National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1869-08-27
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more flies this year than last by ac
tual count.
A photographer in one of the
country towns Of Massachusetts,
was recently visited by young
woman, who with sweet simplicity
asked; allow long does it take to
get a photograph after you leave
your measure ~
Ole Bull writes from Pittsburgh,
Penn, that the place lust scots
! him.
A person in one of our "bacli dces
tri,ts" was asked why he did not
take a newspaper. "Because,0 sad
he '"my father, when he died, left
me II good many newspapers, and
| have not read them through yet"
4 countryman come to hotel,
and wrote after his name, 'P. q. i.
$. +. c." Here was title which
none but himself understood.
"Pray, my dear sir, what do all
these letters stand for" inquired the
bar-keeper. -.
".Stand for! why, thatsmy title"
eyes, sir-but what is Your title :"
"Why, Professor Of Psalmody and
Schoolmaster from Connecticut
When Adam raised Cain, what
| ,,-n thn ,,rina pi' Sun1p'
For salc-a pair of boots made
on ..the last Of the MohicanS."
Printers ink may be black, but it
sheds more light than any other lu-
minary however bright.
A little boy disputing with his
sister, exclaimed, ''lt's true, for ma
saws so, and if ma says SOL IS SO, II
it amt So"
Men often talk Of the humblcness
of their origin when they are really
ashamed of it, though vain of the
talent that enabled them to emerge
: from it.
During trial in which the Court
| had repeatedly ruled against the
! late James Y. Brady, lie blandly
said, MAY it please your Honor
= who's engaged on the other slce OF
|. the case beside the Judgc!"
) A child instructed in School OF
i being asked by his teacher if h'
c could mention place where Goo
Il was not, made the following beauti
{ ful and unexpected reply: Not IL
: the thoughts of the wicked"
g IMPORTANT TO FARMEIs.-Ac
!, cording to an exchange, 1t is easy
i enough to kin Quack or twitch gras'
Il if YOU only 20 to work right. Flrs'
:. DIG it mp with spade, then rake II
Is ont carefully with II succession o
d tools, beginning with u three leggc'
Ie stool and ending with a fine tootl
IS comb-agitating the soil to TIT
nj depth of two feet. Take the graS
,r and roots and run them through
straw cutter, mix them with mea
and feed them to your pig, ard the
Immediately sell the pig out OF tn
country. Seed down your gardc
to clover, and take your ncighbor
y cow or william goat to pasture, an
W. YOU will be troubled no more wit
:" quack graSs-that year. This
~ thr only sure cure--all other mctl
- ods are quackicr than the grass.
in John Brougham and Billy Burto
VS. the actors, never hitchcd very wei
lu and once, when the latter was
the same eating house with Il
,v former. he took occasion 10 say III
nd loud voice that he ncverrcadthe LA
"a. tern. Brougham's paper. "No.
AS never read it unless | am drunk
or shouted he again. Brougham, wi
op is the pink of polltcnesS, advance
lcl hat in hand, to Burton'S table, III
els in the most Suavc manner repli'
is "rhcn, Mr. Burton, am sure
he one constant reader"
or An Alderman once called on J
clr Francis, when the following dlal0g
~, took place
Us, doctor, have strong tcndcn
',e' to the gout. What shall do to
.'s' rest It's progrcSSV 2
lGS 'Take bucket of water and a
',,N of anthracite three times
MY sllow y
oi sDrInk the former and carry
l,'' latter up three pairs OF stairs
| hnlpI Ia
nus cd advice afterwards.
: to
der A little boy, nine or ten yera'
q il ace, was called as n witness al
the late trial in Cambridge. After
( of oath WAS administered, tue Justl
ate with "a view of aSccrtalnlnE whet
ous the boy was sensible OF the hal
and Importance of an oath, asl
and him: Little boy, do you know ".
but Won have been doingP 'lcs, 81
lain have been keeping pigs ior
me- Bdrnyard.'
and Schoolmastcr.- -Now,t then, stul
nts; what's the next word! w
mus comes after checscg
lex. Dull boy.--'Mousc, SIR
: es a, A county IN tie neighborhoo'
;,s Chicago is 50 crooked that
,oas chairman OF the Board of Supc
nas' - sors has TO go through two o'
'''' counties IN coming from his !
fires dehce W 'he oo""'S ''"''
ousc There Is young lady in Tia
n as Co. Ga, who has plOwcd, 80