National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-06-09
Facts and Fancies.

There are now $1,000 post-offices in
the United States.
The census Of Barbados shows pop
uation of 10000.
4 Query--Can a druggist be considered
the chief piller Of the State 4?
Different shades OF green are becoming
fashionable for street costumes.
II is hard TO respect old age when one
gets sold on venerable pair Of chickens.
Out in China, a woman who disputes
her husbands authority commits capi-
| tai offence.
II is said that frozen potatoes can be
cured by soaking in water three days be-
fore cooking
A bill giving married women their
separate earnings has been passed by the
PENNSYLVANIA Legislature.
Black grenadines make the prettiest,
most stylish, and most serviceable Sum
mer dress. Pongees are next in favor.
Satin pipings are no longer used b,
fashionable modists. Gros grain or the
dress material makes the pipings now
used.
Patent gravel paper for the bottom Of
bird cages is the latest luxury devised fo.
the feathered pets. Birds soon learn to
clean their feet and whet their beaks
upon it.
New York CITY, says one Of its papers,
has lately put Texas I" to the blush by
the number and forocity of its many
murders, stabbing and other deadly
affrays.
A Western paper says California straw
berries are so large it is not uncommon
for an ordinary family to subsist on one
for week, though there are smaller
varieties
Tree planting in Nebraska is regular
department Of agricultural settlement,
and company of Swedes have just Or
dered 1000 cottonwood trees for one of
their farms.
A man committed suicide by hanging
in st. Louis the other day, having ar
ranged the moose so that it would do its
work while he was under the influence of
chloroform.
A LITTLE child in New Orleans, sent
by its mother to get whiskey, fell down
and broke the vessel containing it. For
this accident the inhuman parent beat
the child to death.
Some "new beginners" are practising
on such specimens as these How much
does a fool weigh generally? A simple
ton In what color should secret be
kept? In violet"
The Maine Farmer predicts wet sum-
mer because the winter has been charac-
terized by unusual drouth, and lone
extreme Of atmospheric condition in the
passing year usually succeeds another.
The following announcement lately
appeared in paper: Edward Eden,
painter, is requested TO communicate
with his brother, when he will hear some
thing to his sdvantage-his wife is
dead. "
The last report Of the United States
Agricultural Bureau threatens us with
wood famine, such vast forests having
been recently cleared away, and exhorts
people in every section to plant trees as
a duty.
A Bostonian who did Mount Washing
ton on foot last year ha, informed the
Transcript that he got as ravenous as
raven among the ravines, and sat down
in one of the gorgeous gorges and gorged
himself
Chicago paper thus notices one OF
its contemporaries, who occasionally
breaks out with boastful reference to its
g enormous circulation: Yes it has
doubled its circulation. Another man
takes copy now"
A Sacramento paper reports that re-
emily six Cinnamon were seen in hair
lresser's negotiating the sale of their
tails" which are finally purchased at
he rate of 50 each, to be manufactured
nto ladies Switches.
Lady of the Hou 30, Signor
Bernolski, am so glad you've come +
we're all so dreadfully dull Now do sit
lown and play us that lovely Sonata of
yours. They'll never begin to talk until
hey hear the piano going y
The practice of charring timber that
S to be used for naval purposes, so as
% preserve it against rot, finds much
avor in some of the European dock
7ards, notwithstanding the greater
,flicacy claimed for other methods.
The Queen of Prussia lately found
by one of her grandchild-
en-, for his collection of TOYS, lot of
auabe jewelry which she had missed
asst year, and whose disappearance was
hought to be instrumental in causing
be suicide of the master of ceremonies
n Berlin some time ago.
Here is evidence that wives in 1893
'ere no better than those Of the present
ay. 1t is an extract from the will of a
lariner of Bristol "My executors to
ay, out of the first moneys collected, to
~ beloved wife, if living, one shilling,
,hich l give as token of my love- that
he may buy hazelnuts, rs l know she is
etter pleased with cracking them than
nc is with mending the holes n her
,ockings."