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The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-09-14
The Fatal Stone.

The facts in relation to the stone called the
ella Fail" or Fatal Stone, are briefly as fol-
lows: On this stone it appears that the kings
of Munster were crowned 1t was originally
deposited in the cathedral of Cashel, their
metropolis. In the year 1913 Fergus, a
prince of the royal line, having obtained the
Scottish throne, procured this stone for his
coronation at Dunstaffnage, where it con-
tinued until the time of Kenneth II, who re-
moved it to Scone; and in 1926 it was re-
moved by Edward from Scone to London,
where it was deposited in Westminster alb
hey
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-09-14
The Last of the t,la4,iators.

The last gladiatorial contest under the
Roman empire took place at the triumph Of
Honorius, 4O4 A. D., on which occasion Tale
machus, an eastern Greek, rushing forward
and attempting to separate two contestants,
was stoned to death by the fury of the a.
sembled spectators. Thus in the blood Of
TAlemachus, the martyr, the inhuman COM
bats of ancient times were washed away for
ever.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-09-14

A careful consideration of the subject
in all it's bearings by James T. H. Gregory,
Marblehead, Mass, has decided this prac-
tical cultivator that ''beets for cattle
food are well worth fully as many cents
per bushel as good hay is worth dollars
per ton. without taking into considera-
ton the increase of the manure, and that
the average cost, when stored in the cell
lar or put into pits, with every item of
expense included, need not exceed eight
cents per bushel.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-09-14
Wnnderfnl Cures

W. d. Hoyt & Co.. Wholesale and Retail
Druggists of Rome Ca, say: We have been
selling DR.. Kings New Discovery, Electric
Bitters and Bucklen's Arnica Salve for four
years. Have never handled remedies that
sell as well, or give such universal setisfac,
ton. There have been some wonderful
cures effected by these medicines in this
city. Several cases of pronounced Con-
sumption have been entirely cured by use
of a few bottles of DIR. King New Discov-
cry. taken in connection with Electric Bit
tiers. We guarantee them always Sold by
A. L. CLARKE's, Drug Store.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-09-14
A Profitable Cow.

Professor E. w. Stewart says that if a
COW only produces 1900 pounds of milk
per annum, she is kept at loss. A
good cow, well fed, will yield 5000 pounds
of good milk, and the cost of producing
this will be only one-eighth more than
the 5000 pounds from the poor cow.
Without selection of cows, and judicious
feeding, dairymen cannot receive any
thing worthy of their labor
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-09-14

In cherry experiment, conducted by
the Ohio Experiment station entomologist,
Clarence NJ. Weed, 22,50O cherries were
individually cut open and examined, and
the conclusion reached that three fourths
of the cherries liable to injury by the cur
culio can be saved without danger to the
user By spraying with solution of Lon
don . pie soon after the blossoms fall.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-09-14
Bucklen's Arnica Salve.

The best salve In the world for cuts, brlis-
es, sores, ulsers, salt rheum, fever sores,
letter, chapped hands, chilblains, cOrns and
all skin eruptions,. and positively, cures piles
or no pay required. 1t Is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction or money refunded.
Price 70 cents per box.
A. 7. CLARKE's Drug Store
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-09-14
New York.

DIR. f. S. HUTCHINSON Il Co., Dear
My mother had a shock three years
with great trouble with her head A short
time ago she had another slight shock.
Through the adviceof friend she com
menced to use Anti-Apoplectine and has re-
ceived great benefit from its use. can
truly say it is worth its price, and | will do
all can to increase its sale. Yours in haste,
Mrs, d. c. MCALLIsTER.
Hewittvile n. Y.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-09-14
Avoid Fault Finding.

