Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-02-19
Items Of Interest.

America produces 1000, 900 paper col
lars day.
Girls in India marry at the age Of ten
or twelve.
venetians cot fried cutie fish will,
lemon juice.
Happy thought-Lock up. the bank
cashiers IN their safes.
Rhode Island has 1,4l6,734 spindles
against 812, ,654 in 1850.
Even in war moral power is 10 physi.
cal as three parts out Of four.
The Chinese very aptly describe going
to law as giving COW for calf.
The population Of Texas has increased
thirty three per cent. in five years.
Religious revivals are taking place In
various parts OF the United States.
The male cricket chirps, while the
female works in silence. W0man's Jour
nal please copy.
A blind mendicant in Paris wears this
inscription around his neck: "Dont be
ashamed to give only a sou. I can't
see."
The man who reads much finds
friends in all places in books. When
ever he takes mp volume he feels
tome.
There are fewer distilleries now run
ming in any OF the large corn raising
counties Of central Kentucky than in
any past year.
Lieutenant Cameron travelled on foot
1858 miles, from Zanzibar to Benguela,
trusting to mere accident for his iveI-
hood as he went along.
A New Haven tailor called in to testify
in the city court, stated that fancy
tailors generally put on about ten or fif-
teen dollars for STYLE" He drew it mild.
eff I Use it I'll be just as dirty after
it's gone if I sell it 1 can have peanuts
and ride home, too," soliloquized q boot
black when he found q cake Of toilet
soap.
A popular industry in many river
towns is the catching OF drift wood. It
is an occupation requiring patience and
a disposition to take things as they
come.
There's always something new. A
forlorn lad Of ten leads o dog around
town and says to pedestrians " Please
gimme cent, and you may kick my
dog!"
Boys under fifteen are not allowed to
be on the streets of Falls City, Kan,
after eight P. M, and all profane and in
decent language is punished with fine
and imprisonment.
Among the food products supplied to
the London market is dried egg. The
meat OF the egg, both white and yolk,
is reduced to fine powder, and can be
wet up and used for cooking.
The San Francisco Journal of Com
',aerce estimates the wheat crop Of Cali
fornia OF value Of $26, ,00O, 900, and,
what will surprise many people, the gold
and silver crop at million less.
Mr.. Cooper has an orchard within
about twelve miles of Santa Barbara,
Oal., of $4,000 almond trees, 1000 Eng
lish walnut trees, 5000 olive trees, 5000
and 5000 eucalyptuses.
A girl described gentleman to whom
The was introduced as wearing " star
led look, giving one the impression that
any sudden noise would cause him to
Jump through his necktie and run away"
Why should the beehive be taken asa
Iymbol of industry9 Not bee is to be
Ieen all the winter long, while the cock
oach is up at five o'clock in the morn
pg and never goes to bed until mid
light.
When man is too lazy to work and
90 cowardly to steal, he fits in lager
,eer saloon, frowns ominously at free
unch counter, and remarks to his
,rother exile: :" The country's going to
he dogs"
The prudent young man does not now
isit female friends without witness,
nd when one of them breathes tender
question he replies: "No, dearest, it
an never be, but l will always be a
,rother to you."
There is woman in the poorhouse at
'awlet, VT, who can see further than
he majority of her sex. To all offers of
marriage she resolutely replies IL
would not swap the town of Pawlet for
he best man living"
One of the largest and finest stores in
lew York stands idle to-day, as it has
or five years. At that time the land
ord, wealthy old man, fixed his rental,
nd declared that it should stand idle
Lntil the rent was paid, and it stands .
nd will stand until the old man diesand
is heirs take the thing in hand.