National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-02-10
Facts and Fancics.

q During the past year seven centenorian'
died in Maine
This is a good time to collect auto
grnphs--of your creditors.
The Governor Of Minnesota is the
, champion long message writer.
There are nearly 1900 insane persons
and over 500 idiots i'll jails i'll Ohio.
Property in Atchison county, Kansas,
has increased 400 per cent. i'll eight
wears.
4 soldiers monument is TO be erected
on Boston Common at an expense of
S75, 900
Two thousand miles of railroads have
been built in Illinois and are now i'll op-
Grafton since 1869.
Two hundred aud fourteen new build
ings were erecteS in st. Paul during
1870. at II cost of 1880, 925.
The Republicans of the Massachusetts,
Legslaturo have nominated Henry Will
son for TIE L. ). StnteS Senate.
A mulatto woman brings n suit in Gin
cinnati. and places her damages mt $40,
0o0 for being kidnapped and sold into
slavery in 1853.
\ travelling piano player undertook
to whip an Illinois editor and when he
got through the piano pouuler had only
one ear for music
The Prussian war office has given
orders for the purpose OF ascertaining
how many of the French prisoners are
able to read and write.
Miss Anna Dickinson : annual income
from lecturing for the last seven years,
has averaged $1,000. Her profits last
season reached S13, 600
A Mt Pleasant, Iowa school girl,
Alice Kaufman, spelled 2,1O0 consecu-
tive words, recently, and got fine
Bible for her smartness.
As many rs twelve Dukes, Of the old
est and most distinguished lineage, of
France, lave been killed or seriously
wounded during the war.
The present wife Of Bufialonian OBJ
jects to his keeping the memories Of her
five predecessors green by wearing five
bands of Grape on his hat.
In Galveston. Texas, an indignant ia
ther. whose daughter had married
against his will, sent her for Il wedding
present patent burial case.
The amount of capital employed in Il
tirst-class circus is fully Sl00,0 and
lately ono-eight of an establishment
found purchaser at $4,000.
An Indiana widow so worked upon n
young mans fears by threatening to
marry him, that he turned over all his
property to her and ran away.
An Iowa man is so inhuman as to
drive ten-penny nails through an inch
board and file them sharp, aud then
beat his horse over the head with it.
A Missouri newspaper claims that the
hogs of that State are so fat that in or
der to find out where their heads are it
is necessary TO make them squeal, and
then judge by the sound.
Wisconsin has = woman whose home Is
in Oshkosh, and who has been married
six times twice to the same man been
divorced .hree times, twice from the
same man, and is now widow
A lady in Fond On Lac slipped on the
ice and broke her leg, and the first re-
mark she made after the accident was
:" wonder if Harry will marry Inc now.
How characteristic of woman
Five thousand trout day are hatched
out at the Cold Spring trout ponds at
quarter of a million trout eggs laid down
in the Matching troughs in the fall
A Chicago lady recently received let
ter from girl in Paris in which was the
following sentence: "Do not mind the
reports of our dependency. We expect
to begin brilliant ball season in week
or two"
A little schoolbov presented his teach
er the following note from home as an
excuse for tardiness Baby cross Bis
cult to bake had no Baken powder the
dog upset the kaughphypot the eat
lched the milk got up late Excuse
The Supreme Court of Iowa, has de-
cided that if iuryma1 drinks intoxlca-
ting liquors during trial, the verdict
NAV he set aside and a new trial ordered.
Where the Cincinnati article is used the
jurvman is buried at the expense of the
county.
Mr.. Washburne, the American Minis
ister communicated to Gen. Trochu a
complaint from Count Bismarck that
the French fire on flags of trace. Gen.
Trochu. in reply, saws the firing was ac-
cluehtal, anu cues S'iilil"i "NNi'N"' "
the German side.
The iron-clad targets at which the new
English thirty five ton gun is to be tired
are Mt Chatham. and nearly completed.
Two of them are coated with plates four
teen inches in thickness, one of them
having the plates placed III two thlcknes-
Sos of six inches and eight inches, with
the timber backing between them.