National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1870-05-13
Grant was a tanner.
Bolivar was a druggist.

Bolivar was druggist.
MahOmet Ali was a barber.
Virgil was the son of potter.
Milton was the son of a scaven-
ger.
Demosthenes was the son of a
cutler.
Robert Burns was a plowman in
Ayreshlre.
Shakespeare was the son of a
wool stapler,
Cardinal Woolsey was the son of
poor butcher.
Oliver Cromwell was the son of a
London brewer.
Whitfield was the son of an inn
keeper at Gloucester.
Columbus was the son of a weav.
! er and weaver himself
He that gives to the public gives
to no one.
He who marries wealth sells his
liberty.
He who wants health wants
everything.
He who serves the public obiges
nobody.
Something to weep over--a bush,
el of onions.
He who has no shame has no con
science.
How to fire and fall back-get a
gun that kicks.
Evergreens people who don't
take the papers.
Misers are always civil, for civil.
ty costs nothing.
Nevada claims to have a brook
trout over four feet long.
That famous female engrossing
clerk of the Iowa House has tri-
umphed. She is to marry one OF
the members.
Life is like mountain after
climbing up one side and sliding
down the other, put up tie sled.
A Philadelphia paper advises ex,
President johnson, in his forthcom
ing European trip, to apply for the
throne of Spain.
A Wisconsin farmer sues for q
, divorce on the ground that his wife
can't chop the amount of wood that
she boasted about previous to mar
riagc.
The new Mayor of Auburn. n. Y.
at his Inauguration presented to th,
Council copy of the city charter
with the remark, In that book viii
f be found my inaugural and speech.
\ rumor comes from Mexico that
an iliigitimate son, by a Mexican
mother, was born to MaXimiian af
ter his execution, and that the En-
peror of Austria had adopted him
Pollard says the black man ha.
displayed an independence as a vo
t,r. although voting against hi,
(Pollard's) parry, which he honors
which is truly dramatic, and in som,
sense sublime.
, 1t is said that George Hunnewel
who was recently pardoned from tn,
Massachusetts State Prison, after
twenty-five years confinement, was
? more surprised ut the street ears
than at anything else.
'You labor over much On compo-
siton, DOCTOR said "A clergyman t,
: an eminent divine. Il write "A ser
! mon iii three hours, and make moth
ing of it,
80 your congregation say quiet
4 ly saId the doctor.
:. A ciStcrn in Lawrence, Kansas
y was cleaned out recently. The Tri
. 6une says: 'The result was interest
ing to that class of our young ne,
who depend upon boarding house
for their daily food. Coffee and te,
{ had been concOctcd from this ciSter
l. for "A long time. The cleaning ou
o operation brought to light one dea,
u cat, five dciu1ct rats, an old boot,
t. shoe, two hoop skirts, part Of mo
Il and about foot Of genera! filth.
"
Il General Spinner thinks that tn
Government could at any time al
range matters so as to he able to I,
$ sumo specie payment in 30 day,
y were it not for it's Endorsement ,
II the National Bank notes; but tn
u banks are not prepared, they man
Is fest no disposition To prepare then
1. selves Tor an honest resumption c
Il specie payments. and they will no
!, until forced 10y & ngress, hence hi
l. desire for the adoption of the pen,
|. I ing Funding bill.
/ Az alMPoRTANT DISCOVERY. =
n Professor Scott, of the New Yor
Al Medical University, has discovcre
Il an entirely new method of trcatin
If cancer, which gives promise of th
Ma allcviation of much human miser,
m The discovery consists IN applyin
- to the surface of the sore the chio
riic of chrOmium--a new salt OF thl
rare metal incorporated into strain'
y mum ointment. This preparatio
\: IN u few hours, converts the tune