National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-08-04
Facts and Fancies.

A tit-bit-A horses bit, of course.
"Things not generally known"-Poor
people
Maxim. Give child bat and most
likely it'll bawl.
Call spade, IA spade. You may call
stockings, hoes.
A dentist can stop a woman's tooth,
but not her jaw.
Most lovers like to be alone their
sweethearts of course.
Some husbands, though anything but
sharp, are awfully shrewd.
Home made sewing-silk is one of the
products of Harris county, Ga.
1t is said that the bachelor looks ont
for No. l the married man for No. 2.
If thou hast lettering servant, send
him on thine crrand just before his din
ner.
Despair gives the same fatal ease to
the mind that modification does TO the
body.
What is the difference between coat
and baby? The one wear, the other
I was
When does rain become too familiar
with lady? When it begins to patter
on the back.
The reason why the ancient Britons
were so formidable in battle is that they
were Pict men.
Madness in and about Paris has been
very much on the increase of late. Who
can doubt it
The latest style of silverware is satin
finish, oxydized, and ornamented with
purest gliding.
Somebody says that snail has per-
feet set of 13, 210 teeth-110 rows, with
Ill teeth in each row.
Soldiers in battle are not all wed to
whistle to keep their courage up. That
must be left to the bullets.
The best guardian of woman's happi-
ness is her husbands love'; and for her
honor her own affection.
An eleven year old boy has walked
from Kansas City to Houston, Texas-a
little tramp of one thousand miles.
Some critics are like the valiant flies
mentioned by Shakespeare, who dare to
eat their breakfast on the lip of lion.
Iowa bears off the palm in originality
of town names. A new place there has
been courageously christened "Seven-
up"
A one-legged man amused crowd in
Lancaster, Mass, the other day, by
hopping mile in six and quarter min
utes.
Fragments of human beings, blown
into the air by steamboat explosions, are
spoken of in Arkansas as atmospheric
phenomena"
It is reported that seventeen street
car horses in New Haven, Conn, have
been attacked with the disease prevalent
in New York.
An eastern express transported day
or two ago as freight from Maine to
Frenehman who cannot
speak English.
The reason why American girls are SO
delicate is that they are very energetic,
and dance, ride, walk, and skate too
much and too often.
A Western paper positively declines to
publish any more Anonymous publica-
tons unless they are accompanied by the
name of the author.
A woman at Sturgls, Mich, is reported
to have died in twenty minutes after
some steam arising from the
potato bugs, which she was boiling to
leath.
A blind OK, recently sold in Mime
sofa, broke from the inclOsure of its
purchaser, swan a river and walked TWEEN
ty miles to its old home, guided by Gin
stinct."
An Elmira editor, speaking of the
of brother quill, says: cts
sad, however, this parting with old
friends. One by one they drop off and
double up"
"You must flatter or frighten," said
NJ. "the interest or the self-love of
men. Men are asses or monkeys, who
only Jump for nuts, or skip about in fear
Of the whip"
Less than one hundred years ago the
Legislature ordained that
:. no member thereof should come to the
House barefoot, or eat his bread and
,heese on the steps.
A Portland Me- woman having swal-
owed dose of corrosive sublimate, was
ayed by her husband, who administered
o her the whites Of fifteen eggs, which
centralized the effects of the poison.
L'Eclure used to relate, that when
uite young man, and without fortune,
IRVING at Luneville, he obtained the
lace of dentist to King Stanislaus on
he very day on which the king lost his
st tooth.
A newspaper, which spoke of "butter-
4 thunder" and was asked by contem-
orary if that had any affinity to ''greased
ghtning," manifested some anger in
xplaining that muttered thunder was
hat was intended.
Tie losses by FIRE in the United States
uring 1870 are estimated to have been
GO, ,OO0, COO the marine losses, $40. .0OO,-
DO and the death claims actually paid
y the life insurance companies were
%, 100000.