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Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-06-02
An Extraordinary Bat Hunt.

The Sacramento (Cal.) Union says
The large double building on the north
side Of NJ. street, between Third and
Fourth, owned by L. Torrey, and occu'
pied rs n boarding-house, has of late
appeared to be the headquarters of Il
vast number of bats, which managed ia
get in between the ceiling and roof
through small apertures alongside the
water spout. The vampires became a
great nuisance, and Mr.. Torrey conclud.
ed to make IN effort to get rid of them.
With this end in view he procured n
five gallon coal oil can. and arranged it
something like rat trap. 50 that the
bats might enter it readily, but could
not get out. A number of small holes
were also punched in the can to admit
light. The trap was placed in such Ia
position as to completely cover the open
ing through which the animals passed in
and out of the building. The result
was that short time after dark it was
filled with tho little pests, who made n
great scratching and sqilealing. The
remainder Of the bats, finding their
usual place of exit stopped up, looked
about for another, and discovered n
small hole in the plastering of the cell
ing. Through this they made their way
in great numbers, and found themselves
prisoners in the sleeping apartment of
two young women. The latter, aroused
from their slumbers by mysterious
noise, and feeling their faces famed by
invisible wings, became alarmed and
sprang from the bed, but their feet came
down upon mass of squirming,
scratching and biting something's, while
other something's struck them in the face
and on the head and body, chattering
viciously, and having disagreeably
cold and damp feeling. Tt was not
pleasant situation by any means, and
the girls opened the door and hastened
into the hall, calling for assistance, and
closely followed by their tormentors.
Other occupants of the house, alarmed
at the noise, opened their doors to see
what the trouble was, but were glad to
close them again to keep out the bats
Some of the boarders desired TO go
down stairs, but every step was a bat
roost, and they had to get out upon the
balconies. After much hard work,
which lasted nearly until daylight, the
animals were driven or swept from the
upper story down into the basement,
where they were gathered into heap,
so far as possible, and killed by the ap-
plication Of boiling water. Those thus
killed numbered, by actual count, 76O,
and the girls Subsequently killed four
more in their room. The trap was
placed in washtub filed with water,
and it's occupants drowned. There
being considerable curiosity to ascer-
tain the number of bats five gallon
could hold, they were counted,
and amounted to 22S. The slain, all
told, filled four buckets.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-06-02
Walking Leaves of Australia.

Almost everybody has heard of the
walking leaves of Australia. For long
time after the discovery of that island
many people really believed that the
leaves of a certain tree which fourishes
there could walk about the ground. The
story arose in this way:
Some English sailors landed upon the
coast one day; after roaming about until
they were tired, they sat down under a
tree to rest themselves. A puff of wind
came along, and blew off shower of
leaves, which, after turning over and
over in the air, as leaves generally do,
finally rested upon the ground. AS it
was midsummer, and everything appear
ed quite green, the circumstance puzzled
the sailors considerably. But the sur
prise was much greater, as you may well
suppose, when, after short time, they
saw the leaves crawling along on the
ground toward the trunk of the tree.
They ran at once for their vessel, with
out stopping to examine into the matter
at all, and set sail away from the land
where everything seemed to be bewitch-
ed. One of the men said that he tex
pected every moment to see the trees set
to and dance a jig, Subsequent ex-
plorations of Australia have taught us
that these walking leaves are insects.
They live upon the trees. Their bodies
are very thin and fiat, their wings form
ing large leaf-like organs. When they
are disturbed, their legs are folded away
under their bodies, leaving the shape
exactly like leaf with its stem and all
complete. They are of bright green
color in the summer, but they gradually
change in the fall, with the leaves, to
the brown of frost-bitten vegetation.
When shaken from the tree, they lie for
a few minutes upon the ground, as
though they were dead, but presently
they begin to crawl along toward the
tree, which they ascend again. They
rarely use their wings, although they are
pretty well supplied in this respect.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-06-02
Items Of Interest.

