National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-01-20
Wit ana Wisdom.

In Detroit fashionable young men
wear earrings.
A Chicago saloon bears the modest
name of Lambs Rest"
Mrs. +. Tupper Wilkes is Minnesota
preacher who gets g., 00o salary
A HISTORY of tobacco is announced in
press, illustrated with fac cuts
Western adaptation of the words of
the poet Loathe the poor Indian.
The last password of the Good Temp
lars of Iowa WAS a." Not for Joseph"
Friday is the most fashionable for ro-
ception day Thursday is next in favor.
1t is noticeable fact that people who
change their mind often never get goo Il
one.
"What is n smile ?'' asked man of
little girl. The whisper of laugh"
said she.
The choir sang Come Ye Disconso-
late at a recent wedding Mt Lafayette,
Indiana.
Three burglars worked twenty hours
on n county sac in Wisconsin, and Just
got a cent apiece.
They recently had rat hunt in Fair
field Co., tOl town. About 100 people
killed, in the hunt II, S6l rats.
An Alabama Judge, who was too drunk
to sit upon the bench, was put in Jail by
the Sheriff for contempt of court
An elderly Indiana pair, aged respect
lively rs and rs, war. II divorce on ac-
count of accumulated incompatibility
The Chinese relieve neuralgia and
gout 10y applying oil of PEPPERMINT over
the part affected, with camel's hair
pencil
IT is said that the painting of the skin
of the corner of the eye blue, and shad-
ing it off gradually towards the ear,
will give a most langIishing expression
to the countenance.
THE ways of society are curious. Two
ladies who reside near each other in
New York, Nave exchanged calls and
invitations for the last six years, and
yet have never met personally.
There is much food for reflection in
the following questions and answers
g Who hits woman when she is down ?''
s. Why, another woman" "Who keeps
her down y Why, another woman"
"How can I expand my chest ?" an
'xtortionate man asked of physician.
BY carving good large heart in it,"
eplied the joctor"
The Germans have no set funeral ser
ice It's left to the ability and discre-
ION OF the officiating clergyman to i'm
rovise one suitable to each case.
On an average about one man in every
our was more or less under the influence
f liquor in New York on Christmas .
light, If we may believe n city paper.
An economical lady SAYS that, in these
ard times, it would be well to remem-
er that good silk ought to be like
'orm when trodden upon-it will turn.
A young gentleman In New York the
fher day shocked society out of its pro-
riety by daring to get married in church
n light overcoat What are we com
x to?
A correspondent in Paris writes
People are continually exchanging re-
pes for delicious dishes, in which eggs.
liter, salt, and meat, are replaced by
,ter"
A Portland paper asserts that a man
Gently walked into the Office of the
ons Adrocate, in that pleasant little
alne city, and inquired if Mr.. Zion
ere in.
1t is estimated that Paris, at the be-
nning of the siege, contained more
an %, ,0OO, 600 rats This number is
pidly decreasing by their general use
food.
Western paper, which one day re-
ntly noticed the opening of a new
liskey store, the next day apologized
= the brevitv of its local column, be-
lse the reporter was ill.," He had
listed at the opening.
An editor is bothering his head over
; following problem If dogs with
legs can catch SO rabbits with 27, in
minutes, how many legs must the
ne rabbits have to get away from s
rs, with 32 legs, in II minutes and
following 365 days in the year
The inhabitants of Florence, Italy,
re been surprised by the appearance
an American circus company, and
If astonishment eliminated when they
: one of its members drive twenty
horses through the streets turning
upt angles into ancient, narrow pas
es with apparent ease.