Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-04-15
ITEMS OF Interest.

ITEMS Of Interest.
An empty pocket is no sign for an
empty head.
What is the worst kind of M omen
To owe men.
A Centennial oath: "Don't care n
Continental.
New Orleans has nine murders in the
first twenty-one days of March.
Hereafter wife beaters in California
will be punished by public whipping.
To be patient and thorough in all that
one does is to compel success IN any call
ing.
Why is tugboat like a chiropodist?
Because its business is to look after
tows.
What disagreeable person was it that
said tho national tune of America is the
spit-toon?
Sixteen centenarians died in Massa-
chusetts last year, eleven of whom were
born in Ireland. ...
A London paper says that the Ameri-
cans are the readiest speechmakers the
world has ever seen.
They soon get to know the most for
themselves who arc tho most willing to
learn of others.
New Orleans has received l, ,204, 542
bales of cotton of the present crop, an
increase of 800, 318 bales over the receipts
for the same time last year.
The Centennial Guards of New Or
leans voted unanimously to visit the
Centennial at Philadelphia, and ap-
pointed committee of arrangements.
The Forsyth (Ga.) advertiser thus
philosophers: ''The soil is the farmers
bank" says an agricultural writer. Oh,
if more people would break that bank.
"Meet me by gaslight alone" said
swain beneath the window of his lady
love. "Now you get out; 1 amt no
gas meeter," replied the gentle cred
| trre.
First boy" say, Jimmy, there's no
water. It's frozen, everywhere. Second
boy -" Bully ! Maybe we won't haveto
wash ourselves till the middle Of
spring"
Lucern cannot be grown in profitable
competition with clover, where clover
may be grown in perfection. 1t is best
adapted for dry climates, where clover
will not flourish.
B.eathes there man with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said,
will family paper take,
Both for my own and chiIdren's sake
II such there be lot him repent
And have this paper to him cent.
Idesire, says an author, t. pnt Meth
ing into these papers which may mislcad
nothing foreign to the ai'igit of the
boy who said he had nn copybook
which, dying, lie was sorry he had blot
ted.
There is advertised in the London
newspapers "a contrivance which, ap-
piled to the nose for an hour daily, SO
directs the soft cartilage of which the
member consists, that an i'll formed
nose is quickly shaped to perfection.
John Quincy Adams made one entry
in his diary which will be indorscd by
every amateur Granger: 81 make two
remarba-one, that the elf-planted trees
thrive most vigorously; the OF Ter, that
the plants which I most cherish aro the
most apt to disappoint me and die"
OLD lady (holding very small cab
bage)-" Whut Ten cents for such q
small cabbage never heard OF such
thing" Polite grocer's clerk" Yes,
lna'an but it's because OF the Centen-
NAL ma'am. There's so many frtrriners
a. comm that smoke, cabbages is riz.
Under Territorial law in force in
Utah, John Wiggina, convicted OF mur-
der in Salt Lake CITY, and sentenced to
death, has been allowed to make choice
of the manner in which he shall be put
to death, and in open court elected to be
shot rather than to lie hanged or decapl-
tated.
Il is how pretty clearly demonstrated
that from s12, 900, 900 to $13, 900, 600 of
United States fractional currency has
been lost or destroyed by mutilation OF
otherwise, never to return to the treas
ury for redemption. This would imply
an average of million Of dollars year
since March, 1868.
In lumbermen's camp, in Colorado,
a DISPUTE arose as to the proper pro
nunciation of Newfoundland. The
two contestants sent man ten miles
after dictionary, hut while he was gone
the dispute changed to a quarrel. One
knocked the other down and was i'm
mediately shot.
A man living near the fork of two
roads in Hollis, N. H., has been called
out of bed two hundred and flfty-six
times to tell travellers which of the two
roads to take, and he is seriously con
templating the putting up lantern
close to the guide board. ]tw will cost
something, it is true, but he longing
for a nights sleep.
A Virginia railroad was made to pay
$25 for killing valuable r. o1ter. Inc
engineer said he blew the whistle as
kindly as possible but when the rooster
dropped one wing on tho ground, raised
his eve heavenward and commenced
whetting his spur on tho rail, forbea' noe
ceased to be virtue, and he let rive
into him with thirteen cars.
Towards the close of hall in Paris
q young lady who was passionately fond
of dancing was asked by her mother to
prepare for the carriage. "Only this
last waltz" entreated the young girl,
and she giided away with her partner.
Suddenly he cried out in horror. The
young girl had died while in his arms,
and he was waltzing with corpse.
In Great Britain there are 410, 600 men
cmplo, ed in the coal mines below the
ground, and 1O6,OOO engaged above the
ground, The coal mined each year
amounts to 1913, 800, 600 tons. On an
average cne Thousand men are All'ed
eyery wear aud four thousand are wound
ed, In the last half century 50,c men