National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-06-14
Facts and Fancles.

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= A new bug has arrived in the Westtr
! States. He bores into grape vines an
:, kills them.
h An Indiana patriarch has lived to forr
e the acquaintance Of his great-great- grea
q grandchild.
! The British iron product is ahou
4 $500, 900 tons year, and the Americsl
about 2, 100000 tons.
England, last year, bought S1S4. 900.
900 OF cotton from the United States
and made it up into S372, 900, coo wort
|, of goods.
Texas papers report that ten Indians
who recently raided into Wise county
were all killed by the sheriff and hi
assistants.
, Some jocose fellows in Newbern. Ind
, robbed friend in the night for a Joke
and paid heavy fine the next day IL
earnest The friend had no sense o.
humor.
, Judge Hoar once said OF lawyer
He has reached the superlative life a
, first be sought to get ON, and then hs
} sought to get honor, and now he is try
ing To get honest.
Startling developments have come tc
light in st. Paul Mimi, exposing an at
tempt by Mrs. Robinson to bribe
members OF tho grand jury not to bring
in any indictment against her.
An attorney in that delightful coun.
try, New Mexico, gave weight to his ar
gument before jury by threatening to
put bullet into the brain Of any man
who should dare to intimate that lis
client was guilty.
The figures in the Absolutely latest
style Of Dolly Warden are so delightfully."-
large that it takes two Young ladies to
show one of them properly. They have
to go arm in arm and keep step or else
the effec. is spoiled.
The first Jewish ceremony ever wit.
messed in Portland was performed lately.
A priest of the faith came on from New
York, and went to the slaughter house,
nttired in his official robes, to kill an OK,
for the food of the faithful.
Walter, n five-year old, was surprised
at breakfast by the presence OF diminu.
tive egg, served for his special delecta-
tion. He thus accounted for the eggs
smallness "Mamma, ! think the
chicken was learning to lay"
1t is estimated that there nre 400
saloons and groceries in San Francisco,
which dispense annually 10000 barrels
Of lager, $4,000 gallons of wine, and
1000, 900 gallons OF the more stimula.
ting fluids. the total value of which is
$10,000,000.
A young lady in New Hampshire has
just secured a position as school teacher
upon the following certificate "This
is to certify that Tanner Noyes stands on
a medium with other girls of her age
and sex, and, for what know, is as good
as folks in general.
Billy Brennan, while playing cards in
San Antonio, Texas, said, as the game
turned against him, "May Christ para.
lyze me "a fuvorite expression OF his.
No sooner had the words escape, him
than he fell down in fit, from which at
last accounts he had not recovered.
Little Johnny Moore, away out in
like foolish little boy that he was, tried
to smoke cigar. 1t made him sick, of
course, end he threw himself on the wet
grass and lay there n long time. The
result was he had congestive chills and
lied.
A physician was called te see dying
infant, in Mobile. aud found that the
had previously engaged the SER
'lces of Voudou woman, named Ellen
Drake, who scarified the cbild's back,
md made it swallow the blood that flow
ID, mixed with quantity of tho
Mothers milk.
A Boston bride, whose groom remon
trated with her Mt the wedding for in
lulging in a rather indiscriminate he
towal Of her maiden kisses on a number
If her male friends, remarked with natu-
al naivete that the gentlemen in question
nd been in the habit of kissing her all
Ter life, and she didn't see why they
hould stop now.
The last of the Marshals of France who
ave undergone capital sentence was
he best known and most celebrated Of
hem all, Marshal Ney, shot on the 7th
f December, 1915 for fidelity to his old
nd treachery to his new master. Mar
rance arraigned on charge of bad
onduct in face of the enemy.
The great pyramid weighs IL, 100000
DO tons, if anybody wants to know.
ccording to Herodotus, it took the labor
100000 men twenty years to build
b. To show the mechanical value of
lodern improvements, DIR. Lardner af-
rms that 4S0 tons of coal, with an en-
inc and hosting machine, would have
used every stone to its position.
1t is stated in the report of the prison
,sociation, lately issued, that OF fourteen
lousand five hundred and ninety-six
risoners confined inithe penitentiaries OF
lirty States, in 1860, seventy seven per
mt, or over ten thousand of the number,
ld never learned trade. The fact con-
sys lesson of profound interest to those
ho have IN charge the training of boys,
I'd girls, too, for the active duties Of
e.
Here is a good thing on the "tater
igs." Three men comparing notes:
ne says "There are two bugs to every
ak" second says "They have cut
wn my early crop, and are sitting on
e fence waiting for the late crop to
me up" "Pshaw = says the third,
you don't know anything about it. l
ssed seed store recently, and the
gs were IN there overlooking the books
see who had purchased seed pota-
,s."