Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-09-23
Items Of Interest.


do not admit liquor dealers to member.
ship.
"We find that he came to his death
from calling Bill Jackson a liar" waf
the verdict Of coroner's jury, in Mis-
souri,.
The man who says the government
should do something to cripple the In
dians is suspected OF being the agent OF
cork leg establishment.
The Goios says that the Russian land
army can now be brought up to $780,.
600 men, without counting the Opolt-
chenie or national militia.
Liverpool is compelled to erect an ad-
ditional lunatic asylum, because the
number of insane has doubled in the
county within ten years.
It is estimated that within the last
twenty-five years no less than 400, 600
panes of glass have been destroyed in
London by thunder storms.
1t is fact that savages who live on
plain, simple fare, do not attain 80 great
an average age as the civilized people
who indulge in rich cookery.
The first step toward making a man
OF your son is to train him to earn what
he spends the next best stepis to teach
him how to save his earnings.
Three Arabs, bearing the Cayenne
officials criminal brand in their fore
heads, arrived at Boston the other day,
and were Immediately reshipped to
Africa by the Boston authorities.
A mathematical genius estimates that
the Methodists give iorty-three cents
member for foreign missions, the Pres
byterians little more, the Baptists q
little less, and the Episcopalians thirty
eight cent?.
Nothing will surprise a married man
so much as to 60 home and see his wife
limpiug round the house with her little
toe bandaged, saying that she doesn't
SET why he has to keep such an internal
edge on his razor.
~ suppose" said a quack. while
feeling patients pulse, " that you con-
slider me humbug." Chow odd it u.s."
responded the patient, "that you can
80 accurately tell mans thoughts by
feeling his pulse"
$780," said lady, recently, to an
Aberdeen merchant, "your pretty
daughter has married rich husband"
" Well," slowly replied the father, "[
believe she has married rich man, but
1 understand he is a very poor hush nd"
Color is used as remedy in an insane
asylum in Alexandria, Italy. DIR. Ponza,
the physician in charge, says that he
puts melancholy lunatics into red rooms,
and violent maniacs into blue rooms, the
results being astonishingly satisfactory.
John Chiddy lost his life in rolling a
stone out of the way of an English rail-
road train, thus averting great disas-
;er. Praise of the deed was general;
yet an appeal for money to save his fam
ly from want resulted in raising only
nothing.
The recuperative forces of childhood
ire at times extraordinary. The boy
who left school sick at ten O'Clock in the
morning will go to the circus at two.P. M.
he same day, fall off seat sixteen to
eighteen feet high, and never hurt him
elf more than to miss four or five
econds of the performance.
A little miss, writing to her father on
he first day OF her entrance at boarding
chool, says "The first evening we
lad prayers, and then sirging, and
passing round of bread, Which did not
AXE, because, not being confirmed,
hought l had no right to take commun-
on. Attprward learned that I had lost
ny supper"
The cannibal tribes in the FIJI islands
AVE Jared badly in their revolt against
he new government. By the aid OF
riendly natives, the British authorities
AVE inflicted heavy punishment on the
avages and re-establlshed order. Rellg-
Gus freedom, it appears, was involved
d the conflict, the cannibals being re-
olved to punish the Christianized ma
ives.
Sothern says that he never plays
)undreary twice. alike, explaining:
: When an audience sees the point OF
oke toward which 1 am working, l
lways stop. I never pursue point
fter there has been a laugh. Audiences
iffer very much in quickness OF appre-
iation. Some are SO sharp that it is
painful to play to them they
ut me out of so much"
Sweet is childhood-chidhood over,
Kiss and part.
Sweet is YOUTH but youths rover
Sos my heart.
Sweet is rest but all my showing
Toll is nigh.
We must go. Alas the going
Say: "Good-bye."
A woman got into Baltimore street
ar, took seat and carefully examined
loaded revolver which she took from
er pocket. Then she told the con-
uctor to let her out at John Nevins'
ouse. A friend of Nevins heard tho
,mark, and, getting out of the car
head of her, ran into the endangered
lan's residence and warned him to fly.
he woman was crazy, and intended to
ill Nevins, against whom she bore a
rudge.
Some one who has been searching his
,ry announces that upto the Revolution
o American had ever exercised the
flee of general. The highest field
luk ever permitted to colonist was
olonel. In those "good old days
ian might enter a crowded barroom in
le South and say ZONE up, Son-
.al, and take drink" without every
IAN in the room responding. 1t is
iferent now.
A Buddhist nun in Marking pleaded
public and private for money to
uild temple to her favorite goddess,
wan-yin Buddha. 1t was all IN vain.
inally she caused her lips to be closed
. q IOck which passed through them,
I'd then circular inclosure of bricks
ith one small window was built around
er. There she stood for several days,
solved to die unless the people gave
sr the money for the temple. A vast
lrong, touched by her devotion and
ETY., contributed the funds, and she
as released from self-imposed i'm
.isonment and silence.