The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-10-05
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Five hundred dollars per acre has been
paid In some cases in England this year
for cherries ON the trees. Nf III
California expects wine crop Of 49,.
900, 900 gallons this year, an increase OF
5000, 900 over last year. tN..
Four men at Gainesville, Fla., in
twenty days killed 600 alligators for their
hides and teeth. ItNl
Some people have real good ideas OF
comfort, and so a Boston undertaken Is
making two 5000 collins.
It Is reported that $4,000. 900 cotton
wood trees have been planted in south
west Kansas this year.
The verdict of the appointed judges is
that British grown tobacco cannot be
made to pay.
Tea cultivation, it is said, is to be tried
by rancher at Elko, New. who pro.
poses employing Indian women and
children to gather the leaves.
AT Vienna, last year, 363 Jews became
Christians, and another paper says that
sat no period since the First century
have conversions from Judaism to Christ
ianity been so frequent as they are at
present"
The authorities of Green county, KY,
recently imposed fine Of 5000 on the
Louisville and Nashville railroad for
breaking the Sabbath by distributing ties
along the line of the road.
Telephone rates are comparatively low
in Sweden. At Orebo, for instance, the
subscriber pays an annual rental Of but
81 and gets the use Of the telephone sys.
tenn extending 100 miles in the country.
In London dressmakers and others are
fined heavily for allowing their girls to
work over hours in the shops. Jay, the
great mourning storeman, was recently
up in the police court on charge OF
this sort.
Hao, a relative of the Chinese general
of the same name, has just been decapi-
tated for trading in forged decorations.
The engraver who did the work re-
ceived 100 lashes and was banished for
three years.
A company has been formed at Pitts
burg with capital stock of $1,000, 900,
with the object of opening a tin mine in
Mexico near Durango. A tract of land
has been purchased covering an area OF
ten miles square.
Hah-skin-gay-g oh-lah, the Apache who
has just been taken to the Ohio peniten-
tiary to serve an eighteen years sentence
for murder, has been put to work with
thread and needle patching prison gar
ments. He says he "no ikee squaw
work"
The island of Foula, one Of the Shet-
lands, is for sale. 1t is three miles long
by two broad, and it is famed for its
rocky coasts and abundant wild fowl,
and is one of the few spots in Great
Britain in which the great skua, very
rare bird, still lives.
Correspondents of newspapers will find
it convenient to have the front edge of
their desks divided, for the distance Of
one foot, into inches and fractions, for
the purpose of measuring their printed
matter. This simple device does away
with the inconvenience of wooden rule.
= The flag of the Pedee Light artillery
was never surrendered, but when the war
ended in defeat was hidden under the
color bearers coat, and by him carried
back to the lady who, four years before,
had given it into his keep, and by her has
been religiously kept ever since, and only
brought out upon occasions of the bat
terry S reunion.
Aluminium, the silvery metal that used
to cost $240 pound thirty-five years
ago, is now produced at the Krupp gun
works at Essen, Germany, for twenty
five cents pound. Common clay every
where contains from two to ten pounds
of it in every 100 pounds, and it is likely,
within the next decade or two, to become
more common than iron.
Missouri contains over 10000 manu-
featuring establishments, which furnish
employment for about $50, 900 persons.
The capital employed is about 5000, 900
900. The material annually used and
worked up amounts to 5000. 200, 900,
and the products put upon the market
amount to $500, 100000, while the wages
paid are nearly 800, 900.
A review called Der Frauenfeind, OF
ENEMY of Woman" is to be started in
Vienna. The editor, Herr Grose, has sci
before himself the object Of emancipating
man from his subsection to THAT dol
woman, whom idiots idealize and fools
bow down before as to divinity" He
saws that there are exceptions to this de-
uunciation, and generously exempts
whole classes of the sex from the scope
of his review.