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National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-12-06

THE SUCCESSFUL PHYSICIAN. DIR. J.
Walker IL achieving IN eminent distinc-
ton as n kAneiactor OF his species.
Some stigmatixs all patent medicines
with the odious epithet OF quackery.
But Dr.. WALKER's CALIFORNIA VINEGAR
BIrrERs have the endorsement OF the
medical profession. The editor can con.
scientiously and cordially recommend
the medicine. because he knows he has
found grea, benefit from its use. For
nearly twenty years he has suffered from
arrangement OF tho stomach. And
though the disease has become chronic,
he has already obtained great relief from
this remedy. A physician left at death
large volume. carefully sealed, and
supposed to contain fund OF medical
knowledge. On being opened, it was
found to con ain only this simple advice :
keep your head cool, your feet warm
and your bowels open" But there is
n whole volume in this maxim. VINE.
GAR BITTERs act as u mild cathartic,
leaving The system in healthy condi-
ton. II. II. Mcdonald. an experienced
druggist, associated with DR.. Walker,
thorough integrity and practical know
ledge OF the art of compromising medi'
clue. They have valuable medicine,
and they know how to bring it to the
knowledge Of public by iudicious adyer-
Using. We are happy to give them our
heartily endorsement, and bid them God
speed in relieving the ills to which flesh
is heir. - LocEpooi UnioHiSi, DC. 20 1870.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-12-06
Indian Tea vs.. Chinese Tea.

A GLASGOW correspondent furnishes
tbe following on this subject, testi'ying
the purity OF Indian tea :
During q sojourn OF severui years
among the tea distrit Is OF lndia, visited
scores Of tea plantations, and saw Tue
tea leaf undergoing the various processes
of manufacture, from the green state as
il comes from the shrubs to tho maj
driving and packing, and | have never
seen n leaf other than that OF the tea
shrub being converted into tea.' The
correspondent OF the London Gfoctr
further saws II have forwarded from
70, 900 to $4,000 chests OF tea Ter snip
ment to this country, and can safely
affirm that not one of them contained
an ounce OF anything other than the
pure tea made from the leaf OF the tea
Shrub. Last year 1900, OO0 pounds OF
ten were sent from India to this country,
and il IL expected that the crop this
season will be nearly 20O00,UOO pounds.
La the London market, to which all tea
beth from China or India il now sent for
sale, the price OF Indian tea Is % per
cent. higher than China tea. The
Indian tea possesses nearly double the
strength of the Chinese article, and is
principally used by tea merchants and
grocers for mixing with China tea to
give strength and flavor to the latter.
Most of the China tea sold III the Lon
don market sells at Is. or Is. Gl. per
pound, exclusive of the duty OF Cd. per
pound while scarcely chest OF Indian
congou sells as low as Is. Cd. and Sou-
chong and Pekoe realize IS to 80. Cd.
per pound, without duty. China tea is
retailed at I'D to 2 la. per ounce
Indian ten at 81. 10 i'd. Green teas are
almost exclusively the production OF
China. ] have never seen green tea
made ut any Of the tea plantations in
India which / have visited. l believe,
however, that limited quantity of
green tea is manufactured at some of the
tea plantations on the llimalsyas, but
is mostly sold to traders from Turkestan
and Tmbet, and only the surplus is
sent to this country. 1t pays the tea
planter to make his tea leaf into black
tea rather than green. lea drinkers III
this country who prefer green tea must
be content with the product OF Chinese
ingenuity, and be satisfied to drink the
compound of tea, turmeric. russian
blue, China clay etc, prepared for the
British "barbarians." 1t is different,
however, with respect to black tea, as
We are 10 longer altogether dependent
upon China for supply, and pure
Indian tea can be obtained from most
of the principal tea merchants and gre
GERS. The consumer has only to ask ior
and obtain unmlxed Indian tea in order
to enjoy the lu, ury of @ cup Of genuine
ten
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-12-06
Under. Clothing for Gold Weather.

