National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-03-01
Facts and Fancies.

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, badge a miniature kerosene can.
| A man may have enough of the world
to sink him, but can never have enough
to satisfy him.
The railroad men down East are quiz
: zing a new station agent, who made a
requisition for ''red oil' for signal lamps.
During the past season there was ship
ped from Adrian, Michigan, l,273, 096
pounds of butter and 2l9,2 pounds Of
cheese,
A young lady of Philadelphia went on
sleigh-riding wearing fashionable Don
net, and froze her forehead Result.
insanity.
A cynical lady, rather inclined to flirt,
says most men are like cold-very
easily caught, but very difficult to get
rid of.
gang of burglars in Indiana worked
all night at a county treasurers safe, and
were reloiced to fina 81. 10 in its roomy
recesses.
A man died suddenly from intemper-
ance, and n Western jury found that
deceased came to his death by drinking
between drinks.
A tree which was cut down last week
in Kansas contained two bushels of beets
and three hundred pounds Of beautiful
transparent honey
An undertaker's Office in indianapolis
recently bore this cheering inscription
on the front door '' Gone for dead
man--back soon.
Four ladies and one gentleman were
referees lately in Plymouth County
lawsuit-the first instance of the kind
in Massachusetts,
New Hampshire has 769. 80 miles of
railroad, built at an expense of S26, $780,
S17. Vermont has III. .35, built at an
expense of S3S, 493, 213.
California is going into the tree bust
ness in earnest. She has hired a State
tree-planter at a cost of fifteen thousand
dollars a year and expenses.
A little boy in Minnesota, has
been scalded to death by an explosion
produced i'll hot mince pie which threw
the contents over his face aud neck.
A California statute, after passing
through the hands of u revising COM
declares "all marriages of white
persons and negroes or muattoes void
A child in Buffalo, the other day, tied
a Grape on the door knob to see il the
carriage would come to take them out
riding, AS it did the family across the
street.
The editor of the Catskill Examiner
has received the following You are
invited to a Sprise on Wed
nesday even, meet at -. Bring
some headcheese and candy"
A man i'll Kansas City hotel short
lime ago blew out the gas on retiring,
md soon after he rushed down stairs
ull of indignation, to ascertain if there
vas "glue factory next door. y
An Iowa man flogged his wife unmer-
'ifully because she took an old coat on
which IL dog was sleeping, to protect her
,are feet from the cold floor while she
tood by the stove to dress herself.
The Danbury Ne,cs says A Danbury
ierman is achschleighenshamel
low would you like to stand on a back
toop, with the Thermometer II degrees
below zero, and call that into breakfast ?"
At Bowerstown, Ohio. desperate
'oung man named George Clark, living
t that place, shot his sister with a rifle
because she threw snow at him. The
,all passed through the girls right thigh
ust below the hip joint, thence nearly
Trough the left thigh Clark was ar
ested.
A soldier was sentenced, for deserting,
. have his ear cut off After undergo
ng the brutal ordeal. he was ordered ont
Al Al
Rogue's March" He then turned.
nd, in mock dignity, thus addressed
le musicians : Gentlemen, | thank
ou but ! have no ear for music"
A Southern paper advertises as fol-
'ws Wanted, at this office. an able
odied, hard-featured, bad-tempered,
Dt to- be-put-otf and and d-to-be-b backed
)wn, freckle-faced young man to collect
n this paper, must furnish his own
Drse saddle bags, pistols, whisky,
)wie-knife and cowhide. We will fur
sh the accounts. To such we promise
instant and laborious employment.
The Albany Journal says the New
Drk State Fish Commissioners have
ade "A mistake III assuming trout to
I'VE become scarce in the waters of the
orthern Wilderness, and so stocking
EN- with bass and pickerel, saying that
ey have "by this single bit of piss
torial cannibalism done more harm
an they have done good 10y all their
her useful labors since their organi-
ton.
A man recently came to Ionia, Mich,
10 claimed to have lain four days and
rec nights apparently dead. He was
uck down in the snow by a falling
e. His comrades found him after
* search, and although he was pro-
unced dead by physician, his broth
persisted in keeping him. The re-
I was that on the fourth day he began
revive.
Mr. Nash, Of Plymouth, Ind, is the
st grateful being we ever heard Of
extends his thanks to his noble fel-
7-citizens "for their kindness in pitch
his household goods out of doors on
occasion of the burning of small
n near his house, on last FRIDAY"
e goods we're badly and unnecessarily
ashed, and we're in no danger what
II in the house, but he is very thank
to the good people for their generous
istanee.