The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1889-02-08
PERSONS AND THINGS.

Ben Butler chews up twenty cirara
q day. They are called Widow But
ler's weeds"
It takes go, 1000 year TO dine the
officers Of Queen Victoria's guard, on
duty at st. James palace.
Professor Graham Bell says that the
congenital deaf mutes of the country
are increasing at q greater rae than
the general population.
European manufactures of electric
lights are being visited for the purpose
Of finding light to be used by the
pearl fishers when at work under
water.
The New York Prison association,
after long investigation, decided that
the women convicts should be cared
for in separate institution, with rules
and regulations Of its own.
During our civil war city bred men
stood long marches better, were sub
ject to less disorders, and recovered
from gunshot wounds more readily
than country bred men.
f. G. Phillips, the author of the
novel "As in a Looking Glass, has
been soldier, a journalist, and the
atrical manager, and he is now sue
cessful barrister. He has been more
than once asked to stand for parlia-
ment
A German scientific journal informs
us that electricity is used in India to
prevent snakes from going into dwell
ings. Shouldn't wonder now if it
wouldn't prove effectual with boots
under peculiar circumstances.
Moses Jacobs is probably the richest
newsboy in the world He is IS years
old and has sold newspapers for the,
last fourteen years on the streets of
Des Moines, Ia, during which time
he has acquired $4,000 worth of real
estate from his savings. =.
The courts of California have de-
cided that a Chinaman's queue must
not be cut off when he is sent to
prison but they are cut off just the
same. No warden will allow that
heather pig tail is more sacred than
American unplaited hair.
The emperor of Germany receives
salary of $750,O00, and wants it in
creased to million. For man who
has not been in the business not much
more than six months the young en-
peror has remarkable confidence in
his ability and a good estimate of his
own personal worth.
Miss Adele Aus der Ohe is said to
have played on the piano with both
hands at the tender age of g. She
heard some one playing III Bacio,"
and seating herself at the instrument,
ratified off that brilliant waltz in
manner that made every one who
heard her stand agape with wonder.
Students before being admitted to
the university of Mississippi are re-
quired to appear before board Of
professors and answer whether they
have any firearms about them or
whether some person or persons had
any in keeping for them. If so, they
must be delivered up before the ap-
plicants are declared full students.
Some Of the leading citizens of
washington have determined to
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Creek valley, one Of the most pict-
uresque localities in the environs of
the capital. The site has been selected,
and legislation will be asked by con-
gress while the land can be had at a
reasonable price.
The northern limits of the culture
of the silk worm are being steadily
extended. Experiments made last |
summer at Astrakhan showed that it
could easily be carried on at the
mouth of the Volga Notwithstand-
ing the age of the mulberry trees
which were planted at Astrakhan
thirty five years since, the results Of
the experiments proved satisfactory,
and 10000 cocoons were received this
year.