National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-09-27
Facts and FancIes.

Solomon's Temple IL to be reproduced
ut the Vienna Exhibition.
An Iowa genius has invented q com
bned stirring plow, corn planter and seed
cr.
The increase in the number Of lunatics
! is causing considerable uncasiness through
out England.
A despatch from San Francisco says
that Matilda Heron has been denied all
allowance from the estate OF the late
Henry Byrne.
English boots and shoes are now In
great demand in the American market
They are not handsome, but broad, com
Portable and well made.
II is asserted that the Gar OF Russia
will demand the abrogation OF the Treaty
OF Paris for the purpose OF cooperating
with Austria and Prussia.
Editing II newspaper IN very much
like raking n ire--every one thinks he
can perform the operation better than
the man who has hold the poker.
A club of Boston ladies are bard at work
endeavoring to obtain the passage OF city
ordinance providing that all tobacco chew
era shall be mnzzled when on the street.
Josh Billings says "There is one thing
about hen that looks like wisdom-they
don't kacklc much before they have laid
their eggs. Some folks are always brag-
ging and kacking what they are going to
beforehand"
A moth flew into the ear OF an engineer
on an express train, under full hcad-way,
near Green Castle, Ind, the other day,
with such force as to set the man crazy.
The train had to be stopped and surgical
aid procured to relieve him.
Two Partisan workmen undertook to
Joke the police the other night. One
was to throw himself INTO the river and
await after having swain to safe place,
the searchers which the other was to
arouse but he jumped in only to sink
and be drowned.
1t is said we are creatures of habit, and
it should be remembered that good
habits are quite rs easily formed rs bad.
Persons who complain of being unable
to break themselves of bad habit may
be assured that the same difficulty will
exist in breaking good one, when 1t Is
formed
The Levant Times says that Teheran
letter in a loyal Greek paper states that
more than one hundred thousand men,
women, and children have perished IN
the Persian capital from famine and
plague, and that the number OF victims
throughout the country is not less than
three millions.
A Vermont farmer was startled while
hoeing corn recently by seeing rhi-
noceros coming towards him, plowing
furrow like steam plow with his horn.
The farmer, mt first tookit for potato
bug of the new style but the arrival OF
party of showmen in search OF the insect
explained things.
An lrishman and negro who were SUMO
Gated in well in Woodford county, KY,
have met with misfortune as peculiar ~
it is distressing. They were both supposed
to be recovering. and were going ABOUT at
tending to their usual business, when sud
denly and unaccountably both became
deaf and dumb. At last accounts they
could neither hear nor speak.
A singular incident happened on recent
night train on the Air Line Railroad. The
train was moving at its usual speed, when
the engineer heard a sudden crash of glass
and instant darkness in the head light OF
the engine. The cause proved to be, that
an owl had dashed into the head light and
Law there astonshed at his success. And
it was not an "owl train" either.