National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-10-17
Items OF Interest.

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Iowa lately burned up 300 bushels Of
wheat.
The author Of the saying that "you
must take man NJ you fine. him." was
d constable.
A block Of thirteen new buildings in
Sullivan, Ind, is called the "Southern
Confcderacy."
A man has Just been arrested in Kan
sas for murder committed in Iowa
seventeen years ago.
"Long sweet'nin'" and "short
sweet'nin' are respectively syrnp and
sugar among some of tho mountain
people.
Alabama has % farmers oranges Ar
kansas, 90 Georgia, SO Louisiana,
IL; mississippi, 400 North Carolina.
Al; South Carolina, 1873; Tennessee,
66; Te1as, 8; Virginia. 3.
The Italian residents of Philadelphia
have determined TO erect monument
of Christopher Columbus. The statue
will, il is proposed, be twelve feet
high, and cost, with the pedestal, sl9,-
900.
The San Jose, California, Farmers
Club is considering tho advisability OF
importing girls from the East for ser
wants. The cost of bringing the girls
out is estimated at seventy dollars per
head.
Advices from Africa announce the
capture of a white man by the natives
While proceeding westward on the Congo
river. From the description of the man
Mr.. Charles Livingstone believes it ,s
his son.
Leather made from the skin OF the
white whale, 1t is said, is now regular
article OF manufacture at some OF the
villages in Canada. 1t is both fine and
durable, and shoe thongs made of ftare
said never to break.
In japan man aged 80 recently com
mitted suicide by hanging in fulfill
ment Of vow which, when II years OF
age. he had made at Buddha, namely:
that if at the age OF 10 he had not be-
come famous he would die.
"You have played the derce with my
heart" said gentleman to lady VINO
was his partner in social game OF whist
at an: evening party. "Well," replied
because you played the knave.'
ooh |" exclaimed poor sufferer to
a dentist, "that is the second wrong
tooth you have pulled out =" Very
sorry, SIR" said the laundering opera
tor. >" but as there was only three 'when.
l began, I'm sure to be right this time.
A man named Warner had his leg
broken Mt Lexington, Mo-, and being IN
great pain he begged of some one to
shoot him. Mr.. Curtis, one OF his
neighbors, obligingly complied with
the request, and is amazed Mt finding
himself arrested.
The Burlington and Southwestern X.
r. Company of Iowa has prohibited the
use of Intoxicating liquors by its en-
ployees. The order is occasioned by
the alarmingly increasing number OF
railroad accidents caused by the otun-
kcnness of officials.
The colored operatives in two Of the
tobacco factories at Richmond, Va, no.
tilted their employers that, appreci-
ating the difficulties of the present
financial situation, they are willing to
work for two or three weeks without
drawing their wages.
Jones was thrown into state of Won
der by the sign, "ladies felt slippers,
which he discovered when passing
shoe store. He can't understand It,
He says children felt slippers in his day
often enough, but ladies generally wore
them, except when they were removed
for cause.
A Michigan butcher takes the bones
out of his meat before selling it now.
He had dream the other night in
which he found himself at the celestial
gate, but confronted by mountain OF
bones, which an attendant spirit said
were what he had sold to his customers,
and he must climb over them ii he
would enter heaven.
The Philadelphia Press states that q
of the Society of Friends thus
one of his sect who had
Joined a regular church upon the new
organ in the latter. "Why, l thought
thee objected to such things as music
in Worship" "And so do was the
reply; "but if thee must worship God
by machinery l want thee to have the
best"
A city paper relates the following
between tive bell boys at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York
Pat asks Mike, "What's this suspen-
sion of the banks?" "Hist ye u Mike
replies, "I'll tell ye. Suppose We have
i've cents" "Yis." leave it wild
me-" "Yis." next day ye want it,
and We Ak me for it," "Yls." 81 tell
We. NO, sir, I've used it meself.'"
Tho Greenfield Gazette says the Hoo
sac Tunnel has ghost, and il one of
The miners should oversleep or get be-
ated, nothing will induce him to enter
she tunnel (Which is always dark alone
20 overtake his companions who have
gone ahead. He will forfeit his days
wages and visit for the next day, when
ne will be sure to join his gang. The
ghost does not reveal himself to
,rowd, which goes to show that he does
lot differ from other ghosts.
A French prefect recently wrote to
)ne of the mayors of his department.
,dvising him, as the cholera had broken
,ut in the district, to take all the neces-
,ary precautions. After some time the
mayor wrote TO say that he had taken
III the proper steps, and upon the pre-
ect sending to see that they were ef-
ectual, he found that the only prepa-
alton the mayor had made consisted in
laving a large number Of graves dug in
he church yard.
A Cayuga county man sends the fol-
owing advertisement to the Syracuse
'emnal. As he did not enclose the
ash, it withheld his name, but any
oung lady who desires to be "you-