The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1891-07-10
CROWN AND SCEPTER.

King Christian of Denmark is seventy
three years old.
King Humbert wears his hair q la Pom
padour, or ''scare hair"
The emperor of China is said to be
troubled with insomnia.
The king of Greece is not unlikely to alb
dictate in favor of the duke of SPARTA
Queen Marguerite of Italy is woman as
we'll as queen. She has, owing to the
great distress existing in Rome, ordered
that 200 soup tickets be daily distributed
to the poor in her name.
An English journal is authority for the
statement that at an exhibition of women g
industries lately held at Glasgow pair of
wristlets in gay stripes and blue and
scarlet hood worked by Queen Victoria
were on view.
One of the striking figures in the Rus
sian palace at Gatschina is the great Dan
ish hound, which is the czar's favorite dog
This dog is said to be the largest of his
species in the world, and is the czar's con-
slant companion.
King Humbert of Italy has received
from state commission gold medal
awarded for ''civil valor," his bravery con
sisting in springing in advance of anyone
else into cellar under a house that had
collaped and giving assistance and com.
fort to several persons that had been car
ried down bv the wreck.
Mrs. Kate Gannet Wells is leading and
energetic spirit in Boston societies and as
sociations. She often presides over eight
in one day.
Mrs. Jenness- Miller thinks that short
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up as the knee, and an easy fitting waist,
is the most artistic form of dress possible
to make.
The ball room in Mrs. Mackay's new
house in London measures fifty feet by
twenty-five, and both it and the adjoining
parlors are treated in the Palladino style of
the Italian Sixteenth century.
Mrs Henry X. Updegrave, of Tower
City, Pa, is but forty Eight years of age,
and is eat-grandmother She was mar
ried at fourtcen, her daughter at fifteen
and her granddaughter at sixteen
Mrs. Bailey, wife of the editor of the
Utica Observer, has recently devised and
patented an arrangement to be attached to
hospital beds, by means of which patient
is enabled to raise and lower himself with
out the assistance of nurse
Mrs. Lille Devereux Blake, the best
looking of the noted women suffragists of
America, is descended from Jonathan Ed
wards, and consequently one of the choicest
relics she possesses is yellow silk gown
that was worn by Aaron Burr's mother.
the great divine's daughter.
Mrs. Kate Smith, who has become known
to fame as the Queen of the Census" is a
Philadelphia woman She is tall, dark
haired, with round eyes, pure olive com
plexion, rosebud mouth and an intelligent
face She has well rounded and grace
full figure, and in the department has shown
considerable executive ability.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher is the idol of
the Brooklyn saleswoman. She doesn't
shop often, but when she does she makes
it mornings work. She calls the girls
who wait on her ''my DEAR" and If one Of
them has cold in her head, chapped hands
or cold sore on her lip she kindly and
gratuitously prescribes remedy.
Mrs. Besant says that Russia lis the
thunder cloud of Europe, whose intensity
no one can measure, whose tempestuous
outbreak no one can prophesy. What the
future for Russia will be no one can tell,
but the explosion must come, the storm
must break, and not only Europe, but the |
world waits with anxious interest to see
what the end will be-"
Finger bowls, where no game bones have |
been picked, olives eaten or fruit served, |
are superfluous. There are dinner givers |
prone to forget this.
1t seems a bit odd to have ones ice cream |
served with petit pois, but such is the pres |
emit fashion. Sometimes it comes to tine |
table disguised as mushroom buttons.
A plentiful sprinkling of salt and pro-
longed bath in cracked ice is the only |
process whereby the athletic qualities of |
The cucumber are prevented from being |
to the consumer.
Samuel Ward, of pleasant memory, used,
when DESTROYS of enjoying Welsh rarebit,
10 prepare the toast and cheese combine
ton himself with chatting dish and alcohol
lamp His mode of manufacturing it diff |
Tered very much from modern restaurant
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