National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-10-04
Facts and FancIes.


Irish potatoes are so cheap in Kansas
as not to be worth digging,
Presbyterian property in Philadelphia
is worth over S.. .00s, 200.
J Ross Browne has contracted tn pay
$500, 900 for 20, 900 acres Of California
salt marsh.
From 1903 to 1871 in the United States
526 steamboat casualties took place,
with loss of 1473 lives.
Immense belt buckles are coming in
fashion. They are OF gold and silver,
and are worn ut the side in rosette.
Balances in the Treasury OF the United
States. coin, $40, ,1l3,s19 ccin certifi-
Gates, S26, ,447 900 currency, $4,000, ,624.
In Iowa, women hold offices as notary
public. four are county superintennents
Of public schools. and one is State
Librarian.
A French soldier at Lyons blew out
his brains because his comrades Jeert d
at him for spelling their dinner, which
he had cooked.
A Japanese student at New Haven
sent polite note to his professor, re.
questing permission to kill student
who had insultei him.
The subscriptions to the Italian Opera
in New York. amounted to $50. 900 tor
season of thirty nights before single
advertisement appeared.
The crops in England have but
poor prospect this season. Intelligence
Is brought from time TO time of great
damage done to them by wind and rain
and continued wet weather.
Speaking of theoretical farming. Josh
Billings says that he once knew IN n
who wouldn't even set gate post with
out having the ground analyzed to see il
it possessed the proper ingredients for
post holes
The high price OF coal has go increased
the expenses OF running the Lancashire
cotton mills that it has been decided to
reduce the number of hours OF labor in
them while the present high prices are
maintained.
The French authorities and General
Manteufiel commander OF the German
troops in France agreed that the evut IL
alton of the Departments OF the Marne
aud Haute Marne commence on the
18th October.
c. H. Goodspeede, who was feeced
out of 5000 by gamblers at Chicago,
turns out to be Henry Stone, the conf
dental clerk Of Hartford, Conn, INK,
who robbed the bank of $1,000 and
started for California.
The best definition of scandal ever
given. according to A thur Helps, was
that of the little girl who described 1T
thus -" Nobody does nothing, and
everybody goes on telling j, every where.
That is better than dictionary.
A few weeks ago the creek under the
great Natural Bridge IN Virginia sudden
ly disappeared, and subsequent investi-
cation demonstrated the fact that the
steam emptles itself into the earth
through lumber of ewlyformed
tis,ures of unknown depth.
The Fourth Auditor Of the United
Sta es Treasury is now busily engaged
III making preparation to pay the navy
employees the amount due them for the
reduction of their wages under the
eght-hour law. About 1900 persons
viii come in for an allowance under the
law OF May Is last.
Forty thousand eight hundred and
eighty one men lost by death, of Which
II, 527 died in battle, 10.74O died from
wounds received in the engagements,
80 persisted by accidents, 81 by suicide,
and the rest of the number by disease.
This is what 1t cost the Germans for the
conqi iest of France.
1t is said that the fist willow tree
ever planted in this country was set out
on the line of rnird avenue, New York,
one hundred and eight years ago. 1t
was q willow twig which came in
package of figs from Babylon was stuck
into the ground, and in two years be-
came quite large tree.
Nathaniel Niles, ex-speaker of the
New Jersey Assembly, has been prose-
cuted by the New Jersey Railway Com
pany, and a suit for libel was begun
in tie Supreme Count the damages
being laid at $1,000, ,00). The alleged
libel is an article which appeared in the
Nahon over the signature OF Jersey"
The Merilen Republican is responsible
for this "a mau in a neighboring town
ties his cat up by the tail in the back
yard every night; in the morning he goes
out and collects the pieces OF soap,
shaving pots, soap dishes, old brushes
and various other things thrown into
the yard by disturbed and angry board
ers in the adjoining houses"
"What nuisance ~ exclaimed
gentleman at concert, as young fop
III front of him kept talking in a loud
voice to lady at his side. Did you
refer to me, sir ?" threatingly demanded
the iop "Oh, no ; meant the musi-
clans there, who keep up such noise
with their Instruments that l can't hear
your conversation" was the singing
reply.
There is a Russian at Old Orchard
Beach, Me-, whose fondness for the sea
aud everything connected with 1t IS
eccentric, to the verge of mania He
drinks two or three g llons, it is said, OF
seq water daily, eats sea-weed by the
handful. and bathes four or five times a
day. He is very healthy and robust, fat
as a seal, and has round, red jovial
face.
Goldsmith Maid, the famous trotting
mare, is said to be stolen property, and
a lawsuit tor her recovery is impending.
1t is said that about five years ago the
stables of a great Kentucky stock raiser
were burned down and a very promising
young mare stolen and that the groom
who lad charge of her has Just seen the
celebrated maid, and is ready to take an
oath that she is the stolen animal.
A young Ansonia me. chant did .
bright thing. lie was walking home
With his sweetheart, and having an
GRAND TO do at the hotel had stopped