National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1870-10-28
Wit and Wisdom.

the brain.
THE handsomest opera cloaks are OF
white plush, made III a sack shape with
loose sleeves, and trimmed with white
feather trimming.
The English fashion of carrying a
tight folded silk umbrella, instead of
cane, is being adopted by all our fash
Ionable young men.
AMONG the premiums offered at a coun-
try falr IN Kentucky is one of so for the
neatest patch PM on an old garment by
an unmarried woman.
! AN IOWA BRIDE, according to journal
of that state, - is IA merry, warm hearted,
level-headed, truthful, little angel, man
ufactured expressly for the chap who
gets her
The shawl SUITS now so popular, are
made of the old-fashioned gentleman's
long shawls, with which the market is
overstocked, as there is no sale for them
now-a-day.
A country paper says: There is
graveyard in the neighborhood where
may be seen the impressive picture of
man sleeping gracefully by the side of
ONE of the miseries of life is To be
beaten III an argument, and Immediately
afterwards to think of some expression
which would have totally annihilated
your opponent.
A young lady who was to be married
in November, ordered her entire trosseal
from Paris, but owing to the war has not
been able to get it passed, and does not
know what to do.
% Thin SLIPPERS and nothing on her
shoulders is pronounced rs the sudden
cause of the demise of fashionable
Saratoga lady, who danced all night and
expired the next day.
"LooKEE here, Mister | amt com
painin' but this ere mOOsic stool
you sold to my wife, we've twisted it
roun' till we've twisted off un's cad, an
not "a ha porth otoon can we get out on
un.
THERE is no such thing AZ II menial
Office when you put true man into it.
menlal Office is an Office with a mean
man IN it and it makes no difference
whether it is kings Office or II scaven-
4 gers office.
/ friend what it was for For telling
lies" he replied. Telling lies how
) is that ~ demanded the other "Why,
telling people | would pay 'em, and not
4 keeping my word.
A WORLDLY dame in Wisconsin anus
/ ed herself in church last Sunday, by
counting the various modes of doing up
! the hair, and found fifty-one, not count
ing three women III the poor seat whom
she mentions rs no style.
A cRusrY old bachelor sends us the
following conundrum What is the diff
, ference between honeycomb and
honeymoon A honeycomb consists OF Il
number of small "cells,' and honey
moon consists of one great 'sell.
YcuNd ladies' are advised-by som,
, victim, probably-not to give thel,
photographs to gentlemen unless they
are engaged to them, rs they are apt to
made display of their collections to
their friends at the clubs and bar-rooms.
a BEER drinkers will not be pleased to
4 learn that i'll Wisconsin parties engaged
e III hop picking report that the vines are
e literally swaImed with hop lice, and that
: great quantities were picked into the
, boxes. afterward to he dried with the
= hops.
Men are very much in society rs women
will them to be. Let IL woman's society
be composed of men gently born and
bred, and if she find them either coarse
or stupid, make answer to her" You
must have been coarse or stupid your
self"
= PROFESSOR. said student III pur-
4 suit of knowledge concerning the habits
Y of animals, "why does a cat, while eating
t turn her head first one way and then the
/ other p For the reason" replied the
e Professor, "that she cannot turn 1t both
q ways at once.
c A sELF-constituted functlonary at
" Council Bluff, Iowa, has been marrying
Z couples when he had no authority. The
>, falsity Of his assumptions has been DIS
Il covered, and quite sensation has result
= ted-espeelaly among those whom he
C has pretended to marry
/ The Reroiutio,, wants to see II society
l., formed to encourage young men to tit
:. themselves for marriage. because, as II
n rule "they are utterly deficient in the
, tastes, sentiments, affections, and aims
a which qualify men for husbands and
/ fathers and heads Of households. "
= An elder lady, IN Connecticut, who
&c lost her purse short time since Mt New
is Haven, declared on its being restored TO
g. her. TINT she would not attempt to in
t. terfcre with the reward that was stored
le mp in Heaven for the finder, by offering
Iy him money conslderate person that.
- A young lady fell asleep in II hotel
+ parlor recently, and was awakened, like
=, the " sleeping beauty by u kiss on her
u mouth. Her Indignation can be imag-
" inod when she discovered it was one of
y the bell boys who had been sent in to
clean the windows, and whose excuse
was, that he wanted to tell his friends
NJ that he had actually " kissed II live Indy.
~ RECENTLY thief, of the Mawworn
nj type, said TO II Judge quite coniid,ngly
N 81 really assure You, committed the
nn theft IN weak moment quite, indeed.
", against my own WILL your honor" ''OD,
# very well, said the judge, sit is only
lit right that you should have no cause ioi
~ ~ complaint. The offence will bc met IN
- proper spirit As you committed the
40 act against your own will, you will Ia
4. punished against your own will. ."
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