National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-03-10

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N Fifty-six members of the Maine Hous,
d or Representatives are Free Masons
- 1t has cost Maine physician sl3, 90,
:, for bungling in setting boys broker
I leg.
v A medical gentleman of Tarryton, Pa.
n has restored to life, by very gradual
e thawing, some perch he cut out of ice
A resident o. Connecticut boasts that
7 for eighty-four consecutive years he has
! eaten his Thanksgiving dinner in the
l same house.
, A Massachusetts census officer amb.
, tious to have his State properly UNDER
! stood, reports that if the Lowell girls
J were laid endwise they would reach nine.
teen miles.
There is no better remedy for cold
feet than to slap the leg briskly Just
above the knee after raising the foot
The increased circulation induces i'm
mediate relief.
convention is to be held in New
Hampshire to take measures for the es-
tablishment ofa House School of Indus
try for the orphan and homeless children
of the State.
; A hostler, who had been working al
Lyons, Iowa, for eight years on salary
of Sl5 per month and fees, died the
other day when it appeared that he hal
laid up about 5000
The Kansas House of Representatives
has passed bill permitting criminals TO
testify in their own behalf, and husband
and wife to give testimony in each otL-
ers behalf in criminal cases.
Daniel Drew, being on one of his own
steamers. WIS accosted by passen ger,
who took him for one of the crew, with,
"Do You belong to this boat ?" "No,"
said Daniel, quietly, "the boat belongs
to me"
The Engineering Mgoziae says : 1--WE
are on the brink of new era in RAILWAYS
the era of the narrow guage railway
an era of renewed activity, when every
village, almost farmstead, may have its
railway"
The blast furnace in Geddes, n. Y, is
in a fix. The cupola or stack, has cooled
down, w'th full charge of ore, being
smelted Is will take weeks to get the
furnace in running order, and the loss
will be large.
The Kennebec Journal says that the
evidence In divorce case, last week,
elected the fact that one OF the parties
Kept store and the other kept drunk.
The two occupations Sc eming not to har-
nonise, divorce was prayed for
The new comet, recently discovered
~ Councillor Winnecke of Carlsruhe,
ince its discovery has greatly increased
n brilliancy 1t is now visible through
telescope of medium size, and is mov-
ny swiftly in southe asterly direction.
Plain hair is rapidly becoming the
ashton. How sorry we are for the. un-
ortunate girls who have ruined their
ront hair by long course of hot iron
nd crimping pins. We wonder if false
ronts, such as old ladies used to wear,
ill be adopted to hide deficiencies ?
The Fat Contributor encouraged by
Ir Greeley's success, in writing about
lrming. He says "A correspondent
SKIS us what we think about late plow-
lg Flowing should not be continued
ter than ten or eleven o'clock at night.
gets the horses into the habit of stay
lg out late, and unduly exposes the
low"
Miriam NJ. Cole speaks of the tendency
girls TO talk dround what they cannot
Tx M The case of a school is mentioned
here, last year, two thirds of the Young
dies present for examination were as
inning and wary as foxes, and if the
,hool Examiners found out how much
how little each one knew they were
rewd.
Russia has just made another stride
wards justice and fair play. The Gar
IS Cancelled, by an order under his own
md, the privilege of exemption from
Illtary service so long enjoyed by the
Issian nobility. The conscription is
erefore now universal Instead of being
mined to the trading and peasant
sses
Another faithful wife has been dis
vered in Indiana. Her husband, John
Bridges, was several years ago sent
prison on n life sentence for murder.
tely he received pardon, and although
crime divorced his wife she met him
the prison doors, wept tears of Joy
on his breast. and remarked him that
ne day
Among the lodgers at the Station
1se III Alexandra, Va, one night, was
Dung and beautiful woman, apparently
l-educated, who stated that she was in
suit of her husband, who had deserted
in New York, carrying off with him
her iewelry, and leaving her without
mt. 81 had managed to trace him
ar South rs that city, where all ev.-
ce of him vas lost.
Montreal p'per says That Mrs.
mas Darcy Niece, whose sudden
tn was announced short time back,
er fully recovered the shock of her
husbands death at the hands of an
ssin, and that she soon afterward
we'd symptoms of heart disease. 1t
only few days previous to her sud-
death that her medical adviser in
ned her that she might die at any
nent.