National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-02-09
Facts and Fancles.

"A NOu Il IeuoW-hoi pHeus.
An Extinct Race-Childlike children.
The Ready-money system-Dun, or be
done.
Both watermen and Indians feather
their skulls.
You may always recognize cham
pagne maker by his fizz.
Good musicians execute their ,uusic
the bad ones murder it.
A man may be ashamed of the fashion
of his nose, although he follows it.
Some men get their barrel of beer on
tick, and leave il to settle for itself.
Woman first tempted man to eat. Ho
took to drinking on his own account
The Queen Of England, has about two
dozen physicians in her household"
Strange to say no matter how well paid
a dentist is, he always looks down in tho
mouth.
The cat is "a wonderful builder we
have seen cat run mp housesin five
minutes.
In Virginia recently prisoner who had
been dead three months was granted q
pardon.
To what color does hogging change
boys complexion ? 1t makes him
yell O.
Penmakers are bad lot. They make
people steel pens, and then they say they
do write.
Both the agriculture and manufactures
of Japan seem to me quiet superior to
| the Chinese.
Parting is such sweet sorrow" par
ticularly with cracked looking-gla
and toothless comb.
The best way to improve the lot of
woman is to put good house on it, and
good man in the house.
Twins were recently born out West,
one in Indiana the other in Michigan.
They arrived in the cars
Tobacco is called by some ,one, who
does not smoke, the filth of the mouth
and the fog of the mind.
Market-men are merciful to poultry.
After the chickens are cleanly picked
they generally retail them.
If Burns were living now, he would
tell the man that wants to see himself as
others see him, to run for Office.
A new style of hand ring has chain
with small gold bird attached which
holds the handkerchief in its bill.
A talented man placed the butt of his
gun in the fire while he looked down the
muzzie. He went hence Immediately.
The life of an Ohio man was saved by
cutting open his windpipe and extracting
a burr which had nearly caused his death.
A new style of decorating dinner-ta-
BILE is with globes of gold fish on a silver
standard, surmounted by flowers and
leaves.
"Who's there ?" cried n patrol to q
passing figure, one dark night. "It's I,
patrol don't be afraid, replied an old
woman.
A recent calculation estimates that
enough iron wire to belt the globe with
a netting yard wide is made yearly into
cages for birds.
There is delightful rumor that the
matter on postage stamps is
hereafter to be favored with vanilla for
ones, wintergreen for twos, chocolate for
Lhrees, etc.
Luxury seems to be forbidden in
China. Even the rich do not indulge in
It, and it is hard to tell, by any outward
signs, the rich from the poor man, either
n his exterior or in his dwelling.
"Do be frank, said young Mr.. Smith
20 Miss Francis, who had been quizzing
lim for an hour. "But Edward, have
been Frank twenty-five years, and 1
should like to try some other name, just
or change" was the arch reply. "No
ards
It's very well talking of banquets, but
when the managers have to issue a no.
ice next day requesting two-thirds Of
he guests to return to exchange cloth
ng, the evidences of obfustication are
IL too convincing. The place was Des
doines.
They have n new way of getting up
urprise parties in certain parts of Hi
ois A resident receives an anonymous
,tter. stating that a surprise party will
e with him on a certain evening. He
repares for it, Nobody comes, and the
urprise of the party is complete.
"Dad," of the Cincinnati newsboys,
as just died of consumption, at the age
twenty four, after fifteen years of
ctive service. The younger members
his profession watched with him ten
erly during his illness, and raised mon
y enough to give him descent burial.
A barrel of buckwheat -four exploded
gently at Keokuk, Iowa. A man of
,ience calmly says that the buckwheat
as probably wet, and being confined IN
,e barrel, an alcoholic vapor was gener-
ed, which ignited as the lid was taken
ff and lighted candle brought in con-
ct.
A Baltimore lady, who had been ex-
,edingly annoyed by boys who rang her
,or-bell and then ran away, finally set
trap for them by which pail of water
rs to be spilled upon the next person
at rang the bell. In a. few minutes her
lstor called and was baptized, but re-
ed without making a visit.
The last iibe at the expense of an agri-
lturist is that Sin an agricultural essay
tobacco he asserts that the fine cut
II not ripen well unless the tin foil is
ripped from the growing bad early in
e spring; and that plug tobacco ought
be knocked off the trees with clubs,
stead of being picked off with the
nd"