Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-05-27
Items OF Interest.

The first "trick horse" on record
the wooden one in which tho Greeks
entered Troy.
In Kentucky it is not a capital offense
to disbelieve the numerous stories that
are in circulation relative to centena-
rians.
Gov. Ingersoll reports the school fund
of Connecticut to be $2,O43, 900. 81, of
which more than one-half is invested in
safe mortgages upon real estate.
Amorg the portraits OF historical
characters some of the most interesting
are those of Patrick Henry, Pocahontas,
Lafayette, Governor Percy, and others,
all Of which were sent from Virginia.
A Boston firm is said to be doing an
immense business in buying damaged
and refuse butter at five cents pound,
working it over and coloring it, and then
putting it on the market rs fresh country
butter.
Tho Washington Republican, with
tears in its eyes, says One of the sad
dest things to contemplate just now is
the large number Of persons in this
country who have no relations in Phila-
delphia.
Now subscribe for the newspaper. An
eminent physician says: One of the
cheapest and most efficient chest protec-
tors, when unexpectedly exposed to cold,
raw winds, is folded newspaper inside
the vest.
A Harrisburg man who boosted he'd
never seen the horse that could throw
him, was landed in a druggist show
window five minutes afterwnrd, amid
chorus of "There's light in the win.
dow for thee"
In Nevada, when building falls and
kills two or three people, the jury first
hunt mp the contractor and hang him,
and then bring in verdict that nobody
is to blame but the contractor, who can
not be found.
An Irishman, noticing a lady pass
along, espied two strips depending from
under the ladys cloak. Not knowing
that these were styled sashes and in the
right place, he exclaimed Faith,
ma'am, your gallusses are united.
A quarrelsome husband and wife in
Iowa decided to separate and divide
their property evenly. The land was
measured off into two farms, and the
house and barn were cut in halves, and
each half removed short distance.
"You have considerable floating
population in this village, haven't you9"
asked stranger of one of the citizens Of
a village on the Mississippi. Well,
yes-rather, was the reply; "about half
the year the water is up to the second
story windows"
Sometimes you see sun Drowned
man with slouch hat, and with the
ends of his fingers turned down MS if he
imagined himself about to strike the
keys of a piano. He is not pianist,
he is base ball player, and his fingers
will always stay that way.
A company has been organized at
California to manufacture sugar from
melons, which are to be raised on
tract OF reclaimed land in the delta of
the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers.
A correspondent of the Baltimore San
says the melons make much better sugar
than beets, and can be raised much
cheaper.
A Chicago man handed in an adver-
vcrtisement Offering So for the return of
q bull terrier, but it was printed 1875.
He then sent in another notice offering
SS5. 90, and it was published $500, the
of which was that his
residence was besieged by owners of
50 dorgs" leading countless host of
bull terriers. The reward was not paid.
A blind boy, who was taken into an
elevator for the first time in Cleveland
hotel, set up the most terrific screaming
when the cab began to rise, and would
not be pacified until it was stopped.
He explained that he supposed that he
had been misled, and was being taken
lown into the dissecting room of
medical college to be used as a subject.
The Canadian minister o: the interior
reports that there are 81, $40 Indians in
The Dominion, of which number 10000,
to untreatied tribes, are set
lied between Peace river and the United
States boundary. In the five older
they have personal property
worth $489, 234 real estate worth ST.
,33, 7O8, and in invested capital the sum
If 50, 844, ,972.
A strange custom has been preserved
n Nottingham, England, from remote
lines. One If the heads Of the family,
previous to locking the street door for
he last time in the year, carefully de-
,osits gold coin in close proximity to
he door, where it is allowed to remain
Until the new year has been ushered in.
This is believed to insure the supply of
money for the years necessities.