National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-07-04
Items or Interest.


To remove stains from character--get
rich
When is a fire like " bad husband
When it goes out at night.
A Michigan sheep was lately relieved
OF twenty-five pound fleece OF wool.
The round Josephine waist is heing
revived for the high-necked dresses by
the modistes.
Rnffs are now worn Of such Eliza
bethnn Dimensions that wires are neces.
sary to keep them in shape.
The most stately dress of the season
is the "Princesse. an improved modi-
fication of the "Garhrielle."
An Iowa merchant won't advertise in
the papers. Int paints OH the fences.
Go tew Aliens for yer drigoods."
The Philadelphia jury in the case ot
Charles J. Cloak, for the murder of HE
wife, on the 18th of March last brought
in verdict OF murder in the first
degree.
A Kentucky paper, in reporting
wedding. says that the bride was not
particularly handsome, Int the father
threw in seven mules, and the husband
was satisfied.
When n young gentleman in Canada
wishes to pay attention to young lady,
he usually, If it be winter. undertakes
to kill her with kindness-by taking her
out and sleighing her.
Josephine Kimball. of Cincinnati,
Ohio, recovered $1,000 from Jacob
Stever, OF the Massillon (Ohio) Furnace
Company. n short time ago. for breach
Of promise of marriage. What lesson
to bachelors
Somebody has found ont that the heat
received from the sun in one minute is
equivalent to the force OF two thousand
steam engines Of one hundred horse
power each working continually for four
thousand years.
The Scandinavians OF the Northwest
ern States are going to build $4,000
monument ut Madison, Wis, to the
discoverer OF America, whose name,
they say, is not Christopher Columbus,
but Left Ericsson, and whose discovery
is da cd not in 1892 but 1000.
To remove stains from marble, take
two parts OF common soda, one part Of
pumice. stone, and one of finely-pow-
dered chalk sift it through fine
sieve, and mix it with water; then rnb
it we'll over the marble, and the stains
will be removed. Wash the marble
sfterward with soap and water.
Capt James 4. McClung, constable
in Mt. Sidney, Va, having retired to
rest feeling a. we'll as usual, awoke in
the morning to find that his voice WAS
about gone, and it has now go1e alto.
gether. He is not only dumb, but he
has also grown deaf and likewise blind.
Such q sudden loss of three of the
senses at the same time is very uncOm-
mon, and would seem to Indicate some
physical affection as yet undescribed.
The people of Fort Scott, Kansas,
are in deep distress. Recently there
arrived in the town, on it's way to Bos-
ton, and intended for museum there,
an immense collection Of Texas taran-
tslas, centipedes, scorpions and horned
frogs. BY accident the case was broken
up, and the agreeable creatures are now
domiciled at Fort Scott, where they are
likely to increase and multiply, not in
the least to the comfort of the Fort
Rev. Mark Wilkes once introduced
his text IN this manner: MY hearers,
did you ever see IL cat Did you ever
see u cat walk Did you ever see cat
walk on top OF wall Did you ever see
q cat walk ON top OF a wall covered with
broken glass How carefully she lifted
each foot! How slowly and cautiously
she set it down again So would the text
from which l am about to speak have
you act-'See that you walk cir-cum-
specify
Two suicides occurred in st. Johns
vile, n. Y. 1t appears that ply slciun
named A. ID. Wheeiock, lnarLieu man,
was paying attention 10 Miss Ruth
SMITH. Ihe parents OF the young iady
objected to Lls conduct Oh tne ground
.hut he was not divorced. For some
reason unknown, proceedings Tor divolce
having been cUlnmenced, Miss om4tn
took arsenic and died, aud the DOCTOR,
III learning the Iact. took uose VI
morphine and expired.