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National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-10-13
Facts and fnncies.

Capital furniture-the weather bureau.
The great American " "ism"-Journal-
ISM.
A question OF time asking lady her
age.
"Do you keep accounts, Dick ?" "Yes,
| reckon"
The best tobacco stamp-StAmp il
under foot.
A "cheering" sigh-Hurrah for our
candidates.
Can n ship with two owners be called
a partnership
Funny - that "square" dances are
coming round again.
The foreign workmen are leaving
Newcastle, England, AMI going home.
In regard to newspapers, young ladies
prefer those which make the most hustle
Oarsmen object to rough water. They
say there is no use going for stakes in q
chop sea.
A drummer is the fastest man in the
world, because time beats all men but
drummer beats time.
"You seem to walk more erect than
usual, my friend" Yes, have bee.
straitened by circumstances.
A Des Moines parent offers IS for
name for his young son, and has rejected
three hundred already offered
An Irish Judge said, when addressing
n prisoner, "YOu are TO be hanged, and
l hope it will prove warning to you"
A correspondent wants to know wheth-
er, considering the great utility OF the
ocean, poets are not wrong in calling it
"A "waste Of water"
Throw a card of thanks and boquet
to serenaders when you cant inyite
them ill., If YOU haven't card throw
the water-pitcher or the boOt-jack.
A shrcwd confectioner in Bangor has
taught his parrot to say "pretty cres-
ture" to every lady who enters the shop,
and his business is rapidly increasing.
1t is said that good way for people
to improve their lives is to write the
epitaph they would like to have on their
tombstone, and then try and live up to
it.
Ornaments for the hair are beetles,
butterflies, and snails, made OF small
gay-colored feathers, fastened in the
centre of large ribbon bow with three
long ends.
The trosseau for a bride which is be-
ing made in New York will cost twenty
five thousand dollars. One dress alone
being trimmed with lace valued fifteen
hundred dollars.
my dear DOCTOR" said q lady, ~
suffer n great deal with my eyes" "B''
patient madam" he replied "you
would probably suffer great deal more
without them"
A Cincinnati wife left her husband
and Joined travelling show. The latter
bursted and left her 900 miles from
home with no money. She had to walk
back, and now can't find her husband.
When gentleman asks lady to drive
with him, he does not care about waitinG
an extra half hour at the door with rest
less horses while she puts on her best
bonnet and gloves and extra touche.
A man who has been arrested as Il
vagrant has protested that he had reg
rlar trade or calling-viz., smoking glas
for total eclipses of the sun and,
these occur only few times in cen
tury, he was not to blame for being ous
of employment good deal.
A waiter in a village tavern looked in
blank amazement when party of New
Yorker, asked for wine card, and pro
tested he knew not what they meant:
"Well, said one of the party, impatient
ly, "have You any dry Sillery ?" -
think not, replied the waiter, prompt
lv. "but we have some cold cabbage"
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-10-13
New York IN THE CENsr1s. yer,

New YORK IN THE CENsUs.-Some very
curious statistical facts are evolved from
the thorough analytical investigation to
which the census returns are being
subjected For instance, the total pop
ulation of the State of New York, as
has already been stated, is 4,382, 759,
while the total number of those in all
the States who were born in New York,
is 4,061, ,34S of this number 1887, ,77G
still reside in the State 23l 500 being
in Michigan, 163, 494 are in Illinois, 1O5,
$50 are in Wisconsin. II. $50 are in New
Jersey, S7,S76 IN Pennsylvania, and the
others scattered throughout all the
States and Territories, the smallest num-
ber in any one being 4l5 in the Terri
tory of New Mexico Considering the
large immigration into the State, par
ticularly from foreign countries, this is a
curious and interesting showing.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-10-13

