Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-02-26
Items Of Interest.

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4 diana.
o California's wool clip will reach fifty
r million pounds next season.
An Indiana editor has stamped upon
= his Office bill-heads picture OF the for.
y get-menot.
!; You can never do too much to make
: home happy-And men never try to. adds
: an old maid.
!, Lydia Sherman, the convicted whole
sale poisoner, is said to be dying in the
q Connecticut State prison.
London has 5000 miles OF gas mains,
3 54, 900 street lamps, which burn 8, 8,00O,-
600 cubic feet Of gas each night.
Five circuses that travelled last year
will not venture this year on account OF
the dull times, and acrobatic talent is at
discount.
Gold mounted cofins are considered
the thing now in New York. Wealthy
people are quite carried away with them
after death.
Tweed must enjoy immensely, in his
suburban retreat the reading of the re.
ports Of the one million, and the six
million and all the other suits.
It may not appear Of any particular
personal interest to any Of us, but it is
fact that there will be total eclipse OF
the sun on the eleventh Of August, 1899.
Three years ago Sheffield sent cutlery
and steel rails to the United States valu-
ed at 81, 700,0 ,0OO Last year the total
value of goods exported to this country
was only $500, 900.
A child year and half old died in
France recently, which weighed at its
birth eight pounds, and never weighed
more than that. For the last year it
weighed only six pounds.
The commander-in- chief of the Abys.
sinian army is an ex.sergeant of the
English army named Kirkam, who has
introduced mitrailleuses, Remington
rifles, and Colts revolvers.
A Canada journal has discovered q
hermit in the town Of Perth who is sew
enty years old, and for forty years has
not worn any clothing summer or win.
tor, in spite Of which he hos never been
frozen.
A Lincolnshire (England) boy thir-
teen years old, who put An iron nut on
rail OF the Great Northern road, doubt
less in play, and threw All engine of the
track, has been sentenced to six months
hard labor.
A Hartford girl treating too frequent
gentleman caller rather coolly drew from
him the remark: II fear you are not
dealing squarely with me-" "That's
because YOU are round 80 often," was
the quiet reply.
A Sacramento beet-sugar factory
turned out 5000, 900 pounds of white
sugar in 1875. The beets yield thirteen
and one half per cent. of sugar-fve and
one. half per cent. more than the average
yield of Europe.
corn into the United States. While ex-
amining an imported corn whisk he
found single seed, which he planted
in his garden. From that seed the corn
was propagated.
It's a Davenport (Iowa) inventor this
time, who has perfected water motor.
It's only thirteen inches in length and
ten inches in diameter, but it sends
elevator loads of 1900 pounds to the
top of a four-story building.
The owner of pair Of bright eyes
says that the prettiest compliment she
ever received was from child of four
years. The little fellow, after looking
intently at her for q moment, inquired,
naively: care your eyes new ones 2"
In Kentucky they have "ground
hog day the second of February
when Mr.. Woodchuck comes from his
hole, looks at the sky, snuffs the air, and
concludes whether to stay out and call
it spring, or go in again and call it win
ter.
They were out riding and his mustache
had got entangled in the hood of his
ulster. Said he: "Confound this
ulster and this cold wind I've got three
hairs frozen on to my nose, and two at
the corner of my mouth" "Where's
the other hair, dear9" she inquired,
tenderly.
An old physician asserts that an
orange eaten every morning half an
hour before breakfast will eventually de-
stroy the desire for alcoholic drinks. He
SAYS that he has never known it to fail in
effecting cure of the most confirmed
cases OF inebriety. Now, who would
ask for more agreeable medicine.
A company is about starting great
farming enterprise in the foothills be-
tween Marysville and Smartsville, CAL,
where they have in body ZOO acres Of
and. Orchards of orange trees, En-
ylish walnuts, almonds, and pecans will
be laid out, and much ground devot-
ID to wheat, clover, alfalfa, and sheep
raising. .-.f.. ..-.t.
A woman who was gathering weeds on
The seashore in Japan for burning, laid
ner Young child down on the beach. A
'rightful cry told the mother that all was
not right, and on examination she found
hat cutie fish had put one feeler
.round the baby. She cut the feeler
oose with her sickle and the youngster
was unharmed. -i-r..
"This loaded cigar business" says
Sacramento paper, is being carried too
ar, and as practical joke is becoming
90 serious to be amusing. A citizen
ately had his left cheek burst open by
he explosion of one of them, and will,
u addition to the pain and discomfort,
nave bad scar to show as the result OF
,ome friends fun" "i.u iN. .a.
A huge tower is being build upon the
op OF q new brick building in Virginia
Jity, New, upon which large dial is to
,e placed with the names of the Lead
ng mining stocks upon it, to which
,and points as the stock goes up or
lown, all being done by electricity over
wire running from the San Francisco
took board room to the tower. SB
When young Hopeful entered Har-
ard he wrote to his parents that he
must have study table. 1t was given.
When his father visited the room year
'fterward he inspected the table. There
vere marks of tumblers on it. He said:
Il judge, my boy, that your rank in
our class will not bevery high. "Why,
ather, how can you tellf" THE carpet
.nder the table is not worn at all, bnt
he covering is good deal defaced.
The old gentleman had been to college
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