Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-09-16
Familiar Faces.
I counted all tho sunny days and faces
My life had known,
And found they gathered round the friendly
faces
called my own,
All, can life have any Joys or graces
That has 10 frionds2
When fades the beauty Of familiar faces,
Its gladness ends.


Its gladness ends.
Items Of Interest.
Jessie Cleveland, girl seventeen
years OF age, OF San Francisco, CAL, was
sent to the county Jail for seventy. Ave
days as common drunkard.
whc III years. Eai "a %Sis
than twenty thousand eggs, sometimes
eating as many as twenty-five day.
An exchange, in writing organ
grinder, always puts it organ grinder,
on the ground, it says, that everything
Italian should properly be in italics.
The bridge across White river, on the
Wisconsin Central railroad, is the larg-
est wrought iron one in the world. 1t
is l, ,525 feet long, 107 feet high, and cost
5000, 1000.
"Bill," said one apprentice to an-
other. "my boss is a b tier man to work
for than your old man. My 4, oss ain t
always round his shop, interfering with
his swn business"
A lecturer was dilating upon the
powers Of the magnet, defying any one
to show or name anything surprising
its powers. A hearer demurred, ard
instanced q lady, who, when young,
used to attract him thirteen miles every
Sunday.
A fat French lady despsiiingly says
81 am so fat that pray for a disap-
pointment to make me thin. No sooner
does the disappointment come than the
mere expectation of growing thinner
gives me such joy that become fatter
than ever"
A lively pupil at seminary asked the
preceptress for permission to drive out
with gentleman. "You know the
regulations of the institution" was the
answer. Is he your father ?" "No."
"Is he your brother?" "No." "Are
you engaged to him 2" "No, but ex-
pect to be before get back" That an
swer Carried the day.
"Speaking of bathing" said Mrs.
Partington, from behind the steam that
arose from her tea as veil to her blush
es when touching upon SO delicate a
subject, "some can bathe with perfect
impurity in water as cold MS Greenland
icy mountains and India's coral strands,
but for my part I prefer to have the
water little torpid"
A woman in Council Bluffs. Iowa, has
sold out her husband for brindle COW,
calf. and $40 to boot. A former wife,
from whom he had been twice divorced,
cUaxed him to return tO his ullc1 lance,
and the second wife, actuated by spirit
of accommodation and agricultural en-
terprise, conse ted to separation for
the consideration named.
Two French dies were looking at the
pictures in the Paris salon. $50 hear"
said one, ga celebrated painter has fin
ished picture for you" Yes, he has
consented to paint the por-
trait of my husband for my drawing
room." "Indeed |" said the first
speaker. "Well, for room like that
I think I should have chosen gayer
subject.
Curiosities never seen: A fence
made from railing of scolding wife.
A plate of butter from the cream of
Joke. The small coins in "the change
Of the MOON" The original brush used
in painting the signs of the times. The
hammer that broke up the meeting. The
animal that drew an inference. Eggs
from nest Of thieves. A bucket of
water from "All's WE'LL"
A correspondent writes | attended
l wedding few days since. Wishing to
,ay something beftting the occasion, I
approached the fair young bride in the
course of the day, and, after congratu-
ating her on her departure from the
tate of single blessedness, wished her
pleasant voyage down the river of life.
She said she hoped so, but they were
going by railway to New York.
A carpenter who was always prognos-
icating evil to himself was one day
lpon the roof of five story building
lpon which rain had fallen. The roof
,eing slippery he lost his footing, and
Is he was descending toward the caves
le exclaimed: "Just as 1 told you !"
catching, however, an iron spout, he
licked Of his shoes and regained place
# safety, when he thus delivered him
elf: IL krow'd it; there's pair of
hoes gone |"
A writer in the 81. Nicholas says:
{ What do you say to flower bigger
han dining plate and weighing three
+ four pounds ?" It is very rarely that
70 say anything, says the Norwich Bul-
stin. Sometimes we are intimate with
vegetable, as occasionally we are
rawn into controversy with a cucum-
er, but as general thing we find that
overs are to be avoided, as they cost
s basket, and the other man usually
cts the best buds for his buttonhole.
A tramp stole into kitchen in
.urlinrton, Iowa, and was just tip-toe-
1g ont with hinge loaf of bread and a
io when the woman of the house came
l. She shrieked for help, and struck
i'm over the face with saucer she held
|, her hand, breaking the vessel and
utting his nose, when he dropped his
ooty and fled, merely pausipg to call
is hostess an unmitigated old saucer
ss,' which, considering his limited
me and scant opportunities, wasn't so
ad.
Chloroform vapor has been lately
,und to act with great rapidity in ex-
the flame Of the vapor of pc
oleum. Combustible gaes, mixed
ith chloroform vapor, are found to I'M
lose their explosive proper
es. and even their combustibility. The
lccessful result of these investigations
as suggested various practical applioa-
ons OF the method, and, among other
ses, it is thought that it might be ad-
employed, upon large
ale, for extinguishing fires in petro-
um stores and on board ships.
Sixty years ago occurred "the year
ithout summer" Frost occurred in
cry month of the year 1916. Ice form
half an inch thick in May, snow fell
the depth of ten inches in Vermont,
ven in Maine, three in the interior of
ew York, and also in Massachusetts in
Inc; ice was formed of the thickness OF
mmon window glass throughout New
ngland, New York aud some parts OF
on the fifth of July; In
an corn was 30 frozen that the greater
rt was cut down and dried for fodder
August, and farmers supplied them
Ives from the corn produced in 1916
r the see of the spring Of 1917.