Be careful not to cultivate disposition to
find fault or depreciate. Indiscriminate
praise is nauseating; but, on the other hand,
indiscriminate condemnation is irritating.
man or woman of the world ought to have
good appreciation and good Depreciation
that is to say, keen sense Of the merits of a
thing and an equally keen sense of its faults,
with the good taste to speak moderately
either way.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-09-14
spondent

enough to lap one inch over the edge of
the pail; the dotted line shows where the
edge of the pail comes. Little ear holes
are cut in the sides of the cover to fit
around the handles. A piece five inches
front to milk through. The mixer puts
the cover on the pail and milks into the
pail through this large opening.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-09-14

Q
ing in position a
pail from which a
calf is to drink.
Three stout sticks
are driven into
the ground and
the pail is placed.
inside there. Sim
pie enough, and
yet simplicity is a
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-09-14

Salt may be placed on the table in the large
cut glass or silver cellars inherited from ones
grandmother. Guests transfer portion OF
it to individual cellars with the old time salt
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-09-14

virtue of many FIG. 1.-DEvICE FOR
success s full de- FASTENING PAIL.
vices.
Fig. shows milk pail cover that
has been used successfully by cores
spondent of Rural New Yorker, from
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-09-14
Two Little Roses.
One merry summer day

Two roses were at play;
All at once they took a notion
They would like to run away!
Queer little roses;
Funny little roses,
To want to run awayl
They stole along my fence;
They clambered up my wall;
They climbed into my window
To make a morning call!
Queer little roses;
Funny little roses,
To make a morning call
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-09-14

w" VI hCl, A1O114
which journal the
above was taken.
The object Of
the cover is to
keep the dirt from
falling into the
pail while the COW
is being MIXED.
A large piece of
cardboard is cut to
the shape shown
in the cut. This
piece is large
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-09-14
Convenient Milk Pals.

Fig. 1 illustrates a device for fas
tening and hold
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-09-14
Photography as a Detective.

Photography is gaining prominence in the
criminal courts. With it's help Berlin mer-
chant was lately convicted of crooked ways
in keeping his accounts. The slightest diff
ferences in color and shades of inks are made
manifest in the Photographic copy. Blue
inks appear nearly white; brown inks, on the
contrary, almost black. A contemporary
states that the books of the accused were SUBJ
mitted to a. photographer, who took off the
pages concerned and brought into court the
most undoubted ocular proofs Of the illegiti-
mate after entry Of some of the accounts. A
subsequent chemical test substantiated this
evidence.
The photography is to be preferred to the
chemical test explains Scientific American,
because it brings its proofs into the court, and
submits them to inspection, at the same time
leaving the document under examination un-
harmed; while the results of a chemical test
must be taken on the evidence of the chemist
alone, and the writing examined is perhaps
destroyed In another case similar to the
above, the changing of the date of note by
an insignificant erasure and addition was
proved by means of photography.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-09-14
SCIENCE AND PROGRESS.
THINGS THAT ARE TALKED ABOUT
IN THE SCIENTIFIC WORLD.

An Egg Experiment That Illustrates in
Simple but Very Effective Manner the
Difference in the Specific Gravity Of
Liquids.
The egg experiment shown in the accom-
panying illustration, while without novelty,
is, says The Scientific American, interesting
on account of its simplicity and effective
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-09-14
An Amusing Experiment.

A very amusing experiment may be per-
formed, claims Popular Science News, by
taking saturated solution of nitrate of pot
ash (saltpeter), and, with a quill pen or fine
brush, drawing any picture, design or words
upon piece of white absorbent paper The
lines should be kept away from each other;
and the entire subject coarsely drawn in out
line, like the elephant in the illustration.
When dry, the lines will be nearly invisible;
but if one of them be touched with the glow
ing end of an extinguished match, spark Of
fire will run through the paper, following
the lines already traced, and cutting out the
design as if with an invisible knife
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-12-29
PERSIAN NOTIONS.
The Low Degree of Intelligence Found in
the Shah's DominlOns.

