National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-01-17
NUN BER 81.


slaughtered hoR IN hyhchbufR, W.
eighteen months oh weighed 900 pounds
net.
A boy. fifteen years OF age, died lately
IN St. Louis from the Effects OF intem-
perance.
The conyicts at the Joliet, ILL.,. Pcni.
tcntiary average days wages OF % cents
each, making segars.
The Gnide fo H,oiM doubts IL there
are twenty really healthy and strong
women in any State in the Union.
The Methodist confesses 10 being a
little astonished to see chow patroni.
zing the new school of sceptical science
is to the Almighty"
During the first nine months Of 1872
England made away with 10, lW,, N1
gallons Of spirits |, 163, i49 gallons
more than she drank during the CORES
ponding time in 1871.
~ wish yon would pay little atten-
ton to what ] am saying, sir, rOared
an irate lawyer ut an exasperating wit
ness. "Well, am paying IA little as
l can, was the calm reply.
Those who believe nothing often
make others belieye most: M the best
actors in our theatres are those who re-
tain the most perfect command over
their feelings, voice and countenance.
4 woman of North Wheeling, Va,
one Mrs. Daley, was found by her hus-
band literally roasted to death on Christ.
mas evening, her clothing having caught
| fire whilst she was alone in the house.
According to st. Paul paper, noses,
ears and fingers, which have been brok.
en- off while in frozen and crisp con-
dition, may be picked ap in large guam
titles from the sidewalks of that frosty
city.
There are now published in the United
States 6,432 periodic ,ls of which 507
are issued daily, 1j .ri-weekly, 40
semi-weekly, 4,75c wee ely, "a bi-week-
ly, 81 semismontfiy, G 50 monthly, 4 BIZ
monthly, and 55 lua terly.
4 novel pet has lady of Danielville.
Conn, in the sha po Of a butterfly, which
nestles in her md, alights upon her
shoulder or hair, or, by way of variety,
hides in the knot of ribbon at her
throat, when he feels like a nap.
Fort Ontario, Oswego. n. Y, is in
charge of sergeant and three privates.
The other day the seargeant put one Of
the men into the guard-house, set
another to guarding him, and put the
remaining one in charge of the fort.
Mrs Samuel Colt made $500, 600 profit
ont of revolvers last year. She has
lovely daughter who willinherit $S.OO0,-
OOO. Eyn,ir0 Gazette. This may be
correct as to figures, but the " lovely
daughter" happens to be son with
will of his own.-Xaryord Post.
According to the North China Herald,
on the 18th and 14th OF October last no
less than 1l5 criminals we're heheaded
at Me execution ground at Matow. OF
Ihese some 46 were kidnappers, who
we're all strangled first and then decapi-
ated
The man in Danbury who enjoys the
most sympathy, is he who chased
team for half mile, and
inally succeeded in heading it off, only
o discover the driver in the carriage
ooking very much astonished at the
and painting rescuer.
An old lady in Ottawa, Mich, was
ecently sitting in an armchair sewing,
,hen an automatic rife in the next
=, fell from its hooks and discharged.
he ball went through partition,
ierced table in the way and fatally
ounded the old lady in the head.
A hotel clerk who was banged up ina
ailroad accident recently, sued the COM
any for $50, 900 for damage to his
neck. but the Judge told the jury he
did not want to influence them in
,eir verdict, but thought ten cents
oiild be an ample sum for the injury
)ne.
The annual report of the Chamber of
,mmerce of Milwaukee shows the re-
ipts of the various products last year
be as follows: Receipts---Flour, 49,
7 barrels; wheat, 1925, 626 bushels
is, 1,6OS, O4S bushels ; corn, 2,O42, 1876
,shels; rye, 40, 1873 bushels; barley,
i47569 bushels.
A school girl in one OF the rural
stricts of Pittsfeld, Mass, was over
ard trying to convince school fellow
at she liked him better than she did
me other urchin of whom he seemed
,lous. "Of course like you better
an / do Bill" said she, for don't /
IS words in my spelling lesson on
rpose, so as to be down to the foot of
Q class where you are 2"
There is duty of the hour which
ry few people seem to realize. The
light Of snow of the density of the
cent fall is about one-fifth the weight
water; cubic foot of it consequently
ighs over IL pounds, reckoning the
bic foot of water at 1000 ounces.
e roof of an ordinary dwelling house
over 800 square feet in ex-
1t, and if we take the average depth
the snow to be only one foot, We shall
We on such roof burden of five
Is. This is not more than a good
If ought to b ,ar, but there are hun
eds of roofs in each city hardly able to
stain their own weight. Let house.
lJare Sok IN this without delav