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The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1892-02-26

inclement days have, to be sure, caused
temporary cessation of the racing merry
go-round on the hill, but there has never
been days interruption of the racing by
the authorities of New Jersey Arrests
have been and at the present time are
being made by officers of the law, but the
bookmakers and officials arrested are quite
as promptly released on bail by justice
of the peace, who has established a con-
venent court in an unused stable just out
side of the track.
Although Guttenburg has not attracted
the highest class of thoroughbreds, it can
not be truthfully said that horses of ma
tional prominence have not on occasions
made their appearance there, or that as a
rule the entries are unworthy OF attention
in strictly racing sense. The Innovation
stakes, which are run on Jan. each year,
furnishes the first race in the United States
for 2-year-olds, and not few cracks" have
made their debut at Guttenburg. This
was notably true last season of Eclipse and
the Refraction filly. Loantaka, the win
ner of last years Suburban, was also a
graduate from Guttenburg, and Long
street, who promises great things this
year, has also tried his fleetness on the
hilltop track. The three chief events OF
the Guttenburg season are the Innovation
stakes, the George Washington stakes (run
on Feb 22), and the Shamrock stakes,
which is the feature of ST. Patrick's Day.
The purse for each of these events is $1,000.
1t is wrong, also, to conclude that nothing
but short and unimportant dashes is the
rule at Gutenberg. Races of one mile are
of frequent occurrence, and very recently a
two mile race was run.
Mr.. Caldwell who has for years offici-
ated on the summer tracks of the east,
and who is generally known to the public
as the "prince of starters" has recently
been engaged exclusively by the Gutten-
burg people at a salary of $4,000 year,
and Judge Joseph j. Burke, whose author
ity in the judges stand at Gutenberg is
unouestioned. has a national reputation
for fairness.
Just at present the eyes of the racing
world are upon the New Jersey legislature
in session at Trenton to see what will be
done in the matter of giving New Jersey
poolselling law, such as exists in New
York state. Such law is most devoutly
wished for by the people of the famous
Monmouth park race track at Long
Branch and by the tracks at Elizabeth
and Linden, n. j., none of which tracks
was permitted to hold race meetings last
summer. The Guttenburg people, appar.
emily calm in the assurance that they will
not be seriously interfered with by the
| authorities of Hudson county, n. j., claim
| to be entirely Indifferent as to whether the
legislature does or does not legalize theiI
money making business.
N. p. BABoocK.
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Apropos of the Centennial exposition it
may be added that number of interesting
bells will be on exhibition in Chicago in
1893 One of them, now in the city of Wash
ington, is said to have once hung in the
tower of church built by Columbus at
Isabella, Santo Domingo the first Euro
pean settlement in the New World
Probably the oldest peal in America !
one of four bells hanging in the qua u
belfry of the Spanish cathedral at :.
Augustine, Fla They bear the date
1852. Another old bell is the property of !
Catholic church at Kaskaskia, Ills {
was presented to the parish by King Louis
of France, in 174l. The largest bell in
America is the one in the Cathedral of
Notre Dame, at Montreal. 1t was cast in
England in 1S47, and weighs 1879 tons.
It is said the largest bell ever made in
this country weighed $4,000 pounds, and
before it was fractured hung on the city
hall in New York On one or two occa-
sons this bell was heard up the Hudson
river thirteen miles in the night, when the
city was comparatively quiet.
The chime in Trinity church, New York,
is probably the best in the country. The
largest bell of the little group in Trinity
church was cast in 1915. Grouped around
it are other bells, decreasing regularly in
size to the smallest, which weighs scarcely
100 pounds. These lesser bells are well
worth the looking at "In good old colony
tines they crossed the seas, eight of them
in company, present from good Queen
Anne to her loyal subjects in the New
World, and it is recorded that they were
the first chime of bells whose voice was
heard this side the Atlantic.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1892-02-26

