National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-02-02
Facts and rancies.

The income OF the Russian Grand Duk
is S25, 600 year.
!. Every one the San Francisco paper
has libel suit on hand
Boston sells half million dollars wort
Of carpet slippers yearly.
/ Men OF might are said 10 be thos
who cin, but won't help yon.
s A COW in Indiana recently eat up tw
( hundred dollars in greenhacks.
t The total funds and unfnnded debt @
Massachus etts is stated at S29, 800, 364.
According TO the English Mdcpeaden
? there are 1865 Congregational churche
? and about 1900 preaching stations in tn,
British Empire.
No bonnets are worn this season n
the opera, the hair being very fancifully
'ressed instead, and loaded down Will
feathers ard flowers
An Indiana Judge divorced lady ant
married her to another man before the
divorce was entered on the record, all
within fifteen minutes.
The densest Presbyterian population
in the West is between the same parallels
of latitude as those in which Western
Penr ylvania is found
A writer, describing the exodus from
Eden, says, 1.-THE devil drove woman
out of Paradise, hut he could not drive
Paradise out Of woman"
| There are three denomine tions in Wales
the Calvinists, Methodsts and Baptists,
and the Independents, holding precisely
| the same doctrinal tenets
The Nortt Star, a mixture of English,
French, and Swedish, published in Aroos-
took County, Maine, is the most uorth-
erly paper in the United States.
The Captain and sailor OF the bark
Cambria were murdered by the natives,
while cruising among the Salomon Is
lands in search OF native l,borers.
In clear weather New York Trinity
chimes can he heard from Eve to ten
miles the people of Brooklyn and Staten
Island hearing sometimes every sound.
A farmer recently killed pig, and be-
ing asked how much it weighed, replied
that 1t did not weigh as much as he ex-
pected, and he did not expect it would.
A crest or coat-of-arms er.yraved IN one
corner OF the visiting card aud note paper
instead OF the monogram or initial letter
is the latest fashionable wrilAxleiI .at
line.
a place of business in k.me, N. Y, is
decorated with this very intelligent no.
tice: "Mebbe YOU don't peter had loaf
rount here, ,.n you don't got some
peesnis, amt it ?"
Large lows of ribbon or silk trimmed
with lace on each shoulder above the
sleeves is the latest style of ornamenting
the waists of house-dresses they are
called "shoo-Ay bows"
"What makes you so glum, Tom ?"
oh, have had to endure sad trial TO
my feelings What on earth vas it?"
Why, had to tie on pretty girls
bonnet while her ma was looking on"
In California theater, few nights
since, Il large red apple fell from the
gallery and struck squarely upon the
oald and shining pate Of gentleman in
he dress circle. then bounded into the
and broke fiddle.
A French authoress says: "a kiss
sives more pleasure than anything else
n the world" To this an editor re.
ponds: "That writer evidently never
experienced the childish rapture of de-
cending the stairs by shaing down the
'annisters."
A new kind of trial by jury has been
ried in Saxony for petty crimes, and has
worked SO well that its extension is adj
ocated 1t is composed of three lawyers
nd four lavmen. majority verdict
must have the vote of at least one lawyer,
II it must have the voice of five of the
even.
1t is said that in certain Amazonian
ribes, on the day of his marriage, while
he wedding festivities are going on, the
hands are tied up in
aocr bag filed with fire ants. If no
ears this torture smilingly and nnmoved,
g is considered fit for tue trials of mat
mony.
The fine screw points of augers and
lger bits are formed by the sharp edge
n soft steel plate running with speed
1900 revolutions per minute. Not
this immense velocity, n
,illful operator performs the work with
1t heating the tools enough to hurt the
mper.
Satin and velvet dresses trimmed with
ce were the most elegant dresses on New
ear Day in New York. One lady-a
ader in society-received on a raised
rome, over which was canopy of silk,
r dress being rich blue velvet, trim
ed with ermine, over white satin, em
oidered with gold.
A Chicago girl wrote to her lover in
Mass, just after the fire,
ying: "Our wedding day was set fp:
xt week, and if you will stand up with
women dressed III cotton skirt aud
r fathers overcoat, come on" The
ave youth telegraphed in reply "Gvf
adv. | will be with VOL"