The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1890-03-21
ODDS AND ENDS.

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Americans stand first among the
! nations of the world in the manufac-
ture OF finished iron and steel prod.
ucts.
Sir William Gull says that. when
tagged out by professional work, he
recruits his strength by eating raisins
and not by drinking wine or brandy.
A wise modern economist declares
that many people know the value of a
dollar who do not appreciate the value
of a hundred cents.
The first apple tree planted in Ohio
can be seen alive and vigorous on Je-
rome Vincent's farm at Marietta. It
was planted in 1889.
Berlin now has 1880, 900 population,
to which should be added the subur-
ban population of 1880 making a
city larger than New York. Living is
very cheap
In France there are upward of co.
600 applicants for 300 vacancies in the
public service in the department of
the Seine. Four thousand persons APP
piled for the places of three office boys
at the Hotel de Villa.
At Castua, a small town in Austria,
all the couples who become engaged
during the year are united in the
bonds of wedlock at one and the same
marriage ceremony. In virtue of this
ancient ceremony thirty young wo-
men were the other day led to the al
tar.
There are in this country and Cana
da CAS- miles of electric street railway,
on which 1880 cars are run. Ohio has
the greatest number of miles of any
state-934, and runs ISL cars, while
Pennsylvania has but 314 and yet runs
"a cars, more than three times as many
in proportion.
A new etching of 'The Angelus"
has just been completed in Paris.
Only a very limited number of copies
are to be struck off, and the price is
said to be 1900 francs, or $4O0 each.
The most expensive copies on sale in
the United States are the photographs,
which sell for $50 each, and the issue
of which has been limited to 100
copies.
A clapboard was exhibited in Knox
vile, Tenn. which was made by Will
liam McNish, of Jefferson county,
aged 100 years. He cut the tree and
sawed and split the boards with his
own hands. He is a native of North
Carolina, but has lived in Tennessee a
reasonable lifetime. He is as vigorous
as man of 40.
Napoleon's grand army has dwin-
died down to small company. 1t has
been ascertained that there are now
only 112 men who wear the medal of
st. Helena, and whose names appear
on the pension list of the Legion of
Honor for 1890. In 1883 there were
LAPS of these veterans still living.
The next year there were 500 less, and
in 1887 there were only 224.
During the $50 years that the pal
ace of the Tuileries has been a royal
dwelling, no French sovereign has
died within it's walls, and ever since
1883 every French sovereign who has
made the Tuileries his abode has been
compelled, at some time or other, to-
quit the shelter of its roof.
Friendliness and unfriendliness are
only relative terms, and what in Eng
land would be looked upon as show
ing animosity of the most deadly kind
is, on the northwest frontier of India,
regarded only as passing expression
of i'll will. In describing the arrival
of Sir r. Sandeman's force at Apazai,
a Calcutta telegram sets forth that,
with the exception of few shots
fired at the rear guard, the tribesmen
showed friendly disposition"
Sheriffs in England, in ancient
times, were generally men of high
rank and great power To them the
king usually intrusted his castles and
manors lying within their bailiwick.
They furnished these castles with am
and other necessaries, and
stocked and improved the manors.
They were also charged with the per-
Torrance of many special duties.
The height of an olive tree is usual
~ twenty feet, but it is sometimes as
high as fifty feet, and reaches an al.
most fabulous age. One lately de-
stroyed at Beaulieu had a recorded age
of five centuries and was thirty-six
feet in circumference. The olive tree
is exceedingly prolific under cultiva-
ton; the fruit yields about 70 per
cent. of its weight exclusive of ker-
neD in oil. Italy is said to produce
30, 600, 600 and France Z, 600, 600 gallons
Of oil annually. The tree does not
vegetate readily beyond 1000 feet al
titude or As dogs. of latitude.
Speaking of the long distances in
his country, an Englishman says:
1.-The longest railroad trip you can
make in the United Kingdom is about
500 miles, and they cannot realize that
here is a land where one can ride con-
in one direction for week
Or more. When a local Liverpool
nan starts up to London, a five hours
Tide, his friends come to the depot to
zee him off, and make great ado
lbout his journey. He is provided
With baskets of lunch and all that sort
If thing, while an American in the
next compartment has only had q
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