National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-06-30
Facts and t'ancies.


Brigham Young was once Stewards
gardner at Auburn,
Why is sword like beer Because
it's no nse till it's drawn.
Appropriate diei-Parties behind
time should be fed on ketch up.
PUHch SAYS "Do you wish to get up
with the lark ? Then go to bed without
it,"
The imports Of Philadelphia last month
amounted 10 little over two millions OF
dollars.
The closest study-any study where
the windows have not been opened for
six months.
his things before he sells them Give
them weigh.
In two months the Paris Commune
raised and expended more than twenty
five millions of francs.
The expenditure in support of the
public institutions of Boston last year
amounted to S300,067
In Brooklyn. y. Y. woman's rights
woman is reported to have named her
boys Susan, Mary and Kate.
Baltimore has four dop-killers They
report that they have slaughtered 900
unlicensed CANNES this season.
A couple at Danburv, CT, having care
/ fully considered the question for twenty
five years, have recently decided to get
married.
A cat bit n COW in Nashville, Tenn, n
few davs ago, and the COW died. ''after
the most excruciating suflerings, as the
papers say.
In England the fact is said to be de-
monstmted that women will not confide
in female physician as much as in
male doctor
The first record of paper money is
found in the Scriptural account OF the
doves bringing the green back to Noah
in the ark
The indianapolis .fournm asserts that
/ Indiana has within her limits a field of
coal which for extent and value is un-
eoualed in the world.
A poor farmer in Wisconsin has Just
drawn a $4,000 prize in a Milwaukee
lottery. + was hauling stone when he
heard Of his good fortune.
The steam power employed in the
United States does the labor of $780,
600, 900 men, while that of Great Britain
is equivalent to 400 100000.
The conduct of the husband who beats
his wife beats anything but that of
man who slams the door in the face Of
his wife's relations bangs all.
"Grandma, said shrewd child "do
vou want some candy ~ Yes, dear,
I should ike some. "Then if you'll
buy some, I'll give you halt. "
A man was recently bitten by potato
bug at Detroit, and has been laid up ever
since from the effects of the bite. His
whole system has been poisoned.
A German religions fanatic bas givena
church $4,000 guil1ers, on condition
that his body be embalmed, nailed to
cross and placed in the organ loft.
In Dubuque the other day man
promenaded Main street, from one end
to the other, with two large rattlesnakes
coiled about his neck, arms, and shoul-
ders
The King Of Sweden has been nearly
killed by dveing his hair with hair re-
storer said to be made of vegetable in
gradients, but containing, rs most of
these rcstorers do, powerful mineral
poison.
Much interest is beginning to be man
ifested in the scientific world in regard
to the transit of Venus, which takes
place in 1874. Germany and Russia are
to unite in sending out Commissioners
to observe the transit.
The ties used on South American rail
ways have been transported almost en-
tirelv from California, as the hardwood
ties cut in the Anles cannot be used
without boring the spike holes with au-
GU Ihe ties cost one dollar each
landed at Callao,
In Maine ice is twenty-five cents ton;
in New York retailers are already asking
81 for the same quality. -Four tbous-
and three hundred per cent advance
ought to cover the cost of transportation
and leave a small margin for profit.
An observing individual in very
healthy village, seeing the sexton at
work at hole in the ground, inquired
what he was about. Digging grave"
- Digging "A grave Why, / thought
people didn't die often here-do they?"
= Oh no, sir they never die but once.
A man was announced to lecture on
before the Troy Scientific
Association. After waiting IA half-hour
or his audience. the door opened eau
iously and the ianitor threw in the KEY,
lsking the lecturer to lock up what
was left of the building when he got
through.