Milford chronicle., 1885-03-06
so WAGS THE WORLD.
STRANGE, STARTLING AND CURIOUS
EVENTS DEsCRIBED IN THR COL
UaINs OF OUR EXCHANGES.
British Majors strataEem-A Death Trnp
"A BURGLARS Grave-The Bottle Of
Smelling salts, ETC., Etc.

thieves lately. A few nights ago he 81
, a large steel trap at the entrance Of h
/ chicken coop door. He also loaded
} shotgun with powder and fine salt an
placed it at the door Of the coop, so thl
when the door was opened the gu
would be discharged, and the intrude
would receive the contents in his bod
while held in the jaws Of the steel traI
The same day some friends of Warner
came to visit him. They drank cider a
day and until late in the evening. Whe
the visitors were ready to 60 Warne
went to help them harness the horse
They broke a strap. Warner had on
in the chicken coop. He forgot abou
the trap and the gun, and went after tn
strap. When he opened the door of thl
hen house he stepped in the trap. Thl
gun went of, and bored a large hole il
his side, making a fatal wound. TIL,
trap broke his leg.
The timber RATS of the Rhine are {
noticeable characteristic of that river
| They consist OF timber felled in the
mountain forests and brought down tc
the Rhine by the Neckar, Main, Moselle
and other rivers. The single logs are
first hurled down from the heights into
the mountain torrent, then few are tied
together and as they toat down the
streamlet grow like a SNOWFALL, till in
the Rhine itself they are made into huge
floating fabrics, which are carefully nav
igated to Dorhecht and sold. A raft
has often eight or ten small houses on
it, and 400 to 500 people, rowers and pi-
lots. The vast pile is steered by means
Of immense oars, and is so constructed as
to twist like a huge snake in the narrow
channels. The sale of a single raft at
the end of the voyage often realizes
S150,000.
DURING the retreat of Gen. Butler.
the honors of the day fell to Major
Wardrop, who, with thirteen men, stole
cautiously round the enemy's right and
found they had onlya few hundred rifle
men on the hills and no reserve spear
men. Major Wardrop and his men,
keeping out of sight, sent vOlleys at a
range of 800 yards on the enemy's flank.
Leaving one man at this point to con.
tinue the firing he took the twelve
others, and, as quickly as possible, pur-
sued the same tactics at three successive
hills, giving the Arabs the impression
that new bodies of British troops were
The Mahdi's forces became
panic stricken, ceased firing and re-
treated toward Metemneh, taking their
guns and dead and wounded with them.
A FEW remarks on the care of watches
are made by q writer in the Popular |
Science Monthly. A good watch should |
be oiled once year and cleaned once in |
.hree years. If jeweler tells you that |
here is some very serious trouble :.
break in your watch which EIatus ud. Ii
raj dollars to 0etshese the cost can be or
axe the vi - Will cost sew
he III think it repaired, ask him to
mas a maEatch down" and let you see
moreouble. It is better TO wind ones
watch in the morning than in the even
ing since. if you wind at night and ex-
nose tbe watch to the cold, the chilling
Of the tightly wound handspring may
break it. Frequently empty out the
dust that accumulates in your watch
nocket. 1t will not injure a clock or
watch to turn the hands backward.
WHEN the shaft of the Washington
Monument had been constructed to a
height of $50 feet, one morning when
the workmen assembled the elevator they
were surprised to find a cat at the top.
The animal was startled by their ap-
proach and jumped upon the wall of the
monument. One of the men went to-
ward it, and the cat, seeing no way of
escape, jumped over the side to the
ground. Instead of being smashed to
atoms, as the workmen expected, upon
reaching the ground, although evidently
a little stunned, it got up and started
to run away, when the watchman's dog
caught sight of it, and, seizing the cat
by the neck. killed it.
On a farm near Gallon, Ohio, large,
partially hollow tree was being convert
ed into fireWood, when the sawyers were
Mortified upon saving through the hol-
low near the solid part to find mans
head cleft from the body by the saw. A
search revealed in the hollow part of the
log, the body of man, $500 in money,
o pair of pistols and a kit of burglars
tools. It is supposed that the man
crawled into the tree to hide, probably
after committing a burglary and being
unable to get out starved to death.
TIE Winnsboro, s. c., NeaOs relates
that a colored man somewhat under the
ordinary stature called on a lawyer of
that place few days ago and wanted to
know if there was any chance to get
divorce. He explained that he was a
Democrat and that his wife, who was
evidently a muscular parsonage of Re-
publican and pugilistic propensities, had
been whipping him ever since he voted
for Hampton in 1876. Hesaid he thought
the Democratic party ought to do some
thing for him.
MIR. CHARLES II. ERWIN, of Painted
Post. n. Y, has found by an extended
experience that ice water, or water but
few degrees warmer than ice water,
sprinkled upon cabbages during the heat
Of the day will kill the imported cabbage
worm. He found that such an applica-
ton in the hot sun caused them to
quickly let 60 their hold upon the leaves,
roll to the ground and die, while the cab
bages suffered nothing, but looked all
the fresher for the application.
A DOCTOR who ought to know says
that the practice of the wholesale use OF
smelling salts, which came in with the
universal fashion of carrying smelling
bottles, is sure to have its influence upon
the olfactory nerves sooner or later, and
render the victim unable to distinguish
cologne from asafetida. More than all
that. it causes headaches, sore throats
and red noses. The last argument will
have its weight. The smelling bottle
must go.
THE burial of a young woman who
died of pneumonia in Salem, Mass, q
week or so ago was postponed by rela-
tives Of the deceased, who noticed color
and warmth about her, which suggested
to them that she might be in a trance.
After five days, however, all the pros
poets of restoration to life vanished,
modification set in and the body was
buried. Physicians, it is stated, could
give no satisfactory reason for the
warmth.
THE last of the prisoners taken during