Printed posters play an active part in
political contest, but they are gener-
ally neutral, because they are always on
the fence.
Buffaloes are good weather prophets.
When a storm is coming they stick up
their tails like lightning rod and scoot
for shelter.
A recently published notice Of n mar
riage in Philadelphia concluded with the
announcement "No cards no flowers
nobody's business.
If there's any truth in the saying
BY their works ye shall know them,"
how are we going to know the fellows
who never do any work?
Kaiser Wilhelm is upward of eighty,
but the crown prince, Unser Fritz, has
to be mighty spry to get in the first kick
at book agent or lightning rod man,
when the old gentleman is about the
premises.
A Staten Island man, who took his
boy home pet goat the other afternoon,
now offers the animal for sale at a reduc-
tion of fifty per cent. on actual cost. 1t eat
up table-cloth, two shirts, and four
croquet balls the first night, and lunched
off box of clothes-pins the next day.
A young Indian girl who had curious
ly watched the process of marking bar
rel heads in Touring mill in Winona.
Mimi, stole in one day, and taking pos
session of the stencils, ornamented her
blanket with the words "Ellsworth's
Choice" and paraded the streets in great
delight, but to the disgust of Mr.. Els
worth, who is bachelor and had made
no such choice.
A good looking young man, with fine
address and an abundance of good
clothes, appeared at Memphis. He was
going to put up a grand mirror in
hotel, and it was to be surrounded by
local advertisements. Arrangements
were made with the proprietor, the
"ads were written out, the SIS apiece
collected, and-and that's the end of the
matter, except some grocers and oyster
men and the like are doing some slightly
profane talking at the idea of being
caught
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-06-02
FAShiOn Notes.

Princess robes retain their sway.
The Marie Stuart bonnet brim is re-
vived.
Opaline gray is the coming color i'll
Paris.
Gateuse is the name given to this sea-
sons dust cloaks.
Mantelets with long, square fronts
are growing in favor.
Outdoor jackets become shorter as the
days grow longer.
Evening toilets are almost all white
at the passing moment.
Breton costumes will be the favoritc
travelling dresses this season.
Gray poplin is coming in vogue under
the name of Sicilienne.
Foulards and percales are the street
suits of the passing moment.
The hair is arranged very close and
smooth for the summer months.
Gateuses (dust cloaks) of alpaca and
mohair are the fancy of this seasun.
The Louis XVI. gilet is again fashion
able. The fronts are about the length
of a cuirass. The princess back forms a
train.
The "Corsair waistcoat" is late
novelty. 1t is made of blue cloth, with
gold and silver embroideries, in oriental
designs.
The shoe of the passing moment re-
sembles in shape a sabot OF French
peasants wooden shoe, with pointed toe
and strap over the instep.
Very stylish flower garnitures for coif-
fures are forget-me-nots and Margue-
rites, the petals of which are formed of
mother-of-pearl and blue enamel.
Handkerchiefs and neckties for morn
ing wear are trimmed with the new
colored Torchon laces, insertions and
edgngs, either blue on red, with white.
"Panel" or "ladder trimmings"
formed OF straps of silk or bands of the
costume, are seen on the SIDES OF some
of the handsomest Paris suits.
A new style OF fichu is of Cromoisie
silk, edged with a fringe of black feath-
ers. 1t forms point in the back, is
fastened on the shoulders, and is crossed
on the chest.
Inside pockets are impossibilities with
the present style of tight skirts, and
the numerous outside pockets seem de-
signed especially for the convenience of
pickpockets.
Pale tinted lawn slips OF various colors
are worn under morning wrappers of
barred, plain and stripped muslin;
Torchon lace insertions and edgings
trim all such garments.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-06-02
A Street Scene in Bucharest,

