National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-08-22
items OF Interest.

Petroleum used for cleaning guns, it
is said, eifectually protects them from
rust.
The monument to Colonel Ellsworth,
at Mechanicsville, is fast approaching
completion.
Philadelphia has thirty marriages
day, which argues something more than
brotherly love.
Omaha is utilizing "monte men" " by
making them work on the streets with
ball and chain attachment.
A young Englishman has recovered
heavy damages from n tailor who sent
him an insolent dun on postal card.
Daisy Bruze killed his brother, Dan
Bruze, near Hazlewood, Kentucky.
Both men were rather notorious char
actcrs.
The Georgia State Fair offers thou.
sand dollar prize for the best drilled
military company from the North and
South.
An escaped convict who wants en-
ployment advertises that he has had
considerable experience III the hide
business
There have been %, :95 claims pre-
sented to the Southern Claim Commis-
sion the amount claimed is more than
$50, 10000
Feeding Indians on paper" is
Western phrase which means the draw
ing of rations by dishonest agents 100
bogus Indians.
Brown, of Halifax, N. S., has agreed
to row Bglin for $1,000, allowing the
latter $3.50 for expenses. The time mas
not yet been fixed.
The Elmira Aduertiser says that "a
Lockport girl, whose father is worth
800, 900, is cooking on canal boat, for
the romance of the thing"
At the diamond mines of the Wilkes
barre Coal and Iron Company an ex-
plosion occurred by which two men
were killed and two injured.
:" Oh, George! your sister is nice
girl. but she does dress her head mp so.
" Yes" said George, "but it's the fash
nothing in it, you know.
"Stealing money is serious busi-
ness ont here" said Colorado paper,
" but YOU can kill man, and all they
ask is that you don't leave him in the
way"
The editor of an Illinois paper thinks
fishing, as general rule, don't pay
" We stood it all day in the river last
week." he says, "but caught nothing
until we got home"
"Men are easily deluded," says the
ex-Empress Eugenie "they are duped
on every hand the same arts succeed
with them all, and the woman is a
genius who strikes out a new way to get
the better OF them.'
An enterprising Edinburgh trades
man thus POLITICALLY advertlses his
wares
Scots wha hae wi Wallace bled.
Scots whom Bruce has often led,
II you want graceful head
Gang to Box the halter
Dio Lewis convulsed n Utica audi
,nce by some advice to married men.
lie was talking about the eye. TO the
Unfortunate benedicts he said Gaze
nto your wife's eye closely and you
will see yourself looking exceedingly
small. The heillustration took immensely.
A neat reply was that given by slut
,ering man the other day, when telling
, story to some of his friends. "Speak
t plainly man," said one. l. ca-ca-
ant" he answered, u-bu-but | wa-
ya-want you to understand that if M
n-my tongue shutters, mummy mlnd
lon't stutter
The total loss from the Portland
Oregon confagration is 81, l5S, ,675,
nd the insurance on it $24l 600. IN
he following companies : London, Liv-
rpool and Globe, $41, 900; FiremeH's
'und. Union, Home, and Mutual, OF
yewY ork, $50, 900 each Imperial, $780,
90; Phoenix, of Hartford, $50, 900.
There seems to be an unusual num-
,er of persons drowned while bathing
his season. Almost every day reports
f these casualties are received. Peo-
lie trust themselves too confidlnglyts
gater. 1t is harmless and very use.
u creature if you do not put yourself
II it's power, but if you do it is treach-
rous and unmerciful monster.
At Oswego Falls, the other day, while
hree boys were playing i'll grove, two
them became angry with the other
nd attempted to hang him. The mode
f indicting death not succeeding as
lpidly as they desired, one of them
rocceeded to house to borrow an axe
ith which to behead the victim. An
larm was given at once, and the neigh
or reached the scene in time so save
he boys life.
The following curious specimen of
apanese English was received by the
superintendent of a San Francisco rail
Dad, from gentleman in JAY IN, who E
.anted to inquire into the possibility
introducing street cars in Yeddo:
SRI heard that you were railroad
l hope street ears that will
lake build in ours capital city. There
ore will beg you to give me, If be
ale of company, maps of railways,
cture of Car or writing which rela-
on between the office md Government
bout the make railway. | will do
reat happy to you if l will make the
uild it, because there is now the iron
nm aud oars ~