National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-04-28
Facts and Fancics.

Spring over-coats.
+ Paper currency established in North
Amer ca May -, l775.
Begin life with but little show;you may
increase it afterwards
Tell not your secrets to your servant,
fQr he will then be your master.
Bread is said TO have been first mado
Of yeast by the English, about 1910.
Uniform suits are all the rage this
Spring fcr gentlemen as well as ladies'.
Pale blue and lavender are now the
prevalent tints in gentemens scarfs
The census shows that 1857 residents
Of Boston were born in New Hampshire.
The only hate we all bear with Chris
tan patience is the hate of those who
envy us.
Politeness is like an air cushion-there
may be nothing in it, but it eases onr
jolts wonderfully.
The cotton crop for 1871 is estimated
al four million bales. or little less than
that of last year.
A Michigander has paid SO and costs
for Joke on Il friend. He loaded u
cigar with powder.
The world would be more happy if
persons gave up more time to an inter
course of friendship.
The three things most difficult are, to
keep secret TO forget an injury and to
make good use of leisure.
Have nothing to do with n man III II
passion, for men are not like iron to be
wrought upon when hot
Canada has now Q, $40 postoffices. and
the entire postal route is 29,430 miles.
The revenue in 1870 was Sl.0l0,767.
E Leisure is Il very pleasant garment to
look at, but it is II very bad one to wear.
The ruin of millions may be traced to 1t.
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds
than happiness ever can and common
suffering il far stronger h.-k than COM
mon JOY.
A Young girl gnnerally loses her fresh
ness by minCling with fashionable society
MS bright stream does by minging with
the sea.
Trrthfulness is corner stone IN char
acter and if it be not firmly laid in youth
there will always be weak spot in the
foundation.
cess in life than these qualities With
them man can rarely fail Without them
he can rarely succeed.
Rather do nothing to the purpose than
be idle, that the devil may find the doing.
The bird that sits is easily shot, when
flyers escape the fowler
Whosoever is afraid of submitting any
question: civil or religious, to the test OF
free discussion. is more in love with ms
own opinion than with truth.
1t is much better to decide difference
between enemies than friends; for one
of our friends will become an enemy, and
one of our enemies n friend.
The City Marshal of Denver publishes
notice that he shall "impanel' any
horses, COWS, deer, buiialoes, antelopes,
dc. found at large in the streets.
Conscience is sleeping giant we
NAV lull him into a longer or shorter
slumber hut his starts are frightful, and
terrible is the hour when he awakes.
The use of the organ in the Baptist
church in Jacksonville, Florida, " Is dis
pensed with, it being an Objectionable
/ instrument to some of the members.
I Experience teaches, it is true, but she
never teaches in time. Each event brings
its lesson, and the lesson is remembered,
but the same event never occurs again.
knowledge precedes obedience. Truth
leads to good. How important, then,
that our knowledge should be sound, and
what we regard as truth Of heavily
origin.
II is suggested that in these days OF
panic about national defence in England,
tbe army of footmen, which exists IN
rich mems houses, should be drilled for
IA couple of hours daily.
If promises from man to man have
force. WHY not from man to woman
Their very weakness is the charter OF
their power, and they should not be IN
| iured because they cannot return 1t.
I They have Young lady ont i'll Wis
ennsin. who last fall ploughed no less
than thirty scres of land and took care
Of the team. during her services as a farm
hand. Aud only fourteen years OF age
at that.
An old lady who was very much tiou-
bled by the prospect of the introduction
of gas in her village, and the consequent
disnse of whale oil, asked with much
enrnestncss "What will become of the
poor whales !!
1t isa standing Joke at one OF the hotels
in Milwaukee, when strangers lounge up
to the counter and inquire, ." Where are
the amuseinents tonight p to lead them
up to the large church directory which
hangs near by
To show the reliability of veatherpro-
phecies based on scientific observation.
| /. is mentioned that telegraphic predic-
ton of late storm was received at San
Francisco within twenty-four hours after
the storm had occurred.
We should always rest satisfied with
doing well. and let others talk OF us as
as they please, for they can do us no IN
inry. although they may think they have
found flaw in our proceedings, ana are
dete,mined To rise on our downfall. or
profit by our injury.
T, may sur,,rise some readers to know
that the oleander, so popular as a house
and garden plant, is extremely POISONOUS.
An Ohio doctor writes that he was re-
Gently called to attend child who had
eaten some small fragments of an olean-
der bush. that had been cut off. The
SYMPTOMS were sudden and violent, and
the result nearly fatal. Deathly prostra-
ton. sunken eyes, great pallor, incessant
vomiting, extreme thirst, and purglng,
were the predominating symptoms.
SAMPSON PRITcHARD, who seems TO be