National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-09-26
JOB PRINTING
Items OF Interest.

George Slosson scored 1000 points al
four-ball billiards in one hour and hity
minutes ut Chicago.
Let men laugh when you sacrifice de-
sire to duty if they will. You have
time and eternity to rejoice in.
Mrs. Knight, of Milwaukee, has dis
covered n $40, 900 life policy left by her
husband, after ten years of penury.
At serenade on New street, Monday
night, the only refreshments served WAS
ice water. 1t was passed down from q
window.
A Mississippi lady cut the Governor's s
autograph out OF her album, and made
it do duty as the signature to pardon
for her son in the Penitentiary.
Six roughs penned Natchez report
| in an alley, and were thinking how they
would batter his head, when four OF
them fell into an old sewer, and wo-
man scalded the other two.
We are glad to announce, on reliable
authority, that the earth is perfectly
solid This will be welcome .intelli-
eence to those people who have always
moved around rs if they expected to
fall through every moment. f
Certain ladies in Springfield, Yer
mont, have formed dress association,
the members pledging themselves to
wear "a neat, sensible style OF cos
tune" and mot to change the fashion
except when an Improvement is
made"
George Byass colored, whose trial in
the Bergen County Court at Hackensack
for the murder Of the white girl, Della
Corcoran, has Just been ended, has been
found guilty of Granddaughter in the
third degree" ten years III
the State Prison.
A chap who has owed us seven dol
lars for almost as many years, came IN
Yesterday to consult our taste in the
matter of n present to his oldest son.
He was quite anxious to know II a row
boat would beas suitable as harp with
gilt eagle or top.
A Troy gentleman and his wife went
home little earlier than they expected
to, the other night, and as they were
passing the parlor windows. the half
smothered voice of their daughter was
heard, crying "Now don't, Charlie;
lust see how you have mussed my
hair"
Rev. w. P. Watkins, Methodist min
lister at Waterloo, Iowa, was made tenn
porarily insane by the combined effects
of anxiety about his wife, who was dan
gerously sick, and efforts to give up the
use of tobacco, to which he had long
been devotee, and went out ana
drowned himself.
Prof. Agassiz, at Penikese, was so
delighted at an egg found in the body
of fish, that, in trimming away the
flesh, 80 as to show the egg in its bedto
better advantage, his hand trembled SO
that he could hardly use it, and then,
with "soft, happy, boyish whistle,
he continued the dissection.
An English writer recommends that
potatoes rot only be stored in dry
place, but wherever practicable they DO
exposed from time to time to the fumes
of burning sulphur. This he'declares
will retard the progress of disease and
prevent further infection without III
any manner injuring the tubers for
food.
A religious contemporary tells how
systematic penny-giving recently saved
a church in Wisconsin which was en-
barrassed with debt of $40, 900. that
would have been impossible to pay IN
the ordinary way. The pastor divided
the debt into penny shares to be PAID
daily for five hundred days; and it was
lifted forthwith.
To remove warts, simply allow Sec
ond person to wet the finnger on the
end of tongue, rub the wart two or three
times, taking the finger off with jerk,
and aUiU the wart off at the same time.
There must be q ,OiH about it. Our In
formant says that he knows people will
laugh at this remedy, but he does not
care. since he knows it is eifectual.
Mr.. J. M. Shaffer, in his report of the
Iowa State Agricultural Society, notes
the following concerr ing. sheep ana
wools: The number of sheep III the
State in 1872 was 53l, ,S26, worth 81
675. no. The entire wool clip will hard
" exceed 10000 pounds. Divide
among the eighty-fve mills, aid it
leaves to each but q, ,664 pounds; and
this is one of the reasons why these
mills stand idle half the time.
The highwayman who attempted to
rob United States Paymaster Irwin in
Kansas. and wos shot in the attempt by
Lieut.. Wetmore, was formerly United
States officer, Capt. Geo. W. Graham,
Of the cavalry. He was somo time since
dismissed the army cor speculating
funds and other miscon-
Duct Lieut.. Wetmore, who shot him
and saved the paymaster, is the son OF
A New York merchant, aSecond Lleuten,
ant in the Sixth Cavalry, and graduated
from West Point last year.
An absent minded smoker named
Yancy, undertook to whisper something
If Importance in the ear of old MIR.
Reynolds, Saturday, but in his absent
neglected to remove his cl-
gar, the fire end of which was driven right
nto the old gentleman's ear. Mr.. Key
holds jumped straight up in the air
lbout six feet, and on coming down
split Yancy's nose by a well directed
blow. Yancy picked himself up, and
started for home, declaring in rage
hat he'd be hanged before he'd tell old
REYNOLDS what he was going to.