have written on this subject before,
but there seems to be need of precept
upon precept. OF late | have been
learning better ways than knew before.
For children of three years and over
there is nothing better, perhaps, than
an under.garment clothing the body
from the neck and wrists to the heels,
much like the night drawers children
wear. They may be made with q plain,
easy, hign-necked waist. with long
straight sleeves, and with open drawers
sewed to the waist. The drawers should
be rather full at the top, but small
enough at the lower part of the leg TO
&C inside the stocking, reaching to the
heel, or leaving no gap upon the shoe.
doctors disagree about the material OF
this under-garment, some recommend
ing wooden and some cotton. Taking
into account the difficulty of washing
wooden without shrinking it, and the
disngreeable sensation many skins ex
perience in wearing it, probably the best
way in most cases is to have this under
garment made either of cotton flannel
or of thin cotton cloth, with similar
garment OF warm wooden material over
it. Buttons at the waist support the
other under clothing.
There are many sensible ladies in the
United States now wearing under gar
ments similar 10 those Just described.
Among them preference is usually
given TO thin cotton material for the
suit next the body, with q suit made Of
wooden white flannel, gray ladies' cloth,
or red tireman's flannel in the same
| fashion worn over the cotton suit 10
winter weather. With two such wooden
suits for frequent changes, to give OPP
portunity for thorough airing and sun
nlng of the woolens. they require very
little washing. The cotton next the
body takes up the Precipitation, etc, and
this gets the good weekly washing. The
wooden suit when taken off weekly for a
change need only be exposed for a day
or two to purify it properly, washing it
only when it visibly requires it.
II men wear cotton under their wooden
shirts, the wooden may be treated in the
same way, and men who are not engaged
in dirty work can wear their wooden
shirts all winter with very little wash
ing, purifying them by mir and sunshine
each week when changes are made.
Ladies' cloth shirts shrink less than com
mon flannel.-Amsricln AgricultWist.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-12-06
A Scientific AnecdOte.

A professors wife, who occupied her.
self sometimes with assisting her hus-
band in making casts of interesting OBJ
lects OF geology and natural history
says the Manufacturer and Builder. also
for her own pleasure, made sometimes
flowers and fruits, of WAX and other
materials, and notwithstanding she had
become quite n successful expert in this
line, she fo.nd that almost always her
efforts were criticized by her friends.
Once, at tea party, she passed large
apple around, and stated her confidence
that this time she had been quite sue.
cessful in her imitation of Natures pro.
duct but her friends were, as usual,
not OF her opinion one criticised the
shape, saying it would be more natural
if it was not so globular another criti-
cized the colors, and said that it was
better than other limitations, but that
she had not quite hit that natural hides
cribable pecullarity which distinguishes
the natural apples from the limitations ;
almost every one had some fault to find.
After the apple had passed round and
came in her hands again, she ate it,
without saying anything. Her friends
had been criticizing a real apple. but
never afterward criticised her limitations
70 fruit.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-12-06

A CATS DREAM. Animals, especially
the dog, cat and parrot, often indulg" -
the luxury Of dreams. A correspondent
of Land and Water tells the following
anccdote of a cat; -" She was very still,
and appeared to be fast asleep when sud-
denly she sprang into the middle OF the
room, where she liked her feet on limit
ed SPOT on the floor, to which also her nose
was applied, as if closely graspirg some
thing she held in her. claws. This con-
tinued for short time, when the nose was
gently raised, and the visible attention
was directed to the feet, which still coz
tinuea their grasp, but alter a time one Of
them was gradually removed, and then
the other, on which puss appeared greatly
ut a loss to imagine whittier the imaginary
object could have gone so as to escape her
grasp. She looked in various directions
along the floor with n foolish face OF con-
lu sion; and then again her attention was
directed to the spot on which the feet
were first closely pressed, as il to examine
closely whether the presumed escape had
been by sinking through the floor, and
when this seemed unsatisfactory, the dis
appointed animal, now widely awake, re-
tired slowly ( ON the spot, but she rel".,-
cd more than once to Te-cYamne the spot.
a. if she found it imposslble'to comprehend
how an object she had So plainly seen sru
crasped shoald have sunk into nothing.
Many inmates elapsed before this cat ~
pcared to he reconcied to the conviction
that what lad been dream was not in
truth a reality.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-12-06

