Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-07-29
Items Of Interest.
Great il not great to the greater.

49,
has il.
Kansas horses eau feel their oats at ter
cents bushel.
What is nothing' A footless stock
ing without leg.
Some people are just like q bugg!
wheel-always tired.
Woman's grief is like summer storm
short as it is violent.
Massachusetts has disbanded her only
militia company Of colored men.
A Indy has been found, 80 kind heart
ed and lazy, that she will never beat 81
egg.
Some grief shows much OF love bu'
much of grief shows still some want o.
wit.
About tho greediest thing known is I
fowl eating corn it takes a peck every
time.
Taxidermy for parents-H You want
to preserve your children do not stuff
them.
A good witness is one whom the jury
will believe /; not the one who tells the
best story.
No man can afford to lose his temper
in this weather. Life is too short under
any circumstances.
A Nashville man answered a Chicago
advertisement, "How to win at poker, 4"
and received for his two dollars the fol-
lowing: "Hold four aces or don't poke. "
Some statistician announces TINT more
people have been killed by accidents on
the fourth of July in the United States
than were killed in the Revolutionary
war.
'iDoes this razor take hold we'll !"
asked the smiling barber. EYES," re-
piled the unhappy victim, "it takes
hold well, but don't lot go worth a
cent"
"Did you think Of me while you were
gone |" tenderly asked an uptown wo-
man OF her husband who had just got
back from Florida. lie said he did
once. It was when he saw an alligator's
jaw.
Rice culture in Louisiana employs
10000 people, ON 1900 plantations;
produces crop worth SO. .O0O, 900, and
develops business to the extent of $1O.-
100000.
Grasshoppers in Minnesota aro said to
be numerously assailed by parasites that
affix eggs to their bodies, and from the
eggs come grubs that bore into them
with fatal effect.
Probably few people know that Lon
don, England, has quadrupled its popu-
lation in sixty years. In 1910 it was
less than 1000, 600 ; in 1861 some :, 3,O0O,-
600; and now 100000 people live in
500, 900 houses.
Customer" How much for the lilies
of the valley9" Florist" Five shil-
lings bunch" Customer-"Too
much." Florist (blandly) =" Well,
madam, if you will have the lilies OF the
valley, you must pay the vally OF the
lilies"
The census for 1875 shows that Bos-
ton has 341, ,919 inhabitants, of whom
179,675 are women, 1852, 1853 men, while
the foreign born are in excess Of the
natives 2. BAL. There are 1869 colored
persons, As Chinese, s Japanese and 81
Indians.
"Joe," said Tom, ~ heard certain
fellow say to his girl, 'Shall have your
utensins engroved on that ringa' What
do you think of that 7" "I think"
answered Joe, "he must be the same
fellow who asked his girl to let him ride
in her phantom"
A man with full set OF burglars
tools was found in Independence Hall,
trying to pry open the safe in which the
Declaration of Independence is kept.
The magistrate before whom he was
brought allowed him to be discharged
on plea of insanity.
It is difficult to explain some of the
great problems of nature. 1t is esti-
mated that it takes eighteen centuries to
form O foot of coal, butt isa we'll known
fact that ton left out on the sidewalk
will usually shrink fifty per cent. or
more in single night.
A young man of Wayne county. Iowa,
who had been deaf and dumb for twenty
years, while driving leisurely one day
lately was suddenly thrown from q
wagon to the ground, striking his head,
aud on arising found that he had recov-
cred his speech and hearing.
There are said to be in the United
States 252. 14S manufacturing establish
ments, employing 2.O53. 996 hands, and
annually 81, 232, 445 worth OF
goods. There are 40, ,19l steam engines,
and 81, ,O18 water wheels, with combin-
ed force of 2,346, las horse power.
A Chicagoan has obtained a verdict
against q railroad company whose bag
gageman smashed his trunk. He proved
that the trunk was not only dropped
Il ON the wagon to the ground, but that
The baggageman lifted it as high e. he
could, so that it would fall heavier.
A lunatic was found dead in an
English asylum with his ribs crushed
into his lungs. A coroner's jury did
not believe the explanation given by the
keepers, which was that he had inflicted
The injury by throwing himself against q
wall, and a rigid investigation is in
progress.
Perhaps there is nothing in this world
that makes o man 30 mad as to pose
when lie secs that landscape photo
graph is to be taken, and when it is
printed discovers that he appears not
ike Washington or Napoleon, but like
pinhead, with his right boot
On his left shoulder.
It having been said that the custom
Of wearing false hair will have to 60 out
Of fashion shortly on account OF the
available stock being exhausted, suf-
fering friend suggests there is one field
that has not yet been gone over which
would yield itch harvest, and that is
boarding house butter.
A party of men gathered on the shore
Of the river Lea, in England, to play
ss cat" game as to which tho reporter
in a London newspaper gives no de-
scription. A part Of the fun, however
consisted in tying rope around man,
throwing him into the water, and draw
ing him across tho stream. The rope
broke, tho man was drowned, and the
other players are under arrest.
A venerable English divine, who had
been dining out the night before, went
into BARRIERS shop one morning to De
shaved. He eaw that the barber had
been getting more drink than was good
Tor him, for il made his hand shakeve
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