A Coop WOMAN "A good woman
never grows old. Years may go over
her head, but if benevolence and virtue
dwell in her heart, she is rs cheerful ms
when the spring Of life first opened to
her view When we look upon a good
woman, w never think of her age-she
looks as charming as when the rose of
youth first bloomed upon her cheek.
That rose has not faded yet it will never
fade In her neighborhood she is the
friend and benefactor, in the church the
devout worshipper and exemplary
Christian. Who does not love and re-
spect the woman who has passed her
days in acts of kindness and mercy-who
has been the friend of man and God
whose whole life has been a scene OF
kindness and love, n devotion of love
and religion We repeat, such wo-
man cannot grow old. She will always
be fresh and buoyant in spirits, and ac-
tive in humble deeds of mercy and
benevolence. If the Young lady desires
to retain the bloom and beauty of youth,
led her not yield to the sway of fashion
and folly let her love truth and virtue
and to the close of life she will retain
those feelings which nov make life ap-
pear garden of sweets ever fresh and
ever new.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-10-13

HIS MoTHER-IN-LAw.-He stood oie
his head on the wild sea-shore, and Jo'-
was the cause of the act (; he felt as h.
had never felt before-insanely glad, Il
fact. And why In that vessel that
left the bay was his mother-in-law sailin'
to a tropical country where tigers and
snakes prevail. Aud more than one o
his creditors, too--those objects of con
slant dread-had taken berths in the
ship, Curlew, whose sails were so blithel'
spread. Oh how he might look for
auiet life, which he never had known =
yet Tis true he possessed wife, an
was not quite out of debt. But h
watched this vessel, this singular chal
crthe waves, as she upped and downes
and he felt exactly as il the edifice We
crowned Till over the blue horizon
edge she disappeared from view the
up he leaped on a chalky ledge ali
danced like a kangaroo And man
and many joyous lay he pealed o'e
the sunset sea, till down with q "fiz
sank the orb of day. and then he wen
home to te:
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-10-13
The Great Strike Of 1872.

meeting of the workingmen of New
York was held n few evenings since fol-
permanent organization. At this meet
ing it was stated that great strike
similar to the one in England and Ger
many, would take place early next
spring throughout the whole of the
United States and Canada, and that q
proper finance committee be appointed
in order that it might not break fol
want of funds Much discussion follow
ed on this announcement, many being
of opinion that the workings of the
strike committee be carried on at night
in s crecy in order to take the ''hosses'
by storm, while Others thought that the
utmost publicity. should be given to the
affair, and that notice should be given
the bosses" in the same manner that
it is in England, and that if the. dealings
between master and man were on a
more honorable footing, both parties
wouI be benefited thereby. 1t was
urge again, on the other side. that if
the "bosses' had notice of this intend
ed strike they would provide labor from
the market on the other side of the At
lantic A motion was adopted to have
the grand working mans demonstra-
ton in early spring without fail, and
arrangements were made for securing
money to carry out the strike.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-10-13

In CLOSE QUARTERS. "A Washington
paper says 1.-the ladies' club for the re
formation of fallen women of that city
are in possession of facts of the most
startling character concerning men OF
prominence in business and pretensions
to piety. 1t has been suggested tha
this knowledge might be used to quicker
the benevolence of such individuals. I'll
such thing were done, the paper ap..
prehends, "that these gentlemen would
get very little sympathy, and the act
would meet pretty general condonation,
if not positive approval.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-10-13
How he Saved his Life.

Strange as it may appear, says the
Gdsette des Tj'ibuaa,tr, man is at present
confined in one of the prisons of Paris
who owes his life to the fact of having
claimed the benefit of article II of
the Penal Code, which declares that
"every man being condemned to death
in France shall be executed by having
his head cut Off On the 9th of May
last man named P, who had, prior
to the 18th of March, been sentenced to
death for murder, and who was waiting
his execution in the prison of La Ro-
quette, was set at liberty by the last
defenders of the Commune. He at once
Joined his liberators and accompanied
them to the barricade on the Boulevard
du Prince Eugene. He passed the night
in eating and drinking, but the next
morning he and his new comrades were
made prisoners by the soldiers of the
line and ordered to be shot. 1t was then
that P with presence of mind, cried
out that he had been condemned to
death by the Court of Assizes of the
Seine and that he refused to be shot,
such not being the punishment fixed by
law" The officers, greatly embar lssed
by so extraordinary a demand, handed
him over to the civil authorities, who
will soon determine his fate.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-10-13
WHAT TO Do WITH THEM.

