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National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-03-07
Later Inventions.

Among my more recent inventions
are:
A printing press that sets its own
type, writes it's own editorials and stirs
up delinquent subscribers. 1t answers
very well for a clothes press, or sub
soil plow, or a threshing machine, and
is warranted to press the question, or
to press forward.
A brick ship, to sail the mighty
waters of the great Atlantic 1t has a
granite foundation, with fine cellar,
and a good well with free-stone- paved
walk running in front of it at the rate
of ten knots mile.
A simplified pot-hook, which you can
unfold, and it makes nice spring bon
net for your wife and 1t is equally easy
to turn it into an overcoat, or you can
use it for handkerchief or standing
collar.
A compound toothpick, which will
pick anything out of a hollow tooth
from n shoulder of meat to toothache.
You unfold it and behold you have n
step-ladder; give it another twist, and
then you have a aone-horse dray reverse
it. and you have cottage with three
rooms and an acre lot.
An umbrella, 50 antagonistic to water
that, if you should fall in the river
with it, ould come out perfectly
dry. 1t is a1.o yether unnecessary even
to hold it over you in a storm. Fold it
up and it is walking cane, press on a
spring and it is coal scuttle turn it
inside out and it is plug hat turn it
again and you have pair of boots.
Everybody gets dry who carries it.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-03-07
Paper Car.Wheels.

The numerous uses to which paper
and paper-pulp are applied in the vari-
GUS departments Of general industry,
form one of the most interesting chap.
ters in the history of recent mechanical
and chemical progress. We have paper
doors and window blinds, paper billiard
balls, boats, and wash-basins, paper
clothes and curtains, and, not the least
important, as recent experiments have
demonstrated, paper car-wheels. FROM
ar. exchange we learn that Connections
railroad is about to make trial OF these
new wheels, which have been known TO
car-builders for some time, though
their general introduction has been
hindered by the expense. These wheels
are made by the following process:
Sheets of common straw paper are
forced into q compact mass by pres
sure of three hundred and fifty tons.
The solid mass of paper thus formed is
placed in a lathe and turned perfectly
round. After which, hub is forced into
a hole in the center, under a pressure
of twenty-five tons. This paper wheel,
or disk, is now forced, under pressure
of two hundred and fifty tons, into a
steel tire, with one-half inch bevel
upon its inner circumference. Two
circular iron plates are then bo.ted ON
to the tire to keep the paper filling IN
place. BY lis arrangement the steel
tire rests upon the paper only. and is
thus rendered more elastic, qua1fy OF
great importance, as regards both the
safety and comfort OF travellers.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-03-07
A Romance of the Peerage.

The readers of Samuel Warren's
"Ten Thousand Year." an amusing
law story, terribly spun out and over
laid with religious sentiment, have
probably condemned the plot, in which,
with the assistance of Messrs. Quirk,
Cannon & Snap, a firm of rascally
thieves attorneys in London, Charles
Aubrey, Nj. p, who has inherited the
rich estate of Yatton, in Yorkshire, from
his father, has n law suit brought
against him by certain Tittlebat Tit
mouse, then all but starving AS a shop
man, at f35 per year and his board, to
Tag-rag & Co., soft goods retailers in
London, which lawsuit ends in Mr..
Aubrey's having to surrender the estate
to the said Tittlebat Titmouse, with
debt of 100000, on account of " the
mesne profits, the legal term for six
years back rents. Something in this
line, romantic and true, is now on the
tapis in the Scottish law courts. The
fifteenth Earl of Eglingtoun and Win
toun, who, in 1880, revived on his own
estate, in the west of Scotland, the
tournament of the Middle Ages, died in
October, 1861, and was succeeded by
his eldest son, who has been in posses
sion of the family titles and estates ever
since. These have been lately claimed
by Stephen John Fulton, who served in
the Crimean War as a private in the
ROYAL Irish Hussars, and left the army
with pension of sixteen cents a day
for life. He lately appeared in the
Sheriff's Court at Edinburgh, where he
made declaration in regard to an ap-
plication to receive the benefit of the
poor's roll, in reference TO his contem-
plated action. He may sue if he pleases
Sin forn,a pauperis," as a poor man,
if he can show his poverty. We have
not heard on what grounds he challenges
the dc facto Earl of Eglingtoun; but,
having examined the family pedigree,
as given in Burke's Peerage, conclude
that his only show wonld be by imput-
ing illegitimacy to the fifteenth Earl
the tournament man-who was born in
Palermo in 1912. As the Earlingtoun
estates are worth 100000 per annum,
and the six years mesne profits would
amount to 81 300, 900, the prize is worth
striving for. If won it will throw
Cherries Aubrey's "Ten Thousand a
Year completely in the shade.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-03-07
Singular Stone.

