The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-09-28
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NOTE, COMMENT, PARAGRAPH.
One Of the newest things in fans is one
with smelling bottle in the stick, and in
the smelling bottle little very strong
ammonia.
A tract Of land containing 1,000,000
acres in Aroostook county. Me-, has been
sold for 81 100000. The deed recorded
contains $4,000 words
A Blackfoot Indian recently covered a
distance of ninety miles per day for four
days on foot, and his sole diet was dried
beef. The trouble with the white man is
that he lives too well.
A well known American publisher says
that the works Of Charles Dickens can
hardly be brought out fast enough to
keep up with the demand, while reprints
Of Thackeray hardly pay for the paper
used.
The atmosphere on the English chan
mel was recently rarefied to such de-
gree that objects between thirty and
forty miles from Dover and Folkestone
could clearly be distinguished with the
naked eye.
The popular dread of green on ac-
count of suspicion Of arsenic in its com.
position seems to have disappeared if one
can believe the report that green is to be
the fashionable color for the winter, and
will appear in wall paper, draperies and
ribbons.
The telephone was allowed to be used
on Sunday for the first time in London a
few weeks ago. The managers Of the
company, it is said, had grave doubts
about the result of such an innovation,
but the large use that was made of the
privilege satisfied them.
4. Fishermen seeking sea bass off the
coast of Monterey, CAL, came upon a
gigantic sunfsh, and succeeded in cap
turing it after enveloping it in about 100
fathoms Of net. It weighed 1900
pounds, and efforts were made to pre-
serve it and send it to San Francisco, but
they failed.
The third of the three heaviest rifled
guns ever made in this country is nearly
completed at the ordnance foundry of
the South Boston Iron Works. The first
gun was made of cast iron, the second of
cast iron hoped and tubed with steel,
and the gun now in the foundry is like
the second.
Cats as general thing do not like
water, even though they are good swim
mers. A man in Clayton, N. j., has a
large Maltese that is an exception. This
animal takes to water even more kindly
than spaniel. He will go into the
water on his own account and seems to
enjoy it hugely. Like dog he will
bring back stick thrown in the water.
The Steel Car company is said to be
constructing fire proof steel car at Bos-
ton, which will contain nothing that can
burn except the upholstery, and even
that is constructed of uninfammable
material. Not only immunity from fire,
but an increase in strength, decrease in
the liability to telescope and diminu-
ton of dead weight are expected to be
some of the good features of the new car.
Twenty-Five lively crocodiles recently
escaped into the river Elbe from an Afri-
can sailing vessel. The crocodiles are
thought to be enjoying their new home
very much, but the German small boys
who live along the banks Of the river are
unhappy because they can't go in swim
ming.
The statistical crank has let himself
loose again, and now turns up with the
that the seaside resorts dur
ing the summer have had an average at
tendance Of twenty-eight women to
every man. There has, indeed, been a
deplorable scarcity of men at all the re-
Sorts At many Of the balls the ludi-
crous spectacle of set composed of one
man and seven girls is common, and the
entire set is not infrequently danced by |
girls.
While there has been no falling off in |
the increase of feminine medical practi-
TONERS, the growth for the last three
months would probably have been larger
had not goodly number of the medical
been diverted to the study of
the sister art, dentistry, which has re-
Gently gained many recruits from the
sex. In New York particularly the num-
Der of women matriculating at dental
colleges is rapidly growing.