Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-03-04
Items Of Interest.

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i Bears ear " is new color in favor
= in San Francisco.
Texas has population Of 1875, 900.
In 1870 it was 818.5l9.
The only place where they never have
a slim attendance-the fat mems ball.
, A New Hampshire distiller, it ia said,
makes all his employees sign the tenn.
perance pledge.
James Parton is fifty-four and his step
daughter wife about forty. Parton WAS
thirty -four when he married Fanny Fern,
and she WIS forty five.
Professor docking at his watch)-"As
we have few minutes, should Ike to
have any one ask questions, if so dis
posed" Student-"W What time is it,
please9"
John A. Andrew Post Is, G.. A. r. of
Boston, voted to discontinue the cere-
mony of decorating the graves of their
fallen comrades who lie buried at Mount
Auburn.
Pleasure is to women what the sun is
to the flower; If moderately enjoyed il
beauti6es, refreshes and improves; if
immoderately, it withers, desolates and
destroys.
About to be sent to the house of cor
rection, a convict was told that he would
be set to picking oakum. "Let 'em
try it," said he I'll tear the thing to
pieces |"
Some thoughtless person says: cit is
unkind to ridlcule those items in the
papers about centenarians. It is no
easy thing to become q centenarian
several have failed"
Delmonico, the lion tanner OF Paris,
lost four of his lions in one night. They
managed to reach stuffed horse which
waeneax4he cage, and gnawed the akin,
| xhi0h hg prepared with arsenic,
6165sd thsir death in few hours.
John Stevens, OF Logansport, Ind,
inherited an estate of $12, 1000 two years
since and spent it in riotous living, and
now sues the trustees for its value, al
legipg that he wasn't of age when the
property was turned over to him.
1t is said by some physicians that con-
densed milk is not suitable food as
substitute for pure milk for infants. 1t
is believed to be more fattening, but less
nourishing, and to diminish the cbild's
power of resisting diseases. This is
matter that orght to be thoroughly in
vestigated and universally understood,
for condensed milk is largely used as
food for infants.
George Lord. of West Roxbury, died
few days ago. He got piece of meat
in his throat, and was in a fair way to-
choke to death, when doctor pulled it
ont with his finger. Then current of
air began to circulate between the skin
and flesh, putting the man up even to
his fingers and toes, and causing him in
tense pain. He soon died, after which
his body resumed its normal size.
"Johnny, don't toot that horn any
longer. Boys didn't do such things as
that hundred years ago. You ought
to do as they did," But when the old
man came home in the afternoon, and
found that Johnny, after obtaining
historical authority, had melted up all
the pewter spoons, heirloom CANDLE
sticks, etc., into bullets to fight the
enemy with, he was sorry he had
stopped the horn.
A New Bedford man and his wife went
to neighboring town to get the body of
their dead daughter. They put the cof-
fined corpse in their wagon and started
for home, where funeral was to be held,
but stopped at the first tavern and drank.
Their subsequent stops and drinks ex-
actly equaled the number Of other tav-
erns on the route, and five miles from
home they were SO drunk that they did
not notice the fall of the coffin from
he wagon. The body'was found lying
'ace downward in the road.
A school of whales recently entered
he Dowry Voc of Shetland in pursuit of
lerring they were numerous and
arge, and caused great commotion
lmong the fishermen, a number Of whom
'et out in boats to try and capture one
" more. But the whales showed fight,
md drove the fishermen back to the
hore, capsizing one boat, the crew of
which were saved with difficulty. After
lisporting themselves triumphantly in
he bay for while the victorious whales
moved off majestically.