National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-04-07
Facts and Faucjes.

Quicksilver has b N discovered il
Noxubee County, Miss.
Confidence is an unfaithful man /; il
time of trouble is like broken tooth
and foot out of Joint.
There is no one else who has the pow
er to be so much your friend, or SO much
you enemy, as yourself.
Three things are important il you wish
to keep friends--to give much, to ask
little, and to take-nothing.
Sir Morgan Crofton, an English baro-
net, has been sentenced to imprisonment
for drunken and disorderly conduct.
Iron wide enough, says n recent chroni.
cler, to belt the globe with netting n yard
wide, is made yearly into cages for birds.
Never pride yourself on having done q
particularly wise thing it may hereafter
show itself to have been particularly
foolish.
Danbury Conn. is raising apple seeds
for the western market. Eight barrels
were recently shipped to town in
Missouri
A couple in Iowa got divorced lately,
but not appreciating the comforts of
single blessedness We're remarked the
next day.
The Observer "Year Book" gives the
list of deaths of American clergymen,
1870, with their ages. The average age
is 81 years.
The coal miners of Great Britain pro-
duced last year 107, 5000 tons, worth
f27, 900, 600, and the furnaces made
5000, 900 tons of pig iron.
Thou canst not joke an enemy into a
friend, but thou mayst friend into an
enemy. To be dexterous i'll danger is a
virtue, but to court danger is weakness.
An impudent youngster came very
pear getting his ears boxed the other
night at wedding party for wishing the
bride many happy returns OF the day"
At San Francisco, in the celebration
of the capitulation of Paris, one of the
banners in the German procession bore
the inscription New dish - frog
smothered in sauer kraut.
A Kentucky wedding was interrupted
by young girl, with babe in her arms,
forbidding the bans. The bridegroom,
asked them to excuse him a moment,
stepped out and shot his head of.
Col. Whitley Of the Secret Service
Division, has captured since May 10,
1869, the enormous sum OF $500, 600 in
bogus money, and $500, 900 worth of
cleansed and counterfeit revenue stamps.
They have a steam shovel on the Mis-
sissippi Central Railroad which takes
from the solid bank of earth and loads a
train of eighteen dump cars in thirty
nine minutes, carrying about seventy-fve
cubic yards of dirt.
1t is said that if all the dogs of this
country ate was fed to hogs, it would
make $50, 10000 worth of pork. Add
to this the value of sheep they destroy,
and something of an idea of the curse Of
dogs can be obtained.
The agricultural association of Shelby
county, Tennessee, will offer premium
of $1,000 for the finest and best and
most abundant cotton crop produced on
a single acre, and $500 for the greatest
corn crop produced on the same area of
ground.
Here's one of Punch's best things
"Women are said to have stronger at
tachments than men. 1t is evinced in
little things man is often attached
to an old hat but did you ever know of
a woman having an attachment for an
old bonnet?
Francis Greedy, aged eighty, often said
he would be willing to die when he had
seen his youngest granddaughter mar
a<tnnIn1 Iar xwn1I;~y hn
other evening" near st. Louis, and taking
part in the dance, fell dead, without a
yroan at her feet.
The old folks in Sullivan county fami-
Y were somewhat surprised the other
lay, when, upon rebuking the famili-
lrities of a young gentleman with their
,nly daughter, the young man up and
old them that is wasn't any of their
business, for they'd been married for
year.
Quilp and his wife had bit of con-
iention the other day. Il own that you
nave more brilliancy than l, p" said the
woman, "but l have the better iudg-
nent." Yes" said Quilp, "your
,hoce in marrying shows that" Qnilp
vas informed that he was brute.
A good story is told of German shoe
maker in Utica, N. Y, who, having made
pair of boots for a gentleman of
whose financial integrity he had con-
iderable doubt, made the following
eply to him when he called for the ar
icle "Der poots ish not quite done,
nut der bill ish made out. :"
A man was arrested in Buffalo last
5eek for stealing u barrel of salt When
rraigned in the court he pleaded desti
ution. "You couldn't eat salt" said
he Judge. "Oh, yes, could, with the
neat intended to steal" This reply
ost him six months. The Judge had no
ppreciation of delicate humor.
A Providence man, about seven years
go, was persuaded to take some stock III
fancy corporation for bad debt, and
gently some of its creditors, finding
is name in the list of stockholders, com
fenced suits against him and obtained
pigments which have thus far amounted
, 1916, 900, and the end is not yet.
The new city of Kalama, Oregon,
lough but four weeks old, contains five
nndred inhabitants, and boasts of four
~ goods and grocery stores, three res
urants, carpenter shop, blacksmith
lop, boot and shoe shop, and about
irty dwellings of various grades, from
one story frame to dog tent. No rum
ops are permitted, and not fight has
t occurred.
A rare animal, beautiful black fox,
- recently trapped by Mr. H. Edwards
Lobo. The fox, when trapped made
,allant effort to escape by attempting
gnaw of the paw that had beer
lght, and succeeded in doing so with
} exception Of small sinew. At this