National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-11-08
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JOB PRINTING
Facts md FancIes.


growth is small. Humble spirits glorify
God.
A circular saw burst lately h Michigan
and one OF the pieces split mans head
open.
A Tennessee family have been poison.
cd by eating sorghum that had stood in
q zinc vat.
The foods in the South OF France have
subsidized. The damage done to farms and
vineyards is extensive. ..
Children playing with matches at
Vernon, Mich, burnt up barn contain;
ing tho whole seasons crop.
Men are born with two eyes, but With
one tongue, in order that they may sec
twice as much as they say.
It is not healthy and robust faith
that seeks refuge in authority, and flies
for shelter TO an antiquated creed.
Mistrust the man who finds everything
good, the man who finds everything
evil, and the man who l. indifferent to
everything. frrD
An easy way to get rid Of cockroaches
Is to spread sprigs OF tansy where they
are troublesome, and they will leave. It
is also effective in driving away black
ants.
A widower, who had never quarelled
with his wife, said the last day Of his mar.
riage was as happy As the first. Another
widower said the last day Of his marriage
was the happiest.
The U. S. Treasury balances are: In
currency, 81, 449 ,433; coin, including S22.-
759, 500, of coin certificates, S77, 7,0o5, ,236;
special deposits Of legal tenders for re.
dcmption Of certificates Of deposit, S22,.
10000. lr.
It really requires moro delicacy OF
touch, better acquaintance with tho
inner emotions OF the heart, and
grander pathos of sentiment to make .
declaration of love than it does to put
up stove.
Massachusetts has sensational case OF
two young men who carelessly spit to-
bacco juice ON a lawyers coat tail, and
were fined twenty dollars and one-half
the costs, with the alternative OF thirty
days in prison. They have appealed.
There arc some smart men and animals
in Bath county, Ky. A calf leaped ono
hundred feet down cliff, escaping unhurt
and horse, buggy and minister tum5lcd
down a ledge fifty feet, landed on stump
and damaging only that and the vehicle.
Ono should not be downcast at fail
ures. They are often far better for the
student than success. ue who goes to
school to his mistakes will always have
rood schoolmaster, and will not be
likely TO become either idle OF conceited.
Three-fourths of the difficulties and
niseries OF men come from the tact that
most want wealth without earning it.
anne without deserving it, popularity
without temperance, respect without
'irtue, and happiness without holiness.
ditcr how should lady going buggy
iding dress herself, was answered,
either by putting them over the head.
r stopping into them, whichever will
eep your sweetheart waiting the short.
st time" ..t..-.....4
The wife of professional gambler at
'mala, lately seeing needy woman
egging, went into her husbands gamb-
ng den and raised considerable sum
money from the blacklegs there as
smbled, which she presented to tho
oor stranger. UW
A proclamation has been prepared by
,e Department of State, but not yet is.
led, charging q discriminating duty OF 10
er cent. ad valorem upon all goods hero
ter imported into the United, States in
rench vessels which came from any other
'untries than France.
James B. Dismack, an engineer, attach
piece of railroad iron, weighing sixty
,unds to his body, and holding it in his
,nds, walked to the end OF a wharf, at
ew London, and jumped overheard. His
,dy was recovered. Depression, conse-
tent upon i'll health, was the cause.
A very fatal hen disease has prevailed in
the past year. Whole
,cks have been swept of BY it. some
rmer's losing one Or two hundred fowls
: it, including turkeys. Altogether there
ust have been several thousand fowls
ed from this disease.
A man brought friend to Troy doc
r the other day. to have wound in
s head dressed. The operation so
Fected the escort that he tainted and
1 on the curbstone, inflicting similar
Infusion on his own skull, and the two
liked away holding one another up.
Miss Nellie Margach. Of Meadville.
l., is, or rather was. q poor shot"
Iced. On last Thursday, while shoot
I at mark with pistol, she fred so
ldly that instead OF hitting the object
ned at, she shot herself through the
ad, inflicting wound that soon proved
al. ....
'T am self-made man, said native
Stonington the other day to New
rk gentleman, with whom he had
en- driving a sharp bargain. "Glad to
ar you say So" responded the New
rker, who had been worsted in the
de, 'for it relieves the Lord OF great
possibility" r-
The Forthcoming report Of the Z. s.
stmaster General will show that the ex-
,ses of the Department were increased
ring the past year as compared with the
,ceding year, by about two and quar-
million of dollars, mainly for increased
nsport ation and other postal facilities,
eien and domestic, and that tie increas.
receipts have nearly kept psce with
expenses, the increase being little
II S2,0Oe,0O0.
HE ENGLISH BoRaIA. - Mary Ann
ton, who has been committed for
i on charge Of having poisoned her
band and four children at West Ack-
3, is now implicated in series Of