Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-08-25
Items OF Interest.
A buzz sore-The sting Of bee.

Items OF Interest.
A buzz sore-The sting OF . bee.
81. Louis is shipping horses to Eng
land.
A slight of hand performance-Giving
the mitten.
Potatoes are so plenty in Kansas as to
be hardly worth marketing.
The Prohibitionists OF Wisconsin have
put full ticket for State officers in the
field.
The total production of rosin in this
country last year amounted to 100000
900 pounds.
Tho fashionable male shirt collar is
gradually decreasing in height. A young
man can now pass under telegraph wire
without duclsing his head.
The horse is q noble animal; yet he
has an unpleasant way Of slapping down
his hoof in mud puddle just when n
fellow is going by in his duck panta-
looms.
As Gen. Observation-Disclosures was
leaving for the wars, his sweetheart re-
marked to him, in tears: "Though I
no more behold thee, yet is thy name q
SPELL"
A man in Hopkinton, N. H., was SO
shocked by the news of the drowning of
his son thct he was cured of severe ut
tack of rheumatism, from which he had
long suffered.
"The ring SUITS" says n Brooklyn
paper. Glad to hear it. That's what
the young lady wrote when she received
a solitaire diamond by mail from her
betrothed.
The Roumanians are one of the most
mixed races on earth. They are partly
Roman, partly Gothic, partly Magyar,
partly Sclavlc and partly to small ex-
tent Tartar.
The Chinese have gone into the hair
business, and last year exported 1873, 900
pounds from Swatow alone-a seven-fold
Increase in two years. 1t is gathered in
barber shops.
A man in Cincinnati has son whose
hair curls just before n rain. He says
that he has noticed this phenomenon for
tho last two years, and has never known
it to fatl to Indicate rain.
A morning paper has the following
advertisement: "a good general servant
wanted, who understands plain cooking
and making butter in smai. tamlly.
Far better make it in a churn.
When tramp walked into clothing
store and asked for a new suit of clothes
OF, credit, and it was denied, he solemnly
warned the proprietor that it was such
conduct that was paralyzing trade"
At the present moment 1000, 900 Hin
doc and 100000 Mohammedan children
nre attending schools in India, and 50,;-
900 to 60, 900 of them are receiving in
struction mp to the English University
"You are a clever fellow" said
counsel to mn adverse witness. 81 would
gladly return the compliment if were
not upon OATH" was the reply with which
he witness brought the cross-examina-
ion to speedy close.
The Andes is a continuous chain OF
Mountains 1000 miles in length. often
# double and triple parallel ridges, at
neon height of 1000 feet, with great
ctive volcanoes, and numerous peaks
.arying from 10000 to 24,90O feet in
leight.
The death Of two great ones OF the
arth is announced-Ruth Benton, OF
Wisconsin, aged fifty-four; height, seven
eet four inches; weight, 685 pounds,
nd Modesto Malhiot, Of Quebec, aged
ixty y-eight; height, six feet eight inches;
1eight, 618 pounds.
For hugging propensities the pro-
erbial bear is beaten by the many
rmed star fish. The weakness of the
tar is oysters, about whom he folds
is arms, loving, choking the bivalve in
is own liquor. They have made many
nsound oysters along Long Island
ound this season.
The Indian Brahmins neither eat nor
ill any sort of animals, and it is certain
ley have not done it for more than two
1ousand years. Their pagoda is
temple, built very massively
nd elevated, but has very small in
,rior. Near the door is block used
r beheading criminals.
A commercial traveller, by mistake,
apded merchant, upon whom he had
lied, portrait of his betrothed instead
his business card, saying that he rep
scented that establishment. The mer-
lant examined it carefully, remarked
lat it was fine establishment, and re-
lrned it to the astonished and blushing
aveler, saying: 81 hope that you will
ION be admitted into partnership"
The Fall Trade.
The New York Evening Post says:
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