National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-01-06

80 much for bucking EN-, as the
young man said when he fought the
tiger i.,
In mans works, as in those of nature,
the intention is the great thing to be
studied
The best society and conversation is
, that in which the heart has greater
share than the head.
When an extravagant friend wishes to
borrow money, consider which of the
two you had rather lose.
A keeper Of gambling house being
asked what trade he was, answered that
he was an 9 ivory turner
Why do girls kiss each other and men
do not ? Because girls have nothing
better to kiss and men have.
He who has nowhere to lay bis head
often suffers less than he who does not
know where to put his hands.
Labor is a school of benevolence as
well as Justice. Next unto virtue, let
children be trained to industry.
The greatest suffering is to be found
in the higher classes--men bleed invol-
UNFAIRLY on ascending mountains.
When we record our angry feelings.
let it be on the snow, that the first beam
of sunshine may obliterate them forever.
Memory is the only paradise we are
sure of always preserving. Even our
first parents could not be driven out of
it.
Joy hutters past MS like a gay and
harmless butterfly, but, unfortunately,
4, I'll, 1or II
ing caterpillars.
Sorrows gather round great souls as
storms do around mountains but, like
them, they break the storm and purify
the air Of the plain beneath him.
A lawyer who gets so confused by
press of business, frequently mistakes
one parchment for another--in fact, he
has been known to "take the will for
the deed. "
An unmarried friend declared to us,
the other day, with an expression of
countenance most lagubrious-" never
cared farthing about getting married,
until | attended an old bachelors
! funeral.
AT length, - said an unfortunate man,
who had been ruined by vexatious law
suits, "at length | have found happi-
ness, for | am reduced to necessity-and
that is the only thing l know of which
has no law
A somewhat philosophical gentleman
in BARRIERS shop, spoke out from his
lather, Well, for the life of me l do
not understand how the Prussians move
such immense bodies of men. That's
just what allied Napoleon, " said the Teu-
tonic shaver.
Il can tell YOU how to save that
horse" said a coachman to man who
was looking very earnestly at the skele-
ton of horse attached to vehicle heav-
lily laden with oysters. VIII you? Say
on" "Why, just slip him away while
the crows are at roost
At one of the Wellsbourg, Ohio,
churches, on Thanksgiving Day, some
body quietly dropped 500 greenback
into the money bag. The unknown
donor has the satisfaction of hearing his
home paper say that the gift is either a
mistake or conscience money.
A doctor is family physician to
plumber Some days since he sent
bill for professional services, which was
itemized "To visit daughter -" visit
self, with date and amount set opposite.
The plumber had done some jobs for the
physician, and transmitted with remark
able alacrity his accounts with items
mentioned thus; debtor to visit pump
-"'to visit bath tub" &c
How many take wrong view of life,
and waste their energies and destroy
their nervous system in endeavoring to
accumulate wealth, without thinking of
the present happiness they are throwing
away. 1t is not wealth or high station
that makes man nappy. mahy VI rne
most wretched beings on earth are both;
but it is a radiant, sunny spirit, which
knows how to bear little trials, and enjoy
little comforts, and thus extract happi-
ness from every incident in life.
A correspondent AYERS that while pass
ing Female College, where young
ladies 60 to "receive the last touch of
grace and gracefumess,' a feeble lady
hanging on her husbands arm was
cheerily saluted from a groop of misses
in the yard with "Say what are you
holdin on to his arm for :? He amt a
goin' to run off," Then, in the words
of Artemus Ward, they all remarked
"tee-hee." He thinks they must have
nearly finished their education.
A Canadian lady having caught
troublesome rat in trap, determined
upon having some sport with 1t. She
took the trap into the sitting room,
called in terrier, opened the trap.
Jumped upon chair, and the fun com
menced. The rat first whipped the dog,
and then made away with tame raccoon,
which the lady called to her assistance,
then fought another dog and broom
for an hour and fifteen minutes, and
finally escaped through the window.
An Arkansas editor apologies for the
lack of editorial in his paper by saying
that "the day had been consumed in
challenges and arranging pre-
liminaries to fight" He says "a pres
sure of editorial duties had allowed
those matters to accumulate on his hands
for several days, SO that he had to devote
considerable time to settle them all in a
lump" He assures his readers that it
will not occur again, as he has so dispos-
ed his corps of assistants as to allow him
time to give immediate attention to these
little matters at the time Of their occur
ence."