Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-02-10
Items Of Interest.

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There were 552 suicides in the United
States in 1876 a,. .tut
Clcrgymcn, s4l, lawyers, l,o4s, is
Boston's present record. hI.
George Eliot says it is The want Of mo-
tive that makes life dull and men feel
old. .ttIt II
Says the Whitehall 71u,es:' Any busi-
ness man may run in debt, but he can't
run long after he gets in.
Mr.. Moody said: "f Noah had
the keel wouldn't have been laid to this
day.
Now, then, says the Franklin Ky.)
Patriot, if fellow could only SNOWFALL
with his hands in his pockets we'd take
hand in it.
Insults, says a modern philosopher,
are like counterfeit money. We cannot
hinder their being offered, but we are
not compelled to take them.
The happiest moment in the life of .
girl is when she is in possession ofSa
lover, chair that holds two at once, Apd
pa who trusts to her experience.
A French tourist, on visit to the
Centennial last summer, wrote home
Americans live well up 10 their income,
and insure their lives for the balance"
The town of Wales, in Maine, by no
means remote from civilization, has man
nged to get along for fifteen years with
out doctor, lawyer, minister, or pauper.
A servant who pl,imed herself upon
being employed in genteel family was
asked the definition of the term. ''Wherc
they have two or three kinds of wine,
and the gentlemen swear" was the reply.
They tell Of q New England family
burial ground, in the four corners of
which sleep the four successive wives OF
one man, while marble tombstone in
the center OF the plot is atfectionately
inscribed cone Husband
Kate Henderson, one of the contestants
in pedestrian match in Lansing, Mich,
was whipped several times by her hus-
band to compel her to continue walking.
At length she informed the spectators,
and they had the husband arrested.
When DIR. Mary Walker was in Salt
Lake, says the Norristown Herald,
Brigham Young wanted to make her the
morning star of his harem. He said he
wanted one wife whose old clothes could
be cut down and made over for his boys.
The two largest checks ever issued are
the one for one million of pounds which
Sir Arthur Guinness received on retiring
from the firm of which he was mem-
ber, and the other check on the Bank :
of Nevada for five million dollars drawn
by Flood 4 OBrien. t''.
james Gordon Bennett has sent $500
check to In Crosse, Wis, as personal
contribution to the two little girls of the
late Mark Fl. Kellogg, the special CORE
spondent of the New York Herald, who
was killed by the Indians at Clusters
Little Big Horn slaughter last year.
The Freemasons of England support
three charities, one of which pays nn-
nuities to aged Masons' and widows,
while the other two are schools for
children of Masons, one for boys and
one for girls. The sum contributed last
year for their support was over $780,
600. NJ. r
An agricultural weekly discusses
"What Men Need Wives For" Any
ordinary person who has poked his
head from under the bedclothes on
frosty morning and listened to the
melody of his wife's AK on the wood
shed floor will have no trouble in an
swering that inquiry. .a}
The bride in wedding in Lexington,
KY, was ninety years old, the grooW
being ten years younger. She was
elaborately dressed, and the ceremony
was witnessed by relatives enough to
crowd Nchurch. Five generations were
and representative of the
fifth, four-year-old boy, presented her
at the altar with basket of orange
blossoms.
A poor woman went to the French war
office to obtain some news OF her son.
The clerk searched the records and as
he was dead. The poor woman
to cry, when the clerk told
her such was not allowed in the office,
that his information was private, but
that, in few days, she would receive
letter announcing the fact, with every
form of regret. ...r .Gu.
Says the Burlington Hawkeye: A
North Hill man, who only measures five
feet three inches when he stretches SO
that his joints crack, has son who
is five feet seven when he is feeling
slouchy. And it would make any woman's
heart ache with sympathy to see that
boys mother sit by the hour, with the
scissors in one hand and a pair of her
husbands trousers in the other, trying to
make them over for her son.
The inland ice in Greenland in now en-
on the land, though at one
time it appears to have covered many
portions of the country ut present bare.
This advance and retreat of the inland
ce may be due to change of climate, to
she rapid advance of the ice from the in
erior, or to the rise and fall of the land.
There are traditions that great inlet
nee stretched across Greenland not far
rom Jakobshavn, as represented on
ome of the old maps, but that it has
llso now got choked up with consolidated