National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-11-07
items OF Interest.

Ensenie has added purple to he'
mourning.
Two ex.Mayors OF Milwaukee both
died ON tho same day recently.
They have hemlock trees in Wisoon.
sin twenty.four feet in circumference.
The hay crop OF Maine for the pres.
ent year 10 estimated 10 be worth more
than forty million dollars.
The pilgrimage mania has been raging
| badly in France. II il stated that Atty
! thou sand pilgrims have passed through
Paris since the first OF August on their
way TO shrineS.
The voters In Ohio did mere than ono
good thing when they went to the polls
the last election day. ny the aide Of
each ballot.box there was placedA char.
ity. boz for the cid oi the yellow fcve,
suifesors in Memphis. The returns are
not yet oil in.
Asingular death, through gas poison
ing, has occurred at Wellington Col
lege. A lad Of fourteen, named Clif-
ford, slept in o room said to have been
imperfectly ventilnted. In the morn.
ing the room was found full OF gas, and
the boy was dead in bed.
There are said II be in crib on the
line Of the Rockford. Rock Island aud
st. Louis r. r. from 800, COO 10 400. 0(S
bushels OF corn Of the crops OF 1912,
and in the section through which the
line passes five bushels in the hands Of
farmers to one of any previous year.
Some one suggests. with most sx-
cellent good sense, that the immense
door-plates worn by the ladies on their
belts might be utilized by engraving
thereon the wearer's name, nge, resi-.
dence, fortune, or expectations. mud
stating whether heart free or engaged.
The Tycoon OF Japan knows how to
start newspaper. He does not offer
taken an interest in the publication Of
newspaper at the japanese capital, ho
has issued an order that all men Of
certain social and political standing
shall take it or be beheaded.
The Marquis OF Butte. who, il ap.
pears. owns nearly all the unoocupied
land at Cardiff. has given decided re.
fusal to an application made to him to
sell or lease site for church. His
agent assigns no reason for the refusal !;
he merely states that the Marquis ode.
clines " to grant the application.
The Dutch Government is in the for.
tunate and exceptionable position OF
having no debt, and also of making
money ont of its colonies. The ex.
penses are always kept below the in.
come. The budget for 1874 estimates
the expenditure at 100, 900, 600 flnrins,
and leaves surplus of 400, 100 floriss.
A Kentucky planter recently took a
tobacco worm and stopped him up in
an auger hole, and at the end OF eight
days he went to examine and see what
effect the confinement would have on
the worm, and found to his surprise
that during eight days the worm had
transferred to large and fun grown
tobacco fly.
A curious circumstance has transpired
in connection with the Dover election.
Several hundred blank voting papers
were found in the ballot boxes. The
conservatives say that these papers were
deposited by conservative working.
men," driven by railway influence to
the poll, but determined not to vete
against their opinions.
According to a California paper, a
young lady of that State, in telling
gentleman about her Yosemite trip, said
the scenery was gorgeous--perfectly
she didn't like their
sty lie of locOmotion down there. "How's
that ?" said her friend, chow did you
locomote?" "Why, don't you think
she replied, II had to ride a la clothes
pin"
Lieut. Col. Hogg, the plaintiff in the
'ecent divorce case of Hogg agt. Hogg
md Cordery, has been called upon to
,xpain his conduct in taking advantage
# his official position as Director Gen.
raj of the Postoffice in Bengal to alb
tract letter written by his wife to
Mr.. Cordery while it was passing
through the post. Meanwhile Lieut.
Jol. Hogg has been suspended from
,fice.
There was nothing very attractive
,bout the manner in which Mr.. Arnold,
If johnson county, Mo, met his death.
n n threshing machine that was run.
ling and burning AT the same time, lie
vas caught by the cylinder, of course,
nd, to prevent his being drawn i'll,
lis brother seized An ax and chopped
lis legs off.
II used to be considered n keautifu
Of the fitness Of things that
gorms were created for birds to eat and
irls created to eat worms. The intro
uction of firearms, and the spread of
'oung Americanism. however, have
grought o change in respect to these
matters the bird has d, eli led, and
'oys, guns, and worms increase rapidly
ear by year.
In North Bridgewater, Mass, las
pring, nm elderly citizen, while plant
ng potatoes lost his pocket-book
When the time come for him to dig the
the hoe brought ont Of the
i'll his missing receptacle Of cash. We
oppose that lie must have been short
uripg the interval, for he testify re-
,arked that lit was the poorest crop
e ever PLANTED"
A clergyman was asking the children
variety of questions OF a Scr ptrral
atnre. to which he had received very
answers. Jnst AS he WIS
he addressed . girl some-
hat older than the rest, and among
ther things inquired" Who made
our vile body :" "Please sir" r,- {.
pended the unsuphisticated girl.
Betsy Jones !" my body, but !
sde the skirt m. self!
A Chicago paper states that at the ex
bition there lately a face,lons vet
an from Milwaukee, stunping aroubd
wooden leg, came upon y group of
,OrIgInes gazing at 0 bnzz saw in full