The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1890-02-28
ODDS AND ENDS.

Students who use tobacco in any
form are denied admission to the Uni
versity of the Pacific at San jose Cal
Ram fighting is said to divide with
cock fighting the affections OF those OF
sporting blood among the natives OF
Ceylon.
II is said that during the twenty
years from 1867 to 1887, q per cent. OF
all the county records in the United
States were destroyed by fire.
A bundle of spider webs, not large,
than buckshot and weighing less
than drachm, would, if Strengthened
out and untangled, reach distance OF
$50 miles.
A French woman has got up a pub
lie contest, the proceeds Of which are
to be devoted to the relief of the su fer
ers from the Antwerp fire, in which
the prize is to be awarded to the wo.
man who speaks the most words in
one hour.
The Kings College School Old Boys
club wrote asking Mr.. Gladstone to
become an honorary member and re.
ceived postal card written by him de-
clining the honor. The club promptly
put the card up at auction and got six
shillings threepence for it.
The total of the royal game bag of
Prussia for 1889 was Is, 932 head,
as follows: Red deer, 1929; fallow
deer, 2,546; roedeer, 216; wild pig
942; pheasants, 1858; hares, 1904
cartridges, 1859; wild geese. ducks
and snipe, herons, etc., 747; foxes, 23O;
martens, SO; polecats. 1870; weasels,
100; hawks, $40; various, 1,476.
In the newly discovered tombs near
the Place de la Constitution, Athens,
upon skeleton was found golden
ring with precious stone and a gol.
den earring. In another tomb was
found leaves of gold.
A new submarine ram vessel has Il
cylinder Is feet long and IL inches in
diameter, the piston of which consti
tutes the ram proper and is driven by
steam with 100 ton blow. 1t is sup.
posed to be able to punch a hole in
anything afloat. The boat itself may
be carried upon the deck of a man-of-
war.
A new calculating machine has just
been invented in France and obtained
a gold medal at the exhibition. The
inventor is M. Bollee, of La Mans, a
clever machinist, already very favora-
bly, known by other useful inventions.
The machine does addition. multiply
cation and division with astonishing
rapidity, and all by the turn of the
wheel. M. Mascart recently gave an
account of the invention before the
Academy of Science.
An article called "cavassa starch"
is attracting considerable attention in
the Florida sub tropical exhibition. A
local paper says: Northern men can
hardly believe it is Florida produc,
tioA, and when. they harm THAT it was
raised on small garden plot and pre-
pared by simple, crude process, and
learn how enormously it produces
and further, that it is an article not
only for man, but for animals, they
open their eyes in wonder"
The government of India has been
compelled by law to purchase three
copies of each new book issued in the
country, and it has been discovered
that practice has grown up of print
ing new books simply for the sale OF
these three copies, for which any price
within reason could be charged. A
change is about to be made in the
law, and hereafter the publishers will
have to present the copies to the gov
eminent,
There are many curious customs OBJ
served by the Brazilians Funerals
are notable in that for a young nm
married lady coffin, hearse and the
livery of the driver must be bright
scarlet, the four white horses drawing
the hearse must be covered with scar
let nets, and scarlet plumes must deck
the horses heads. No women go to
the cemeteries The mother, the wild
ow, must not exhibit her grief in pub
lie.
On removing a granite block at St.
Fabu, Finnisterre, a Roman Hanged
tile was observed, which had apparent
ly served as cover to box of wood,
now fallen into decay. Inside was
found over 10, 600 small plated Roman
CONS of Valerian, Diocletian, Con-
stantius, Maximus, Lucinius, CONTAIN
tue the Great and Constaninus Ii.
They are all we'll preserved, and date
from 200 to 300 A. D.
At Kumomoto, Japan, the scene of
the recent disastrous earthquakes,
while well digger was excavating for
water at depth of about eighteen
fathoms, the base fell through and he
was only saved from descent, how
far it is not known, by rope which
him with the top of the pit
has shown that very
large cavity, depth and width UNI
known, exists, and this was probably
caused by recent earthquake.
1t is announced that NJ Munkacsy
IS making a ceiling for the museum
Of the history of art at Vienna, and
hat it will be exhibited for the
first time at the next French sa-
on. The composition is thirty
'eet square, and represents the al
egory of the renaissance. In the
,enter, Titan is surrounded by his
and many models; in the first
panel at the left Leonardo and Ra-
,hael converse Familiarity; above
hem Veronese works Oh scaffold,
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