National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1874-02-27

Items OF Interest.

I Items OF Interest
straining eetness-kissing through
veil.
In Paris they take their cod.liver oil
in bread, three hundred loaves being
used daily in the ohildren's hospitals
alone.
The Ashantees have accepted the
terms proposed to them by Sir Garnet
Wolscley, will pay round sum, aud the
war ends.
The Mayor of Logdhsport, Indiana,
whipped the editor Of local sheet for
commenting too freely on his Honor's
peculiarities.
The Irish potato was originally q
wild root in Chilli, and cultivation has
produced our cabbage out OF a once
poisonous plant.
The Titusville Herald says there arc
upwards Of 100000 gallons of crude
oil in tanks at that point, with abso.
lutely no protection against fire.
An impertinent fellow wants to know
If you ever sat down to tea where
skinned milk was on the table without
being asked, "Do you take cream?"
A man can send telegraph message
from Lands End, in England, to Kirk
we'll, in Scotland, o distance of seven
hundred miles, at the low cost OF one
cent word.
A pamphlet has been issued in Paris
going to show that the son of Louis
Napoleon, being old enough and wise
enough, ought to be Immediately called
to the throne.
Brass ornaments may be cleaned by
washing with roche alum bolted to n
strong ley, in the proportion of an
ounce to pint. When dry, it must be
rubbed with fine tripoli.
The princess Marie, wife Of the duke
of Edinburgh, is chief of the regiment
of the fourteenth Lancers of Jambourg,
and her title is colonel; but she will
hereafter, as heretofore, issue her or
ders merely to the marines.
The people near Farmersville, Liv.
ingston county, NO., were scared near
ly out of their wits, q few days ago, by
the fall of an immense erolite. 1t now
lies imbeded in the ground, and is said
to be about twenty-five feeet in diam
eter.
The series of fourteen "extras"
issued by the New York Tribune are
undoubtedly the cheapest and best
popular scientific publication in the
world. The Tribune will send free to
any applicant circular giving the
full contents and details of this remark
able Library for One Dollar"
Never be above your business, no
matter what that calling may be, but
strive to be the best in that line. He
who turns up his nose at his work quar-
rels with his bread and butter. He is a
poor smith who quarrels with his own
sparks; there is no shame about an
honest calling. Don't be afraid of
soiling your hands; there is plenty of
soap to be had.
Tom Sankey was hanged in Mont
zH%sry Assem The shsr stepped
upon the scaffold and adjusted the moose
around his neck. While doing so Tom
said in tremulous voice, 'Good-by,
my friends The cap was then drawn
over his face, and with his face now hid
from view he sang aloud, "Hang me
high and stretch me wide, and let the
world see how died !"
Very odd excuses are put forward in
courts of justice; but this, from Cham
5ers's Joua nal, surpasses all: ga
French Republicans, condemned to death
'or numbering his wife and child with
,ut extenuating circumstances, demur-
ed to the sentence, because capital
punishment had been abolished in
france for political ohenses and he
lad killed his wife and child for no
,ther reason but because they were Le-
yitimists.
The Cuba business affords mark for
;he Partisan wits. The CtariVari has
| cartoon in which is represented
Yankee carrying p1acard with the le-
,end "American Boots-Brother JON
lthan." In front of him stands Span
ard, one of whose boots seems to be
;orturing him. It is marked Cuba,
md as he grasps it, screwing his face
It the same time into o grotesque look
If agony, Brother Jonathan says: "t
,inches you; shall I draw it OFF,"
In the British medical naval report
ust issued, fatal case of poisoning
" tobacco is mentioned. A boy on the
mplacable had frequently been re-
,roved for chewing tobacco, and on
everal occasions swallowed pieces to
prevent detection. On the night of his
leath he was heard breathing stertori-
usly, and efforts to arouse him being
ain. he was taken to the sick bay.
lis pupils were insensible to the light,
nd his pulse beat feebly. He died in
wo or three minutes after. Two small
,ieces of tobacco were found in his
tomach.
An old Partisan beggar, famous for
is success, thus explains the business
rules to which, he says, he invari-
bly, adheres: ~ never ask aims of ono
Tho has dined, as 'rosbif renders q
1an selfish, nor of stout men, as it
ores them to stop, nor of any one put
ing on his gloves, nor of lady alone,
ut always Of any one manifestly gong
o dinner, of people walking, together,
8 their amour. propre makes them
,enerous, of officers in grand uniforms,
nd of people apparently seeking favor
rom the government-they think that
gift will bring them luck"