The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-07-13
PARAGRAPHS FROM EVERYWHERE.

Brooklyn bridge has been opened t.
the public Ave years.
Silver has turned up in South Africa
to a degree to produce new mining
fever.
The Alexandra. woman's club, is but
four years old, yet has 600 membeas.
A peasant has just died in Austria.
Hungary who was 142 years of age. He
left son aged ll5 years and grandson
Of IS.
A Nevada ranchman shot, trapped and
poisoned 4,200 rabbits in four months,
and then figured that above 5000 new
ones had come to fill their places.
The Austrian government has aban-
doned its intention Of renewing the anti.
Anarchist law, and will henceforth fight
the Anarchists by administrative DEGREES.
The Russian general Suwarrow, after
the seizure and destruction of Warsaw,
cruelty butchered 30, 900 Poles of all ages
and conditions in cold blood, Nov. 4,
1904. ;ts;sr $500 n ~ TT ~--r,sl..,
The South American agent for some
extensive manufacturers Of harvesters at
Chicago has been two years at Monte.
video, and has sold moving and reaping
machines all over the River Plata region.
Taverns may be traced to the Thir-
tenth century. According to Spelman,
"In the reign Of King Edward III
only three taverns were allowed in Lon
don." Taverns were licensed in England
in 1859.
A West Morris boy was arrested re-
Gently for shooting an eagle contrary to
the law. He was in fair way to be
fined or imprisoned, when commission,
composed Of a clergyman, a justice of
the peace and an editor, sat on the dead
body Of the bird and declared it to be a
fish hawk.
A Nuremberg inventor has produced a
shoe sole composed of wire net overlaid
with substance resembling India rub
Der. These soles, which cost but half
the price of leather, have been tested in
the German army and found to be twice
as durable.
They are having hard work finding
hard pan fol- the foundations of the new
bridge across the Thames at East New
London, Conn. They have put piles
down 113 feet, and have not got to solid
earth yet. It is thought that bottom
will be reached at about 100 feet.
A writer in London Truth suggests
sensible occupation for women who like
sewing, but do not wish to become either
dressnakers or seamstresses, and desire
to live in their own homes. It is the
overlooking and repairing of women's
wardrobes. After clientele had been
established it would undoubtedly bring in
very fair wages.
A firm of pyrotechnists in England
have at their factory a Newfoundland
dog which positively revels in fireworks.
He rushes into shower of sparks with
as much delight as in cold bath, and on
a lighted squib being thrown within his
reach he will run after the smoldering
stump as if it were a bone and trample it
out with his paws.
NJ. Achille Poincelet, in his lecture at
the Hall Of the Boulevard des Capucines
in Paris the other day, discussed the
qualities of blondes and brunettes, the
differences in their love, their role in
private life and in history, linked with
The philosophy Of beauty, and the ques-
tion, which was the superior type of
the Parisienne or the Georgienne?
He ignored entirely the red headed girl.
Fred Marsden, the playwright, con-
suited well known physician few days
before his death as to the easiest and
quickest mode of suicide. The physi-
,ian supposed he was securing incidents
Tor scene in one of his plays, and ex-
planned the subject to him patiently.
Finally Mr.. Marsden said: II have it.
A big dose of choral, then stop up all
he crevices and turn on the gas"
md this is just what he did. He offered
he physician $40 for his advice, but it
vas refused on the ground that no pro-
'essional service has been rendered.