National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-08-08
JOB PRINTING
Items Of Interest.
Hogs are dying Of heat in Illinois.

4 worth OF beer annually.
a The way to forget all common
! miseries--wear tight boots.
!. Geometry promises to be popular
= study in the colleges next year.
Home-sweet, sweet home" as the
bee said when he entered his hive.
: Why is nice young lady like hinge?
. because she is something to adore.
5 The Tippecanoe battle ground has
t been fenced at an expense of 50, 600.
! Why are handouts like guide books
i Because they are made for two wrists.
/. A boy with head 20 inches in cir
cumference bothers the hatters OF San
I Francisco.
2 A Lockport girl, whose father is worth
: $40, 900, is cooking on canal boat to
be romantic.
A bad marriage is like an electric
machine it makes you dance, and you
cant let go.
The Mayor of Rock Island, ILL.,, is
the richest man in the city and won't
pay his taxes.
New Hampshire farmers are said to
he organi zing oranges of Patrons OF
Husbandry in some localities.
We never knew man to be elected
to mn Office of trust who carried horse
chestnuts in his pocket as preventive
of rheumatism.
A. r. Stewart il said to be worth
800, 900, 900, and thinks he would be
rich if he had gone early into the real
estate business.
The sunshine which warns and
cheers our hearts, exposes the weak
spots on our Sunday suits. That's the
only objection we have to sunshine.
A writer il n long ago copy OF the
cious mixture of printers ink with the
arterial system tends to longevity and
content.
Notwithstanding the popularity OF the
postal cards not an instance has yet
come to light where they have been used
in arranging the preliminaries OF an
elopement.
Mr.. Bailey, of the Danbury News,
saws the females he saw on the Plalns
looked like m Eastern woman who had
large family, small wages, some debt,
and cold on her lungs.
Since the cutting down of the ex
change lists, there has been much use
less handling Of useless newspapers
avoided, and the exchange tiend mas TO
some extent discontinued his visits.
They have very fine mocking bird
at the Nashville Post Office now, who:
does the wDistlinG for the whole estab-
lishment. thus relieving the clerks from
that duty and enabling them to devote
all their time and energies to asserting
and distributing the mails.
Colonel r. w. Higginson fermerly
cle;rgyman) says in the Womans Jour
nai: ".When lawyer says II foolish
thing in an argument he is pretty sure
to find it out but clergyman may go
on repeating his foolish things for nifty
years without finding it out for want OF
an opponent.
Lexington, Ky, has incarcerated
James Turner, who is charged with
thirteen murders. He ran at large dur
ing the war, staying whom he might,
and has been in the same line OF busl-
ness since. He is worth quite fortune,
but has kept on numbering from
naturally cruel disposition.
"A convention Oh III VIE toIlu" A"Ihi'y
scattered through the New England
states is shortly to be held, for the pur-
pose of determining whether they are
descended from the Shahs OF Persia,
and, if so, whether they cannot take up
a claim to proprietorship in the pearl
fisheries of the Persian Gulf.
A coroner's jury impanelled to as
certain the cause of the death OF
notorious drunkard, brought i'll YER
dict of death by hanging-round u
rum shop" In California coroners
Jury, under similar circumstances,
rendered more courteous verdict
Accidental death while unpacking
glass"
An observing woman says she was
never so much inclined to laugh at
church as Sunday, when, walking down
the broad aisle after service, she saw
that every woman ahead of her was
using her left hand in arranging that
portion of her dress adorning her back,
and before she was aware of it found
herself similarly employed.
A stone merchant of New London
took it into his head to perform dam
gerous feat last week Having cut the
new spire of the Second Congregational
Church, he straddled it and was pulled
up on it to the top of the spire, where
he aided to adjust it in its place. The
spire is the tallest in the town.
When you see man who is hasten
ing across the street to avoid Q team,
step on piece of mud, and lose his
balance, and come to the earth, and
tear the skin from both his wrists, and
smash his head against post, you
want to shout as quickly as possible:
- The more haste the less speed. Then
you want to pick up your feet, and get
out of that neighborhood.
A West Chester, Pa, merchant set a
steel trap in the cellar to catch rats,
and the next morning 1t was missing.
A few days thereafter boy saw a strange
cat enter the celler carrying piece OF
meat in her mouth. She went bo hind
ot of empty barrels, and presently re-
;urned without the meat. The barrels
we're removed, and there was cat eat
ng the meat, with one leg fast in the
Missing trap.
A man named Clark, who was put in
he Massachusetts, State Prison for life,
n 1861, on charge of arson, was par
Ioned out, ten years after, on show
ng that he was in all probability falsely
the condition of his release
'eing that he should be recommitted If
onvicted of any other crime. and serve
mt his life sentence. Last May he was
rrested for assault and battery, and,