National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1870-12-02
Wit and Wisdom.

To speak i'll from knowledge shows a
want of character to speak i'll on sus-
picion shows a want of honest principle.
Two old buffers in Joliet have played
10,S00 games Of seven-up in six months,
and the best man has only four games
ahead.
On some of the freight cars which
went to the front loaded with German
was this inscription, "Not to
be kept dry"
The Hartford Times replies to the con-
undrum of the organ grinders "How
can ! leave thee ," by saying that sew
eral trains and boat leave daily.
THERE is such thing as man depend
ing too much upon his means, and too
little upon him elf. Small certainties, it
has been observed, are often the ruin of
man.
"Boy, why did you take an armful of
my shingles on Sunday 2" "Why, sir
mother wanted some kindling wood, and
| didn't want to split wood on n Sun
day"
A GENERAL Registery Law for large
cities of the United States, in the cleo
ton of Members of Congress, is likely to
be one of the measures of the next ses-
sion.
A WISE man carries all his treasure
within himself. What fortune gives, she
may take away but wise man does not
depend upon her mercy, and is therefore
beyond her reach.
In Turkey, native doctors who allow
their patients to die are tried by court
martial Foreign disciples of Fscula-
Plus do not think it pleasant country to
practice medicine in.
1t is an easy and vulgar thing to
please the mob, and not a very hard task
to a tonish them !; but essentially to ben
eft and improve them, is work fraught
with difficulty and teeming with dangers.
Little children - holy angels that
throng our pathway, and draw our feet
from the by-ways of sin and crime. How
much the world is indebted to them for
/ their saving influence. for the controlling
power they exercise over the mind of
| man.
One Doctor Duncan received II severe
injury somewhere III the neighborhood of
| Cincinnati, Where were you hurt, doc
tor ?" said a friend. "Was it near the
vertebrp ?" "No no !" said the disci-
pie of Galen ; lit was near the race
course.
4 man, while collection was taking
to mid the heathen, pocketed all the
money on the plate. When asked to ex
plain his conduct he replied that he was
the greatest heather in that part of the
country.
A Scottish nobleman one day visited
II lawyer at his office, in which at the time
there was blazing fire, which led him
to exclaim, "Mr.--, your Office is so
hot MS an oven" $50 it should be my
lord, replied the lawyer, "as it is here l
make my bread" "
The delightful pancake season draws
upon us-the season of cold mornings,
hot griddles, and the pantomime flourish
of II turning shovel thereover The
batter rises with the sun, and the eater
gloriously rises to meet its coming. So
says n western paper.
The following will was filed recently
in the Surrogate's Office in New York
unto my beloved wife---: All
my worldly goods ] have in store ! give
my beloved wife and hers for evermore.
] give all truly; no limit fix. This is
my will, she my cxecutrix.
An ill-humored English wife, abusing
her lord on account Of his mercenary
disposition. told him that il she was
, dead he would marry Satan's daughter il
{ he could get anything by it. That's
$ true" "but the worst Of it is. in Eng.
. land one cant marry two sisters
: A man in Decatur, Illinois, married .
second wife in about week after tn,
loss of wife No. I. The Sabbath fol
lowing the bride asked her lord to tax,
her riding, and was duly cut up with the
following response "Do you think
will ride out with another woman so soon
, after the death Of my wife, Not H.
The following verdict WINS rendered in
4 Calhoun county, Illinois. Runners Yer.
= dici-We, the jurys, find the deceased
= dead man kun to his deth from the hans
Of some unbeknown purson, with an I'M
lauful iron weeping named II nx with .
Q hickory handel which unlauful weeping
i wos used with dcdly infant to kill the
Q killed Dcd Man. =. S-Wo, the forsed
g and underclgncd iurys, hopefully believ,
= that the Dcd Man was beheaded by th'
y scd Az.
A number Of French officers taker
r prisoners ut Sedan, were sitting in n res
q tanrant in Berlin, when some privat
prussi.n soldiers entered, and, M al
= other tables we're full. sat down Mt thci
/, table. The licutenants took offence a
what they deemed an insult TO their epau
lcttes. So one Of them asked one of th
: men, who belonged 10 the Landwchr, i
:, nm insulting manner for his mama IN
n name IL Prince r." WAS the repl,
n cat present serving my country M or
/. vatc. Give me yours, sir, that l ma
>, know who to chastisc as soon ~ you ~
permitted TO bear arms"