At noon, says correspondent, the
streets of Bucharest were crowded with
the curious, gazing at the long line of
carriages returning from the palace in
which Prince Charles receives his guests
on his birthday. The coachmen of
Bucharest, like those of most of these
Roumanian towns, drive their light We
hicles at such breakneck pace that the
stranger is always anticipating an acci-
dent and when the narr Nv streets are
crowded with these vehicles, dashing
hither and yon, as if each coachman were
bearer Of dispatches or special CORE
spondent, the effect is rather bewilder-
ing. Therefore, only received a kind
of kaleidoscope impression of dozens of
officers in every variety of French uni
form. have already told you that the
Roumanian administration is an almost
absurdly literal copy of French forms in
all particulars of dark-eyed, olive-faced
women languidly bowling to the profuse
sallltes of the aforesaid officers of
"popes " of the Greek church in long
flowing black robes and square skull
caps, with black boards and blacker eyes;
of little troops of squalid looking SOL
diers, their Wallachian bonnets pulled
down to their very eyes, and their huge
overcoats covered with mud and dust
of trumpeters trrmpeting, flags flying,
and little detachments OF cavalry gallop-
ing to and fro. My carriage driver,
Russian boy, dressed in long blue coat
with voluminous skirts, with a red sash
about his waist, and flat blue cap on
his head, fewup and down the streets in
his light carriage at such Il pace that all
l could do was to hold on to the sides of
the rocking vehicle. These reckless
Jehus turn corners regardless of conse-
quences. They cry out aloud "Hcus p
as warning to anyone who may be COM
ing from the opposite direction, and then
they give their steeds full rein. On the
rough pavements the carriages bound !,
if they were India rubber. Any attempt
at dignity in such jerky vehicles is, of
course, out of the question.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-06-02
Words of Wisdom.

Good counsels observed are chains to
grace.
To be angry is to revenge the fault of
others upon ourselves.
In this world there is one thing God
like; the essence of all that ever was or
ever will be of Godlike in this world
the veneration to human worth by the
hearts of men.
We must never undervalue any per-
son. The workman loves not that his
work should be despised in his presence.
Now God is present everywhere, and
every person is His work.
All arts which have tendency to
raise man in the scale of being have
certain common bond of union, and are
connected, if may be allowed to say so,
by blood relationship with one another.
Cicero.
When we meet with better fare than
was expected the disappointment is over
looked even by the scrupulous. When
we meet with worse than was expected
philosophers alone know how to make it
better.
The horses which make the most show
are, in general, those which advance the
least It is the same with men; and we
ought not confound that perpetual agita-
ton which exhausts itself in vain efforts
with the activity which goes right to the
end.
Life is short; while we speak it flies;
enjoy, then, the present and forget the
future; such is the moral of ancient
poetry, a graceful and wise moral, in
duIged beneath Southern sky and de-
serving the phrase applied to it: "The
philosophy of the garden"
Domestic happiness is the end of al
most all our pursuits and the common
reward of our pains. When men find
themselves forever barred from this de-
lightful fruition they are lost to all in
dustry, and grow careless of their world
ly affairs. Thus they become bad sub
jects, bad relations, bad friends and bad
men.
We pass through this world but once
Any good thing, therefore, that we can
do, or any kindness we can show to our
fellow being, let us do it now. Let us
not defer or neglect it, for we shall not
pass this way again.
Those who are III the power Of evil
habits must conquer them rs they can
and conquered they must be, or neither
wisdom nor happiness can be attained;
but those who are not yet subject to their
influence may, by timely caution, pre-
serve their freedom; they may effectually
resolve to escape the tyrant, whom they
will very vainly resolve to conquer.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-06-02
A Curious Old Newspaper.