TRAGIC STORY. Tho following comes
from British Columbia In tho Sum.
mer OF 1871 several returning OH,ns'
canes were lost In attempting 10 reach
ihs Skeena or Fryingpan Pass. Last
Summer tho road party discovered the
bones OF man lying within few feet
OF the trail under troe. Portions OF
his clothing and blankets in shreds were
scattered abont. The poor mans coffee
pot, jack-kniie and drinking cup lay
near. On the cup was scratched the
name, daniel Campbell" perhaps
tone while he lay there dying-starving
TO death. On the coflee.pot to show
the extremity to which he was reduced)
were found springs OF spruce. He had
evidently usei these for tea. The body
had tcen devoured by wild beasts, the
marks OF their teeth being visible on the
bones. The Indians, last Winter, found
three fingers on the snow crust, whore
they had been dragged by the wild ami.
mails. Search made during the Summer
Tor the Iemains Of the other lost men
was unsuccessful.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-12-06

OF GETTING UP."-Once you have
fixed your hour of rising, keep to 1t
with the more firmness because of the
difficulties to he overcome; for this
troublesome couch of ours contains IN
the morning such an amount of mag
netic fluid that it keeps us back, do
not say against our will, but with "A
not un pleasing force which fastens us
to the pillow. I acknowledged are
now in the presence Of our most terri
BILE enemy, and our pillow is that
enemy. When we quit in the morn
ing, it lulls us with the artful tones of
a siren, and caresses us with the
utmost tenderness. 1t seems to say.
Why leave me? Are you not well off
heres 1t is so cold out of bed T! There
is but one way to secure a victory, aud
that is prompt, decisive act, a mill
tary charge, jump out of bed. Route
the enemy by vigorous sortie, and
the enemy Is yours. When | meet n
man who has the courage to rise at an
early hour every morning, straight
way conceive a high idea of the firm
ness of his character.-T Archbishop OF
Rheims.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-12-06
HumhuC Dissected.

Quaint old Burton has flvored us with an Anatomy
OF Melau choly" but who shall dssect the melancholy
fsace. and Abs with which huaves and fanatics en-
!oavor to deude the sick and feeble Of this generation
Charlatsn. through tine newspaper press recommen I
to the strength victim of DIT convusne purga-
tives which, If taken str, to turl his debisted
systeu almost inside out, and sink hun into the utter
depths of heplsssness and despondency Fanatics
on the other hand the PROSTATE patient that
medicine containing diff nsvs stimulant ought to pass
his lips II he elects be guided by the advice Of I'M
oytors and lunatics let him make bis will and order
bis coffin but if there spark Of common sense in
his composition let him in his extremity to Ho-
tetters Stomach Bters the most potent OF vegetable
tones and alters tves-ths purest and most entirely
wholesome Of mcdioateI stlnulan's. The wonderful
cures Of dyspepsia, billion ness, rheumatism, physical
prosraton an alrious fevsrs which this specific
has effected during the last twentytwo years the
most conclusive answers that be given TO the
mics OF mankind who offer volcanic cathartos tonios
and to the mistaken beings who would refuse medicin-
a. stiinuant to a POOR. brokeE-dowa invalid, who is
literally dying by inches for the want OF udioous slim
uatiou. Temperance properly understood, counte-
nances such folly this. The State laws enacted to
put Cog tie abhoent vice OF drunkenuss provide for
the sss # br ~, WHISKY AID other liquors as m, III
eines ard n these adutsrased liquors OF trade
accepted by Temperance legislator. remedies what
ought to be the Of the Temperance public
- regard. the peerless Vegetable tenie eassd up'n
s.irzisnt absolutely pure
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-12-06
A House Of Onr Own.

