Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-03-11
Items Of Interest.

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Items Of Interest.
Fizzleville ia the name of town in
Clackamas county, Oregon.
The husband and wife concerned in a
San Francisco divorce suitare also uncle
and niece,
Builders are putting up V-shaped
contrivances, intended to divide and
turn aside the descending snow on Vir-
giLia City houses.
An advertisement in rural newspa-
per in England announces that "a grand
piauofoite will be exchanged tor three
or four small pigs"
The uncle yJnng Hathaway, who
was recently lynched at Plainville,
Mimi, il about to sue Wabasha county
for $l0,0 damages.
The National Guard of the State of
New Jersey propose few weeks en-
campment, during the summer, on the
Centennial grounds in Philadelphia.
The State authorities of Kansas, in an
effort to exterminate the grasshopper,
offer bounty OF IS bushel for their
eggs and 81 Il bushel for young insects.
Some Jersey City schoolgirls attacked
loafer who insnlted them, and beat him
with their sachels until he was obliged
to call upon policeman for protection.
The son of IN earl is in Jail at Buffalo
for attempting to defraud hotel keeper.
1t doesn't seem that the son of an earl is
smarter at the business than any one
else.
Every foot of space allotted to the
Dominion at the Philadelphia exhibition
is occupied, the number of Canadian
exhibitors having exceeded all expecta-
tions.
Patrick, where's the whisky gave
you to clean the window with ?" "Och,
master, Just drank it /; and thought if
I breathed on the glass it would be all
the same"
A tramp was recently sentenced to two
years in the house Of correction for re-
fusing to saw wood at the North Andover
Mass. } almshouse, in payment for lodg-
ing and breakfast.
Boston is fifty-four years old. The
city was incorporated in 1922, one hun
dred and seventy years after the incor-
poration was first mooted, and one hun
dred aud thirteen after the first failure
to incorporate it.
The brig P. M. Tinker, Of Norfolk,
Va, was recently attacked by sword
fish, which drove its sword through the
copper sheathing and four-inch plank
and some six inches into the timbers,
causing serious leak.
Official reports show substantial de-
crease in the number of deaths from in
temperance in England of late years.
In 1850 the number was 1868, and in 1873,
The latest YER fer which reports have
been issued, the total was TIT.
Judge Chester D. Krum, one Of the
Babcock counsel, was mayor OF Alton
Turing the Lovejoy riots. He was fa-
nous at the time for having begun a
speech to the bowling fantics with the
address, Gentlemen of the mob"
Utah last year produced agricultural
md horticultural products valued at
s5, 563, 46l the animals and their pro-
lucts were worth $7,86l,891, and the
product of her mechanical and manu-
industries aggregated $780,
al, in all $18, 935, lob.
The habit of opium snoking in the
chinese dens at Virginia City, New, is
80 common among the white
,eople that many CT the older pupils in
he public schools are beginning to fire.
Iuent these places, and loud call is
nade to have them closed by law.
An old farmer said to his sons:
Boys, don't you ever spekerlate, or
7ait for somethin' to turn up. You
night just as we'll go and sit down ona
tone in the middle of medder with
all twixt your legs, and wait for COW
D back up to you to be MIXED"
A lady died recently at Exeter, Eng
md, of an over dose of chloral, which
onstituted the active part of patent
The solution contained TWEEN.
live grains to the teaspoonful, most
nusual strength, and yet was sold with
ut intimation of the danger attending
8 use.
A young minister, somewhat distin-
uished for self conceit, having failed
isastrously before crowded audience,
as thus addressed by an aged brother
If you had gone into that pulpit, feel
~ as you now do on coming out of that
nlpit, you would have felt, on coming
ut of that pulpit, as you did when you
ent up iuto that pulpit" "
much improved. Please send me two pack
ages more and much oblige
Yours, &C., L. DRAPER.
From Rev. II. q. Murch.
Lamar, Barton Co., Me-, July "a. 1873.
MR.. THOMAS w. LANE.-Wc received your
Pills and think they are good. Please send
us another package immediately. Enclosed
find fifty cents. REV. II. q. MURCH
EyFor the convenience Of persons living
in Bradford and vicinity, these Pills can be
had at the OPINION OFFICE, or will be
Had a Question. A'
In one of the Detroit schools recently
teacher departed for half an hour from
g usual programme and asked her
holars such questions a. might inter-
/ them. After she had asked "What
skes the wind blow?" "What causes
in 2" "Who invented the locomo-
'esG" and so forth, and helped to ex-
ain them, she said:
" Now, children, any of you who go
sire can ask me questions"
No one seemed to think of anything,
cept a frecked-faced boy about four
IN years old. He raised his hand,
d the teacher said
swell, Robert, have you a ques-