Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-05-20
Items Of Interest.


Items Of Interest.
There are as many rich men ~ good
men. .-
The value Of O mans education can.
not be estimated by tho price he paid
for it.
John Murray sat in window in Bali-
more, to ont his toe nails, fell out, stuck
the knife blade into his side, and bled 10
death. H"t
A fair committee applied to dealer
In agricultural implements for some
thing they could sell in shares. he sent
them plow. ...t
The best way to destroy thistles Is TO
cut through the roots just before the
buds form, with spade, at point two
inches below tho surface.
The day has arrived when fair raos
horse has only to diO to secure . better
monument than the friends of the most
prominent public man are willing 10
give him.
The st. Louis Republican calls for q
city ordinance to force tramps to earn
their bread and bu tier. Suppose tramp
doesn't like bread and butter, but wants
sweetcake?
A man called upon dilatsry debtor,
and politely said II you'll pay me
the amount OF your bill Immediately,
you'll obi &c me If not. shall have to
oblige you.
Marshal MaoMahon has consented to
pardon those Communists condemned
for their political course who have ex-
hibited good behavior. in the penal
colonies.
London refuses to name one Of her
streets after Washington, but who caresi
America has sixty towns, 160 parks, 900
streets, and LOO hotels and saloons
named after him.
A fair took place at Munich in which
636 different species of fowl, 837 OF
doves, and four hundred Of birds were
marked down. Carrier pigeons were
held at from So to $40.
A San Francisco millionaire has car.
peted the stalls in his stable. and would
like it II his horses would sleep on $50
bedsteads. There's only step between
the horse and the mule.
A good many hard feelings would per-
haps be avoided if You could conquer
yourself sufficiently to step inside the
door when you see your neighbor go
down on banana peel.
A Tennessee widow had an old mule
which was likely to die. She cut his
throat, laid the sin to unknown enemies,
and public subscription purchased her
the incest, sleekest mule in town.
The king of Burmah has ordered the
courts and public offices to be closed for
forty days, during which time the cere.
mony OF boring holes in the ears Of tho
princesses will be performed.
The people OF Brazoria county, Texas,
want the county divided. II il over
seventeen hundred square miles In ex.
tent, one-third larger than the whole
area Of Rhode Island, water and al.
Habey, candidate for senator In
Paris. was nominated as representative
Of poor workingmen; but, much to the
annoyance Of his supporters, the dis
covery has been made that he owns prop.
erty worth $50, 900 francs.
A woman near Bolton, England, sold
some impure milk from her farm, and
the result was violent outbreak of
typhoid and milk poisoning, from which
twenty people died, the woman who
owned the farm among the number.
At Yen-ping, China, placards inciting
the populace against foreigners are post
ed on the walls of the city, and flags
bearing this inscription, "expel and de-
stroy the foreign barbarians," are flying
in prominent localities. e5N.
Some one says: The great objection
to smart children is, that when they
commence having whiskers they leave
off having brains. Boys that are phil
osophers at six years of age are generally
blockheads at twenty-one. By forcing
children you get so much into their
heads that they become cracked.
A young lady at Newark, Is., has re-
covered damages from the estate OF q
suitor who committed suicide upon
being called upon to fulfill his promise
to marry her. The court held that the
suicidal act under the circumstances was
q deliberate breach OF promise for
which his estate might be held liable.
There was no plea of insanity.
els it becoming to met" asked she.
as she paraded in the costume of q hum
dred years ago before the man who is
not her lord and master, but her hus-
band. "Yes, my dear" said he, meekly.
"Don't you wish could dress this way
all the time2" sho asked. "No, my
DEAR" he answered, but wish you
had lived when that was the STYLE"
"Well, I guess we had better quit
work for tonight, said farmer who
was in the habit of rushing out among
his men at evening, and working with
them, so as to keep them digging. as
long as they could see g" guess we had
better quit for tonight" ~ don't
know" said one, "we might hoe awhile
longer, if you'll fetch out some lamps"
Said q male advocate of woman's
rights "When am in crowded car,
and q lady comes in, think it is the
duty of some other man to get up and
give her seat. look around the car
10 see if any man in the crowd looks like
making a move in that direction and
when I see them all keep their seats,
hide my face behind my newspaper and
blush for my SEX"
A traveller overtaking an old Presby-
erian minister, whose nag was much
atigued, quizzed the old gentleman
lpon his "turn out" ga nice horse
,ours, doctor, very valuable beast that
but what makes him wag his tail so,
loctorl" why, as ,ou have asked
ne will tell you. It is for the same
eason that your tongue wags so-a sort
# natural weakness.
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