National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-09-19

Facts and Fanc!es.

Inc MOST DusIllui BHi wo O'p. "s'
of WAS the young lady who blushed
when she was asked il she had not been
counting sleep.
The London Morning Post says that
during the last ten years 1902, 234 per-
sons emigrated from Great Britain; OF
these, 768, 1875 were English.
The new forts around Paris have been
begun. There will be Twenty-Five OF
them. II is said that when erected the
siege of Paris will be impossible.
Daniel Drew, Thurlow Weed, and
Governor Dix, OF New York, draw 81
per month from the United States Gov
ernment as pensioners of the war OF
| 1912.
The Norwegian papers publish an &C.
count of the discove ry of the bodies OF
eighteen sailors, who were surprised by
| the ice to the north of Switzbergen and
frozen to death.
The steamer Jay Cooke, plying be-
tween Cleveland and Putin Bay, ran
down yawl boat containing nine men.
-Four were drowned and one had his
shoulder broken.
One of the best puns ever made by
the late Phoebe Gary was this: why
was Robinson Crusoes man Friday Ike
q rooster? Because he scratched for
himself and Crusoe.'
While compositor on the Montreal
! Witness was setting up an ADVERTISE
ment for lost canary, the bird few in
at the office window, (Which shows the
value of ADVERTISING
An impressive temperance sermon
was preached at Hampton, New Bruns-
wick. A crowd Of roughs went there
on picnic. James s. Campbell sold
them liouor. They.got drunk and ugly,
a row followed and they killed him.
This sad and serious obituary is from
Philadelphia paper: Samuel was
goo d child his temper sweet, his as
pect mild, and when he breathed the
vital air he often soothed his parents
care.
A few evenings since coarse upstart
having ut party exhibited his lack OF
eep.lemanliness in the presence OF
witty Young lady, she remarked, Hes
almost perfect brute; all he lacks Is IN
stinct.
Bripaudege still fourishes in some
parts of Italy. News from Salerno an
nounces the dispersion of band near
that CITY. its chief Manzi, notorious
brigand, with six of his colnpatriots'
being killed.
A gentleman was complirl rlenting. a
pretty lady In the presence OF his wife.
'It is lucky did not meet Miss Hop,
kins before / married you, my dear.
"Wel, yes, it is extremely lucky-for
her." was the dry reioinder."
A country exchange notes that the
foliage of many apple trees is disap-
pearing. On searching for the cause
green worm about four inches long,
with single sharp horn, is found. "A
little care in exterminating these worms
will save the trees.
A recent railway traveller in Kansas
ceports that hundreds OF tons OF buffalo
bones have been gathered by the settlers
and piled up at the stations awaiting
shipment East, where they Will be USED
for making bone-black for the sugar
refinery, or ground for manure.
Under the new judicial system OF
Ohio the Supreme Court judges are to
hold Office for ten years instead OF fiye,
as at present Circuit Judges for eight
wears Common Pleas Judges for SIX
years and Probate Judges and JUS
tices of the Peace for four years.
The first libel suit in Fiji has result
ed in n victory for sour side." The
Fiji Times was prosecuted by the Gov
ernment for stating that the officials
were endeavoring to lncite the natives
againt the whites. The Jury acquitted
the editor, and audaciously added that
the charge was true.
During the late war DR.. -, entering
the hospital surgery, met Paddy Doyle,
the orderly, and asked him which he
considered the most dangerous OF the
MANY cases then in the hospital. THAT,
sir. said Paddy, as, with an indicative
Jerk of the thumb, he pointed to where,
on the table, lay new case OF surgical
instruments.
As fashionable young lady, fresh
from the boarding school, came to her
honest old fathers breakfast table, in
stead of speaking English and saying,
Good morning." she spoke French
and said, "Bcn Jour" "Of course the
bones yours, if you say so, responded
the practical old gentleman, as he hand
Ell ner Iue OSSileu Poieioh VI - ~
steak.
CO." gasped fat Mrs. Weighty, as
she ascended the stairs of her new resi-
dence, 81 really cannot run up any
more stairs" "Of course not" an
swered her husband; "but if the stairs
were made of dressmakers' bills, you
could run them up very easily" II do
detest puns," exclaimed Mrs. Weighty.
the next day, recounting the conversa-
ton to friend.
The leprosy in the Sandwich Islands
have been suppressed by the vigorous
measures of the Hawaiian Government.
The pest island Of Molokai, to which
all the diseased have been banished.
contains now over eight hundred lepers,
and probably from fifty to a hundred
more will be added. What horrible
place il must be-almost equal to some
of the hideous dreams of fiction.
Mr.. Fitzjames Stephens, one OF the
editors of the Pal Mall Gazette, was
candidate for Parliament from Dundee,
and this was the way in which he ad-
dressed the voters If you don't want
me don't have me leave me to return
TO London to my ordinary business. l
stand here before you as candidate,
not to spend money, because / have
not got it, and if 1 had would not
spend it.
A correspondent at Munich, where
there were. at last accounts, several
cases of cholera daily, mentions the
curious circumstance that the rocks
and crows which hitherto flew about
Al T. thran0pH