National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-05-26
Facts and Fancies.

: A hail storm damaged the crops IL
North Mississippi seriously.
Jet beads seeded among dress trim
mings are again becoming very fashion
able.
One who knows, says that in the coun.
/ try they blow horn before dinner, but
in town they take one.
Well informed planters estimate that
the loss to the sugar crop bv the crevasse
will exceed 10000 hogsheads.
The best burial cases are made Of
wrought, galvanized iron-and cost from
twenty to one thousand dollars.
Raw crauberries will bleach luminous
nose provided raw whiskey isn't con-
tinued as an Illuminating agent.
There landed in Canada last year Co.
O19 immigrants, Of whom $4,000 after
ward left for the United States.
Quebec has now on the stocks eleven
ships, averaging about 700 tons each.
nine barges four schooners, and six
steamers.
A Connecticut schoolboy has written
composition on the horse, in which
he says it is an animal having four legs,
Zone at each corner"
Several Frenchmen exiled by order Of
Lonis Napoleon in 1851, and now living
in England, are said to intend suing the
ex-Emperor for heavy damages.
The discovery has been made in Bos.
ton that the chief cook of hotel there
receives a much larger salary than the
President of Harvard University
The strongest propensity in woman's
nature, says careful student of the
sex. is to want to know what is going on,
and the next strong est is to boss the job.
A gorgeous garment which will be
popular on watering place piazzas is the
Oriental jacket, in purple, scarlet. and
black velvet, sleeveless, and embroidered
in gold and silver
Showers of good things are falling on
Bismarck. A Agrateful country gives him
$3.50, 900, and the king of Bavaria has
sent him the order Of ST. Hubert, with
its decorations in diamonds.
The failures in the United States dur
inr 1870, it is reported, amounted to
2 1851, involving liabilities Of SSS. 242, 900,
against failures during 1853 amounting
to 2,799, involving liabilities of S75, ,054,-
900.
One blacksmith out in Western New
York has taken from horses feet over
two hundred nails that have been trodden
upon and buried in the feet OF the ami
NAL, by being carelessly thrown into the
street.
Many of the retail milk dealers of New
York have reduced their prices from
en to eight cents per quart. delivered to
antilles. Condensed milk has also been
'educed from 30 to Sc cents per quart.
ioshen butter is retailed at 35 to 40
ents pound.
A Paris letter says that one of the first
hings a citizen asks his nelghbor now-a-
avs, on meeting him ont OF doors, is,
Can you tell me, Monsieur. the name
I our street this morning ?" And the
eply is, 81 could have done so half an
our ago, but since then the name has
een changed three times"
Two lads aged about fourteen years,
yhile looking after Mayfiowers, got lost
ltely in the woods in the vicinity of
loves Lake, near st. John, N. B., and
arkness coming in before they found
heir way out were compelled to take up
heir abode in the woods for the night.
hey therefore climbed up sheltering
vergreen, and kept up lively conver-
alton until daybreak, lest they should
III asleep. When daylight came on they
'und no difficulty in reaching the road,
nd arrived home cold and hungry.
A new and fearful warning is held up
} tea-drinkers. A savan has discovered
it'll the microscope that when we pour
ilk into cup of tea, the albumen of
e milk and the tannin of the tea in
antlv unite, and form leather, or min
te flakes of the very same compound
hich is produced in the texture of the
nned hides, and which makes it leather
dlstinguishable from the original skin.
O consequently estimates that in tba
urse of wear tea-drinker of AVERAGE
pacity imbibes enough leather to make
pair of shoes.