National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-08-16
Facts and Fancies.


from slight wound in his gums.
The total number OF emigrants who
sailed from Liverpool for America during
the month of July was 1000.
II is asserted that the pin cushions
sold by the S,rltoyt Ia llans are made
by tho pupils of the blind asylum at
Troy.
box of eggs at Chattanooga, Tenn.
was hatched into "A mnltitudiuous brood
of chickens the other day, hy the heat
of the sun.
Two buildings in Keokul;, Ia, fell
down burying seven women and children
in the ruins. One woman was fatally
wounded and all were more or less
injured.
The Independent is sharply after the
New York manufacturing company en-
gagged in producing idols for the Hindoo
market, to be worshpped by the heather
in his blindness.
The strike Of coal-miners in st. Clair
County, ILL.,, which promised to be quite
serious, is practically ended, several of
the mining companies having acceeded
to the demands of the miners.
The diamond and ruby reports are
making quite "A sensation in Utah, and
arrangements are being made there to
organize company, and to send an
agent for supply of the gems.
A man at sleep caught mouse in his
mouth, at Lawrence. the other night.
The mouse was killed, and the man woke
up in terrible fright The mouse was
caught nibbling, while the man was
caught mapping.
Wlen you see two young persons
seated in the centr of pew in church,
you may make up your mind that they
are engaged, or going to be; but when
one is at the head and the other ut the
foot of the pew, you can Immediately
determine that they are married.
The people of Louisiana are talking
of abolishing their State lottery. A
grand jury in New Orleans has taken up
the subject there, and after portraying
the evils connected with the system OF
organized private lotteries, appeals to
the people to discountenance the i'm
moral institution and make such schemes
illegal.
Charles Marlow who committed one of
the most dastardly crimes on record
about a year ago at Jamestown, N. Y,
giving a man named Bachman strych.
nine in beer, stunning him by heavy
blow on the head and finally burning
him in a furnace of n brewery, was
hanged at Mayville after making full
confession of his gnilt.
Sixteen quarts of pure milk are re-
luired to make one pound OF butter, and
zen quarts to make one pound of cheese.
When butter is forty cents pound and
,heese eleven cents, one pound of butter
EQUALS in value sixteen quarts of milk
md returns two and one-half cents per
quart to the dairyman. But ono pound
# cheese from ten quarts of milk only
ives him one and one. eleventh cents
'er quart for pure milk.
The most revolving instance of pa
entail neglect and cruelty vet recorded
as just been unearthed in Cincinnati.
'he Commercial says that man named
lichael Dessert has an insane child
welve or thirteen years old whom he
eeps chained like dog in the back yard,
nth only filthy cellar for shelter. She
as become like wild hyena in her
abits, wallowing in filth and feeding on
ats or any putrid thing that she can get.
The farmers of many of the counties
Kansas have organized to send their
roduce to market for sale by common
gent, and also buy their supplies in the
lme way. Some of these farmers
agues.have regular officers, and invite
roposals for storing and shipping pro-
ice and for the sale of butter, eggs,
,getables and fruit. They also invite
parate bids for supplying hardware,
rming utensils, seeds, drugs, harness,
'oceries, lumber, clothing, and various
her articles.