county, N. j. This little half mile track
was the property of the North Hudson
Driving Park association, and had been
built not for money making purposes, but
to furnish the owners of speedy trotters in
Jersey City and vicinity an opportunityto
test the respective merits of their animals.
The few shrewd sporting men who hit
upon the idea of continuing the suddenly
interrupted race meeting of Brighton
beach, Coney Island, on the Guttenburg
half mile track, secured an indefinite lease
of the same from the North Hudson Driv-
ing Park as ISOLATION. The stock of this
association was at that time less than $50
coo: today it is capitalized at $425,OO0.
Sointimate and intricate are the existing
relations between the North Hudson Driv-
ing Park association lessees and the North
Hudson Jockey club lessons that it is diff
cult to explain precisely by what process
the stock of the former association was so
vastly increased, or how it happens to be
held in the main by the gentlemen who
compose the latter association. 1t can be
truthfully said, however, that the original
stockholders in the driving park scheme
are abundantly satisfied with the way that
matters have turned out, because, for a
large part, each is holder of but one share
of stock (of a par value of SlOO) upon
which they not only receive liberal rate
of interest, but which single share of stock
likewise entities each to a silver badge
good for all time as admission to the Gut
tenburg races
The amount of money offered in purses
daily at the Gutenberg race track aver
ages throughout the season from $4,000 to
S., 900, the largest purse offered at any one
race during the season being $1,000. The
receipts of the club Independent of admis-
sions are obtained from the rental of book
making stands at the steep price of 500
day for each bookmaker, between twenty
and thirty bookmakers being constantly
on hand
The magnitude of the proportions to
which winter racing has grown will be re-
allied when it is said that there is no race
track in the United States which has so
large a stabling facility as the track at
Guttenburg. Within the Enclosure of the
race grounds themselves there are stalls
for 800 horses and accommodations just
outside the Enclosure for nearly as many
more There are probably, including
trainers, jockeys, stable boys and helpers
generally, at least 1000 souls who live and
make their permanent winter homes at
Gutenberg
In the fall of 1889 Guttenburg was opened
as full mile race track, and a large grand
stand, with a glass front and fitted up
with enormous heaters, was erected to
take the place of the little building which
had previously served as a stand for spec
tators A new betting ring, with accom-.
modations for an army of bookmakers,
was also built at the same time, and in
fact everything was arranged with an
obvious view of the permanency of winter
racing as an institution. A few terrifcally
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SWEETS FOR EVERYBODY.
Fruit Crusts, Custards and Other Dainties
That Delight the Sweet Tooth.

Fruit Crusts, Custards and Other Dainties
That Delight the Sweet Tooth.
Whatever you do, let your sweets be real
of their kind, your custard made with eggs
and milk, guiltless of corn flour or custard
powder; your whipped cream genuine, not
eked out with white of egg; while if you
like that insipid dish blanc mango, eat it
under that name, and not under the alias
of Italian cream, owing to the addition of
a handful of dried fruits.
Fruit crusts are pretty little hot sweets,
so are slices of French roll dipped in mix
ture of egg, milk and sherry, and fried in
butter, some hot apricot or peach jam,
mixed with the wine being poured over
them before serving
Baked chocolate or coffee custards are
simple and economical. The little castle
buildings are always nice, especially when
favored with lemon, steamed and served
with wine sauce, or when baked and rolled
in sweet syrup
Fruit tarts should always be served cold,
and the cream handed with them is better
whipped, in the opinion of many people.
One of the incest and most quickly pre-
pared sweets is cream, whipped stiffly,
sweetened, favored with vanilla or lemon,
and mixed with brown bread crumbs. 1t
should be served piled high in an old china
bowl, and strewn with more crumbs and
glace cherries.
A delicious accompaniment to any
stewed fruit is rice or tapioca cooked in
milk, with sugar and vanilla, and mixed
when well nigh cold with whipped cream,
then piled rocklike in glass dish.
Eggnogg (made of whipped cream, raw
yolk of egg, powdered sugar, sherry, lemon
juice and dash of rum) and similar semi
liquid sweets look very pretty served in
tea or coffee cups and saucers of old china.
You may have the saucers placed around,
and the cups handed on the large cake or
bread and butter plates of an old fash
Toned service in lieu of tray, This looks
quainter than custard glasses, which are
old fashioned.
Among hot sweets may be mentioned
fruit fritters, beignets, souff1es, pancakes,
etc, but only the first need special men
ton Bananas make Incompatible fritters;
slices of oranges are good, and SO are
halved greengages.
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For these dainty little baby shoes use
No. IL or 10 needles and two ounces of
double Berlin wool Begin with the foot,
cast on II stitches. Increase on the second
stitch (by knitting it at the back and
'front.' at the beginning, and on the last
stitch but one at the end of every row till
there are % stitches on the needle. The
heel is where the end of the wool is left.
Then increase in the same way at the end
and at the beginning of every row at the
toe till there are 30 stitches on the needle.
Knit s rows plain Knit at the heel end l3
stitches, take another needle and knit the
front of the foot upon the next II stitches,
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1892-02-26
The New Astronomy V.

