The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-07-13
STRAY slrs OF READING.
There are $4,000 shad eggs in a quart.

There are $4,000 shad eggs in quart.
A system Of tactics worked out by Gen.
Ferrier is to be tried in the French army.
There are 400 less boats engaged in
the salmon industry at Astoria this year
than last.
There is small periodical devoted to
Volapuk, published at Annoy, China.
This makes fifteen of that class of
papers.
An English farmer was lately awarded
a prize for wasps' nest thirty inches in
circumference, containing thousands of
wasps.
The ivy planted by the Yale class of 'SS
on Ivy day is most aristocratic plant.
1t comes direct from the castle of Henry
w, of France, at Pau.
A New Orleans lad found a valuable
sachel, and upon taking it to the owner,
who had avertised the loss, was made
happy with brand new 500 bill.
Photographs Of the interior of pretty
rooms are popular present among
friends, and in taking views of the coy
corner or the most attractive nook of the
house the amateur photographer is well
occupied.
Plantations of roses on a large scale
are to be established in the Caucasian
province of Kutais, with a view to in
PRODUCING there the manufacture of ottar
of roses, for which Russia now has to de-
pend upon Bulgaria and Turkey.
A correspondent of Kentucky news
paper writes that he recently visited the
birthplace Of Abraham Lincoln in Larue
county, and found the neighborhood the
most unpromising locality in the state,
the land Immediately surrounding it
being almost as barren as desert.
The bishop of Carlisle declared in re-
cent speech that men were kept from re-
liglon by the character of modern SER
mons. He added that sermon was
very often a text floating about in a
quantity of weak soup.
A writer in recent book about trav-
cling in the east. telling of the slow pace
and multitude of animals required in car
avan travelling, makes the calculation
that the Israelites, when they went from
Egypt under Moses. must have had q
caravan at least 200 leagues long and
must have employed 5000, 900 camels.
A clerk in the Patent Office at Wash
ington now has in his possession a me-
mento that money could not buy. 1t is
an inkstand, large, heavy and plain, and
any one who ever visited the law Office
of Roscoe Conkling would recognize it as
the one which he used and which was 80
conspicuous on his desk.
English silversmiths are manufacture
ing old plate bowls by taking old platters
and covers and converting them into
bowls, which they impose upon unsophis-
ticated collectors. Experts discover the
trick by the hall mark, which the re-
modelling Of the platters brings up on to
the side of the bowl, where it would
never have been put by the assay officers.
Not long ago the carp were taken out
of the famous basin at Fontainebleau, in
France, in order that the basin might be
cleaned. A great fete has been arranged
to celebrate the return of the fish. Silver
rings are to be put in their noses and
music and other ceremonies enough to
brighten the fish to death are to accom-
pany the putting of the fish back into the
BASIN 1t is intimated that enterprising
men from Paris are already specializing
on the chances of fishing in the basin-for
rings, however, and not for the carp.