National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1870-11-18
Wit and Wisdom.


frequency and neglect, becomes fatal
In your language be plain, cornely,
honest, natural, clear, short and senten-
tious.
A GOOD education is a better safeo1ard
for liberty than a standing army o' Sc
we're laws.
JUDGE WRIGHT, of Iowa, is seventy
years of age, and hasn't seen loco
motive in twenty-four years.
| CAN'T find bread for my family, said
lazy fellow. "Nor /, " replied an in
dustrious miller I'm obliged to work
for it."
The secret of universal success is eau
ton in attempting. Great men can what
they will, because they only will what
they can
AN exchange SAYS "The compositors
in San Francisco embrace many ladies'"
The compositors in San Francisco ought
to be ashamed of themselves.
A QUEER temperance pledge was circu-
lated in Russia. 1t bound the signers to
abstain from brandy till brandy should
be better and tolerable cheap.
EVERY one knows the height of virtue
to which he may attain but no man
can anticipate the depth of depravity to
which he may descend.
SIR Thomas Overbury said of man
who boasted of his ancestry, that he was
like potato-the best thing belonging
to him was underground.
The most successful knaves are sharp,
and smooth as a razor dipped in oil
They affect the innocence of the dove
to hide the cunning of the serpent
Rev. DIR. BENT, of Baltimore, reports
that when in Boston he went to church
where he "heard music that made him
wonder how he got in without ticket"
A BEAUTIFUL girl at Norfolk has post
poned her wedding day two weeks. be-
cause she want going to be married with
her face all speckled with mosquito bites.
There is an old lady in ST Joseph, Mo-,
who has kept house over twenty years,
and who has had only one paper of pins
in that time, and yet has part of the
paper left.
A LEiRNED doctor has given his
opinion that tight lacing is public bene-
fit, inasmuch as it kills off all the foolish
girls and leave the wise ones to grow
into women.
:" Will you dake sumding )" said a
German teetotaller TO a friend, while
standing near tavern. 81 don't care
if I do, was the reply. Veil, den,
let's dake a walk.
A MAN may he concise and utter much
at the same time, especially in writing ;
for in conversation great talker and
a sayer of nothing do generally signify
one and the same thing.
Some young gentlemen think that
they are inaugurnting a new fashson by
wearing two watches, while their great
grandfathers were laughed at for the
very self-same thing.
The last amusement at weddings is
betting among the audience as to whether
the groom will kiss the bride or not.
Kid gloves are won and lost with reck-
less profusion. Refined, isn't it
The most censorious are generally the
least judicious. who having nothing to
recommend themselves, will be finding
fault with others. No man envies the
merit of another who has enough of his
own.
THE old walls in the petroleum regions
still have expressive 81 gns nailed to their
black derricks, as Grease or China "
"Oil or Hades," "Throw away that
Cigar. " Fools caught smoking will be
shot" &c
Samuel Grubb, Of Atlanta, Ga., an
nounces himself candidate for tax-r
ceiver, having" n he saws in his ca n
emo other means of support for hin self
and family" It is evidently ques .or
Of grub with him
THERE is not grain of desert s.. d
upon which the sun shines-notf P ey
clod from which springs spear c. grass
not mountain peak from which the
stalwart pine rears its majestic form,
whose fee simple is not at liberty.
When a steady, well-behaved young
man is seen shaking hands with a pump,
and bidding it nm affectionate good
night, or saving Poor old Corbison Rob
screw" there NAV he some slight appre-
hension that he has been /" taking some
thing"
man who had filed petition for
divorce was informed by his counsel that
his wife had filed "cross petition" as
LAWYERS call it, "a cross petition !"
exclaimed the husband. That's Just
like her she never did good dnatured
thing in her life -
: RICHTER. says "A man takes contra
diction and advice more easily than peo-
pie think. only he will not bear il when
violently given, even though it he well
founded Hearts are flowers they re-
main open to the softly-falling dew, but
shut mp in the violent down-pour Of rain.
"John, said a poverty stricken man
{ to his son, 1--WE made my will to-day.
"Ah !" replied John, "you were liberia
to me, no doubt" Yes, John
! came down handsome. I've willed you
the whole State Of Virginia.-to make q
. living in, with the privilege Of going
elsewhere If you can do better"
} MARX TWAIN has THE advice for young
men with literary aspira lions Write
= without pay until somo Dody offers pay.
IL II nobody offers pay within three years
, the candidate may look upon that clrcum
= stance with the most implicit confidence
, ~ the sign that saving wood il what he
/ was intended for.
= A YOUNG man, becoming engaged re.
I Gently, was desirous Of presenting bis
intended with ring, appropriately in
cribed but being nj loss what 10 have
engraved on il, called upon his father for
E advice "Well,' said the old man.
"put on, When this you see remcm
her me. " The young lady was much
surprised, few days after, at receiving
beautiful ring, with this inscription
"When this you see, remember father.
An eccentric though very excellcn