National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-02-16
Facts and fancIcs.

Spasmodic lovc-a neuralgia affecta
ton.
Some sons are chips Of the old block
head.
A great virtue in seaman-wreckless
ness.
NJ. F. Gilman, of Carver, Mimi, was
frozen to death.
Doctors generally agree aboutbleeding
their patients.
The oldest bores on record--the Es-
trusean augurs.
There are ten million of cows in the
United States.
The most tasteful hare-dresser in tho
world-the cook.
Steam is q servant that some times
blows up its mast V.
An ungrammatic.l Judge is apt to pass
an incorrect sentence.
A farmer has no right to pull the ears
Of his corn. 1t is unkind.
Poachers who get into preserves very
often find themselves picked.
Any fool can make woman talk, but
it's rather hard to make one listen.
A watch fitted with secondhand
need not necessarily be secondhand
watch.
A dreadful story teller once asserted
that his voice was still for truth, and so
1t was
A bachelors face is often the worse
for wear-a married. mans for wear and
tear.
We suppose that there is quite as large
an amount Of craft upon the land as
there is upon the water.
"Wha s in dress ?" says popular
writer ,ometimes great deal and
sometimes precious little.
A lady gave her servant ten dollars
wherewlth to purchase provisions for tho
house. The purchaser returned in =
short time with ten dollars worth of
smoked herrings.
The editor of the Athol Transcript is
affected by the weather He says: The
devil of this office has a soul. On this
account we don't care to compel him to
steal wood Will several of our sub
scribers take the hint?"
Bad Luck is simply man with lis
hands in his pockets and his pipe in his
mouth, looking on to see how 1t will
come out. Good luck is man of pluck,
with his sleeves rolled up, and working
to make it come right.
Boards, planks, and scantling to the
value of ST. 500, 192 were imported into
the United States during last year, to
say nothing of several hundred thousand
dollars worth of rough timber, and over
5000, 900 worth of fire-wood.
A country paper, in speaking Of the
good things in the village where it is
published, says: "We are proud of the
solemn appearance our un-
dertaker. A smiling undertaken is
hideous incubus on the growth OF a
place"
The London correspondent of the
Leeds Mercury says the postal authorities
have now under their consideration an
invention by which the handwriting of
persons telegraphing message will be
by the telegraph. The in
venton would greatly assist in prevent
ng and detecting frauds.
A lady giving the account Of leap
rear ball, says cit was attended by
many hundreds of handsome ladies, end
N exceedingly promising set of gentle
men, each of whom engaged women to
lance with them, to the utter oblivion of
onner contracts. Consequence was no
,articular system and good deal of
onfusion."
Discoveries which promise to be as in
ercsting as those of the old lake dwellings,
n Switzerland have recently been made
n the South of France. Among the Py-
enees mountains, at short distance
,elow the surface of the ground, the re
Mains of ancient cities have been found,
which are presumed to belong to n pre-
historic age. The houses are of the
anne character as those OF the Swiss
axes. Investigations are making, the
esult of which has not yet been an
ounced.