National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-12-01
Facts and Fancies.
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Hub-bub-A Boston boy.
s Autumn leaves-when winter comes
1 in.
70 Protested bils-Posters or forbidden
a walls
{ Northern Iowa claims s.gantic corn
crop.
= Fee simple Money given to quack
doctor
bushel of wheat contains 666, 600
grains.
A Cincinnati cook makes first t-class
acorn soup.
Evergreens-Merchan who expect to
make money without advertising.
Two humps of ice placed in her nest
will break up" "A setting hen.
When is small fish pond like bird
cage when there is perch in it.
A notice over the sleeping car Office in
Atlanta reads, Births can be secured
here"
Fifty cents is imposed on each alder
man who absents himself from regular
meetings at Key West.
A batcheloris generally described as Il
man who has neglected his opportunity
of making some poor woman miserable.
"a milestone and the human heart
Are driven ever round
III they have nothing else to grind,
They must themselves be ground"
The fish trade of New England amounts
to $40, 900 600 year, and the fish trade
in Boston amounts to about 800, 100000
year.
There may be (rare) occasions when
it is proper to use slang for instance. to
say that "going' is from the word
go"
The persistence with which Mr.. Ash
bury came in behind the New York
yachts, suggests that he thought he had
stern duty to perform.
A Pittsburg man slept soundly with a
dead bed-fellow, the other night, being
unaware that the latter had blown his
brains out early in the evening.
A man who eats half pint of chest
nuts just before going to bed, and won
ders why he has the headache the next
day, is not good at guessing conun-
drums.
The Williams College Recieu opposes
the admission of girls into the institu-
ton, but says if they insist upon com
ing, the students will receive them with
open arms.
Every cat in Paris is TO he taxed three
francs year, From which it may be
surmised that there will be fewer cats
in the houses and more rabbits in the
restaurants.
A provincial seeing lady driver, and
her groom with folded arms behind,
thought that fellow must pay that
girl pile to drive his car
riage for him.
German porter and n French girl
were married in Hartford last week af-
ter forty-eight hours acquaintance
Neither of them understands the Ian
guage of the other.
A mean Norwich man has met with
severe but just punishment. He refused
to give anything for the Chicago suf-
ferers, and within two hours heard that
his mother-in-l had come to stay
month with him.
A boy in Iowa has silver quarter
stuck in his throat where it has been
for the last three months. He has tried
every way to get it out, but he can't do
it, and the only hope is that circus
will go that way soon.
A little son of John Curran, in Iowa,
net with frightful death the other day
He was herding cattle, and tied the hal
er of his horse around his body. When
ound his brains had been dashed out
md his body horribly mangled.
Tho Cipoinnat, inourannn ,np,nan,as
ose in the aggregate 81 10000 by the
Jhicago fire, and all propose to pay in
ull This is creditable to Cincinnati,
whose citizens subscribed $500, 600 to
nable one of the companies TO pay its
osses, without impairing its capital
The ration furnished each day in Chi
ago by the Relief Committee for three
'ersons, consists of peck of potatoes,
hree pounds of pork, one pound of su-
ar, one pound of cheese, three loaves
{ bread, one pound of crackers, one
ar of soap, one cabbage, and two quarts
{ onions.
Somebody asked Mrs Stanton the
tber dav how the candidates for Gov
rnor of Massachusetts, stood on the wo-
,an ouestion. Mrs. s.. who had good
lection would prove adverse to her
,use. replied: "Oh, don't know.
hey are Just fopperty lopperty.
Those who have resources within them
Ives, who can dare to live alone, want
lends the least, but, at the same time,
EST know how to prize them the most.
ut no company is far preferable to bad,
cause we are more apt to catch the
ces of others than their virtues, as the
sease is far more contagious than
,ath.
A young man named Stricken commit
suicide at Leavenworth. His father
IS kindly demonstrating against his
ssipation, and remarked that he would
ther follow his son to the grave than
e him drunkard, when the young
an replied Here goes, father, and
stsntly PIT pistol to his own head
4 discharged it.