WHAT TO Do WITH THEM.-Apropos
of the question, What will be done with
influential persons who are responsible
for explosions and other avoidable dis
asters it may be well to notice the rig
or with which the British Board of Ad-
miralty has dealt with those to whom was
attributed the responsibility for the loss
of the Agincourt The board has re-
vised the light sentence of the court
martial, has compelled Vice Admiral
Wellesley to strike his flag, while Rear
Admiral Wilmot is superseded from his
command, as also are Captains Beamish
and Knight. Staff Commander Kiddle,
to whom primarily the disaster of the
grounding of the Agincourt was due,
is placed on half-pay, and censure and
punishment have been meted out with
no sparing hand. The effect of y s ac-
ton cannot be blt salutary.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-10-13

st. HELENA. Since Napoleon lived
and died in st. Helena, that island has
been pursued by misfortune. Such, in
deed. has been the unremitting character
OF the disasters that have occurred there
as almost to Justify superstition concern
ing it. In the latter part OF July, as the
final term Of long catalogue Of woes,
St Helena was almost literally washed
away by foods. Five hundred Of the
inhabitants were swept out of their
houses and lost everything they possess
ed. All the roads were destroyed, and
the island 10 now sa,d to be uninhahita-
BILE
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-10-13

LAND AND WATER-The sheet of wa
ter which conceals the greater part Of
the solid earth is considerable compared
with the dry land, but is very small if
compared with the entire mass of our
planet. If We divide the globe into L..
7s6 equal parts by weight and take one
these, we will have the total weight Of
the vstes Of the ocean,
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-10-13
A Timely Lesson.

1t is said to be a difficult thing for q
woman to get ready to go anywhere.
And yet there is nothing she dislikes
more than an intimation that she may
possibly miss the train. Brayfogle gives
an instance of this. Mr.. Bray was to
take the 10 o'clock train on the Bee
Line to visit some relatives in an interior
town. Having suffered on previous oc-
casions for injudicious suggestions, Bray
thought that for once he would let things
take their natural course. So he slipped
his coffee and ate his eggs and toast,
while Madame curled and powdered, and
danced attendance on the looking glass,
and tied bark on the back of her head
Then BRAY sat by the stove an hour and
read the morning paper, while Madame
still continued to get ready. AT last,
just as he reached the final paragraph of
reading matter, and was beginning on
the advertisements, Madame tied her
bonnet strings under her chin, took one
long lingering, loving look at the image
reflected in the glass, and sweetly an
nounced
"Weil, my dear, I'm ready"
Ready for what ?'' asked Bray in
well-atfected astonlshment.
"To go to the depot, to be sure, said
Mrs. Brayfogle, tartly.
ooh y said Bray, I'D forgotten /;
well. Madame" continued he looking at
his watch, "that train has been gone
thirteen minutes. Just keep on your
things, and you'll be ready for the train
tomorrow morning"
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-10-13

How LAND IS MADE IN HOLLAND. AS
the current nears the sea it slacks its
speed, and the suspended matter falls to
the bottom. In time this raised the
river bed and caused the soil-laden water
to spread laterally on both sides. In
this way true delta of vast extent was
in time created. BY taking advantage
of low stage of the water the river was
shut in by dykes on either side. History
is silent as to when or how this was first
done For over five hundred years the
present dykes are known to have been
in existence. This shutting the river in
caused it to deposit its sediment in
narrow channel that in time lifted the
river to higher level. The old Dutch
men of those days raised higher the
banks of their dykes to keep pace with
the water The result is the river flows
not in a channel cut through the soil,
but in canal raise above the general
surface of the country. For agriculture
this has resulted in an enormous acreage
of new land. The marshy bogs through
which the sluggish stream wandered
have become the sites of some of the
best farms in the world
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-10-13

At a meeting held at Southampto'
recently, a gentleman present said b
had received an intimation from NJ
Russell Gurney TO the effect that l, ~
claims by Englishmen upon the Unit
States had already been handed 10 hin
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-10-13

