National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-02-24
Facts and Fancie,.

Grass is two inches high in the valleys
! Of Utah.
Buffalo meat is selling in Kansas City
( at five cents per pound.
There are 1860 schools in Maryland,
having rs, 454 unrolled pupils and 1.664
teachers
He who finds good son-inl law gains
n son he who finds bad one loses II
daughter.
How long can goose stand on ono
foot ? Try it-that's the way the goose
found out.
There is II horse in Mount Vernon, H.,
nearly fifty years old, that did farm work
less than year ago.
A Richmond woman asks for divorce,
saving that she has not seen her husband
since he murdered her father.
If books are, as poets call them, the
most joyous thing in nature, what are
they always murmuring about
An anti-kissing society has been form
ed by the Galena (Ill. girls. - No kiss
ing before marriage is their motto.
/ A wit once asked peasant what part
he performed in the great drama of life.
81 mind my own business, was the re-
ply. ''-'.'.
The passengers in a snowbound train
/ in Wisconsin had to tunnel through tho
sno,v in order to reach the nearest vii
lage.
I A ladv's dressmaker Mortified her the
other day by telling her she would ''cut
her body out" in the course of the after
noon.
A bachelor editor who had n pretty
sister, recently wrote to another bache-
lor equally fortunate -" Please ex-
change"
Monograms have broken ont fercely
in two new places-the corners of gem
tlemen's collars and the gaunt It's of Ia
dies gloves.
A clergyman at Brunn. Austria, who
wrote his name in hotel register with
out the prefix of "Rev. was fined So Tor
the omission
A bill providing for the calling of a
convention to revise and amend the State
Consultation is before the Pennsylvania
Legislature.
A Princeton, Illinois, saloon-keeper
has temperance pledge behind the bar,
and does his best to induce dead-beats
and loafers to sign it.
Twenty-Five different regular move
meuts were used by the skaters at the
recent contest for the skating champion
diamond medal at Buffalo.
A little boy returning from Sabbath
school. said to his mother. This cat
e-chism is too hard. Amt there any
kitty -chism for little boys %
Leather-covered bits should be sub
stituted for metal ones in winter, since
the contract of the frosty iron causes
liberation of the horses mouth.
The Young King OF Greece is addicted
to croauet, but his medical advisers
have ordered him to abandon it on ac-
count of the danger of cerebral exsite
ment.
They tell of planter in Kentucky
who was so lazy that when he went to
hoe corn he worked so slowly that the
shade of his broad-brimmed hat killed
the plant.
An Ohio farmer saw stranger tearing
down his rail fence. and hailed him to
know the reason. The reply was that
he was suddenly seized with the shakes
and was holding on to the fence Tor sup
port
Obituary notices are Otter uncon.
sciouslv satirical. as in this, written OF
an old citizen of Nashville :: s. he was %
most exemplary citizen and Christian;
He had been four times married. ana
died in perfect resignation.
A Michigan paper, aluding to the re-
turn OF II prominent native of that State.
saws: History records no instance OF
an intelligent man leaving Michigan, ana
now returning providing he has money
enough to bring him back.
A traveller asked an emaciated Geor-
gian if the climate of the rice swamps
was unhealthy "Well, no. replied
the loyal native, " taint unhealthy we
have fever and ague all the time in these
parts, but then We ENJOY powerful
undertow Of health.
A bill is pending in the Pennsylvania
Legislature providing that female tax
PAYERS of the commonwealth over the
age of twenty-one years, who shall nave
resided in any school district for more
than one wear, shall he eligible therein
for election or appointment to the once
of director of common schools.
An Arkansas planter. VINO has careiuiiy
noted the work of about sixty Chinamen'
reports that they are better cotton-piek-
ers than the negroes, and that they are
yerv industrious and obedient, and at
the same time cleanly in their habits and
persons They work for S15 a month
and board, and live principally on rice
and molasses.
The married women of Brownstown.
Ind, are on the war-path, and have held
a public meeting, in which they re
solved" against worthless, lazy, whln-
ing husbands ; resembling so many in
solent Egyptian mummies: All of
which goes to show that the jackson
County women will not do to trifie with.
Skinhint-who "gave nothing to
street beggars"-buttoned his pockets
on being approached by soldier. and
said "My dear fellow, ] never can
repay the debt owe yoo-the debt we
ali owe you for your noble self-sacrifce
Money can't do it 1t of no use trying
With this patriotic utteIance he walked
aWay.