Milford chronicle., 1883-10-26
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

OF Phlladelphla is travelling IN Pennsyl'
vania with his family is described by an
exchange: "The outside has seats fol
three in front and two back; two large
lamps are on each side of the front seat,
and one large head light is on the dash
board. Here also are a clock, an AK,
knife, pistol, and other things. On
the left side of the coach, near the box,
is private locker containing viands. On
top is large willow trunk, Immediately
back of which the tent, camp chairs,
and blankets are stored. Under the
back steps is place for another large
willow trunk, hanging behind which is
a stepladder to be used by ladies when
taking seats on the outside of the
coach. Inside the boot all kinds of
cooking utensils are packed. On the
sides of the coach are willow cases for
canes. umbrellas, fishing rods, and guns.
Inside are two roomy seats facing each
other, accommodating six persons. In
the cushions of the doors are map pOck-
cts, and on the cushioned walls hang a
thermometer, barometer, compass, a
clock, night lamp, a match box, and
near the top are racks filed with note
paper and envelopes. The vehicle
weighs only $40 pounds; and the reins
are handled by the owner, who generally
makes from twenty-five to forty miles
daily. The party go into camp at II
o'clock. The horses are then picketed
and the camp fire is kindled.
IT BEGINS TO LOOK as though the bent
arm of Massachusetts which stretches
out into the atlantic would at last really
be severed, on the surface, from the
main body of the State. Dredges and
pile drivers are already on the line of
the canal, and it is promised that 500
laborers shall at once follow. 1t must
be remembered, however, that this en-
terprise, two or three years ago, had adj
vanced still further than now, and then
failed. But the last Legislature granted
a charter to a company which is believed
to have both the means and the energy
for pushing through, at last, this famous
project, for which plans were drawn
more than a century ago, and which has
been under consideration about two cen
turies.
A PHYSICIAN WHO WRITES for the Con-
tincnt about the curative powers of ma
ture is positive in his conviction that it
is better for a consumptive to stay at
home, where he can be comfortable,
than subject himself to the discomfort |
of hotel life, or to the greater inconven- !
ience of a camp. He says that the |
camp cure may be fairly tried by sleep
ing on ones own housetop. Another |
medical man replies that the summer
conditions of spruce forests are emf
nently favorable, and consumptives have
recovered in the most surprising way
living under canvas in them, where the |
air is impregnated with the healing
peculiar to the nondecid-
uous tree growths. There are consump-
tives whose lungs crave the salt of the
ocean; others to whom the dry atmos-
phere of Colorado is infinitely sooth-
ing; and others again who are benefited
by the climate of Florida or southern
California. "To prescribe Florida for
one person might mean death, while if
he went among the northern paradise of
spruce recovery might follow"
THE WEST HAS DRAWN the young blood
out of the Green Mountain State. The
Rutland Herald says: "There are many
deserted farms and decayed towns in
southern Vermont; at least, that is the
testimony of an intelligent farm-bred
awyer who recently personally visited
he towns that touch both sides of the
Green Mountains from the Massachu-
etts line to Addison county. The wood
and has so encroached upon these de-
erted farms that our friend is confident
hat there is more woodland to-day in
he mountain towns of Vermont than
here has been at any previous time in
he past forty years. In the old coun-
les of Bennington, Windham, Windsor
nd Rutland there are many deserted
arms and decayed towns along both 8
ides of the mountain range, and these
eserted farms are not being reoccupied
y any returning wanderer, although {
lost of the towns are places of much l
atural beauty and attrachveness. {
OPIUM Is sURREPTITIoUsLY supplied by l
an Francisco Cinnamon to THAR coun-
.ymen in the Sandwich Islands, where c
is forbidden. The drug brings $50 to q
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