National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1874-01-23
Items OF Interest.
Old folks say this winter is like 1916.
Pure air is better than tar for weak

Old folks say this winter is like 1916.
Pure air is better than tar for weak
lungs.
Some Of the French papers recon.
mend the drowning OF prisoners con.
victed Of capital offenses.
The fibre for PAPER making is now
made in quantity from the cane or reeds
which grow SO abundantly in virginia's
Dismal Swamp.
A smart Danbury woman does the
work for q family OF nine, milks two
COWS and keeps track OF thirteen con.
tinued stories.
II is said to be the fashion in Boston,
to announce ON the invitation cards to
gold and silver weddings. that emo pres
ents will be received"
"Let every one, the current year es.
pecially," says the Mayor of Lowell,
cultivate courtesy, urbanity aud har.
mony OF action" Good crops to cult.
vate any year.
There are large number Of sawmills
building in various sections OF North
Carolina. As lumber becomes scarce at
the North, the attention of lumbermen
is being turned to the great pine regions
of that State.
DR.. Cutter recommends the use of
Indian meal, heated and placed in bags,
as substitute for hot water bottles,
etc. He says that il weighs less, re-
tains heat better, and does not chill
when cold.
The Spanish Minister of the Interior
has issued q circular stating that the
Government desires to show that order
is compatible with the Republic and
liberty. Senior CASTELAR, has refused to
cooperate with Figueras, Salmeron,
and Margall for the organization Of
the Federal Republicans.
Some careful experiments have been
made Z recently on the comparative yield
of fields on which covered or uncovered
manure has been used. 1t was found
that the field fertilized with the covered
manure produced forty per cent. more
potatoes and nearly twenty-five per
cent. more wheat than the other.
A Missouri paper says:-"The GUS
tom of putting powder in sticks of wood
for your neighbor to steel is an old and
barbarous one, and when we passed by
o house the other morning and saw the
family shiverlng out in the yard over
broken stove, and heard the children
crying for breakfast, our heart was filed
with bitter reflections on mans inhu-
manity to man."
A Virginia farmer lost $50 last year
by subscribing for compile of journals,
time the family spent in reading and in
Lo11 H., T., 1,< cko
the papers," OF course he will save
into some scrape, or a patent right is
on the poor man that the papers would
have protected him from.
Here is an Iowa story:-"A young
girl near Marengo is wonderfully mark
ID by rattlesnakes. Running partially
.round her neck, side by side, are two
makes as natural as if alive, and the
'kin being transparent they seem only
ying in wait for a victim. On the front
If the neck and upper part of the breast
ire the rattles-as though breastpin-
making a perfect picture, and shedding
'egularly every year."
The wooden pavement is in great
avor in London. It is liked because
t affords good foothold for horses, is
loiseless, smooth, and easily kept
lean. The great drawback, of course,
8 It's perishable nature. But on the re-
all dry goods streets and in the old
,arts of the city, all around the "Bank,"
he tax payers express willingness to
'ear the expense of renewal once in
very five or six years for the sake OF
he comfort of its use.