National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-03-24
Facts and fancics.

One poultry fancier in California bas
10000 hens.
Over twenty styles of hats for ladies
are already out.
A rich harvest Of maple sugar is pre-
dicted for this spring.
A Wisconsin girl walks fourteen miles
a day to teach school.
The chinch bug is devastating the
wheat fields in Appanoose County,
Iowa.
The hog crop" Of the West for the
present season is estimated at 10000 600
critters.
The English custom of wearing the
dress suit altogether ofevenings is rapidly
gaining favor.
Two Chattanooga men went hunting
were gone two days, and killed 3S5 quail
IL turkeys, 40 squirrels, and deer.
A Texan lost n valuable mare, and tel
egraphing to neiehboring town to az
rest the thief, received the laconic reply.
Mare here thief hung"
1t is estimated that 225, 600, 900 cubic
feet of earthly matter are deposited
annually by the Mississippi, at the
Southwest Pass, in the Gulf.
Charlotte Smith, of Rockport, Mass,
wants her runaway husband. whom
she describes in an advertisement as "a
little man, badly crippled in one leg, one
leg shorter than the other, false teeth
and bald head"
school teacher in Iowa having II
grildge against the father of one of his
pupils, whipped the boy, because he was
not able to tackle the old gentleman.
He was fined $40 for the luxury, and
discharged from his position.
The Chicago TiiJuae ventures to sug-
gest that since the elephantine proboscis
has been proved by the Parisians to be
good-eating, all elephants are becoming
dead broke in their travels may pawn
their trunks ,r liberal sum.
There is no greater mistake in social
life .han indulging in overfal liliarity.
Intercourse, even between intimate
friends, should have some dignity about
it. Cowper, i'll his poem entitled
Friendship, says on this point
A man, when asked to give his consent
to the marriage of his daughter, turned
with beaming countenance to the ap-
plieant and answered frankly Yes,
yes and don't you know some likely
young man who will take the other 2
The other day, while the Legislative
committee were walking through the
wards of the Lunatic Hospital of Rhode
Island, one of the female patients, after
looking curiously at the group, said,
" Well, l declare if there amt the ami
mails from Noah's ark.
Our young folks should copy this
verse into their scrap-book and some of
IL larger growth are advised to "read,
mark, and inwardly digest the same:
"The man that halls you Tom on lack,
And proves by thumps upon your bac'
How he esteems your merit,
Is such friend that you had need
BE very much his friend indeed
To listen or to bear it,"
A ring of spectators have bought the
old bonds repudiated by Mississippi over
thirty wears ago, and are going to work
to induce the present legislature of that
State to provide for their payment. The
original claim was about five millions,
but the ring now claim some thirty mil
lions.
Some idea of the extent of game in
Wisconsin may be gathered from the
fact that two young men III that State,
who have been hunting from the 29th Of
September to the 25th of December,
captured 80 deer, wild cats, bears, j
wolves. and eagle ; the eagle measured
8 feet inches from tip to tip OF wings.
In one of the courts few days since
n man was testifying regarding his con-
nection with Il case where offers had been
made to him to club man, but he de-
clined the job. With great solemnity the
counsel asked, as if anticipating high
moral reason for his refusal, why the wit
ness did not commit the assault. "Well,
sir" was the candid reply, " l am little
lame, and | was afraid the police would
catch me"
The Boston 1imes says there is much
complaint at the license giving to card
playing on some OF the lines of railroads.
Some of the roads, and notably some OF
those leading from New York, are lnfest-
ed with gamblers and three-card-monte
players. who travel to-and-fro daily,
heccing rnsuspecting passengers. IL Is
even suspected that some of the conduc-
tors share with these and know nothing
of what is going on.
A young soldier in New Hampshire.
who, after three applications, succeeded
in getting 500 bounty. sent at once so
to an uncle who had loaned him, that
amount when be was in desperate need.
A few days ago the uncle died, and by
his will left the almost penniless soldier
Ill his estate, valued at 5000, 600, giving
rs his reason for so doing. that he had
many times lent money to his relatives
md he alone had repaid him.
An acquaintance from the country hav-
ng visited some friends, and being about
10 depart, presented little boy, one of
The family, with half dollar, in the
presence of his mother. "Please, is it
good one ~ said the lad. Certainly"
replied the gentleman, surprised. why
10 you ask % Because I'd rather have
! bad one tbev'd let me keep il; III
get any good money it goes into the
bank, and 1 never get it again,