National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-06-21
Facts and Fancies.

4 Wisconsin pigeon-roost is 3 miles in
length
They say bulky horse can be started
every time by dashing cold water in his
face.
The ruins of Fort Sumter will shortly
be removed, and new fort constructed
on the site.
A hundred and forty-two bankrupts
went into court in one month. Three
were farmers
The name "grass widow is of French
origin II is derived from the French
grace, and originally meant widow by
courtesy.
There nrc within the Southern Bnp-
tist Convention i55 associations, II l68
churches G,i93 ministers, and S03, ,O37
members.
The Journal Odiciei places the total
damages done by the Communists to the
city of Paris at about five hundred mil
! lion of francs.
The Chicago Post says IF the young
woman who sends us the poem sling on
"Spring will communicate her address,
she will be exposed.
DIR. Lannhan, the investigator OF tho
Methodist Book House frauds, was ar-
rested on complaint of Goodenough, who
proposes to prosecu te him for libel.
The marriage service in the opinion of
a Western paper, should be made 10 read,
"Who dares take this woman p And
the groom shall answer, II dare" For
shame
A writer from Calistoga, Cal, says
positively that he found live ''stickle-
back IN the boiling springs there, and
that the fish died on being transferred
to cold water.
Ohio is the second of the great cheese
producing States of the Union. During
the wear 1870 the cheese product of Ohio
was Il 1881 ,03S pounds, and that of butter
43, ,020, 55i pounds
4 bare-footed, bare. e.headed little boy
astonished worshipping congregation.
a few Sundays ago, by rushing into the
church and exclaiming. "Where's my
pap, the pigs are ont y
The best mode of cleaning gold is to
wash it in warm suds made from delicate
soap, with ten or fifteen drops of sal
volatile in it. Dry bv placing in box
wood sawdust. This makes jewels very
An old ''Revolutioner" says that of all
the solemn hours he ever saw that occu-
pied in going home one dark night from
widow Beans, after being told by her
Sally that he needn't come again, was
the most solemn.
A Brazilian marquis, who suspected
,t ;rX
officer, took classic revenge by bringing
in to her, one day, his rivals head on u
silver dish decorated with parsley. He
then shot her fatally and afterward him
self.
A letter from Vesuvius, Italy, says:
The trees burn before the lava reaches
hem, but before yielding they, or rather
heir sap, eroan and sigh with an agoni
ing lament, ms if they felt beforehand the
,rasp of the devouring monster, and be-
vail the lovely existence they must lose."
A servant girl at Pittsfeld, Mass, it is
elated, was so much impressed the 9TH
+ night by dreaming that some one was
obbing the clothes line, that she got up
nd looked out of the window, when she
aw a man carrying off some clothes.
me WIS 80 oNefcOlne Dy tuc siuSuiuity
f the affair that she let HIM go and did
ot tell the story till next day
The reports Of the workin gmen's com
littee show that over Il 900 men have
cen on strike in New York, and 1915
ave gone to work on the eight-hour
,stem. There we're besides this some
900 carpenters and other trades which
0 not come under the league, and illus
ates very plainly the great upheaving
lat has taken place in the city, and
hich now has spread through the coun-
y.
The following note to a school teacher
Troy shows that there is one woman
no knows her riehts-and knowing,
ire maintain them; miss - want
III to kno that am the boss of my boy
ld when say want him to cum home
recess mean bissness and don't want
m kept till school is out if mothers aint
say what they want don about such
irgs its time somebody knode it don't
mt trubble but i am bound to have my
tes youaes truely'
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