Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-04-29
Items Of Interest.

Items Of Interest.
els your house . warm ono, land.
lord Z" asked q gentleman In search Of .
house. "It ought to be-" was the re-
ply, 1.-THE painter gave it two coats No.
GENTLY"
In some parts OF Australia the wild
horses have Increased to such an extent
and do 80 much damage that the settlers
have to shoot them as they do Wild
beasts.
HALF the amount required for the pre-.
liminary experiments on the submarine
tunnel between England and France
1000, 900 francs-has been subscribed
in Paris.
Esquimaux theologians reverse heaven
and hell, placing the penitent and saved
in q sheltered world underground, and
keeping the sinners above, where they
are frosen.
Spring fashicns-Strawberry short
cakes will this year be out bias and rather
fuller in the crust than usual. Those in
two shades OF saleratus, trimmed with
the material, will be much in vogue.
The coroners' reports show that three
hundred children are suffocated in bed
each year in the central districts of Mid
dlesex, England; and that most Of these
suffocations occur on Sunday morning.
A young lady who had an offer Of
marriage from a Mr.. Moore, wrote to
him and asked for time to consider the
matter. The letter was courteous and
brief, closing with Ono more at pres
ent."
When man buys little bit Of
basket OF Strawberries no bigger than q
pint he carries it around ostentatiously
as if it made him tired but he has two
pounds of liver put up in thin paper
like lace shawl.
The papers are making great stir
over an apple, still plump and solid.
said to have been picked by Washington
in 1772, at Portsmouth, N. H., and care.
fully stuck in with cloves and guarded
as an heirloom by two generations.
As q young shaver of five or six years
was reading in school the other day, he
came upon the passage : "Keep thy
tongue from evil and thy lips from
guile" Master Hopeful drawled out
" -tongue-from-evi evil-and
-thy-lips-from-girls."
Atrocious usage of children has been
the practice in the Ohio soldiers Or
phans' home. An official investigation
shows that pounding with barrel slaves,
blows in the face that left dishguring
marks, and other equally severe punish.
ments, were daily inflicted.
Speaking of an old China sale in
Europe the other day, where pair OF
vases we're sold for $38, 900, the st. Lonis
Republican says This sale was not
held iu lunatic asylum, but in land
where men, women and children drop
dead every day in the year of starvation.
Two hundred trains pass daily ever
the Pennsylvania railroad between New
York and Philadelphia. A train leaves
Jersey City every seven minutes, night
and day. After the Centennial hes
fairly opened it is reported that the
number OF trains will be nearly doubled.
The most trying moment in the life Of
q youth is when he slips, for the first
time, into barber shop to be shaved,
and meets his father there on the same
arrand. Somehow it takes some time
for the parental mind to become recon-
ciled to the fact of his hopeful's pin
feathers.
"May they always live in peace and
harmony" was the way marriage no.
lice should have wound up; but the
,ompositor, who couldn't read manu-
script very we'll, put in type, and hor.
rified the happy couple by making 1t
Eead: "May they always live on peas
md hominy."
He was timid fellow, but fond Of
borrowing John Phenix's jokes 80
when she asked him how he felt, he
,veraged himself according to the
Phenix plan of being very definite, and
10 said he felt "about lightweight per
,ent." Indeed" she said, with de-
nure look, "are you never going to
oar9"
From Punch on an English
.ailway train No. l. Rather remark
.ble, amt it, sir9 But ave you hever
,oticed as mostly all the places on this
inc begins with 'R9'" No. Q. cav
,ee your pardon" No. /. "Look at
en-. 'Ampstead, Ighgate. 'Ackney,
omerton, 'Endon, Arrow, 'olloway"nd
Ornsey."
A blacksmith in Humboldt county,
California, offered himself as bail for a
prisoner whose trial was put off till the
,ext term. "Are you surely worth $500
.bove all your debts :" inquired the re-
,order. "Why, sir, I hold my wife to
% worth $500, without counting prop
,rty," "The court is satisfied take the
,ail, :" replied the recorder.
A pauper in an English poorhouse re-
,ently wrote to the guardians that,
: Being shut out from public life" he
Wished them to insert an advertisement
or him as horse trainer in the leading
English sporting journals. They re-
declined. Another, at the
anne meeting, asked to be supplied
with eggs and wine, as she could not
,at meat" This was also declined.
A harmless, inoffensive beggar ap.
,eared in Oconto, Wis, dressed in rags,
Begging from door to door by, day,
leeping in the barns at night, and serv-
ng as target for snowballs whenever
he boys felt sportivelyinclined. Every
,ody pitied him. Finally he und one
pecial man, and then it turned out that
he beggar was Nevada detective.
The man he found was murderer.
whose trail he had followed for three
,ears, and for whose arrest a heavy re-
yard was offered.
A certain pompous judge fined several
awyers $40 each for contempt of court.
After they had paid their fines, q steady
,oing old attorney walked gravely up to
he bench and laid down $40 bill.
What is that for2" inquired the Judge.
For contempt, your HONOR" why,
have not fined You for contempt.
Il know that" said the attorney, but
want you to understand ] cherish a
ecret contempt for this court all the
ime, and am willing to pay for it."