National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-05-19
Facts and Fancies.

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Stock-raising in Nebraska is greatly
on the increase
THE Deficiency bill passed both
Houses of Congress.
A spoiled child-the one that played
with the kerosene can.
Two children were killed by the fall OF
a building in Cleveland Ohio.
Scorching winds are creating anxiety
for the crops in Central California.
THREE boys were killed in Grand
Rapids, Mich, by the fall Of an embank-
ment
Over a thousand acres of Monroe
county. Iowa, have been sown with fax
this Spring.
A student in Western college is so
addicted to tar,liness that he is known rs
'the late Mr.. Tompkins.
Vermont stands first on the list OF the
States for the completeness and correct
ness of its census returns.
The average weight for the Eng
lish is stated to be AZ. 80 ounces for the
French, H.5S; for the Germans, AZ. SO.
Cyrus w. Field has policies on his
life amounting to S2l4, 900, on which he
pays annual premiums amounting to SS,-
600.
No persons are so disliked in the com
perpetually fretting and swapping p
others.
THE census of Great Britain, v.ilch is
nearly completed, shows lsr se increase
in the population of all the principal
cities.
A young girl in Troy, N. Y, has earn
ed S2,30S in less than four years with her
sewing machine, in stitching 63S, ,653
collars.
Texas ticks, which are the cause OF the
| fearful cattle disease, have made their
appearance among the cattle Of Southern
Indiana.
A Georgia editor explains that the title
he gave an article was "A cut and dried
affair."" and it was the types which made
it read "A cut and dried apple.
At the Salt Lake Theatre a pumpkin
pays the admission of two people, and
they get two carrots in change. Chick
ems, eggs, oats, and green's are taken.
What world of gossip would be pre-
vented if 1t was only remembered that
person who tells you of the faults OF
others intends to tell others of your
faults.
Advice to young ladies-The least con-
spicuous, easiest and safest way OF dark
ening the eyebrows is by means of the
bent end of hairpin smoked in tha
gas-hame.
The latest information from the Darien
Canal Expedition is to the effect that
not more than twenty three miles of cut
ting will be necessary in getting across
the Isthmus.
Brigham Young has ordered special
prayers against the grasshoppers this
summer, and the Desert News warns the
unsophisticated youth of Salt Lake
against the miners.
A few iron nails placed in vase with
flowers will keep the water sweet and
the flowers fresh This arises from the
sulphur eliminated from the plants, COM
bined with the iron.
The same, with difference. Lady
think you said your name was Mary?
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Sairey, and you spells it with
a hess instid OF hem.
The way dresses are trimmed and
this Spring is wonderful to
For the benefit of paters
fdmilias, we will say that thirty or forty
yards of silk are often used to make one
costume.
Fifteen persons at Swansea, Wales,
paid the penalty of royalty by getting
blown up on the occasion of Princes
Louise's marriage They were firing
which they loaded from barrel
IF powder.
The U. s. army has been reduced to
peace footing All supernumerary
)fficers have been either retired or
mustered out, and the number of en-
isted men brought down to legal stand
ri of 10000.
A clever repartee is attributed to the
member from Mormondon in the new
congress. A brother member asked him
low many wives he had. " Enough to
,eep me from running after those of
'thers," he promptly replied.
In cemetery. in the little village of
Nyocena, in Columbia County, Wiscon-
in, there is rather terse epitaph. 1t
5 as follows: Seventeen years maid
n; one year wife two months
nother, and that took her life"
There are sixty-four places of public
in London, besides the Ital-
IN Opera-house, the Crystal Palace and
'remorne Gardens. OF these sixty-four
lnces of amusement. thirty-eight are
heatres and twenty-six are music halls.
A friend relates the following A mile
r two from town he met child on horse
ack crying with cold why don't
on get down and lead him +? That is
ne way to keep warm" mo" said the
oy. "it's b. bb-borrowed horse, and I'll
de him il freeze"