National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-03-17
Facts and Fancics.


p OF 6l7 chnches in London, l0l have
: paid choirs, and 244 volunteer choirs.
An insurrection has broken out in
: the Province of Constantine, Algeria.
The average pay per month of Indiana
| School teachers is estimated at 1872 80
The rate of telegraphing in the United
States is higher than in any other
country.
Nearly all the birthstone the world use.
| comes from Sicily-about 300,0O0 tons
annually.
Carlottn Patti narrowly escaped death
during the conhagration ut Valparaiso
recently
One of the latest wrinkles is to per-
fume wedding, reception. and visiting
cards with violet.
The yearly mortality OF the globe i,
variously estimated at from 80, 100000
to 81, 100000.
Two men commenced playing billiards
in saloon in New York, and continued
the game for thirty hours
Nothing can tend more to the health
of the body than the tranquility Of the
mind and the due regulation of the
passions.
There is voice from the tomb sweeter
than song there is remembrance OF
the dead to which We turn, even from
the charm of the living.
Honest industry is always rewarded
No young man need complain of being
kept poor if he rolls up his sleeves, and
goes cheerfully to work.
A mountaineer. with 80, COS, combatted
the hosts of faro In Kansas City till he
had only S5 left He lit cigar with
that and coolly walked back to Denver.
A letter written by the Toledo murder
er Bauder, to the wife he subsequently
butchered, concludes with: " p. S.
Please accept lots of kisses from your lit
tie sheep"
A Washington reporter, in comment
ing on the democratic character of
General Sherman's receptions, says:
"Any gentleman with apaper collar and
, mittens on can go IN.
The little daughter Of the Prussian
commander of the Fortress of Magde-
burg was recently saved from drowning
by some French prisoners confined there,
at the risk of their own lives.
The Fenian exiles visited the Presi-
dents who invited them to make state
ment of their sufferings in the British
bastiles, and has promised to do all for
them that is proper to be done.
To tell your own secrets is generally
folly, but that folly is without guilt to
communicate those with which you are
intrusted is always treachery, and treach
cry for the most part combined with
folly.
From careful experiments made by a
physician of Lyons, it has been ascer-
tanned that the old remedy of warm
water is the best solvent of accumulated
wax in the ear, being superior to olive
oil, glycerine, &c.
Many of the Parisians rade arsenals
,f their houses Abandoned flower pots
broken bottles, and paving stones were
stored in their dwellings to be SHE'D at
he conquering Germans when they
hould enter the city,
A Troy paper reports that Asa Kittle,
he blind murderer, inquired recently.
: Say, if they hang me, would I die ?"
md when he heard prisoners in adjoin-
ng cells laugh he joined quite heartily,
thinking it a capital joke.
As an illustration of the exigencies
# rhyme, an English magazine writer
ties the following epitaph copied from
tombstone of Manchester:
Here lies, alas mores the pity,
All that remains of Nicholas Newcitv.
n. B.-His name was Newtown."
Mr. W. F. Barrett calculates that, as
he mind requires one-tenth of a second
, form conception and act accordingly,
nd as a rifle bullet would require no
lore than one-thousandth of q second
pass through the BRAIN it could not
e felt.
The population of the globe, as re-
,ntly estimated, is ,23S, 900, 600 souls,
vided among the races, as follows
[ongolian, $50. 2.0OO, COO; Caucasian,
50, 900, 600; Ethiopian. 190,OO0,0O0;
Ialay, 170,000,0O Indo-American,
0OO,0O
A paper recorded in Lowell, Mass.
asing certain premises to IA lady during
e term of her natural life, provided
at she shall pay certain rent yearly.
ID shall quit and deliver up 1.-the
emises to the lessor, or her attorney,
aceably and quietly at the end of the
e term.
The druggists in New Jersey are NOV
< for law looking to the increase of
e guards against carelessness and in
mpetency in the compounding of pre-
-iptions One feature of the proposed
assure is that no prescription shall be
mpounded by any person who has not
d a term of practical instruction in the
sIness
A Western paper says: - We reported
Il Mr. ID. 4. Dodd's wife had seven
rs of twins and two odd children du-
@ ten years of married life. We were
5ng. Mr.. Dodd, just in our Office,
orms us there are eight pairs of twins
three odd ones, nineteen in all-ten
Is and nine boys-in fourteen years.
they are all living.
The Pal MnH Gazette has singular ideas
the railroad system of the United
tes. Abiding to the fact that mar
ye ceremonies have occasionally been
formed on railroad trains in this
ntry. it says: 1T becomesa question
ether the funeral service might not
h propriety he performed there over
passengers in the waiting-room of
stations before the departure of the
rs on some Of their principal rail
rs