National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-07-18
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Facts and Fancies.

fre-e engines.
Conway, N. H., has now little more
than half as much population as III
1888.
The dressing gown is the most last
ing of all garments it is seldom worn
out
Over 200 New England spinsters went
to Utah last month in search OF frac'
tional matrimony.
Two licenses to sell opium in Homo.
lulu were recently sold at auction, and
were bought for sos, 900.
Dr. Holmes, being asked by young
physician what sign to put on his door,
replied, "The smallest fevers gratefully
received"
Imitation meerschaum pipes are now
made ont of pototoes soaked in diluted
sulphuric acid, and afterward DRIED
under & reat pressure.
A letter mailed in Maine Oct. Il,
1871, reached the post-office IN Cam
brid geport, Mass, to which it was di-
rected, n few days ago.
Rev. w. H. II. Murray will deliver
the address Mt the annual fair OF the
New England Agricultural Society IN
Boston in September next.
Somebody asks why is that theatres
are seldom if ever struck by lightning,
the solution of which conundrum Is that
every orchestra has conductor.
The Chiue ,e have been reorganizing
their army, which now numbers 3OO, OOO
men, armed with Enfield, Remington
and Colts rifles, with full equipment
of rifed artillery.
A Buenos Ayres paper says that few
cities in the world are progressing more
rapidly than Montevideo, and that 1t
will in few years rival New York IN
commercial Importance.
Cincinnati is confident that it contains
enough kerosene storehouses and whls-
key distilleries to take the shine out OF
Chicago and Boston in the matter OF
great fires one of these days.
A Portland, Me-, fruit-dealer received
bite the other day from young tar
antula that had been brought from
Cuba in a bunch of bananas. The
wound was very painful, but not fatal.
1t has been decided by the Postmas-
ter General that nothing shall be pasted
on q postal card, such as newspaper
clippings, &c. The Department agrees
to cary onlythe card and what's written
on it.
In digging a well in White Plains,
Nevada, recently, stream of water OF
boiling heat was reached at depth OF
eighty-two feet. This is probably the
first artificial well of boiling water ever
made.
A Troy lady had returned to her last
week, without any explanation, an
enameled breast-pin, which she lost
twelve years ago Her faith in human
nature has been increased correspond
ingly.
The fate of the Kentucky man who
purchased his coffin at auction dozen
years ago, and was recently entirely
consumed in lime-kiln, is said to have
delighted the hearts of the local under
takers.
An exhibition is announced in Paris
of specimens of the art of "paddling,'
and of other methods whereby artificial
beauty and unreal charms are success
fully imposed upon credulous and de-
voted men.
1t is suggested that persons who 60
about with their Cashmere shawls turn
ed inside out to show that they are
genuine, should adopt the custom of
walking on their heads, to show that
their boots are soled.
Mr.. Thomas Allen has offered to give
the Athenaum, in Pittstield, Mass,
$50, 900 for the erection of a stone build
ing for its uses, provided his associate
trustees will see that an equal sum is
raised to endow the institution.
The culture of rice is prohibited with
in one mile of Savannah, the radius be-
ing known as the "dry culture limits"
squatters were arrested
tho other day for violating this prohibi-
ton, and ordered to destroy the grow
ing crop.
1t is related that Frenchman took
lodgings in Paris recently, one of the
being that he should be call
ed every morning and told what day of
The week it was, what was the condition
Of the weather, and under what form of
government he lived.
A conscientious Pittsburgh man
promised his wife the other day that he
drink another drop as long as
ne had hair on his head. That very
night he had his head shaved smooth,
and then got drunk with proud con-
'ciousness of having faithfully kept his
Saratoga trunk on the brain" is now
uuy recognized by the medical faculty
Is inalady peculiar to the fashionable
women of New York. A brilliant i'm
,ecile says that the trunks have an ad-
Tantage over the women, inasmuch as
hey wear their own locks, which the
women don't.
The women of Pittsburg arose at four
''clock Monday morning recently, in
ending to do the weeks washing early;
,ut just as the clothes were thoroughly
oaped the Water Commissioners cut
fl the water, and during the rest of the
lay the women held meetings with Mrs.
lexdor
The public debt statement shows a
eduction during June of 50, 145, 159 SO.
Join balance, SS7, ,5O7, ,4O2 6S; Currency
,alance, 80, 7S3, ,529; Coin certificates,
39, AGO, ,OOO Special deposits for the
exemption of Legal Tenders, $3l, $780,
90 Legal Tenders outstanding $780,
10000.
That was very touching incident
hat of the little school girl who refused
, define The word clown as "a low, vul-
ar fellow" and for her stubbornness
as punished with the ferule- and de-
lined in play hours, all to no reforma-
,ry end. The litt ,child's father proved
, be clown in a circus.