National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-09-05
JOB PRINTING
Facts and Fancies.

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A bull in Daviess County, Ind, COM
mitted suicide because he was whipped
by another bull.
The thermometer stood at 100 degrees
in the shade at Walla Walla, Oregon,
for seven days, recently.
A man thrust his arm into lions
cage, at Mansfield, Ohio, recently, and
nearly lost it in consequence. . -,
Persons caught in France with pieces
of the castings from the Vendome Col
umn are sentenced to a years imprison-
ment.
Lexington, Ky, offers to exempt from
taxation for ten years any manuiactur-
ing establishment employing fifty or
more hands.
The Chinese military authorities at
Tieptsin have forbidden the soldiers to
smoke opium, and punish them severe
ly for so doing
The diversified industry of New Eng
land finds representative in the Dan
bury man, who repairs jewelry, bleeds
horses and digs wells.
In the San Francisco city prison, re-
Gently, cherry root pipe was dlscoy--
cred in one of the cells, in the stem OF
WI ich were concealed four fine steel
s Ss
The Vermont Central r. r. furnishes
several of the conductors and engineers
with first class watches, costing 800
each, and they are charged to those who
hold them.
A Trenton mich. girl of sixteen, the
other day, jumped from the cars whlie
under full motion, and picked herselt
up and climbed rail fence before the
train could be stopped.
There is n bridge in Japan made OF
bamboo. 1t is single span OF 60 feet,
100 feet above the water, and without
railing. 1t sways in n manner that ter
rifles nervous pedestrians.
Give your reader crealt for some
little intelligence-for at least enough
to know when word needs to be en-
phasized without having the fact thrust
down his throat by tipsy squad OF
reeling italics.
A citizen of Hartford, Ct, recently
left sum of money, the interest OF
which is to be expended in providing
the inhabitants of the city poor house
with dinner every New Years and
Thanksgiving d1y.
A New York lawyer made telling
point for his client when he said that he
did not keep gambling house within
| the meaning of the statute, because IN
stead of men playing at a game OF
chance they played at ga dead sure
thing"
A man who is "afraid of bees, and
does not like to come near them" had
better not engage in agriculture. The
winged workers bring their richest
stores only to him who enjoys their
company, who considers their ways and
comprehends their wants.
A John Bull, conversing with an In
dian asked him if he knew the sun new
er sets in the Queens dominions.
emo" said the Indian. " Do you know
the reason why ?" asked John. " Be
cause God is afraid to trust an English
man in the dark" was the savage's
reply.
A man has committed suicide off
Shakspeare's Cliff, at Dover. When a
third of the way up the cliff he sat down
on the grass, and after taking off hisIhat
put two large stones and card in it, lay
down on the edge of the cliff, covered
his face with his hands, and rolled over
sideways.
Fleas do not like strong and fragrant
odors, such as lavender, musk and
thyme. An application of chloride OF
lime will expel them from rooms, but
carpets should be taken up and shaken
and the floors washed with a solution OF
the drug Carbolic acid soap is the
next best thing.
1t is told of n young gentleman whom
a maiden liked, but her father didn't,
that at reasonable hour the old gent
mildly interrupte1 that the time for re-
firing had arrived. "I think you are
correct, my dear sir" answered nine
teenth century, modestly, I'VE have
been waiting for over an hour for you
to put yourself in your little bed. The
father retired thoughtfully.
This device of Lexington, Tenn, to
gain can immortality of near week
by announcing that it'has baby that
is half black, is decidedly too attenu-
ated. "a line drawn from the tip OF
the nose longitudinally shows the mar
gin of the jet color" says the story.
This is a very old joke. The fact that
the other half is also black is wickedly
and maliciously concealed.
A clergyman, who had come through
some strange vicissitudes of life, was
charged at the Birkenhead (England)
Police Court, the other day, with having
been found asleep in field at West
Kirby. The prisoner had been at one
time Rector of Luckington, and he
stated that, through mining specula-
tions, he had lost 1000, and had been
obliged to go abroad. On his return
he could get nothing to do, and he was
now reduced to the condition of va
grant. The magistrate ordered the
discharge of the prisoner.
A curious accident occurred during
recent thunderstorm at OH Clty, Ia.
The lightning struck an oil-tank, capa-
BILE of holding 10000 barrels of oil, but
containing about 5000 at the time of
the occurrence. The bolt struck the
top of the tank at the edge and ran
around the periphery of the
top. cutting off the head of every bolt
that fastened the top to the side. The
top was raised about two feet by the,
and the oil took fire, send
ing the immense body of flame high in
the air. In an instant the top fell back
to its p lion, instantly smotherlng the
fire inside. The oil burned off the ont
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