Next to being married to the right
person, there is nothing SO important in
ones life as to live under ones own ROOT.
There is something more than poetical
charm in the expression of the wife.
ave have our cosey house it is thrice
lear to us because it is our own. We
have bought it with the savings of our
earnings. Many were the sodal fountains
the confectionery saloons and the neces-
sites q the market, we had to pass !;
many time my noble husband denied
himself of the comfort OF tobacco, the
refreshing draught OF beer, wore his old
clothes, and even patched-up boots; and
I, 0, me rade my old bonnet do, wore
the elainest clothes, did the plainest cook
ing; saving was the order of the house,
and to have a home of our own had
been our united aim. Now we have it !;
there is no landlord troubling us with
raising the rent, and exacting this and
that. There is no fear harbored in our
bosom that in sickness or old age we will
be thrown ont of house and home, and the
money we have saved which otherwise
would have gone to pay ren, il sufficient
to keep us in comfort in the winter days
of life"
What lesson do the above words teach,
and how well it would be If hundreds OF
families would heed them, and instead of
living in rented houses, which take large
share of their capital to furnish, and a
quarter Of their earnings to pay the rent,
dress and eat accordingly, would bravely
curtail expenses, and concentrate their
efforts on having 80 home of their own"
Better cottage OF your own than rented
palace.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-12-06
Appointed Major.General.

Brigadier- General Irwin Mcdowell, the
senior officer of his grade in the army,
has been appointed ma or-general, in place
OF the late General Meade, and is trans
fered from the Department OF the South,
with head quarters at Atlanta, in place of
Brigadier General Alfred II. Terry, who
returns to his former command, Depart
ment OF Dakota, with headquarters at
st. Paul. Under the new policy of good
feeling Major General Hancock, who has
twice officially protested, through General
Sherman, against the action of the Presi
dent in keeping him in the Department
of Dakota while junior officers were COM
manding divisions or larger departments,
succeeds General Meade in command of
the Division of the Atlantic, with the
option of having his headquarters at
Philadelphia or New York, it being known
that both places are especially agreeable
to him. General Terry's restoration to
the military supervision of the country
through which the Northern Pacific Rail-
road is located and in which the hostile
and troublesome bands of Sioux roam at
large, is for the qualification of the Indian
Bureau and the sections interested in the
success of the road Terry having been
quite successful in his former administrs.
ton Of the Northern DEPARTMENT. The
promotion of. General Mcdowell and the
early retirement of the aged General
Cooke will reduce the number of Briga-
diers to six, as the law requires. Gen
erals Meigs and Terry wei e the remaining
prominent candidates for the Maj or Cen
eralship, but the President was not willing
to pass over General Mcdowell, as on the
occasion of General Schofield's promotion
nearly four years ago.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-12-06

SorTENING OF TIE BRAIN -Softening
of the brain is becoming a more common
disease than formerly. As it is utterly
incurable, attention should be given TO
it's causes. The softening is caused from
intense mental exciten emit, as a result of
study, of the use of spirituous liquors,
or allowing the mind to dwell on one
subject unpleasantly, especially when
there Is no real cause, as In fancied
Sights, copjectured injuries and the
like, moping over them. To ameliorate
a malsdy arising from causes SO diamet-
ricaly opposite, antipodal means should
be employed; less work TO the overwoi
ed and more work for those who have
nothing &c de.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-12-06
Rights of Passengers.