The Sacramento Union describes a
curiosity found in bed OF gravel in
that city, fourteen feet below the sur
face, while the discoverer was digging a
well. 1t is composed of rock, hard as
flint. dark green in color, with white
specks, perfectly round and smooth,
about 81 inches in length, about an
inch in diameter in the centre, and
tapering to a point at either end. About
half an inch from one end a hole has
has been drilled through it and o
groove cut from the hole around the
end of the stone, as if it was intended
to pass line through the hole and
suspend the stone by it. The rock,
however. is so excessively hard that it
is almost impossible to scratch 1t, and
the question therefore arises as to what
sort of an instrument the aborigine
that did the drilling-which was prob
ably performed hundreds OF years ago
used.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-03-07
Marriageablc Women.

One Of the great social problems Of
the day is TO explain why there are 80
many marringeablc women who never
get married. Some say that ii IL owing
to an excess in numbers of women over
men. in consequence of which there
are not husbands enough to 60 round.
This, however, is disproved by stats.
tics. Take the world through, and the
figures show that there are rs many
men i'll it as there are women Others
attribute it to the expensiveness OF
modern life. Men do not marry be-
cause, it is said, they cannot afford to.
But the fact il, that no man who truly
loved woman ever hesitated to become
engaged to her and eventually marry
her because Of poverty. There are cold
blooded men, with no idea OF any feel
ing for woman stronger than languid
admiration, who may be deferred from
assuming what they regard as burden
in the shape of n wife. unless assured
of n liberal income; but most are not
so calculating. Others, again, attribute
the evil TO women's fastidiousness.
They expect too much in a husband,
and, while waiting for an impossible
shadow, let the possible substance slip
through their fingers. This is libel
on the sex. As rule, they are no more
fastidious than men are, and are Just as
susceptible as men to that enchantment
of love which invests its object with
every perfection, and covers up every
fault. SO far MS men and women them
selves are concerned, they are as prone
to marriage now as in any period of the
worlds history. Nevertheless, there
the women are wanting for husbands,
and not getting them. Every social
circle is full of them. They are ,retty,
they are accomplished, they ar 5 Isl
BILE, and under proper train e .hey
would make excellent wives I'D 10th
ers; but they never get nance.
What seems to be needed is i more
thorough method of bringin men and
women into social contact With each
other,
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-03-07
Discoveries OF Tin in Queensland.

The most recent reports substantiate
the fact that tin fields of unexampled
richness have been discovered III the
English colony of Queensland, Eastern
Australia, the presence OF tho metal be-
ing detected over au area Of 55e square
miles. Mr.. T. +. Gregory, the mineral
land commissioner, states that, at the
present time, only about 20 square
miles Of this area have hitherto been
found sufficiently rich for working, put
there arc many instances OF TIN belng
found in paying quantities beyond these
limits. The physical and geological
character of nearly the whole OF the
area described is that of an elevated
granite table land, intersected by ranges
of abrupt hills, the highest limits OF
which are about 5000 feet above the
sen. The portion of the district over
which the deposits Of tin ore are DIS
tributed is that comprised by the water
shed of the Severn river. The richest
deposits have been found in the stream
beds and huvial flats, the paying ground
VARYING from few yards to five chains
in width, occasionally broken by rocky
bars bnt even in these instances large
deposits are frequently lodged IN the
pockets and crevices between the granite
bOulders.
The probable yield of ore is stated at
ten tuns per lineal chain of the beds
ON the various creeks. In some IN
stances, this has been found to extend
to thirty tuns per chain As the lodes
and veins have as yet been but very
partially tested, it would be premature
to give any decided opinion upon them.
1t is probable that they will prove
source of great wealth, and perhaps
render Australia one OF the first tin pro-
ducing countries in the world.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-03-07
RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.
JOB PRINTING
Facts and Fancles.

