National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-04-21
Facts aud FanrieS.

have been In bloom oil winter.
The twenty. fifth anniversary OF tho
Pope's pontihcate will occur in June.
There are two rooms in Evansville
tenanted by twenty-one persons and ten
dogs,
Brigham Young is s,id 10 have lost
twenty seven mothers.in-law in five
years.
The horse in curious feeder. He
eats best when he hasn't bit in his
mouth
The seventh translation of the Bible
into Chinese v now in progress at
Pekins.
Seventy eight women are now regular.
" ordained preachers in the United
States.
Miss Phelps says there is mouse quar-
ieling with woman, the press, n railroad
-'rErv J}y ths telegraph.
q. I22 churches in the United States, ana
about }O6, $40 members.
In Schuylkill County, Pa, there ara
something over 200 collieries, with an
invested capital Of about Sl2 2,WO,OW
The "human hair" exported from
Bohemia to the United States during
1870, represented the value OF SS,o45.
The editor of the Dover Me. OBJ
server is over 10 years Of age, and has
never been in Il railroad car in his life.
A yonng lady went into music store
and asked the clerk il he had Loving
eyes" He replied, I'm told so by tn"
girls.
Don't let Your cattle stray they often
wander to the most mysterious places
We once saw cowhide in n shOemaker's
shop.
A San Francisco Judge has dismissed
complaint against man accused OF
steo' ';ng one goose because the word was
spe ed "goos."
PEOPLE are beginning to make their
arrangements for tho Summer. Quiet
country places seem to have the prc'er-
ence this season.
The returns of income made this year
are not to be published, and the officers
administering the law are requested to
keep them secret.
The whole length Of all the railways III
the world is 100 miles. The cost OF
the same was in round numbers ten bll-
lions Of dollars.
A saloon in Kansas City displays the
following in large letters "Meet friend
ly drink moderately; pay on delivery ;
part peaceably call again often.
DIR. Dio Lewis recommends young
airls who desire handsome and queenly
carriage. to carry large book on their
heads one or two hours every day.
The news comes from Europe that
bounets are soon to be larger. 1t Is
nearly time for the fashion to change,
and they cannot well be made smaller.
A California lion was lately killed near
Los Angeles. while gorging himself on
surreptitious veal 1t took seven rifle
balls to destroy the monarch OF the
beasts.
An old lady of Wallingford, c., gave
to a church fair, the other evening".
quilt made by herself, and containing
two thousand one hundred and forty-six
pieces.
An editor plaintively says that he has
original poetry enough to shingle meet
iuu:house, but, as he has no meeting
house to shingle, the original poetry is
useless.
Silk is said to be worth its weight in
silver the world over. The purchaser OF
heavy silk for small sum OF money Is
paving for dyestuff, and the dye soon
destroyes the silk
Forty wears ago, Simon Cameron pur-
chased Tor 800 a spur of the Broad
Mountain in Pennsylvania. 1t is now
worth Al. 900, 600, and he draws Sl0O
day mineral royalty fromit
Papa. ought teacher fog me for
what I did not do ?" Certainly not
nv boy" replied the father. Wen,
said the little fellow, he did to-day
when didn't do my sum.
There is a Colonel Won Werdhem at the
head of the Twenty-seventh Prussian
infantry regiment. He had SIX sons III
the army. All of them fell on the field
of battle in less than five weeks.
MADAM" said pompous husband,
whose wife had stolen up behind nm
and given him kiss madam l CON
slider such an act indecorous y Excuse
me. " retorted the wife, II didn't know
il was you +
number of merchants i'll Havre
having pledged themselves not to ON
ploy any more German clerks, their
former correspondence in Hamburg and
Brennan have notified them that they
will henceforth transfer their trade from
Havre tD Antwerp.
A case of elephantiasis is trying the
skill of the medical faculty at Waterville.
Me. In this disease, which is very rare
in this country, the patients legs aro
swollen to an enormous size, the SKIN
becoming hard and rough, and sugges-
tive of the lower extremities OF al
elephant.
PEOPLE who buy "No. - mackerel
oct those which when caught were
thirteen inches long from the tlP OF tne
snout to the snOtch Of the caudai nm ana
fat No. 2 are fat fish less than thirteen
inches IN length No. 3 comprise those
which are thirteen inches ana poor
while No. ars under thirteen inches
and poor
Some time ago a petition requesting
Louis Napoleon to take up his residence
NJ Aiaccio in Corsica and promising him
ample protection against the authorities,
was circulated in that city and numer-
ously signed. The Project, however,
had the signers prosecuted, and the courts
sentenced the author Of the petition to
six months imprisonment, and ten OF
the others to two weeks confinement.
The Biddesord Me- Journal says
family troubled by q neighbor in the