An inquisitive turn Of mind does not
of necessity make scholar Mr..
ODonovan, for instance, in his travels
in Persia, found no end of curiosity,
but very low degree of intelligence.
The hospitality / met with was with
out bounds; so great and so minute in
its details as to be embarrassing, but
interspersed with singular ques-
tons which made me doubt my
own sanity or that of my questloners.
One gentleman wanted to know il all
Franks wore long boots like mine, and
If took them off when went to bed.
A young officer begged for some in
struction in the French language; and
subsequently growing enthusiastic on
the subject, asked me to dictate for
him a love-letter to his sweetheart in
that language.
explained that ! was not sufficient
ly acquainted with Eastern phrase
ology to take the initiative, and asked
him for a specimen, so that | might
get at the nature of the desired
epistle. Hereupon my companion
favored me with some sentences, so
replete with bulbuls, roses, gazelles
and other agreeable plants and ami
mails, that Franco-P Persian lexicon of
natural history would have been abso-
lutely requisite in order that l might
do justice to his effusion.
At another time, l happened, in the
course OF conversation, to mention
Australia. The General turned to his
secretary and asked where that coun-
try was. The secretary hesitated for
moment, but Immediately said that
he was not sure whether it was in the
Sea of Marmora or the Sea of Azoff,
but that he knew it was somewhere in
the neighborhood of America. - Youths
CompaHioR.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-12-29
AN INTERESTING CASE.
A Curious Legal Question Recently DE
cided by an English Court.

Curious Legal Question Recently De-
cided by an English Court.
The children of Mare Thomegay
have recently caused the record of one
OF the most curious legal complications
ever known. Marc was a workman of
Geneva, who came to England in 1884.
According to his own account, as he
told it in petition to the council of
Geneva some years afterward, Zone OF
the first ties he formed in England was
an attachment for Miss Martha Fowls,
whom he intended to marry as soon as
fortune would allow him to do 500
Being unable to marry, they lived to-
gether for several years and had three
children. In 1749, however, he mar
ried Elizabeth WoodDsuse, and one
daughter was born to them. Eliza
beth Woodhouse died in 1747, and in
1904 he finally married Martha Fowls,
by whom he had three more chill
dren. Two of her children, born
before her marriage, returned to
Geneva and married there, and III or
der to legitimize them Marc in IVA
appealed to the council. This, not be-
ing contrary to the law of Switzerland,
was granted, and the children pro-
nOunced legitimate. In 1866 lady,
who was descended from Marc and his
wife Elizabeth, died intestate in En-
gland. possessed of a large property,
and to find her next kin it was neces-
sary to go back 10 the children of
Martha Fowls. Then came the issue
between the descendants of the three
children born before wedlock, but
legitimized by the Geneva court, and
the children born after wedlock, who
were Legitimate unquestionably ac-
cording to English law. The English
law does not permit children to be
made legitimate by subsequent mar
riage, but it gives effect TO the laws of
other countries which hold the con-
trary. The question was: Of what
country was Marc citizen when he
married Martha PowisP The court
holds that he had become a citizen of
England, and had never renounced his
allegiance, and it was decided that the
representatives of the first children
could receive no share of the property.
N. Y Sun.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-12-29
TAKE PLENTY OF SLEEP.
An English Author vigorously Attacks q
Number of Popular Notions,


There is notion abroad that the
older one grows the less one has need
of sleep, but for my part every year 1
like it in larger and larger quantities.
The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.
Is verse that has led a good many
people astray. The poet does not tell
us how these great men felt in the
morning. l don't believe in this night
work. Arsenius used to say that one
hours sleep night was enough for a
monk; but / am not aware that even
as monk he greatly distinguished
himself Caligula never slept above
three hours, and no wonder. The best
advice, | am persuaded, that can BIO
given to brainworker is Ego to
bed early and sleep for ten hours" it
is true that doctors are addicted to
working at night, but they have the
honesty to tell their patients, both in
this matter and in feasting Qor there
is nobody so ''imprudent" as your
doctor): "Do as tell you, not do as
do"
This cutting short OF sleep is one of
the snares in which we poor literary
folk are so often caught and slain.
What terrible examples have / not
seen of it in the noblest and best of us!
Shakespeare understood the value of
sleep thoroughly, and has written the
noblest praise OF it. The worst pun
ishment even his Imagination could de-
wise for u criminal was that he should
'sleep no more" This, be it noted,
was not because he had murdered his
king and guest Though that, OF course,
was reprehensible), but because he had
murdered sleep itself, a very much
more serious matter. james Payne, IN
London Illustrated NeWS.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-12-29
LEGAL DISTINCTION.
What Constitutes n Public Nuisance, At
cOrding to English Views.

