National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1870-11-11
Wit and Wisdom.
TENT is a town in Texas.

CONTENT is town in Texas.
EVERY new doctor must get on if he
only has patients.
THE only persons who really enjoy bal
health is the doctors.
War the sad sen waves sal to the
hotels at Long Branch-Shut up.
TRUE greatness is not greater for the
praises of men. 1t is what it is in spite
of them.
The Oldest husblnlrv we know of is
when man in clover marries woman
in weeds.
WHAT is ours, even to life, is hers we
love; but the secrets Of our friends, i'm
parted In confidence are not ours.
FIVE different STYLES of mop-hanlles
were patented last month Vino denies
the inventive genius Of Am ericlns?
The glory Of a people and of an age,
is always the work Of a SIN I'll number OF
great m IN, and disappears with them
A CALIFORNIA jury in suicide case
lately found the following verdict eve,
the jury, find that the deceased was a
fool"
A BROTHER lawyer once told John G..
SAKE that a beard was unprofessional
Right" said SAKE, ga lawyer cannot
be too bdrefaced."
REV. S. J. Whitcomb advertisas in a
Pennsylvania paper his "ittle brown
cottage as the "place to have the mar
riage knot promptly and strongly tied.
There are two reasons why some peo-
] 1 thai 1,,ci
One is that they haven't any business.
and the second that they have no mind.
A REMARKABLY hard drinker, who was
expiring, begged one of his friends to
bring him goblet of water, telling him,
"On our death-bed we must be recon
ciled to our enemies"
Few self-indulgent and apathetic men
do well in any line of life. The skillful.
the active, and the steadily persevering,
usually carry off the prizes which turn up
in the wheel of fortune
| An Illinois editor saws TRYING to
do business without advertising is like
winking in the dark you know that
vou are keeping up powerful winking,
but nobody else has any idea of it"
AN exchange paper tells the story Of n
man who was found on a Sunday morn
ing without hat, sitting on a block of
granite with his bare feet in brook,
trying to catch bad cold. so as to sing
bass.
BETTER that we should err in action
than wholly refuse to perform. The
storm is much better than the calm. as it
declares living principle. Stagnation
is something worse than DEATH 1t is
corruption also
THE greatest men have not always the
best heads many indiscretions may be
pardoned to brilliant and ardent i'm
agination. The prudence and discretion
of cold heart are not worth half as much
rs the follies of an ardent mind.
A WESTERN writer thinks that if the
proper way of spelling tho is though,
and ate "eight," and DO "beau," the
proper way of spelling potatoes is
"poughteighteaux. The new way of
spelling softly is psoughtleigh. -
81 FIND, Dick. that vou are in the
habit of taking my best Jokes and pass
ing them off as vour own ? Do you call
that gentlemanlv conduct o. "To be
sure do, Tom. A true gentleman will
always take n joke from . friend"
TT has been beautifully said that "the
vail which covers the face Of futurity is
woven by the hand of mercy Seek not
to raise that vail, therefore, for sadness
might be seen to shade the brow that
fancy had arrayed in smiles of gladness.
/ WEAK motives are sufficient for weak
minds Whenever we see mind which
we believe stronger than orr own, moved
babituallv by what appears inadequate,
we may he certain that there is, to bring
n metaphor from the forest, more top
than root.
THERE'S our Gershon." said Mr..
Shelton. che must go off TO the city, TO
get his living by his wits" "Well, how
did he make ont ?" asked friend.
"Ah " said she old man. with n sigh,
tapping his forehead significantly, "he
failed for want Of capital ~