The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1889-09-13

The average ago Of the twelve Eng
lish bishops Is 70 years,
"Strange how wet il isl" BE
stranger still L it were dry with such
heavy rains" 4,
The king OF Spain took his first sea
hath at San Sebastian two weeks ago.
His eldest sister, the princess OF The
Asturias, aged 8, carried him in.
During session Of the grand lodge
of Odd Fellows at Rome, Ga. Aug. 81,
Col. Adolph Brandt, a prominent law
yer of Atlanta, while speaking on a
resolution, fell dead from apoplexy.
The prophecy Of mad man that a
disastrous earthquake would shock
London on April 8, l750, caused thou.
sands OF persons, particularly those OF
rank and fortune, TO pass this period
in their carriages and in tents. q
A startling was discovered at the
bottom Of coal pit near Airdrie, and
on being taken to the surface it next
day returned to the bottom. Of the
shaft, some 900 feet.
The building Of big steamships is
said to be overdone The result will
probably be sharp competition and a
reduction next year in ocean fares. >
The wedding trousseau of the en-
press of China filed 900 boxes each
Of which took two men to carry. The
emperor's two other wives were able
to pack their apparel into 200 boxes.
Japanese oranges are as different
from our idea OF an orange as they
can well be, separating from the peel
almost as easily as a grape, dividing
into sections at the slightest pull, each
section like separate fruit, and dis.
solving in the mouth with q flavor OF
cherries, leaving no pulp behind.
English booksellers deny that maya
zines interfere with the sale of cheap
books, in England, at least. There 1t
costs as much to send magazine by
post as it does to send book, and be-
sides, the dealers do not receive the
same discount on magazines as on
books, and many Of them are non-re.
turnable, 50 that they are loss II
kept in stock.
If Mrs. Harriet Coe, of Grand Rap.
ids, Mich, lives until Jan. II, 1890,
she will be 1O3 years old. She was
born in Hartford, Conn.,, in 1857 Her
father, Alexander Mcneil, was a sol
der in the war of 1912, and her grand
father, Gen. Mcneil, was soldier in
the war of the Revolution. In her
Tooth year she had paralytic stroke,
and it was thought she would not re-
cover, but she did, and now is in fan
state Of health.
| Crushed Stag is said to be greatly
superior to dry earth as en- absorbing
and deodorizing material for earth
closets, both on account of its extreme
porosity, which makes the use OF 9
smaller quantity possible, and from it.
value as fertilizer, which is vastly
increased by using it for the purpose
suggested It is also cheap and YEN
tifuI
!, The library Of Manchester 70 ~
, or contains a copy of what is prohAAy
!, the smallest volume ever engraved,
!, printed and bound. It measures IL
in height, by rs inch in width, con,
tains 80 leaves or ga plates, is covered
!, in crimson and gilt roam, and has gilt
edges. It was published in Paris, al
the Black Cat, 81 St. Denis street
The contents Of the book are entirely
. in French, and consist Of eight chan
, sonettes, each illustrated by Wig
nette.
Mr.. Laurance Hutton has hit upoI
novel idea for decoration IN hi
study. The frieze that runs arount
his room is made of the death mask
of distinguished men and women. Th'
effect is striking and not unsuggestiv'
of the famous room in Bluebeard's cas-
tie. This room of Mr.. Huttons, b!
the way, contains many other thing
of interest, among them pencil
sketch of Thackeray by himself. Lik
all of Thackeray's portraits done b,
his own hand. it is more or less libel
Ous
The total original cost of the British
war ships of all sorts at the last Spit
head review, paraded for the inspec
ton of the emperor, was f16, 1853, 765
The number Of ships present was 70
of torpedo boats SO. The weight 0
|, metal contained in the heavy gun
was 6, 500 tons. The tonnage was ap
.. proximately 100000 Five hundre'
and sixty-nine heavy guns, irrespec
: tive of quick firers and machine guns
I composed the armament.
: A citizen of Belfast, Ireland, wrot
} on a postal card the whole of one o
t the annual messages Of Presiden
Cleveland. The message containe.
> $1,000 words, yet the writer got it al
3 on the card with steel pen and ink
/ each. letter, as seen through micro
t scope, being beautifully formed. More
3 over, border thee-eighths of an incl
: wide is placed around the card, re
r presenting string of beads, ffty-tw
1 in number, each three7sixteenths OF al
inch in diameter, most Of them cor
tanning the Lords prayer; 4, 600 word
are put into this border. The write
is n years old, and says he could &c
$1,000 words on postal card. 1t too
him forty-five days to write this one
Three Graves.
Who of US is so forgetful that b
cannot recall the blue glass crazel
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