What Constitutes n Public Nuisance, Ac-
cOrding to English Views
In general the law of England does
not prevent man putting himself in
peril OF his life if he does not mean to
lose it. Ii, however, he exercises this
right so as to bring about what the law
considers Il public nuisance he exceeds
the law. What constitutes a public
nuisance is largely a matter of degree.
Walking on the high rope at the Crys-
tai Palace would clearly be lawful. as
fall would be an accident A fixed
balloon has been enjoined as nuisance
at the suit of neighboring proprietors;
but ballooning in free air is
lawful, subject only to the tech
meal trespass committed on occu-
piers of the earth beneath and to
the actual trespass in descending. For
u man in pursuit of pecuniary gain to
fall twice week from parachute in
mid air from balloon left empty of
gas behind him, constitutes such a
combination of danger 70 himself, in
jury to the adjoining population, and
decentralization of all within sight as
would amount in law to public nui-
sance. AS to its prevention, it would
be unlawful to stop Macomo from his
business; but it would be
lawful to hold back an
amateur who for bet was stepping
into the lions den. The difference be-
tween the lion tanner and the balloon
ist in question is question of degree.
1t is case fit for jury to decide, and
to make law in the sense of applying
old law to a new example,; and an
English jury may be trusted to give
all the credit due to the daring of the
performer. --LOndoN LaU JoURai.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-12-29

The young man who paints the
town red at night will be blue the
next day.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-12-29
He Had Lost His Head.

Considering how frequently grown
people fail to catch the meaning of a
figure of speech, it is not at all strange
that children are misled by phrases
which they take too literally.
The trouble with our troops at Bull
Run was they all lost their heads re-
marked veteran in the presence of
his little nephew.
Il lost my head and for awhile
couldn't have told which end of my
piece was getting the charge"
Presently the little nephew came to
the veterans chair and remarked, ex-
citedly: 20 Uncle Joe, / know now
why auntie called you an ole wooden
head the other day! l thought she was
cross, but it was jes' cause you lost
your head in the war. Youths Com.
paniOR
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-12-29
Being Neighborly.

"I'll bet pve got some of the
meanest neighbors fellow ever had, ,
said a man yesterday to some half
dozen loungers "they're always on
the borrow. One family in particular
sends every day or two for a cup of
Drowned coffee, of which we keep
only the very best, and then returns
in place of most inferior article.
We're going to head 'em off on that,
though they owe us cup now, and
when they fetch it home wife's going
to set it away and loan it to 'em
againw and he chuckled with infinite
satisfaction.
"Well, sir" continued another,
after pause, "my wife has a worse
ueighbor than that. She moved into
our neighbOrhood about month ago,
and in a few days borrowed a cup of
sugar. When she returned it it
wasn't nearly so full. After two or
three such experiences, my wife set
the cup away and when she returned
for another loan sent back the same
quantity. 1t was still lighter when
It was returned, and after two weeks
passing back and forth my wife
handed it out at last with less than a
spoonful in it,"
GLOW much was in it when the
woman sent it hOme?" queried a
listener.
"Not single grain! They had
washed the cup"
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-12-29
LIONS WITH WHISPERS.
Savage Sea Beasts and How They Are Cap.
tured by Sailors,