The instrument of the new astronomy is
the spectroscope, and the novelty of its use
lies in this: That, whereas it was formerly
used to ascertain the chemical constitution
of the stars, it is now being used to deter
mine their movements. Sir Robert Ball.
the Irish astronomer, by the by, tells us
that 1.-The ordinary expression, fixed star,
is misnomer When the place of a star
has been accurately determined by meas
urement made with the meridian circle
and when after the lapse of number
of years the place of the same star is
again determined by observation, it fire.
quently happens that the two places
disagree. The explanation is that the
star has moved in the interval And it
is infinitely improbable that any really
fixed star exists" The usual method OF
determining the movements of stars is
by the telescope and the meridian circle.
But there are some movements, Sir Robert
points out, which cannot be thus measured.
These are the cases when star happens to
be darling directly toward the observer or
directly from him. In such cases the tel
escopic method is inapplicable, because the
observer would not notice any change in
the stars position. at is just here that
the spectroscope comes in to fill the vacant
place in the armory of the astronomer"
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1892-02-26

Elsie Bee writes in The jewelers. Circu
lar of the following new things to be seen
in the shops:
Cannon ball" is the name given to the
new massive round table clocks. The glass
which covers the face is thick and magnifies
the figures somewhat.
Caricature in bronze paperweights is the
feature of the season. Two cats dining at
restaurant table, monkeys dressed as cooks
and master renard dressed as gamekeeper.
A shrimp salad bowl is shaped like an old
and slightly battered tin pan with wavelike
indentations over the gilt interior and
shapes of sea monsters dimly seen as II
through water.
The latest service of the bowknot is the
very last that might be expected. A set OF
after dinner coffee cups of Royal Worcester
are bound with gilt ribbons tied in bow
knot at the side. 1t is a charming device IS
well as novel Each cup stands on a little
gilt base.
Square ivory handles with incised lines
for ornaments are attached to the tea and
coffee pots in some of the new silver se<v-
ices.
Bread and cake dishes of silver are on low,
plain stands, oblong in shape, slightly hol-
lowed in the center, with fiaring ends and
broken edge of ornament.
Toothbrush holders made like ring hold
ers, that is, with a standard rising from the
center of base edge with repousse work,
with the addition Of three loops two-thirds
of the distance from base to support the
brushes, have been recently introduced
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FAMOUS AMERICAN BELLS.
A Pretty Legend About the old "Slave
Bell"-The Oldest Peal.

