National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-05-30
Items Of Interest.

Meat in London costs double what II
did forty years ago.
The Georgia cotton mills arc said to
be paying twenty-five per cent divi-
dends annually. nt
Matrimonial. 1T is no cood nova.
days for q man 10 offer his hand, il
there's nothing in it. .v
The latest bonnet is a triAe higher
than freight on the railroads, and -
graceful in proportion.
A little chap six years old, who can
not read, astonisnes auinsboso, Tcsss
nv soly ing intricate mathematical prob
lens.
Philadelphia turns ont more carpets
per annum than all other parts OF the
United States and Great Britain COM
bined. t0
A New Haven landlord got rid of IN
obnoxious tenant the other day by re.
moving all the doors and windows in the
house. b. Np
The limb Of the tree on which Cullen
the murder of Aroostook County, Me-,
was hung is to be deposited in the Bos-
ton Museum.
1t is said that no less than half mill
lon dollars worth Of gold is annually
consumed by the photographers OF the
United States.
A thief recently snatched $40, 600
from collector OF the Cienfuegos kaiI-
road in The streets of Puerto Principe,
Cuba, and got away with 1t.
A share IN the BUSINESS was promised
a cashier of a bank recently. does
that include the embezzlenents no
modestly asked of the astonishea difec-
! tors.
An Albany paper says: Ballstou
girls romantically fiirt with Curley, the
bond robber, through the grated WIN.
dow of his apartment, in the Jail at that
place."
Last wear the quantity OF beer pro-
Suced in the United States was 7 lo9,-
17O barrels-ninety-t two half-pint glasses
for every man. woman and child III the
country.
A girl of - years and boy OF IA are
about to be married in Galveston. Ano
bridegroom must go to school one ysss
vet, and the bride three years, nnder
the Compulsory Education law OF Texas.
The number of men in the United
states of tho military age-that is, be-
tween the ages Of eighteen and forty,nve
vears-was. in 1870, 1870. 4S7. Inc
humber of men who were OF tho voting
age was 9,443,001.
General Contreras has been nomlna-
tod ia the command of the army OF
Madrid. Quite right. If any rule Is
likely to suit Spain, now that every
thing is turned upside down, it Is the
rule of Contraries.'
The pleasure yachts of the New YORK
Yacht Club cost 81, 600, 600. The yachts
connected with other clubs III and apont OUT
New York are valued at VI 0Oo,Uu
more. The Eastern Club. OF Boston
harbor, owns 100000 worth OF similar
craft. ~
The town of Lon :onderry, n. H..
holds its charter on the condT!oh "a
giving the Governor of the State pscA
of potatoes every year, and pays tne
penalty of its corporate existence iesu
iarly. II is an old custom, derived from
the mother country. .a4l....
Oscar II. and his consort nave oeen
crowned King and Queen OF r sweden
with imposing ceremsnies. h1e
King csmmences his reign under an-
spicious circumstances. Like his PI,
decessors, he has the hearty good wlli
Of the people. and if he only proves 20
good a monarch as they, his sublec'S
will have no cause to complain.
DIR. Mackenzie Bacon has published
the results of his inquiries into the
misuse of the phrase softening OF the
BRAIN" and the habits OF physicians o'
associatpg the term with a certain "e'
gree OF fatuity, or declining lnieii' EN-.
gence. DR.. Bacon says that OF an !ne
cases received into his asylum with thiH
diagnosis, in not a single one was sucn
lesion of the brain found to exist o"
post mortem examination.