There has lately been discovered, in
the library of the University of Heidel'
berg, a copy of newspaper which
proves to be the Oldest periodical of
which there is now any certain knowl-
edge. 1t is quarto volume bear
ing the date 1609 and is supposed
to have been printed by John Carolus,
of Strasburg. The paper was issued
weekly-each number consisting of two
sheets. 1t was mainly occupied with
letters from correspondents in adjoining
States, which were contributed regular
ly. II is interesting to note that letters
from Vienna were about eight days on
the route, from Venice fourteen t. sew
enteen days, and from Rome twenty
one days. When the matter contained
in the letters, together with the news
retailed at secondhand, failed to fill the
sheet, the remaining space was left
blank.
Intelligence of every sort found place
in the journal Among the most inter-
SStihS oSCttIIeuCcS uotcu WIS tHc Iiittllu-
facture of the telescope by Calico. The
correspondent from Florence writes, on
September 4th, to the effect "that the
government of Venice made consider
able present to Signor Galileo, of Flor
ence, professor of mathematics at Padua,
and increased his annual stipend by 100
crowns, because with diligent study he
found out rule and measure by which
it is possible to see places thirty miles
distant as if they We're near and, on the
other hand, near objects to appear much
larger than they are before our eyes,"
The news received from Prague af-
fords disturbed picture of plunder and
murder in the streets of the city. It ap.
pears that at this period men and women
were daily seized, by bandits, robbed,
strangled and thrown into the Molda,.
Seven bodies were taken from the water in
one day; and atanother time seven male
factors were apprehended, "who confess
ed that, on the eighteenth of this month,
they threw about fourteen persons into
the water, and that their band numbered
eighty, who were, for the most part, ma
tives of Prague"
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-06-02

camo to myself, l thought saw my brother
continually beside me, besought the vision
to leave me. Human tones answcred-it
was Fred, kind, generous, fcrgiving, who bent
above his guilty brother. When no told me
how he had been sheltered by friendly tree,
whose swaying branches caught and held him
how after his strength came, he had dropped
and swan ashore, and to spare and punish me-
had returnodquietly to his far off home, wept
aloud. Oh, the bliss of seeing him there !
When was well, they brought babe into my
chambcr-my first born
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-06-02
Getting Into Practice.

"It might save your life some tilne,'
urged he.
"Well, I don't care if it would" de-
clared she; "neither you nor any other
husband can get me.'to practice climbing
down a rope, just to be prepared in case
of fire."
"But protested he.
"It's no use," broke i'll she. Il
don't risk breaking my own and the
baby's neck on the old rotten clothes
line, and you might as well unite it from
the window.sill."
And he sadly relinquished the expert
ment.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-06-02
Uproar in the New York Legislature.

A scene of great disorder occurred in
the capitol al Albany, caused by disaf-
fected working men in the galleries. At
the beginning of an afternoon session
Mr.. Hustled made repol t from the COM
mittee on ways and means questioning
the governors conclusions in the veto of
the Supply bill, and then the motion was
made that the item appropriating
81, 900, 900 for the construction of the
new capitol should pass over the gov
ernor's veto. The galleries in the mean
time had been filled by interested and
anxious workingmen, who watched the
proceedings with the intensest interest.
AS the vote went on, each member ex-
planning his vote, the excitement deep
ened, and it was finally announced,
seventy-three in favor of overriding the
veto and forty-six against. The speaker
announced that having failed to receive
the necessary tv-o-third vote, the veto
was sustained and he Immediately ad-
journed the house. A scene of the
greatest uproar at once took place. The
mob surged out into the corridor, shout
ing, yelling and groaning, and calling on
the members who, they asserted, deluded
them to show themselves. Mr.. Childs,
of Seneca, was assaulted, but was res
cued before harm was done him. Messrs.
Spinola, Ecclesine, Mitchell and others
were obliged to escape by the back door.
Lieutenant Governor Dorsheimer tele-
graphed for police, who soon arrived
and cleared the capitol. The mob driven
out focked to the Delevan House and
other hotels, and sought to find the men
they charged had deceived them. The
governors house and capitol were guard
ed by policemen all night.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-06-02

There is painting in the Bodleian
library at Oxford, England, represent
ing a monk who set himself to copy the
Scriptures without tasting food during
the performance of his task. The story
goes that he had transcribed the Old
Testament and three gospels, and was
far advanced in the fourth, when on the
fortieth day his strength failed him and
he died with the pen in his hand.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-06-02
Our Minister'S Sermon.