The Queen Of Sheba's palace is the
latest archaeological discovery annonced.
Lynching matinees in Nevada are
called performances by the stringed
band"
Our country, it is said, has had but
one black-cyed President. That was
General Harrison.
Michigan never brags much about it,
but she has sixty murderers in her PRISON
under life sentences.
An unselfsh suicide in Atchison, Kan
sas, Irving Gumar by name, left the
autographic injunction, Don't mako
any fuss over me, but chuck me into
hole"
A servant girl in Pittsburgh, Pa, has
sued her employer for IT'S weeks
wages at So per week. She says she
began her work January ], 1858, and
has never received cent in remunera-
ton.
The Southwest is loudly calling for
immigrants. The farmers OF Texas
find it difficult to procure laborers,
many of the freedmen preferring 10
work for each other, or to rent land
and cultivate crops of their own.
A farmer now in Illinois, who thir-
teen years ago sold u load OF potatoes
in Main, and by short measure made
twenty-five bushels out of twenty-four,
has lust sent his old customer LOU, TO
return the dishonest gain, with interest,"
at ten per cent.
This touching tribute to the late Mr..
Grafton, of Griffin, Ga, is from the
Register of that place: :" He was fine
man in all respects; he was owing US
seven dollars on that last game OF seven.
up; but we will throw that in toward
his headstone.
The Russian Government owns one.
half of all the daily papers published
in that country and 1t has recently
purchased controlling interest in NJ.
Katkoff's famous MOsc0V Gazette,
journal which is said to have larger
circulation than that of all the other
Russian political newspapers together.
Feeling is q much slower sense than
sight. II a man had an arm long
enough to reach the sun, and were 10
touch that body with the tip OF his
finger. he would never find out whether
it were hot or cold, as he would De deaa
before the sensation arrived at head
quarters, which would require one hun
dred years.
Up to January, 1872, the New York
Central Park has cost the city twelve
and a half million dollars; but since
the park was commenced, the taxable
property in three wards in the imme-
diate neighborhood of the park has in
creased in valuation from twenty-s'X
million to nearly one hundred and
eighty-six million dollars.
A minister in Wilton, having married
a young fellow, was asked what was his
price. Thepastor said that the law gave
him $2 "Well," said the bridegroom,
"if the law gives you 50, there is fifty
cents. so that now you have two dollars
and a half" and before that parson
could shut his eyes the married pair
were of on their honeymoon.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-03-07
A Peculiar Sect.

Battle Creek in Michigan is the head
quarters of one of the most peculiar re-
liUious sects to be found in this coun-
try. 1t is called the Seventh Day Ad-
ventists, and its members differ from
the denomination generally known as
Adventists, in looking for the second
coming of Christ soon, without ASST
ming to fix on any particular time for
his appearance. They constitute large
and wealthy portion of the inhabitants
of Battle Creek, where they are greatly
respected for their strict integrity, their
exactitude in their dealings, and their
deyout. conscientious adherence to the
principles of religion and morality.
They occupy distinct quarter OF the
CITY known as the Advent Settlement,
which is distinguished for the scrupu-
lous cleanliness which, prevails every.
wherN They are strct hygienists, and
an extensive water cure, which attracts
visitors from all parts Of the United
States, forms one of their enterprises.
They have large publishing house
where denominational books, tracts,
periodicals and the like are printed,
employing fifty hands. The most sin
gular thing aDOut tnenl, Ho"eNei, 10
the fact that all of the practical, money
getting members of this denomination
in Battle Creek are under the absolute
domination of a woman named White,
who processes to receive revelations,
and is regarded as the inspired medium
of supernatural communications. There
is not one of thneo Adventists who does
not place impl at 1aith in the revela-
titns of Mrs. White, and they unhesi-
tatingly obey her directions in all things
both spiritual and temporal. Should
she require one or more members OF
the church to remove from the city, or
to give up profitable business, the IN
junction is acted on without a murmur.
The Seventh Day Adventists observe
Saturday as their Sabbath, which be-
gins on Friday evening at sunset and
lasts until the same hour on Saturday.
On Sunday their workshops and places
of business are alive with activity, and
such amusements as they indulge in
are apparently enjoyed with unusual
Eest on that day.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-03-07
CeylOn.

