National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-01-27
Facts and Fancies.

Delaware has debt OF 81 .632, 900 less
investments amounting to 1857 $50.
The Norwegian Lutherans in the Unl-
ted States now number 250 congregn
tions.
II is estimated that there are 900 Is
raelite congregations i'll the United
States.
The Christians in Damascus are again
suffering persecution and general mas
sacre is feared.
A wrestling match between butcher
and bear is to be u Sunday feature
/ in San Francisco.
A woman in Detroit the other day
went to church, leaving four little chill
| dren with only box of matches to play
with
wild cats are so plenty in Alabama
that dogs come home without any hido
to speak Of
An English bishop once said :-"Our
girls are poorly educated and our ooys
never find it out. y
At Kingston, Mo, there is boy who
has no cars and his mother has TO box
the top of his head.
Somebody pasted 100 three-cent stamps
on small letter and dropped 1t into the
Chicago post-office.
The receipts of minstrel show in
Michigan one evening were only eight
cents, whereupon the leader killed him.
self
A man who stole another mans hat,
even when his name WAS written on 1t,
was let off on the ground that he was
collecting autograpy.
A Mississippi Judge announced that
he would not hold the December Term
of his Court, as be had important private
business to attend to.
The Chicago papers say there are moro
people out of employment in that section
now than there have been at any time
during the last eight years.
The Kentucky Supreme Court has
settled the fact that dog remaining on
neighbor's premises may be killed with
impunity or suitable means.
In an obituary notice Of an elderly
citizen of village in Maine, it is stated
that he had killed forty-seven bears with
in the limits of the town.
The u. S. Treasurer has received a
note from New York, signed Honesty"
in )sing $50, to supply an omission IN
the payment of internal revenue taxes.
Bull fighting is an amusement of some
parts of China, as well rs Of Snaln, but
in the former country they match bull
against bull instead of man against
brute
A Quaker Indian agent who has re-
Gently visited the Chcrokees, Choctaws,
and other tribes, gives it as his opinion
that the Indian females can be elevated,
and adds that "hoop-skirts are moro
useful in family than war-whoops."
A lady in Bath, Me-, has just had re-
turned to her by the Post-otiice Depart
ment n letter which she mailed eight
years and six months ago. 1t was cover
ed with post-marks, but it was difficult
to trace out its journeyings.
A Chicago boy, being asked if he had
a mother, said he didn't know, as he
hadn't been home since morning, and
when he left his father and mother were
with odds in favor OF lis
father, as he had the hatchet in his
hand.
An Indiana man was sent to the peni-
tentiary about year ago, and his wife
got a decree Of divorce, for which she
owed the costs. On Friday the husband
made his appearance, saw his ex-wlfe,
made up with her, and went to get
marriage license. He couldn't get it
unless he paid the cost of the old
divorce.
The clipper-ships Frolic and Glory Of
The Seas left San Francisco on the same
day, one for Liverpool and the other for
Cork, were in each others company for
six weeks, then separated, and reached
their destinations on the same day, tho
Froiic arriving but six hours before her
competitor.