National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-09-22
Facts and Fancies.

Spare moments are the gold dust of
time
A bitter jest is the poison of friend
ship. 4 tu @
An Illinois church was carried bodily
six miles on II freight car.
Many delight more in giving presents
than in paying their debts.
A belle at Saratoga boasts of having
had twelve offers this season.
Every person should cultivate nice
sense of honor and self respect.
There are twenty thousand acres plant
ed to grapes in western New York.
Young folks grow most when in love.
1t increases their sighs wonderfully.
Who pays the highest price for a
house ? The woman who marries for
one.
The leading fashion establishments in
Paris are again open, and hurried with
orders from abroad. #t..
In Philadelphia 1885, 900 persons are
employed in not less than 5000 manu-
facturing establishments. .sH
Dc uOI wv III loui
cations lest you be not understood, nor
too diffuse lest you be wearisome.
Two water snakes have been picked
up in California, dead from asphyxia,
each having swallowed the others tail.
Some very pretty styles Of Fall sacks
are of light-colored cloths, ornamented
with feather trimming Il shade darker
than tho material. .4. ,"t
Honiton lace collars have come in
fashion again, worn very deep, reaching
nearly to the shoulders, and pointed
ends back and front
The sixty-second annual meeting of
the American Board of Missions will be
held ut Mechanic Hail. Salem, Mas,
commencing Tuesday, October 3, 1871,
at p. NJ
In one-half column the San Francisco
ana quotes from the Devil Gully E71lOs-
ilor, the Yankee Flat Adrertise'', the
New Jerusalem Courier, and the Murder
burg Bulletin. .....,
The Nebraska State immigration agent
for Denmark, Norway and Sweden, re-
ports that there will be an emigration
10000 this year.
The great novelty in travelling dresses
are the Baden Baden towel costumes,
that are literally made of the rough
brown bath toweline, which we know
better as Turkish.
A prisoner In Georgia ingemously
remarked to the jailer. "Oh, look at
dat snake dar''-a nd ran like the bright
eyed gazelle Neither snake nor pris-
oner has been seen since. nI
In dog fight in LeavenwOrth, the
owners of the dogs got into quarrel
about the probable result and went to
fighting themselves. Seeing this the
dogs became disguised and quit.
The Dutch have no commiseration
for men who get into debt. They con-
slider that every man in debt lives, il he
be poor, 1T the expense of his fellow
citizens. and of his heirs if he be rich.
The meanest railroad in the country is
thus described "It ballasts its bed
with sand it starts with a jerk and stops
with jam, and hires the smallest con-
ductors it can find to save carrying
weight.
A horse-car conductor in Brooklyn has
been fined fifty dollars for throwing
passenger off his car. The offence OF
the passenger consisted in offering five
dollar bill, having no other change, in
payment of his fare
A stranger meeting man in the streets
of Boston few DAYS since roughly ac-
costed HIM with Here, | want to go
TO the fremont House" The deliberate
reply was, "Well, you can so, II you
wont be gone long
"It is the type of eternal truth" says
John Ruskin, "that the souls armor Is
never well set to the heart unless wo-
mans hand has braced it, and it is only
when she braces it loosely Vt the
honor of manhood fails"
A Boston woman, who has been read
ing in the papers that Sunday marriages
are illegal. writes 10 the papers to know
how it is with baby born on Sun
day If so, which should be punished,
Al l.. th.. hahu