The island of Ceylon Is very beauti-
full, the scenery lovely, and the soil pro
ductive in spices and many kinds OF
fruit: indeed, it is said that it alone
might produce sufficient coffee for the
consumption of the entire world. The
natives, however, are far from pleasing.
They are generally of short stature,
very effeminate-looking, apathetic, and
such liars that it is impossible to depend
upon their word. If they may but re-
pose for hour after hour under tree,
with a piece of bread-fruit beside them,
thew seem to care for little else. The
men wear their hair turned up behind
with n comb, the height of the comb
denoting the rank of the wearer. This,
and the small features, gives them al
together such an etfeminate appearance,
that it is difficult for European to dis
tineuish them from the females. A
visitor lately entered one of the schools,
and, seeing row of boys with their
backs towards him, and each W tn a
comb in his head, unconsciously asked
if the boys and girls were educated
together. One of the natives OF high
rank was lately called on to give evi-
dence at a trial, and swore such COM
plete falsehoods, that he was imprisoned
for perjury. He applied to the English
Government, and, with surprise, asked
why he should be punished for what
his people did. "My father" he said,
twas a liar, and my grandfather was a
liar, and we are all liars. 1t is the Gus
of my country. Why should 1 be
punished?"
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-03-07
The Moon a Dead World.

Among the illusions swept away by
modern science was the pleasant fancy
that the moon was babitable globe,
like the earth, its surface diversified
with seas, lakes, continents, and islands,
and varied forms of vegetation. Theo-
logians and saudats gravely discussed
the probabilities OF its being inhabited
by race of sentient beings, with forms
and faculties like our own, and even
propounded schemes for opening com
munication with them, in case they ex-
isted. One of these was to construct
on the broad highlands of Asia n series
of gcomctrical figures Oh scale 80 gi-
gantic as to be visible from our plane
tary neighbor, on the sglposition that
the moon people would recognize the
object. and immediately construct simi
lar figures in reply! Extravagant and
absurd as it may appear III the light OF
modern men from making fools OF them
selves. stood in the way of actual ex
pertinent; but the discussion was kept
up at intervals, until it was discovered
that if there were people in the moon
they must be able to live without breath
ing, or eating, or drinking. Then it
ceased.
There can be no life without air.
Beautiful to the eye of the distant OBJ
server, the moon is n sepulchral orb
a world of death and silence. No vege-
tation clothes its vast plains Of stony
desolation, traversed by monstrous crew
ices, broken by enormous peaks that
rise like gigantic tombstones into space;
no lovely forms of cloud float in the
blackness of its sky. There daytime is
only night lighted by rayless sun.
There is no rosy dawn in the morning,
no Wight in the evening. The nights
are pitch-dark. In daytime the solar
beams are lost against the jagged ridges,
the shQrp points of the rocks, or the
steep sides of profound abysses; and
the eye sees only grotesque shapes re-
lieved against, fantastic shadows black
MS ink, with none of that pleasant gra-
dation and diffusion of light, none of
the subtitle blending of light and shad-
ow, which makes the charm Of a terres-
trial landscape. There is no color,
nothing but dead white and black.
The rocks reflect passively the light OF
the sun; the craters and abysses re-
main wrapped in shade fantastic peaks
rise like phantoms in their glacial ceme-
terry; the stars appear like spots in the
blackness of space. The moon is a
dead world she has no atmosphere.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-03-07
The Chicago City Lots Swindle.

The Chicago Tribune publishes full
expose of the swindle in so-called Chi
cago City lots which appears to have
already numbered its victims by thou
sands and to be still adding to the num-
ber in the Eastern States. 1t appears
from this account that one G. w. Scott
purchased a quantity of swamp land
about twenty miles from the Court
House at 80 per acre, and subdivided
it into lots which have been sold at 5000
each to hundreds of people in this city.
The Tribune publishes a hist of over
1000 purchasers, besides many persons
in other sections of the country. An ex-
animation of the plot of this sub
division, which was dubbed the Boule-
ward Subdivision, shows that the lots
ranged in size from fifteen by thirty-five
to nine by twenty feet; the streets aver
aged six feet in width and the alleys
thirteen inches. Letters are being
constantly received from parties East
inquiring as to the value of lots in this
subdivision, which shows that some
parties are Offering them for sale
throughout the country.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-03-07
RATES OF ADVERTISING
InexOrable.

