National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-05-17
Facts and fancleS.
Does it hurt joke to crack it,

Does it hurt q joke to crack it
Silk culture is attracting much interes
in Florida.
a western poet calls the dew the "per
spiration Of the moon. :"
Sweet Vengeance is the classic name
OF n town in Yueba, Cal.
The largest things about ladies' bon
nets at present is their price.
With the majority Of mankind forgive:
ness is but u form of forgetfulness.
The present cost OF living in Paris is
nearly twice what it was previous to the
war.
Chemists detect vile adulterations in
importations Of Chinese tea Of the high
est cost
The strike of the Liverpool cartmen
ended by the masters granting the de-
mGnds of their men,
The soldiers great risk is that OF be-
coming extinguished before he can be-
come distinguished.
An English lady is willing to make
affidavit to the fact Of finding frog in
the centre Of boiled potato.
Johnny Warden, brother of Dolly's,
it is intimated, will supply the name for
the latest in gentlemen's suits.
The latest revolving absurdity in fash
ionable society is a visiting card with por-
trait of the visitor on the corner.
Josh Billings says that slander is like
tin kettle tied to dogs tail-very
good fun as long us it isn't our dog.
A baby in Detroit swallowed watch
last week, and the doctor says its symp-
toms are like those of tick douloureux.
There was a little maid,
When their neghbor's hens had laid
Their eggs IN her fathers garden,
She used to sell them 30
She bought some calice,
And made herself bowling Dolly Warden.
4 good old man, who died IN New
Hampshire, left 81 900, the interest to be
expended in warming the church he had
attended,.
"Gone where white man can open on
Sunday" is the inscription left in the
window of deserted BARRIERS shop IN New
Bedford, Mass
Why is a man who makes addition to
false rumors like one who has confidence
in all that is told him ? Because he re.
lies on all that he hears.
If you have been on a street car when
it ran off the track and was dragged over
the cobbles, you may easily know the
sensation of California earthquake.
1t Is said that spinsters have better
chance of success against widows in the
race for husbands than bachelors have
against widowers in the race for wives.
Two hundred thousand persons, on an
average through the year, each Sunday.
resort to the various lager-beer gardens
and other places of recreation and re-
freshment in and around New York city.
A Burlington, Iowa, baby is immortal
lied by the following epitaph
Beneath this stone our baby lays,
He neither cries nor hollers
He lived Just one and twenty days,
And cost us forty dollars.
A lady writer says, off women were
as particular in choosing a virtuous hus-
band as men are in selecting virtuous
wife, moral reformation would soon be-
gin, which would be something more
than floth and foam"
A young man asked young lady how
old she was, and she replied &c times
md times added to my age will ex-
,eed times and 4, rs double my age
exceeds 90" The young man thought
she looked much older.
A Saltwater hen has gone into the pea
mt business. After laying two eggs,
Zach measuring6 1-2x7 3-4 inches-large
enough for a goose-she produced a
couple of pigeon eggs and finally conclu-
led her efforts by laying fac s'mile OF
A New Hampshire clergyman recently
ttached twenty-five hens and three tur-
,eys, the property of a member of his
to recover the sum OF $40,
by him for the support of the
Minister He won his case, but an appeal
vas taken.
A man hundred years old went to
lave a pair of shoes made. The shop
,eeper suggested that he might not live
o wear them out, when the old man re-
orted that he commenced this one hun
red years good deal stronger than he
lid the last one.
A Tennessee electrician claims to have
invented method of propelling railway
rains by electricity ut the rate of 100
niles an hour. 1t is to be hoped that
he road on which such an experiment is
ried will keep both its tracks and its
as straight as possible.
While indulging in tremendous
avn lately, Anton Ochler, aged twenty
hree wears, a wood engraver, residing
n Wilhamsburgh, threw his jaw out OF
lace. He was taken to the Park Hos
ital, where DIR. Hardy, with a good
cal of difficulty, yanked his jaw back in
. place.
During the conference at Worcester.
he following dialogue was heard be-
ween two newsboys ~ say, Jim,
hats the meaning of so many ministers
eing all here together?' "Why,"
nswered jim, scornfully, theygalways
leet once year to exchange sermons
nth each other"
When you find newspaper on a ball
pom floor it isn't always proper to pick
up and wonder where it came from and
tx unnecessary questions concerning
le popularity of the folds. We know of
young man who did that net long
nee, and he couldn't get another girl to
ance with him during the evening.
A Philadelphia editor, who exclaims
yainst people calling on him who have
,thipg to do and nothing to say, and
ink that he has nothing to write, and
e fond of nothingness in general, puts
G following in the front page 1--WE
,va ranteJ an Office in the ton of tho