National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-03-28
A maiden speech : "Ask papa.
The first almanac was printed in Il

FoctS ana fencIeSs
A maiden speech "Ask papa.
The first almanac was printed in l441.
"Fancy Men"-Men who fancy them.
selves. IN. B.-There are pretty lot
of those about just now.)
A Minnesota youth hit his horse with
q gun to make him go. The horse went,
the gun went, and three fingers went
too.
Some sixty head of cattle Of Law
renceburg, Ind, were poisoned by some
miscreant unknown. Forty-nine head
are dead.
An active bachelor in Maine claims
to be 1O2 years old but as he makes
his own bed, according to local paper,
SO he must lie.
When Brigham Young's children sing
"Father, dear father, come home," the
effect is said to be wonderful. The old
man comes home without delay.
A funeral procession stopped and
put out fire on the roof OF house in
Pennington, Me-, and then sOlemnly
continued on its way to the burying-
ground.
According to the Spanish proverbs,
four persons are wanted to make good
salad a spendthrift for oil, miser for
vinegar, counselor for salt, and
madman to stir all up.
The first mule taken down the west
shaft of the Hoosac Tunnel was brought
up the other day, after three years OF
residence in the bowels of the earth.
His spirits were as gay as ever.
Three hundred liberal Catholics OF
Geneva have signed letter requesting
Frere Hyacinthe to assume the pastorate
of n flock there the service to be not
quite so high-as-in-the genevine Roman
Church.
The Illinois House OF Representa-
tives, by q vote of 163 to 4, adopted
resolution severely censuring the Illinois
Congressman who voted to increase
their salaries at the end of the late term
of Congress.
The last fashionable kink is popcorn
parties. 1t is claimed that they not
only keep young men from another kind
Of corned parties, but that they are
very suggestive of question they
ought to pop.
There has been discovered in the
debris of the fire at Rolling Fork the
charred remains of four human bodies,
and another is still missing. The file
is believed to have been caused to con-
ceal their murder.
The Baltimore plasterers have de-
cided to demand SO. rs per day from the
31st of March until the 28th of June,
and 81 per day thereafter until the 29th
day of Move rnber, and then 40 cents per
hour until the last of the following
Ma ch.
The Chicago Post says /: "f Miss
Anthony would only advocate an educa-
tional or moral qualification, how glad
we should be to embrace her-views."
Hang it, mango the whole hog while
you are at it. Embrace her and her
views too.
A boy of ten years old and a girl OF
nine, living in Detroit, started out into
the country the other day to get married.
They footed it out four miles, and then
having called upon farmer to ask if he
didn't want to let them live in part of
his house after the marriage, he took
them in charge and brought them home.
The fastenings of the trapeze broke
from the centre pole in circus, while
two gymnasts were performing upon it
in Nashville, Tenn. With a scream OF
terror the men we're dashed to the
ground, and one of them was taken up
for dead. He was subsequently restor-
ed to consciousness, but is seriously If
not fatally injured.
The native Sandwich Islanders are
rapidly going the way of all flesh. The
last census shows that while for the last
six years the births on the islands Of
children of foreign parents have exceed
ed the deaths of the same, the deaths
among all classes of the native popula-
ton have exceeded the births at rate
that forebodes the extinction of the
native race within thirty years.
After a stove has been polished it can
be kept looking very well for long
time by rubbing it with paper every
Rubbing with paper is q
much nicer way of keeping the outside
of a tea-kettle, coffee-pot, and teapot
bright and clean than the old way OF
washing them with suds. Rubbing is
the best way or polishing knifes, tin
ware and spoons they shine like new
silver. For polishing mirrors, win
dows, lamp-chimneys, ETC., paper is
better than a dry cloth.
The biological ability of hen wehave
never seen before stated. Does tn
reader know how many eggs your hei.
of average industry and capacity can lay
in lifetime? Not possibly more than
600, we are told, which, in the natural
course, are distributed in the following
First year after birth, 16 to
20; second year, 100 to 12O third, 120
to 1856; fourth, 100 to 115; fifth, GO to
80; sixth, SO to 60; seventh, 35 to 40;
eighth, Is to 90; ninth, l to 10-not ex-
actly lame and impotent conclusion,
but near enough to it to make Ms feel
sorry for the hen.