National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-08-29

Facts aud Fancics.

In Alabama, they are fighting the
caterpillar with Paris green.
The latest song has been translated
into Chinese. 1t goes this way: '"'i
MAR cllingalong, ''' f.N' "l ~
Wear mar chingaong." "uns ioy :
San Antonio has meat extract COM
pany which compresses twenty.eight
pounds of,beef into one pound OF ex.
tract. A.s N3r 10 p.n fgla. ia
The Georgia State Fair offers thou
sand dollar prize for the best drilled
military company from the North or
South. ,,;,..,..I..
Blue linen Is worn SO universally that
the young ladies' at our summer resorts
suggest . charity school in their azure
uniforms. "Ni 10
Chicago is taiking about celebrating
the second centennial anniversary Of
the discovery OF the site on which she
lis built, which occurs this month. !.
A Georgia "cracker 3" was offered 81
per day to labor, when he exclaimed,
"Sir, dye suppose I'd work when I've
jest discovered fresh coon track"
Punch sarcasticallysays, Education
produces great results in the United
States. 1t is said to make good child
rem even out Of the Cincinnati boys" p
Medicis collarettes are the latest in
| lingerie. They are collars with ruds
attached We don't like their name.
1t is suggestive Of a mild type OF chol-
era. 80" nl" .'i 81 .fi 81
Postal cards are now used for the dc.
| 30 81 10 nur
the person are pasted on the cards,
which are sent broadcast in every d.
rection. .r'. ri <f.t.l-T f,lrc....... l'....rt
Spanish proverbs :--"'f He who has
nothing to do, let him buy ship Or
marry a wife" From many children
and little bread, good Lord deliver ris."
"a fool is never great one unless he
knows Latin" 7al '3fu ~nta1Jl "is
The London Adccrtiser says the re-
port of the Committee on Goal, may,
in unofficial language, be summed up III
three lines 1--WE do not know how
coal came to rise to its present price,
and we know still less how it can ever
be brought down again.
Pope Plus TX. is reported as so fully
restored to health rs to be able to re-
retires little before midnight, and
rises at half.past five o'clock, attending
during the day to ordinary ecclesiastl-
cal duties MS before his illness. ...
Indian corn for growing chickens, it
is asserted by experienced poulterers, is
not profitable feed. Indian corn meal,
it is asserted, does not make bone.
Ground oats, barley meal, meat scraps
and curd Of new milk, turned with rem
net, are recommended instead.
The Troy Times offers this seasonable
advice "Look not upon the cucumber
when it is wilted, nor green apples, nor
other unwholesome truck, for though
pleasant to the eye and agreeable to the
taste, at the last it biteth like the stom-
ach- ache, and stingeth like the cholera
morbus." .I+.. ,.... ..
A promising young student OF nature
in New Orleans amuses himself with
stuffed rat, which, from his place Of
concealment, he draws across the side
walk when people are passing. Women
SHREK when they see the rat, and
men violently attack it with sticks and
umbrellas. ,r,,,.. .,..
) The carpet worm is new pest Just
discovered. 1t is of dark color, less
than half nm inch in length, and covered
with fine hair. It makes havoc with
carpets in short time. It is said that
fine salt and fine cedar chips sprinkled 81
on the edges of carpets Will protect
them from its rsvages. il r.tl .3t.4 4,
Comparative statement is made of the
value Of land in London, New York,
o,I Gan Er,n Tn the
most central business locations land in
London Is worth $l35 per square ioot,a
S113 per square foot in New York, S36.. q
CT per square foot in Chicago, and Sza
per square foot in San francisco.
The San Diego World says that the
object of the james expedition through
the Colorado desert is the acquisition
of large bodies of land for trihe, irri-
eating them, and reselling them at
handsome price. This is certainly i
more sensible and practicable than the
proposition to extend the Gulf OF Cali
fornia to Utah. -"if.H t-.'t.0h r'i
Professional men in st. Louis know
better how to conduct their quarrels
than the bloodthirsty duelists Of the
South. Colonel Bland lately receiveda
grossly insulting letter from DR.. Good.
win, and instead of blandly inviting him
to come out and be shot, the Colonel
took cowhide and belabcred him in
the public streets. -i o..
The new act to prevent the adultera-
ton of food does not seem to work alto
gether smoothly in England. Taking
the cream from milk is held not to be
an adulteration, and as the case is not
provided tor in the Act, though there are
plenty of penalties for adding to milk,
sellers of skim milk::go unharmed. Some
Judges hold that water is q harmless
and fail to convict for the
use of "Simpson, the slang naMe for
for water. n
The Times of India, published at
Calcutta, contains an account OF tase
death of a huge boa constructor which
some grounds at the foot OF
Puducottah Hills. 1t appears that the
creature was regarded as sacred by the
natives, who would not molest it, al
though only on one morning when T.
Johnson and Mr. Pennington, " n
great danger to themselves, bravely
hunted it up and shot it, it had swal-
lowed child. The animal is about
twenty four feet long, and its stuffed
skin is to be deposited in the Madras
Museum.
In vigorous chase after rats boy
broke down shelf in the cellar and
annotated six Jars of preserves. He
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