National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-08-25
Facts and Fancies.

Facts and Fancies.
The poor mans story-The garret.
Mere matter of form-Fitting dress.
To remove stains from characterized
rich.
A hack in Chicago is called a verm-
agery.
Stagnation-A nation inhabited mostly
by men.
Schenectady is building "bridal
chamber" car.
Sponge paper for dressing wounds, is
French invention.
The best band to accompany lady
vocalst-A husband.
If YOU want morning wrapper to
wear for ever never wear 1t out.
Maine has got 100000 tons Of ice for
which she canno' Ind customer.
If you're asked to take on egg, and
won't, is that an-egg-active reply
Ballet girls and geese are the animals
that can stand the longest on one leg.
Whv is it that Mount Versuvius never
sleeps? Because it is always yawning.
New Hampshire has twenty-one couples
who have been married over fifty years.
The moving and threshing machine
accident season is very good one thus
far
A Georgia baseball umpire, who
failed to give satisfaction, was ridden on
rail.
II is n oueer woman who asks no ques-
tions. but the woman who does IS the
querist.
The Boston Transcript says that bread
making is among the lost arts ol New
England.
The prices of improved farms in Cali
fornia are lower than they were three
years ago.
Curious to say, most horse-owners,
when in difficulties, prefer their grays 10
their duns.
More than twenty women now claim
that they could have married Bismarck
as well as not.
Tn Chicago one can thrash his mother
in-Iaw. under n recent decision, for
seventy five dollars.
Napoleon's army is said to have re
| ScmOled MS mOustlcuc, pco""'o ~ wa"
waxed at both ends.
The daily quantity of Croten water
which is brought into Gotham amounts
to $4,000, 900 gallons.
Mosquitoes don't like carbolic acid;
A few drops sprinkled III room VIII
scatter them eiiectually.
New arithmetic "How long shall you
be gone on your vacation, Neu On'
about three shirts time.
A family were lately poisoned by eat
ing custard favored with "extract OF
vanilla" as sold in groceries.
The epicurean who made dessert OF
the fruits of an enterprise picked his
teeth with the point of joke.
Mrs. Hamset, of Cartharge, was kicked
on the chin by mule, causing her to
bite off the end of her tongue.
"Bob, how is your sweetheart getting
along ?" Pretty well, guess she
saws l needn't call any more.
The Massachusetts State Constables are
hereafter to arrest tramps and migrants
who go from city to city begging.
More than n million pounds OF willow
leaf were made up at Shanghai, last
season, and palmed off as green tea.
When we become heirs 1T does no
follow that airs become us still less Una
millionaire's should put on million airs
No people under heaven can excel the
Americans in the manly art of sitting on
bench and seeing eighteen men Piay
ball.
An accommodating clerk in Troy releases
all the "drunks" who pay HIM Slu. It
will take more than that to release hih'
though.
Tn ancient Rome the nearest friend OF
a dying person received 10y KISS, ms
soui, as it escaped through the lips at
the last expiration.
Victoria's daughter, Crown Princess OF
Prussia. is growing fat, like her mother.
She is thirty-one years old, and has given
birth to six children.
Asia, the birthplace of the human
family and the largest and most popuious
of the continents, is just now the prey OF
earths direct ills-war, pestllence, ana
famine.
During q game of base ball at rama
City, Iowa, the batter, in throwing pack
his club for a telling stroke, INT the
catcher in the temple, killing HIM IN
stantly. ..,
MANY ladies are walking around Win
crutches or cane, the effect OF having
mistaken their own foot for croq"cs
ball. and making effectual strokes at "
with their mallet
Terre Haute, Ind, has a law against
bitching horses to shade-trees, ana
case is to be tested whether man can be
arrested for hitching his horse to his
own shade treee.
Buy in the cheapest market. Sell IN
the dearest The number OF children
the workmen employed by you may
may have is nothing to you. The num-
ber you have yourself is.
1t is said the hero of the exploit OF
bringing three kegs of gunpowder out OF
a burning grocery, was laboring under
mistake-he thought it was brandy.
Thus are our idols shivered
All Sing, All Hay, All Fat, All Youey,
All Tuck, All Yonck, All kuey and All
King, cigar manufacturers, of San Fran
cisco, have all been fined and imprisoned
for violating the revenue laws.