The minister said last night, says he,
"Don't DO afraid of givin';
II your life ain't worth nothin' TO other folks
Why, what's tho use of liyin'Y
And that's what say I, my wife, says !,
There's Brown, the miserable sinner,
He'd sooner n bcggar would staryc than give
A cent toward buyin' dinner.
! toll you our minister's prime, he IL,
But couldn't quite determine,
When heard him a giyin' 1t right and left,
Just who was hit by his sermon.
or course there couldn't be no mistake
When he talked Of long winded prayin',
For Peters and johnson they sot and scowled
AT every word he was sayn.
And the minister he went on to say,
"Theres various kinds OF cheatin',
And religions as good for every day
As II is to bring to moetin.
/ don't think much of the man that gives
The loud amens at my preachn,
And spends his time the folowin' week
In cheatin' and oyerreachn."
guess that dose was bitter enough
FOR n man IKE Jones TO Swallow,
Gut noticed he didn't open his mouth
Not once, after that, to holler.
Hurrah, says l. for the minister
or course said it quiet
Give us some more of this open talk,
It's very rcfreshin' diet.
The minister hit EN- every time
And when he spoke OF fashion,
And riggin out in bows and things
As wonian's rulin' passion,
And comm to church to see the styles.
couldn't help n winkin
And nudgin' my wife, and says L: That's
you,"
And guess it sot her thnkn.
Says to myself, that sermons pat.
But man is a queer creation
And I'm much afraid that most Of the folks
Won't take the application.
Now if he had said word about
My personal mode of sinnin',
I'd have gone to work to right myself,
And not set there grinning'.
just then the minister says, says lie,
''And now I've come to the fellers
Whove lost their shower by usia their friends
As sort o moral umbrellas.
" Go home, says he, 'and find your faults,
Instead of huntin your brother's;
" Go home, says he, and wear the coats
You tried to fit for Others
My wife she nudged, and Brown he winked
And there was lots O smilin',
And lots o lookin' at our pew,
1t sot my blood a-bilin'.
Says to myself, our minister
Is gettin' little bitter;
I'll tell him, when meetns out, that
Amt at all that kind of crtter.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-06-02
The skeleton of Evans, the Northwood

The skeleton of Evans, the Northwood
murderer, which has been for several
years in the medical museum of Dart
mouth College, was one morning discover
ed suspended by the neck at a height of
thirty feet, between two Republican
flagstaffs, on the college campus, attired
in duster and tall hat, with an umbrella
and carpet bag, the latter labeled
Montreal" an allusion to the Seniors
contemplated, but abandoned, excursion
to Montreal. Nobody knows who
perpetrated the joke. The college
carpenter with much difficulty succeeded
in cutting down the skeleton, the campus
being Lined with spectators, students and
citizens.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-06-02
The Silent W00cr.

How can speak to thee2 The far sky
Hath never speech for men;
The longing breezes round thee flit and then
Unspoaking still, they die.
Like sky and breeze, gaze, murmur neari
Oh, must my heart be dumb?
And must my love like formless broezcs come
To sigh and perish here?
cannot speak to thoo and yet in this
A last dear hope may be,
For could tell my loves eternity
In one long, silent kiss
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-06-02
He Meant it fer a Joke.

A San Francisco husband thought to
indulge in a practical joke by taking
home full sized, rough wooden coffin,
and as he stood it behind the kitchen
door he remarked to the wife's anxious
inquiries "You'll know what it's all
about before morning." But the wife dis
patched one of her crying, frightened
children for the police, and while two
officers were smashing the coffin with
their clubs the husband was explaining
to his wife that it was all joke.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-06-02

"To this nights masquerade" quoth
Dick, "by pleasure 1 am beckoned, and
think twill be pleasant trick to go as
Charles the Second" Tom felt for re-
partee athirst, and thus to Richard said:
You'd better go as Charles the First,
for that requires no head"
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-06-02

John Templeton, the largest man in
Ohio, has Just died at his. home near
Swanton. Fulton county. He was presi-
dent of the Ohio Fat Mans Association,
and weighed SOB pounds.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1877-08-23
Tho Columbia Register,
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