Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1879-07-19
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4 An Arabian proverb says, "Th'
idle are u peculiar kind Of dead, wht
cannot be buried" 4
The man with no reputation Il
lose is he who eats raw onions ant
edges his way among men on tn.
same day.
Remark by the small boy Of thu
period: Let me see the circusses o.
a nation, and l care not who max
u its laws.
A college orator in a spiked-tai
coat points the way to true great
ness and then goes and rents him.
self as pitcher to professions
nine. rs.
Grandma-"Yes children, When
was Young as you are, used t.
walk in my sleep" Tommy (eager.
lly)-"Say, gran'ma, what time did
you make F-[Phildelplia Sunday
Item.
Tom Mast is spoken Of as the
''the man who makes up faces for
Harper's Weekly"
Some railroads are run on narrow
gauge, some on broad gauge: but
all on mortgage.
Paper is worth six cents q pound
in Peru until made into money.
Then it depreciates about fifty per
cent.
A Chicago editor shouts, 1--WE
have killed 8O4, 1000 hogs since the
first of March," The Waterloo
Observer says if that's the case it
will hardly pay to get out a direc-
tory this year.
An English officer says that Eng
land has never fought so brave a
race as, the Zulus4 That lets MS
Yankees out.-[Pecks Sun.
There is comfort for spinsters in
Scripture, which tells them that Naomi
was five hundred and eighty years old
when she married. The veterans may
still hope.
II hear a Whisper" said the minister.
He was soaring little in his sermon,
Imagining an angel lowering near and
speaking. The Deacon was just drowsy
enough to be startled by the remark,
and to reply hastily II guess it's the
boys in the gallery" Moral: Don't
soar, don't doze.
In Nebraska is said to be the
quaint and laconic epitaph over the
grave Of a citizen suddenly de-
ceased. "He Twisted a Mules
Tail" 1t is underst God that the
democratic party will adopt the
same epitaph. The solid North will
sit for the mule.
Said DR.. Cuyler to the girls at
the Packer Institute, "let woman
do whatever she can do WE'LL" Now
let the flirting proceed.
The rumor that the name of Jeff|
Davis would be presented to the
Mississippi Legislature as a candi-
late for the U. s. Senate is contra
licted.
The Emperor of China is the
'toutest monarch in the world and
The Emperor of Germany the tall
'st, though even he can only boast
If seventy-two inches, while his
nephew, Prince Adalbert, stands
TX feet six inches in his stockings.
The lilies of the field have pistils,
nd every wide-awake citizen of fair
Texas is "arrayed like one of these"
-[Yonkers Statesman.
SO long as the lamp holds out to
urn, fly for your life. The blame
hing might explode.-[ Philadel.
'hia Chronicle Herald.
An exchange says: eff the man ,
Who gave us by mistake the lead /,
quarter he was saving to put in the :
contribution box Sunday, will call,
ve will cheerfully allow him to rec
ify his error"
A wonderful cave has beeu dis $
overed near La Crosse, Wis, on
be farm of David Samuels. It is ,
0 feet long by 8 wide, and it's |
'alls are covered with bieroglyphics !
nd rude carvings of men, animals {
nd various Indian implements. h
he cave had been covered with u
lndslide long ago, and the capture 8
I a number of coons at a small hole r
hich had been left open led to a i
sarch for the cavern where they :
id. A poplar Is inches in diam n
er had grown out Of the landslide h
I'd rotted away, which is consider h
conclusive proof that men have u
1t occupied the cave during the i,
at century at least.