National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-10-06
Facts and Fancies,

Philadelphia exports nearly million
/ gallons of petroleum every week.
Boston estimates the value Of its public
school property at about Sj,0)0,0U).
That man is indeed hand up who can
not get credit even for good intentions.
| When poor fellow is about to bo
burned hv the savages, his very exist
encc is at stake
Sheridan having been asked what wine
he liked best, replied, "The wine OF
other people"
Money il great lever in the affairs
Of mon so urent = ,ea,er that some of
us can never keep 1t.
Excess of ceremony shows want of
breeding; that civlitv is best which in
cludes all superhuous formaity.
An Indiana groom was ninety ono and
the bride l0G. They were married with
out the consent of their parents.
Dem-trains are to he adjusted for
street-wear bv means of tares to loop
them up to the waist at the back seam'
A London cabman haslately rec cred
damages from woman who dc .ayed his
business by being too fat to get into his
cab
A Pennsylvania jury found two men
"not guilty" in spite of their plea OF
guilty" The jury couldn't belive their
word.
Sam, how do you like that knife l
sold you last week ?" $50, So It's
not very sharp, yet you managed to
shave me with it.
"IIave not a right to be saucy, If !
please ?"askel young lady of an old
| bachelor. YES. If von please, but not
if you displease, was the answer
Anna Dickinson has pocketed by her
lectures since 1860, the snug little sum
of SS1 ,OOj, and Olive Logan, who has
been lecturing three years, SAC, ,0O0.
All American girls who have deter
mined to marry the Russian Grand Duke
Alexis should remember that no member
of the Russian royal family can marry
any but royal parsonage.
At the lunatic asylum OF Leopoldiiield,
Hungary, forty or fifty male inmates
whose cases are not hopeless are drilled
twice a week in military tactics, for the
promotion of their recovery.
Two interesting agricultural enter
prises are in progress one the cultlva-
ton of olanges in California, and the
other the establishment Of an olive grove
on the St. John River in Florida.
! A New Jersey woman discovered her
lost little boy in Gpsy camp, and at
tempting to recover him, was assaulted
and beaten off by the outlaws. The
child begged to Ice allowed to go with
his mother.
Boston has 14S churches, of which 27
are Unitarian. The Methodists come
next with %. The Baptists have II
churches-.the same number ms the Ro-
manists the Epic opalians 10, and the
Presbyterians 7.
A compassionate Boston lady seeing a
vegetable veuder beating his horse
cruelty, cried out, Have vou no mercy =
to which the astonished man replied,
:" No mem Two nothing left but greens
and cucumbers."
An ill-tempored Western father forci-
blv removed his daughter from circus
becouse. while there she allowed
voung lawyer to put his arm about her
neck and comb her golden locks with
his fingers Could severity go further?
When Troy was IN its infancy they
proposed christening it Nanderhayden,
but better counsel prevailed. Since
that time careful statistician has
learned that 2, 206 barrels of ink and 453.
wears time has been saved in writing
her name.
"Jenny, said landlady to her help
the other morning, was there any hre
in the kitchen last night while You were
sitting up ?" "Only just a spark,
mn m. =" was the reply The landlady
looked suspiciously at Jenny, but the
innocent darling went on scrubbing and
humming Katy Darling"
Amonr the qneer things at Nantucket
is the meat auction. which is held on
some street corner nearly every day.
Meat is not kept until it spoils, but
what the butchers have left over ut night
is auctioned the next day, the farmers
adding to the stock the remnants LETT IN
their carts after supplying their GUS
toners.
in Iowa there is college where the
students govern and have sort OF
court-martial TO try offenders. There
are five youne men and two young wo-
men on the court, and ITS judgments
are needed by all the students. Justice
is tempered with mercy, and the female
court tmartialists exercise a most health
full influence.
A Young wife in Troy cured her hus-
band of disposition to absent lmsef
from home at night by providing him
with good dinner and saying to him
"George, if you find
sweeter spot than our home describe 1t
To me. and will rival it if / die in the
A kiss and few tears COM
pleted the victory.
An Old Beau" writes to say that
Young ladies returning from the water
ing places this season have careworn
look; disappointment seems written in
their faces they move abort as though
weary and iaded their appetite is bad;
their eyes are heavy their steps lag,
and altogether they give one the i'm
preston of having labored very hard TO
accomplish something and utterly failed
to doit.