David the Psalmist, the marvellous klg'
TO his golden harp sang once and again
Down through the ages hear his voice riilg'
1.-THE wears Of man thcy are three-score-and-
ten"
u.,t ,,hat II the man or woman, wcll say
Ita.a beart Of lire. and blood like new vino,
con dnd Heavens own bliss in Summers day,
And in human eyos sec light diyineI
The life that was given for seventy years,
WHAT ho squanders it all IN scoreI
# IN ardent joys and agonizod tears,
lie consumes it all till he has no moreI
saw what shall become OF .he spendthrift,
then,
Who has lived his life, yet who II not old
such long years left before three-score-
ten,
And the fire burned ont, and the ashes cold
Oh stately psalmst oh marvellous king
Through the dim ages hear thee again
without change, without pity | still hear thee
ring,
The wears Of man they are thrce-score-and-
ten"
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-03-07

A dentist not thousand miles from
Bristol. Conn, was recently extracting
a tooth from young man under the in
fuence of laughing gas, when he (the
yeung mani suddenly became uncon-
trollable, and, jumping from the chair,
ran with full speed down the street,
the dentist calling at the top of his
voice, "Stop him, he is full Of gasI'
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-03-07

A Vermont landlord has offered to
abandon the sale of liquor if his towns
men will pay him s4OO year, thus as
srming part of his loss. The towns
people refuse, and threaten him with
prosecution if he continues the traffic,
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-03-07

In Montgomery, Ala, the other day,
"four young men did get upon spree;
one took out his little jack-knife, and
now there amt but three" says Q
sprightly reporter,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-02-17

THE PRESIDENT on THE MORMON
QUESTION The Prcsidentin the message
on Utah affairs, which We were not able
to print when it was forwarded to Con-
gress and telegraphcd 10 the press, after
referring to the conflict OF authority be-
tween the Territorial and tho United
States Courts in Utah, and the unhappy
experience of the past few years, says he
cannot doubt that Congress will agree
with him that such state Of things ought
not longer to be tolerated, and that no
class oil persons anywhere should be oil.
lowed to treat the laws Of the United
States with open defiance and contempt.
approximations are entertained that il Con.
gress adjourns without any action upon
this subject, turbulence and disorder will
follow, rendering military interference
necessary-a result he would greatly de-
precate, and in view Of this and other OBJ.
viOus considerations, he earnestly recon.
mends that Congress at its present session
pass some act which will enable the Dis.
trict Courts of Utah to proceed with indie
pendcncc and efficiency in the admins
tration Of law and justice.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-02-17
Ou,come of the Printers Strike.

Outcome Of the PElnIeTb' SIIAAV'
TIE Printers Strike in this city re-
suited, Saturday evening, in the dissolu-
ton of the Wheeling Typographical
Union. Both papers were infexible in
their refusal 10 make the slightest con.
cession to the Strikers. The Register
refused to employ any Of them on any
terms; we declined to re.employ any
except on the old basis, and then only
such Of them as we chose il they came
back in given time. Saturday was the
last day Of grace. At the meeting Of the
Union, Saturday evening, it was appar-
cnt that nearly all the members would
have to seek work elsewhere. Those
who expected to be re.employcd were
anxious to break up the organization. 1t
was perfectly plain to all that it could
not be longer maintained; and so after
disgracelul wrangle, q motion to surren'
render the charter was put and carried
By a pretty nearly unanimous vote.
Those OF our compoSitors whom VIC have
been willing to re.cmploy, resumed work
yesterday, heartily glad, we believe, to
be freed from an organization which was
perverted into tyranny that cost them
.rom twenty to thirty dollars each, in
This instance, without the slightest return.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-02-17
New Advertisements.

NHURCHEs, HALLS, PARLORS,
~ Dining Rooms, Ofices, SC, paPered % looE
q great deal more handsome than irescOing iot
hSlf the money. Don't fall 10 call a. A. w.
PAULL's, No. % Monroe street, Il you wish
anything whatever IN tho Wall Paper line;
a complete stock Of School and Blank Books,
Stationary &c, always on baud. teII