National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-08-11
Facts and FancIes.

s'oiH" ttiibTN WpulV make capital
= Dragons, they charge so.
a A bad hat taken TO an evening party
IN frequently comes out as good us new.
he Women in arms. We'll, where
-e should they be
n Safeguard against fts-Deal at slop
e shop.
n A good rule ": back your friends and
= face your enemies.
= Starch and flour are made from horse
chestnuts in France.
One ought to have dates on ones
fingers ends seeing they grow on the
palm.
+ A Minnesota Juror addressed a note to
$ the Judge, in which he styled him as
$ "Onarable jug"
l "a school-boy's aspiration. "Oh,
: : how | wish were a foun ntain, for then
could always be playing See.
Why are types like criminals? Because
> it is not proper to lock them up without
! proof.
$ The proverb that stolen kisses are
: sweet, is enforced by the fact, that they
: generally come from lasses.
A man writes to say he only backed
3 one horse in his life, and that was into a
+ shop-window.
, On weekdays you buy your music by
i, the sheet (; on Sundays you can have it
by the choir for nothing.
The fellow who called tight boots COM
Portable defended his position by saying
they made a man forget all his other mis-
cries.
Mrs. H. B. Stanton and Susan B.
Anthony paid a visit of sympathy and
coincidence to Mrs. Fair, in Jail in San
Francisco.
| To CLEAN CARPETS. Salt sprinkled
upon the carpet before sweeping, will
make it look bright and clean. This is
good preventive against moths.
The New York markets have disposed
Of about 5000 head of cattle per week
during the past year, making over 312,-
OOO beeves per annum.
1t is said Rufus Choate was once ap- '
piled to to defend criminal, and declined
fatty, exclaimed So stepped in blood
and no money He's a lost man %
A five-year old city boy told his moth
er how to make butter You just take
a long stick with a cross ut the end of it;
then you get big tub; and then you
borrow cow"
If you want to find out mans real
take him when he is wet and
hungry. If he is amiable then, dry him
and fill him up, and you have got u won
Ter.
Experiments in the army bakery at
Washington have shown that eight hun
ired and two one-pound loaves of bread
AN be made from a barrel of flour.
The Columbus, Ohio, papers don't
lave any editorials new, the alleged
ause being that 8 the thermometer is
Up to three shirt collars a minute
The fashions all come from Berlin this
vear, and rs they a'a a very practical,
ensible people, we may look forward to
tyles that are pretty as well as comfort
ble
An English farmer condensed his
ractical experience into this rule :
Feed your land before it is hungry,
est it before it is weary, and weed it
efore it is foul.
Poor-pay debtors in Canada are writ
lg complaints to the papers that their
,morseless creditors send them duns
a open postal cards, which all who
lre may read.
A leading lecturer classifes his audi
ice as follows The "stll -attentives,"
e "quick -responsives. the " hard-to-
its, !" the " won't applauds," and the
get-up-and- -go-outs."
One single pigeon favorite bird
it'll the pigeon fanciers of Paris. brought
to that city during the siege 500 pages
official dispatches and 1900 private
spatches.
The annual report of an educational ~
stitution in an Eastern State mentions
e resignation of one of the teachers,
ung lady, to "engage in domestic re-
IONS"
A dress, composed entirely of the
,st delicate white lace, looped up with
arls. enveloped Philadelphia belle at
pc May recently, and distracted all
holders.
The horn of Patagonian OK has been
warded to Baltimore. 1t it sixty-fve
hes long seventeen inches in circum-
ence at the base and viii hold seven
arts.
1t North Hatfield, Mass, it is stated
t in the early DAYS road was laid out
lcn was uescTlDeu as running from
,haug meadow to the stream where
Mr.. Doolittle's horse died"
girl at Peru writes to male acquain-
,e: "Come over and see me, we
e a new lamp at our house that We
turn down, down, down, until their
arcely bit OF light in the room"
n Ohio Postmaster advertises that
Postoffice Department makes a dis
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