THROWING THE SLIPPER.--1he origin
of throwing the old shoe as a good luck
wisher is still enshrouded with mystery
Throwing the shoe is differently con-
Quoted to the general way. When the
carriage starts with the 8 nappy pair"
the bridesmaids are drawn up in row,
and the groomsmen in another. The
old shoe is then thrown as far as possible,
and the bridesmaids run for it, the sue
cessful one being supposed to be the first
to get married; the lucky one then throws
the shoe at the groomsmen, the one who
is hit by it also being supposed to be the
first one who will enter the bonds of
wedlock. Urquhart, in pillars of Her
cules," says the custom of throwing The
shoe arose from the usage in the East of
bearing slipper before the couple in
token of the brides submission to her
husband If this be it, the brides of
the period will grow restive and refuse
the salutation of the usual avalanche of
old white satin shoes, as they don I mind
loving, but they don't care for the sub
lection or obeying. Among the mobiles
in Germany it was formerly the custom
for the bride, when she was conducted
to the bride e-chamber, to take off her shoe
and throw it among the bystanders, which
every one strove to catch and whoever
got it thought it an omen that they
themselves would shortly be married.
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RATES or \. DSCRlPTlON. i.

One copy, one year in adva e,,....,.... u ~
II not paid within three months. s,......... 70
No variation whatever from these rates.
No tApcr discontinued until all arrearsgos
are paid, except at the option OF the publisher
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JOB PRINTING

OF all kinds neatly executed at the lowest living
prices. Our office is well furnished with mater
ial and stock for this department, and we now
have experienced and competent workmen TO use
them. II you want any printing done you need
not go to the city, or out Of the county, for yoa
can get az good work and rs low prices stthis
office as at any other.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-10-13

Too MANY.-Some preachers complain
that although they preach doct1nal ser.
mons often, they fail TO make some OF
the staunchest adherents of their creed
understand it. For example Father
Ballou," said an elderly Universalist
who had for twenty years delightedly
attended his preaching, "in your sermon
to-day ] got the idea that you thought
everybody was to be saved-them Ortho-
dox fellows as well as we Universslists.
Did We mean that ?" Certainly" was
the reply chats olr leading principle. "
"Well, +" was .he disappointed rejoinder,
"it neysr struck me so before
thought it was the Universalists alone
who were TO be saved-them who had
some faith in the doctrine"
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-10-13

INsANTY.-It appears that insanity is
greatly on the increase in England. In
the year 1859 the population was 9,0S6,
701, of which number 36, 762 were luna
tics or idiots. In the present year the
population is 22,704, los, of whom Sc, 155
are lunatics or idiots This is a fearfully
large number-56, 600 persons make a
great army. OF this 56, 755, there were
6, 10 private patients. In the year 1870
alone there was an increase of 2,O42 in
the number of the insane. The number
of cures in even the best hospitals bears
sadly small proportion to the number
of eases and it is more than limited that
the whole system of herding insane per
sons together in large numbers is cruel
and wrong, and that the insane, in the
majority of cases, can be far better
treated by retaining them in their own
families under proper supervision.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-10-13
Gold Mine SDeCulatiOns.

Eastern men who have rushed blindly
into mining operations on the Pacific
slope. without knowing anything of the
business, have sometimes suffered severe
ly through the incompetence or dis
honesty of the agents whom they have
intrusted with the management of their
affairs. One company paid $50, 600 for
a mine in Nevada, located in a bowlder
of eight or ten tons weight, resting far
from its original bed, and built an extern
sive mill to reduce their ores. Finding
that this mine gave out very suddenly,
the company determined to get even on
the country, and so bought another mine
fer the very reasonable sum of $1,000.
This proved to be small slide from a
mine belonging to other parties, and
yielded Just five tons of ore, after which
it gave out the company having expended,
100000 in developing the two mines.
The Reese Rirer RepeiNe, published at
Austin, gives an account of the sale of
mine in 1866, which very likely was one
of those mentioned above. An agent
from New York arrived in Austin. very
anxious to secure a mine at Silver Peak.
Some of the sharp fellows about town
procured a light wagon and pair of
horses. made a bee-line for Silver Peak,
located claim according to law by
posting notice on the bowlder, and.
returning as soon as possible, sold their
newly acquired property to the New
York agent for $4,000 in greenbacks.
1t was rumored in Austin that the amount
of purchase money paid to the enterpris-
ing locators was only portion of that
which was charged to the company but
as the sellers were very well satisfied
with their bargain, they were not dis
posed to be inquisitive. There is now
large mill at Silver Peak which would
be sold cheap to a cash customer.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-10-13

