Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-09-08
Items or Interest.

There are 10000 cigars per day
manufactured at Key West.
People learn wisdom by experience.
A man never wakes up his second baby
to see it laugh.
A Maryland horse was scared TO death
by the noise Of n railroad train few
days ago.
The human brain is the twenty.eighth
of the body, but in the horse but four.
hundredth.
The islands Of the Pacific have no ami
mails but the dog, the hog and the rat,
with some bats.
An old bachelor says that the talk of
women is usually about men even their
laugh is but "He he he |"
If You think you are too tall, marry
m extravagant woman, and you will
soon find yourself short enough.
A little boy went to his father crying
the other day and told him that he had
kicked bee that had a splinter in its
tail.
One Pawtucket Or. I.) firm makes
10, 900 tool chests for boys annually and
furnishes jobs to about the same number
of surgeons.
"Have I not right to be saucy if I
please ?" asked young lady of an old
bachelor. "Yes, if you please, but not
if you displease."
1t is stated that over $4,000 children
between the ages OF eight and sixteen
are growing up in the streets of New
York in vagabondage.
In Spaulding county, Georgia, few
days since, man stabbed and fatally
wounded his sisters lover, simply for
throwing kisses at her in church.
A Nebraska farmer bitches pair of
COWS to wagon when he journeys, and
milks them when he comes to toll
gate, paying the toll with the milk.
Captain King, of Santa Gertrudes,
Texas, is making an addition Of sixty
three miles to his pasture fence, which
will enclose altogether, when completed,
100. 200 acres of splendid land.
Charlie Ross, in the depth of his
labyrinth, never felt SO irrevocably lost
as does the young man who for the first
time crawls in behind the deep recesses
of one of the fashionable collars and
steps out into society.
The destruction of sheep in Califor-
mia by the recent drought is estimated at
2, 800, 900 head, or two-thirds of the
sheep in the State. Many of the great
sheep herders abandoned 1000 to 10,-
600 head in the mountains.
NOBODY CARES.
How the tide flows.
How the wind blows
How the time goes.
Nobody knows.
And this is our life and all that it bears,
Till death comesa and snatches us mp unawares
Who would have thought it? Nobody cares.
When small boy with prejudice
against yellow dogs observes an old
oyster-can in condition of inactivity, he
at once begins debating whether it was
created to point moral or adorn a
tail. The dog gets the first news of the
decision.
The cost of the Pittsburgh riot to that
city alone is estimated Mt $4,500,O00,
which is more than one-fortieth Of it's
entire assessed valuation. This is equal
to a tax Of 1892. Is for every man, woman
and child, supposing the city to be held
The Maine State bounty of five dollars
for every dead bear has not caused the
bringing of many from Canada, but it is
said to have made bear-raising paying
business. The State paid $2,725 in
counties last year, and the supply ap.
pears to be increasing.
There are in England. as nearly as
,an be ascertained, $50 pin machines,
or producing either complete or by two
,rocesses-pointing and heading. Each
If these machines will make on an aver
lge 22O per minute, giving 7,056, 900 per
lour, or SO, ,9O4, 900 in one day or nine
lours Qess intervals), or 343, ,413, 900 in
week or tifty-four hours, if all are go.
ng.
Burr Cox was one OF the wickedest
nen in Elliston, Ohio. He was drunk
rd, a gambler and fighter, but he
AL respectable family, whom he
bused. A few days ago he went home
alf drunk. and maddened by gambling
osses, and declared that he would kill his
life. He ground hatchet for the pur-
csc, he said, of chopping her head off,
mt when he made the attempt his son,
ged fifteen, bravely grappled with
i'm. The woman tainted from fright,
ut the boy fought desperately, and
nally killed his father by stabbing him
nth knife.
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