The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-05-25

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will receive its British namesakes like
bottle brothers
A curious illustration of the estimation
in which the city council is held is given by
the significant request of the Ancients to
the council committee that no wine be
served on the day of the trip down the
harbor and along the north shore. No one
ever susl ected the Ancients of being a
temperance organization nor is it probable
that their London guests are blue libbonsts.
1t is evident that the Ancients prefer the
city hall gang sober to the city hall gang
drunk, and are unwilling to be disgraced in
the sight of their guests.
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The Boston press is in unusual agreem I'll /;
In deciding that young Alexander Salvini
is to be perhaps even greater actor than
his father He has magnificent physique,
the art to disguise his own identity in that
of his representations and such wealth of
natural spirit and dramatic fire that his
great fault at present is an inability to
restrain his superintendent emotional
power. He needs further experience to
tame his energy, instead of needing it to
enable him to simulate intensity of feel
ing. His comprehension of characters
foreign to his Italian nature is extraordi-
nary. He can appear the most Teutonic
of Germans, and speakes English SO we'll
that he can give it the German pronuncia-
ton. He is playing here with A. M.
Palmer's company.
When the base ball paragraphist has
nothing else to write about he writes about
Kelly, often disparagingly A great deal of
unfair comment would he prevented by an
examination of the records. Kelly has
made more runs hits and stolen bases,
driven in more runs and won more games
than any other Boston player this season
Unlike other catchers he is put in the nine
in every game He is always willing to
play, even when out of condition, when
another player would beg off. This is his
best year in the ball field. He and Clark
son are not only star players, but they add
to the spirit and harmony of the club, in
might be expected from their prominence
1t has become as notorious as lying that
the present Legislature is besieged by lobby
lists as few Massachusetts assemblies have
been before. Millions of capital are affected
gas and oleomargarne There is concern
here, the Bay State Gas company, which
must have water gas or die 1t was beaten
one day in the house, and the lobbyists by
threats and persuasons, changed in one
night the Opinions of ten men, mostly
Boston representatives. The air is thick
with reports of bribery, and lobbyists strut
about the floor of the house as though they
owned it.
Oeomargarine seems likely to escape this
year. 1t is unfortunate that the board Of
health, which has announced that artificial
milk color is full of bacteria and fungi
spores, has not experimental to discover
whether these bacteria are poisonous.
Bacteria more or less harmless exist in
nearly all articles of food.
It is hard lot q t the best, that of the
immigrants who are packed by the thou
sand between decks of the great ocean
steamers, but when the carelessness or
worse Of the masters of the herd are added
to the shiftlessness of many of its members
the result is too disgusting for minute re-
cital. There have been on trial here dur
ing the week suits brought by passengers of
the Allan line, who allege that they suf-
fered severely in the steerage of the Prus-
sian last year. The charges of rot
ten food and uncleanliness are denied
by many witnesses, but, however the
people on the Prussan may have Jared, it
is undeniable that there are grave abuses
on some of the lines which call loudly for
investigation. The enterprising paper
which shall send a Nellie Bly, or Bakeley
Hall over to Ireland to take passage for
America as an assisted pauper will have a
story to tell. Unfortunately it is not easy
to get clear information from the average
immigrant. He may have had hard
time, but he is himself scarcely conscious
why and he is shy Of telling what he knows
to strangers.
The present vintage of immigrants fir ON
Ireland is far inferior to that of last spring.
Then the hordes that poured upon the docks
every few days were largely composed of
young, healthy persons who were appar-
emily fully able to earn living and con-
tribute to the land league But at present
the Cunarders are pouring upon us large
numbers of weak, ragged candidates for
the almshOuse Or insane asylum.
Many of them will probably go
ION the road,' but not as
drummers. The stupid, brutalized faces
and filthy clothing of some of the poor fell
lows who totter down the gang plank is
enough to warrant an inquiry into the con-
dition of the United States inspectors eyes.
Apparently some of them are suffering
from sort of Representatives,. One off,
Ger has been repeatedly noticed in the act
of questioning sharply some able bodied
man whose appearance was sufficient pass
port, while the crippled and depraved pass
by unchallenged. Men who have been to
Ireland on visit, after years in
this country have been subjected to
rigid cross-examnation as to their move
men;s in Ireland and America includ-
ing their life from the cradle to the probable
hereafter. The reason of the o.ficer's Curl
osirv is not apnarent IN the ohseryer