National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-07-14
Facts and Fancies.

"A man is what his life makes him
good wife is the greatest earthly
blessing.
II is the mother who moulds the char.
acter and destiny of the child.
California has made the first bar Of
tin ever manufactured in the United
States.
King Amadeus is Learning b. talk
Spanish, as he may soon have to walk
Spanish.
Some lottery people have sued the
Chicago Post for libel, laying damages at
S25, 600
Why should young ladies set good ex-
amples Because young men are apt to
follow them.
Captain Hall takes with him IN his
Arctic voyage "a thermometer that will
register eighty-eight degrees below zero.
Never part without loving words to
think of during your absence. Besides,
it may be that you will not meet again in
life.
Cinnamon are employed as miners in
Nebraska, and have already penetrated
seven hundred feet on their nearest way
home.
There were 10, 1856 births. 1871 mar
liages, and $500 deaths in Connecticut
last year. There were 40S divorces
granted.
The Society of Friends in Philadelphia
has resolved to expel anv member who
shall manufacture or sell Intoxicating
beverages.
A Vermonter has just paid S--5 for
pound and half of lead. 1t was puf-
chased through New York counterfeit
money firm.
The season of pilgrimage to Mecca liz
over, and has been marked by no epide-
mic. As many as 100, 900 pilgrims were
assembled at Mt. Ararat
The amount spent last year in this
country for ministers, churches and
missions, home and foreign, was about
eighteen millions Of dollars.
The dental profession in the United
States, it ia estimated, comprises 1000
members, who earn an aggregate income
of twenty-four million dollars.
Eleven millions of dogs assist in sup
porting the Established High Church of
England, and in pensioning off the prin
cesses. Five shillings head is the tax.
The Santa Clara AqricuAm'ist estimates
that California will this year produce all
the castor oil for hsme consumption,
which will be about $4,000 or 10000
gallons.
A tangled cofi'ee-pot astOnished
peaceable family in indianapolis by
blowing off the top of the stove, and fur
nisling them with their coffee in the
manner of shower bath.
A man has invented new and cheap
plan for boarding. One of his dodgers
mesmerizes the rest, and then eats
hearty meal-the mesmerized being
satisfied from sympathy.
Sidney Smith once gave hdy two
and twenty receipts against melancholy;
one was bright fire, another to keep
box of sugar-plums on the chimney
piece, and a kettle simmering on the
mob.
A Gloucester young lady was about
throwing away withered bouquet,
lately, when she discovered in it note
containing an offer of marriage from
bashful but really exemplary young man
of her acquaintance.
An English writer speaks Of those
amazing American young ladies whose
abundant luggage and boundless variety
of dress eclipse humber British tnvelew
on the Continent no less than their un
deniable beauty and intelligence.
The Cincinnati COmD3erciH urges the
necessity for the establishment of
newspaper library" somewhere in this
country, in which the bound annual files
OF at least 100 leading journals shall be
kept for the benefit Of the public The
idea is good one.
Corner loafing." with the use of
abusive, indecent OF insulting language,
addressed to any person passing
upon any highway, to any other person,
or to no person in particular, has been
made a statutory oilense IN Connecticut,
punishable by a fine not exceeding seven
dollars.
The large, loose-flowing sleeves are
rapidly going out of fashion, being con-
sidered neither stylish nor graceful, and
1t a dinner-table answering the same
purpose a. a gravy bowl or crumb
,craper The coat sleeve, with a small
'rill at the wrist, has entirely superseded
hem.
A woman in Pittsburgh had her hus-
,and arrested for ill-treatment. He then
Md her arrested for bigamy. She turn
ID the tables on him with the same re-
,ult. The sequel was that the woman
lad a husband and he wife previous to
he alliance between them, but that each
iad deceived the other.
A young man living in Lafayette,
ndiann, is humility personified. The
ther day he asked young lady if he
night he allowed the privilege of going
ome with her, and was Indignantly re-
nsed upon which he inquired very
umbly, ii she would permit him to sit
u the fence and see her 60 by.