uThe Atlantic Monthly" for Deccm-
her contulns nm article written by Mr..
John A. Coleman, OF Providence, II. l.,
on his late contest with the New York
and New Haven Railroad. The cir.
ctnslance. OF this contest, decided n
few months ago by the Courts of Mass.
achusetts. In Mr.. Coleman's faso will
be recalled by most newspaper readers.
About fsur years ago he purchased
ticket from Providence to New York
via Hartford aud New Haven. Hay.
Ing been detained at New Haven until
il was too late to conveniently continue
his Journey by rail, he came to New
York by steamboat. hnd so had lett on
his hands the railway coupon ticket
from New Hayen to New York. Not
having occasion TO use the ticket be-
tween the points and In he direction
| indicated on its face, he kept IL until
June 1868. One day IN that month he
applied at the ticket office of the sew
Haven Railroad IN Twenty-seventh
street, for ticket to Boston via spring.
! field. This the agent refused 10 set
unless Mr.. Coleman would wait three
hours for the train that LETT al O'Clock
in the afternoon, although the iattcr
told the agent that he desired 10 stop
over Mt II way station one tram, 10 90
.ome telegfaphing. Mr.. Coleman theh
! thinking this good opportunity 10
use his old coupon, presented IL 10 the
guard stationed ut the entrance OF the
cars. He met with rude ana ihsoIeht
treatment, not only from the Huaiu
but from tho conductor botii baiu
that the ticket was GOOD Tor hothihg
and the conductor peremploriiy
ordered Mr.. Coleman not 10 20 on
board Of the ears, ana SAID tnat II ne
attempted 1t he would pat MN OIL
He then purchased ticket 10 IIoVi'
dence via New Haven ana dar'ioiu'
and took his seat III me cars
When the conductor gathered my
tickets, Mr.. Coleman oHereu ms oiu
coupon. The conductor refused 10 re-
celve 1t, saying 1t was good from New
Haven to New YORK, but not Tor a
passage in the opposite direction, As
the train approached stamford tne
con tuctor appeared again, ana saiu III
very abrupt manner; well slr'
how shall we settle TINS matter MI
Coleman answered quietly, US before,
and finally proposed to give the CON
ductor his address, ana 10 agree tuat II
the reception OF the ticket resulted In
the repremand- even, OF the conductor,
he would send him the money Tor the
ticket. THIS the conductor would not
listen to, but said that he should put
Mr.. Coleman oil the tram. Az Stam-
folE he carried his threat into eXecu.
ton. Five or six rough brakemen and
| baggage men wrenched him from the
seat taking the frame and cushion at
the same time, pounded Inn with
their fists and then threw him broad
side from the platform of the car to
the platform of the depot. In the
struggle they tore the flesh from his
arm and leg and ruptured him for life.
As the train started again Mr.. Cole
man got on car, but the Superintend-
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-12-06

How THEY Do Ir.-A landlord in
Fulton, Tenn. was lately exasperated by
the inconsi1erate conduct of a boarder
who objected to the quality of his natu-
final hash. The first offence of this kind
was met with decided reprimand, couch.
ed in language to which the boarder
might have objected on the score OF taste,
but which he could not fail to understand.
The repetition of the complaint was, how
ever, more than the landlord. sense Of
duty to his hash conld bear. He, there.
fore, solennly rose up from the breakfast
table, aud, taking down his gun, shot the
rash bosrder dead. There will probably
be no more fault found with tba lard.
lords table
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-12-06
FLowFrs.-The delicate odor of pinks

FLowFrs. The delicate odor of pinks
and other flowers may be obtained by
the following process Take glass
funnel, with tue narrow end drawn to
point. In the funnel place Jumps of ice
with salt. by which very low temper.
ature is produced. The funnel is sup
ported 10y an ordinary retort stand, and
placed near the Towering plants, when
water and the etherea, odor of the bios
som Is deposited on the exterior of the
glass funnel and triches down to the
point, from which it drops at intervals
into a glass vessel below. The scent thus
obtained is very perfect and interesting,
but is apt to become sour in few days
unless SEINE pure alcohol is added. BY
this process many odors may be pro-
cured for comparison and study. To OBJ
tain the odor in perfec ion the blossom
must be in its prime.