Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-02-12
Items OF Interest.

W. O. Bryant
Items OF Interest.
4 Whisky is o dollar drink at the
Black Hills.
| A man hits the right grade of conduct
when he shows frmness will out rude
ness.
A little Savannah (Ga.) boy, initiating
his playmstes, who had been jumping
over o bonfire, fell into the flames and
was burnt 80 badly that he died.
As the last stroke of eight o'clock died
away, Quiz sat down his coffee cup and
remarked reAectively: cts curious, now,
that o clock never uses its hands to strike
with"
The first fruits of leap year shine
forth in the case of Miss Belle Harper,
of .Fairhaven, w. Va, who shot man
because he refused her offer OF mar
riage.
The old story. Boston papers assert
that with o few minor exceptions, the
city "gets dollars worth Of work for
every hundred expended Oh public i'm
provements.
A gentleman rode up to public hou 70
in the country and asked: "Who is the
n aster of this house ?" II am, sir, re
piled the landlord; "my wife has been
dead about three weeks"
Man." Do you think it would be safe
for me to cross this pasturel" Maid
"Well, the old bull don't like red very
much, but if you will chalk your nose 1
| ouess he won't attack YOU,
There is said to be three hundred and
fifty foundries in the United States en-
gagged in the manufacture of stoves and
furnaces, using annually five hundred
thousand tons of iron.
The Maine House of Representatives
has adopted a resolution providing that,
after Jan. /, 1877, tho Legislature shall
meet at Portland, on condition that the
city shall provide suitable buildings at
its own expense.
A somewhat juvenile dandy said to a
fair partner at ball "Don't you
think, miss, my mustaches are becom-
inR9 To which she replied "Well,
sir, the may be coming, but they have
not yet arrived"
The misfortunes of O servant girl {:
Z" Yes, mum, dreadful destructive these
things il, If this here vase didn't sneak
down stairs from the parlor when J
wasn't a-noticin. and smashed itself to
atoms on the kitchen floor p
A thief ut Council Bluffs, Iowa, has
been detected in the act of catching his
neighbors' chickens by batting a fish
hook with corn. attaching it to strong
line, and pulling through fence the
fowls which swallowed the bait.
Cider, in the view of the New York
Times, ought to be recognized as tenn
perance beverage. 1t certainly ought.
All the cider we've seen for the last ten
years, says the Rochester Democrat. has
been about two-thirds town-pump.
A steamer has been chartered to sail
from Genoa Oh June first with italian
exhibitors and visitors to the Centennial,
and every berth and inch of available
space for freight have already been en-
gagged. Another one is to be chartered.
Little Alice was crying bitterly, and
on being questioned confessed to hav-
ing received slap from one of her play
fellows. "You should have returned
it," unwisely said the questioner.
"Oh, returned it BEFORE" said the lit
tie girl.
Professor benton said at st. Paul,
Mimi, that the mound builders were
Mexicans, who came North for Superior
copper, and that the American Indians
are descendants of Asiatics, who came
over when America and Asia were con
nected by land.
The Pail Mall Gazette says that moth
ing ia easier for man of nervous tenn
perament to dream himself into belief
that he cares more for his theories than
for hisperson, and that he declines action
rather from moral dislike than from
physical repugnance.
The time for man to stand firmly by
Jobs example is when he washes his
face with homemade soap and water,
and begins to paw around over the chairs
with his eyes shut inquiring for towel
quick, and is told that the towels are in
the drawer, but the keys are lost.
"What will you have ?" asked a waiter
of one of the Indiana editors" at the
dinner in Philadelphia, as he handed him
a bill of fare. And the Hoosier with tho
high forehead leaned back in his chair,
wiped his forehead thoughtfully with q
napkin, and calculated sternl, "Gim-
me all ?"
An eminent physician Of Western
,ity says he has cured ninety mine out of
svery hundred cases of scarlet fever by
giving the patient warm lemonade with
gum arabic dissolved in it. A cloth
wrung out in hot water and laid upon
The stomach should be removed as rap
idly as it becomes cool.
Occupying clerkship i'll the Treasury
department at Washington is bright,
Dewitc hing little widow, who refuses to
marry, although every single man who
,ees her is ready to lead her to the altar.
She is as good, too, as she is beautiful,
md takes care of two young brother
md widowed mother.
The funny man of the Rochester
Democrat frequently, when at party,
vanders dreamily to window, graceful
Y lifts aside the purple curtain, and
While he sighs and looks at the stars the
naidens whisper "He is thinking out
piece of wit" and that gives him time
O chew up couple of cloves.
Sir Josiah Mason, the English pen
has built scientific col
ege at cost of $500, 900. and endowed
{ with $3.50, 900 more. Besides, ne has
old his business for $500, 900, and pro-
roses to give that to the college. He
lad previously built in Birmingham on
rphanage and almshouses which cost
1 $50. 600.