The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-09-14
STRAY NEWSPAPER ITEMS.

STRAY NEWSPAPER ITEMS.
It Is announced that there will be an
other Passion Play"a at Ober. 4Aanmergau
In 1890.
OF the 5000. 900 francs worth Of china
made last year at Limoges. one half came
to America.
Engines of 10000 horse power have
heen ordered for the new cruiser Blake,
at a cost OF Gl40,000.
It is said that barely half dozen wa.
te1ing place hotels thus far have met
their expenses.
The reports Of extravaganza and show
at our watering places are not so loud
nor so numerous as usual.
The daily opening Of the churches Il
being advocated heartily by Lord Car.
narvon and the bishop Of Cambridge.
Partisan swells steadily give way to
English fashions. They now wear the
regular short white tie for evening dress,
instead Of their former black butter
flies.
A newspaper in Constantinople says
that 212 Christians and Jews have be-
come Mohammedan during the past year,
a larger number than those who have
abandoned Northumberland for other
religions.
A Michigan peddler who sold goods on
the cars, first singing comic song to
attract attention and please his GUS
toners, dropped dead in train a few
days ago. He is believed to have left a
fortune Of 5000, 900, accumulated in this
manner.
Germany Is doing considerable foreign
missionary work nowadays. It has
eighteen societies and supports 522 mis-
sionaries, who look after their 10000
converts. Last year the total receipts in
money were over $700,000.
Three Chinese pheasants attacked a.
year-old boy near Vinegar Springs, Ore,
a short time ago, and fought him so hard
that he dropped sack Of wheat he was
carrying and fled for safety. When the
went to the spot the wheat
and birds had both vanished.
An Australian football club has ar
ranged with an accident insurance COM
pany to pay any of its members who are
disabled while playing the game Dos.
per week as long as they remain on the
sick list, and e200 to the relatives if the
injuries received in the football field
should terminate fatally.
The great white marble palace which
Wilbur F. Storey, of Chicago, built, and
which is one of the features Of that city,
is again offered for sale. Although still
more than 5000, 900 has been
spent on it, while it is doubtful if one
quarter of that amount will be offered by
a purchaser.
Bolivia, which has an area of 100000
square miles and a population of 2,OO0,-
300, is without single Protestant mis-
,ionary. Two American teachers, en-
by Bolivian gentlemen and
recommended by the Presbyterian board
If missions, expect soon to establish a
school in La Paz, the capital.
An Englishman who was playing bill
iards in public house in Bromley made
! bet that he could get one of the ivory
oalls into his mouth. He did get it in,
md there it stuck, in spite Of all his
Efforts to dislodge it. The surgeon who
was called in extracted the lump Of iYsss1fy,s
out only after taking out several Of the
sexperimentalist's" front teeth.
At Spezzia, Italy, the whole Italian
leet is to assemble for two months ex-
,rcise. One of the items of the pro-
,ramme is to show the facility with
which large force can be disembarked,
ully equipped for attack, and English
lIarmists predict that it will show how
asily England could be invaded before
defensive force could be gathered at
ny point.
A monument to the memory Of EN-
,eror William will be erected by the in
labitants of the upper Fichtel mount
ins on peak rising nearly 1900 feet
,bove the level of the sea. The spot
ffords on one side view Of the Saxon
on the other that Of the Be-
lemian forest, with the Keiberg close
y and the spires of Carlsbad in the dis
ance.
A Bridgeport paper says that cat
vas caught by locomotive the other
ay and cut in two by wheel. which
assed over the body back of the shout
ers. CATER the locomotive had passed,
avs the paper, 'sthe forward parts Of the
ats body dragged themselves to the
ome yard, two or three rods distant,
nd there the little life remaining flick
red out in few seconds"