National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-12-26
Items OF Interest.


II is very easy to say take things as
they come, but suppose they don't
come.
A genius is popularly supposed to be
one who can do anything except make
living.
Mrs. Partington says she gets up every
morning at the shrill carrion OF the
chandelier
OF eleven passengers from Boston on
the Vile du Havre the only two saved
were children.
At Madison, Ind, nineteen members
of one family have died Of consumption
within ten years.
A Missouri Judge has decided that
railroads must pay for killing their en-
ployees IA well rs other people.
The st. Paul Pioneer wants the fool
killer TO stop off there on his way West
and kill 500 idiots who are patronizing
a clairvoyant.
A horse that sold for $35, 900 two years
ago is now being driven on Boston
street car. A broken shoulder caused
the depreciation.
A halter in Terre Haute, Wis, has
bundle of old unpaid bills hung up in
his store, labeled, "The reason why L
do not give credit"
Types continue to cut up antics, even
in well regulated offices, we infer, from
seeing John Brown announced as q
"linseed preacher"
A child was smothered in Appomattox
county, Va, few evenings ago, by
guests at n wedding, who threw their
outer garments upon bed in which he
was lying.
The oil produced in Western Penn
sylvania the past year would fill canal
twenty-five feet wide at the top, twelve
at the bottom, seven deep and seventy
miles long.
There is man in Versailles, Ken
lucky, now supported by charity, who,
some twenty years ago, used to display
his wealth by pinning 500 bills all
over the lappels of his coat. Such is
life.
Louis Riel, leader of the half-breed
rebellion of 1870. and member elect OF
the Dominion Parliament, has been
proclaimed an outlaw. He is ipSa .factO
convicted, and may upon arrest be i'm
mediately executed.
"Who goes a-borrowin' goes a-sor-
rowing" More often it is the other
way up. Who goes attending too often
goes a-sorrowln', while who goes a-bor-
rowin' not unfrequently goes on his way
rejoicing Mt his dexterity.
The panic column of the Chicago Post
finds that "the saddest result of the
,c,I Ia tIn, ,f ncI,
are out of employment with long, hard
winter in prospect, and they will starve,
poor things, rather than wash dishes
and do hvusework.
The Fat Boyin the "Pickwick Papers"
has been regarded as an improbability
but there is now living boy in YER
mont, fourteen years old, who weighs
1SO pounds. So young and so large, he
may be classified, we suppose, as one Of
the Green Mountains. .II
The Persian country gentleman is an
active man, iond of riding and shooting,
but quite above the effeminacy of
learning to read and write. He III ! at
tached to his household mirzq, or Sec
retary, who writes all his letters, and he
affixes his signet to any important doc
ument.
A carefully compiled statement of
marine losses on the lakes, prepared by
Louis Bleyer, marine editor of the
Daily Wisconsin, gives the total dam
age for 1873 at 1876, 900, or nearly
81 900, 900 more than in 1872 The
number of vessels of all kinds lost or
in 1873 was 1913, and in 1872
the number was 745, being 573 less than
This year.
In these days of paper money it is
refreshing to read of the discovery, in
Ga, of shekel carved in
The time of King Solomon, 1000 B. G.
It has vase on one side, with the in
scription lin Hebrew, "Shekel of
Israel" On the reverse is tree, and
the inscription, Holiness of Jerusa-
en-" 1t may be genuine and it may
be bogus and q modern antique.
We have never heard of anything
more beautiful than this story of a mar
ried woman whose will has been proved
in England. She gave all her estate to
Mr.. Van Haurigh, her husband dl-
rected her clothes to be sold to pay her
funeral expenses, and added: "It is
slso my earnest wish that my darling
husband should marry ere long nice,
pretty girl, who is a good housewife,
md above all. to be careful that she is
If good temper"