ARTIFICIAL LEATHER. process has
lately been brought out in England for
working up scrap leather and such parts
of old boots and shoes as have not been
burned, or the fiber of the leather other
wise destroyed, into a sort of artificial
leather, which is claimed TO be nearly
or quite equal to any in point of wear.
The scraps are first reduced to pulp. To
do this the thicker and harder pieces are
put into a suitable disintegrating or
crushing mill, where they are broken mp,
care being taken that the fiber is not
injured They are then put with the
thinner pieces which did not require
crushing, and the whole thrown into n
powerful rag engine and converted into
pulp with water or thin solution of
gelatine, after which it is converted into
sheets. These sheets are next inclosed
between other sheets of thin but perfect
leather A sort of compound sheet is
thus obtained, which, after being sub
jected to pressure is ready for use,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-06-26
0ATs LEAVING TODAY.
METEdRoLoGIcAL RECORD.
RIVER, BUSINESS, MIsCELLANEOUI


The river has declined five inches since
our last report, and is now twenty-four
feet below high water mark. There is
ten feet in the channel between here and
Cairo, where the river is rising slowly,
and nine feet above there to st. Louis,
where the decline continues. The up
per Missouri is rising rapidly, as is also
the upper Mississippi From the meager
news yet received tits not known whether
it is the yearly June rise or not. The
Ohio is falling at Cincinnati, with but
six feet below and falling at Louisville,
with two feet six inches in the chute and
four feet six inches in the canal. The
upper and lower Ohio is also falling
slowly, but gradually getting down to a
low water stage. Business at the land.
ing, though moderate for the season, is
not quite as active as could be wished.
The Legal Tender goes out tomorrow
evening for White river.
The Belle Memphis, Captain Crane,
with Billy Blenker secretary, goes out
at 5 pm. to-day for Cairo and St. Louis.
The elegant steamer Dardanelle hav-
ing discharged her cargo, and taken on
board not a few of the good things of
this life, will back out at SPIN. to-day
with the United States mail for Pine
Bluff, Little Rock and all landings on
the Arkansas. Her table is supplied
with the best the market affords.
Several of the Shannon's passengers
complained of poor fare on their arrival
here Saturday. They said that butter
and milk were strangers to her table.
The gay Belle st. Louis, Captain VIM.
Blake on the roof, will leave the wharf
boat at 5 o'clock this evening for Vicks-
burg and the bends. State-rooms can
be secured upon application to Billy
Dill on the wharfboat.
1t is believed that the last proposition
made by the Memphis and ST. Louis
Packet Company for the construction Of
an elevator viii be accepted by the Ele-
vator Committee. who will report at the
next meeting Of the general Council.
The elegant steamer A. J. White will
back out at Eve pm. to-day for Helena,
Friar's Point and Napoleon. George
Malone commands, and Barney Barinds
is clerk.
The splendid and swirl steamer Phil
Allin, James Lee master, will get away
at five o'clock this evening for Helena
and Friar's Point Stack Lee is her
able and attentive clerk.
Cincinnati rates on freight were ad-
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A Diamona Thier.

James Kenney, a noted thief recently
arrived in this city and proceeded to
James Park on Saturday last to attend
the picnic. Seeing Judge L. V. Dixon
on the street cars, and noticing fine
diamond pin in his shirt bosom, he per-
formed the old trick of "jostlingp and
in the meantime cleverly distracted
the gem. Judge Dixon discovered his
loss at once and grabbed the thief,
forcing him to surrender the plumber.
This morning Recorder Scales sent Kin
ney to Jail in default Of $4,000 bonds.
He is certain Of being elected for the
long term in the State penitentiary.
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what tho world Knows.

All smokers use the Bay Horse
cigars; all thirsty citizens drink at the
Bay Horse" all good fellows 90 to see
MacLean. The corner of Monroe and
Second is the most popular place in the
city. There you can get Blue Lick water,
Bourbon and rye WHISTLES, brandy, por
ter, lalf.and'alf, cider, ale, etc. The
greatest Of Americans has said; go
and see my friend, Duncan MacLean, at
the Bay Horse, take a drink and
cigar, and happiness is sure to follow"