National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-03-03
Facts and faneies.

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The Board of Trade-The counter.
A heeting showA travelling circus.
A woman's bow ideal---The marriage
tie
The militia OF Pennsylvania number
$4,000 men.
There are SIX female minstrel troops
now travelling.
How did Adam go out Of Eden ? He
was snaked ont.
The Richmond flour trade with South
American is fast reviving.
Philadelphia has 1854 libraries, with
an aggregate of 2,906,779 volumes
Detroit poulterers stuff their chickens
with old junk to make them weigh heavy.
Good resolutions are like ladies who
faint in lecture room-they should be
carried out.
Advice to children Mind your moth
ers. Advice to mothers - Mind your
children
To annihilate swell salesman in
first-cass furniture house ask him . Is
this the auction store p
Oswego manufactures annually from
600. 900 to 700, 900 barrels of flour, and
100, 900 pounds of starch.
A doctor was asked to dance the Ian
GERS" He declined, hut expressed a
willingness to lance the dancers.
At indianapolis all the packing houses
4 have closed operations but one The to-
tai number of hogs killed is S0,705.
Seasonable advice from John G. SAKE :
"In going to parties just mind what you're at.
! Beware OF your head and take care OF your hat,
Lest you find that a iavorite son of your mother
Has an ache in the one and brick In the other
A doctor in Philadelphia told his ser
want to grease his buggy. He did so all
over. The doctors wife took ride and
her dress was ruined.
The Postmaster at Adaline, West Vir-
ginia, has salary of 81 per annum. He
don 90 to Washington very often to see
that he don't lose his place.
Can You steer the mainmast down the
forcastle stairs ?" asked a sea captain OF
new recruit. "Yes, sir, / can if you
will stand below and coil it up"
A sharp young woman says there is
nothing more touching in this life than
to see poor but virtuous young man
struggling with sick moustache.
A boy bawling in the street was asked
the cause of his trouble and replied 81
want my mama that's the matter l
told the daIned thing she'd lose me.
1t is stated that about so per cent, OF
the whole number of the German wound
ed have reioined their regiments in the
field or have been assigned to the reserve
battalions
The favorite trimming for bonnets
consists of large crushed rose with with
cred -emblematic, we suppose
of the fading glories of the brilliant sea-
son SO near its end.
The New Orleans Directory was pub
lished with an error which cost the
compiler much expense and trouble. 1t
gave the name of a leading white citizen
with the affix "colored.
Several wealthy citizens of Boston,
propose to raise $4,000 to purchase
provisions and load ship to be sent to
the relief of the French, providing the
Government will furnish United States
vessel to carry the provisions.
The expenses of our wars with Indians
since the beginning of the century
amount to more than S400 600, 600, while
the amount of money spent in attempts
to educate them has only been SS,OOO,-
600.
A kiss, says French author, gives
more pleasure than anything else in the
world. But she evidently never expert
enced the childish rapture of descending
the parlor stairs by sliding down the
bannisters.
Greenland got the news Of probable
outbreak of hostilities between France
and Prussia by the visit OF an American
ship Sept. Il, and unless by accident
will hear nothing further of the war un-
til next summer.
Sand fol uilding purposes should al
WAYS be free from soluble salts, especially
chlorides. If these are present, chloride
of calcium will be formed, and the NOR
tar, instead of rapidly hardening, will
remain soft and pasty.
A county auditor in New Hampshire
has had presented to him for allowance
in lawsuit a bill, which reads To
doing your chores. such rs drawin water,
chopin wood and feeding cattle the weeks
while you lay drunk, s21.
"a girl of twenty. at Alton, ILL.,, is
digging well for her father, at seventy
five cents a foot. She has already put
down two feet" Usually when woman
nuts her foot down it BODIES no good; but
in Illinois, when she puts down two feet,
it means well.
A powerful negro employed at
warehouse in Columbus, Miss, amused
himself and his companions by placing
himself on all fours while they rolled
cotton bales over his back. He kept up
tbe sport until the strain caused internal
injuries, which killed him.
An ingenious wife out West cured her
husband of snoring thus She had
yu.ta-percha tube with two cup-shaped
,nds one she puts over his nose and
mouth and the other over his ear. He
consumes his own noise, as a stove does
is smoke, and wakes up instanter.
Suit has been brought On q note for
g. lsO in Portsmouth, n. H., and the
defendant pleads that the note was given
n part payment for brewery, and that
IS a portion Of the property purchased
consisted of ale, the sale of which is de-
Jared illegible by the laws Of the State,
he note is void.