue.


What is better for being iH matF
pieces. y brass band.
Why is the hottest country the
best! because it bears the palm.
A correspondent thinks that OF
Of the most Surprising feats of the
last administration WAS cettixG
Mudd out of the Dry Tortuga.
Ten per cent. of the population Of
the city of Mexico have boen IN
prison the past year. '
New Orleans licenses gaming
houses for $1,000.
Never ooniide secrets to your re-
latiOn-'blood will tefl.'
English newspapers tell Of girl
In Wales who has not eaten an&'
thing since October, 1867.
George ii. Pendleton begins to
be talked of as Democratic caudi-
date for Governor ot Ohis.
Death is rs near to the young AZ
to the old; here is all the difference;
death stands behind the young
mans back, but before thspld MANS
face.
What is the difference between o
young lady and her night cap .
One is born to wed, and the other is
worn to bed.
A young man out West was in
trusted with the money to bring bis
father home a family sewing ma
chine. He carried Off a neighbo's
daughter to Chicago, married her,
brought her home aud said, There,
father, is the best machine / could
find.'
A subscription paper for some ra.
ligiOus object was recently handed
to a Jealous church member. when
he remarked, well, l can give five
dollars and not feel it, Then said
the solicitor, give ten and feed it,
The point wa $ seen at once, and the
ten spot was forthcoming.
A Tennessee correspondent says
that SO many people go to A. John
sons old talor's shop in GrecnyNe,
for relics, that SAM the cOlored
man who lives there now, swearp
he has lost fifty feet of weathsr-
boarding in the last few weeks.
Joseph Week of San Francisco,
wrote to the National Temperanoe
Advocate, There is probably not
village in the State, where WINE has
been made to any extent, that has
not witnessed the gradual fall of in
dividuals and families to mtemper-
ancc and bcggary, among those en-
gagged in this occupation. Not few
church members rs well as others,
are said to have fallen, from this
cause, and have been ruined body
and soul i'll consequence
Horace Greeley wrote from Paris,
that wine will intoxicate-dOes in
toXicatc-that there are confirmed
drnnkardS in Paris, and throughout
France is notorious and uudenlable.
You can hardly V open French news
paper that does not contain some &C.
count OF robbery perpetrated upon
some person stupetied by overdrink-
ing; police case growing out of q
quarrel over the wine cup; or cul-
prit, when asked to say why the
sentence of law should not be pre-
nounced upon him, replying, Il was
drunk when this happened, and
know nothing of the natter
The English language must aI-
pear fcariully and wonderfully y made
to a foreigner. One of them, look
p fig at II picture of a number of yes.
sells, said. 'Sre what II flock of ships
He was told that flock Of ships
was called fleet. and that fleet
, of sheep was called flock. And it
was added, for his guidance, in mas
tcIing the intricacics of our Ian
guage. that a flock of girls is called
Il bevy, that bevy of wolves is call
ed a gang, and that gang ofangAs
is called u host, and that host of
porpoises is called IL shoal, and n
shoal of builaloes is called herd,
and n herd of children is called Il
> troop, and troop Of partridges Is
called IL convey, and u convey OF
beauties is called u galaxy, and a
= galaxy of ruiliaus is called u horde,
and q horde of rubbish is called a
{ heap, aud Il heap of oxen is called a
:, drove, and II drove of backguards
J. is called mob, and u mob of whales
is called u school, and a school OF
II worshipers is called II congregation,
= and a congregation o. engineers |,
II called II corps, and corps Of rob
bcrS is called a band, and band o
" locuS!S is called q swarm, and ,
u swarm Of people is called Il crowd.
'e How TO RAISE A CRoWD.-Raist
"A brick in the sidewalk, put n little
terrier in the hole, and make believe
Is you are hunting rats The destruc
6 tive element is so strong in man ~
Il well as "purps,' that you will draw
"A crowd in a few minutes, big enough
le To I'LL an ordinary meeting house.
g How TO dsperSc them! Raise &
'c collection, or try 10, for the benefit
o of n church. or for any chartabl,