National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-07-07
Facts and Faneles.

The best wood for making Cradles
Rock Maple.
Police Judicial Wisdom MS speak
Of mnn ~ we fned MIN.
A good gauge by which to measure
maj. character is his Language.
Sailors are not necessarily making
plum duff when they are stemming he
currents.
A Michigan man thinks that eternal
vigilance will be the price OF potatoes
this year.
A Texas paper reports marriage in
which the lady was fifteen years old and
:. widow.
"My fall in the Back Yard" by the
author of my Summer in Garden is
announced.
A married man in Lansingburg, N. Y,
has been sued by young lady for de-
famation of character.
A man who has repeatedly tried them,
saws that all the short cuts to fortune are
horribly overcrowded.
II has been contended in an English
court that man who says "howsom-
dever" cannot be gentleman.
Five hundred and twenty-five thou
sand six hundred railroad trains leave
London in the course of q year. .......
1t will probably give rise to difference
of opinion. il we ask il an individual who
has married shrew can be considered
shjewd man.
A Western lady, to aid feeble church,
recently painted on the inside work OF
the meeting house twenty-thIee days.
True womanly zeal this. ...
Appleton's JomnM thinks that preach
ers who speak of the simplicity OF dress"
of our grandmothers are not well read i'll
the history of hundred years ago.
A nervous person states that he hated
being called upon to make speech at a
public dinner, because getting ON his
legs always sent him off his head
The Danbury (Ct.) Jail is complained
of by the prisoners as being too airy
and leaky. They don't propose to stay
thore. unless the Legislature will mend
the holes.
Two irate cooks of New Orleans threw
eggs mt a policeman who endeavored to
separate them, until he strongly resem-
bled an omelet, and appeared diseusted
in the egg-stream.
A citizen of Connecticut, recently in
trodnced to a newly married man, con-
graduated him warmly, and said "Ah,
these Litchfield County girls make clever
wives I've had three of EN-" ..f..
The Hon. John Prentiss, of keene,
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said to be the oldest Mason living i'll the
United States, having Travelled the rug
ged road md received his degrees in
1907.
Leavenworth, Kansas, is said to boast
of man who is so tall that his likeness
cannot be got into one picture. A local
artist has painted his head and shoulders,
and announces that he will be continued
next week.
A young man of previous good charac-
ter, named Albert Doud, who was to
have been married in twenty-four hours,
was arrested at Warren, ILL.,, the other
day, by an officer from Nebraska, on
charge of horse stealing.
Six Ward Politician who has been
splashed J." You bloody Snoozer! I'll
make you rastle your Hash in Hill"
Poetic Young Lady" }, Clara ! There's
the Author of the new Poems Lets
stop and listen. How sweet y ttz...-
In Vermont all of the wife's property
of every description, and whether IN
possession or in action, is exempted
from the husbands debts and if he
absconds she may by petition, take and
sell property as n single woman.
This ditty has resulted from nnptial
contract recently entered into by Mr.
Ebenezer Sweet and Miss Jane Lemon
"How happily extremes do meet
In Jane and Ebenezer;
She's from sour turned TO sweet,
And he's a lemon-sQIeeZer.
Artificial ice has the reputation OF be-
ing far more endurable than the natural
article. the CRYSTALS being more solid,
and exhibiting less tendency to split into
flakes. The estimate has been made
that thirty per cent less of artificial Ice
will secure the same preservative effect.
A physician of Springfield, Mass, was
hurriedly called away from the dinner
table recently by messenger who made
the following request There is
child fallen into q drain and got drown.
ed we've got the water out OF him, AM
now we want you to get the mud ont OF
him."
A Connecticut man has found a sure
cure for the devastations Of the currant
worm. He sprinkles has bushes with
whisky the worm becomes drunk, gets
TO fooiing around, and finally falls on,
and either breaks its neck outright, or
cripples itself so that life becomes a
burden.
The oldest native born Iowan is be-
ing looked mp As yet Burlington is
ahead, in John Latty, who is thirty-six
wears old. But just to think of it. Here
is State of million and a quarter OF
people standing foremost in all that
makes a people great, and has but one
native-born citizen three dozen years
old
A clergyman, who owned farm, found
his plowman sitting on his plow resting
his horses. Quoth the clergyman
"John. wouldn't il be q good plan for
YOU TO have a good stub scytlfe here,
and be cutting a few bushes along the
fences while the horses are resting
short time 2" "Wouidnt II be well,
SIR" said John, "for you 10 have tub
of potatoes in the pulpit, and when they
are singing, peel EN- awhile to he ready
for the pot 2"