National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-10-11
Facts and Fancics.

work and whistles while he Is Mt it,
The love Of glory can only create he
ro; the contempt of it createsa wise man.
The underground railways OF London
carried forty millions OF passengers last
year.
Two parties If Memphis squirrel hnn-
ters recently brought home SD,07o
scalps.
4 single cheese factory in Southwest
ern Virginia will turn out %, 900 pounds
this season.
A girl with mania for setting build
ings on fire has been sent to an insane
asylum in Illinois.
A sheep in Wisconsin was lately seized
with hvdrophobia and hutted the rest
of the flock nearly to death.
Pere TTyaciathe was lately treated to
n funeral by his ex-associates of the
Dominican order in honor of his mar
riage.
Late Haytian advires state that tho
import duties of the island have been in
creased % per cent, and the export duties
20per cent.
The Oregon Legislature elected M. G
Mitchell to the United States Senate ho
receiving fortv-one votes. Corbett twelve,
and p rme four.
There were no competitors Mt an Hi
nois fair r,r premium of $40 offered
to the oldest maiden lady who would
state her age.
Advccs from Rio Janerio announces
that the election for members of Congress
throughout the country has resulted in
favor of the Government candidates.
L,dy Burdett Coutts recently gave
Bishop. who was begging for funds to
build a church. n blank check. and the
modest ecclesastic filed it up for $780,
600.
An editor saws his ancestors hive been
in the habit of living a hundred years.
His opponent responds by saying that
chat was before the introduction ofcap-
ital punishment
An exchange says that the correct
answer to the gentleman who wrote the
song, "Whv Did Marry p would he,
"Because YOU met a woman who was a
first class fool.
A soldier, telling his mother OF the
terrible fire at Chckam auga, was asked
By her why he d1 not get behind tree.
"Trec p said he "Thcre wasn't enough
for the officers
The United States internal revenue
recents for less than three months OF the
fiscal wear. commencing July last. were
S34. .O56, 575, or at the rate of Sl40,Oo0,'
0C0 for the entire year.
A Lexington, Ky, paper tells OF q
lady of that city " distinguished ms n
poet, and having reputation for beauty
that is national, who killed fortyseven
birds in less than two hours.
1t is said that =" the original Declara-
ton of Independence is fading out.
And tie deuce of it is, we haven't
among our statesmen a single Thomas
Jefferson to write another. - Courier
JOurnm.
During the recent heavy gales in
England, the ship Nazarene was wrecked
off Formbv, Lancaster County. md all
on board perished. Many other disasters
Mt sea are reported, but OF less serious
character.
A man in Greenup County, KY, find
ing neighbor pinned to the ground by
a tree that had fallen on his leg, lifted it
up. After the excitement was over he
and two 9th nrs tried to lit the tree
again but could not bulge it.
Neither the German Government nor
the Jestits seem disposed to weld an inch
in the church controversy. The Bishop OF
Ermeland is reported rs ndhering firmly
to his position in opposition to secular
authority in church matters, and espec.
tally on the question OF accommodation.
In Arkansas man was sentenced to
be hanged, but all the carpenters in the
neighborhood refused to build the scaf-
fold. As the condemned man was him.
self carpenter by trade, the sheriff tired
to induce him to put up the galows, hut
he steadfastly declared he'd be hanged
if he did.
The Secretary of the q. s. Treasury
has ordered the calling in of 81 tNW,OOO
of three per cents, numbered as follows;
g 600 numbered from 4,3'S TO ABB
SO. 600 numbered from 4,720 to 4,775.
the interest on which will cease Novem-
Der 80, 1872.
At Valley Stream, Long Island, man
fell between two trains of cars in attrmpt-
INC 10 iump from one to the other. With
the exccption of slight confusion he was
unharmcd. When some Of the railroad
cmnlovces stopped to pick biC up ho
waved them off, saying 81 car p'ck up my
own corpse"
judge fine Tim Larry s. for assault
and battery on Pat Malone. Pat-But
YOUR Honor, | want more damages. lie
BACKED me eve, and if had been invited
10 tea party, couldn't have gone.
.Jdpe-Tbe Court knows nothing about
consequential damages. You must carry
your case to Geneva.
1t Is said that the soil of Ireland is fatal
to snakes. 4 son of Erin, who visited tho
green isle this summer, and returned 10
Now York with momento IN the shape
Of shamrock growing IN Irish soil, tested
the matter by placing snake within the
box containing the plant, The creature
died almost Immediately.
Speaking of pronunciation. Sheriden
agreed with Walker that the pronuncia-
tion of wind should be wynd, but insisted
contrary TO Walker. that gold should be
goold. Sheriden tells US that Swift used
to ieer those who pronounced wind with
short i. by saying, =" have great
minnd to finnd why You pronounce it
winnd." An illiberal critic retorted this
upon Sheriden by saying, ''lf l may be SO
boold. | should be glad to be toold why
you pronounce it goold."
Some one recently wrote letter to
the London Times beg eing for aid foi
the widow of Sir John Franklin, Who,