National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-01-26

: Clergvmen. like brakemen, do good
deal of coupling
Honor your business or vour business
will not honor YOU.
Chicago is said nj present to be para
disc for sign painters.
Consider Glass" is the name of
n Boston painter and glazier.
Why is Irritation like plate powder
Because it brightens up spoons.
You can't get blood from a stone, but
Won can get money from brick.
We seldom get into trouble by saying
" too little" but often by saying too
much. T"
A disgusted Ohioan, wishing to commit
suicide in n novel manner. applied for
admission to a smallpox hospital.
King Victor Emanuel cannot be in
duced to visit London, because he has
presentiment that he will die there.
4 delegation of Mormons is en- route for
Washington, to secure legislation that
will protect their peculiar institution"
A Detroitcr who laughed at a man who
had slipped down on an icy sidewalk was
promptly knocked over by that individ
ual
The last ten years have witnessed
singular mortality among some of the
Oldest and apparently best English news
papers.
The very dearest place is the store
that don't advertise. Visit one, inquire
the prices, and then thank us for telling
the truth,
It is time now for the punsters of the
period to make their annual note of the
anomaly that frieze cloth furnishes the
warmest coats
Some Young men are little partial to
blue-eyed maidens, Others like dark eyed
lasses, but the moneyed girls have the
most admirers.
An Indiana woman, on the death of
her husband. telegraphed distant friend,
Dear Joseph is dead Loss fully cover
ed by insurance"
An old lady who took her first ride in
the cars, remarked when the train run
of the track, "You fetch up rather sud
den, don't ye ?'
Mr. Brown, l owe you grudge re-
member that ~ 81 shall not be fright
ened, then for l never knew you to pay
anything that you owed"
How many of our lady readers ever
dreamed that we send to Great britain,
annually, fifteen million dollars in gold
for the single article of spool cotton.
Four thousand persons bought slices
from the mammoth cheese recently sold
in Fanueil Hall, Boston. The aggre-
of ha los a1 {, G6o1
A Sac County. Iowa, horse tried to
scratch his nose with his bind font the
other day, caught his hoof in the hal
ter, gave jerk, and broke his own neck.
A shawl manufacturer in Philadelphia
has spun Il thread twenty seven miles
ong from one pound of American wool.
1t is one of the greatest yarns on record.
A celebrated writer says that if one
could read it, every human being carries
MS life in his face, and is good looking OF
the reverse, as that life has been good or
evil
"Your dress" said husband to his
fashionable wife, "will never please the
men," 81 don't dress to please men,"
vas the reply, "but to worry other wo-
men.
The latest London announcement is
lose machine, by which the most homely
loses are pressed into the most fashion
ble shape according to the taste of the
'wDer.
The only way to keep all your friends
nd make no enemies is to speak well of
'eople when names are mentioned to
ou, but never to speak of any one to
he third party.
In apprehension of the smallpox,
western papers says: "Viccinate! Polite
less never hurts anybody, Smallpox
sill not attack you if you allow vaccin-
tion to take your arm"
The Commission of Internal Revenue
as decided it to be it his duty to collect
he tax on dividends from earnings dur
ng the last five months Uf 1871, and has
iven orders accordingly.
A Pittsfield woman makes regular
ssessment of S25 upon each of the Ii
uor dealers in that town who sell the
rdent to her husband, and they "come
own rather than stand n prosecution.
The Courier .Jomnal. of Louisville,
oes this "Cincinnati has an appara-
Is for consuming her own smoke. II
ne would now take another stride and
onsume her own whisky, We might
oint to her with pride.
In Siberia, during the winter, milk is
ought and sold in frozen state, and
IN be long carried in simple bag
hen required for use the requisite
Iantity is chopped of with hatchet or
and thawed as needed.
A Winpebago county, Wis woman
ho has paid taxes on her house for
any years, and who has been a female
ffrage advocate during all that time,
Nv declares that she will stand it no
nger-she will vote or burn her house.
A lawyer prosecuting thief recently
circuit, remarked severly at him that
Opportunity makes the thief" "Not al
lys, sir" replied the innocent. ct
und big chain cable on the pavement
ice, and didn't touch it and there was
body about. neither"