National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-09-06
Facts and Fancies.

Who lives for himself alone lives for q
mean fellow.
A nine year old girl in Iowa killed 9
big rattlesnake.
They are roasting oxen by the pair al
Illinois barbecues.
A young man of "a, in New Bedford,
has son ten years old. q
A Jewish temple that has cost SEQ, 600
is nearly completed in Milwaukee.
rifteen cents bushel is what they
expect for potatoes in Iowa this Fall.
White County, Ind. has produced .
baby with two heads facing in opposite
directions--a regular Janus.
An Illinois man got up in the night to
see if the comet was coming, and fell
down stair and broke his neck.
The are enough wild grapes In
Te'.,.s this year to make more wine than
vas ever manufactured in France in one
year.
The chief exporter OF California fruit
to the East lost $40, ,0O0 the first year he
went into business Last year he cleared
S25, 600
The harvest in France for this year is
estimated at 96, 225, 900 bushels, exceed.
ing the average of the last ten years by
one. third.
A Tennessee dog saved the life OF his
drunken master by drag sing him OF .
railroad track upon which he had lain
down to sleep.
A mean Wisconsin man avenged him-
self of his adversary, who is q poor
widow, by emptying half bushel potato
bugs in her garden.
The complete census returns OF the
United States show the total population
to be 3S, 55S 81, of which 16, 493. .t65 are
males, and 10, ,O64. .S06 females.
A pleasure barge on the Connecticut
river, below Middletown, was struck by
lightning during storm. Two persons
were killed and forty injured.
A Chinese vessel was wrecked on the
coast of Formosa not long ago, and fifty.
four of the sixtv-nine persons on board
we're captured, killed and eaten by the
who inhabit the coast.
Woull You take the last cent per
son has for a glass of soda water p ask
ed Kankakee youth. eyes, respond.
ed the unthinking proprietor whereup-
on hopeful pulled out the cent and got
the drink.
An Iowa farmer processes to have dis
covered II process by which sugar can be
,xtracted from corn at a cost OF less
han 81 cents u pound. In view of the
,uccess with which the makers of beet
sugar are meeting.
The latest commercial sensation is
threatened corner in cheese. The mar
sets are said to be poorly supplied. The
nome consumption is very large, and
he demand for export greater than has
,ver been known.
The difference in natures was well
Illustrated the other day at q depot.
Two sisters met-"Oh, my dear sister ~
aid one, exhaustedly, as they embraced.
You've been eating onions," said the
'ther, calmly and fearlessly.
The Jews of New York city are said to
,e seriously considering the expediency
# transferring their weekly religious
ervices from Saturday to Sunday. Sew
ral of their synagogues throughout the
ountry are now opened on both days.
The Valley of Death a spot almost as
errible as the prophets valley of dry
ones, lies just north of the old Mormon
Dad to California, region thirty miles
ing by thirty broad and surrounded,
xcept at two points by inaccessible
A few nights ago the Kansas Pacific
assenger train lost its sleeping Car, and
he conductor discovered it and went
ack sixty miles before he found it, and
ne passengers were sleeping in peaceful
waiting for freight train to
IN into it.
Mark Twain says Fra. kiln was always
ruud of telling how he entered Phila-
elphia for the first time with nothing
the world but two shillings in his
ocket and four rolls of bread under
is arm, But really it was nothing.
nybody could do it.
Yucatan people have a very expensive
ethod of treating wrecked vessels.
hen the American steamer Lizzie
'ebster was driven ashore on the coast
me time since, onetbird of the cargo
as taken by the Government, one third
as taken by the people as salvage, and
e other third was stolen.
The finest diamonds in Africa are
id to have been found in the hollows
the surface of the rock, called by the
ggers pockets. The explanation
this fact is that the stones lying in
ch hollows would be protected from
e grinding fracturing action OF the
icier during the constant advance
llch is one of the conditions Of its ex-
ence.
A humorous writer says the safest way
disperse crowd is to pump water on
The cooling sense of the ridiculous
ch course imparts is sure to restore
mor. For instance the Belfast riot
, who withstood the shillalahs and
,.ols of their adversaries, whc laughed
the clubs of the police and refused 70
sld TO the rifles of the military, have
length been dispersed by . rain
over.