National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-10-18
Facts and Fancles.

New Orleans Is suffering from water
famine. "
Vermont makes $4,000, 900 OF slate
pencils yearly.
Cashmere goats do better in Califor-
mia than India.
A civil marriage law is to be intro
duced into Germany.
The fruit OF Kansas this wear is esti'
mated to be worth 81, S0O,0 900.
Calumny viii soon starve and die OF
itself il no osfe takes 1t into lodge.
Praise the sea, said wise old George
Herbert, but keep upon the dry land.
The Danish women pride themselves
on being the best laundresses in the
world.
.ondon bakers and operatives agIee
upon 12hour system, from A. M. to
4P. NJ.
When Kansas Indian dies, his frlends
choke n pony to death and bury it with
the deceased,
A horse in Barlow county, Ga. knocked
over bee hive the other day and WAS
stung to death by the bees.
The louisville Exposition contains
lock OF hair six feet long cut from ths'
head of n Swiss peasant girl. d,
A San Francisco journal states that
wealthy miner has fallen in love with
Mrs. Fair, and will marry her.
The white elephant captured in Siam
takes rank after the Queen, the heir ap-
parent ranking after the elephant.
This is Western "Kemp's brewery,
with $4,000 Of prospective lager. went
up in fiery chariot at Dubuque last
week.
A Michigan man of sixty lately cele-
brated his wedding and dropped dead
from heart disease few minutes after
the ceremony.
A man in Michigan got off rail road
train lately without waiting for 1t to
stop, and Immediately joined the "in'
Vulnerable corayan.'
A determined onslaught'is being made
upon the gambling houses OF Germany,
FIVE noted saloons in well-known water.
ing.places baving recently been closed.
An exchange notes that, "In North
ives tern Kansas there are four men to
one woman" In New England factories
there are often foremen to 100 women.
There are over one thousand old dis
usod mining shafts within the city limits
OF Dubuque which require securely COW
eripe ue. Pleasant place to drop In,
Dubuque.
One line of the celebrated tapestry at
Plymouth, worked by Miles Standish's
daughter, reads: 'Incine my hart to
doe thy will" What 'deer" girl she
must have been.
A one-armed man in Salem, lately ap.-
plied for divorce ON the grounds that
the hand he had given his wife in mar
rage. was lost, and that the contract
was therefore void.
In South Bond, Ind, they use small
packages of quinine for change. AS
everybody takes it, they look upon it
the same as legal tender, and it passes
off without difficulty.
A lady about to marry, was warned
that her intended, although good man,
was very eccentric. Well. she SAID, II
he is very unlike other men, he IS more
likely to be good husband.
Economy is wealth. A well-regulated
Newark family ate hash for breakfast III
365 different styles last year. and the
mother is, in consequence, enabled
display u $50 lace handkerchief.
It is reported that Worth, the Partisan
milliner, is bankrupt 1t is profoundly
hoped so. Bankruptcy would be poetl-
cal Justice upon the man who has been
the means of bankrupting so many ua-
| fortunate husbands
A strange death occurred near St.
Omer, Ill. Ayoung man named hoDerts
began bleeding at the nose, then at he
lungs, and finally the blood oozed out OF
the pores of the skin. In this condition
he fingered three or four days, when he
died.
An awful accident occurred at Atlanta,
Ga. While Samuel Carley, OF Dekalb
County, was driving his wife and three
children to church, tree fell across the
wagon and killed the lady and one ch,ld'
and wounded, probably fatally, the other
two children.
An English gentleman who has ust
returned to the city from fashionable
watering place, where he passed the
summer states hat he lost 4llo there,
Thusly. Five hundred dollars tlOO) IN
Gambling, and fifteen pounds III flesh,
from dissipation.
Governor Randolph, Of New Jersey,
received the first telegraphic despatch
that was sent over the wires IN his State:
II was despatch to make the head and
heart of young romantic manhood SWIM.
1t was from lady, and consistea OF pue
one word--''Yes."
In the shoe shops of Lynn, Mass, are
some venerable relics of the past. FOR
instance there is n lap stone that has
been used in the same shop for l27 years,
AMI lap which has been used on the
same bench for GO years. The latter
belongs to John Chase.
The U. S. Treasury Der ,rtment de-
cides that yellow sheathine for the con-
struction and repair of ships can be
entered free. 1t had been held to the
contrary; but it was found that 1T could
NOT be manufactured here, because the
proportion of copper and spelter cannot
be asceitained.
The Greenbush Gazette is responsible
for the following: A prominent citizen
of tins village went home few nights
since at a late hour, and gently tapped
on tbe door. "Who is it?" inquired his
better half. To which very proper IN
ouiry the heartless man replied by ask
ing ''who do you expect at this hour OF
the night?"
The New Bedford Mercury calls this
n puzzle. aud il Isl A man being at tLo
~ K,no of Terrors ct. for his who