tured by Sailors.
Eleven sea lions were delivered at
the railroad depot recently by Captain
Thorold for shipment to various muse
ums East. They were captured about
the Farallones. The lions come up on
the beach and rocks to bask in TIE sun,
and while they are asleep the sailors
crawl up as near to them as possible.
Almost invariably the sea lions wake
up when the sailors get within ten or
twelve feet of them, and lift up their
heads to fight. Then is the sailors
opportunity.
Quick rs flash he throws n heavy
canvas sack over the animals head
and twists the slack about its powerful
jaws The next thing to be done is to
get rope about the lions flippers,
which renders him helpless either to
fight or fly. The process of capturing
sea lions alive is simple enough to de-
scribe, but it is dangerous and difficult
in practice The first morning of the
hunt, and after three or four sea lions
had been captured, one of the sailors,
Karl Hansen, Dissolved lion whose
gray whiskers and enormous size testi-
fed to his great age.
The sailor managed to get back the
sack over the head of the beast, but
its strength was so great and its strug-
giles so violent that it was only with
the greatest difficulty that he could get
the rope over one ripper. He succeed
ed finally, but as he attempted to tie
the other the sack was thrown off the
animals head, and with yelling roar
burned and made Il vicious snap at his
captor The lion just managed to catch
the thumb and first finger of his left
hand, tearing the thumb, with its ten
dons, from the hand and taking the
first joint of the finger. The bleeding
sailor ran few steps, screaming, and
fell. The sea lion, now thoroughly
enraged, freed himself from the rope
and sack, and advanced with open
jaws on the PROSTATE sailor He would
undoubtedly have torn the man to
pieces had not the mate, attracted by
the seaman's screams, come up and
shot the animal through the neck.
Even then it managed to escape into
the sea again. This was the
only serious accident that marked
the expedition. Among the sail
ors was an ex-cowboy. He attempt
ed to use his familiar lasso on the sea
lions, but with very poor success, as
the sea lions head is so small and neck
SO large and smooth that the moose
usually slipped over their heads. One
"a reddish-colored, rather small
lioness-he did catch with his RATA.
Fourteen sea lions were captured in
all. Among these were two superb
males.
These two were freed in the hold and
almost Immediately began to fight.
The smaller of the two was killed. His
hide was torn and punctured in dozens
of places by his adversary's teeth, and
the adversary himself showed that the
fight was hard one. In landing the
seals at the Fisherman's wharf two got
loose They looked so dangerous with
their appraised heads and shining teeth
that the men hesitated to tackle them.
They dived off the wharf boat in few
seconds and thus escaped.
The eleven are consigned to New
Jersey. They will be shipped in tanks
Of sea water. -San Francisco Eram-
iner.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-12-29
A WONDERFUL FREAK.
She Couldn't Marry Him, But Was Able
to Say Something Nice.

W say oOmpthihg NICE
Penelope, can't you say something
to soften the blow?" implored the
young man. N'l
20, Philip, Philip! What can / say?
1t is all over between us.
THAT doesn't soften it any," re-
joined Philip; "that's what you said
before
And the unhappy youth looked
moulnfully at Il ten-dollar volume of
poems he had presented her few
months before, and heaved sigh so
deep, so profound, that il made his
shoes perceptibly tighter
Penelope" he continued, "when a
young man builds up all his hopes on
the promise of a young woman, anG
that young woman deliberately goes
back on that promise, it knocks the
props, as it were, out from under his
hopes, and they come down, kerwash!
You may have perception some time,
Penelope" he added, with increasing
gloom, ''Of the feelings of IL human
being standing by wreck of this
kind, and looking at the debris of his
own happiness"
81 couldn't help it, Philip" she re-
piled. Il have become satisfied that
we were not made for each other We
should not be happy together. We"
is IL because | am II mugwump?"
he demanded,
mo, Philip, it is not that. | think,
with proper nursing, you would re-
cover FROM that in time, Neither have
any objection to your personal APP
pearance, your position in society, your
habits
MY habits" he calculated. II hope
not. Penelope Witherspoon, | never
i'll my life took drink of any thing in
toxicating, never chewed tobacco,
never smoked cigar, never went to a
circus, and never was in ballroom.
don't drink tea or coffee, eat peanuts,
chew gum, read novels, swear, gam
bic, lie, use snuff, play checkers, sit up
late at night, go to theaters, eat be-
tween meals, nor read Amelie Rives.
never kissed young woman in my
life"
$50 far as my experience goes" as
sented Penelope, retrospectively, 81
can certify that you have not, Philip
she added, with glow of tender wom-
anly sympathy on her face; you asked
me to say something to soften the
blow. | think | can foresee great
future for you. Your habits have fitted
you for shining career"
In what capacity, may | ask?"
"As $500-a-week freak in dime
museum" Chicago Tribune.