Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-10-07
Items OF Interest.

Items OF Interest.
The new servant girl, on the first
morning after her arrival, ingeni0usly
asks: "And does girls that live out
have TO make their own bids, mumY"
"I should be afraid to carry my nose
as high as you do, ma'am," said ser.
want to her mistress. "A;raid OF
what9" she asked, sharply. "Afraid OF
spiders, ma'am."
Mamma said young hopeful; who
against his will was made to rock the
cradle Of his baby brother, If the
Lord has any more babies to give away
don't you take 'em."
"Saloons keep in advance Of civilza-
tion." says the Minneapolis Tribune.
Yes, we have noticed it. When Daniel
Boene went alone into the wildernesse
Of Kaintuche he found "b'ar" ten
der.
Now is the time for husking bees.
The bee should be firmly seized by the
responsive end, and-well, you can de-
pend upon the bee for further instruc-
tions.
A story is floating about in the papers
to the effect that large organization OF
beggars exists in New York city, pre-
sided over by woman and having q,
treasurer and secretary, the latter being
a beautiful mulatto girl.
"You see,, said Uncle Job, "my
wife's cur 'ous woman. She scrimped,
and saved, and almost starved all of MS
to get our parlor furnished nice, and
now che won't let us go into it, and
hain't even had the window blinds of it
open for q month. She is curious
woman |"
A mercantile firm at Spirit Lake,
Iowa, have adopted new method OF
doing business. No books are kept.
When customer desires credit, he goes
to the desk and borrows money, for
which he give his note, payable with in
terest. He then buys his goods and
pays for them.
A Canadian sportsman declares that
the speckled trout in Ontario have been
killed by warm water. The woods have
been cut down, and the sun. shining up
on the water from morning till night,
heats the streams. He asks the farmers
to plant willow limbs along the waters
edge to shade the brooks and give the
trout chance-tobe caught by anglers.
A lady, in describing to an irreverent
boy an occurrence in which his father
figured, closed by remarking: ~ am
sorry to say that the thing ended by
your father losing his temper" "Did
father lose his temper9" exclaimed the
young scapegrace then hope he'll
never find it again, for it was the worst
temper ever heard Of"
The question of the hour in San Fran
cisco is: Will tapioca explode A
sample bought at corner grocery in
that city had decided tendency to "go
off when brought near the stove, and
it was sent to powder mill to be ana
lyzed. tits supposed to be compound
Of nitrate of potash with sugar and flour
of starch. The grocer will be prose-
cuted.
At O TichEorne meeting held in Lon
don recently, Mr.. Guilford Onslow said
he lad addressed three hundred and
fifty-fve public meetings on the sub
iect, He claimed that evidence had
been secured since the trial whereby
they. could trace Roger Tichbornes
movements from the time he left Eng 4
land to The moment he was recognized
by Lis mother.
A farmer residing near Newcastle,
Penn, recently discovered number OF
boys helping themselves in his orchard.
He Immediately unloosed large bull
dog and set the brute after the boys.
The savage animal caught one of the
youths by the throat. and in moment
tore out the boys wind-pipe and sew
cred his jugular vein, causing death Ill
a very few minutes.
One day Bill had company to dine with
him, and his wife, wishing William to
appear we'll, quietly admonished him to
be careful what he said. All went well
till Bill got his potatoes we'll mashed,
when he said: "Dolly, parse the grease r
" why, William" said his wife, "you
should call it gravy" "Wall," says
Bill, ct guess if get it on your table,
cloth it would be grease. The guests
shouted.
Tho following was copied literally
from an old tombstone in Scotland:
Here lies the body Of Alex .nder M'Pherson,
Who was very extraordinary person,
Who was two yards high in his stocking feet,
And kept his accouterments clean and neat,
He was slew
At the battle of Waterloo,
Plump through
The gullet it went in at his throat,
And came out at the back of his coat.
A fashionable season at the watering
places is over, and when couple OF
city ladies who lived in tho rear of their
dwelling all the summer meet on the
street they greet each other with:
"Why, how tanned you are! When did
you get back9" And they are just as
happy, apparently, as if they had squan'
dered q thousand dollars at Long
Branch and had not stained their faces
with certain preparation "with intent
to deceive"
An auctioneer relates the following
A year or more the auctioneer had tor
sale lot of homeopathic medicines. All
these medicines were dumped into one
pile and disposed of in one lot, there
being various kinds of medicine in the
mass. A boarding house keeper bought
the lot, and some days after the pur-
chase the auctioneer asked her: What
did you want with the that homeopathic
medicine, Mrs. -" She replied
"I thought 1 could use it, and it was ,
cheap, 40 I crushed it under the roller
and then filed my sugar bowls with it.
The boarders seemed to like it, and es-
pecially when powdered over pies"