Bell"-The Oldest Peal.
The subject of bells has always been "a
fascinating one and favorite with poets
and romantic writers. Our own Long
fellow wrote no less than nine poems Oh
this subject among them THE Belfry of
Bruges," 1.-The Bells of Lynn, +" THE Song
IF the Bell, "The Bells of St Bias" and
"The Bells of Atri." There are good many
bells in America with history and more
or less legendary lore connected with them
writer in The Christian at Work. from
which the accompanying cut is reproduced
makes some interesting statements in re-
gard to these, among which occur the fol
lowing:
The old slave bell exhibited in 1876 at the
Centennial exposition had served for many
years to call to work the $50 slaves in the
FOntainbleau sugar plantation of Louis
ana A striking point of resemblance be-
tween the ''slave bell'' and the liberty bell
is in the fact that each has fissure in the
side. Concerning the assure in the slave
bell pretty legend is related:
The bell stood in the center of the plan
tation and was pealed to summon the force
of slaves to and from their work Early in
the morning its changing reused the ten
ants of the quarters to their daily tasks,
and at eventide it's silvery notes announced
that the hour for rest had come. Faith
fully did the bell perform it's duty till the
day when President Lincoln's emancipa-
ton proclamation was sounded through the
land Then the heart of the bell broke for
very joy. Atall events, assure was found
in it's side the very next day.
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leaving ID stitches for the leg. Knit 18
rows upon these II stitches and to make
little point to turn over the toe and fit into
the sole when it is sewn up, increase on the
last stitch of the 18th and 9th rows, then de-
crease to Il stitches again. In the 18th
row cast on Is more stitches for the other
side of the shoe Knit s rows plain. De-
crease at the toe end by knitting together
the I'd and Sd stitches at the end, and at
the beginning of every row till there are
% stitches; then decrease at the toe and
heel till there are II stitches on the needle,
cast off. Sew up the foot neatly with fine
wool. The leg is knitted with four needles.
Knit 10 stitches at the side, across the in
step and II stitches at the other side. Knit
4 rounds plain, then make holes for rib
bon; knit 2, wool twice around the needle,
knit 2 together, repeat from =; knit
rounds plain. In the next round knit 2,
purl /, then knit 1 round plain. Repeat
these two last rounds till there are little
purled spots up the leg. Knit 2 rounds
plain, knit 2 together all round. In the
next put the wool in front and knit l all
round, then round plain Repeat from =
once more knit round, purl round, knit
/ round, purl round, knit l round, cast
off; run ribbon through the holes at the
ankle. For a smaller shoe use finer wool
and needles
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visit the track. The daily attendance
throughout the winter seldom falls below
1900, and on Saturdays and holidays there
are frequently from 10000 to 1900 persons
present, the price of admission being uni
formly one dollar.
The history of this racing mint is inter
esting. 1t dates from the midwinter OF
1886 Following the close of the regular
season of summer racing in that year, the
Brighton Park Racing association CON
tinued its meeting throughout the fall and
up to Christmas day, having run l25 days
in all. The authorities at that point inter
rupted the racing at Brighton beach, and
to the dismay of scores of horsemen from
the south and other parts an end was put
toany opportunity of enabling their horses
10 do more than eat their heads off in idle
ness.
When this sudden blow came from the
arm of the law the attention Of a few
horse owners was called TO small half
mile track that lay on the top Of the bill
An the vicinity ~ Guttenburg. Hudson
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Natural Gas.

The Engineering and Mining Journal is
authority for the statement that, while
there has been a temporary increase in the
flow of natural gas in the Pennsylvania
fields during the past few months, the out
put of the Indiana and northwestern Ohio
fields has continued to decrease at an alarm
ing rate. 1t lis said that not more than one
tenth of the factories in the latter district
are now using natural gas, and so uncer-
tain has the supply become that many pri-
vate families are returning to the use of
wood and coal for fuel From present in
dications the western Pennsylvania fields
will outlast those of Ohio and Indiana.
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Love and Wedding Rings.

