Milford chronicle., 1883-11-23
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

houses were closed, and, after a depress-
ing walk in the deserted streets. he
turned his steps toward his ship. He
found one door Open-a chemists shop
with a soda water fountain. The ther
mometer marked over 100 degrees; yet
the keeper Of the place had to say, eve
do not sell soda to-day; we can't buy ice
on Sunday" The writer continues: "a
photographer who had travelled yAth us
had proposed to show few of his new
acquaintances some pictures of the
island in his studio, but now he expressed
his regret that it could not be done.
But why not? oh, you could not see
them without light. But there is
plenty OF hght. IN, yUU 10 HUT 7z777T77
Honolulu, said the photographer; if q
window Of my place were to be seen open
on Sunday we should all get into trouble,
and mine wouldn't end soon.
The EDITOR or The Jc,Cclers' circular
says that a large organized gang of
thieves and burglars who make a spe-
cialty of preying on jewelry stores have
recently left New York city. Their new
field Of operations has not been discovered
but meanwhile Mr.. Hopkinson says that
out-of-town jewellers will do well to take
all precautions to guard their wares, and
keep a sharp lookout for suspicious per-
sons.
The MOST PROFITABLE industry of the
new Swedish colony in Aroostook
county, Maine, is that Of raising pota-
toes for the starch factories. of which
there are twenty-six. The largest of
these made last year 392 tons of starch
from $4,000 bushels Of potatoes. The
process of starch making is simple, con
sisting merely of grinding the potatoes,
washing the pulp, and settling the starch
in three yats successfully after it has
been thoroughly washed with clean
water to oremove all impurities. Furnace
heat Is employed for drying.
OF THE BURLEsQUE prima donnas of
negro minstrelsy, a performer is quoted
as saying: "Tom Foley, generally
known as Ricardo didn't have any
difficulty in cultivating the falsetto voice
that he used so cleverly on the stage.
The trouble was all the other way. His
thin, womanish voice was natural. He
had in boyhood been a soprano singer in
church choir, and when he grew to
manhood the qualification for that kind
Of vocalism didn't leave him. That was
all very well as providing a means of
making an easy good living; but he was
sensitive about it, and would gladly
have spoiled it by acquiring masculine
depth of tone. It was his constant en-
deavor to get rid of his falsetto."
DR. J. P. BARNNM, oFLouisville, who
has just returned from the wonderful
salt and gas well in Brandenburg, KY,
tells a Commercial reporter that the |
flow is as great as it was at the time of |
the discovery in 1865. The well, which |
is $50 feet deep, has been tubed so as
to separate the gas from the water. The
Doctors tests showed an hourly escape
of 47120 cubic feet of gas, with a veloc-
ity warranting a company in laying a
pipe to Louisville, forty miles distant,
to supply the city with light and power.
BEER HAS NEVER BEEN supposed to |
have any intimate connection with lum-
Der, but the Northwestern Lun6eynaan
asserts that a great deal of the beer
which is sold is "doctored" with hem
lock bark. Immense quantities of hem
lock bark are sold to brewers, who use
it to give poor beer the appearance and
taste Of good beer. 1t IS regarded as a
great discovery because it can be made
to take the place to a certain extent of
both malt and hops. It is not poison
ous, but on the other hand it contains
nothing that ministers to nourishment.
1t adds the pungent, bitter taste. and
gives the dark, reddish color to the
liquid. It wonld seem as though the
beer-drinker were beset
with dangers on all sides, which he
could avoid only by shaking his thirst
with water.
JAY-EYE-SEE THE fastest trotter of |
his age the world has ever seen, stands
but fifteen hands, and Mr.. Robert Bon
ner declined to buy him one year ago on
that account. He liked the form and |
breeding of the horse, but did not be-
lieve that he had size enough to make a
world beater. But now that Jay-Eye-
See has trotted a mile at Providence in
2.1O2 and repeated in 2:114 at Boston,
the opinion that it is impossible to