National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1870-06-10

The coming man-The census
taker.
Between Omaha and Sacramento
there are nineteen tunnels.
The champion circular saw is in
Bristol, Vt. 1t has cut off the fin
gers of six men, and still runs.
Those who find the questions of
the census taker impertinent, will
remember that the penalty for not
answering is a fine of $50.
a tiger was recently shot on the
ROAD between MOOl and Chandah,
India, who is supposed to have kill
ed and devoured one hundred and
twenty seven human victims.
An exchange says that the only
people in Washington who mind
their own business are such young
married pairs as happen to be spend
ing the honeymoon at the hotels.
Hard line to fight it out On-the
hangman's.
The next amendment is called
"thc Sweet Sixteenth"
The amount paid ont for beer and
ale each month in Toledo is about
$S0,OOO.
Henry Ward Beecher says: 'Nev.
er scold children, but soberly and
quietly reprove.'
Bank bills of the denominations
of four, six and seven dollars were
common in New England from fifty
to sixty years ago.
An exchange, which wishes to
avoid slang, delicately advises it's
belligerent neighbor to initiate the
example of the rivulet in time of a
drought
Barnum, who has Just visited the
MOrmOns, says Anna Dickinson
abuses them shamefully.
1t any of the whipped Fenians
want transportation, they have only
tOapply to the Canadian authorities
The latter would be only too GLAD
to transport the whole lot of them
"A lady is noticed in a Western
, paper as calling on her friends il
her best black silk dress and cash
mere shawl with the name of the
camel neatly embroidered in th'
: corner"
A 'One armed soldier out west ha!
gone out of the hand organ business
disgusted at the inquisitiveness o
,, the people who bad the curiosity t.
feel his empty sleeve and found &
sound arm underneath.
The greatest obstacle to being he
roic is the doubt whether one may
not he going to prove ones self a
- fool; the truest hcroism is to resis,
E the doubt; and the profoundes
wisdom to know when it ought t,
$ bc resisted, and when to be obeycd
a singular accident happened OF
= the Hudson river railroad the othel
, day. The bottom of a freight ear
e which had become old and rotten
: fell ont uuder the weight of seven
teen horses while the train Sas il
motion. and it was not noticed till
, the train stopped at Collspring sta
; tion. None of the horses were killed
D but all of them more or less injure,
$ One of them had his hOOf torn in .
I shocking manner.
a A new fashioned railway, calle,
i the Pannier system, is being trie'
!. in England. A single row of pile
I carries n continuous girdcr on whicI
the train runs, the cars hanging
= down on each side to q very shor
h distance of the ground. The cal
o riages are so arranged that Unequal
D. ity of weight on one side to tn
3 extent of ton will not effect TIN
equilibrium or motion Of the train
h and it is estimated that the distanc
|, Of 100 miles can be run III tw
e hours.
It An expeditions mode of gcttin
!. up a row is to carry long laddc
II on your shoulders in u crOwdc
thOroughfare, and every few miI
utcs turn around to see if anyone
making faces at You.
D, II was brave and noble rcmar
D. of one who, growing blind, woul
.e not let the future shadow the pre-,
l. cnt, but clieerfully said;" am q
ing into the dark, but mean to 81
- all I can before get there"
" 4" Speaking Of shaving" said
u pretty girl to an Obdurate old bacl
u clOr, " | should think that pair ,
y handsome eyes would be the bcs
u mirror to shave by" ayes man
81 n poor fellow has been shaved b
them," the wretch replied.
70 A gentleman VI this city. who i
= as the boys say" barefOOted on top ,
a n his hca'i," was recently inportupe
r. by some young ladies to prcsci,
h. them with his photograph. II
~ complied with the request; but II
y stead Of presenting them with ri,