National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-05-12
Facts and Fancles.

TWcts unu rUucIess
A Missoulian has the name of Severe
Frost.
A poultry raiser in California owns 10
600 hens.
Barley on the Sacramento River is five
feet high.
Olive Logan says she is thirty.two
years old.
A man whom we can put up with-a
good hotel-keeper
Ministers on the average are said TO be
the longest-lived men.
Politeness is the Just medium between
ceremony and rudeness.
In the lIaytien army there are said to
be 1900 Maior.Gencrals.
In the New Orleans races, Defender
won in two straight heats.
An hon~.t a~,rIo,....~t 20 tho hast IN
heritance that can fall to any one.
The Joint High Commission is still at
work, but mum is the word SO far as its
acts are concerned.
A number of Chicago merchants re-
fuse to advertise in Sunday papers, think
ing the tendency bad.
A man who will stab at another's rep
utation by insinration aud innuendo is
far worse than thief.
| The demand for fine horses has in
creased twenty fold in England since tho
introduction of steam.
There are ore lodges in the newly dis
covered silver mines in New Mexico
which stand up like row of stores.
The wife of Governor Clahin, of Mas
sachusetts, has a sewing-cla of $50 girls,
in charity school in North End, Bos-
ton.
The Florida papers report that no less
than hundred deer are killed every day
in the Upper st. Johns and its tributa-
ries.
We have heard of but one old woman
ands of young ones who kiss great
calves.
The first post-office in Nashua, N. H.,
was kept in bureau drawer and the re-
ceipts of the first quarter were twenty
five cents.
New York policemen have habit of
using their clubs upon inoffensive per-
sons. City papers call this "abuse of
the locust.
Poverty and pride are inconvenient
companions but when idleness unites
With them, the depth of wretchedness is
attained.
A Pennsylvania csw swallowed leather
nail pouch years ago, and when she was
lntely killed every nail was found in the
pouch. She didn't lose one. Few cows
are SO trustworthy.
"How much did he leave % inquired
q gentleman of wag on learning the
death of a wealthy citizen. EVERY
thing, responded the wag " he didn't
take dollar with him."
The cempositors of Paris have suf-
fered severely by the war Les Franc
Tireurs de Ia Presse were nearly all com
postors ut the time of the formation of
the corps ; and they have nearly all been
killed.
In Boston the tailors send out dunning
letters to some of their customers in the
following form: You will please call
and pay your bill or buy some more
clothes without delay. Idon't care
which.
The street railways of Philadelphia last
year carried 80, 400, 1916 passengers. Dur
ing the year the accidents on the roads
footed up one person killed and five
injured, four of the latter being passen-
gers.
At a school at Newcastle the master
lsked a class of boys the meaning of the
word "appetite." After short pause,
me little boy said, 81 know, sir, when
I'm eatin' Tn 'appy, and when I'm done
Pm tight"
A Western writer gives it as Lis belief
hat if as much attention were s;iven to
,he improvement of corn as is given to
he cultivation of grapes, n hundred
million bushels might be added to the
annual crop.
There Isl great deal of theology in the
dea of the little girl who wished she
,ould be good without obeying her
She said it was easy
,nough to read books and pray, but
pretty hard to mind grandmother
A Scotchman who had put up at an inn,
vas asked in the morning how he had
lept during the night. "Ah, noun "
eplied Donald, "nae vera weel either
mt / was muckle better off than the
ays, for dell one o. them closed an
e the hale nicht.'
A physician in Vermont was recently
lrown from his carriage, breaking one
his legs. A lady hearing of the acci-
ent, remarked " am glad of it Every
octor ought to meet with such an acci-
ent once in while, so that he can hear
n occasional groan from patient with
mt laughing at it -