Love and wedding rings are intimately
associated; yet Colley Cibber exclaims,
ooh, how many torments lie in the small
circle of a wedding ring" Do you know
why the gold circlet is placed on the left
hand? Opinions differ, says writer in
Cassell's Magazine. On the one side it is
affirmed that a vein proceeding from the
heart to that finger is the cause; on the
other that it denotes that the wife is sub
ject to her husband. Napoleon |, when he
married his second empress whispered in
M. Pradt's ear. THE Roman law ordains
that all slaves should wear rings, and as
the women are our slaves they ought to
wear this badge of servitude" The little
corporal and the great emperor was not
given to weighing his words so far as po-
likeness was concerned 1t is more CRATE
full to women to know that men il a thou
sand grateful ways have demonstrated the
tenderness of their passion by 1.-THE giving
and receiving of a ring" Herrick sings
And as this round
Is nowhere found
To flaw or else to sever,
So let our love
AS endless prove
AS pure as gold forever.
1t was more the fashion in old days than
now to engrave a verse within the ring
Many such have been handed down to us.
For example:
Thus may our lives be one perpetual round
Nor care, nor sorrow, ever shall be found.
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The Chimney Problem.

A straight fue carried up sufficiently
high to escape all neighboring roofs will
always draw Departure from this rule
involves doubt and uncertainty. The main
difficulty in all these matters, says The
Builder and Woodworker, is the lack of
knowledge on the part of persons building
of the limitations and restrictions of the
builders art. la many sections of the
country it is almost impossible to build or
have a house built as one desires it on &C
count of the perversity and ignorance of
mechanics
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FIotsam and Jetsam.

Silver articles are called plate from the
Spanish word plata, which means silver
The eyeball Of the owl is immovably
fixed in its socket, hence the look Of wis
dom that that bird always appears to have
In the horse an eye in which white pre-
dominates indicates a vicious nature
According to Scribner's the greatest mum
Der of immigrants ever landed in New
York in a year was 445,550, in 1883; the
greatest number in a day, nearly 10000.
MAY II, 1887.
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THE GORILLA WHICH "sor FOR HIS PICTURE. "

The special characteristics that distin-
guish the gorilla from the similar apes,
such as the orang-outang, the chimpanzee
and the gibbon, are, says The Popular Sci
ence News, indicated in the picture, and
comprise the black or grayish hair, the
slightly prominent nose, the excessively
large nostrils, the slightly projecting lips,
medium sized ears and relatively short
arms. The gorilla does not bear captivity
we'll and the few that have been brought
from their native Africa have soon died.
although the one represented in the en-
craving was at last accounts still living at
Nice.
The chimpanzee is, among all the other
anthropoid apes, the one which comes
nearest to man in form and intelligence.
New Workers will recall the late Mr..
Crowley" who was for long time one OF
the leading attractions of the Central Park
menaUerie
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Novel Method of Handling Coal.

The Manufacturers Gazette calls atten-
ton to a new method of handling fine coal,
which in removing it from mines and ship
ing piles employs a powerful blast of air.
The fine coal and dust is conveyed into a
hopper which feeds the material into the
blast pipe, supplied with powerful cur
rent of air from rotary blower. The
method is said to be simple, clean and
economical. 1t is chiefly adapted for han
ding the refuse of bituminous mines.
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Cut up the cabbage, not too fine; scald it
and partly cook it in salted water-strain
very thoroughly; melt some butter in a
saucepan. add salt and pepper, -four and a
cupful Of fresh cream; put in the cabbage.
let il simmer for three-quarters Of an hour
and serve
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The First Lighthouse.

In popular histories of the seven won
ders of the world we read that the pharos
the first Lighthouse, could be seen at a dis
lance Of 100 miles. In order for this to
have been possible the Pharos must have
been a mile and a quarter in height. says
The Industrial World.
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Turned Into a House of Prayer.

Satan is suffering complete rout from
the revivalists Of West fremont, Me. Ev-
erybOdy is enthusiastic on the subject OF
religious yevivals. A dance hall was re
Gently completed in West fremont, but II
will never serve the purpose for which 1t
was intended, inasmuch as it has already
been converted into Methodist church.
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THE GORILLA.

Special Characteristics That Distinguish
the Gorilla from the similar Apes.
In the cut here reproduced and originally
appearing in La Nature is the facsimile OF
a flash light photograph of young gorilla
recently exhibited in Paris, and is prob
ably the first picture of the kind that was
ever obtained of this rare anthropoid ape.
The gorilla which thus involuntarily "sot
for his picture" was a young male about
wears old.