The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-01-27
ITEMS OF ALL SORTS.

A private pet cat show will DO given short
ly at New York for the benefit Of charity.
The government of Spain has decided to
celebrate the fourth centenary of the discov'
cry of America.
Venus, the morning star, is brighter than
II ever appeared to any man now living, and
nearer the earth than 1t will be again for 34O
years.
The Cincinnati Musicians Protective union
has decided that no member shall play in an
orchestra with women under penalty of ex-
pulsion, and fine OF 500 il he applies for
reinstatement.
Shareholders in Brazil are opposing the
final extinction of slavery on the ground
that it will be impossible to carry on coffee
planting on large scale IL slavery Is abol-
ished.
A stretch of railroad track, extending three
miles out from Madisonville, o., is said by a
Cincinnati paper to be the scene Of SO many
accidents as to have earned for itself the
name of dead Mans Curve"
The cruelest deception of the holiday sea-
son was originated in 1887. A paper sack
was filed with shavings and a pair of tur-
keys legs were then tied in the mouth Of the
sack and the seductive fraud sent to the
victim.
An Indianapolis newspaper says that the
first soldier to suffer death for desertion in
the war was Robert Gray, an Indiana school
master, who had enlisted from the southern
part of the state, and was shot at Camp
Burnside, Indianapolis, in 1868.
It's rare to see man moving on the ice,
but such a sight was possible the other day at
Mount Vernon, Me. After a swamp froze up,
enough grass remained above the ice to war;
rant thrifty farmer cutting it and drawing
it home for bedding for his horses
Thirty Assyrians are among the latest i'm
migrants at New York, and have Joined the
army of small peddlers in the streets of the
city. The ancient empire which they recall
never had such a conglomeration of national
tiles as make up the population of the Amer
lean metropolis.
The inhabitants of Key West, Fla, COM
plain that the Spanish authorities of Cuba
are making that place a penal station, to
which convicts are banished for stated Pc
RODS There is great Indignation, and pc
tition will be sent to the state department
asking that measures be taken to put stop
to the practice.
1t is announced from st. Louis that the
Mexican government has granted extraor-
binary concessions to a real estate company
to induce immigration to eleven states of
Mexico. The government has granted ex-
emption from taxation to all settlers on these
tracts, and insures protection.
A Boston paper asserts that newly rich
New York woman got from dishonest sex
ton possession of an old tombstone sacred to
the memory of some one of the same name as
herself that was in an English graveyard,
and now has it set in her library wall, with
pedigree, as voucher for her aris-
tocracy.
There are many burglaries committed in
Boston, but few householders will follow
Adelina PATHS device of forsaking their
homes. 1t is said that she was so shocked at
5he recent burglarious visit to her castle in
Wales, by which she lost one of her most
valuable diamond rings, that she has deter
mined to part with her Welsh estate, which
! Welsh paper says will shortly be in the
market for sale.
The women Of Paris have adopted for the
Einter season waggle in their walk. The
rt of waggling gracefully in furs is being
aught at the best dancing schools. The cor
ect waggle is described as a short step and
n undulating sweep of the hips. 1t is said to
70 much more graceful than the mannish
tride that prevailed during the summer.
The new hotel which John Wanamaker Of
has erected for the benefit of
he women employed in his stores, has ample
for 100 boarders. It con-
-, oil
ooms, a dancing room and numerous apart
nents for bathing. The rate for weeks |
oard and lodging, including the laundering
f one dozen pieces, is 1925.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company has
established savings fund for the benefit of |
is employees. Money may be deposited with |
ny freight or ticket agent designated by the |
ompany, furnishing, in point of fact, a saw
ngs bank at every considerable station in
he country The money will draw 4 per
emit. interest. 1t can be withdrawn by |
living ten days notice, other savings banks |
generally requiring two weeks notice
There are number of wooden mills and |
hitting factories in operation in Utah,
where hosiery, mittens, leggings, ladies'
nit skirts, and mems knit underwear are |
urned out in large quantities. These goods |
re exported throughout the entire noun
ain region. In one of these mills the output |
5 1000 yards of material per day. Thou
ands of dozens of hand made scarlet and |
mems gray hose are sent into Colorado and |
Montana. Their carriage robes and blankets |
ind ready market in Chicago, and the
riders for these goods are often fully up to
he capacity.
A new industry at Auburndale, Fla, is
gopher farming. Judge Tilson and John
dullen are equal partners in large farm,
over 1000 acres. They will go
INTO the raising Of gophers on large scale
It once, having ordered a number of coops |
O feed the young ones in. They will try the
market next week with carload shipment |
o Washington. 1t is said the most fastidi-
us epicure cannot tell the flesh of the Florida |
gopher from the famous Maryland terrapin. |
The Correct Thing in Dogs.
A change in the style of dogs is imminent. |